Description

An adaptation of Ivan Viripaev's eponymous novel where intoxication makes masks fall.<div> Ivan Viripaev's "The Drunks" is a world-in-a-play, telling the story of our world during a sleepless night, swept away by alcohol, love, and revelry....</div><div><br></div><div> Fourteen disoriented characters cross paths, collide, argue, and fall in love in vegetarian restaurants, abandoned party halls, and nightclubs... They had entered these places preceded by their social identities (festival director, banker, prostitute, students...).</div><div><br></div><div> But then comes the intoxication. And the consciousness, unburdened by the night, takes uncharted paths to contemplate love, death, the meaning of life, truth, God... The swell of the night distorts the dialogues and gradually transfigures them. Each sequence gives rise to a new plot and a new meditation.</div><div><br></div><div> Frédéric Bélier Garcia is well acquainted with Viripaev's insolent language and his simultaneously grotesque and metaphysical digressions, having already directed *The Wasps of Summer Still Sting Us in November*. Here, from the babbling of drunken men and women emerges a luminous voice reflecting on the human condition and the madcap smile of our world. Eight scenes capture these moments of life, taken from our daily dance around the abyss.</div>