In a high school, the arrival of a replacement teacher causes an earthquake among the students of the theater option, who are forced to open up. A hard-hitting series by and with Julien-Gaspar Oliveri, to be seen from the age of 12.
“Those Who Blush” paints a portrait, captured on the spot, of individuals who emerge behind the mask of youth. Melocoton Films/Arte
By Marjolaine Jarry
Published on September 24, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
IThere are substitutes who move much more than they replace. The drama teacher in this short series in eight episodes is one of them, who takes over from a group of high school students in the middle of rehearsals for the A Midsummer Night’s Dream and shakes up everything in its path, starting with the school system… Isn’t theatre, according to Louis Jouvet’s phrase, disorder incarnate?
Conceived by the director and actor Julien-Gaspar Oliveri, who also plays, with fervent commitment, the role of the teacher, Those who blush is a work-in-progress, the connection of filmed workshops, but also the portrait, captured on the spot, of individuals who emerge behind the mask of adolescence and a document on the first stage gestures of very young actors. In short, an experience, in the formal as well as sensitive sense of the term, which contains troubling moments of grace and takes us by surprise more often than not, arousing an emotion that is never conventional.
Life infiltrates everywhere in this device which gives substance to the spirit of research, and one finds oneself thinking of the best hours of the fiction unit of Arte, when Pierre Chevalier defended the ambition of a creative laboratory.
Mini-series directed by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri. With Ulrich Bapeneck, Mani Choukrane, Stéphane Erös, Elio Fabbro, Angèle Gilbert, Anaëlle Heroguelle, Nicolas Kessler, Milla Kuentz, Kayna Lacomat, Marie Naïma, Charles Souris and Julien Gaspar-Oliveri. 8 x 10 min. Available on Arte.tv until July 22, 2027.
