“Amelie” and “The Intouchables,” two of France’s all-time biggest box office hits, will be re-released by their respective studios, UGC and Gaumont/Studiocanal, during the Olympic Games. With three to ...

On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker.

‘The Intouchables,” a wildly successful French comedy that trades on racial cliches, manages to be charming and offensive at the same time. Let’s stipulate that the French do not do race well. They ...