Sunday, November 11, 2007
BUDDY FILM
Today's film was
Mon meilleur ami / My Best Friend (2006)
with Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon.
It is a sweet comedy where a guy who has no close friends tries to find one and asks a taxi driver to help him.
I am sure that you can see the through line without seeing the movie.
But then you would miss a warm and wonderful story with great characters and situations.
In any case, your premonitions are temporary. There is a scene where all the cliché expectations one has are smashed.
This is a tricky moment and it comes off perfectly.
Of course you will have to see that for yourself.
Auteuil is a great actor. He disappears into his roles in such a way that one forgets his appearance just the other day in a cold blooded thriller.
He and Boon worked together in another recent film La Doublure also a comedy in which Boon is the room mate of a guy who is hired to pretend that he is Auteuil's mistress' boyfriend.
We are bordering on a trivia contest here which, oddly, is one of the themes of this film we saw today. Hence, I am about to stick my head up my ass and will quit by assigning a 4 out of Netflix5 to this film.
