Update: the film actually portrays two characters within the surging French garage scene in the 90’s who are friends with a young Daft Punk. More about the scene than the robots, booerns.

In June we wrote about how an hour long Daft Punk documentary was in the works with BBC while almost at the same time a fittingly independent French film has been shot about the lives of the mysterious duo dubbed ‘Eden’ with the first trailer appearing online.

We all know how the story goes – a pair of young unsuspecting producers and their rise to prominence through innovation and the combination of futuristic garage sound and heavy funk influences that would lead them around the world.

It’ll actually air for the first time this weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend who noted additional music by the late, great Frankie Knuckles while describing the emotionally charged short film as;

Paul (Félix de Givry) is a teenager in the underground dance music scene of early-nineties Paris. Raves dominate, but he’s drawn to the more soulful rhythms of Chicago’s garage house scene. He and a friend form a DJ duo called—with unfathomable layers of irony—Cheers. Two of their friends form a group with a similarly odd name: Daft Punk. These young artists plunge into the life, building their following one set at a time, dropping out of daytime society to form a community based on the high of the ceaseless beats and bass. There are drugs. There is sex. Paul hooks up with an American in Paris, played by the spirited Greta Gerwig (also appearing at the Festival in The Humbling), but that may be fleeting.

Watching the trailer has us already willing to cough up a few francs and understand where all the brilliance began. sacre bleu!

Following a highly successful year with their release of Random ‘Access Memories’, and now with news that Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel is working on his very own solo album the French duo are poised to be the one of the most iconic acts of all time.

Check out the trailer below.