Torben Skjødt Jensen: La Merda

I aftes begyndte DR-K sin teaterfestival op til Reumertfesten på søndag og Torben Skjødt Jensen har over de kommende fire aftener fire teaterforestillings-produktioner at byde fra sit værksted. ”Det begyndte i aftes med en ægte TV-premiere, Danica Curcic for fuld udblæsning i Cristian Ceresolis fremragende monolog La Merda som i Simon K. Bobergs danske iscenesættelse og oversættelse er blevet til Lort. Danicas kvindekarakter er ung, vred, nøgen og ordene vælter som en syndflod ud af munden på hende. Vekslende mellem det følsomme og det rasende afslører hun sine inderste hemmeligheder fra et liv med fornedrelse og desperation…” skrev Skjødt Jensen i går på sin FaceBookside og lovede mig ”med fuld garanti en stærk oplevelse.” Og Curcic og han og fotograferne holdt sandelig løftet. Det er et vidunderligt tv-værk! Som det var en vidunderlig teaterforestilling som overføres til tv fra Husets Teater, en mindefyldt opførelsse jeg for nogen tid siden så på Nordkraft i Aalborg.

Så herligt dobbelt er La Merda i Torben Skjødt Jensens hænder en dokumentarfilm om en skuespiller på arbejde, hvor hun fremstiller et menneske som gerne vil være skuespiller, den er en skildring af skuespillets drivkraft, baggrund, og talent. Altså endnu en film om scenekunstens væsen, men den er alligevel uundværlig som den nu eksisterer som et værk med overvældende mange nye nuancer, hele serier af pludselige og uvante forståelser.

Filminstruktøren / klipperen Skjødt Jensen og fotograferne skildrer skuespilleren Danica Curcics og i det også teaterinstruktøren Simon K. Bobergs professionelle arbejde med at fortolke og opføre Cristian Ceresolis monolog og forstå og fremstille dens eneste ene person / karakter. Og både hver for sig og tilsammen er det netop sådan en vidunderlige præstation som vi her på Filmkommentaren sammenfatter ved højtideligt at tildele seks af seks spidse penne.

Det lyder skematisk det her, jeg kan godt høre og se det, men det har kun med min firkantethed at gøre, filmen / tvkunstværket her er langt fra skemaet, eller rettere, værket skjuler sin orden i en blomstrende rigdom af sindrige lag og gribende enkeltøjeblikke, ja af hele suiter af forunderlige oplevelser og store epifanier.

SYNOPSIS

The stage is empty, except for the oversized stool and the naked woman (Silvia Gallerano) who sits under harsh spotlights. There is nowhere to look but her, nothing to hear but her. And this woman demands to be watched. She demands to be listened to. She demands you pay attention: because she is going to be a star.

Written by Cristian Ceresoli, La Merda is a true steam of consciousness and Gallerano tears right through it. She shouts out in self-important rage, then softly whispers asides. She barrels through words and phrases, relentlessly driving forward in unstoppable energy, each of the three acts of this one-hour show. It builds in intensity until Gallerano is screaming into the microphone, our ear drums about to burst and then, suddenly: blackout and silence.

This woman is at once repulsive and sympathetic. She creates crass impersonations, she tells us how she manipulates people to get what she wants, how she is obsessed with fame above all else. She also details how, as a teenager, she was sexually assaulted and as an adult she was raped.

She is irreparably obsessed with her body, so disgusted by her thighs that she used to visited a woman who slathered them with yellow cream and electrodes for 40 minutes a week. Her beloved father committed suicide when she was 13, and she still obsesses over the incident.

As self-loathing as she is self-loving, constantly conflicted, trying to laugh away her pain. Unapologetically, she takes up space, angry at her life and at the politics of Italy, knowing she is destined for something bigger.

Gallerano sits naked, shamelessly demanding to be seen. But the focus is always on her face: often ferocious, frequently violent, sometimes contorting in laughter, but always utterly compelling. (Jane Howard, The Guardian) (NB Galleranos part is in the Danish theatre played by Danica Curcic, the still)

Still: Frame-grab fra klippebordet

https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/teaterfestival/teaterfestival-lort (DR streaming nogle dage)

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717078205&fref=ts (Torben Skjødt Jensens side)

 

 

 

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Allan Berg Nielsen
Allan Berg Nielsen

Allan Berg Nielsen started the first documentary cinema in Randers, Denmark way back in the 1970’es. He did so at the museum, where he was employed. He got the (16mm) films from the collection of the National Film Board of Denmark (Statens Filmcentral). He organised a film festival in his home city, became a member of the Board of Directors of the Film Board, started to write about films in diverse magazines, were a juror at several festivals and wrote television critiques in the local newspaper. From 1998-2003 Allan Berg was documentary film consultant (commissioning editor) at The Danish Film Institute, a continuation of the Film Board. Since then free lance consultant in documentary matters.

abn@filmkommentaren.dk

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