Review of The Intouchables (2011) by Filipeneto — 21 Aug 2018

When I watched this movie in the theater I did it almost by chance, for the film that I really wanted to see has already left that theater. She did not know anything about him or read any of them. It was a shot in the dark.

And I'm glad I did it. I loved the movie when I saw it and now, reviewing it at home, I continued to feel happy about the time I gave to this work. It is a film based on real facts that occurred from the relationship between a rich French aristocrat and his trusted servant, an Algerian who lived in the suburbs.

Here, however, the African origin of the servant is reinforced by the intentional choice of a black actor, Omar Sy, while the other role was given to veteran François Cluzet. Both actors were capable of exceptional chemistry and look fantastic when they split the screen.

Sy's jokes, in his character, are laughing to tears. The cinematography and the scenery are very good and the soundtrack, Ludovico Einaudi's responsibility, is simply a masterpiece of "contemporary" classical music.

It is certainly the best French film I have seen in many years, and one of the best films that European cinema has given us during this decade, until now.