The music video was shot in a cemetery in Budapest, as the song deals with a love relationship between two people separated by the death of one of them.
[11] In the media, Murat said almost the same thing on this matter and on other ones,[12] so much so that the OK magazine established a comparison of the previous interviews given in the press by both singers.
[13] However, as noted by author Erwan Chuberre, it remains impossible to really know if the duet was actually motivated by a genuine friendship or by a business strategy, given that the singers wanted to expand their fan bases at the time.
[10] In 2000, the recording company scheduled to release the live version of "Regrets" as the second single from the album Mylenium Tour, and thus sent a promotional VHS to the radio stations.
[9][15] "Regrets" is a love song in which a couple of lovers are answering tenderly and with melancholy, while they are separated by the death of one of them (Farmer).
This loss leaves an unfathomable lack in the one who remains, which invests the world of dreams to regain the lost happiness.
[17] In his analysis of the song, the psychologist Hugues Royer stated: "Death is a subterfuge to make the impossible love.
Directed by Laurent Boutonnat who also co-authored the screenplay with Farmer, the video was filmed for two days in February 1991 in a Jewish cemetery abandoned in Budapest,[19] with a budget of about 35,000 euros.
[20] In an interview, Murat explained that he had been very surprised by the extreme severity and great professionalism shown by Boutonnat during the video's shooting.
The deer who flees would be "the symbol of the woman's essence", and the bunch of thistles would evoke "the desire to provoke unconditional love with the other person".
As for the immaculate snow, it would participate in the gloomy atmosphere of the video and would symbolize "a mild but deadly mask which isolates" the two opposing parties.
[22] Biographer Bernard Violet said that Boutonnat simply transposed the song in the video by adding his personal aesthetic, in this case, a stylized, little contrasted and overexposed black and white.
[28][29] In December 2003, SitolC participated in the national competition "Télé Poche", then in two castings : "Génération Métis" and "Graine de star".
[33] According to Elia Habib, an expert of French charts, "Regrets" is "a slow [song], which successfully blends the singer's voice [that of Farmer], which merges into the melody to that of Murat, which stands out and thus puts her partner off the scent".