Comedy

Drama

Music

En fanfare

Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo

Pictanovo

France 2 Cinéma

Cinéaxe 5

Entourage Sofica 2

Indéfilms 12

La Banque Postale Image 12

SG Image 2022

SofiTVciné 11

France

English

Français

Italiano

The Marching Band

Benjamin Lavernhe

Pierre Lottin

Sarah Suco

Clémence Massart-Weit

Ludmila Mikaël

Anne Loiret

Jacques Bonnaffé

Yvon Martin

Nathalie Desrumaux

Isabelle Zanotti

Nicolas Ducron

Marie-José Billet

Anne-Sophie Lapix

Antonin Lartaud

Mathilde Courcol-Rozès

Charlie Nelson

Rémi Fransot

Johnny Montreuil

Johnny Rasse

Gabrielle Claeys

Jean-Luc Lebacq

Joël Lebacq

Stéphanie Cliquennois

Lulu Lomendie

Rui-Mickael Dias

Kodgo Apétô Epaminondas

Olivier Brabant

Jean Baptiste Giezek

Mathieu Guégan

Guillaume Vanstavel

Marie Baudry

Saverio Maligno

Anne-Sophie Delcour

Emmanuel Courcol

Emmanuelle Prévost

Irène Muscari

Marc Bordure

Marie-Frédérique Lauriot-Dit-Prévost

Maxence Lemonnier

Mathieu Lacote

Alexandre Tanguy

Zoé Lorentz

Jean-Marc Duez

Mariore Manneville

Alphonse Armant

Quentin Avrillon

Camille Smagghe

Sylvain Yonnet

Niels Barletta

Marielle Heintz

Pascal Armant

Bérengère Barthélémy

Guerric Catala

Sandy Notarianni

Steve Bouyer

Pascal Mayer

Sébastien Casanova

Grégory Vincent

Théo Benincasa

Ludovic Giraud

Michel Petrossian

Robert Guédiguian

Rafaël Mathé

Christel Birot

CinemaSerf

“Thibaut” (Benjamin Lavernhe) is an accomplished conductor who is now based in the USA but who comes home to France now and again to perform. It’s during one such visit that he confides to his sister “Rose” (Mathilde Courcol-Rozés) that he needs a bone-marrow transplant. She readily agrees to help out but when she is found to be incompatible, that news opens quite a can of worms that results in him having to ask “Jimmy” (Pierre Lottin) - a brother he didn’t know he had and who lives in a quietly dying town where his workplace is earmarked for closure, to help out. Initially uninterested and disbelieving, the film now illustrates just how the two men come to terms with their past, their present and (hopefully) their future against a backdrop of resentment and privilege as they try to reconcile with the elements of “luck of the draw” that have governed their lives thus far. Fortunately, they have one thing in common. They both love music, and as it transpires that “Jimmy” plays trombone in his local mineworkers band we have a conduit for them to bond - or not! There are shades of “Brassed Off” (1996) as this offers us a social commentary on the decline of traditional rural industries that leave little by way of hope or opportunity in it’s wake; a little bit of romance and some seriously horrible uniforms too! Along the way, there is also some fine classical Mozart, some crooning from Charles Aznavour and some enjoyable band rehearsals with an eclectic collection of the townsfolk proving remarkably talented with instrument and voice alike - after a soupçon of guidance. No, there probably isn’t so much jeopardy about the denouement, though there is a twist - it’s really a story about family and one that’s presented without too much sentiment and a bit of enjoyably bloody-minded Gallic humour. I was never quite sure what an orchestral conductor actually did, standing there flailing his baton at a collection of perfectly proficient musicians, but this might just have helped explain a little - and that seating matters too!

Official UK Trailer [Subtitled]

Best Movies

The Marching Band

Cast & Crew

Videos

Cast

Benjamin Lavernhe

Pierre Lottin

Sarah Suco

Clémence Massart-Weit

Ludmila Mikaël

Anne Loiret

Jacques Bonnaffé

Yvon Martin

Nathalie Desrumaux

Isabelle Zanotti

Box office

More Like This

Soldier of Orange

Rumble Fish

Gemini

Mr. Holland's Opus

The Lost Boys

Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2

Joseph

A Singing Girl