Maryline DESBIOLLES

Maurice Jaubert, born in Nice in 1900, a composer known above all for his film music, died in June 1940 at the front. In this biographical account, which becomes almost a love letter, Maryline Desbiolles, who also lived in Nice, retraces the life of this generous and creative man, who died a hero and who frequented the new forms of art, both in music (he worked with Honegger and Messiaen) and in cinema (he worked with René Clair, Marcel Carné, Jean Renoir, whose family he knew well, and above all Jean Vigo). During these forty years of a life led with a drumbeat, we rediscover the artistic effervescence of the 1920s and 1930s, in Paris where Jaubert went to practice his talents (in particular at the Salle Pleyel) but also in Nice, a cosmopolitan city crossed and awakened by all the avant-gardes.

Maryline Desbiolles is the author of some twenty books, published mainly by Éditions du Seuil, including La Seiche (1998), Anchise (1999, Prix Femina), Les draps du peintre (2008), Dans la route (2012), Vallotton est inadmissible (2013) and Ceux qui reviennent (2014).

She will be present:

Sat April 16 / 5pm - Villa Le Cercle - Viva Italia Program
ITALY IN THE BLOOD
Meeting with Maryline Desbiolles & Philippe Fusaro
Italy is in their blood. In the most literal sense of the word. Children of Italian immigrants in France, Maryline Desbiolles and Philippe Fusaro have a carnal relationship with the country of their parents and grandparents that comes alive in their novels. Stories of filiation and transmission.