HE'S MY GIRL
French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Zilbermann plays the end against the middle in this buoyant sequel to his hilarious 1998 romantic comedy and Festival hit, Man is a Woman. Antoine de Caunes plays Simon Eskénazy, the gay, assimilated clarinet virtuoso, and the incomparable Elsa Zylberstein is his French-born, New York-raised former wife, Rosalie. He's My Girl flashes forward 10 years from when we last met these characters, to where, it seems, everything but nothing has really changed. Little does Simon know it, but his life is about to veer out of control. Harrassed by his fellow musicians and agent to finish a recording, and much put out by his long-suffering and now ailing mother - who is determined to move into his large apartment - Simon dreams of conducting a great romance with his current lover, Raphaël - or so he tells Raphaël. When Rosalie arrives unexpectedly for a visit from New York with their 10-year-old son, and her whole Orthodox family in tow, including, yes, her gay forelocked brother, things threaten to get out of hand. Who should save the day and the sanity of this frazzled Jewish musician but the handsome Naïm, a young Arab by day and an irresistible femme fatale by night.




