Les Forces vives
Based on the work by Simone de Beauvoir
Created and directed Camille Dagen
In collaboration with Emma Depoid
As part of the 2024 Autumn Festival
Length: 3 hrs. 30 min. (with interval)
Berthier 17e
© Simon Gosselin
With Sarah Chaumette, Camille Dagen, Marie Depoorter, Romain Gy, Hélène Morelli, Achille Reggiani and Nina Villanova
By using Simone de Beauvoir’s Mémoires for its material, the company Animal Architecte is neither looking to celebrate an iconic figure nor offer a biopic. At the crossroads between a documentary approach and an immersive dive into often dazzling texts, seven actors and actresses reinvent through their interpretations a life that continues to recreate and rewrite itself. How did Simone de Beauvoir become the author of her own existence? How did she manage as an adolescent to escape the script imposed on a young girl from a French Catholic bourgeois background? How does she continue to tell, with razor-sharp lucidity, how her time, the world and people influenced her? This is what lies at the heart of Les Forces vives.
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Based on The Second Sex, Cahiers de jeunesse, Memoires of a Dutiful Daughter, La Force de l’âge and La Force des choses (books 1 and 2) by Simone de Beauvoir © Éditions Gallimard
