A 5-minute pop song about the Holocaust? Mylène Farmer said YES and made it devastating.
Official music video "Souviens-toi du jour" by Mylène Farmer. Inspired by Primo Levi's book If This Is a Man, the song deals with the theme of the Holocaust.
Direction
Nispel's stark black-and-white aesthetic strips away spectacle, forces confrontation.
Cinematography
Static frames borrowed from documentary footage, refuses to fictionalize suffering.
Production
Farmer's staging directly references Primo Levi — this is homework, not just aesthetics.
Director
Marcus Nispel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Farmer read Levi's If This Is a Man after her father's death; she called the video 'a prayer.' French critics were divided between calling it brave and calling it vanity.
The video was banned from several French networks for being 'too disturbing for music television' — a rare case of censorship for moral seriousness rather than titillation.
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