Acting
Kad Merad's exhausted humanity—he's spectacularly broken.
Score
Ravel and grime somehow coexist. Brilliant.
Direction
Hami's personal story—he lived this.
Director
Rachid Hami
Kad Merad
Simon Daoud
Samir Guesmi
Farid Brahimi
Renely Alfred
Arnold
Tatiana Rojo
La mère d'Arnold
Slimane Dazi
Le père de Samir
Jean-Luc Vincent
Laurent
Ginger Romàn
Marie Pagès
Marc Brunet
Peretti
Shirel Nataf
Yaël
Anaïs Meiringer
Lola
Souhade Temimi
Djamila, la mère de Samir
Corinne Marchand
La mère de Simon
Jana Bittnerová
La mère de Yaël
Mathieu Spinosi
Chef
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Rachid Hami based this on his own brother, who founded a real orchestra in France's banlieues.
The young cast were actual music students, not actors—Arnold's shyness is painfully real.
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