French people are flocking to a spate of socially aware films filling the void left by Nicolas Sarkozy's divisive politics
The spectacular success at the French box office of Intouchables, having attracted 2.5 million people in just 10 days, is the latest episode in a phenomenon that started just a few months after Nicolas Sarkozy came to power in May 2007.
We are not talking masterpiece or dazzling mise-en-scene – this is not the point. Intouchables tells the story of a quadriplegic aristocrat who hires a black ex-convict from the banlieues as his new minder. You will have guessed: it is the tale of an unlikely friendship between two men from opposite milieu. François Cluzet and Omar Sy may give tremendous performances, but the public hasn't flocked en masse for the film's artistic prowess. What they run to go and see is a story of class transcendence and national unity.
Intouchables is the...
The spectacular success at the French box office of Intouchables, having attracted 2.5 million people in just 10 days, is the latest episode in a phenomenon that started just a few months after Nicolas Sarkozy came to power in May 2007.
We are not talking masterpiece or dazzling mise-en-scene – this is not the point. Intouchables tells the story of a quadriplegic aristocrat who hires a black ex-convict from the banlieues as his new minder. You will have guessed: it is the tale of an unlikely friendship between two men from opposite milieu. François Cluzet and Omar Sy may give tremendous performances, but the public hasn't flocked en masse for the film's artistic prowess. What they run to go and see is a story of class transcendence and national unity.
Intouchables is the...
- 11/17/2011
- by Agnès Poirier
- The Guardian - Film News
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