Close to Jean-Jacques Goldman, Christian Jeanpierre has been at the helm for twenty years of an annual documentary around the Enfoirés show, broadcast in “Grands reportages”.
2023, a year marked by the return of the public to the room, could not escape it.
For two years, the artists had been performing behind closed doors.
The cameras followed the fans who came in large numbers to the Halle Tony Garnier in Lyon in mid-January to attend the six scheduled performances.
Two spectators, who each paid 85 euros, are overjoyed when they discover the interior.
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This immersive report is above all a making of the show for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.
We are witnessing the first day of hasty rehearsals for the fifty or so artists from the promotion of 2023 – a record.
A treat to see Philippe Lacheau who assassinates
I Feel It Coming
by The Weeknd under the amused gaze of his companion Élodie Fontan.
A chance to discover the interludes of the stars who, between the passages recorded for television, interpret songs in order to occupy the public.
On the intergenerational hit
That, it's really you
, with Jean-Louis Aubert on guitar, the show becomes a giant karaoke.
"It's a gift from heaven"
Artists have less than a week to rehearse their performances.
Inevitably, the first performance has some failures.
Christian Jeanpierre does not hide them and shows for example this fiasco during the hymn of Amir where the singers do not manage to read on their teleprompter.
In the dressing room, the former presenter of “Téléfoot” asks astronaut Thomas Pesquet who has been participating in the charity concert for two years: “
What perspective do we have on poverty when we are 400 km from the earth?
»
"
It's a godsend to take part in this show and the most touching thing is when the artists realize it
," the director told us last year in the
Figaro
media program , "Le BuzzTV”.
“
It drives me crazy when I see reviews on the net.
I pay tribute to the producer Anne Marcassus who brings together personalities with a schedule blocked every year until sometimes 2025 or 2026
.
For his part, Christian Jeanpierre facilitates the arrival of athletes.
After Kylian Mbappé last year, F1 driver Esteban Ocon, and the best rugby player in the world and captain of the XV of France, Antoine Dupont, made the trip for this edition called “Enfoirés one day… Enfoirés always!
".
To discover on TF1 next Friday March 3.
