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Renaud Cojo, Open the Dog<div> What if it all started with a record? For several years now, director Renaud Cojo has been playfully interviewing volunteers about the soundtrack of their lives: an album that has become their emotional anchor, a guiding light in their existence, capable of evoking memories, emotions, and stories. With While My Guitar Gently Weeps, he gives this project a dazzling incarnation, entrusting this intimate testimony to professional artists who, in turn, deliver their own anthology.</div><div><br></div><div> Seated in a circle around a record player, they recount, in the present tense, what connects them to a song, before playing it. Little by little, their voices respond to one another, sketching a shared memory where each person can recognize a little of themselves. Later, these songs come alive in a festive concert, performed by the band themselves, under the direction of guitarist and composer Mocke Depret. At the heart of this intoxicating encounter, somewhere between confession and performance, the personal intertwines with the evocative power of the melodies...</div><div><br></div>