From the Montreal Gazette:
- Franco Dragone has altered the boundaries of theatre. The visionary creator and director behind a dozen Cirque du Soleil productions – Saltimbanco, Mystère, Alegria, Quidam, O and La Nouba among them – Dragone dreams in three dimensions. Dragone brought an avant-garde element to Céline Dion’s A New Day in Vegas. He has had ballet dancers bring new meaning to underwater erotica in La Rêve, a non-Cirque revue also staged in Vegas. But there is another side to the man who has had contortionists contorting body parts never contorted before in mega-glam, mega- budget spectacles.
Manu Bonmariage, a fellow Belgian and documentary director, had set out to unmask and demystify the man in Looking for Dragone, which makes its local debut Tuesday at the Montreal World Film Festival. And he succeeds. What transpires is a fascinating, warts-and-all peek into the inner workings of the dynamo that is Dragone. Bonmariage spent two months tailing Dragone, from Las Vegas to La Louvière to Macao. The gloss of Las Vegas is much in evidence. But it’s the grit of La Louvière that stands out most.
If you’re in Montreal this week you’ll get a chance to see screenings of “Looking for Dragone” on Tuesday at 9:30pm, Thursday at 11:00am and Friday at 2:40pm at Quartier Latin on 350 Émery St. near the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Read the full article here.
{ SOURCE: Montreal Gazette }
