In theaters since Wednesday, “The Positive Energy of the Gods” is a documentary that follows the French rock group Astereotypie, made up of four autistic singers.
The Positive Energy of the Gods by Laetitia Møller
What is it about ? Their music is a wave of electric rock. Their texts strike a wild poetry. Accompanied by four musicians, Stanislas, Yohann, Aurélien and Kevin are the singers of the group Astereotypie. Coming from a medico-educational institute welcoming young autistic people, they reveal their explosive worlds on stage, encouraged by Christophe, an educator more passionate about raw art than educational techniques. Their collective adventure is a cry for freedom.
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Their third album, entitled No guy looks like Brad Pitt in the Drôme, was released in April 2022. The title of their second album released in 2018, The Positive Energy of the Gods, gives its name to the documentary.
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What she wanted above all to retrace in this documentary was the universality of their texts: “I think what touched me that day was that they were also talking about us. They spoke of what hinders us and what contains us, of our concealed anxieties, of the violence of social adaptation. They carried within them a breath of freedom. »
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Christophe L’Huillier, the specialist educator at the origin of the group and guitarist, emphasizes that it is not about music therapy: “Between singers and musicians, we have the same status, we are signed to the same label, paid and declared to Sacem. From the start, we created an independent association to make the group exist in the ordinary world, outside the institution. »