THE MARCHING BAND (EN FANFARE)
Emmanuel Corcol / France 2025 / 103 min / Cert 15 / Subtitles
This French comedy-drama, 'En Fanfare looks at nature versus nurture in a thoroughly engaging, even feel-good way. A renowned young classical conductor receives a shock cancer diagnosis and needs a bone marrow transplant. Learning that he is adopted, Thibault finds the brother he wasn't aware of, who works in the canteen of a struggling northern factory - and plays trombone in the works' marching band. Despite the initial class/culture difficulties, and responses to their very different upbringings, they come to share a common purpose (musical as well as medical!). Sometimes moving, painful and laugh-out loud.