{"id":352033,"date":"2025-08-17T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352033\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:22:09","slug":"french-film-review-finalement-france-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352033\/","title":{"rendered":"French Film Review: Finalement &#8211; France Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Claude Lelouch delivers a poetic, genre-blending road movie that fuses fantasy, music and emotion.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Co-starring Elsa Zylberstein, the story explores themes of family, faith, burnout and redemption with Lelouch\u2019s signature mix of spontaneity and elegance. At 86, Lelouch proves he\u2019s still cinema\u2019s most hopeful romantic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong>: Claude Lelouch<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring<\/strong>: Kad Merad, Elsa Zylberstein<\/p>\n<p>From France Today Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claude Lelouch delivers a poetic, genre-blending road movie that fuses fantasy, music and emotion. After a health scare,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-352033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115045029813934964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}