Joueurs, Mao II, Les Noms
[Players, Mao II, The Names]
based on the novel by Don DeLillo
directed by Julien Gosselin
Cie Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur
estimated length of the integral 9h30 (with two intervals)
Berthier 17e
Picture of Names : on a screen above a glass cage, a woman is starring at the photographer
© Simon Gosselin
with
Rémi Alexandre
Guillaume Bachelé
Adama Diop
Joseph Drouet
Denis Eyriey
Antoine Ferron
Noémie Gantier
Carine Goron
Alexandre Lecroc-Lecerf
Frédéric Leidgens
Caroline Mounier
Victoria Quesnel
Maxence Vandevelde
After adapting Les Particules élémentaires, by Houellebecq, and 2666, by Bolaño, Julien Gosselin now turns the spotlight on Don DeLillo. Over the course of the last fifty years, the American author has been building up a towering, multi-faceted body of work, not unlike a seismographic survey of the varying states of our planet. Gosselin has chosen to work on three novels, spanning three decades. Radicalism, capitalism and terrorism are among the main themes running throughout this maze-like production. Following those leads, the audience is invited to explore its three-part, labyrinthine structure.To quote Julien Gosselin, this piece, which can be viewed either in its entirety or in separate parts, will “immerse its spectators into the depths of what might turn out to be an absolutely intimate account of decades of political violence”.
Players (1977)
Pammy and Lyle Wynant are about to break up when they come across a terrorist organization. This encounter is a turning point in the story of their classical, modern couple. Little by little, they morph into "players", blind and powerless, unable to make out the larger picture – if there is one left to see.
On Tuesday at 8 p.m., length : 3h
Mao II (1990)
Reverend Moon, Khomeiny, Mao – as portrayed by Andy Warhol. Terrorism, fanaticism, violence. A writer and his publisher, a photographer, a TV addict, a monomaniac archivist... Where does the literary illusion end, what can images do or mean, where does the real world begin – and how is one to search for it ? Topics, symbols, characters are sucked without mercy into a fascinating vortex which looks very much like our contemporary chaos.
On Wednsday at 8 p.m., length : 3h10
The Names (1982)
They are American. They work for multinational corporations whoses empires know no frontiers. The place, then : the most sensitive sectors of the planet. The times : the 70's, the years of a new brand of rising, global terrorist threat. An international businessman stumbles across a fascinating criminal cult, based on a strange mystical interpretation of the alphabet... Welcome to a dark investigation, a dizzying travelogue, a metaphorical questioning of modern America.
On Thursday ay 8 p.m., length : 3h
