It will leave you with a smile on your face and tears in your eyes.

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2012)

This movie is a beautiful story about friendship and everything it can bring you. It is about appreciating each other's differences. It is about how wonderful life is.
When Philippe, a rich, middle aged quadriplegic is looking for a new person to assist him, he meets Driss,a young man from the Parisian suburbs, who is there only to get a paper signed. Philippe finds himself amused by him, who seems like he couldn't care less about anything, and decides, as a joke, to hire him for a month, betting that he won't even hold the position for two weeks. But Philippe, finally experiencing being treated like a normal being again after is paragliding accident as Driss takes care of him, quite clumsily in the beginning (which will lead to a few funny scenes), will find Driss becoming his best friend and making him enjoy life again.
As for the comments on this movie stating it's racist; which I've seen here and on other websites, I really don't understand them. Yes, Driss is black and he is assisting a white person; that's as far as it goes. Yes, I think he is portrayed realistically. A lot of people living in the Parisian suburbs are of foreign descent, most of them dislike classical music, a lot have troubles paying their bills, a lot don't understand the world in which the character of Philippe is living in. That's just the way it is. The movie is far from criticizing that. The whole point of the movie is about mixing up two different worlds, take the best out of the two, and make two men better. Driss will become less violent, more mature; Philippe will learn to enjoy the simple pleasures of life and to let go...
My rating of 8 on 10 is because the movie sometimes gets a little cheesy, but overall it is a very good movie. Funny, sometimes sad, and ends on a really touching note that brought a tear in my eye. The whole cast was great, Omar Sy that I had never seen in a movie before does great and François Cluzet is very touching.