Last year’s French award baiting, box office smash hit, The Intouchables
known in the UK as Untouchable finally
gets a release in the UK, a full year later than in its home country and my was
it worth the wait. The film broke box office records in France, becoming the 2nd
highest grossing French film of all time after just nine weeks at the box
office and has gone on to gross €277
million worldwide from a budget of just €9.5 million. I’d heard very good
things from the countries that had been lucky enough to get the film within a
year of its release but I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the film quite as much as I
did. It’s been a very good month for film with the likes of Anna Karenina, Looper and then Holy Motors all edging into my current
2012 Top 10 list but I think at the moment Untouchable
is beating them all with it’s surprisingly frank and extremely funny portrayal
of a young French-Senegalese man’s (Omar Sy) struggle in taking on the role of
full time carer for a paralysed millionaire (François Cluzet).