Private Project

Weloveyou

Between two periods of confinement, isolation and restrictions, Weloveyou Art Project, an artists' collective, has launched a call for participation to the residents of Normandy. On the beach of Deauville, on June 1, 2021, from sunrise to sunset, families and couples of all ages freely came to testify in front of the camera about their love story, about this magical link that unites them. The instructions: Love each other simply with the wind in your hair
In a world in suspension, love as an act of resistance. A story of our history at this very moment, set to music by Nathaniel Méchaly.

  • Elodie Lachaud
    Director
  • Elodie Lachaud
    Writer
  • Mila Lights
    Writer
  • Joëlle Marouani
    Writer
  • Nathaniel Mechaly
    Writer
  • Bertrand Marin
    Key Cast
    "chef opérateur"
  • Monique Dartonne
    Key Cast
    "Monteuse"
  • Nathaniel Mechaly
    Key Cast
    "compositeur"
  • Xavier Dreyfuss
    Key Cast
    "monteur son/Mixeur"
  • Mila Lights
    Key Cast
    "voix"
  • Joëlle Marouni
    Key Cast
    "directrice de production"
  • Vincent Roget
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Weloveyou
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes 9 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 12, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Elodie Lachaud

Elodie Lachaud is an artist photographer, director and painter. She lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the Beaux Arts de Paris, she obtained a scholarship to the Chelsea Art School in London and study photography. She exhibited her work in various galleries in Brussels, London, Paris. In 2014, she directed her first feature film Tricolarum selected at the Mannheim Heidelberg festival in Germany. Art and life are intimately linked in her projects, focusing on movement as a rhythm of emotion, human relationships, collective memory and transmission of cultural heritage. Since 2015, she has been practicing performing arts in various residencies, notably in Paris and Taiwan (2018). In 2020 and 2022 she is invited by the French Institute in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea to pursue her photographic and video projects focused on women engaged for biodiversity. Between reportage and mental space, her images become films in their own right that force the audience to tell stories, our own story. In addition to her many personal exhibitions, she participates in various group exhibitions in France and internationally. Throughout her artistic career, by capturing her living experience, she looks at the in-between space and time of the contemporary.

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Director Statement

In 2020 the world stopped. This change isolated us from each other and we became aware of our vulnerability when we were not together. Confined to my studio, I continued to dream of air, breath, freedom. One day, soon, we will be able to hold each other again, to love each other, to unmask ourselves... After a call for participation relayed on the local media, 17 couples wanted to join the adventure. We had a long exchange by e-mail and on the day of the shooting, we already knew each other very well.
We choose Deauville, the memory of the time of love, of Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman, of its immense beaches and the wind... And the logistical support that the town gave us with enthusiasm from the beginning of the project.
Between performing arts and documentary, a film that pays tribute to us and tells the story of our adventure, a real modern-day epic! Putting the sensitive into images, in an exclusively sensory language, sharing the experiences of our lives at this moment in time and revealing the complexity of the links that unite us. To film the power and intensity of the bodies, for a poetic writing, with a particular aesthetic, letting discover the faces without filters, without retouching, without make-up.
Simply loving each other with their hair in the wind, the only narrative device.
Weloveyou is a collective narrative where images and music become reveries of our thoughts.