Our review of En fanfare, a beautiful lesson in harmony

There is definitely something energetic and almost programmatic in the titles of Emmanuel Courcol's films. Four years later A triumph, which featured Kad Merad as a theater teacher in a prison, he returns with a successful dramatic comedy against a backdrop of thwarted social determinism.

A fanfare features Thibaut Desormeaux (Benjamin Lavernhe), an accomplished conductor with an international reputation who travels the world. But one day he collapses in the middle of rehearsal. Doctors diagnosed him with severe leukemia. He believes he is counting on his sister's bone marrow donation when blood tests reveal that he is an adopted child. The shock is severe.

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