A moving interview. Singer Juliette Armanet returned this Sunday in “Sept à Huit” on the power of music through the story of her grandmother Paulette, who died of Alzheimer’s disease, to whom she had devoted a documentary in 2009 entitled Alzheimer’s children. Not to let it fall into oblivion, she had filmed it, the space of a summer.
Consumed by this disease “which breaks everything we know about the other”, as the artist nicely says, Paulette had forgotten everything about her life. Suddenly, the music, the piano represented the last moments of sharing between the grandmother and her granddaughter. As if these two pianists were meeting for the first and the last time. “She was forgetting her own life, her identity, the very fact that she had children”says Juliette Armanet in this interview to be found in replay in the video at the top of this article and on MYTF1. “She no longer knew what her name was, it was a large white territory”.
At the time of filming her, her grandmother is 87 years old and she is lost in the middle of her family, no longer recognizes the singer. “You can feel enormous anger, injustice,” says Juliette Armanet. “I tried to welcome who she was, without trying to tell her: ‘of course I am your granddaughter’. Also, “calling on her childhood memories also helped her to regain her footing, to remember who she was”she explains. “It’s not just sad, there was also fantasy, moments where we laughed a lot because she allowed herself things that she wouldn’t have allowed herself before.”
2023-07-02 20:36:40
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