When two women look at each other, it is a totalitarianism that falls and a poetry that is reborn.
Meeting, touching, this is the content of the clip of Laura Cahen's new single, from her new album coming in the spring. "Cavale" proposes a confrontation between two female characters opposed to the common goal, that of bringing down the totalitarian monster and fleeing, beyond good and evil.
Laura Cahen is a French singer-songwriter and composer already known for her album Nord released in 2017 which reveals her universe imbued with an elegiac and dreamlike poetry, at the crossroads between contemplation of a sensitive world and fusion with nature. With "Cavale", Laura Cahen confirms her bold vision of human relations by presenting this time two rebellious women who are opposed to everything but who are united by the struggle for a fairer society. 
Jumping to a better tomorrow
A black horse and a puddle of blood. The clip opens with the package that a uniformed military woman has just accomplished. When Laura begins to sing, her thin, high-pitched voice contrasts with the violence of the assassination. We see a man in uniform nailed to the ground, bleeding, while the soldier puts away her weapon. This scene can only remind us of the assassination of Marat perpetrated by Charlotte Corday, a female icon of the French Revolution. The theme of regicide is all the more distant as its imagery is always strong: Brutus, Lorenzaccio or Kaliayev are symbols of idealism leading fatally to the defilement of the soul, since their perfect world cannot exist as long as the tyrant lives. Thus, Edie Blanchard, the director of the clip, was able to draw inspiration for the character of the military of romantic heroes, exalted and cursed by the path they took. This woman in uniform (played by Camille Rhuterford) therefore carries with her the role of the exalted activist whom neither murder nor crime will make us retreat. As she walks towards the stadium, in parallel, Laura Cahen appears with a knife in her hand, the desire to fight with the tyrant. Noticing that someone has preceded her in her quest, she faces the soldier, in the middle of the stadium. If the woman played by Camille Rhuterford is characterized by her coldness and the austerity of her accoutrement, Laura Cahen embodies another type of revolutionary: the thick hair cascading down the back, dressed in a simple shirt, she embodies a bloodthirsty bacchante in the same fashion as Théroigne de Méricourt. 
Towards the distance
This confrontation thought by Laura Cahen between woman of the high military spheres and bohemian woman makes her honey of the emotions it arouses. As the soldier falls from her horse, the character played by Laura Cahen rides her and looks down on the woman on the ground. The soldier on the ground loses her headgear, her horse and her badge, revealing that any ostentation is an enemy of authenticity. Stuck on the ground, it tumbles. This inversion of values where the knight is on the ground and the Third Estate on horseback is a carnivalesque way of demonstrating that these two antithetical social components can only get along if they stand at the same level. This is what we observe when Laura Cahen takes the hand of the soldier and makes her ride a horse with her. Riding together under the red flags of the stadium, the two women find a warrior unity reminiscent of these women of history so distinct but riding towards the same goal, that of human rights and in particular women. 
From Madame Rolland to Rosa Luxembourg, Laura Cahen's clip seems to inherit a libertarian thought where sisterhood is the key word to give birth to a more just society. The murder of the male tyrant at the beginning of the video demonstrates that a new breath of freedom crosses the stadium and morals, since women, long deprived of riding horses, now flee legs apart on a black steed to a revolution that awaits them. The hands of the soldier placed on the belly of the woman in shirt are those that a few minutes earlier took the life of a man, making this provocation the keystone of a future society carried by women both tender to each other and bloodthirsty towards the enemies of the egalitarian state. Laura Cahen releases a new album in spring 2021, where she seems to exhume isotopies relating to the revolutionary and feminist idea. Do not miss the opportunity to be dazzled by his crystalline voice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2kU7NOym0I
