A city outside Paris. A girl recites the lines of Marivaux’s “Le jeu de l’amour et du hasard”. It’s Lydia, who is rehearsing her part in the year’s-end class play. Abdelkrim, her classmate, is increasingly interested in her. He’s a kid who tries to kill boredom by hanging out with his friends, and Krimo can’t lose his reputation: how can he tell Lydia he’s fond of her without anybody knowing? There is a way: taking over from his friend Rachid, co-actor with Lydia in the part of Harlequin. What Krimo doesn’t dare to say, Marivaux will say for him. But perhaps not all will go as planned, because real theatre reflects the conflicts and tensions of the soul (sentimental and social included)… |
