Live performance. Very alive! Twirling. Hair-raising but also intelligent. And hilarious. Here is the program for the evening on TMC.
A few weeks ago, Fabrice Luchini arrived on the stage of the Montparnasse theater in Paris for a final performance of his show The Fountain and confinement. A performance captured for TV. So Luchini adds more, plays, even overplays, with the audience.
And it’s better not to arrive late at the risk of being noticed… But Luchini never blames latecomers. It’s all Anne Hidalgo’s fault. What follows is a long and funny digression on the transport policy of the mayor of Paris.
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What do you mean, elitist?
Olivier Véran, Edouard Philippe, Emmanuel Macron also do not escape the critical, sometimes cynical, gaze of the actor who draws a parallel between political observations and texts by Pascal and La Fontaine.
A joyful and relevant mix embellished with delightful anecdotes such as this dialogue with a Minister of National Education who wishes to come and see him perform, while reproaching him for being elitist. Response from the actor: “How is that elitist? I am elitist… for everyone!” A good word from Antoine Vitez.
Nothing seems improvised in this one-on-one. Everything is precise, rhythmic, as if it were a recipe from a great chef weighing each gram of each ingredient. Because Fabrice Luchini is a gourmand, an esthete of the word.
Not a glutton, no. A refined devourer of words, crunching the slightest sentence to reveal all its flavors.
He loves to admire and transmits this literary passion. You have to hear him talk about La Fontaine: “The genius of La Fontaine is to have adapted the stories of Aesop. To have put movement, dance, music in texts which were very heavy”.
Words to understand the world
An hour and a half of live performance. Ultra alive. 90 minutes of earthly nourishment that pushes us to open up classic works anew. Which above all prove to what extent delving into these writings allows us to better understand ourselves and the world. Because yes, for Luchini, La Fontaine and Pascal can help us decipher an event like confinement. And because yes, art has meaning and gives meaning to our lives.
The Fountain and confinementFabrice Luchini’s show is broadcast this evening on TMC at 9:25 p.m.
Fabrice Luchini who can also be found every Sunday at 7:20 p.m. on France Inter with his show “Les admirations littéraires”.
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