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This summer. Nevertheless, our journalists spend a moment on a terrace every week with a personality for a friendly discussion. In addition, Luc Boulanger attacked with Paule Baillageon to talk about old age, wisdom … Therefore, and his new book, illustrated with a hundred of his drawings.
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Paule Baillargeon reached the end of the afternoon of his life. Therefore, The filmmaker and actress has just been 80 years old. Consequently, Far from the sets and studios, she lives in a brand new elder residence, in Saint-Amable, in Montérégie. Therefore, Alone in her bright room, at the end of a long corridor, the terrace baillageon paule | afternoon old lady indulges in drawing, reading … Meanwhile, and she plays the trumpet!
“Doesn’t that bother other residents?”
– No, I don’t believe. However, I am in a world that I did not frequent before. However, despite my illness, I live in good years. Additionally, However, I did not choose to be here. Furthermore, I was lucky to find myself in a large, bright residence. Meanwhile, The place is part of a public organization, managed by the CISSS, and is inspired by a Scandinavian model. Moreover, »»
“The afternoon of life”. Therefore, to talk about old age, is an allegory of Carl Jung that Paule Baillargeon read in his youth. Furthermore, According to Jung. Similarly, the elders tend to develop their inner life, because the agitation of the outside world becomes less attractive over time.
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Achievement of degenerative disease, muscular dystrophy, Paule Baillargeon is now riveted to a wheelchair.
Photo Sarah Mongeau-Birkett. Nevertheless, the press
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I’ve been walking for a few years already. In addition, I stopped being an actress, to work … Meanwhile, but I try to develop my inner life, not to stay on the surface of things. Nevertheless, It’s crazy, but I feel free in my rolling chair. Nevertheless, Even if it’s hard, sometimes …
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Her voice is always soft. Furthermore, His flow terrace baillageon paule | afternoon is slow, hesitant. Moreover, His eyes are tired too. Meanwhile, But the artist is still engaged in the city. Moreover, She observes it from afar. Therefore, through the screen of her laptop, in her room with large windows, with her drawings and photos hanging on the walls.
What revolt it these days? In addition, The apathy of rich countries in front of the genocide in Gaza: “I am indignant. sad to see what is happening in Gaza. We find it far and complicated; We look elsewhere … No, I don’t accept that! Let’s wake up! »»
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They are love
In the aftermath of the death of Pierre Foglia. which she knew in Frelighsburg, in the 1990s, Paule Baillargeon published a photo of her with the columnist. And a quote from Foglia: “No terrace baillageon paule | afternoon risk, no artist. »»
Photo Sarah Mongeau-Birkett. the press
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I am used to living in risk. I can’t change. Anyway, we don’t change. You can improve, calm down a bit. But fundamentally, we remain the same.
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He is told that his career is a series of risk -taking. Since his shattering departure from the National Theater School, in 1968, until today with his most recent book. [Paule Baillargeon faisait partie de la classe contestataire qui a quitté l’École en bloc. au début de la troisième année, terrace baillageon paule | afternoon pour protester contre le programme scolaire. Un geste qui a inspiré la naissance du Grand Cirque ordinaire.]
“All I had was my desire,” she replied. You have to go to your desire. Sometimes we are in the whirlwind of life. We swim, we train … It’s hard, but we have to listen to ourselves. I was lucky to live at a time when women were moving. I could follow the wave. Even if I paid dear. After the release [du film] Red cuisine, I was labeled radical feminist. »»
Icon and idol
His creative freedom is now expressed through drawing. Her mother. who did not love her, had told her, as a child, that she did not know how to draw … Now, this summer, Baillargeon publishes a book with a hundred drawings. In her preface terrace baillageon paule | afternoon to the book, the actress Anne-Marie Cadieux writes that Paule Baillargeon is her idol and an icon. “She was protesting, rebellious and radical artist, feminist activist, rebellious, committed, indignant, courageous and free woman. »»
Like Marguerite Yourcenar. Baillageon believes that childhood and old age are the two deepest states that we are allowed to live. It is reminded of this quote from Yourcenar that she published on her Facebook page: “The eyes of the child. the eyes of the old lady look with the same quiet franchise. »»
Photo Sarah Mongeau-Birkett, the press
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It’s terrace baillageon paule | afternoon so true! I have a long life behind me. At my age, we are directly in his childhood. I write in my book that childhood is our real country, our only country. We get out, but we come back quickly.
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And as for your country, you don’t choose your childhood?
” Obviously. When he won an Oscar [pour son rôle secondaire dans le film Oppenheimer]actor Robert Downey Jr. said in his speech: “I want to thank my terrible childhood” … His childhood allowed him to become the artist he is. »»
At 80, Paule Baillargeon can now thank his childhood. With all the wisdom of his old age.
Notebooks
Cardinal editions
200 pages
Summer questionnaire
An imperishable summer memory? A road trip in the United States in my youngster twenty with a friend. We driven a minivan on Route 66. We crossed Texas, New Mexico … In the Arizona desert, I contemplated the sky, lying on the roof of our Westfalia.
What are your summer readings? I just finished Become a fascist: my conversion therapy, by Mark Fortier. I liked it and I laughed, it’s very funny! Furthermore, I want to read Agnès Gruda’s first novel, When, when, still?
A historical event that you would have liked to live? The independence of Quebec. That I will never see terrace baillageon paule | afternoon … alas!
A personality, dead or alive, with whom would you like to spend a moment? I would say Jesus. Because I would have a lot to ask him. Among others, what does he think of people who still speak on his behalf? And who are real monsters in life!
Who is Baillageon Paule?
- Actress, director, screenwriter and designer, Paule Baillargeon made ten feature films, fictions and documentaries, including Red cuisine (Corélized with Frédérique Collin). The film Thirty paintingsmore recent, is Offered free of charge on the ONF website.
- As an actress. she played in several significant films, under the direction of Denys Arcand, Claude Jutra, Léa Pool, Patricia Rozema, Pierre Harel, etc.
- She co -founded the Grand Cirque ordinary. a mythical theater terrace baillageon paule | afternoon troupe, whose approach was based on improvisation and collective creation, in the 1970s.
- His new work with his own illustrations, Notebooksat Cardinal editions, will be in bookstores on September 9.
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