Raphaël Haroche Fansite

“Sur la Route” is a song by French singer Raphael. And a strange song it is - or a strange video, anyway.

“Sur la Route” is a highly stylistic, cell-animated video, with a roughly fifty fifty split between real life singer and band and computer generated characters that look just like their band counterparts.

It starts with one of them trapped in a jail cell - and Raphael always is trapped in the cell - but but the one guy manages to escape, transforming into an animated version of himself in the process. Guided by another man they walk through a series of strange and wonderful worlds, through clouds filled with buildings and up steep cliffs, seemingly on the run from an air force of sorts.

Then it segues back to their cell and one of them, looking partially animated again, starts to slam a stool against his cell wall, breaking through - and, upon escaping, discovering himself as animated again. The song ends with the two of them looking at a beach.

It’s a neat video, even if you can’t understand the lyrics. Have a look.