TOYS – Fire
TOYS – Fire (2015)
Directed by: Louis De Caunes
French director, Louis de Caunes, brings a short movie produced by ‘Blue Is The Warmest Colour’ knockout star Adèle Exarchopoulos, who also stars alongside real life partner, Parisian actor and model Jérémie Laheurte. The director was also responsible for the band’s visuals for ‘Hey Boy’, praised by Dummy Magazine for serving up ‘slices of New York City’s various subcultures, from skating and street art to break-dancing and basketball, in stunningly up-close-and-personal black-and-white’.
Born out of a meeting between the celebrated director and the on- and off-screen couple, the idea was to paint a picture of two people meeting and embarking on a pretend love story. Louis couldn’t think of anyone more suitable for the job that César nominated scriptwriter Marie Monge (‘Marseille La Nuit’), to develop a script describing the presages of a love story; the contrast between the passion of one night and the hard awakening of the next day.
The music video is an edited version of ‘Apnee’, a short film, that will broadcast on French TV channel Canal Plus on 1st December, and featuring an extended version of TOYS’ single ‘Fire’ as the soundtrack.
Louise explains: “‘Apnée’ is about the birth of a love story and the intense and contradictory feelings you can experience at the very beginning of a relationship. Toys scored the short film and it felt right to also release it as a music video for the theme song of the film, ‘Fire’, as it talks exactly about the feelings depicted in the film by Adèle Exarchopoulos and Jérémie Laheurte. We have an ongoing collaboration with Toys that started with a music video and continued with a couple of commercials that they scored. Now this. It feels to me like it just gets better and better, but I might be blinded by love.”
Directed by Louis De Caunes
Starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and Jérémie Laheurte
Produced by Iconoclast/ Fairtrack/ Caroline
