The rapper, who left the scene in 2009 and erected a wall of silence around her, reappears with a documentary on her life, presented in special session at the Cannes Film Festival.
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This is the well -known story of a Parisian suburban girl who discovers that the words of rap carry in them the power of the torments that inhabit him. She who, at 15, tries to end her life, will chase her black clouds, and those of the public at the same time. Musical tidal wave. We are in 1999, Mélanie Georgiades, known as “Diam’s”, released her first album, first mandate. Ten years later, she stops everything.
History is known. Diam’s converted to Islam and veiled. Married and mother. Voluntary disappeared. With radicality that lends free rein to all fantasies. The contrast between the wall of silence that the ex-singer ereges and her years at the top of the charts builds a second legend, even more mysterious than the first … This is what makes Salam, self-supporting that she co-signs today – Insurance to have the final cut – with the directors Houda Benyamina and Anne Cissé, a document. It was presented in special session Thursday, May 26, at the Cannes Film Festival. 2>
quest for happiness
The singer who, in 2008, on vacation to Mauritius with a girlfriend, notes on a sheet, among the good resolutions to find her interior peace (Salam): “Never speak to journalists”, S ‘ Expresses here for the first time.
The depression that has long lived it, stays in psychiatric hospitals, the diagnosis of bipolarity, this rock star career which turns out to be a failure in its quest for happiness, the discovery of faith as a refuge, the Love of her family, reconciliation with her father, complicity with her mother … The young woman gives herself in a soft voice, with a fragility which forever transforms her stature of rap star.
salam may not be a “cinema object” (long plans on the setting sun and the birds in the firmament), and the second part, on her next life – the young woman, who continues to Generate one million listeners per month on Spotify, set up and finance an orphanage in Africa – may have an expected proselyte side, it is nonetheless struck at the corner of sincerity.
come On the canceled Croisette
The raw platform was not mistaken, which produces the film (he must release three days indoors, the 1 er July, as a product, before to be put online), and has skillfully orchestrated its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival, of which it is a partner with France Télévisions. With, to welcome him, the host Augustin Trapenard and an announcement of the rapper’s arrival on the Croisette. But the program was pre -recorded. And Mélanie-Diam’s stayed at home.
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