My Best Friend

This is a wonderful French movie - and a very typical French film at that. It starts with art dealer Francois attending a client's funeral (mainly in order to get his hands on a choice piece of furniture). At a meal afterwards he remarks on the paucity of mourners. His companions suggest he would have fewer. When he declares he has plenty of friends his business partner bets him to produce a 'best friend' within ten days. Francois is indeed just the kind of man who would have no friends as he is not interested in anyone at all - failing to notice that his business is in fact a lesbian. He buys a grecian vase at enormous cost because it is alleged to be a funereal vase that contained the tears of a man for his best friend. But in reality you think he is more interested in the vase than the friendship it represents. In his desperation to find a best friend Francois meets quiz obsessive taxi driver Bruno and observes how easy he finds it to makes friends and be friendly towards others. Naturally, things aren't exactly they seem and Francois decides to use Bruno to win the bet, and things go badly wrong - and yet the two unlikely companions discover some truths about themselves and about friendship. Rating 8/10