After making the boards of French theater and cinema tremble, Robert Hossein opens the doors to his heart for us. With complete sincerity, he pays tribute to all those who saw him grow, “to all those who allowed me to be on stage.” It’s the story of his life, an act of love towards his audience to whom he confides without restraint. “Without the audience, I would never have experienced all these insane things,” he confesses.
Far from the major productions he has accustomed us to, Pour vous avoir beaucoup aimés… paints a precise picture of a life filled with joys, sorrows, and disappointments. Against a romantic backdrop, Hossein pays tribute to all those he loved and who returned that love. His parents, his friends: Frédéric Dard, Roger Vadim, Daniel Gélin, Francis Huster, Jean-Claude Brialy, Brigitte Bardot, and many others…
All his life…
The title of his one-man show is written in the past tense and sounds like a farewell. But don’t be mistaken, despite being 80 years old, Robert Hossein is already talking about his next production. “We’re working on something never seen before!” It is with the same liveliness and humor that the actor describes his show, which he swears is “totally improvised.” But behind the comedian, there is a man sometimes fragile, often moved to tears, and troubled by his own mortality: “surely, I don’t have much time left.”
The show overflows with the adventures of a character with disarming sincerity who admits to still being “terrified with stage fright.” He reveals to the audience his many lives as a comedian, actor, and director. To a nostalgic tune, shifting from laughter to tears, he recounts his childhood spent in boarding schools, the tragic disappearance of his wife on their wedding day, his admiration for Princess Grace Kelly… A mix of anecdotes both funny and tragic. The show is punctuated by a parade of films and photos on a giant screen of all the characters who have marked his life “and God knows it was not ordinary.”
This video is from the site Web TV Nice
