Ciné-club: Brook by Brook

Friday, 22 July 2011

5.30pm & 7.30pm

Brook by Brook

Director: Simon Brook

2001- 72 min

Portrait of a man in private, at home; portrait of a man at work... Because he hides nothing from his son Simon (a young director of films and documentaries), the great British stage director Peter Brook, now 76, reveals for the first time something of his personal world as artist, father, and son. But Simon Brook never settles for the strictly biographical, he seeks to capture the essence of the paternal quest: a quest for life, for truth, far beyond a "mere" quest for theater. In English or French, the director tells how the vision of a primitive statue in a Zen garden, or a journey to Iran or Africa, determined his path, helped nurture his conception of the stage space (the emptiest, the least definite, the most open) for the actor's performance (the freest possible). Though he has never allowed himself to be filmed in rehearsals, we see him working on an improvisation with some of his oldest collaborators. The more Peter Brook ages, the greater his taste for adventure and experimentation is. This experimentation, he insists, must always precede analysis, so that theater always remains both familiar and distant, both commonplace and unexpected.

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