"He couldn’t remember when he had made me half bigger." : Juliette Armanet fondly remembers her grandmother who has Alzheimer’s

A touching testimony. Friday, March 17th, Juliette Armanet was present on set.as a party Open channel+ on the occasion of his concert at the Accor Arena, which took place on the same day in Bercy and was broadcast live on the encrypted channel. Opportunity for the singer to emotionally examine a scene from the documentary children with Alzheimer’smade for art In 2009, when she was still a journalist, we can see her with her grandmother Paulette, who was affected by the illness. “It was a documentary I chose to make at a time when there was a tipping point in my grandmother’s life.“It gives confidence to the 39-year-old artist.”Because my grandmother was an excellent pianist and she never built her life around it, but that was her whole life. He passed on his love of music to my mother, whom he taught every morning before going to school, and my mother taught me to play the piano as well as my father. And at that time in her life, my grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease, a terrible disease.“

“He couldn’t remember anything, his name, his name, who he was, if he had children…“Juliette Armanet continues with tears in her eyes. last day of disco He said that although his grandmother had Alzheimer’s, he did not forget anything about music.But there was a place in her life that brought her back to her awareness of herself and the world, and that was music. He had no idea who I was when I played the piano for him, he couldn’t remember anymore that he had grown me halfway, that he was so interested in me. But when I played the piano for him, he suddenly became himself. His relationship with the world was completely fluid, this was his realm of consciousness and freedom. I was fascinated by the fact that this woman, who says fork instead of hello, makes the mistake of separating and doesn’t even remember her own name anymore, can protect her territory, and the music is upside down and against her whole place. resistance. It was amazing.“

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