Intouchables

Eric Toledano's The Intouchables (France, 2011) - 2012CES Best Actor Winner. A slickly made French comedy that hits all the right beats despite some troublingly glib social assertions, Untouchables (Les Untouchables) should find a wide audience on its French release November 2, and, through Gaumont, an international market on a level perhaps akin to Heartbreakers. Film was the closing night of the San Sebastian Film Festival. With winning central performances from Francois Cluzet as a rich tetraplegic and Omar Sy as the Senegalese jailbird from the projects who become one of cinema’s more improbable odd couples - although this is based on a true-life story - Untouchables has a well-defined commercial streak, hitting all the notes for this genre with a practiced deftness. 2011SANSoc-closing, 2011TOK, 2012CES, 2012SANF, 2012SEA, 2013OE. RATING: 8