"Touching" - Who could not love this one?

Rating: 10/10 (6 May 2012)

This flick is as touching as it is intouchable.
I rated it a ten and keep in mind that it didn't catch my eyes nor ears in the beginning. However, the overall feeling I'm having after having watched this rather lengthy masterpiece; is a calm and thoughtfulness that I haven't felt since I watched the almost six hour long Italian film, La meglio gioventù.
One would think that the main two characters, Philippe and Driss, had been living together for 20 years before the recording of this movie. The chemistry between the two of them is something extraordinary. Something intouchable.
Together, they complement each other in a way that is unusual in today's films. Driss, who embodies a "'pragmatic'" African french youth with lots of temperament and a great deal of emotional luggage. Philippe, being in the state that he is, can't use his body language the way that Driss can. He has to rely on his facial expressions. Something he is mastering very well.
I didn't want the film to end. I wanted it to continue as a TV series, one can come home to and watch after a stressful day at work.
I don't want to say anything more about this lovely 112 minute long touching movie without spoiling the experience for the ones that still haven't seen it.
But, who could not love this one? Yours sincerely /Kristoffer