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Join Telegram ChannelA feel good movie worthy of the best British films of the genre, carried by the complicity of the duo Benjamin Lavernhe-Pierre Lottin.
The enthusiastic buzz that followed its presentation at Cannes did not lie. With With fanfareEmmanuel Courcol (The Triumph) confirms his ease in the art of the feel good movie, moving but never cutesy because always surprising in the conduct of his story and the writing of multifaceted characters. Here we follow Thibaut, a renowned conductor who, when he needs an urgent bone transplant from a family member to cure leukemia, discovers at the same time that he was adopted and that he has a brother, Jimmy, from whom he was separated at birth. A school canteen employee who plays the trombone in the brass band of his village in the north of France.
With fanfare therefore plays on the clash of opposites, on the way in which each of the two brothers will in turn have the opportunity to save the other. Of certain death in the case of Thibaut. Of a life a little too narrow compared to what it could have been if he too had been adopted by a wealthy family, in Jimmy's family. Courcol questions the fraternal bond as well as social determinism by playing with preconceptions, those of his characters as well as those that the spectators can project onto them. We obviously think of Virtuosos and to this whole section of British social cinema.
But Courcol is also and above all part of the French societal landscape, that of this North still paying the consequences of forced deindustrialization. And in the same way that he made Kad Merad shine in A triumphthe Benjamin Lavernhe-Pierre Lottin duo, perfectly in tune, bursts onto the screen here.
By Emmanuel Courcol. With Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco… Duration 1h43. Released November 27, 2024