Intouchables meet Bridget Jones

Rating: 5/10 (30 April 2019)

The concept of a caregiver forming an unlikely bond with a quadriplegic man who has suffered an accident. And in a wonderfully humorous and unsentimental way both the French "Intouchables" and "Me before You" give a warm peek into what can happen if the right caregiver accidentally (pardon the pun) comes along. And Emilia Clarke is absolutely disarmingly charming as the Bridget-Jones-clumsy girl with the funny clothes and the big heart. However, where Intouchables have a slightly dark undertone, which gives more facets to the plot, "Me before You" becomes a little too much of a banal love story (in spite of the subject of euthanasia). I was entertained, but the film certainly lacked some "je ne sais quoi".