Alexandre (director Alex Lutz) is 35 years old, has a solid if boring job in insurance, a cool if slightly neurotic wife (Anne Marivin), and a loyal if dim best friend named Jeff (Bruno Sanches). But when he reconnects with Thibault (Tom Dingler), another old friend who is now a life coach preaching that people should pursue their dreams however ridiculous they are, Alexandre decides to put everything at risk, including his marriage and friendship with Jeff, to become a singer. The world probably doesn’t really need another film about babyish blokes having midlife crises, lashings of voiceover and a semi-serious scene filmed at a kids’ party so that silly hats can be deployed ironically, but if you like that sort of thing, this specimen isn’t half bad. Little fantastical touches such as an impromptu dance sequence or a bit where the characters shrink to the size of children add a touch of whimsy, and it is hard not to warm a bit to a film that stakes its biggest emotional denouement on a character’s ability to impersonate a horse.
