Frédérick Lemaître

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Frédérick Lemaître through Les Enfants du paradis, where the real actor becomes a character1. He presents him as a prestigious actor with a gift of the gab that he contrasts with the art of mime. He notes that Pierre Brasseur plays the role in the film and recalls that Nerval met Lemaître2. What he most often retains is one specific scene: the one where Lemaître mocks authors who demand "emotion." Between 2019 and 2021, he returns to this line several times, in different contexts: an interview, the series on the benefits and harms of amnesia3, and then the Musicosophie session devoted to Nietzsche contra Wagner4. In a session on Mozart, he compares the character to Harlequin5. The passages are brief. Lemaître serves as an occasional reference, linked to the theatre and to the mockery of the demand for emotion, rather than as the subject of an extended analysis.

1. 1#1 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...8 Oct 2020 · 1:12:15
2. 2Griaule (Marcel)18 Oct 2017 · 56:30
3. 3#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 1:00:36
4. 4Musicosophie 12. Nietzsche (tout) contre Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 2:00:42
5. 5Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021 · 5:46

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.