Cast : Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy.
Rating: 8.7/10
Inspired by a true story of
Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo and his caregiver Abdel Sellou, Intouchables is an
emotional, poignant ode to the goodness that each person has in his heart,
irrespective of his past.
Driss (Omar Sy), is unemployed
and intends to remain that way when he gatecrashes an interview for potential
candidates to take care of quadriplegic millionaire Phillippe(Francois Cluzet). Driss, who is
there to get rejected and thus receive his welfare benefits, gets hired and is
challenged by Phillippe to survive a month of caring for him. A job, that
starts as a total disaster, gradually becomes easier for Driss as he teaches
and is in turn taught by Phillippe, to enjoy the finer nuances of life. Overcoming
his fear of paragliding(which made him a quadriplegic in the first place), relationships(with
his daughter Elisa and ‘friend’ Eleanore) are few of the situations where Driss
helps Phillippe glide through. In return, an appreciation for modern art,
opera, music(Vivaldi, Chopin et al) is developed in Driss via his contact with
the aristocratic crowd. Ludovico Einaudi’s music is hauntingly beautiful (listen
to ‘Una Mattina’) and the direction by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano is
breathtaking. The world is now divided into two groups of people: those who have seen this movie
and those who haven’t. Miss it at your own peril.
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