France 5 – Friday June 20 at 10:50 p.m. – Documentary
Jack Lang was a professor of public law, younger dean (at 38) at the Faculty of Law of Nancy, actor, director of theater, creator of events, Minister of National Education and, above all, the iconic Minister of Culture of François Mitterrand. It was in this position that he created the Fête de la Musique, June 21, 1982, which is held this year the 43e edition.
This popular success, which has exceeded borders, should not make us forget that Jack Lang, filmed on the terrace of the Institut du Monde Arab, in Paris, which he still runs, at 85, was also elected mayor of Blois (1989-2000) and deputy (between 1986 and 2012). “I myself am struck by the multitude of things that I have been called to support or imagine”he comments, in voiceover. It is in this tone that Jack Lang will tell Jack Lang in this documentary by François Jougneau with a well -adapted title: “The beautiful role”. A bias that deprives the film of distance and nuances that the character would have required.
He will thus comment on multiple archives (man is not stingy in interviews), passages from his many letters – up to three daily letters to the President of the Republic! -and give the reply to Elsa Lepoivre, from the Comédie-Française. Eight decades of an exceptionally dense existence are thus traced in a documentary which, without omitting privacy, gives pride of place to his public life.
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