- The documentary Like the others , broadcast this Tuesday evening on France 2, is named after the association created by the Paralympic champion Mickaël Jérémiasz.
- The cameras followed a stay bringing together people in wheelchairs and non-disabled people, as the association regularly organizes.
- Frédéric Lopez, godfather of Comme les autres and on the initiative of the documentary, took part in the game. ", he says.
Five people in wheelchairs and five other non-disabled people, who do not know each other, are gathered in Corsica. For a week, they share the a priori banal activities of daily life, thrilling sports sessions, testify to their life paths, their fears, their hopes and learn from each other. What looks like a concept of reality TV is in fact the program offered by the association Comme les autres co-founded by the Paralympic champion Mickaël Jérémiasz. A France 2 team followed one of these trips last September. The result, the documentary Like the others , is broadcast this Tuesday, from 9:05 pm.
[# Experience] Documentary #CommeLesAutres, alongside @MJEREMIASZ, Paralympic champion, Frédéric Lopez shares with us the overcoming & # resilience required by recent accident victims in a wheelchair. Humanity & sharing are on the agenda 🙏 pic.twitter.com/BTevEtCPg8
- Coeur Handisport (@CoeurHandisport) May 5, 2020“Having an accident in life forever changes the perception you have of yourself, your environment, what you are going to have to face, describes Mickaël Jérémiasz. During these stays, we experience extremely strong emotions, sometimes harsh, we sometimes have giggles. We laugh at things that make it possible to desecrate the vision that we can have of our existence. "
“Doing feel-good would have been ridiculous. There are times when we laugh, others when we are moved. We see in Like the others accident victims, people we never see on TV, but also, I was going to say, in our lives, in our cities. We share their torments but we also tell of the joys, full of extremely human moments that make us happy, ”says Catherine Alvaresse, director of documentaries for France Televisions.
In the documentary, viewers will discover, among other things, Maïlys, a paraplegic for less than a year who has had trouble coping with the idea of spending the rest of his life without remarking, or the dynamic Katell, who has been disabled since 2017. and the speech overflowing with optimism.
"We were able to talk without taboos, without hurting ourselves"
"These are not film subjects," emphasizes Mickaël Jérémiasz. The priority is the stay which must run its course. My concern was to protect the participants. There were apprehensions. Regarding, the relationship with intimacy, with modesty, we are not all on the same level ”, advances the one who is a regular in the media. If the cameras have been able to be forgotten, the editing is never against the protagonists. "There is nothing they would not endorse," said the sportsman who saw the first version of the documentary.
The interest Like other also lies in the interactions between participants with disabilities and those who are not, and are invited to call into question their prejudices and confront their fears. This is the case of Frédéric Lopez who, in addition to being the sponsor of the association, is behind this documentary project.
The journalist, hitherto used to preparing everything in advance, did not know how the stay was going to unfold. "I wanted to be like the others and not know what was going to happen," he slips. "I was quite shocked to see that we could ask all the questions from the most basic, such as" Should we help you on the street? ", To the most intimate. I learned a lot of things. We were able to talk without taboos, without hurting ourselves. "
If Frédéric Lopez had to sum up this documentary in two words, it would be "light and deep". Catherine Alvaresse supports: “I am convinced that it will change our outlook on others. And about ourselves. "
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