A romantic love story, that of Noé and Alix, largely disrupted by the successive questionings of the one supposed to become a brilliant neuropsychiatrist. He asks questions to which science has no answers.
It concerns the NDE, the near-death experience, which involves recurring and specific sensations like “out-of-body” experiences, the complete vision of one’s own existence, encounters with spiritual entities with a self in a state of alertness and a self in a state of observation.
A subject of research if not through the lens of storytelling, a talent inherent to the director and author of the play, Violaine Arsac, and the comedy, which allows a precise and well-documented approach to the doubts plaguing our hero.
It is following an accident that happens to the professor, who offers him an opportunity to study at Harvard, that he becomes interested in these types of experiences. The answers provided by Buddhists or any other religion lead him to wonder if science and spirituality are compatible.
A rhythmic, fluid staging is necessary for such a theme. The subtle lighting by Stéphane Baquet adds brilliance to this sequence of scenes where the intimate and the universal blend. Not to mention a sort of constant choreography since the importance of bodies, which sometimes brush against each other and sometimes repel, brings lightness, an airy aspect to these confrontations of couples, friends, and the one with his research director.
Sparkling actors who play very precisely, with Florence Coste, whose moving melodies punctuate the play since her character is a photographer in the musical performance world, and Grégory Corre.
Roland Haugade
