France, 2024
Director: Claude Lelouch
Producer: Claude Lelouch, Victor Hadida
Cast: Kad Merad, Elsa Zylberstein, Michel Boujenah, Sandrine Bonnaire
Screenwriter: Claude Lelouch, Grégoire Lacroix, Pierre Leroux, Valérie Perrin
Music: Didier Barbelivien, Ibrahim Maalouf
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Language: French with English subtitles
Running Time: 129 minutes
Synopsis:
A brilliant and bourgeois lawyer (Kad Merad), finding himself unable to tell a lie after a health scare, hits the road in vagabond clothing for a series of adventures all across France, for this musical fantasy “mise en vie” by 86-year-old writer/director Claude Lelouch, the 75th film in a feature career that began with A Man and a Woman. A sequel of sorts to Lelouch’s 1974 classic La Bonne Année, with Merad and half-sister Sandrine Bonnaire (star of Varda’s Vagabonde and Chabrol’s La Cerémonie) as offspring of the earlier film’s Lino Ventura, with Françoise Fabian in the role she played 50 years earlier.