La Tendresse

After the masterful Désobéir, which featured the words of a group of young women, Julie Berès gives a voice to men who have emancipated themselves from the injunctions of virility and the expectations of their families or society.

What is it to be a good guy? Do you have to fight to get respect? "Make money" to be a man? La Tendresse is the second part of Julie Berès' diptych on youth and resilience. She went out to meet young men from diverse social and geographical backgrounds, to question the construction of masculinity. She unravels the threads that play out in the private, social and religious spheres, featuring eight young men who have seized their destinies and allowed themselves to be vulnerable. The words, intimate, funny or moving, are carried with unsettling sincerity, in a vivid language planted in the reality of lives. Julie Berès invites virtuoso breakdancer Bboy Junior and draws inspiration from krump, giving body to anger and life to a poetic catharsis. She draws up a map of the "masculine in the making" in a polymorphous and joyful theater, conducted like a musical score.