Racine, le déchaînement des passions
Racine, raging passions- Director
- Catherine Maximoff
- Country
- France
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Documentary
- Scriptwriters
- Catherine Maximoff
- Production
- Lesfilmsduprésent
Storyline
Fifteen young stage actors attend a five-week workshop led by Anne Delbée, writer, director and the expert on the French poet Jean Racine. Through her workshop, exploring his play Andromaque, she clearly criticizes the dusty, conventional interpretations offered up by contemporary Racine productions, wishing, after all, to bring the students to the essential point:
Andromaque is a play about love and death. Andromaque : or, the urgency of feelings.
Guided by Anne Delbée’s intimate knowledge of the subject and her enthusiasm, they literally dive into the poet’s world - his life, his choices and his century. It is also an opportunity for them to
appropriate a diction, a certain way of acting, and to portray intense characters without putting aside any of the emotion and the strength of the play-as-argument. They are confronted with the
present-day issues raised by Racine himself, who was their age when he wrote the piece.
Rebellion, eroticism and the struggle for power all shine forth from this tragedy, and reveal Andromache as a heroine for the 21st century.
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