Gallant Indies
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2022
March 3 - 13, 2022
Philippe Béziat’s documentary follows a diverse troupe of dancers and singers as they prepare to mount an ambitious new production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes, transplanting the action to 21st-century France in a radical new staging that both honors and transforms the original text.
Q&A with Philippe Béziat on March 12
In 2019, eight opera singers and 30 dancers from a wide variety of artistic and demographic backgrounds convened at Paris’s Opéra Bastille to begin work on an ambitious new production of Les Indes galantes. The baroque composition by Jean-Philippe Rameau is a cornerstone of French musical history, but its beautiful melodies come alongside a host of outdated conceptions of “exotic” locations and peoples. Philippe Béziat’s documentary captures the work of this multifaceted troupe under the direction of artist and filmmaker Clément Cogitore; together, they work to deliver Rameau’s opera into the 21st century and the everyday diversity of contemporary France, integrating questions of racism, classism, and colonialism into a radical new staging that both honors and transforms the original text. A Distrib Films US release.
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