Nous le Red Star

A little boy, his father holding his hand, on his way to the old stadium of a legendary club, surrounded by the fervor of a crowd that tells itself so many stories. I was that child, and my father was that child before me, and one day I’ll be a father myself—and then, in Saint-Ouen, where I now live, we’ll walk toward Red Star so that the legacy can be passed on.

Building on a conversation I began with my father—a lifelong fan of the club—I seek to understand what this Saint-Ouen club represents today: for those born there, for those who still live there, and for those who are just arriving.

It is woven from our stories and those of our companions on the streets and in the stands—stories of a club that was once powerful and is now trendy, a beacon of enduring values: the people, defiance, resistance—in a working-class, immigrant, long-standing left-wing city that prosperity is tempting, yet which holds onto the past.

Halfway between a personal narrative and a documentary account, the show explores what Red Star reveals about the city—its working-class history, its transformations, and its contradictions.

It gives voice to the personal stories of those connected to it: the old-timers, the newcomers, the loyal fans, and the passersby. An attempt to capture, through a club, the complexity of the lives that pass through it.