Tenir debout

How, today, when a new feminist voice is being liberated, can anyone want to become Miss Poitou-Charentes? To answer this question, Suzanne de Baecque decided to infiltrate the contest by becoming a candidate. Born of this documentary material, Tenir debout tells the story of bodies and what is at stake in these ultra-contemporary elections despite their apparent obsolescence. Far from clichés, she takes us to meet the pretenders, young women of her own age. At times joyful, at others deeply moving, this show oscillates between reverie and violence, perhaps finally daring to free oneself from the weight of the gaze that assigns and constrains. Without judgment, with tenderness and humor, Suzanne de Baecque and her accomplice Raphaëlle Rousseau deliver a show shot through with profound humanity.