Intouchables – 4

Pure hokum. Again, the curse of the “based on a true story.” No screenwriter would’ve dared come up with such an unlikely, farfetched story if he hadn’t had the stranger-than-fiction truth to egg him on. I couldn’t find a laugh all night, although the ladies behind me practically guffawed. As for me, it was a continuity of scenes ringing false, from the hiring of the unqualified, uninterested Driss in the first place, to his painting an abstract masterpiece despite having no interest in art, to madly racing through city traffic without a driver’s license, to taking a private jet to go paragliding, etc., etc. I never knew what to make of Francois Cluzet’s paraplegic, but all I could think of was Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man. Putting this on top of Marigold Hotel and there certainly seems a disconnect between popular taste this summer and my opinion.

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