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My Best Friend [2007]
from Optimum Home Entertainment
starring Daniel Auteuil, Jacques Spiesser, Audrey Marnay, Olivier Dazet, Julie Gayet
directed by Patrice Leconte

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• From director Patrice Leconte and actor Daniel Auteuil, a sweet-natured film about friendship
  Oh no, not another winsome human comedy about life-lessons and friendship. Buy a movie ticket or the DVD anyway. In the hands of director Patrice Leconte and actors Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon, My Best Friend turns out to be not just a charming, sweet-natured fable, but a well-told and well-acted one. Francois Coste (Auteuil) co-owns a Paris gallery, has a great-looking apartment, seems estranged from his college-going daughter, knows many people in the business and has just impulsively bought at auction a... more info

• Frienship 4 Sale
  Francois (Daniel Auteuil) has built a life a life without much human connection though he has an estranged daughter, Louise (Julie Durand) who lives with him and a steady lover who understands Francois better than he understands himself: she comes and goes as Francois wishes never making demands on his time or emotions. As his partner Catherine (Julie Gayet) comments: "You have built a life of things not friends." Appropriately enough, Francois is an antiques dealer who one day, seemingly on an impulse... more info

• pleasant, enjoyable and that bit different
  This is a very pleasant film, though no masterpiece. Daniel Auteuil's successful antiques dealer, obsessed with things, not people and oblivious to the lives, interests and needs of all around him, including his daughter, is challenged by his business partner to produce his best friend. The stakes are high - a 5th.-century B.C. Greek vase that he has bought for 200,000 Euros - and he has no friends, so this is a problem. His search is entertaining and sometimes very funny. He is aided by a likeable... more info

• Very amiable
  My Best Friend isn't Patrice Leconte's best and it's probably not as funny as it could be, but it's so amiable that it really doesn't matter. It's a redemption comedy, with Daniel Auteuil's antique dealer so disinterested in the people around him that he doesn't even know that his business partner is a lesbian and is amazed to find that he has no friends, merely contacts. Challenged to present his mythical best friend by the end of the month or lose a valuable vase, he sets about an increasingly desperate... more info

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