Coline Serreau, director of “La Crise”: “Subsidized theater is too little concerned with public pleasure”

Published on December 11, 2024 at 4:41 p.m. / Modified on December 11, 2024 at 4:43 p.m.

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Greenery is his ideal. Like the troubadours of the Middle Ages, Coline Serreau aspires to a cheerful spring that would exorcise the demon of programmed submissions. Just consider the titles of his films, What are we waiting for to be happy! (1982), Three Men and a Bassinet (1985), Local solutions for global disorder (2010), to measure one’s consistency in not despairing.

Resist is the mantra of this choir director, a cultural Protestant, for whom Bach is a god. Like Charlie Chaplin, the champion of her youth, she pinpoints tics and turpitudes, while drawing an unprecedented map of the Tender as in her formidable Crisis, a film that became a play – it was her son Samuel Tasinaje who adapted it with her – jubilantly produced by Jean Liermier at the Théâtre de Carouge. A brigade of magnificently tuned actors, including Simon Romang, Romain Daroles, Camille Figuereo and Brigitte Rosset, succeed Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Zabou Breitman and Maria Pacôme.

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