Frydman

A woman's long history of bad luck starts to change when she puts her life on the line in this romantic drama. Adèle (Vanessa Paradis) is a 22-year-old woman whose life seems to have been a long series of miscalculations; she's never had much luck with love, life, or career, and is standing on a bridge overlooking the Seine one night, contemplating suicide, when she's approached by a man named Gabor (Daniel Auteuil). Gabor announces he's a knife-thrower who needs a new human target for his act. Would Adèle be interested? Adèle's immediate answer is to jump into the water, but after Gabor fishes her out and gets her to a hospital, she has a change of heart and the pair are soon on their way to Monaco, where Gabor gets a spot at a circus. Adèle and Gabor make a great team; he's good with knives, she's young and beautiful, and suddenly Adèle's luck starts to change. She visits a casino one night and comes home with a fortune, and even when Gabor throws blindfolded, she walks away without so much as a scratch.

This is the resulting album of a bunch of non-professional musicians, who used to organize events (mostly theatre pieces) d started to revolve around the Proust brothers and guitarist Alliard and bassist Vanderkempen. Having fallen onto poetry text describing Viking invasions into medieval France, François had his brother (an actor) adapting the text and Alliard adapting the ideas to music. The project started developing medieval folk-influenced mini-opera-type of concept, which one might wonder through which miracle it came to fruition, given the punk upheaval sweeping France at the time. The recording sessions were spread over 78 and 70, the album being released in March of that year under the new label Solaris and received a pressing of 1,000 copies. Another similar concept based on La Chanson De Roland was planned but never came to fruition.

Jean Starobinski est le fils de Aron Starobinski et de Sulka Frydman, tous deux d'origine juive polonaise. Il a enseigné la littérature française à l’université Johns-Hopkins, à celle de Bâle, ainsi qu’à Genève, où il a aussi assuré des cours d’histoire des idées et d’histoire de la médecine. Ses livres, traduits en une douzaine de langues, ont enrichi les vues sur plusieurs grandes œuvres. Il a également consacré de nombreux travaux à la création poétique contemporaine, ainsi qu’aux problèmes de l’interprétation et de l'herméneutique. …

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