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Considered exasperating or captivating, hummed the world over in any number of arrangements, the most performed piece of classical music, Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, is part of us — in our genes, as Jean Echenoz, the author of Ravel, puts it in this film.
How did a work of such apparent simplicity become the biggest hit in the classical repertory? Perhaps one of the keys to its success can be found in the handful of pages that Claude Lévi-Strauss devoted to Bolero in his book, "The Naked Man." He explains the work’s universality in that he sees Ravel as a musician of a "message" that makes the listener "a negative creator, for whom the music emanating from the composer fills in the gaps."

With the participation of Jean Echenoz, Marcel Marnat, Michel Sendrez, Kurt Masur and the Orchestre national de France, as well as Katia & Marielle Labèque.

France - 2007 - 59 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Michel Follin Writer Christian Labrande, Michel Follin Camera Georges De Gennevraye Sound Yves Laisné, Graciela Barrault, Stéphane Morelli, Francis Bonfanti Editing Adriana Komives Cast Bernard Pisani Narrator François Marthouret

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