LE PÈRE - BOITACLOUS

André, an old man still vibrant, used to mastering everything, thought he would live his last stretch of the road peacefully. Until the day his landmarks slip away... By placing him in the large apartment she shares with her husband, his daughter thinks she is helping him, but very quickly, the conversations go in circles, faces substitute for one another, and furniture slides silently. The father then gets angry, laughs at his own chaos, and refuses the obvious with the royal arrogance of someone who does not want to give up his independence. For him, perhaps more than anyone else, he does not accept so easily that he becomes his child's child! With his play, adapted by him for the cinema and awarded two Oscars©, Florian Zeller does not describe degeneration, he invites us to step right into a brain that is failing, tossed between true and false, chilling silences and crossed-out words. Then, the growing solitude becomes a clockwork mechanism in service of a cruel and tender poetry that chills the blood and moistens the eyes. With his accomplice Pierre Arditi, he delivers a play that turns the heart inside out like a glove, a vertiginous mirror of our own fragility that continues to resonate long after the blackout, like an echo that refuses to fade.