Saturday, 20 July 2013

Intouchables : Haunting, Beautiful.




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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