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Lourdes-Las Vegas (version sous-titrée)
Giovanni Cioni’s film challenge is to conceive a show as an open stage, open on the world that inspired it.Focused on belgian choreographer Alain Platel’s “Bernadetje”, it fairly switches views.
Consider a show as a stage open onto the world that created it: such is the challenge of Giovanni Cioni’s film. Centred on Bernadetje, the creation of the Belgian choreographer Alain Platel, it is a rightful giving-back. The choice of setting, a bumper car arcade, and its interpreters – children, amateurs and professionals – immediately confirm a grip on reality.
Fragmented, torn apart, violent or serene, the narration obeys less the customary rules of live entertainment than the impact of life on bodies and souls. By alternating extracts from Bernadetje with interviews of dancers asked to describe one another, Giovanni Cioni reveals the uniqueness of Alain Platel’s work. Indeed, the force of his shows is due to the introduction, by the choreographer, of individuals normally absent from cultural scenes, side by side with professional dancers. The representation of the tensions that distort everyday life has no time here for the spectacular: no recuperation, no instrumentalisation taints these intimist expressions that, within a group, finally find the means to connect to others.
Source : Fabienne Arvers
