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My Best Friend

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Original title

Mon meilleur ami

Year

2006

Running time

94 min.

Country

France

Director

Patrice Leconte

Screenwriter

Patrice Leconte, Jérôme Tonnerre. Idea: Olivier Dazat

Cast

Music

Xavier Dermeliac

Cinematography

Jean-Marie Dreujou

Producer

Fidélité Productions, TF1 Films Production, Wild Bunch

Genre

Comedy | Comedy-Drama. Friendship

Synopsis

An art dealer (Daniel Auteuil) takes a bet: he’s got ten days to find a best friend. He throws himself into a frenetic series of auditions, to finally set his heart on a voluble and friendly cab driver (Dany Boon): he’ll charm him so as to win his bet. But can you cheat at friendship?

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Awards: 2006: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best European Union Film

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Critics' reviews

"You might well find it very silly, but it grew on me, and it's certainly based on an interesting premise."

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"If sex, gangsters, and killing Nazis are three of the most enlivening topics in the movies, then let us count friendship as one of the most tiresome"

Josh Rosenblatt: Austin Chronicle
"One looks to Leconte for some of the finest, most sophisticated and compassionate filmmaking coming out of France, not for a situation comedy."

Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter
"Although Leconte allows for a certain warmth to run through the film, he thankfully stays away from sentimentality. Therein lays the charm."

Marta Barber: Miami Herald
"An unconvincing replica of the dizzy situation comedies that Hollywood poured out in double and triple bills in the thirties and forties"

Stephen Cole: The Globe and Mail
"[Director] Leconte and his perfectly suited stars have given us one of those light comedies that carry a world of lovely weight."

Lisa Kennedy: Denver Post
"It was directed by Patrice Leconte, who makes intelligent films combining sympathy for his characters with a quick wit, a dark undertow and a love of human peculiarity. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times

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