“Le vent nous portera” (translated as “The wind will carry us”) is a song by French band Noir Desir from their 2001 album des Visages des Figures. It was released as the first single from the album and reached number one for four weeks in a row in the Italian Singles Charts, as well as number three in the French charts and number seven in the Belgian Record Charts. French-born Spanish artist Manu Chao collaborated on the song and played guitar.
The music video was directed by Alexandre Courtes and Jacques Veneruso and featured Rebecca Hampton as the main character. It won Music Video of the Year in 2001. It is the title song of the movie Q released in 2012.
A song about life, until death. Noir Désir goes through the different stages of life, and contrasts that with the fact that in the end it is quite insignificant, and ends up “carried away by the wind” and forgotten. The wind is here an image of the time that passes, and that takes everything away on its way.
The song has been covered by Belgian girls’ choir Scala & Kolacny Brothers on their album Respire (2004), by Swiss singer Sophie Hunger on her album 1983 (2010), by German band Element of Crime on their album Fremde Federn (2010), by Les Charbonniers de l’enfer on their album Nouvelles fréquentations (2010), and Hungarian band Kistehen on the soundtrack for the film Kalandorok (2008). The Swedish-Hungarian singer Antonia Vai also performed a cover of this song live in 2016 on one of her concerts.
