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
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 begins 10 years after we last met these characters, to where, it seems, everything but nothing has really changed. Harrassed by his fellow musicians and agent to finish a recording, and put out by his long-suffering and now ailing mother, Simon dreams of conducting a great romance with his current lover, Raphael.
When Rosalie arrives unexpectedly for a visit, with their 10-year-old son and her whole Orthodox family in tow (including 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 Naim, a young Arab by day and an irresistible femme fatale by night.
