Wonderful French cinema

Rating: 9/10 (25 March 2015)

Rating-9/10
The Intouchables is a sweet French comedy drama all about a disabled man and his carer. It is a tale of not only happiness but life affirming thoughts and actions and one film you mustn't miss. It is sweet and very emotional, but can then change into a kind of vicious emotion, attacking your very emotion but by the end you come out thinking nice thoughts and you really do feel something for all involved.
Now it isn't that this is something completely new, a revolutionary new thought process in film, we have seen films like this before. The thing is that this movie is hilarious as well as interesting and all together it just breathes brilliance and fun. The funniest character has to be Driss(brilliantly played by Omar Sy) who is not only hilariously funny, also holds a deep side which can really draw you into him.
In general the movie is all round acted well, Not only Omar Sy puts in a good performance, Francois Cluzet is great as the disabled character Phillipe and members such as Anne Le Ny and Audrey Fleurot add to the beautiful portrayals. I think as I said before, you can really connect with the people in this and they feel like real people(it is to be fair based on a true story), but they really feel similar even if stinking rich some of them.
The direction is beautifully done by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano who both seem to skilfully deal with the matter and make it feel so normal and also of course humorous. Along with the direction, the cinematography is done well too and the shots used are not only perfect but add to the atmosphere the scenes are trying to get across.
The true gem of this movie and the true heart and soul is the script, written by the two directors, Nakache and Toledano seem to bring in a lovely thought process and make this a movie containing loud laughs and then down to maybe even near tears. The script is the best thing about this and I felt that more nominations could have been given to it for that, maybe even international awards that weren't just for foreign film.
All that saying it can be said, this has been done before. Now I explained what I thought but some may feel this is too similar to the kind of feel sorry for them story this really does have. Another point is the partly cringe thing that is, a white millionaire and his poor black carer, it just feels too much like "oh hey lets make it like the poor guy can change and so can the rich guy, and lets make them different races", it kind of annoyed me and although it works well in the end, it could have just been anyone and still been interesting.
This movie really does represent French cinema at it's best and I dare say it makes you want to see more. With it's quick wit and well time and length(112 minutes) this is really a movie I couldn't recommend more, to those who feel maybe they need to see film that really talks about true life, this is one, and although most of us will not experience anything in this, you still feel like your in the characters skins anyway. Overall I felt it was brilliant just gloriously wonderful, not perfect by a little way but still a movie all should see.