Director Al Huyne presents three harrowing stories that ring scarily true in this video for French rapper La Fouine. The language barrier may keep you from getting every detail, but the gist of each storyline is rooted in enough reality that the crimes and the consequences carry a complicated emotional weight. We get the drug dealer and his glamorous customer, each presumably unconcerned with the potential effects. There's the crime of passion, with the immediate awfulness only apparent after the trigger has been pulled. And then there's the burglary, a traumatizing destruction of house and home and life that seems to happen just for the hell of it. At times the black & white video seems like it will play like a Luc Besson thriller, but it stays much more grounded, making the best comparisons such uncomfortably real French flicks as La Haine or Irreversible. Have the French outdone us on the gangsta rap video tip? You could say that U.S. broadcast standards prevent most gangsta rap videos from even trying to depict the violence, the drug dealing and the cold-hearted street stories of the genre, but the fact is: I doubt many recording artists and record labels really want consumers to dwell too hard on this kind of darkness, when it's so easy to just show the spoils. --> watch "Du Ferme"
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La Fouine "Du Ferme"
Al Huyne, director | Mazava Productions, production co
