Tempo: Italian for “tempus”: time. Notation of a movement that is not defined by indicating the number of beats of the metronome: tempo agitato. In jazz: speed of execution. By extension: style, rhythm given to the action by its author.
Casadesus: great family of French musicians, painters, sculptors and actors.
Tempo Casadesus: a film that reflects the Casadesus spirit, a family bathed in music and culture and preoccupied by “tempo”: how to speed up, to cut down or to organise their time…
We meet Jean-Claude Casadesus, chief conductor of the Orchestre National de Lille; his daughter Caroline, a soprano, and her mother Gisèle Casadesus, an actress, as well as her son-in-law Didier Lockwood. From one encounter to the next, through their interaction, we discover a similar approach – this “tempo intérieur” that constitutes the force and unity of the Casadesus family for over a century…