My Best Friend is directed by Patrice Leconte and is a delightful look at friendship and how best to find it.As with many French films this manages to mix comedy and deep sadness(often in the same scene)to great effect,thus taking the viewer down a different route than the one they thought they were on at first.Daniel Auteuil is as brilliant as ever and there's fine support from Dany Boon and Julie Gayet.Catherine(Julie Gayet)doesn't believe that her somewhat unlikable business partner Francois(Daniel Auteuil)a noted antique dealer has a best friend(or any friend for that matter).So she bets him an ancient vase if he can produce his best friend within ten days.Francois indeed has no friends,so at first tries to find out to make some(looking through self help books on the subject)until he decides to enlist history buff taxi driver Bruno(Dany Boon)to play the part,not realising that in Bruno he has in fact found his best friend.Friendship as we all know is something which just happens you're often not aware of it happening it just does,and this is what Francois doesn't understand.Bittersweet and at times very funny, time taken to watch My Best Friend won't be wasted.

I watched this movie at a little cultural exposition and festival with my French class and expected the usual French sentimental comedy-drama kitsch, but I got positively surprised by the movie.It is indeed a comedy-drama with a very social-critic and philosophic touch, but the actors all do a very good job here and this is what rates this movie up. Especially Dany Boon shows his entire talent in this movie. You really begin to care about the profound and tragical characters in their search for friendship, respect and integration. It's true that the twists and the ending are quite predictable, that there are many clichés shown in the movie and that the movie shows nothing new or innovating but I like the straight honesty of the film. It is taken out of the real life and that's why everybody is somehow slightly touched by this movie. It is surely not a very intense movie that really makes you think and analyze your own life, but it is a very entertaining and sympathetic movie and easy to watch.I would recommend this movie to everyone who likes the French cinema, who likes realistic movies taken out of the real everyday life and who is looking for some sentimental entertainment. Those who expect an innovative movie, a masterpiece or who are not interested while reading the movie's resume shouldn't watch this.

Francois Coste (Daniel Auteuil) is a Parisian antiques dealer who becomes obsessed with finding a best friend after a casual acquaintance off-handedly remarks that Francois has no single person in his life who fulfills that role. This sets Francois off on a mission to prove the acquaintance wrong, finally alighting on a gregarious taxicab driver named Bruno (Dany Boon) to instruct him on the ins and outs of how to make a lifelong buddy.One of the drawbacks of "My Best Friend" is that we are required to take so much of it on faith, since Francois really doesn't seem to be all that unfriendly and unaffable a guy when you get right down to it. We keep being told that he is cold, self-centered and heartless but, at least as portrayed by Auteuil, Francois doesn't seem to embody much in the way of those qualities - and without that crucial dimension, the movie itself fails to engage us in its premise."My Best Friend" is a harmless enough little piffle, I suppose, but it's afflicted with that cutesy, self-congratulatory smugness that is the bane of so many French comedies. Frankly, five minutes after the movie's over, we've all but forgotten we ever saw it.

This frenchman(Daniel Auteuil) is just amazing in his way to convince in almost any kind of emotionally role. Here he plays the distant and at the same time so kind person with a natural attitude as if it was reality. A year ago i watched the film "La fille sur le pont" (aka. The girl on the bridge), today that is my favorite film of all times. That is the only reason for me for only giving a 9 to this one. I've now seen all his films that i could get with subtitles, as I don't speak french. I am very sorry because of the ratings so far. Due to my opinion this film is a little pearl. It is not a big masterpiece, but so well made and perfectly acted that it, due to my opinion, has deserved more. I think the whole theme friendship is more important then ever in this busy world, so it leaves a little bit to think about after watching it. For those who haven't seen the film, I would like to say: just lean back and enjoy it!