The author, performer and actor Marc Lavoine is the exceptional guest of Le Monde d’Élodie Suigo on Friday January 3. He has been accompanying us in music and through small and big screens for 40 years and his hit She has Revolver eyes. To celebrate the occasion, he released an anniversary album, Revolver, composed of 18 of his hits enhanced with four previously unreleased tracks with the Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He will also be on stage from April 24 until June 14, for an electro symphonic tour throughout France.
franceinfo: You are a multi-facetpeople love you across the small and big screen as an actor, especially with The hearts of men.
Marc Lavoine : I’m stopping cinema. But there is music and then, above all, there is literature. Theater too, I would love to do theater again.
Why are you stopping cinema?
You have to run faster than your friend, do castings. You have to be part of a team, a gang and I have no gang. I have very strong, very intimate friends, it’s my choice. Cinema is less nourishing today, but maybe that will change because everything else has changed. It’s true that I really like Gilles Lellouche, he makes very good films, but the places are taken, the casting is done. I enjoyed playing with Claude Chabrol, Tony Gatlif, Pierre Schoendoerffer and even with Pierre Boutron. Junkyard dog I really liked it, I admit that I took a beating and so the new generation will perhaps do wonderful things, but they don’t need me.
“I’m not an actor, I’m someone who acts in films to tell stories.”
Marc Lavoineat franceinfo
Is music your greatest love story?
I would say writing. Writing texts is what keeps me alive. I breathe that. Afterwards, I need music. I’ve done a few, but the composers I’ve associated with, Julien Clerc, for example, you don’t know where his music comes from. Who composes like him apart from Nino Rota? It’s completely invented and it’s difficult to invent music. It’s very difficult to have a style. Fabrice Aboulker on the album, he made a song called I will remember youit’s magnificent the way he wrote his melody which is there, felt, but not really declared.
-There are four new releases including The protocol. This song totally grabs us.
It’s a song that asks questions within. Obviously, I’m talking about this intoxication we put ourselves into to escape a world that scares us. Frankly, I’m afraid of it. We are talking about accepting a form of death penalty and it is terrible. We are overwhelmed by a world that is, in a certain way, collapsing. Little by little, we see that things are falling apart, that people are like Playmobil. However, it’s a song that is very hopeful, there is hope because instead of saying “no future“, I say “yes future“, I believe it.
“I believe in the future but we’re going through a painful time. That’s how I wanted to write ‘Protocol’ and I hope it’s a success.”
Marc Lavoineat franceinfo
How do you view this entire journey on what you have already accomplished, contributed, experienced?
I’m lucky because frankly, you have to have a little bit. You have to be courageous and well supported. If I hadn’t had this autonomy, I would have fallen a thousand times over. I admit that to be free in the work space and in creation, to have built with my friends the houses we built, the songs we made, the films, the novels, it’s is a chance. Every time, I put my title on the line and every time, people told me “oui” since I am still on the radio. It’s rare to be on the radio for a long time and I thank people very much. The last image that I will have in my head is surely my mother’s face, she gave me made me very happy. Since she’s no longer here, she makes me very happy. I think I’ve found some form of ending, I think I’ve found the end and that’s good.
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