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Agnès Jaoui, Julie Depardieu, Denis Podalydès... When actors talk about Molière

2022-01-14T16:05:41.933Z


INVESTIGATION - Four hundred years ago Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was born. The playwright and his plays continue to captivate audiences and fascinate those who perform them.


Isabelle Adjani, Michel Bouquet, Jacques Charon, Jacques Weber, Mario Gonzalez, Michel Aumont, Catherine Hiegel or Michel Piccoli played Molière.

There remains a Holy Grail in any acting career.

"He's a friend for life

," says Agnès Jaoui, who was Philaminte, the wife of Chrysale (Jean-Pierre Bacri), in

Les Femmes savantes,

directed by Catherine Hiegel in 2016.

"He writes so well !

continues the actress, screenwriter and director.

He was open and free.

As with all great authors, we link him to different ages in his life and we understand elements that we did not understand before

.

It reveals something about yourself.

At some point, you realize that you are a little Arsinoé, a little Alceste or a little Célimène.

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Molière, 400 years old and still modern

Timelessness and universality, this is undoubtedly where the playwright's modernity lies.

"Molière, it was the people on stage like Chaplin in the cinema"

, summarizes Francis Huster, who insists with Emmanuel Macron to bring him into the Pantheon...

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