French Film Review: Finalement

Claude Lelouch delivers a poetic, genre-blending road movie that fuses fantasy, music and emotion.

After a health scare, a once-charismatic lawyer (Kad Merad) loses the ability to lie and sets off on a soul-searching journey across France. Accompanied by a stirring original score by Ibrahim Maalouf and framed as a lyrical duet between a trumpet and piano, the film captures the beauty, absurdity and humanity of life.

Co-starring Elsa Zylberstein, the story explores themes of family, faith, burnout and redemption with Lelouch’s signature mix of spontaneity and elegance. At 86, Lelouch proves he’s still cinema’s most hopeful romantic.

Director: Claude Lelouch

Starring: Kad Merad, Elsa Zylberstein

From France Today Magazine