JOHNNY HALLYDAY. The documentary series “Johnny by Johnny” is released this Tuesday, March 29, 2022 on the Netflix platform.
Johnny by Johnny. This is the name of the documentary series on Johnny Hallyday, which appears this Tuesday March 29, 2022 on Netflix. In five episodes of about thirty minutes, the creators wanted to “tell the singer and the man as he saw himself, through interviews and unpublished images”, can we read in the description of the program.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?
The documentary Johnny by Johnnyin which Laeticia Hallyday did not participate, actually offers rare images of the singer, all on comments provided solely by him, interspersed with interventions by Line Renaud, his friend Pierre Billon, the photographer Jean-Marie Perrier or even Nathalie Baye, Florent Pagny, Yarol Poupaud and Pascal Obispo. We discover the one who will become the Idol of young people from his childhood, the abandonment of his father, the meeting with Lee Hallyday, American companion of his cousin who will inspire his name, and his very beginnings 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 on tour, where the rocker exhausts himself in concert, until his ruin in the 80s, his meeting with Nathalie Baye or Michel Berger, that with Adeline Blondieau, his American dream and until his funeral in 2017. If this documentary Johnny by Johnny is indeed rich in archival 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 or not well”, justify in the columns of the Parisian the two directors, Alexandre Danchin and Jonathan Gallaud.