Eden

Fascinated by American garage house, the shy teenager Paul lays down his first record in 1990s Paris. This new electric-wave dominates party life, and cocaine and ecstasy turn every night into day. Together with his friends, who form at the same time such bands as Daft Punk and Cassius & Dimitri, Paul falls into an exhilarating world of beats and volatile bedtime stories. Soon thousands are dancing to his rhythms in trendy Parisian clubs. The following years are spent touring Europe and America, but there comes a day when Paul can no longer carry on like this. While the music of his former friends is still en vogue, Paul must slowly but surely rethink his life. In this atmospherically dense social study, director Mia Hansen-Løve traces the development of electronic music in France.