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Is Yves Montand disappearing from our collective memory?

2021-09-22T12:26:22.101Z


SURVEY - A celebrity during his lifetime, this talented singer and actor sees his image gradually fade. Thirty after his death, the quarrels between his heirs and the fragility of his artistic heritage scramble his posthumous glory.


Tuesday September 21.

French Cinematheque.

Montand's silhouette sprang up on the big screen.

“Happy days, a dove, the falling evening, a blue gaze…”

, his voice amplifies on

L'Addition

written for him by Jean-Loup Dabadie.

The memories parade.

When the light comes back on, applause crackles.

Carole Amiel, Montand's last love and mother of their son, Valentin Livi, leaps from her chair like the rest of the room.

Standing ovation.

Directors Yves Jeuland and Vincent Josse have their cheeks flushed with emotion.

Selected by Thierry Frémaux at the last Cannes Film Festival, their formidable documentary

Montand est à nous

will be broadcast on France 3 on October 14 and will then go to Los Angeles at the Colcoa Festival.

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This preview is the launch of a series of tributes to Yves Montand for a double anniversary: ​​the centenary of his birth, on October 13, 1921, and the thirtieth anniversary of his disappearance, on November 9, 1991. Montand is not not as much forgotten as Gilbert

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Source: lefigaro

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