“This film will be called Finally… because it is surely 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 emblematic director of A man and a woman indicated that he had chosen 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 in particular that 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.”
Claude Lelouch says he was inspired by the brilliant speakers who are the current Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupont-Moretti and his predecessor under François Mitterrand Robert Badinter. “Finally… will mix several genres, warns the filmmaker, because its screenwriter is none other than life itself and the result of everything I have been able to observe since I was born. I always met all my characters, I heard all the conversations I filmed.
In addition to Kad Merad and Elsa Zilberstein, Finally… will bring together Sandrine Bonnaire, Raphaël Mezrahi, Michel Boujenah and the singer Barbara Pravi, revealed by Eurovision. Claude Lelouch, who sees Finally…as an extension of his classics Adventure is Adventure and Happy New Year, also intends to invite his friends on screen to play extras.
“This film, which will focus on what matters rather than superficial things, will evoke love, family, money, health and friendship”, underlines Claude Lelouch, who hopes to reflect the changes caused by the covid in our society”. “I’m going to film France because it’s a sublime, marvelous country. It’s a country that has given me everything”, he already announced at the microphone of RTL last April