The Intouchables (2011) poster
2011 · comedy · drama · french

The Intouchables

Directed by Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache1h 53m2011
ElsewhereIMDb8.51.0MRT75%Metacritic57TMDB8.318k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Our read · The Intouchables (2011) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · french entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a warm, funny true story of an unlikely friendship changing two lives.

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou want dark or serious drama without broad comedy.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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