Johnny - The Fragile Giant: Masculinity Without Apology, Desire Without Limit

He wasn't just a rock star.He was France's unfinished masculine dream. Johnny Hallyday was never merely a singer. He was a national construction — built from American rock fantasies, postwar insecurity, erotic spectacle, and a desperate need for virility. In Johnny — The Fragile Giant, Julien Peltier dismantles the monument. From the abandoned child Jean-Philippe Smet to the stadium idol who perfo...