Untouchable (2011)
(Intouchables)
Country: FR
Technical: col 112m
Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Cast: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot
Synopsis:
A millionaire quadraplegic, victim of a paragliding accident, surprises those close to him by taking on an ex-con from the projects as his personal carer.
Review:
So unlikely, if it hadn't been based on a true story one would have doubted its probability, this enormously successful feelgood buddy-movie-with-a-difference plays very much for laughs and smiles in the mainstream Gallic manner, trading on the complementary opposites of the two principal characters, the one economically powerful, erudite yet saturnine, the other ignorant but smart, bullish and sanguine. It's an accomplished film in every respect yet, unlike The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, one which puts its audience first and sets the wish-fulfilment bar correspondingly high.
(Intouchables)
Country: FR
Technical: col 112m
Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Cast: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot
Synopsis:
A millionaire quadraplegic, victim of a paragliding accident, surprises those close to him by taking on an ex-con from the projects as his personal carer.
Review:
So unlikely, if it hadn't been based on a true story one would have doubted its probability, this enormously successful feelgood buddy-movie-with-a-difference plays very much for laughs and smiles in the mainstream Gallic manner, trading on the complementary opposites of the two principal characters, the one economically powerful, erudite yet saturnine, the other ignorant but smart, bullish and sanguine. It's an accomplished film in every respect yet, unlike The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, one which puts its audience first and sets the wish-fulfilment bar correspondingly high.
(Intouchables)
Country: FR
Technical: col 112m
Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Cast: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot
Synopsis:
A millionaire quadraplegic, victim of a paragliding accident, surprises those close to him by taking on an ex-con from the projects as his personal carer.
Review:
So unlikely, if it hadn't been based on a true story one would have doubted its probability, this enormously successful feelgood buddy-movie-with-a-difference plays very much for laughs and smiles in the mainstream Gallic manner, trading on the complementary opposites of the two principal characters, the one economically powerful, erudite yet saturnine, the other ignorant but smart, bullish and sanguine. It's an accomplished film in every respect yet, unlike The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, one which puts its audience first and sets the wish-fulfilment bar correspondingly high.