Thursday, March 1, 2012
The UA French Club hosted a viewing of the French movie Intouchables. There were about 15 students present much more advanced in parlez francaise and greeting each other with un bise. It was fun. I felt like I was visiting a francophone country.
Intouchables was an important movie to watch if you are a student learning French because the movie was the second most successful film of all time and considered a cultural event in 2011. The movie is both a drama and a comedy about the friendship between Philippe and Driss. Philippe is a wealthy Frenchman who is a tetraplegic as a result of a hang gliding accident and requires a live-in caretaker. Driss is a young man from a poor family who has done some time in jail. He interviews for the live-in caretaker job to go through the motions just to get the needed signature to obtain unemployment benefits. No one is more surprised than Driss that Philippe hires him on a trial basis.
It was a wonderful movie. I highly recommend watching the movie. I am glad that I got to see it with appreciative French students.
