Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, the Alpes-Maritimes Department has decided to maintain this event which allows spectators to travel through great texts read by renowned actors.
Over the years, the Festival des Mots has become a spectacle of style, tone, expression, and emotion that immerses the audience in a world of elegance and intimacy.
For Charles-Ange Ginésy, president of the departmental council: “For the duration of an evening, brilliant actors perpetuate the oral tradition of old storytellers by bringing words to life with their talent.”
On the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the Alpes-Maritimes department, the Festival des Mots will present some of the most significant texts by literary figures from the Alpes-Maritimes, a department that is a “land of writing.”* Texts, excerpts, readers, and perspectives that pay homage to this land and its literature, which speaks to the people of the Alpes-Maritimes because they are proud of it.
9 actors embodying the great names of cinema, television, and theater will meet with the audience to rekindle the tradition of evening gatherings, which are the bedrock of connection and transmission in our villages.
In the program ( :
This Saturday, July 18 at 9 PM: Tourrettes-sur-Loup — La Bastide aux Violettes, Michel Boujenah reads “The Adopted Father” by Didier Van Cauwelaert,
Thursday, July 23 at 7:30 PM: Vence – Place du Grand Jardin, Richard Bohringer reads excerpts from his own works (“It’s Beautiful a City at Night,” “The Ultimate Conviction of Desire,” “Scraps,” “Don’t Linger Too Long in the Rain,” “Fifteen Rounds”),
Friday, July 31 at 9 PM: Cap d’Ail – Château des Terrasses, Christophe Malavoy reads “Forgetfulness is the Devil’s Ruse” by Max Gallo,
Monday, August 3 at 8:30 PM: Mougins – Place des Patriotes, Richard Berry reads “The Man Who Had Never Seen the Sea,” a short story by JMG Le Clézio,
Wednesday, August 5 at 6 PM: Valberg, Les Jardins du Mercantour, Isabelle Carré and Irène Jacob read “Tender is the Night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Friday, August 7 at 9 PM: Villeneuve-Loubet, Jardin du Pôle Culturel Auguste Escoffier, Fanny Cottençon reads “Promise at Dawn” by Romain Gary,
Saturday, August 8 at 8:30 PM: Auribeau-sur-Siagne, Cour de l’Ancienne École, Charles Berling reads “That My Joy May Remain” and other texts by Jean Giono,
Friday, August 14 at 9 PM: Saint-Martin-Vésubie, Mathilda May reads “Avenue des Diables-Bleus” by Louis Nucéra.
