“Tomorrow I’m going to go butterfly hunting”: Dany Lartigue

A documentary directed by Miroslav Sebestik.

Synopsis

Dany Lar­tigue, the son of Jacques-Henry Lar­tigue, the famous painter and pho­tog­ra­pher, started paint­ing when he was very young. At 18 years old Dany went to St Tropez where is mother lived and set­tled there for good. He became one of the kings of St Tropez’s night life with his friends Juli­ette Gréco, Mouloudji and Annabelle Buf­fet dur­ing the Post –war years.Some years later he, quite by chance, noticed a rare and mag­nif­i­cent but­ter­fly. He man­aged to catch it and his pas­sion for ento­mol­ogy started with this unex­pected and lucky meet­ing. When he mixed his two loves together and started to Inte­grate real but­ter­flies in his pic­tures; it marked a water­shed in his pain­ing. The but­ter­flies lit­tle by lit­tle invaded his paint­ings as well as the walls of his house, which he turned into a museum. This doc­u­men­tary film will allow us to fol­low the dif­fer­ent stages of this painter’s life, as we will lis­ten to his testimony.To make a filmed por­trait of this unusual artist and great sto­ry­teller is to recount the story of a happy man who has man­aged to make a mas­ter­piece of his life.