In Rennes, in November, lovers of live entertainment, from here or elsewhere, have their appointment: the TNB festival of the Théâtre national de Bretagne which, from its flagship to the glass façade that opens onto the city, It is deployed throughout the Rennes metropolitan area. while keeping its antennas pointed at the world. The 2024 edition, directed by Arthur Nauzyciel, director of the TNB, does not have a particular theme. But we can read in this festival that began on Wednesday, November 13 and continues until Saturday the 23rd, a particular attention to suffering, to the frailties that grow in our societies, in particular to the issue of disability and “adapted creation.” .
The two opening evenings on November 13 and 14 already offered several pleasures. in addition to the Leviathanof Lorena de Sagazan, and the Village Created by Chela De Ferrari with actors with Down syndrome, already reviewed in our columns, we were able to discover two beautiful, apparently opposite creations, but united by the same trust in the poetic powers of theater: On the ice roadby Bruno Geslin, and How to get rid of interior plasterby Valérie Mréjen.
The first follows in the footsteps of German filmmaker Werner Herzog, whose fascinating autobiography has just been published in France. Each one for himself and God against all. (Séguier, 400 pages, 24.90 euros). In 1974, Herzog was 32 years old and had already directed Aguirre, the wrath of God (1972). She learns that her friend Lotte Eisner, a great film critic and historian, is seriously ill and at risk of dying. She then decides to undertake the journey from Munich to Paris on foot, with the idea that this 900 kilometer race against death will save her.
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He reported on this initiatory and hallucinatory journey a few years later, in 1978, in On the ice roadwhich is much more than a travel diary, rather the story of an inner journey haunted by ghosts and madness. Herzog sets off with his boots, a bag and a compass. He sleeps under bus shelters, in barns, in country houses where he breaks into. He crosses deserted landscapes, in a state close to trance, under rain, hail, snow, fog, icy wind. The winter journey is a way to test the body, to defy death. Lotte Eisner will survive and live ten more years.
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