False Note, Alexandre Arcady’s latest film, hits theaters on October 7, 2026. Adapted from Didier Caron’s stage play, this drama pairs Kad Merad and Benoît Poelvoorde in a nocturnal confrontation where music dredges up a long-buried shared history.
In Paris, 1990, conductor Nathan Dinkel delivers his final performance at the Opéra-Comique. After the show, a persistent admirer, Alexandre Miller, manages to slip backstage to meet him. What had seemed just an intrusive exchange gradually escalates into a confrontation from which neither man will emerge unscathed.
The visitor didn’t come by accident. As the night unfolds, the balance of power shifts and a shared past resurfaces, driving memory, guilt, and justice to the fore. Kad Merad stars as Nathan Dinkel, while Benoît Poelvoorde embodies Alexandre Miller. Caterina Murino rounds out the cast as Annah Dinkel.
Fausse Note hinges on a tense confrontation in a confined space at the heart of the Opéra-Comique. The music isn’t just window dressing: it guides the gradual revelation of what links the conductor to his visitor and gives the night its rhythm, a journey through truth and vengeance.
Alexandre Arcady directs this adaptation and wrote the screenplay. After Le Petit Blond de la Casbah, the filmmaker revisits recurring themes in his body of work, including the transmission of memory, the scars of history, and how they shape individual life paths.
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