Sy's comic timing will have you in stitches, but it is his honesty and vulnerability that make you fall in love with the character. The film's simplicity is delightfully misleading: the script is a masterpiece of comedy writing, and however good the rest of the cast is, the central duo is magical.
The circumstances that bring them together are too funny to spoil here, but meet they do, and an awkward relationship quickly blossoms as they bring out the best in each other. Cluzet is a romantic and melancholy mind trapped in a useless body. Sy is a failed robber, going through the motions and playing the stereotypical jobless émigré. And rather than try to revive the New Wave or emulate Hollywood like most widely seen French films of late, "Intouchables" harnesses its core strengths - ease with intimacy, willingness to ridicule anything and brutal honesty - and delivers one of the funniest, most honest and touching films I have ever seen.
Hollywood does scale like nobody else, leaving the competition gasping in its wake. You'd be wasting your time and miss something far too important. Do not look at this through the prism of "Foreign Films".
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