La Folle histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy (2009)
Directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann

Film Synopsis

A decade after we last had the pleasure of his company, Simon Eskenazy has become a famous clarinet player, specialising in traditional Jewish music.  He is about to record a new album when his mother Bella forces him to put her up for a few days, whilst she recovers from a broken hip.  Simon doesn't exactly welcome this intrusion and his love life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself irresistibly drawn to the young transvestite Algerian, Naïm, who is nursing his mother back to health.  The problem is that Simon is already in a relationship with another man - a philosophy teacher named Raphaël - so this latest romantic infatuation is ill-timed, to say the least.  The situation is not helped by the sudden unwished-for re-appearance of Simon's ex-wife Rosalie, who has just returned from New York with their ten-year-old son...