Fresh
Patrice Leconte has taken a story about male friendship, in all its posturing and potential vulnerability, and turned it into a light, smart, crowd-pleasing comedy.
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
My Best Friend
It takes a lifetime to learn the meaning of friendship... François has 10 days.
2006 · 1h 30m · PG-13
Comedy
Directed by
Patrice Leconte
Overview
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 best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Auteuil and Boon's appealing performances keep the film engaging throughout, but it's easy to pine for a dark, challenging film with this premise, pitched more toward a harrowing emotional reckoning than this film's ambiguous but inevitable happy ending.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Rotten
One looks to Leconte for some of the finest, most sophisticated and compassionate filmmaking coming out of France, not for a situation comedy.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
It's better when it's threatening, but Leconte knows his audience.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
A sweetly surprising treatise on friendship.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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