Le Désespoir (France) — Ville — 2025 Short Film

Simon Biron crafts an orphic storytelling short film, fashioned in the spirit of Le Désespoir, as a noir journey into an introspective twilight, which unfurls like the delicate petals of a nocturnal bloom, each scene a contemplative pause inviting the listener to delve deeper into the enigmatic soundscapes of Le Désespoir’s debut “Ville”. Selecting an excerpt from the third track, he artfully embodies the anguished timbres of depressive black metal with the ethereal whispers of its atmospheric blackened kin. The film becomes an intimate canvas where these elements communicate, at times exchanging solemn secrets, at others merging in a unified, poignant resolve.

Though the film centres on this singular excerpt, there is a broader, richly textured universe that pervades this montage, a realm where avant-garde, touches of folk, and
delicate strains of neoclassical influences subtly permeate the remainder of the album. It is as if Simon Biron captures not only the melody but also the very essence of a landscape in emotional flux, where darkness and light waltz in a delicate, bittersweet duet.
In this cinematic vignette, the stark elegance of blackened genres is revered in its restrained power, speaking with the splendour of a dark elegy, its sombre notes gently pushing the boundaries of these genres, melding despair with an almost tender beauty. Biron’s lens lingers on these fleeting moments where each shot is a carefully chosen verse in a larger, haunting ballad of melancholy and transcendent introspection.

CD & digital available on Remparts Productions' Bandcamp and Bigcartel and on Le Désespoir's Bandcamp

Band: Le Désespoir
Album: Ville
Year: 2025
Label: Remparts Productions
Genre: Depressive / Atmospheric Black Metal
Country: France

A movie by FB & Simon Biron
Directed by Simon Biron
Produced by Remparts Productions

Simon Biron:

Le Désespoir:

Remparts Productions:

Chapters:
1- Prologue
2- The pathways of her life
3- All birds have a cage
4- Finitude

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