Alpha
2026-06-28 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Paris) | Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20, rue du temple, Paris, 75004, France
🌈PRIDE MONTH Alpha – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Sunday, June 28th, Drinks at 6pm and Screening at 7pm
📽️ Cinéma: Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.50 – €12.00 https://achat.luminor-hoteldeville.com/reserver/F603984/D1782666000/VF/253664/
Thirteen-year-old Alpha is a restless teenager living alone with her mother. In time her uncle, who is dying from a shattering virus, moves in with the family. Their fragile world begins to unravel as the disease not only ravishes the world; the tragedy of the death that surrounds Alpha makes way for her unfolding of family memory in visceral and poetic ways.
🏳️‍🌈Queer French Film Series-Program Note🏳️‍🌈
Notes on the History of French Queer Cinema: https://nostalgiaandliquor.substack.com/p/queer-french-cinema-a-historical

The history of French queer cinema is rich and diverse. During June 2026 in Paris—Pride Month—Lost in Frenchlation presents a series of films dedicated to French queer culture and lives. The series showcases a range of films from leading queer French-speaking filmmakers. Time-honored filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Christophe Honoré, Alain Guiraudie, Robin Campbillo, Julia Ducournau and Xavier Dolan are included in the program along with a new generation of French queer filmmakers such as Anna Cazenave Cambet and Hafsia Herzi. Through dramas and comedies, their films explore lesbian relationships, trans lives, “coming-out,” AIDS, and the pleasures of being queer.
*The Queer French Film Series is funded, in part, by the City University of New York’s Research Foundation.
Bio
David A. Gerstner is Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York. In 2024, he was awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is the author of Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship (2023).

Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite
2026-06-29 19:00 - 22:00 | Cinéma du Panthéon, 13 rue Victor Cousin, Paris, 75005, France
🌈PRIDE MONTH Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔 + Agnès Varda Movie Tour
🎬 Date & Time: Monday, June 29th, Agnès Varda Movie Tour at 4:30, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Cinéma du Panthéon, 13 rue Victor-Cousin, Paris 5
🎟️Movie Tickets: €5.40 – €9.90 https://www.cinemadupantheon-reserver.cotecine.fr/reserver/F208404/D1782756000/VF/252814/
🎟️Tour Tickets: €18 https://my.weezevent.com/lost-in-frenchlation-x-cine-balade-present-agnes-varda-movie-tour-6
It’s 1990. Arthur is a twenty-year-old student living in Rennes, but his world shifts the moment he meets Jacques, a writer living in Paris with his young son. Over the course of a single summer, Arthur and Jacques find themselves falling deeply in love. But it’s a romance shadowed by a ticking clock—HIV/AIDS. Jacques knows they have to live this love quickly before time runs out.

🏳️‍🌈Queer French Film Series-Program Note🏳️‍🌈
Notes on the History of French Queer Cinema: https://nostalgiaandliquor.substack.com/p/queer-french-cinema-a-historical

The history of French queer cinema is rich and diverse. During June 2026 in Paris—Pride Month—Lost in Frenchlation presents a series of films dedicated to French queer culture and lives. The series showcases a range of films from leading queer French-speaking filmmakers. Time-honored filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Christophe Honoré, Alain Guiraudie, Robin Campbillo, Julian Ducournau and Xavier Dolan are included in the program along with a new generation of French queer filmmakers such as Anna Cazenave Cambet and Hafsia Herzi. Through dramas and comedies, their films explore lesbian relationships, trans lives, “coming-out,” AIDS, and the pleasures of being queer.
*The Queer French Film Series is funded, in part, by the City University of New York’s Research Foundation.
Bio
David A. Gerstner is Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York. In 2024, he was awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is the author of Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship (2023).

