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Tout morose
Director and choreographers offer a funny and coloured contrast with the gloominess of that dull day sung by Jeanne Moreau
The same effect animates the entire film: water flows behind a window, blurs the faces and bodies that writhe behind, causes voices to gurgle and gives a bluish hue to the various scenes. The director and choreographers propose here a colourful and amused counterpoint to the bleakness of this dull day, sung by the clear voice of Jeanne Moreau.
There is a circus side to this universe that defies the gloomy expressions, before becoming abstract in an entirely white space peppered with colourful dancers like butterflies pinned to a frame. You’ve understood: Olivier Mégaton, José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu have forgotten the words of the song to magnify the temperament of its interpreter.
Source : Fabienne Arvers
The idea has all it takes to please: with the complicity of a director, a choreographer plays along by masterfully setting to dance a melody taken from the repertoire of French song, where, most often, poetry rhymes with humour and tenderness. While none of these dances resembles a video-clip supposed to illustrate the song, they are always an original choreographic proposal. A contemporary version of the old “chansons de geste” (French epic poems), they allow access, in just a few minutes, to the highly diversified universes of the choreographers. Take a song, its verses and its chorus, the interpreter’s tone of voice, the subject or the atmosphere evoked, and see what images, colours, figures and rhythms dance could give them.
Source : Fabienne Arvers
