Light, airy, and sweet, Patrice Leconte's latest comedy swings his favorite premise--fruitful encounters between opposites--away from romance and into the wistful hunger for friendship in a careerist world.
My Best Friend(Mon Meilleur Ami)
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France · 2006
Rated PG-13 · 1h 30m
Director Patrice Leconte
Starring Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet, Julie Durand
Genre Comedy
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Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part in this poignant and entertaining comedy.
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Terrifically acted, reassuringly formulaic, and moderately amusing.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
The prolific Patrice Leconte takes a break from mythic, life-and-death scenarios with My Best Friend, a sitcom that threatens to take a rockier emotional path before swerving back into the comfy zone. It’s better when it’s threatening, but Leconte knows his audience.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Mildly entertaining trifle.
More a celebration of movement and music than a parable for our over-communicative, friend-lite, acquaintance-rich society.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Too serious to be an out-and-out comedy, too funny not to be one, My Best Friend is a lot easier to enjoy than to classify.
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Not a bad film and veteran star Daniel Auteuil makes any film he inhabits an interesting place to visit. Perversely, its tissue-thin substance may even make the comedy more commercial in North America than such films of his as "Monsieur Hire" and "Ridicule."
Formulaic but entertaining, My Best Friend climaxes with a lengthy, surprisingly heartfelt sequence set on the French version of "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire."
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Patrice Leconte has directed excellent serious films such as "Monsieur Hire" and "Man on the Train," but when it comes to humor he loses his bearings. His latest attempt at seriocomedy, My Best Friend, is a premise in search of a film.
Well-turned adult comedy.
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