Le Rêve Américain
2026-07-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20, rue du temple, Paris, 75004, France
Le Rêve Américain – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Thursday, July 2nd, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.50 – €12.00 https://www.luminor-hoteldeville.com/movies/1000012480-le-reve-americain/?date=2026-07-02
Based on a true story, two underdogs from France with no connections and shaky English defy the odds to become power players in the NBA.
“The message is clear and universal: never give up, no matter where you come from.” -CinéRevue

OSS 117, Le Caire Nid d'espions
2026-07-03 19:00 - 22:00 | Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, 75006 Paris, Paris, 75006, France
OSS 117, Le Caire Nid d’espions – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Friday, July 3rd, Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris 6
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €6.00 – €11.00 https://www.lucernaire.fr/cinema/oss-117-le-caire-nid-despions/
In 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (OSS 117) is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and to uncover a secret arms deal. Posing as a poultry importer, he blunders his way through Egyptian politics, religion, and espionage. Arrogant, clueless, and politically incorrect, OSS 117 constantly misunderstands local customs, creating both chaos and comedy. Despite his incompetence, he accidentally manages to foil the conspiracy.
“The movie relishes its 1955 look, not just in the costumes and locations, but in such details as special effects and fight scenes, the movie is surprisingly competent in some of the action scenes, when the dim-witted hero turns out to have lightning improvisational skills.” – Roger Ebert

La Grande Vadrouille
2026-07-05 19:00 - 22:00 | Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris, 75005, France
La Grande Vadrouille – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Sunday, July 5th, Tea Bar at 7pm (bring your own mug!) and Screening at 7:30pm
📽️ Cinéma: Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris 5
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.40 – €9.40 https://parisstudioursulines.cine.boutique/media/556?showId=6233&title=LA+GRANDE+VADROUILLE&visanumber=31732
In 1942, a Royal Air Force plane was shot down over Paris. The three British pilots bail out and are found by two members of the French Resistance (De Funès and Bourvil). With De Funès and Bourvil as guides the film follows their madcap and hilarious journey to get past the Germans and get the pilots to the Free French Zone.

Nouvelle Vague
2026-07-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Arlequin, 76 rue de rennes, Paris, 75006, France
Nouvelle Vague – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔 + French New Wave Movie Tour
🎬 Date & Time: Tuesday, July 7th, French New Wave Movie Tour at 4:30pm, Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: L’Arlequin, 76 Rue de Rennes, Paris 6
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.30 – €12.20 https://www.ticketingcine.com/EMS0820/FRXUXJV#showmovie?id=QOFER
🎟️Tour Tickets: €18 https://my.weezevent.com/lost-in-frenchlation-x-cine-balade-present-french-new-wave-movie-tour-8
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
“If Nouvelle Vague is not exactly Breathless, it’s a loving homage to the crazy way Breathless was made — back when you could shoot movies fast, cheap and out of control, and somehow change cinema in the process.” – Hollywood Reporter

Histoires Parallèles
2026-07-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20, rue du temple, Paris, 75004, France
Histoires Parallèles – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Thursday, July 9th, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.50 – €12.00 https://www.luminor-hoteldeville.com/movies/1000023480-histoires-paralleles/?date=2026-07-09
While searching for inspiration for her next novel, Sylvie begins secretly observing the neighbours across the street. When she hires a young man named Adam to help with her daily life, she has no idea that he will completely disrupt both her personal life and her writing.
As the line between fiction and reality begins to blur, the story she imagined gradually starts to take over their lives in unexpected ways.

OSS 117 : Rio Ne Répond Plus
2026-07-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, 75006 Paris, Paris, 75006, France
OSS 117 : Rio Ne Répond Plus – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Friday, July 10th, Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris 6
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €6.00 – €11.00 https://www.lucernaire.fr/cinema/oss-117-rio-ne-repond-plus/

Twelve years after Cairo, OSS 117 is back for a new mission on the other side of the world. Sent to track down a microfilm that could compromise the French state, our most famous agent must team up with the most seductive lieutenant colonel in the Mossad to capture a Nazi blackmailer. From the sun-drenched beaches of Rio to the lush Amazon rainforest, from the deepest secret caves to the summit of Christ the Redeemer, a new adventure begins. Whatever the danger, whatever the stakes, you can always count on Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath to come out on top.

Trois Couleurs: Bleu
2026-07-12 19:00 - 22:00 | L’Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 75005, France
Trois Couleurs: Bleu – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔

🎬Date & Time: Sunday, July 12th, Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and Screening at 8pm
📽️Cinéma: Épée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris 5
🎟️Movie Tickets: €5.00 – €9.90 https://achat.cine-epeedebois.fr/reserver/F288777/D1783879200/VF/264944/
After the death of her husband Patrice, a great composer, and their daughter Anna in a car accident, Julie begins a new life, anonymous and independent. Olivier, Patrice’s assistant, who is in love with her, tries to draw her out of her isolation by finishing the Concerto for Europe, a work left unfinished by the composer.

