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My Best Friend (Mon meilleur ami) (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 87
Fresh: 65 | Rotten: 22

Although the plot may sound contrived, the performances of Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon manage to turn My Best Friend into an earnest and witty romp.

73

Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 8

Although the plot may sound contrived, the performances of Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon manage to turn My Best Friend into an earnest and witty romp.

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 9,337

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Movie Info

A businessman tries to belatedly learn the fine art of friendship in this comedy from French filmmaker Patrice Leconte. François (Daniel Auteuil) is an antique dealer who runs an upscale shop with his business partner, Catherine (Julie Gayet). François is a gently ruthless trader who will do nearly anything to make a deal, and when Catherine throws him a birthday party, someone points out that all the guests are business associates, not personal friends. While François protests that he does

PG-13, 1 hr. 34 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Jerome Tonnerre

Oct 16, 2007

$1.1M

IFC Films

Cast

All Critics (91) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (23) | DVD (8)

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.

January 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Associated Press | Comment
Associated Press
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One looks to Leconte for some of the finest, most sophisticated and compassionate filmmaking coming out of France, not for a situation comedy.

September 22, 2007 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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It's better when it's threatening, but Leconte knows his audience.

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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A sweetly surprising treatise on friendship.

August 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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[Director] Leconte and his perfectly suited stars have given us one of those light comedies that carry a world of lovely weight.

August 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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As an alleged witty comedy of humanistic charm, it sags in both, thanks to unfunny predicaments and a phony plot.

August 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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Leconte has crafted an at once thoughtful, engaging, lighthearted, and melancholic entertainment about loneliness and friendship

December 18, 2007 Comment
Manhattan Movie Magazine

This is a movie that sneaks up on you and grabs your heart before you know it. I would want to watch it with my best friend.

November 24, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | Comment

French though it may be, My Best Friend effectively addresses what is a universal human condition.

November 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

It isn't always believable, but it is entertaining and funny, with an edge to it.

November 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
Laramie Movie Scope

A wonderful, rare film that portrays one of the most under-represented but universal human neuroses: the desire for friendship or platonic love.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Christianity Today | Comment

Questions the negative, indeed emotionally incapacitating influences that the overriding nature of interaction today - commercial relationships between human beings - is having on genuine human bonding.

October 11, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

A satisfying, cinematic masterpiece with an invaluable message about the meaning of real relating.

October 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Black Star News | Comment
Black Star News

Few films so directly address the question of friendship, the nature of friendship, and, most of all, the illusion that our acquaintances and our friends are the same thing.

October 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Daniel Auteuil is reliable as usual.

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Compuserve | Comment
Compuserve

You might well find it very silly, but it grew on me, and it's certainly based on an interesting premise.

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]
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Audience Reviews for My Best Friend (Mon meilleur ami)

I was drawn in by Julie Gayet, uplifted by Dany Boon and mesmerized by Daniel Auteuil. Delightful and light-hearted.

January 13, 2009
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Randy Tippy

Super Reviewer

Enjoyable French comedy. Struck a chord with me - I could relate to the socially awkward main character!

February 24, 2008
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