At the age of 43, Julie Deliquet moved into the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des papes, in Avignon, transposing on stage Welfare, the documentary by Frederick Wiseman (dated 1975, it was released in a restored version on July 5). For a month and a half, the American director observed the daily life of a social assistance center in New York. At the head of the Théâtre Gérard-Philipe, in Saint-Denis, since 2020, Julie Deliquet stages social workers and users, in the setting of a school gymnasium, the first place of citizenship, she says. Without pathos, promises this troop leader. But militant.
THE FIGARO. - Usually, you decide your projects alone. There, it was Frederick Wiseman who asked you.
Julie DELIQUET. - We didn't know each other. Frederick Wiseman had seen much of my work, he told me that he had always thought there was theatre in his films, and in Welfare in particular. But I divide my work between cinema and theatre. I'm coming...
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