Denise is a racehorse trainer. She lives and breathes horses. Few years ago, she was appointed as legal guardian of Madeleine, a unique little girl with congenital disability. Driven by intuition that it would be better for Madeleine to have a multiple people taking care of her, Denise posts an ad to find three other women willing to with her and Madeleine. She sets “drastic“ conditions: 1 – Have a connection to horse; 2 – No furniture brought; 3 – Care for Madelene.

Three women are selected. Denise, Saskia, Nora and Jeanne are each at turning point in their lives. These four impulsive, impetuous, and dissimilar women will learn to live together and form a “different“ family around Madelene and her “disability”.

Isabelle Lafon presents a playful, and tender performance that opens the door to reflection on the creation of democracy by and with women, to reflection on the need for an intimate world that must resist all interference if it is to guarantee individual freedom. A political, intimate world over which nothing can exercise authority: neither the state nor society.

Joëlle Gayot, Le Monde

Cavalières is the extraordinary story of women who have experienced a fall - from a horse into social decline through job loss and existential crises—and now share a chaotic, unframed space overflowing with words. Words overwhelm them, but at least this creates a language whose motifs pass from one person to another. Isabelle Lafon and her actresses have constructed the story so intelligently that we feel as if everything is being invented before our eyes and for us, in the absolute present. This performance embodies modernity.

Laurent Goumarre, Libération

Language: French (Polish subtitles)

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