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The Intouchables

Original title: Intouchables
  • 20112011
  • RR
  • 1h 52m
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8.5/10
866K
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François Cluzet and Omar Sy in The Intouchables (2011)
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker.
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After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
IMDb RATING
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866K
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    • Olivier Nakache
    • Éric Toledano
    • Olivier Nakache
    • Éric Toledano
    • Philippe Pozzo di Borgo(adapted from his autobiographical tale Le Second Souffle)
  • Stars
    • François Cluzet
    • Omar Sy
    • Anne Le Ny
    • Olivier Nakache
    • Éric Toledano
    • Olivier Nakache
    • Éric Toledano
    • Philippe Pozzo di Borgo(adapted from his autobiographical tale Le Second Souffle)
  • Stars
    • François Cluzet
    • Omar Sy
    • Anne Le Ny
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 816User reviews
    • 327Critic reviews
    • 57Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #46
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award

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    François Cluzet
    François Cluzet
    • Philippe
    Omar Sy
    Omar Sy
    • Driss
    Anne Le Ny
    Anne Le Ny
    • Yvonne
    Audrey Fleurot
    Audrey Fleurot
    • Magalie
    Joséphine de Meaux
    • La DRH société de courses
    Clotilde Mollet
    • Marcelle
    Alba Gaïa Bellugi
    • Elisa
    Cyril Mendy
    • Adama
    Salimata Kamate
    • Fatou
    Absa Diatou Toure
    • Mina
    Grégoire Oestermann
    Grégoire Oestermann
    • Antoine
    Dominique Daguier
    • Amie de Philippe
    François Caron
    • Ami de Philippe
    Christian Ameri
    • Albert
    Thomas Solivérès
    Thomas Solivérès
    • Bastien
    • (as Thomas Soliveres)
    Dorothée Brière
    • Eléonore
    • (as Dorothée Briere Meritte)
    Marie-Laure Descoureaux
    • Femme de chambre
    Émilie Caen
    • Galeriste
    • (as Emilie Caen)
      • Olivier Nakache
      • Éric Toledano
      • Olivier Nakache
      • Éric Toledano
      • Philippe Pozzo di Borgo(adapted from his autobiographical tale Le Second Souffle)
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    • Trivia
      Although the real-life 'Driss' was a young Algerian man called Abdel, directors Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache changed the character's nationality to Senegalese, as they had enjoyed working with Omar Sy on Tellement proches (2009), and really wanted him to play the part. Sy also had the experience of living in the impoverished French suburbs, just like Driss.
    • Goofs
      When the police car first appears behind Driss, you can hear a short burst of the siren, which is clearly an American-inspired tone (also used in UK etc.) When the pursuit begins, the police car has the recognizable and correct French siren tone.
    • Quotes

      Philippe: My true disability is not having to be in a wheel chair. It's having to be without her.

    • Crazy credits
      Five percent of the profits from the film will be donated to the Association Simon of Cyrene - 15 rue de Suffren - 75015 Paris whose purpose is to create shared living spaces for disabled adults and friends.
    • Connections
      Featured in De wereld draait door: Episode #7.128 (2012)
    • Soundtracks
      September
      (Maurice White/Allee Willis/Al McKay)

      Performed by Earth Wind & Fire (as Earth, Wind & Fire)

    User reviews816

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    10/10
    One of the Most Unique and Beautiful Friendships ever Committed to Film
    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.
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    • OttoVonB
    • Nov 27, 2011

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    • Release date
      • November 2, 2011 (France)
      • France
      • Official Facebook
      • French
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Cabourg, Calvados, France
    • Production companies
      • Quad
      • Ten Films
      • Canal+
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    • 1 hour 52 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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