A festival dedicated to the union of image and music in all its forms, cinema, video game, clip, pub, virtual reality or VR, animation, documentary. The idea is good and has made its way with Twin Sisters, which is celebrating its third edition until Saturday July 1 in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime), where Jacques Demy shot Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, a musical comedy that has been around of the world with the music of Michel Legrand. Everything is a pretext to bring together the general public and professionals around a simple idea and to rediscover the emotions of an original soundtrack, a music video or a short film in virtual reality.
“With Twin Sisters, admits Julie Gayet, I reconnect in a way with my first life as an opera singer. I sang opera until the age of twenty before switching to cinema with Agnès Varda (The Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema, in 1994, editor’s note) who was a model for me . She took me to Los Angeles and to the Cannes Film Festival. With my partner, Mathieu Demy, I discovered the world of cinema and this union of image, sound and music. In Rochefort, we are trying to multiply this transversality. »
Rochefort becomes for a few days the crossroads, the meeting point between directors and composers, performers and musicians who come to confront their experience and their point of view on the links between music and image and vice versa and their way of weaving them. “We invented these new encounters, adds Julie Gayet, to bring together these different artistic professions… The idea is to move forward in a field that is changing very quickly in the age of artificial intelligence. ” Enough to prove Martin Scorsese right for whom “music and cinema are inseparable. They have been and always will be.”
Rochefort Twin Sisters Festival, until July 1st.
