My Best Friend
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Movie Reviews of My Best Friend
Movie Review: My Best Friend
Summary: 4 Stars
An interesting insight to French life and what is thought of as excess over there, but not very original on the subject of friendship. See The Closet for a much better treatment of the issues.Movie Review: Surprisingly touching film
Summary: 4 Stars
This film goes back to basic on the meaning of friendship.
More than just "preaching", this film takes the viewer on a journey to discovering friendships.
Wonderful.
Movie Review: Very amiable
Summary: 3 Stars
My Best Friend isn't Patrice Leconte's best and it's probably not as funny as it could be, but it's so amiable that it really doesn't matter. It's a redemption comedy, with Daniel Auteuil's antique dealer so disinterested in the people around him that he doesn't even know that his business partner is a lesbian and is amazed to find that he has no friends, merely contacts. Challenged to present his mythical best friend by the end of the month or lose a valuable vase, he sets about an increasingly desperate search that takes in strangers in the street and even a former classmate to all-too predictable results before hiring Danny Boon's personable cabdriver to show him how to make friends, oblivious to the fact that Boon doesn't seem to have any friends either.
No prizes for guessing how it all works out, but it's nicely played, with Auteuil's grimly smiling desperation offset nicely by Boon's sheer sad sack likability. The Who Wants To Be a Millionaire climax is somewhat drawn out, but it's hard to dislike a film that uses one characters obsession with quiz show trivia to name check Georges Simenon, Jean Renoir and both versions of The Man Who Knew too Much.
Movie Review: More French Buddies
Summary: 3 Stars
My Best Friend is the kind of buddy film the French have been making three or four times a year since the days of Jean Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon. The formula is tried but effective: throw two generally incompatible guys into close contact, mix well with humor, maybe add a gun or two (not here) and watch what happens. The particular twist in Friend is that Daniel Auteuil has none and is so apparently incapable of making one that his business partner bets him he cannot. Enter Boon, a gentle taxi driver with an aversion to pressure and a love for the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Lives are altered, there is hurt along the way, but it leads to a generous, bittersweet ending and a good hundred minutes or so is had by all. Auteuil is a particular master of this genre, but a better example of him in it is the hilarious Apres Vous.Movie Review: utterly innocuous comedy
Summary: 2 Stars
**1/2
Francois Coste (Daniel Auteuil) is a Parisian antiques dealer who becomes obsessed with finding a best friend after a casual acquaintance off-handedly remarks that Francois has no single person in his life who fulfills that role. This sets Francois off on a mission to prove the acquaintance wrong, finally alighting on a gregarious taxicab driver named Bruno (Dany Boon) to instruct him on the ins and outs of how to make a lifelong buddy.
One of the drawbacks of "My Best Friend" is that we are required to take so much of it on faith, since Francois really doesn't seem to be all that unfriendly and unaffable a guy when you get right down to it. We keep being told that he is cold, self-centered and heartless but, at least as portrayed by Auteuil, Francois doesn't seem to embody much in the way of those qualities - and without that crucial dimension, the movie itself fails to engage us in its premise.
"My Best Friend" is a harmless enough little piffle, I suppose, but it's afflicted with that cutesy, self-congratulatory smugness that is the bane of so many French comedies. Frankly, five minutes after the movie's over, we've all but forgotten we ever saw it.