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Serge Peretti le dernier italien
Archive movies and photographs are used to draw the path of this exceptionnal performer nicknamed “the small Vestris”, whose style has been unanimoulsly acknowledged. A documentary by Dominique Delouche.
They call him “master” and it is also with great deference that Dominique Delouche films Serge Peretti, a commanding figure of the Opéra de Paris since the 1930s. Up to his death in 1997, he was committed to handing down his art both to the petits rats, the corps de ballet and to the Etoiles of the Opéra.
Dominique Delouche builds his portrait, letting us hear at length the words of Serge Peretti but those also of the people who knew him: Yvette Chauviré, Claude Bessy, Cyril Atanassoff. Archive films and photographs illustrate the career of an exceptional dancer known as “the small Vestris” and whose style was unanimously celebrated. Aged, his voice hoarse, we also see him making Nicolas Le Riche and Jean-Yves Lormeau work: in his memory, every gesture and every dramatic intention has remained engraved with staggering accuracy. Likewise, he remembers how, during the Occupation, Lifar negotiated with the Kommandantur to prevent him from going to fight in Italy against France, his adoptive country, by pointing out to the Germans that it would be more worth their while to see him dance!
Source : Fabienne Arvers
