Vincent Lindon, Bloody Heart: A Stacked Confession Document (Critics)
The actor diverts the interview-confession for a stupid self-reflective exercise of naked truth even if it means exhausting himself. A totally crazy experience.
Presented during the last Lumière festival, the documentary Vincent Lindon, a bloody heart will be broadcast on February 5 on Arte. It is already visible streaming on the chain and YouTube site.
When Vincent Lindon Does he stop being Vincent Lindon? Does the actor put forward in a closed circuit preventing him from being something other than what he permanently claims? He who likes to quote his grandfather and say that his job “obliges him”. It is no coincidence that his last two feature films to date, The choice And Play with fireshow it a site helmet on the head, the serious mine ready to do battle with injustices.
The duo of directors Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai (Rocco) had the good idea to knowingly be dispossessed of their film to let the actor the phagocyter from the inside. Here we are with Lindon to the square, filming pieces of a solo adventure where the formidable storyteller seeks to conceal nothing above all: the pathetic as the fantastic. Lindon broken down on the holiday route; Lindon on his boarding bike looking Equalizer ; Lindon Solo at La Closerie des Lilas; Lindon amazed at the idea of being president of the Cannes jury overplaying ecstatic in his hotel room or a Lindon-Confession admit that “Yes, living in him and with him is not easy. “
The result is staggering. In an almost suicidal gesture, the actor stages his anxieties, his neuroses, his outbursts, his mania, his loneliness and above all, his own madness with a phenomenal consciousness. Lindon’s genius is precisely in this ability to control everything even when he gives the impression of letting go. The beast is there, roars, smiles a little, and goes. All that remains is to pick up the pieces.
