An event awaited by fans. As the release of a new album approaches, rapper Orelsan will be at the heart of the documentary series “Never Show That To Anyone”, which will be available this Friday, October 15 on Amazon Prime Video.
The impatience is all the greater as the first two episodes – out of the 6 in the documentary series – were ovation during their preview screening during the festival CANNESERIES last Sunday. The site AlloCine describes the program as an “authentic and inspiring documentary series”.
It was Clément Cotentin, Orelsan’s little brother, who filmed his eldest over twenty years, and spent 3 years viewing the 2,000 hours of rushes to give birth to this project with the help of Christophe Offenstein, co-director from the film Comment c’est loin with Orelsan. Never show it to anyone and retrace the rapper’s career in an intimate way. From his humble beginnings in a small town in Normandy to the consecration album with La fête est finie, released in 2017, through the difficulties encountered along the way. Including the colossal controversy around the song Sale Pute, which had earned him to be prosecuted for provoking violence against women, before being finally released in 2016.
The long construction of a career
“It was not just 30 canceled concert dates but possibly the career of a promising singer who stops,” said Maxime Delauney, producer at Nolita, about the case. “It took a long time for Orel. I show how little by little a career is built, my brother did not know this boom of artists who succeed immediately very young ”, specifies for his part Clément Cotentin, journalist by profession, and director of this documentary in which he provides the voice-over, about his brother’s career. “The documentary can give the keys to enter my brother’s universe, understand the second degree, the distancing, understand his characters, what he did in the past and what he will do in the future” , he continues.
My brother filmed everything !!! And made 6 episodes !!! It comes out on @PrimeVideoFR October 15 @skreadofficial @OfficielGringe @ClementCotentin #NeverThatToPerson pic.twitter.com/Cjo8XJypVN
– OrelSan (@Orel_san) September 28, 2021
In addition to the presence of certain members of Aurélien Cotentin’s family – alias Orelsan – several personalities also appear in the documentary, with in particular the testimonies of Gims, Stromaé, but also and especially those of his lifelong friends like Skread, Ablaye and Gringe . The ensemble offers a fascinating look at the journey of one of the most talented artists of his generation in a way rarely seen on television. An event not to be missed.
