In “The Fourth Wall”, Laurent Lafitte plays a director in the middle of the war in Lebanon in 1982

Georges (Laurent Lafitte) in “The Fourth Wall”, by David Oelhoffen. THE PACT

THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – WHY NOT

We weren’t dreaming, this man with the look of an adventurer, copper skin and a small earring, is indeed Laurent Lafitte. We thus discover the French actor in The Fourth Wallby David Oelhoffen, where he plays Georges, a director arriving in Beirut in the middle of the Lebanese war, in 1982, with a view to directing Antigone (1944), by Jean Anouilh.

At the time, the piece symbolized resistance to the German occupiers. Here, the work aims to be a restorative utopia: Georges wants to bring on stage men and women from different political and religious camps (Palestinians, Jews, Druze, etc.), who on the ground tear each other apart and fight each other. kill. He comes at short notice to replace an ailing old friend, who initiated the project and passed the torch to him.

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as utopia

This man of the theater arrives with all his generosity and clumsiness, which Laffite, a former resident of the Comédie-Française, succeeds in expressing with a certain finesse, not devoid of irony. Particularly when his guide (Simon Abkarian) teaches him how to use his different passes, to choose the right one, according to the communities which control the districts of the devastated city.

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