Sunday, March 02, 2014

Intouchables (2011)

U.K. title: Untouchable.
U.S. title: The Intouchables.

A rich tetraplegic guy hires a black man with a shady past and a troubled present as his personal nurse. A friendship develops between them.

As IMDb user Bossa Nova puts it, this is "for very simple-minded people", who, I add, will not mind, for example, troubling details such as someone stealing a FabergĂ© egg and coming back to his victim's house the next day. One onumbersix, another IMDb user, shrewdly points out the similarity between Cluzet's looks and smiles to Hoffman's in Rain Man. Anyway, I guess after France opened its borders to all peoples of the Earth, it must periodically produce this kind of educational piece in order to keep the internal harmony from falling to alarmingly low levels. I presume the task at hand was a demanding one, but they have taken every care not to offend anyone; among other things, we learn that a beautiful redhead will only reject a handsome lumpen-proletariat black guy if she is a certified lesbian.

Rating: 14

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