Serge Rezvani loves life so much that he decided to thank her by keeping him with her as long as possible. In this artist’s apartment – paintings on the walls and piano – on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, at 6my Parisian neighborhood, time has suspended its flight. To the point of making the visitor dizzy. With a weathered face, but still medium-long hair, the man who has lived there since the death, in 2019, of his third wife, the actress Marie-José Nat, published his first book, printed in sixteen copies, in 1947 Aged On 19 January, Serge Rezvani met the poet Paul Eluard (1895-1952), who wanted this unknown artist’s woodcuts, prints made in Nice on recycled boxes, to illustrate his poem. She had a palace built. The young painter from Montparnasse was naturally ruined, at a time that those under 96 cannot know.
But it is with another art that his name remained in the collective memory, as he remembers Serge Rezvani. The whirlwind of my songsa three-volume box set just published by Productions Jacques Canetti. The first is dedicated to historical interpreters. Suffice it to say that it is dominated by Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), who opens the dance with a version found in 2022 and orchestrated by François Rauber, Brel’s arranger, of the film’s chorus. july and jim (1962), by François Truffaut. The actress still made some posthumous space for Anna Karina (1940-2019), who sang my lucky line AND I never told you that I will always love you In Pierrot the fool (1965), By Jean-Luc Godard. We also discovered that her British colleague Vanessa Redgrave acted for red and blue (1967), short film by her husband Tony Richardson, English adaptations of ten of the 12 new songsJeanne Moreau’s second album.
The first, published in 1963 with the title Jeanne Moreau sings 12 Cyrus Bassiak songshad made known the pseudonym behind which Serge Rezvani hid, associating his name (in Tehran, in 1928) with the Russian word that means barefoot person. Illustrated with a photograph of the scene of july and jim where Jeanne Moreau immortalizes The whirlwind accompanied on guitar by her radiant accomplice, It was accompanied by a few introductory words from François Truffaut. The filmmaker praised the songs. “Never simplistic but always simple, sometimes sad but never tearful, often funny but without vulgarity”. Among them, my memory is failinganother classic, lion skin, The lazy blues EITHER The life of abundance.
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