Opening Ceremony: the Secrets

With the help of the Collège de France historian Patrick Boucheron, the screenwriter Fanny Herrero, author in particular of the successful series "Call My Agent!", the Prix Goncourt novelist Leïla Slimani and the theater author Damien Gabriac, director Thomas Jolly has imagined a spectacular opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Without divulging the best-kept secrets of this event, this documentary lifts the veil on the main stages in the development of this event. you exceptional, believed to be followed by more than a billion viewers worldwide.

How to speak to more than a billion viewers at the same time? Theater director Thomas Joly enlisted the help of Collège de France historian Patrick Boucheron, screenwriter Fanny Herrero, novelist Pris Goncourt Leïla Slimani and theater author Damien Gabriac to design the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Close-up on the development of this grandiose spectacle, which aims to convey universal values, but also packed with a good dose of humor that defies clichés. “An Olympic ceremony is about looking back on where we come from, where we are, where we are going,” confided Thomas Joly to explain his approach.