Chienne et louve de Joffrine Donnadieu
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Publisher's presentation : I want to breathe on stage, to hear the three knocks every night, to commit crimes, infanticide, adultery, to love madly, to hate madly, to travel through time, to change sex, to poison myself, to die, to be reborn. Romy, twenty years old, arrives in Paris with the dream of being an actress. To survive and pay for the Cours Florent, she works in a strip club in Pigalle. Odette, an eighty-nine year old woman, puts her up for a small rent and a little company. Sequined thong and crucifix will have to get along. Two women tame each other, between dog and wolf. They form a relationship made of fascination and dependence, mirroring their bruised bodies, their solitudes, their madness, their stolen childhoods and above all their desire to live. In this mutual hold, how far will they be able to go? |