Here’s a startling news item: “The Intouchables,” a lively if largely predictable Parisian comedy about a wealthy quadriplegic and his ne’er-do-well immigrant caretaker, has become the biggest ...

In its best moments, the affable, crowd-pleasing French import "The Intouchables" underscores the beauty of human contact. But even in its worst moments -- built around the sort of cinematic ...

In a change of direction, a markedly younger seven-member film commission including Cannes director Thierry Fremaux has chosen heart-tugging crowdpleaser “The Intouchables” as their official Oscar ...

PARIS — It may be a French cultural phenomenon, but Gallic box office smash “Intouchables” (Untouchable) has roots that are planted as deeply in Hollywood as they are in the soil of the typical French ...

Cultural differences can be delightful or fascinating, but sometimes they can be merely baffling. Case in point, "The Intouchables," a French film that arrives in America on a wave of enormous ...

French feel-good juggernaut The Intouchables has been chosen to rep the country in the foreign-language Academy Awards race. Directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, the film about an unlikely ...

Hollywood rules the movie world, dominating the box office in every country where American films are freely shown. So how to explain the startling success of the French dramatic comedy Intouchables?

In 2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s charmer Amélie began to break records inside France and out. In November that year, Miramax released it in the U.S. and it ultimately became the French-language film with ...