Sarah CALCINE - Privés de feuilles les arbres ne bruissent pas

2 months ago

Esplanade du Chapiteau

La Bâtie - Festival de Genève

Dom and Gaby are on the run in a camper van. The countryside Thelma and Louise meet again for a tour of Greater Geneva a year after the premiere at Le Poche of Privés de Feuilles Les Arbres ne Bruissent Pas, which brought them together. Beneath this strange title lie a thousand familiar silences: oppressive, overwhelming or tight-lipped silences that break up the dialogue between the two women. On a foggy stage covered in moss, they wake up and get dressed. They seem to be waiting for a visitor, commenting on their clothes, changing and undressing, hesitating and getting dressed again. “Make yourself a little pretty,” she says. Gentle yet sharp, Magne van den Berg calculates her words, which director Sarah Calcine sets to a score filled with silences. The result is the song of a friendship steeped in complicity, hesitation and cruelty – like a youthful song that we might disown and that might overwhelm us with tenderness and horror.