Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 2011 film “The Intouchables” is not a classic of French cinema. But the sentimental saga of friendship between an African immigrant and a wealthy ...

Though a considerable box office success in France, The Intouchables (2011)—a dramatic comedy about a wealthy, white quadriplegic who bonds with his poor, black caregiver—inspired an impassioned ...

While illegal immigration grabs political headlines in the United States, it is a major global human and social concern for those caught between borders while escaping war and poverty to seek a better ...

French filmmakers Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledo scored big in 2012 with their drama The Intouchables, which managed Hollywood-proportion numbers at the international box office and even totaled well ...

Film contributor Milos Stehlik sits down with Omar Sy, star of the new film “Samba.” It’s the latest film by the team that brought us “The Intouchables. 'Samba' tells the story of an undocumented ...

It has been said that comedy is tragedy plus time, a motto that operates under the assumption that tragedy as it unfolds is painful, but in hindsight can be appreciated for its appropriate irony or ...

In “Jurassic World” — a movie about undocumented workers (the dinosaurs) adjusting to life and theme-park employment in their adopted home — Omar Sy plays a supporting role, backing up the heroics of ...

This is a reprint of our review from the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Samba (Omar Sy) has been in France for 10 years, mostly working as a dishwasher and trying to climb up the ladder to ...

For 10 years, Senegalese immigrant Samba (Sy) has stayed under the French government’s radar, taking menial kitchen jobs in the hope of becoming a professional chef. Suddenly, as his longtime ...