The Intouchables

Plot

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Release Year: 2011

Rating: 8.4/10 (9,934 voted)

Director:
Olivier Nakache

Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny

Storyline
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Writers: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano

Cast:

François Cluzet
–

Philippe

Omar Sy
–

Driss

Anne Le Ny
–

Yvonne

Audrey Fleurot
–

Magalie

Clotilde Mollet
–

Marcelle

Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi
–

Elisa

(as Alba Gaïa Bellugi)

Cyril Mendy
–

Adama

Christian Ameri
–

Albert

Grégoire Oestermann
–

Antoine

Joséphine de Meaux
–

La DRH société de courses

Dominique Daguier
–

Amie de Philippe

François Caron
–

Ami de Philippe

Thomas Solivéres
–

Bastien, dit le Plumeau

Dorothée Brière
–

Eléonore

(as Dorothée Brière Méritte)

Marie-Laure Descoureaux
–

Chantal, la femme de chambre

Details

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Release Date: 2 November 2011

Opening Weekend: €10,675,385
(France)
(6 November 2011)
(508 Screens)

Gross: €2,408,006
(Belgium)
(4 December 2011)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

User Review

One of the Most Unique and Beautiful Friendships ever Committed to Film

Rating: 10/10


Do not look at this through the prism of "Foreign Films". You'd be
wasting your time and miss something far too important.

Hollywood does scale like nobody else, leaving the competition gasping
in its wake. France does intimacy, and brutality. Nothing is sacred.
And rather than try to revive the New Wave or emulate Hollywood like
most widely seen French films of late, "Intouchables" harnesses its
core strengths – ease with intimacy, willingness to ridicule anything
and brutal honesty – and delivers one of the funniest, most honest and
touching films I have ever seen.

Sy is a failed robber, going through the motions and playing the
stereotypical jobless émigré. Cluzet is a romantic and melancholy mind
trapped in a useless body. The circumstances that bring them together
are too funny to spoil here, but meet they do, and an awkward
relationship quickly blossoms as they bring out the best in each other.

The film's simplicity is delightfully misleading: the script is a
masterpiece of comedy writing, and however good the rest of the cast
is, the central duo is magical. Sy's comic timing will have you in
stitches, but it is his honesty and vulnerability that make you fall in
love with the character. Cluzet isn't your typical sad-sack, instead,
much of the finest pleasures in the film consist in watching him use
his keen mind to mess with the world around him (a subplot about an
abstract painting really takes the biscuit, you'll know it when you see
it).

This is one of the most unique, beautiful and honest friendships ever
committed to film. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry… a
delightful celebration of everything in life that makes it worthwhile.