“Nicolas, our beloved friend… I remember his Dionysian laughter which was so contagious and which splashed us with his rays of intense intelligence”
.
The French singer and actress, former muse of Éric Rohmer (
Perceval le Gallois
,
Pauline at the beach
), wanted to pay a vibrant tribute to Nicolas Ker, the iconoclastic rocker who died on May 17, 2021, by making a short film entitled
Nicolas Ker never dies
.
With this creation with underground accents, she gives immortality to the singer of Poni Hoax, a group that likes to mix electronic rock and disco.
Read alsoDeath at 50 of Nicolas Ker, rock dandy, sidekick to Arielle Dombasle
In this short fifteen-minute film, written by journalist Florine Delcourt, Arielle Dombasle looks back on the rebellious journey of the man who composed two albums for her:
La Rivière Atlantique
in 2017 and
Empire
in 2020. The two artists also had played together in 2018 in
Alien Crystal Palace
, an unclassifiable musical tragedy where we notably found Michel Fau as an immortal mad scientist and Jean-Pierre Léaud as God Horus.
Read also
Just Come Back Alive
, the “prophetic” title by Arielle Dombasle and Nicolas Ker
An admiration for David Bowie and Jim Morrison
In this
Nicolas Ker will never die
, Arielle Dombasle retraces, commenting on them, the odysseys of her friend who died last year.
We discover his taste for exotic places, his admiration for David Bowie and Jim Morrison and above all the immaculate energy he gave off when he sang with his rock group, Poni Hoax.
A sentence pronounced by the "
beloved friend
" of Bernard-Henri Lévy's wife sums up in a way his philosophy of life: "
You need a certain grace, you know, to embody idiocy...
"
And it is certainly this obsession that Nicolas Ker felt for political correctness that seduced Arielle Dombasle.
On June 4, 2021, at her funeral at Père Lachaise, in her funeral oration, the singer-actress declared: “
I remember her eternal mockery of vegans and their tasteless green jelly.
He claimed that he was a
“meat guy”
, that he respected the animal to the point of eating it whole – with Maggi sauce, which he never parted with…
”
Nicolas Ker never dies
, the short film dedicated to the memory of rocker Nicolas Ker
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