Dalida: from reality to fiction in the biopic of Lisa Azuelos – Le Figaro

IN PICTURES - Le Figaro has provided images from the archives of the interpreter of Bambino. Eddie Barclay Lucien Morisse, passing through Orlando, with a focus on the men of the life of Dalida and their interpreters in the biopic of the same name, released on Wednesday in cinemas.

on Wednesday 11 January, Lisa Azuelos was a biopic dedicated to Dalida. It is the debutante Sveva Alviti who lends her traits to the singer. Bambino He had just turned 18 years old through his superb interpretation of I am sick, recovery of Serge Lama, the film offers itself as a playlist of the tubes of Dalida. It is perhaps with less subtlety that the director pours on the intimacy of the icon. Through anecdotes, it traces his career from its beginnings during the competition which will reveal on the stage of the Olympia in its tragic end, in her home in Montmartre, Paris.

She will then meet with the man who would become her husband, and Pygmalion, Lucien Morisse. In the feature-length film by Lisa Azuelos, he is played by Jean-Paul Rouve. The actor, who is a longtime friend of the director, lends her traits to be the one who will be abandoned by the singer the benefit of the painter Jean Sobieski. In the role of this bohemian artist, is found on the screen Niels Schneider, hired by Xavier Dolan in I killed my mother and The imaginary Loves.

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Lucien Morisse, who had discovered Christophe, Michel Polnareff, will try in vain to blacklist the singer. But the public is already acquired to the cause of Dalida who will triumph on the stage of the Olympia, managed by Bruno Coquatrix, Patrick Timsit in the film. The time of a few scenes, there was also another great figure of the show business, Eddie Barclay, in the guise of Vincent Perez.

In his film, Lisa Azuelos based on the omnipresence of death in life, love and family of Dalida. His father, who died when she was a child to the men who have shared his life. In 1967, the singer and Italian composer Luigi Tenco’s death, which will take the singer into a deep depression, to the point of attempting it as suicide. In 1972, she met Richard Chanfray says “The Comte de St. Germain”, a worldly mystique, played by Nicolas Duvauchelle in the film. The actor describes it thus: “Behind his side’s flamboyant, it is a type, not recommended, very mytho, very drugged, quite violent but that its discharge has not had an easy life”. Their affair lasted ten years, until their split in 1981. Two years later, his body will be found in Saint-Tropez.

In 1987, Dalida puts an end to his days, deceiving the vigilance of his entourage, including his brother Orlando, who participated in the writing of the script. She dies as a result of taking an overdose of barbiturates in her home in Montmartre.