JOHNNY HALLYDAY. The documentary series “Johnny by Johnny” is released this Tuesday, March 29, 2022 on the Netflix platform.
[Mis à jour le 29 mars 2022 à 11h42] Johnny by Johnny. Here is the ambition of the documentary series devoted to Johnny Hallyday, which appears this Tuesday March 29, 2022 on the Netflix platform. In five episodes of about thirty minutes, the creators Alexandre Danchin and Jonathan Gallaud wanted to “tell the singer and the man as he saw himself, through interviews and unpublished images”, can we read in the description of the program. But how to differentiate from all that has already been done on the Taulier, more than four years after his death? Hard to surprise.
The documentary Johnny by Johnny, in which Laeticia Hallyday did not participate, actually offers rare images of the singer, all on comments provided by him, interspersed with interventions by Line Renaud, his friend Pierre Billon, the photographer Jean-Marie Périer or Nathalie Baye , Florent Pagny, Yarol Poupaud and Pascal Obispo. Here we are immersed in Johnny’s destiny: from his childhood, marked by the abandonment of his father to his meeting with Lee Hallyday, his cousin’s American companion who will inspire his name, we also explore the beginnings of his career in rock. ‘n’roll, then his marriage to Sylvie Vartan and the tensions it brings, or even his real fake encounter with Elvis Presley.
The spectator follows Johnny Hallyday in his frenetic tours, where the rocker exhausts himself in concert, until his crossing of the desert in the 80s, his meeting with Nathalie Baye or Michel Berger, that with Adeline Blondieau, his American dream, the fan frenzy and until his funeral in 2017. If this documentary Johnny by Johnny is indeed rich in archive images, sometimes rare, punctuated by the voice of the rocker, purists will not learn much about the singer. Especially since these images have been, for many, seen and reviewed for years. “We wanted to reach a younger audience, who have heard a lot about Johnny in recent years but do not know his beginnings well or not well”, defend themselves in the columns of Parisian the two directors, Alexandre Danchin and Jonathan Gallaud.