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Orelsan: Never Show This to Anyone

Orelsan: Never Show This to Anyone

S1 · E1

IMDB:

8.2
Orelsan: Never Show This to Anyone

Released

10/15/2021

Duration

0h 46m

Genre

Documentary

Country

France

Cast

Orelsan, Skread, Gringe

Overview

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.

Episodes

The future belongs to those who get up when I go to bedEP 1Available

The future belongs to those who get up when I go to bed

36m8.0

Orelsan is a figure of the French music. But 20 years ago, in Caen, he did not consider making rap his profession. Singing about the boredom of the middle class in the provinces, that doesn't exist! The only ones who believe in it are his friends Skread, Ablaye, Gringe and especially his little brother, Clément. Camera in hand, the latter films him tirelessly.

If you want to make a movie you just need something that make movieEP 2Available

If you want to make a movie you just need something that make movie

40m8.0

2006. Orelsan is a rapper from the provinces. To release his first album, he has to manage alone. The arrival of MySpace is a godsend. But he still had to find a record company. With his friends, always followed by the camera of his brother Clément, they launch a challenge: to make a video clip themselves, in Caen, and to make it broadcast on TV.

What I tell in my songs are clichés, it's not the truthEP 3Available

What I tell in my songs are clichés, it's not the truth

41m8.0

2008. Orelsan is now writing an album. But none of his tracks are radio-compatible. There is only one solution: to go and find his public by performing on stage. Orel and his friends, always followed by the camera of Clément, his little brother, manage to set up a tour. While everything is going well, a song of Orel resurfaces and launches a huge controversy.

We are the futureEP 4Available

We are the future

44m7.0

2010. One year after the controversy, Orelsan stopped music altogether. When Skread and Ablaye persuaded him to make a second album, the hardest thing was to find a way back. But the lost loser from the provinces metamorphoses and his second album is a triumph. Always followed by his brother's camera, Orel is ready to live his first real tour, carried by his very first popular hit.

I'll keep bullshitting until they take me seriouslyEP 5Available

I'll keep bullshitting until they take me seriously

45m7.0

2011. With Le Chant des Sirènes, Orelsan has changed dimension. As a king of counterpoint, he decided not to continue his solo adventure. He revived the Casseurs Flowters, the group created with Gringe in the early 2000s. But Gringe hasn't been rapping for years... Once their universe has been rediscovered, their wacky adventure will come to life on CD, on television and even in the movies...

I thought I'd wake up one morning and, be a manEP 6Available

I thought I'd wake up one morning and, be a man

46m6.0

2016. After the enchanted parenthesis of Casseurs Flowters, Orelsan wants to return with a new solo album. But five years have passed, rap has changed. New trends, new artists, is Orelsan still in the game? La Fête est finie is an opportunity to draw a line under the post-teen years and become an adult. The dazzling success of the album will exceed all his expectations...

Cast

Orelsan

Self

Orelsan

Skread

Self

Skread

Gringe

Self

Gringe

Clément Cotentin

Self

Clément Cotentin

Ablaye

Self

Ablaye

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