MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR
Genre
Biography
Running time
133 minutes
Year
2024
Language
French
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
France
Director
Mehdi Idir, Grand Corps Malade
Bio
Producer
Éric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer, Arnaud Chautard, Jean-Rachid
Cast
Tahar Rahim, Bastien Bouillon, Marie-Julie Baup, Camile Moutawakil, Tiffany Hofstetter, Hovnatan Avedikian, Victor Meutelet, Ella Pelligrini, Luc Antoni
Scriptwriter
Mehdi Idir, Grand Corps Malade
SHOWTIME
Tue
10.
Dec
Culture Square - Auditorium
7:00 PM - 9:23 PM
Price: 140 SAR
Wed
11.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 1
11:45 AM - 2:03 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Charles Aznavour, the son of Armenian immigrants who became a defining voice of France, died in 2018 aged 94. Two years later, his sons, Mischa and Nicolas, announced they had been working with their father on a biopic to be released this year: Aznavour’s centenary. This stunning musical drama is an intimate portrait of the artist’s life that's packed with biographical information. Growing up in poverty gave him an unswerving determination to reach the top; by the 1940s, he was playing cabarets with Pierre Roche, but his ambition was a solo career and a mass audience. Tahir Rahim plays Aznavour in a drama punctuated with disarmingly honest anecdotes from family members, giving us both the man and, of course, his music.
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