{"id":27755,"date":"2024-03-18T09:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=27755"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T08:23:09","slug":"center-stage-de-stanley-kwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2024\/03\/18\/center-stage-de-stanley-kwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Center Stage de Stanley Kwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Remarqu\u00e9 avec <em>Rouge <\/em>(1985), une histoire de fant\u00f4mes romantique, Stanley Kwan n\u2019a jamais eu en France la notori\u00e9t\u00e9 de Hou Hsiao-hsien ou Wong Kar Wai. <em>Center Stage<\/em>, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 en 1992 et miraculeusement distribu\u00e9 sur nos \u00e9crans en 1999, avant sa red\u00e9couverte fix\u00e9e au 10 avril, \u00e9tait apparu comme une magnifique d\u00e9couverte \u00e0 rebours, qui avait encourag\u00e9 une \u00e9bauche de reconnaissance du cin\u00e9aste hongkongais. La suite de sa carri\u00e8re n\u2019a h\u00e9las pas confirm\u00e9 ces d\u00e9buts prometteurs <em>Center Stage<\/em> raconte la vie et la mort de Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935), la premi\u00e8re star du cin\u00e9ma chinois, sorte de Greta Garbo de Shanghai. De ses d\u00e9buts \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de seize ans au sommet de sa carri\u00e8re, quelques grands r\u00f4les plus tard. Elle a tourn\u00e9 dans 29 films, la plupart des m\u00e9los, dont neuf seulement sont parvenus jusqu\u2019\u00e0 nos jours. Ruan Lingyu, malgr\u00e9 sa beaut\u00e9 incroyablement glamour, fut davantage qu\u2019une simple vedette. Femme libre, femme moderne, elle mit fin \u00e0 ses jours \u00e0 cause d\u2019une campagne diffamatoire organis\u00e9e par la presse (elle \u00e9tait entretenue par un homme mari\u00e9). Son suicide e\u00fbt lieu le jour de la f\u00eate des femmes. \u00ab Aimerais-tu que l\u2019on se souvienne de toi ?\u00bb est la question centrale de ce film biographique atypique. <em>Center Stage<\/em> commence comme un documentaire (Maggie Cheung accompagnant Stanley Kwan lors d\u2019interviews des survivants parmi les amis de la star) et se poursuit en reconstitution historique (Maggie Cheung interpr\u00e9tant Ruan Lingyu). Le reportage n\u2019est cependant pas abandonn\u00e9 et vient parfois interrompre la fiction, majoritaire. \u00c0 ces deux niveaux du film vient se greffer un troisi\u00e8me, le plus inattendu et le plus \u00e9mouvant : les extraits des rares films de Ruan Lingyu restaur\u00e9s pour les besoins du travail de Stanley Kwan. On pense bien s\u00fbr \u00e0 la fameuse phrase de Cocteau (\u00ab le cin\u00e9ma, c\u2019est la mort au travail \u00bb). Ces extraits, inject\u00e9s moins comme des relais \u00e0 une fiction d\u00e9faillante que comme une distanciation suppl\u00e9mentaire, renforcent la scission entre la biographie romanesque et l\u2019enregistrement du r\u00e9el. De m\u00eame que les entretiens film\u00e9s en vid\u00e9o dans lesquels Maggie Cheung appara\u00eet, ils nous rappellent que Maggie n\u2019est jamais Ruan Lingyu (et son travail de com\u00e9dienne est loin d\u2019\u00eatre mis en cause, au contraire) mais une actrice jouant Ruan Lingyu (les extraits de films muets, dans lesquels la ressemblance physique entre Ruan Lingyu et Maggie Cheung n\u2019est pas frappante, l\u2019attestent). Ainsi Kwan n\u2019a pas besoin d\u2019artifices et Maggie Cheung n\u2019a pas besoin de transformation physique pour nous faire croire \u00e0 la performance de l\u2019actrice et \u00e0 la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de son personnage. <em>Center Stage<\/em> est un film qui croit encore \u00e0 la puissance \u00e9vocatrice des plans, qui respecte leur homog\u00e9n\u00e9it\u00e9, leur permet de dialoguer entre eux. Cela s\u2019appelle tout simplement le montage. Il faut r\u00e9p\u00e9ter combien Maggie Cheung parvient \u00e0 exprimer la subtilit\u00e9 et la complexit\u00e9 de ce r\u00f4le, jouant celle qui joua, au cin\u00e9ma et dans la vie, \u00e0 la perfection. Cette mise en ab\u00eeme (film dans le film, tournage dans le tournage) n\u2019est pas vertigineuse, mais limpide. Et la douceur du film masque la violence d\u2019\u00e9motions r\u00e9prim\u00e9es. Oui, Stanley Kwan s\u2019est bien souvenu de Ruan Lingyu. Il ne l\u2019a pas momifi\u00e9e en ic\u00f4ne kitsch. Il s\u2019est souvenu d\u2019elle pour mieux parler des actrices et des femmes, au pr\u00e9sent. Le plus bel hommage qu\u2019il pouvait rendre \u00e0 la star disparue. Et \u00e0 la femme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ressortie en salles le mercredi 10 avril, en version restaur\u00e9e, distribu\u00e9 par Carlotta Films, dans le cadre d&rsquo;une retrospective Stanley Kwan. Prochainement sur ce blog, l&rsquo;exhumation de notre entretien avec Maggie Cheung effectu\u00e9 au moment de la premi\u00e8re sortie fran\u00e7aise du film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/aff-stanley-kwan-en-4-films-1-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/aff-stanley-kwan-en-4-films-1-768x1024-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/aff-stanley-kwan-en-4-films-1-768x1024-1-210x280.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/aff-stanley-kwan-en-4-films-1-768x1024-1-576x768.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/aff-stanley-kwan-en-4-films-1-768x1024-1-580x773.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarqu\u00e9 avec Rouge (1985), une histoire de fant\u00f4mes romantique, Stanley Kwan n\u2019a jamais eu en France la notori\u00e9t\u00e9 de Hou\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - 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