Name: ORELSAN: Don't ever show this to anyone
Released: 2021-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Clément Cotentin, Gringe, Orelsan

ORELSAN: Don't ever show this to anyone

Tv-programma · Documentaire

In the early 2000s, Aurelien Cotentin is a young middle-class man from Caen with an uncertain future. When he gets into rap music with his friends, he's really starting from the bottom. Yet, through hardships, controversies and constantly being filmed by his admiring little brother, Aurelien becomes Orelsan, one of the most popular French artists of his generation, changing the rap genre forever.

2021 · 35m

Met Clément Cotentin, Gringe, Orelsan

Regisseur Clément Cotentin

AFLEVERING 1

Future belongs to those wake up when I go to bed

Skread, Ablaye, Gringe, and Clement have been Orelsan's pillars of support from the beginning.

35 min.
AFLEVERING 2

To make a movie all you need is something that can film

With no one else to rely on, Orelsan and his crew (three friends and a younger brother) work all by themselves to launch his rap career in 2006.

39 min.
AFLEVERING 3

Everything I say in my songs is cliché and false

Unable to come up with a radio-compatible track, Orelsan seeks his audience through live performances; one of his past creations attracts too much attention and triggers a backlash.

40 min.
AFLEVERING 4

We are the future

With his friends and brother by his side, Orelsan makes a resounding comeback after the controversy kept him out of the public eye for a year.

44 min.
AFLEVERING 5

I will keep on with my bullshit until they take me seriously

Orelsan takes a break from solo projects and decides to bring the Casseurs Flowters back. This proves to be the beginning of a new crazy adventure that will open new doors for them.

44 min.
AFLEVERING 6

I thought I would wake up one morning feeling like a man

After several years away from the rap game, Orelsan starts to work on a new solo album that will spell out the transition from teenage to adulthood.

45 min.