Histoire d’un Cid

A white mass slowly swells on the stage. Soon, a shoddy castle appears. The one from Cid? Like children in a pile of dead leaves, the actors and musicians then leap with both feet into the cult lines from this classic masterpiece:

"Va, je ne te hais pas.", "Rodrigue, as-tu du coeur?", "Ô rage! O despair! Ô vieillesse ennemie !" ...

They're so famous that they could make a play out of them... A paradox that Jean Bellorini has mischievously seized on for this variation on Corneille's tragi-comedy. Navigating between past and present, imagination and fidelity, breaking the alexandrine or conforming to it, his story joyously rediscovers Rodrigue's dilemma, his impossible love with Chimène, the infanta's secret and the despair of an aging father... But while he deconstructs the original score with tenderness and humor, the director forgets neither its poetic brilliance, flamboyant musicality nor its profound subjects.