A restaurant in Montparnasse (14th century), late in the morning.
They disembark in a light rain, their dog Gladys following in their footsteps.
Billie-May, their eight-month-old daughter, stayed at home.
The features are a little drawn.
“We're in tough times, we don't sleep much,” says the couple, based in Étretat in Normandy, with a smile.
French director Katia de Vidas and English musician Peter Doherty, married since 2021, tell us about this film that she made about his life, broadcast this Monday February 19 on Canal +.
“Stranger In My Own Skin”, literally “Stranger in my own skin”, recounts the descent into hell of the enfant terrible of London rock and his rebirth.
We see him diving into hard drugs, at the height of his fame with the “Libertines”, and coming out of it, during his last detoxification treatment, in Thailand, in 2014. A documentary filmed over ten years with more than 200 hours of footage. rushes.
Intimate images, without judgment, where we perceive the creative genius but also the demons of the artist, who is now 44 years old, with belly, and disheveled salt and pepper hair.
Meeting in frenglish.
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