''My Best Friend '' ''(Mon meilleur ami)'' is a
French film
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starring
Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil (; born 24 January 1950) is a French actor and director who has appeared in a wide range of film genres, including period dramas, romantic comedies, and crime thrillers. In 1996 he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Fest ...
,
Dany Boon
Dany Boon (; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy ''Welcome to ...
, and
Julie Gayet
Julie Gayet (; born 3 June 1972) is a French actress and film producer.[< ...]
.
Plot
François (Auteuil) is a middle-aged, Parisian art dealer who thinks he has everything. After telling a story at dinner about a funeral he attended where only a handful of people turned up, his colleagues suggest that no-one would go to his funeral. He may be materially rich, but he has no friends. Everyone at the dinner table starts to antagonise him about having no friends but François says that he does have friends (in reality, he only has clients). His business partner Catherine (Gayet) challenges him to a bet: François must introduce his best friend within ten days, or lose a valuable object, his antique Greek vase (worth €200,000).
The challenge is accepted. François has ten days to find a friend. As François travels through Paris in a taxi, revisiting old acquaintances who all reject him, he meets a trivia-loving taxi driver, Bruno (Boon). As the two spend an increasing amount of time together, they gradually start to form a friendship. François meets Bruno's parents and buys a worthless table from them for 10,000 euros to be a better friend. However, François's desire to win the bet threatens to destroy the best friendship he has ever had. He tricks Bruno into attempting to steal his vase so François can get his insurance money, but it was all a plot to show how much of a friend Bruno was. Bruno becomes furious and smashes the vase, ending his friendship. To make it up, François gets Bruno on ''
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
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'' by giving away his vase. This is a success, and brings the two together, as friends.
Cast
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Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil (; born 24 January 1950) is a French actor and director who has appeared in a wide range of film genres, including period dramas, romantic comedies, and crime thrillers. In 1996 he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Fest ...
: François Coste
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Dany Boon
Dany Boon (; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy ''Welcome to ...
: Bruno Bouley
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Julie Gayet
Julie Gayet (; born 3 June 1972) is a French actress and film producer.[< ...]
: Catherine
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Elizabeth Bourgine
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: Julia
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Julie Durand : Louise
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Henri Garcin
Henri Garcin (born Anton Albers; 11 April 1928 – 13 June 2022) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1956 to 2022.
Selected filmography
* ''Mademoiselle and Her Gang'' (1957)
* '' Mata Hari, Agent H21'' (1964)
* ' ...
: Delamotte
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Jacques Spiesser
Jacques Spiesser (born 7 June 1947) is a French actor.
Biography
After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film debut in 1972 in Nina Companeez's '' Faustine et le bel été'' with Muriel Catala.
He is best known to English ...
: Letellier
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Audrey Marnay : Marianne
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Jacques Mathou
Jacques Mathou is a French actor, best known for his appearance in ''Delicatessen''.
Filmography
* 1985 : ''Tranches de vie''
* 1986 : ''Betty Blue'', Bob
* 1987 : ''L'été en pente douce''
* 1987 : '' Si le soleil ne revenait pas''
* 1989 : '' ...
: Bruno's father
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Marie Pillet : Bruno's mother
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: Luc Lebinet
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Fabienne Chaudat
Fabienne Chaudat (born 1 July 1959) is a French film and theatrical actress.
Career
Fabienne Chaudat attended the and then Jean-Laurent Cochet
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Biograph ...
: Épouse Lebinet
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Andrée Damant
Andrée Damant (20 September 1929 – 6 December 2022) was a French actress.
Life and career
Damant starred in many commercials. She also specialized in the roles of sympathetic Méridionales often Marseillaises pure strain, which led from time ...
: Train lady
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Anne Le Ny
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Filmography
Actress
Screenwriter or director
Theatre
References
French film directors
French women film directors
Living people
French fil ...
: Casting woman
American remake
In 2008, producer
Brian Grazer
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hired
Wes Anderson
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to write the script for an English-language remake of ''My Best Friend''; Anderson completed a draft for the script, with the film tentatively called ''The Rosenthaler Suite'', in 2009.
Notes
External links
Official site*
2006 films
2000
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Films directed by Patrice Leconte
French comedy films
2000s French-language films
2000s French films
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