My Best Friend (Mon meilleur
ami) – France (2006)
If you like the storyline of I Love You, Man, you will like this comedy.
This French comedy features an art dealer named François who
runs a gallery with a business partner; he is a divorced with a daughter he
doesn’t really get along with, and he has no friends. He has so few friends
that his business partner makes a bet with him that he cannot find a best
friend within 30 days, otherwise, it will cost him a valuable Greco-Roman vase
he bought for his own personal collection. François starts to form a
friendship, and doesn’t even realize it, with his taxi driver, Bruno, who he
will eventually have to prove his budding friendship to.
This movie seems somewhat simple: guy has no friends, guy
goes and makes friend, guy has to go and prove his friendship to friend. Yes,
it is simple, but it is the French sense of irony in film, like so many other
French comedies that makes this one so good… I would love to fill in more of the blanks, but I don't want to spoil anything for anyone!
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