5 reasons to watch Wonder Boy

The 5 reasons to watch Wonder Boy, the intimate documentary about Olivier Rousteing.

To cry with Olivier Rousteing

Everything we see in this film happens at the moment T. We are with him in every discovery, in his personal moments and in his life. If the documentary can suffer from a rather classic construction and can be slightly binary, it is also of great sensitivity and great jubilation. Its main quality is based on the frankness of its protagonist. And the fact that he plays the game all along. When he speaks with his driver, a kind of psychic confidant. But also when he testifies in front of camera, or he cracks and does not save his tears by learning who his parents are. We follow the journey of this young man who is fighting to "break his karma".

To be in the heart of the adrenaline rush of fashion shows and madness

With its 80's frenchyy jubilant sound, flash, fitting and parades, the film oscillates between intimate moments of confessions and sphere of creation. Excessive fashion, ultra glam models ... We see a hard-working, hyper-demanding young man for whom social networks and star systems are totally digested and integrated. Two worlds at the antipodes that form the two worlds of Olivier. And who testify to Olivier Rousteing's success-story 2.0, in a world where the white bourgeoisie reigns without sharing. The film draws the portrait of the one who has imposed diversity and miscegenation within its teams and collections.

Because glitter, glamor and success do not necessarily guarantee happiness

In 1:39 we discover the story of a young man for whom success is not a sinecure. Adored on social networks, alongside the most beautiful and most famous girls of the world, Juliette Binoche , Jennifer Lopez , Cindy Crawford or Kim Kardashian are part of his Balmain Army . And yet. Although he sleeps in the most beautiful hotels in the world and lives in an apartment that we imagine grandiose (some scenes of the film delivers some nooks and crannies), Olivier Rousteing artistic director of the house Balmain admits a great loneliness. And it is indeed this loneliness that gives the taste a little sad, but also very sensitive to this documentary successful and touching.

Because Olivier Rousteing has had the courage to get naked and to drop the mask

If he is the youngest couturier to have taken the reins, at 25, of a legendary fashion house since Yves Saint Laurent, and that he is happy, smiling, proud and happy he is also a young man thoughtful, worried, pensive, of a great emotional intelligence which is revealed little by little before our eyes. For having interviewed him several times we knew this part more hidden, more intimate. But in this film Olivier Rousteing has the courage, because it takes, to be naked, to reveal his story and reveal its flaws. Especially when he says to suffer to look like no one. Or that little boy he was anxious not to be up to it and that his adoptive parents, white Bordeaux couples, return him to the orphanage. Born in X, an information he has never hidden, he begins in this film the process of going in search of his biological parents. We see him on the phone with people from the DDASS, nervously waiting for his file to be repatriated to finally know some of his roots. He smokes cigarettes on cigarettes. He wants to understand where he comes from. Even if her adoptive parents, unbelievable, and her grandparents, overwhelming with sweetness and kindness - a scene from the film in particular, illustrates their tender complicity - have bathed him with love. Oliver repeats it throughout the film, he lacks something to feel a "normal" person.

Because we touch on the complexity of being born under X.

We understand why when we interviewed him several times we felt this power, this will, this superhuman energy and control almost paralyzing. He admits "I am at an age where I should let go". But we see a young man under constant pressure, painful suffering, crying hot tears when finally his referring DDASS gives him information about his mother is his father. Her mother was 14 when she became pregnant, while her father was 25. We cry with him, we laugh, we vibrate, we suffer. Through the story of this Wonder Boy it is also the question of birth under X that arises. We realize that this can be a force, when we have this power like him of resilience but also a deep trauma. He says "not knowing why I was born, I try to prove to myself constantly that I deserve to exist". We also realize that this film has changed the life of Olivier, his way of being, and to introduce himself to the world. He seems today more free, and more in keeping with what he is. He understood that to envision the future, one must first understand the past. This is what he does before our eyes. This documentary will allow, as desired, its director to everyone to form an opinion on the issue of birth under X and to continue or not to institutionalize the secret.

Wonder Boy, in theaters November 27