Until August 15, 2011, at the Théâtre du Cours, 5 rue de la Poissonnerie
– The Fetishist by Michel Tournier
Directed by: Léonie Baile
Cast: Serge Morisso
« The tight and the loose. I’ve always wondered which has more charm. There are two schools of thought. The tight fit, of course, hugs the forms, and at the same time, holds them, firms them up. But it’s lacking in imagination, it doesn’t speak. It’s dry, terse, no-nonsense. Whereas the loose, the blurry, that’s what makes you dream! It’s chatty, it’s a continuous improvisation, it invites you to slip a hand in. »
Summary
Martin has a sentimental fiber, in the literal sense; he can only love his Antoinette through the interposition of frills.
For him, nudity is a disease, the bare body a piece of meat, and love and eroticism require decorum, restraint.
In this character of a reasonable madman, one can see a comic and tragic lineage with Baudelaire. He too was fascinated by artifice, makeup, sumptuous attire and… and… Falbala.
Michel Tournier, author of The Ogre and Friday or The Other Island, offers us an extremely endearing hero, modest, shy, but determined and stubborn, and funny!
The Fetishist is the story of a man whose obsession with women’s undergarments led to psychiatric hospitalization. He has a very compassionate view of his character.
It raises the question of an individual’s freedom concerning their own fixed ideas.
