Flawless score for André Dussollier in “Novecento” – Journal La Marseillaise

The mischievous look, the uninsured and flexible at the same time, the rapid but accurate flow … It is with this mix of relaxation and sophistication André Dussollier dazzled for more than an hour Saturday, the theater gym, at the last Marseille Novecento, theatrical and deeply human musical monologue written by Italian Alessandro Baricco, twenty years ago.

In the skin of a trumpeter living in the first half of the twentieth century , who was one of the favorite actors Alain Resnais book a partition that seems to have been custom written for him. Narrator, he plays a man who shines in the discretion, listening, which binds gradually made friends with the famous Danny Boodmann TD Lemon Novecento, pianist of his condition and whose characteristic is to be born on the ship on which they occur. Boat on which he died, nearly fifty years later, without ever getting off, preferring to go down with him when he will be destroyed.

humanist hymn

Stateless without even exist administratively Novecento is yet more universal than anyone and knows the challenges with intelligence and imagination to the image of the duel that pitted him against one of his peers, full of himself. Early on, he also learns to “challenge authority” and meet the “men in uniform” in the narrow thinking, limited. True humanist hymn text moistened with a mild madness also calls for freedom. That of being able to play music for all social classes, on a piano in perpetual motion, always with grace and pleasure. Permanently, the play asks the spectator’s imagination.

Treader unconventional André Dussollier knows make way for a formidable quartet of musicians to the jazzy score. Inevitably, the piano takes the largest square (great performance Elio di Tanna) and transcribed the souls Novecento states. As long as the words are his tones, his flashes that reflect the personality of the gifted, who knows more than anyone else on a world he knows, this “ship too big for us, where everything seems infinite” an instrument that “only God can give and play.” Him, he is content to observe all those who go on cruise and capture the mood to write them … A beautiful mission, which, from beginning to end, makes sense.

Cédric Coppola