The Eddy

Elliot is an American in Paris where he is a bandleader and runs a jazz club called The Eddy. Things aren’t going too well at the club – but that’s the least of his worries. Relations are strained with the band, whose songs he writes. Ruthless debt collectors are breathing down his neck. Farid, his business partner, seems to be involved in criminal activities. And when his teenage daughter Julie from New York moves in with him, her luggage contains much more than just her clarinet. In the midst of this polyphonic ensemble, Elliot improvises his way through an increasingly complex score of problems. (Berlinale)