“
Like a game in the secrecy of my room and then because our hearts are too full, a desire to share.
So since it's my job, I went from my room to the stage.
And on a desire, a certainty, I went from the stage to this album.
My meeting with Gaëtan Roussel was obvious,
”said Daniel Auteuil in a press release.
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The 71-year-old actor, whose parents were opera singers, launches into the song accompanied by Gaëtan Roussel. A passion from which he turned for the cinema, in the 1980s when he had just released the 45 laps
Que la vie moi pardonne
, which will compose the soundtrack of the film
L'amour en soft
by Édouard Molinaro.
“May life forgive me
begin to work, I'm in the Top 50. But a film will be released,
Jean de Florette
, and I feel that it will sweep everything away. So there is a choice to be made. I made this choice without regret, but today I return to my first love,
”he told our colleagues at BFMTV. His role of Ugolin in the film signed Claude Berri, earned him his first César for best actor.
For now, this return to song will materialize with the release of the album
If you had known me,
scheduled for September 17th. As a preamble, Daniel Auteuil released a first eponymous track set to music by Gaëtan Roussel. Embellished with a clip shot in black and white featuring him facing the sublime and fascinating Fanny Ardant, the melancholy piece evokes the impossible encounter between two people.
This album was inspired by the reading of a collection of poems, found by chance at home, by Paul-Jean Toulet that he will honor Tuesday July 13 and Wednesday July 14 on the Francofolies stage with his show
Déjeuner in the air.
Accompanied by musicians, the actor offers a reading of the poet's texts as well as those of Apollinaire, Rimbaud and many others.
"The frequentation of these great authors gave me the nerve to write in my turn"
, revealed the actor at the microphone of Europe1, at the end of June.
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For tonight's musical show, Daniel Auteuil will be "
accompanied by a guitarist and a pianist, on music that he has specially written for these texts, with arrangements by Gaëtan Roussel
", specify the organizers on the official website of the Francos. Before adding: "
Daniel Auteuil recites, says, sings and takes us along for an evening, in a moment of stage in complete intimacy, all in emotions, between poetry and songs
".
