A fabulous, subversive Opening Ceremony made for TV.
It was wet. Soggy socks wet. Ink smeared across the notepad, blurry photos wet. The chestnut trees along the Seine dripped fat raindrops into the beer faster than you could drink it. The rain puddled on the pianos and soaked poor Rafa’s pants. The joke was, it was the fault of France’s ex-president François Hollande, who seems to bring bad weather to every public event he attends.
But the show must go on! This Dunkirk of the Bateaux Mouches, a floating, five-hour musical theater extravaganza, had it all: Zizou in the Métro, Marina Viotti singing Carmen, Céline Dion on the Eiffel Tower, and so much more. Led by the theater director Thomas Jolly, the artistic direction delivered a radical, queer, emphatically diverse performance that effectively drowned out all the fascistic undertones of a parade of flag-waving hardbodies competing for national glory. It was silly and kitschy, but in its irreverence seemed deliberately designed to rebuff France’s flirtation with the white nostalgia of the far right.
For weeks now, Parisians have been denied the pleasure of putting their feet up in the heart of the city. Let the games begin, and let the people their river
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