Untouchable

Great start to the season! It's going to be hard to beat the audience feedback score of 98%.

I recommend this article in The Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9509665/ Untouchable-the-true-story-that-inspired-a-box-office-hit.html 
It gives a lot of the background into the story behind the film. It also explains which parts are true and which are inventions – although the real Philippe says the inventions are not untypical.

There's an interesting article on the BBC site which gives some background to the production and includes this gem: '(not) a particularly easy sell to potential investors - one of whom asked the film-makers if the main character "could walk a little at the end".':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19640298 

Here's our audience feedback:

A	Lovely story well acted. Beautiful scenery – music. Very humorous relationship well portrayed.
A
A	Excellent film
A	Excellent!
A
A	A very touching film. All characters beautifully played.
A	An absorbing, emotional, wonderfully-acted film.
A	What a brilliant film. Words fail me! It covered so many bases and emotions. Great start to the season!
A	UPLIFTING
A	100% absorbing
A	Funny and warm in equal amounts
A	Superb, full of warmth, humanity and a beautiful film with wonderful actors and script and director.
A	Really enjoyed it. Very feel good and positive!
A	Funny, poignant, heartwarming – a real feelgood movie
A	What a lovely film! And I would never have seen it without the Film Soc. Thank you.
A	Wonderful. Hope it really was like that for them both. Very funny but felt very tense at the same time.
A	Beautiful scenery and music.
A	Excellent – amusing and touching.
A	Good start to the season. Time flew.
A	Very funny. Well done.
A	Superb. Humorous and touching without being over-sentimental.
A	Beautiful film. Great start to the season.
B	Je ne sais pas. Whose life is it anyway?
B	Wholly charming and unsentimental.
B

Online:

Newspaper critics were not all raving about this film. The Telegraph man, Robbie Collin,  gave it 3 stars and described it as “corny but charming”:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9555377/Untouchable-review.html 

The Guardian (Dalya Alberge) managed only two sentences in their 4-star review which is hardly worth reading:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/20/untouchable-review 

And the Independent (2 stars, Anthony Quinn) has it “a third-rate buddy movie that hardly understands its own condescension”:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/untouchable-15-8160904.html 

Rotten Tomatoes is a site which gives both audience ratings (93%) and critic ratings (75%). I've found their audience ratings are often a good match with ours:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_intouchables/ 

Likewise the IMDB audience rating is 8.5 out of 10:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/