WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

What if everything began with a record? For several years now, director Renaud Cojo has enjoyed asking volunteers about the soundtrack of their lives: an album that became their emotional touchstone, a life anchor capable of conjuring memories, emotions, and stories. With While My Guitar Gently Weeps, he gives this project a dazzling incarnation by entrusting this intimate testimony to professional artists who, in turn, share their own anthology.

Seated in a circle around a turntable, they recount in the present tense what binds them to a song before playing it. Little by little, their voices answer one another, weaving a shared memory in which everyone can recognize a part of themselves. In a second phase, these tracks come back to life in a celebratory concert performed by the band itself under the musical direction of guitarist and composer Mocke Depret. At the heart of this exhilarating encounter between confession and performance, intimacy intertwines with the evocative power of melody...