''Let's Be Friends'' () is a 2005 French film directed and written by

Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache are French filmmakers, best known for directing the films '' Those Happy Days'' (2006) and ''The Intouchables'' (2011). Early life Éric Toledano was born on 3 July 1971 in Paris. Olivier Nakache was born on 15 ...

Synopsis

Thirty-year-old computer scientist, physicist, bachelor, sickly shy and hypochondriac, Claude Mandelbaum leads a life all the more dull that his last, and only, love story goes back two years. One day, on the occasion of the marriage of his best friend, Daniel, he meets Serge, a divorced fifty-year-old who takes full advantage of his celibacy by chaining the adventures. Shortly after, on the advice of Daniel, Claude resolved to make an appointment in a marriage agency of a particular kind, where it is the women who contact the men. In the waiting room, he falls face to face with Serge, who invites him to have a drink in his home ...

Cast

Jean-Paul Rouve Jean-Paul Rouve (; born 26 January 1967) is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He is a founding member of the Les Robins des Bois comedy troupe, active from 1996 onwards. He has appeared in over 70 film and television pro ...

as Claude Mendelbaum *

Gérard Depardieu Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (, , ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor. An icon of French cinema, considered a world star in the same way as Alain Delon or Brigitte Bardot, he has completed over 250 films since 1967, most of which as ...

as Serge *

Annie Girardot Annie Suzanne Girardot (25 October 193128 February 2011) was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women un ...

as Madame Mendelbaum *

Lionel Abelanski Lionel Abelanski (born 22 October 1964) is a French actor. Life and career Abelanski was born in Paris, France. He has appeared in television and film roles since 1989. In 1999 he was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor Cesa ...

as Daniel *

Isabelle Renauld Isabelle Renauld (; born 24 November 1966 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French actress. She trained at the Nanterre Amandiers theatre school directed by Patrice Chéreau from 1985 to 1987. She was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and ...

as Sophie *

Yves Jacques Yves Jacques OC (born 10 May 1956) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.Yves Jacques ...

as Germain *

Valérie Benguigui Valérie Benguigui (8 July 1961 – 2 September 2013) was a French actress and theater director. Born in Oran, Algeria, she took acting courses at the Cours Florent and the National Chaillot Theatre School. Her first film role was in Franc ...

as Eva * Jonathan Lambert as Totof * Élisabeth Vitali as Véronique * Xavier De Guillebon as Philippe * Mar Sodupe as Julia Marquez * Flore Grimaud as Sylvie * Caroline Frank as Manon * Tilly Mandelbrot as Pauline * Cassandra Harrouche as Justine * Virginie Caliari as Barbara * Mimi Félixine as Latifah * Thierry Godard as Mathias * Frédéric Maranber as Jean-Mi * Jacqueline Staup as Tata Muguette *

Catherine Hosmalin Catherine Hosmalin is a French actress. Personal life While promoting the movie "Mince Alors", Hosmalin told to Laurent Ruquier in ''On n'est pas couché'' : "It's not easy to be big. I would like to lose weight but at the same time it's me, ...

as Woman speed dating

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* 2005 comedy films 2005 films French comedy films Films directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano Films scored by Bruno Coulais 2000s French films {{2000s-France-film-stub

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