“The Intouchables” opens in the interior of an expensive, high-performance automobile driven through Paris by Driss (Omar Sy), whom we learn is the caregiver of his passenger, Philippe (François ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Omar Sy popped up on our home screens last month as a super cool thief in an ...

"The Intouchables" isn't a very descriptive title — a better homage to its influences might be "The Diving Bell and the Scent of Monsieur Daisy" — but that didn't stop this dramedy about a rich ...

They could not be more different. Philippe is a Frenchman who lives like a let-them-eat-cake royal. His home is palatial, his driveway is clogged with sports cars he never drives, and he's attended by ...

I felt good watching The Upside but it only took a few moments’ reflection to question myself. In 2012 I saw the U.S. release of the French hit The Intouchables. I didn’t expect the American remake ...

I first saw The Upside at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. At the party afterwards, Harvey Weinstein, who was the distributor, was lapping up the strong reaction and talking an Oscar/Globe qualifying ...

Hearing the logline for The Upside one might be forgiven for assuming that they could predict the beats of the film act by act. After all, after viewing nearly a century of films in which two men from ...

Omar Sy and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in a new film from "Intouchables" directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano By Jordan Mintzer Samba Still - H 2014 The star and crew may be the same, and the ...

The clichés are stacked up like skyscrapers in "The Upside," the affable and soft-peddled story of a billionaire quadriplegic and the street-smart ex-con who teaches him how to live. It's a mishmash ...

“The Upside,” a remake of the smash 2011 French hit “The Intouchables,” is little more than a standard-issue buddy comedy. The jokes are lame, save for an odd wisecrack or sight gag, and the ...