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This movie is going to be called Finally... because it's probably one of the last." At the Cannes Film Festival and its powerful market, Claude Lelouch lifted the veil on his next feature film. In an interview with Variety, the iconic director of A Man and a Woman said he chose Kad Merad to play a tenor of the bar that a health problem will make unable to lie. Without filter, this lawyer will let himself embark on a road trip that will take him from Paris to Normandy via Avignon and the 24 hours of Le Mans.
This journey will see him fall in love with a woman other than his wife, played by Elsa Zilberstein, and finally pursue his true passion: the trumpet. This explains why the supervision of the soundtrack was entrusted to the musician Ibrahim Malouf. Four songs will be signed by Didier Barbelivien. "It's going to be a very musical film," the 85-year-old director told BFMTV. It will be the love story between a trumpet and a piano."
Singer Barbara Pravi in the credits
Claude Lelouch says he was inspired by the brilliant orators that are the current Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupont-Moretti and his predecessor under François Mitterrand Robert Badinter. "Finally... will mix several genres, warns the filmmaker, because his screenwriter is none other than life itself and the result of everything I have observed since I was born. I've always met all my characters, I've heard every conversation I've filmed."
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In addition to Kad Merad and Elsa Zilberstein, Finally... will bring together Sandrine Bonnaire, Raphaël Mezrahi, Michel Boujenah and singer Barbara Pravi, revealed by Eurovision. Claude Lelouch who sees Finally... as an extension of his classics L'aventure c'est l'aventure and La bonne année, also intends to invite his friends to the screen to play the extras.
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This film, which will focus on what matters rather than superficial things, will evoke love, family, money, health and friendship," says Claude Lelouch, who hopes to reflect the changes brought about by covid in our society. "I'm going to film the France because it's a sublime, wonderful country. It's a country that gave me everything," he announced at the microphone of RTL last April.