Standing fanfare: a virtuoso social dramatic comedy (critic)
A feel good movie worthy of the best British films of the genre, carried by the complicity of the duo Benjamin Lavernhe-Pierre Lottin. Not to be missed tonight on Canal +.
The enthusiastic buzz that followed his presentation in Cannes in 2024 did not lie. With Fanfare – Who arrives tonight on Canal + – the director Emmanuel Courcol (The triumph) confirms his ease in the art of the feeling movie movie movie but never cuters because always surprising in the conduct of her story and the writing of characters with multiple facets. We follow here Thibaut, renowned conductor who, when he needs an urgent bone transplant of 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. A school canteen employee who plays the trombone in the fanfare of his village in the north of France.
Fanfare So plays on the shock of opposites, on the way in which each of the two brothers will in turn have the opportunity to save the other. Of a certain death in the case of Thibaut. Of a life a little too narrow compared to what she could have been if he too had been adopted by a wealthy family, in that of Jimmy. Courcol questions the fraternal link as social determinism by playing with the a priori, those of his characters like those that spectators can project on them. We obviously think of virtuosos and all this part of British social cinema.
But Courcol is also and especially in the French societal landscape, that of this North always paying the consequences of deindustrialization with forced march. And in the same way that he made Kad Merad shine in a triumph, the duo Benjamin Lavernhe-Pierre Lottin, perfectly in tune, bursts the screen here.
By Emmanuel Courcol. With Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco … Duration 1h43. Released November 27, 2024 at the cinema.
