My Best Friend 2006 123movies

Watch: Mon Meilleur Ami 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – François is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually likes him. He’s arrogant, self-centered and harsh, and they don’t believe he knows the meaning of friendship. His business partner Catherine makes him a bet: if he can produce his best friend, she will let him keep the massive Greek vase he acquired that afternoon on the company tab. If not, it’s hers. Having accepted the wager, François naively tears through his address book, trying to shoehorn an increasingly unlikely series of contacts into the all-important role. Moving through Paris, he keeps encountering a trivia-spouting, big-hearted cabbie named Bruno. Bruno’s chatty, lowbrow ways grate against François’s designer temperament, but he covets the other man’s easy way with people. He convinces Bruno to teach him how to make friends and sets about learning the “three S’s” – being sociable, smiling and sincere – though they don’t come easy. Ultimately, François victory will depend on Bruno’s naiveté in playing along, but what’s the cost of cheating at friendship?.
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 6,602
	75% | RottenTomatoes
	65/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 177 Popularity: 5.942 | TMDB

Reviews:

A delightful, introspective French film!
Patrice Leconte’s “Mon Meilleur Ami” (My Best Friend), as the title suggests, is all about friendship. Real friendship.

Francois (French star Daniel Auteuil) is a middle-aged Parisian with everything you could ever want – a rewarding job as an antique dealer, a stylish flat, a loving girlfriend, and a teenage daughter. What he doesn’t realize, but soon brutally learns, is that he doesn’t have any true friends!

The bet is made. Francois has 10 days to come up with a best friend to show off to his colleagues. If he doesn’t, he will lose his newly acquired antique Greek vase. And so, the search begins. What we witness is a hilarious quest to find true friends, one that resonates well in real life. As Francois rides through Paris in search of his bet-winning friend, he encounters a trivia-know-it-all cab driver, Bruno (captivating Dany Boon). As the two meet over and over again in comical situations, we begin to wonder, did Francois finally meet his new best friend?

It’s fascinating to watch these charming characters go through these experiences with friendship, something that we have all gone through. You will go through a whole range of emotions as you watch this film, laughter, shock, sadness. But in the end, this film reminds us what is really important in life – our relationships with people.

This film reminds of “Le Diner de Cons” with the great Jacques Villeret, and as that film, this one has something for everyone. I strongly recommend you to see it!

(My review is from the world premiere on September 12th, 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival.)

L’Homme du taxi
With L’Homme tu train Patrice Leconte strayed into territory that Francis Veber has more or less made his own, the conceit of two mis-matched guys being thrown together and forced to bond, but where Veber contrives situations in which they must remain together – often they are on the run – Leconte had the protagonists of L’Homme du train CHOOSE to remain thus. Now, in My Best Friend he gives us a wonderful bittersweet tale of diametrical opposites; Daniel Auteuil is a prosperous antique dealer with all the trimmings and lifestyle to match but one thing he doesn’t have is a friend, let alone a best friend so when he bids – against the advice of his business partner Julie Gayet -two hundred thousand euros for a Greek vase he stands to lose it if, in ten days he can’t introduce his colleagues to a genuine best friend. Cue Danny Boon as a trivia-buff cab driver who also has what Auteuil lacks, the gift to make people respond to his natural warmth. Boon (who ironically played opposite Auteuil in Veber’s last mis-matched movie La Doublure) tries to coach Auteuil in social skills to no avail so Auteuil begins to think in terms of Boon filling the bill. When Boon realizes what Auteuil is up to he smashes the vase in front of all the colleagues who have come to see Auteuil win the bet and that seems to be that until a short time later Boon is a contestant on the French version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Unless the French version is radically different from the British version which is recorded and friends likely to be phoned are asked to remain at home at the relevant time, we have to assume that Leconte has altered the format in the interests of drama: Auteuil is actually watching the show live when Boon is faced with the million euro question which, as luck would have it, is about artists. Boon uses the fifty-fifty option which leaves him with a choice between Manet and Monet; he asks the audience, who are indecisive so, should he phone Auteuil who, remember, he has not nominated and can’t be sure if he’s even at home. If he DOES call Auteuil and Auteuil IS at home will he 1) even answer the phone – remember WE know he’s watching the show – or 2) if he does answer will he give Boon the right answer or not. The film has only been playing since Wednesday last so I won’t spoil it for those yet to see it. Suffice it to say I have rated this 9 out of 10 and I’ll definitely buy the DVD. This is Leconte on top of his game.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (USA), 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (USA), 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (Argentina), 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (Toronto International) (Canada)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy
Director Patrice Leconte
Writer Olivier Dazat, Patrice Leconte, Jérôme Tonnerre
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet
Country France
Awards 3 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras, Technovision Cameras, Zeiss Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length 2,620 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm