The remake rights have been snapped up. Among the Italian actors, who would you see clearly finding a wheelchair comfortable? Who better than Checco Zalone, to push the paraplegic in a wheelchair beyond the speed limits. In the part of the prison trained social worker. Perhaps Zalone will not commit himself, probably the Italian adaptation of this blockbuster film in France will dissolve the melancholy transmitted in small doses by the original, in overabundant doses of sentimentality.
Nothing can stop them, the rich and aristocratic disabled person and the black ex-convict with say and act as banlieue. The first hires the second so as not to lose his sense of the ridiculous, after having lost the use of his legs and arms and then his wife. Some jokes between the two are withering, nasty, and withering. They release the tension caused by self-control and social conventions. The screenwriters worked on the living testimony of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (in Italian, published by Ponte alle Grazie). Yes, for what it's worth, the film is based on a true story. But it is worth more that the same story is well illustrated by the couple always on stage. Yes, we laugh at a disabled person and even at his disability. Even if as the minutes go by, the comic effect loses its immediacy. The comedy from beyond the Alps is popular (“Bienvenue chez le ch'tis” led “Welcome to the South”, which in turn led to “Welcome to the North”). And we in tow.
“Almost friends – Intouchables” by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano. With François Cluzet and Omar Sy. It lasts 1h52'. Distributed by Medusa.
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