Un Peuple et Son Roi
2026-07-14 19:00 - 22:00 | L’Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 75005, France
Un Peuple et Son Roi – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔

🎬Date & Time: Tuesday, July 14th, Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and Screening at 8pm
📽️Cinéma: Épée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris 5
🎟️Movie Tickets: €5.00 – €9.90 https://achat.cine-epeedebois.fr/reserver/F223204/D1784052000/VF/264944/
In 1789, the people of France rise up in revolution. Their voices, struggles, and hopes shape the course of history.
One Nation, One King follows the lives of ordinary citizens alongside key historical figures during the early days of the French Revolution. Their stories intersect within the newly created National Assembly, as the fate of the King, and the emergence of the Republic, hangs in the balance.

Vie Privée
2026-07-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20, rue du temple, Paris, 75004, France
Vie Privée – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Thursday, July 16th, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.50 – €12.00 https://www.luminor-hoteldeville.com/movies/1000000193-vie-privee/?date=2026-07-16
Lilian (Jodie Foster), an American psychoanalyst living in Paris, has her life upended by the sudden death of a patient. What begins as an exploration of grief soon spirals into intrigue: stolen files, suspicions of foul play, and unsettling echoes of the past.
Determined to uncover the truth, Lilian turns sleuth—with help from her ex-husband (Daniel Auteuil)—in a delirious whodunnit filled with suspense, wit, and unexpected twists. Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, A Private Life blends sharp thrills with a playful dose of dark humour, anchored by Foster’s magnetic performance.

OSS 117 : Alerte Rouge en Afrique Noire
2026-07-17 19:00 - 22:00 | Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, 75006 Paris, Paris, 75006, France
OSS 117 : Alerte Rouge en Afrique Noire – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Friday, July 17th, Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris 6
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €6.00 – €11.00 https://www.lucernaire.fr/cinema/oss-117-alerte-rouge-en-afrique-noire/

It’s 1981. Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, better known as OSS 117, is back.
For this new mission – more delicate, dangerous, and explosive than ever – he is forced to team up with a younger colleague: the ambitious and up-and-coming OSS 1001.

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
2026-07-19 19:00 - 22:00 | Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris, 75005, France
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Sunday, July 19th, Tea Bar at 7pm (bring your own mug!) and Screening at 7:30pm
📽️ Cinéma: Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris 5
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.40 – €9.40 https://parisstudioursulines.cine.boutique/media/1117?showId=6252&title=LES+PARAPLUIES+DE+CHERBOURG&visanumber=28015
In the town of Cherbourg, Madame Emery and her daughter Geneviève run a small umbrella shop. Geneviève is in love with Guy, a young mechanic, but their relationship is interrupted when he is drafted to fight in the Algerian War.
Left behind and pregnant, Geneviève is encouraged by her mother to marry Roland, a wealthy jeweller who can offer her stability and security.

Cléo de 5 à 7
2026-07-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Arlequin, 76 rue de rennes, Paris, 75006, France
Cléo de 5 à 7 – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔 + Agnès Varda Movie Tour
🎬 Date & Time: Tuesday, July 21st, Agnès Varda Movie Tour at 4:30pm, Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: L’Arlequin, 76 Rue de Rennes, Paris 6
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.30 – €12.20 https://www.ticketingcine.com/EMS0820/FRXUXJV#showmovie?id=XZGIC
🎟️Tour Tickets: €18 https://my.weezevent.com/lost-in-frenchlation-x-cine-balade-present-agnes-varda-movie-tour-7
Cléo, a beautiful young singer, is waiting for the results of a medical test that may change her life. As she wanders through the streets and cafés of Paris, her emotions shift from carefree vanity to growing anxiety and fear.
Over the course of ninety minutes, the people she encounters, including her lover, a musician, a friend, and a soldier, gradually open her eyes to the world and to herself.

