Les Idoles

The last two decades of the 20th century will go down in history as the "AIDS years". The generation to which Christophe Honoré belongs was the first to reach adulthood fully aware of this threat. Honoré turned twenty in 1990, the year in which filmmaker Jacques Demy died. It was also the year that choreographer Dominique Bagouet created Jours étranges, a posthumous performance of which Honoré saw three years later.

Bernard-Marie Koltès had succumbed a year earlier; a year later, Hervé Guibert was swept away in his turn. Cyril Collard was about to shoot Les Nuits fauves, released in 1992 - while "ciné-fils" Serge Daney passed away, three years before Jean-Luc Lagarce's death.... Since then, Honoré has published novels or tales for readers of all ages, shot films for all audiences, written and directed shows, including Nouveau Roman, where he was already reinventing figures of such famous writers as Butor, Simon, Robbe-Grillet, Duras or Sagan. By paying tribute to his six Idoles - Collard, Daney, Demy, Guibert, Koltès, Lagarce - through six singular ways of facing desire and death head-on, Honoré returns to the "sinister and terrifiant days" of his youth. "A show to answer the question: How do you dance afterwards?"

Les Idoles won the 2019 Grand Prix de la critique, Marlène Saldana the Prix de la Critique for best actress and Marina Foïs the Molière for best actress.