A
Don Juan
who does not really seduce
Cannes Premiere.
Will he say it?
The Cannes press wants to know if Serge Bozon's
Don Juan
can be described as "feminist".
The director of
Tip Top
nods.
Would we dare to think with Molière that
“fashionable vices pass for virtues”
?
In this musical reinterpretation, the hero (Tahar Rahim) lives in Paris today, plays in the theater and loves his wife (Virginie Efira) madly.
He is even enslaved to her.
The director revisits.
Turn upside down.
What remains of the metaphysical seducer?
Not much.
Don Juan, here, does not reason, does not think.
He waits, damaged by insomnia, for his inflexible Elvira.
And he sings.
Songs by composer Benjamin Esdraffo and lyricist Jacques Duvall.
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