Movie Rec: Untouchables ("Ziemlich beste Freunde")
I just came from an incredible french movie with the original title "Intouchables" and
just had to share this experience with everybody.
Its a highly recommandable and remarkable movie based on real events.
Stories about handicaped often tend to be to dead serious or have really bad taste.
The Intouchables is neither nor.
No high moral ground or teary kitsch or disrespectful rubbish.
It is light as a feather, deeply touching, true, loud and rough as well as silent and thoughtful.
Yes, and fun.
You laugh so much.
You leave the cinema with a smile and a hopeful feeling.
The movie starts with an unusal bang.
A full speed car chase through Paris by night between a sportscar driver,his bearded companion and the police.
Is this the beginning? The end? Or something completly different?
Intouchables tells the tale of Philippe & Driss.
Two people who couldn't be more opposite, but develop a deep friendship despite beeing from different worlds.
Life had dealt both of them bad cards.
Driss is a young black man who comes from the poor ban-lieues of Paris.
He is just out of jail and currently unemployed.
Philippe is widowed intellectual who is living in a mansion in the wealthy part of Paris.
He is paraplegic from the neck down and therefor needs constantly help.
They meet as Phillipe is holding interviews for a new caretaker and Driss is just there waiting to be rejected so that he can recive social welfare.
Driss is loud, blunt and makes one faux pas after the next, but he is full of life and treats Phillipe without unwanted pity. Thats what Phillipe needs in his life and so he suprises Driss and himself with an unexpected job offer that will change their life forever.
A really great movie!
Add:
It was so late last night and I was so tired that I forgot to praise the actors.
Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy are great.
Especially Monsieur Cluzet interpretation of Phillipe was very impressive.
just had to share this experience with everybody.
Its a highly recommandable and remarkable movie based on real events.
Stories about handicaped often tend to be to dead serious or have really bad taste.
The Intouchables is neither nor.
No high moral ground or teary kitsch or disrespectful rubbish.
It is light as a feather, deeply touching, true, loud and rough as well as silent and thoughtful.
Yes, and fun.
You laugh so much.
You leave the cinema with a smile and a hopeful feeling.
The movie starts with an unusal bang.
A full speed car chase through Paris by night between a sportscar driver,his bearded companion and the police.
Is this the beginning? The end? Or something completly different?
Intouchables tells the tale of Philippe & Driss.
Two people who couldn't be more opposite, but develop a deep friendship despite beeing from different worlds.
Life had dealt both of them bad cards.
Driss is a young black man who comes from the poor ban-lieues of Paris.
He is just out of jail and currently unemployed.
Philippe is widowed intellectual who is living in a mansion in the wealthy part of Paris.
He is paraplegic from the neck down and therefor needs constantly help.
They meet as Phillipe is holding interviews for a new caretaker and Driss is just there waiting to be rejected so that he can recive social welfare.
Driss is loud, blunt and makes one faux pas after the next, but he is full of life and treats Phillipe without unwanted pity. Thats what Phillipe needs in his life and so he suprises Driss and himself with an unexpected job offer that will change their life forever.
A really great movie!
Add:
It was so late last night and I was so tired that I forgot to praise the actors.
Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy are great.
Especially Monsieur Cluzet interpretation of Phillipe was very impressive.