Invited onto the BFMTV set this Monday, August 12, director Thomas Jolly and styling and costume director Daphné Bürki shared their emotion the day after the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Emotions the day after the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Invited onto the BFMTV set, director Thomas Jolly and styling and costume director Daphné Bürki hailed the success of this event, watched by more than 17.1 million viewers this Sunday, August 11, at the Stade de France.
“I was very moved to see the athletes at the heart of the ceremony. On the Seine it was 6km and there in this stadium, it was a cauldron of humans, on the stands, on the track…”, confided Thomas Jolly.
“I am impressed by the number of people who watched this ceremony. It is dizzying. We woke up saying to ourselves that we tried once again to do the best for everyone and it was very moving,” adds Daphné Bürki.
Mixed reception
While the show of the opening ceremony on the Seine had captivated the entire world, that of the closing ceremony at the Stade de France left some spectators with a more mixed impression, in particular because of its very dark tone. And emotions sometimes had difficulty getting past the screen barrier, during the silent and metaphorical show imagined by Thomas Jolly.
“Unclear story, no real common thread, much too long. Lack of emotion. Too bad,” said Sylvain Langlois, a French viewer, on X.
On social media, the central character of this show called “Records”, a golden traveler straight out of science fiction, is reduced to “a thing in a golden suit” by one Internet user, while others see him as “a cockroach”, an “interstellar wasp” or “a 4am mosquito”.
“I feel like I have a really bad, sad hangover. It couldn’t have been more disappointing,” wrote New York Times reporter Catherine Porter.
“The first part was too dark and too slow,” regretted Quebec journalist Katherine Verebely, about the sequence starting with the extinction of the Olympic cauldron in the Tuileries gardens up to the festive concert concocted by the electro-rock group Phoenix.
