France 3 devotes its first part of Friday evening to the singer with the boater, who died 20 years ago, with the documentary "Charles Trenet, the enchanter".
Its director Philippe Kohly explains in "Culture Médias" the traumas concealed by the unalterable joie de vivre of the songs of Charles Trenet.
He was definitely leaving the scene 20 years ago.
Death in 2001, Charles Trenet is at the center of a documentary broadcast by France 3 Friday evening at 9 p.m.
Charles Trenet the Enchanteur
draws an intimate portrait of the singer and the boater, using colorized archives: photos, period films, and interviews with Charles Trenet himself.
The film shows that the apparent euphoria of the singer of
Ya d'la Joy
actually hid a flaw of youth.
Charles Trenet was indeed abandoned by his mother when he was 6 years old.
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"He was recreating the paradise he had lost"
This trauma has defined the entire career of Charles Trenet, according to the director of the documentary Philippe Kohly.
"Charles Trenet carried all his life the feeling that he did not deserve to be loved. Hence the fact that he was always smiling. He had the impression that otherwise he would be rejected," he believes. he.
"On stage and in his songs, he recreated the paradise he had lost, and he brought the audience up to it. He realized little by little, over the years, that he deserved to be loved."
Philippe Kohly is used to drawing portraits of artists.
Before Charles Trenet, he was particularly interested in Jacques Brel, Barbara and Georges Brassens.
But it is Charles Trenet who impresses him the most, because of his ease of creation.
The documentary
Charles Trenet, the enchanter
is broadcast Friday evening on France 3 at 9 p.m.