| Didier-georges Gabily
Théâtre du mépris 3 direction Aurélien Recoing Synopsis Three men, a cinema producer, a film director and a writer have come together to do business: the writer is being paid by the producer to write a screenplay for a film which is to be a popular success. The subject on "order" is poverty in the world, a topic of interest. There's nothing more profitable than poverty for making money. Marx said it already. To do this, he has at his disposal a specimen of poverty, specially brought in to feed (spoil) and fuel his "imagination" - this machine for lying and for cheating reality. At first, the poor man is anonymous, a man without a name and without a voice. His inert flesh has been reduced to pure animality, odours, filth and dislocated sounds. But little by little, his words come to life to retell snatches of his ancient history, the story of an Ulysses who thought he could conquer the world, this man, who represents all those for whom human existence and thought inevitably pass through domination of the Other. There is also a woman, the "heroine", the writer's wife, lost through lack (of love, of the Other, still), and who has no way out but in other beds - in search of the lost cause. Bruno
Tackels, in Les Ecrans sur la Scène,
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