Daft Punk Unchained (2015)

Directed by

Hervé Martin-Delpierre

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 159 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary traces the career of electronic duo Daft Punk from their early days through their Grammy-winning album Random Access Memories. It uses old footage and interviews with famous collaborators to tell their story.

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What happens

Daft Punk Unchained is an Anglo-French documentary film that was televised on 24 June 2015 in France and on 9 February 2016 in the United Kingdom. It documents the rise to fame and personal lives of Daft Punk members Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter and their pioneering influence on electronic music. The film runs chronologically through the artists' early years before their foundation of Daft Punk, up to the release of their 2013 album Random Access Memories and performance at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, in which they won five Grammy Awards. The documentary combines rare archive footage with interviews with Daft Punk's closest collaborators, including Pharrell Williams, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Skrillex, Kanye West and Michel Gondry. No new footage of Daft Punk was shot for the documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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