Meeting moderated by Jérôme Mauche
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As part of the Pernod Ricard Foundation’s « Platform Poetry » cycle, the « Mercredis de Montévidéo » welcomes Arthur Dreyfus and Noël Herpe, both writers and filmmakers who pursue an aesthetic experience shaped by life, forms and reflections. Mutually interpreters or models of some of their respective films, they are above all, with subtlety and art, actors of their prose, novelists and essayists of their own existence, associating with audacity, fragments and classicism.
Arthur Dreyfus is a novelist, photographer, filmmaker, actor and journalist. He was also a magician. He is the author of very successful novels published by Editions Gallimard such as La Synthèse du camphre, 2010; Belle famille, 2012; Sans Véronique, 2017; as well as particularly brilliant autobiographical writings: Histoire de ma sexualité, Gallimard, 2014; Correspondance indiscrète avec Dominique Fernandez, Grasset, 2016; Je ne sais rien de la Corée, Gallimard, 2017; Journal sexuel d’un garçon d’aujourd’hui, P.O.L, 2021. He is also the author of Le Livre qui rend heureux illustrated by François Xavier Goby, published by Flammarion, 2011; and 101 Robes, 2015. He has been a journalist for France Inter and Canal +, as well as for the written press. He created with Gurwann Trab Van Vie the series Un film sans… and directs filmic portraits in the form of short and feature films: Isabelle H., 2013; Eric R, 2014; Jean-Luc G., 2014; Federico F., 2015; Arielle D., 2015; Noël et sa mère, 2019; and the documentary Catherine Frot, tous ces yeux qui vous regard … His photographic work was presented notably at the Gutknecht Gallery in 2017. He collaborates with many artists, such as Laurent Pernot, and plays in the films of Noël Herpe.
Noël Herpe is a writer, film historian and filmmaker. Literary critic, then film critic, we owe him studies and works devoted to Mauriac, Montherlant, Green, as well as the cinema of René Clair or Max Ophuls. He is the editor of numerous texts by Éric Rohmer: Le Celluloïd et le Marbre, Léo Scheer, 2010; Le Sel du présent. Chroniques de cinéma, Capricci, 2020; and co-authored with Antoine de Baecque a biography of the filmmaker, Stock, 2014. A lecturer at Paris 8, he has curated exhibitions at the Cinémathèque française devoted to Guitry and Clouzot. He has written, among others, a book of interviews with Jean-Christophe Averty La réalité me casse les pieds, Plein Jour, 2017; as well as recently the collections Souvenirs/Ecran, Bartillat, 2019, and Les Films me regard, Hémisphères, 2021. Noël Herpe is also developing a subtle literary work with an autobiographical dimension: Journal en ruines, 2011; Mes scènes primitives, 2013; Objet rejet par la mer, 2016, L’Arbalète-Gallimard; which a story Dissimulons!, Plein Jour, 2016, continues. His very singular cinematographic project begun with C’est l’homme, 2009, includes Fantasmes et Fantômes, 2017, based on Georges Courteline and André de Lorde, and La Tour de Nesle, 2020, an adaptation of the play by Alexandre Dumas. Arthur Dreyfus plays in these last two films.
