Laure Balon

As a newly arrived pianist starts rehearsing, her neighbor starts a sound war that very rapidly brings all the neighbors to their windows. While everyone shouts at each other, the pianist plays till she faints. When the police witness the crowd of hysterical neighbors shouting at each other, they take the side of the pianist, who, after a moment of intense madness, is now playing a serene Mozart piece.

Star Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It is broadcast on TF1. At the end of each season, selected contestants would go on tour around France, Morocco, Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia, and other French-speaking countries.