Sauve qui peut (la révolution)

The real Jean-Luc Godard and his fictional double serve as the common thread running through this sparkling fresco on the theme of the Revolution. We randomly cross paths with Danton, Duras and Huppert, along a journey that feeds both reflection and aesthetic jubilation.

Adapting Thierry Froger's novel, which imagines a film commissioned from the Swiss filmmaker for the bicentenary of the French Revolution, Laëtitia Pitz invents a four-episode experience, with a virtuoso art of editing, and a stage set-up in perpetual mutation, where acting, audio or video sequences, musical punctuations and rebounds are interwoven. The show's two muses, Godard and the Revolution, are invoked iconoclastically, erudite and facetiously, through a range of documents and quotations, reproduced or embodied.