L’Abandon
2026-07-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20, rue du temple, Paris, 75004, France
L’Abandon – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Thursday, July 23rd, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.50 – €12.00 https://www.luminor-hoteldeville.com/movies/1000041395-labandon/?date=2026-07-23
Everyone knows the name Samuel Paty, but few truly know his story.
On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was murdered outside his school. Drawing on investigations and court proceedings, this film retraces the final eleven days of his life and the chain of events that led to his tragic death.

La Boum
2026-07-24 19:00 - 22:00 | Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, 75006 Paris, Paris, 75006, France
La Boum – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Friday, July 24th, Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris 6
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €6.00 – €11.00 https://www.lucernaire.fr/cinema/la-boum/

Vic is a thirteen-year-old girl living a carefree life between school, her parents, and her beloved great-grandmother Poupette. But when her mother discovers that Vic’s father once had a mistress, tensions begin to grow at home.
Meanwhile, Vic is mostly concerned with something entirely different: preparing for her very first party and experiencing the thrills of teenage romance.

Trois Couleurs: Blanc
2026-07-26 19:00 - 22:00 | L’Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 75005, France
Trois Couleurs: Blanc – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Sunday, July 26th, Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Épée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris 5
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.00 – €9.90 https://achat.cine-epeedebois.fr/reserver/F28909/D1785088800/VF/264944/
In this second installment of his “Three Colors” series, Krzysztof Kieslowski tells the story of Karol, a Polish hairdresser, and his French wife, Dominique. Karol has lost everything after his divorce from Dominique; he can’t even return to Poland and refuses to become a murderer for money. After finally managing to return to his country, he embarks on various ventures and falls into the trap of his revenge on Dominique, but ultimately wins her love back.

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
2026-07-28 19:00 - 22:00 | L’Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 75005, France
Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔 + Montmartre Movie Tour
🎬 Date & Time: Tuesday, July 28th, Montmartre Movie Tour at 4:30pm, Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Épée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris 5
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.00 – €9.90 https://achat.cine-epeedebois.fr/reserver/F1377/D1785261600/VF/264944/

🎟️Tour Tickets: €18 https://my.weezevent.com/lost-in-frenchlation-x-cine-balade-present-montmartre-amelie-walking-tour-8
A story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her father’s mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie hardly gets any real-life contact with other people.After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his newfound perspective, she decides to devote her life to the people around her.
“ Amelie is a delicious pastry of a movie, a lighthearted fantasy in which a winsome heroine overcomes a sad childhood and grows up to bring cheer to the needful and joy to herself. You see it, and later when you think about it, you smile.” – Roger Ebert

Juste Une Illusion
2026-07-30 19:00 - 22:00 | Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20, rue du temple, Paris, 75004, France
Juste Une Illusion – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Thursday, July 30th, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.50 – €12.00 https://www.luminor-hoteldeville.com/movies/1000015954-juste-une-illusion/?date=2026-07-30
It’s 1985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the Parisian suburbs in a middle-class family, between a distant older brother and parents in constant conflict. While he is “no longer” a child and “not yet” an adult, we will share his questions and doubts about identity, friendship, family, religion, desire, and first stirrings of love.
A comedy about that period of childhood when the hope of changing the world wasn’t “Just an illusion…”

Intouchables
2026-07-31 19:00 - 22:00 | Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, 75006 Paris, Paris, 75006, France
Intouchables – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔
🎬 Date & Time: Friday, July 31st, Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris 6
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €6.00 – €11.00 https://www.lucernaire.fr/cinema/intouchables/

Following a paragliding accident, Philippe, a rich aristocrat, hires Driss, a young man from the suburbs just released from prison, as a home helper… In short, the least suitable person for the job. Together they will make Vivaldi and Earth Wind and Fire coexist, the word and the joke, the costumes and the tracksuit bottoms… Two universes will telescope, tame each other, to give birth to a friendship as crazy, funny and strong as unexpected, a unique relationship that will spark and make them… Untouchable.
“It is possible to summarize the experience of watching “The Intouchables” in nine words: You will laugh; you will cry; you will cringe. The caricatures are astonishingly brazen, as ancient comic archetypes — a pompous master and a clowning servant right out of Molière — are updated with vague social relevance, an overlay of Hollywood-style sentimentality and a conception of race that might kindly be called cartoonish.” — The New York Times
