Who said a visit to the hairdresser was an act of anecdote? “Amber hairstyle, mobile salon” proves that all revolutions can find their roots in the hair. Produced by Grand Angle Productions and winner of France Télévisions’ call for a summer documentary project, this series of four new films will be broadcast this Tuesday, August 15 at 9:10 pm on France 5. With her travels, the former journalist changing Ambre Dupont’s hair proves that ” change is sometimes just a hair’s breadth”, he repeated puremedias.com. In each episode, he sets out to find a country, starting with India and Brazil.

A journalist turned hairdresser

With her yellow suitcase emblazoned with stickers taken from her travels, the 30-year-old travels the world to find out the hair ties to the people she meets. Political weapons, philosophical issues, emancipation materials… During the meeting, the hairdresser was shocked by the testimonies that had accumulated in front of the mirror. “I’ve had the opportunity to meet amazing people, especially women. Each of my meetings proves to me that if a relationship with hair is something deeply intimate, it always translates into a relationship of beauty that takes root in society and creates inequality”he backed off.

A little blonde with rebellious hair, Ambre Dupont says she herself is marked by “a level government, like many women with curly hair”. “Whether in ‘Buffy’, ‘Friends’ or ‘Charmed’, no curly hair”, he lamented, pleased to see a new hair standard emerge. Faced with orders to harden his bristles, he admits to having sought freedom with sometimes extravagant cuts. “I always have this thing with my hair and I’m always looking for myself and having fun with my hair.”

When she decided to retrain after 12 years behind the cameras of PAF’s biggest entertainment program, journalists saw in hairstyling an opportunity to preserve the social connections of her previous profession with her love of hair. “I said to myself: ‘Try hairstyles, at worst you’ll know how to cut hair.’ Frankly I know gnangnan said that but something happened to the first shampoo.

“Innocent eyes” of a novice hairdresser

With CAP in hand, she plans to join a salon. “I thought I was done with TV that I actually became a hairdresser”, he confided with a backward glance. That’s without relying on the calls of producers who are looking for an incarnation for a documentary. Not very good with his hands, the young graduate fears that his lack of experience will jeopardize the ambitions that his interlocutors place in him. “He said to me: ‘You will find all this with innocent eyes’.” The project “Amber hairstyle” was launched.

I’m given the right to be completely myself by talking about mermaids, magic, crying with joy… – Ambre Dupont programs her questions, her laughs, and her astonishment of the moment. “I’ve been given the right to be myself by talking about mermaids, magic, crying with joy, hugging people. There’s a lot of encounters that happen very naturally. All this surprise, this freedom, this curiosity led me to discover things that I would never consider.”

Fifty-two minutes of “emotional slap”

After several trips that were condensed to 52 minutes, Ambre Dupont was convinced that there was a connection between his old job and his new one. “I have no regrets about being a hairstylist and love to express it to people. You make them relaxed like a journalist but no longer in front of the camera but in the reflection of the mirror”he analyzed.

From the fate of haircuts by Indians in temples to the ephemeral hairstyles of K-Pop stars in South Korea, past Brazil’s smoothing dictatorship, the former journalist opens her salon cleverly hidden in her trunk for male and female secrets. from another background. After four trips, he’s still real “human and technical emotional slap” and believe that this experience has been “gift of life”.

published on Aug. 15, Maxime Fettweis, Puremedia

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