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Ivo & Jorge, by Patrick Rotman: Semprun the aristocrat, Montand the mountebank

2021-05-22T13:43:38.348Z


In a cross portrait of Jorge Semprun and Yves Montand, the author returns to the friendship that binds the two men despite many dissimilarities.


What does a friendship hold?

It is mysterious a relationship that is formed between two beings.

We could be satisfied with Montaigne's famous formula,

“because it was him, because it was me”

.

In a novel where everything is true, Patrick Rotman, documentary director and writer, provides his answers with this portrait of Jorge Semprun and Yves Montand.

One thing is certain: friendship cannot be held by similarities.

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Rotman is almost amused by this deep relationship between two men who are opposed, really everything.

The paragraphs which describe the writer-minister and the singer-actor mingle;

it is the rich and the poor, the aristocrat and the mountebank, the one who has frequented the most prestigious establishments and the self-taught who has never lasted an hour on a school bench, calm and hot blooded ... Apparently, Rotman warns.

Ivo Livi will take the pseudonym of Yves Montand (every day, his mother hailed him from her window:

“Ivo, monta!”

), While Jorge de

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Source: lefigaro

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