the critics won over by this comedy with Benjamin Lavernhe and Pierre Lottin

Directed by Emmanuel Courcol (A triumph), A fanfare is a French comedy-drama released in cinemas on November 27, 2024. Benjamin Lavernhe (My unknown, The taste of wonders…) plays an orchestra conductor who, due to a health problem, discovers not only that he was adopted, but above all that he has a brother, Jimmy (Pierre Lottin, Tuches, When autumn comes,…), school canteen employee and excellent on the trombone. Everything separates them, except their love for music.

Critics who were able to discover the feature film at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it was previewed, were won over. It is a “favorite” for La Voix du Nord, a “generous”, “galvanizing and unifying” comedy for 20 minutes, when Le Télégramme gives it a rating of 4/5.

For the specialist magazine Première, A fanfare is a “feel good movie” which borrows from British social comedies, served by the “complicity” of its two actors. “Emmanuel Courcol addresses in his new feature film the question of the social determinism of genetic inheritance in a dramatic comedy carried by a duo of actors who work at full capacity,” notes Franceinfo.

Synopsis – Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns that he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a brother, Jimmy, a school canteen employee who plays the trombone in a marching band in the north of France. Apparently, everything separates them, except the love of music. Detecting his brother’s exceptional musical abilities, Thibaut makes it his mission to repair the injustice of fate. Jimmy then begins to dream of another life…