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Containment: Arditi, Balasko, Zylberstein ... when happiness is on the phone

5/5/2020, 8:48:01 PM


Every day, actors call isolated people to read classics or just chat.

Elsa Zylberstein phones Monique, 82, and Jean, 90, several times a week. Worried about their health - do they receive meals served by the municipality? -, their morale and read them poetry texts. "Monique adores Baudelaire, Jean knows André Chénier by heart" , specifies the enthusiastic actress, whose "friends", Jean-Paul Rouve, François-Xavier Demaison, Claude Lelouch, Franck Dubosc or Stéphane Bern, answered present to call their tower of isolated people . "Elderly people touch me, perhaps because they remind me of my grandmother whom I lost", says Elsa Zylberstein, who also thinks of those who are not confined to nursing homes. The operation is supported by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and Yamina Benguigui, former assistant at the Paris City Hall.

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Elsa Zylberstein is not alone. A few days ago, deprived of his tour with Le Canard à l'Orange , Nicolas Briançon "came across " a video in which English actors,

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