Saturday, 3 August 2013

Touching

Untouchable (2011)

Written and directed by the duo of Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano this film stars Fancois Cluzet, Omar Sy and Audery Fleurot. In France a young black immigrant who gets a job as a carer for a rich old white man.

The plot for this film does not really pull any surprises and while there seems to be a lot of talk about how race is handled in this film (for better or worse) in my opinion class difference is the bigger issue than race here. What the script has going for it is plenty of personality and manages to bring in tones of humour without taking the easy shots of basing the humour around one of the characters disability. Over all this is a well made film that handles a pretty tricky subject fairly well even if it does not have a huge amount of originality.


4/5

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