A long-time collaborator of Flavien Berger, director Céline Devaux offers a bold and delicate music video for "Soleilles".
Eight years after directing the music video for "Gravité," filmmaker Céline Devaux reunites with musician Flavien Berger. The director of Everyone loves Jeanne (2022) offers a very beautiful video accompaniment for the melancholic track "Soleilles", from the singer-songwriter's new album, In a hundred years.
Filmed in the streets of Paris, this choreographic stroll doesn't try to strictly adhere to the notes and rhythm of the music. Without ever being gratuitously illustrative, the visuals tenderly accompany the music. This short film was produced by Sylvie Pialat (producer of Timbuktu of Abderrahmane Sissako or of L'Inconnu du lac (by Alain Guiraudie) follows several women (first one, then quickly two, then three, then seven) in a Paris far from the postcard image – we recognize the 20the In the district, we see RATP buses and G7 taxis passing by. Each of the women falls, bumps into things, but they always get up and continue, despite the injuries.
Filmed by cinematographer Kristy Baboul (who notably designed the lighting for the recent Sea air makes you free (by Nadir Moknèche), the music video for "Soleilles" brings together film actress Ariane Labed and several contemporary dancers. Since Flavien Berger rhymes the words "naissance" (birth) and "avalanche" (avalanche) in "Soleilles," Céline Devaux also uses this video to convey a message that is both harsh and lighthearted, sometimes violent but always liberating. Like these women, we feel the urge to walk through the city with a sure and determined step, unafraid of accidents.
"Suns" by Flavien Berger
France paris
Music video director: Céline Devaux
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