Kool Shen
A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy days. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.
Concrete Feeling tells the story of French hip-hop. It’s about rap as social comment and how French hip-hop climbed the charts to become the most popular music in France.
It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits the organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life.
A muggy Saigon, late 1945. Stationed at a military camp in French Indochina, two young men--Robert and André--become close friends as they share the boredom and excitement of waiting for their first mission. But when they discover that instead of freeing Indochina from foreign aggressors, they will be fighting natives struggling for independence, their friendship is jeopardized.
After a brain hemorrhage, Maud, a filmmaker, wakes up one morning in a half-dead body that has left her hemiplegic and facing inevitable solitude. Bedridden but determined to pursue her latest film project, she discovers Vilko, a con man who swindles celebrities, on a TV talk show. He is arrogant, magnetic and mesmerizing. Maud wants him for her new film. They meet. He sticks around. He swindles her, too, borrowing astronomical sums of money. He takes everything but gives her joy, a family. This film tells the story of the abuse of weakness to which Maud falls victim.
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.
Le documentaire a suivi le groupe de rap durant un an (en 1998) depuis les répétitions au studio Pee Wee à Aubervilliers, du début de leur tournée à La Réunion, en passant par Lorient, Nantes, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nancy, jusqu'au Zénith de Paris. Le documentaire revient également sur les problèmes de Joeystarr avec la justice, sur la vie au sein du groupe, sur les problèmes avec les médias, ... Joeystarr et Kool Shen, en interviews croisées et intimes, reviennent sur les faits marquants de toute cette aventure. Ils parlent de leurs rapports communs, de leur "vie de couple", de l'émergence de leurs collectifs, B.O.S.S. (début de l'émission Skyboss sur Skyrock) et IV My People, du possible futur ou bien de la fin d'NTM
