Feel-good "fantasy" comedy-drama about a washed-out conductor who is obsessed about completing a Tchaikovsky concert that was rudely interrupted thirty years ago. Now working as a janitor, he intercepts a fax for the Bolshoi Orchestra requesting a performance at Paris. Seeing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he rounds up a ragtag band of his former colleagues and flies off to the City of Lights for a successful performance of Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 35.
If you want to be realistic about it:
- Andrei Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) hasn't conducted for thirty years
- the orchestra members have no passports on the date of departure
- he and his orchestra didn't have one second of proper rehearsal before the performance
- they don't have proper attire for the venue
the solo violinist Anne-Marie (Melanie Laurent) never played the piece before
Just this once, forget all that and enjoy the movie. Directed by Radu Mihaileanu, who gave us Train de Vie, this zero-to-hero tale follows a similar plot style - a bunch of misfits beating insurmountable odds towards a grand accomplishment. A joy to watch (and listen to)!
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