“En fanfare”, with Benjamin Lavernhe: a symphony of emotions

Emmanuel Courcol's cinema is geared towards emotion. Shaped by humanity. As a screenwriter, we owe him in particular the very beautiful Welcome by Philippe Lioret, where Vincent Lindon taught a young migrant to swim. As a filmmaker: A triumph in which Kad Merad gave acting lessons to inmates.

He returns here behind the camera to tell a simple and powerful story for which he has the secret. In the middle of rehearsal, the great conductor Thibaut Desormeaux (Benjamin Lavernhe) collapses. A shock, three revelations… He learns that he has cancer, that he was adopted and that he has a brother, Jimmy (Pierre Lottin) who grew up in the north of France, in a much more modest environment.

Thibault needs a bone marrow transplant. To get out of it, he is going to meet this brother. Jimmy works in a canteen and plays trombone in a factory band. Thibault arrives with his good manners and his international reputation as a conductor and symphonic composer. Everything separates them but the notes of a little music begin to resonate, those of brotherhood. She will help Jimmy and Thibault to write a joint score.

Weight of family secrets, luck or bad luck in the big draw of the lottery of life, social determinism, communion in music… With infinite delicacy and a strong sense of storytelling, Emmanuel Courcol explores all these areas offering spectators a social comedy in the spirit of British cinema.

And feel good movie against the backdrop of a union fight to save a factory, beer and champagne, symphony and varietoche, with two excellent duettists, Benjamin Lavernhe and Pierre Lottin, who confirms that his talent goes well beyond the Tuches. 1h42.