El cantor (2005) Joseph Morder, Lou Castel, Luis Rego, Françoise Michaud

August 23, 2020

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness. Nevertheless, little by little, the charm of Clovis, descendant of a lineage of famous “cantors”, gain everybody, including Elizabeth. And if he had not returned in France only to see again his cousin? And if the flame of the old Yiddish songs, those of his father and his grandfather, had suddenly revived? Between humor and nostalgia, Clovis tries to take up with his past and his roots, becoming again, for some days, “El Cantor”…