Theater : Two Friends

On stage and in real life, Stanislas Nordey and Charles Berling are close friends. Two performers who are passionately in love with each other and the theater, at times to the point of hatred!

They are a pair on the magnitude of their excess as they are ready to stage four Molière plays, just like Antoine Vitez. The two performers, who are consistently strong, are gripping with realism to the point of dizziness.

By giving his lovers-friends Stanislas and Charles, who reflect on the theater, desire, life, and death, names like Stanislas and Charles, playwright and director Pascal Rambert further muddies the waters. One has a flamboyant disposition, while the other is cool-headed.

Stanislas' phone vibrates as a message arrives as they begin rehearsals and public readings.He ought not have ever read it. Their relationship is destabilized and laced with mistrust and anger. Everything floats to the top. They fight, hug, are envious of one another, and even loathe one another. Everything breaks down.

Will the two artists—who are also lovers—ever find each other again? Will it be for the theater or merely for the sake of love?... Pascal Rambert's dialogue, at times tender and at other times unpleasant, strikes the mark between furious rants on the "splendors and miseries" of theater and culture and meditations on interpersonal relationships.
When Pascal Rambert dissolves the lines separating reality and theater.....

On stage and in real life, Stanislas Nordey and Charles Berling are close friends. Two performers who are passionately in love with each other and the theater, at times to the point of hatred! They are a pair on the magnitude of their excess as they are ready to stage four Molière plays, just like Antoine Vitez. The two performers, who are consistently strong, are gripping with realism to the point of dizziness. By giving his lovers-friends Stanislas and Charles, who reflect on the theater, desire, life, and death, names like Stanislas and Charles, playwright and director Pascal Rambert further muddies the waters. One has a flamboyant disposition, while the other is cool-headed. Stanislas' phone vibrates as a message arrives as they begin rehearsals and public readings.He ought not have ever read it. Their relationship is destabilized and laced with mistrust and anger. Everything floats to the top. They fight, hug, are envious of one another, and even loathe one another. Everything breaks down. Will the two artists—who are also lovers—ever find each other again? Will it be for the theater or merely for the sake of love?... Pascal Rambert's dialogue, at times tender and at other times unpleasant, strikes the mark between furious rants on the "splendors and miseries" of theater and culture and meditations on interpersonal relationships. When Pascal Rambert dissolves the lines separating reality and theater.....