00:00 The singer Françoise Hardy died at the age of 78.
00:04 Françoise Hardy died this Wednesday morning at the age of 78 from a cancer.
00:09 The announcement was made by her entourage.
00:15 The singer in fragile health had been hospitalized in emergency at the end of May due to a severe infection.
00:21 Françoise Hardy.
00:26 Since 2004, the singer has suffered from lymphatic system cancer, lymphoma.
00:32 In 2015, she was hospitalized.
00:37 Very weakened by the disease, the doctors placed her in an artificial coma for three weeks.
00:43 "I had a lot of surgery, and I was warned by my loved ones, including my son, that it was the end," she said a few months later on Europe 1.
00:56 But she died in 2017.
00:59 Her son Thomas Dutron announces that she is in remission.
01:03 A two-year reprieve before announcing on RTL in June 2019 that she had to undergo radiotherapy against a pharynx cancer.
01:13 At the end of the year, her entourage declared to the magazine Gala that she was still in treatment.
01:23 "Françoise Hardy, the discreet portrait of a modern singer.
01:28 She's the purest person I've ever met," says photographer Jean-Marie Perrier.
01:33 "I want you," Bob Dylan sang to her in his house.
01:39 "Of course I'm interested in her songs."
01:42 "What does she write well?" she asked, with a point of modesty, Jacques Dutron.
01:51 "Everyone expresses themselves in this documentary which, it's quite rare, is interested in the work of Françoise Hardy."
01:59 "Usually, the directors focus on her intimate life, her love story with her husband, Jacques Dutron, and her role as a muse, with him, for a large number of sentimental and melancholic songs."
02:17 "Françoise Hardy judges, judges, congratulates, criticizes, more than refreshing, exciting.
02:24 After the end credits signed by Émilie Valentin and Mathieu Jaubert, the first word that comes to mind is 'modernity'."
02:32 "This is what this woman, this artist, has embodied throughout her life.
02:39 Yet, her beginnings were, from her point of view, complicated."
02:46 "If the success was immediately tangible, artistically, she had some difficulties to be heard, especially in the studio."
02:55 "There are not many people who have sold as many records as are so bad on the orchestral level," she said with this franchise that is among her traits of character.
03:10 "The young woman will have to reserve, as Jean Gabin called it, the discreet, impose her visions, her desires, her will."
03:19 "And the first will be to record in London with local musicians. From then on, she will take on this pop music while keeping an infinitely personal line."
03:33 "A process of affirmation perfectly described in the documentary. The other interesting aspect is the radiation of her songs in Europe, especially in Germany, Italy and in the Anglo-Saxon world."
03:46 "In this film, Françoise Hardy judges, judges, congratulates, criticizes, as few artists would have the sincerity and courage to do so."
03:59 "The film is a tribute to the work of Jean Gabin, who has been a great inspiration to her."
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