VERY NICE

Rating: 9/10 (5 May 2020)

It is true that Hollywood is bigger than any other place, which makes the competition explosive. France has intimacy and cruelty. Nothing is sacred. Rather than trying to revive a new wave or imitate Hollywood in the way that the most popular French film of recent times has, Intouchables takes advantage of its core strengths -- intimacy, a willingness to laugh at anything and brutal honesty -- and produces one of the funniest, most honest and moving films I've ever seen.