La chambre de l'écrivain

With La Chambre de l'écrivain, Marc Lainé closes a cycle presented in its entirety at Les Célestins, on the history of his family and that of several French decades. From the disillusionment, in his eyes, of the emancipatory and political wave initiated by May 68 to current questions on relations of domination and patriarchy. Martin is a 45-year-old director working on a show that explores the collapse of his parents' romance. Through this creation, he seeks to understand the circumstances of his own conception and reveal the unspoken secrets of his father, a Prix Goncourt-winning writer. At the same time, he initiates a dialogue with the younger generation through his encounter with a theater technician. An encounter that leads him to question the very meaning of this show. Between autobiography and fiction, the boundaries become blurred, but the art resists. In the living room or parents' bedroom, visible through a video device, supported by cellists Vincent Segal and Paolo Rezze, Marc Lainé covers six decades of history: his own and, by extension, ours.