Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle (2018)

• 82%
• 2018
• Drama
• Music
• Stéphane Metge
• Stéphane Lissner
• John Relyea
• Ekaterina Gubanova
• Claude Bardouil

Running through Bartók's disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc's monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard's castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist?