On peut toujours rêver (1991)

Charles de Boylesve, known as “the Emperor,” is an extremely wealthy but rather unhappy businessman. He regularly indulges in kleptomania at a supermarket he owns. There he meets Rachid Merzahoui, who catches him red-handed and gives him a thorough tongue-lashing. The security guards arrest Rachid. Once he has left the store, Charles follows him and offers him a job as his personal hairdresser, with a salary and conditions beyond his dreams. Initially surprised and out of his depth, Rachid quickly gets into the swing of things and comes to hold an important place in the life of the immensely wealthy industrialist—a development that displeases those around Charles, who hire a detective. During an outing to a café where Rachid plays music, the Emperor manages to express his distress and nostalgia for the time when he was not so powerful and his relationships with others were not so distant because of his status, by unexpectedly performing Charles Aznavour’s “La Bohème” on stage.