Directors: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Writers: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny
Language: French
The skeptical or the pessimistic version of the story is that a rich old white man gets a poor young black kid as a nurse; each one magically sees the other's point of view and they all live happily ever after. Yeah, ok, there's some of truth to it. But this movie has more than that. I think the dialog is the most powerful part of it. They each say things anyone else wouldn't be able to, and gets away with it, and that actually removes their apparent labels and shows us the real human sides. The story touches on many things in the contemporary French society, for instance, the projects with high unemployment, the drugs, the rich aristocratic society, the abuse of welfare system, etc. but it doesn't claim to find solutions or lay blame on anyone. Instead it shows them for what they are, complex issues with real people's lives in them. The jokes are quite funny, even through the English subtitles. The acting by the two leads is superb, and that's what makes this worth watching. My Rating: 7.5
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