Revisiting it now, it still has the same strengths and weaknesses: the experience of watching is still like being swept along on a tidal wave of cheeky jokes and oddball observations, yet it still feels overlong and at times a little saccharine. Culture-clash comedy blends with heart-tugging true-life drama in this French box-office hit. Admiring his irreverence, Philippe hires Driss and moves him into his palatial home. Both become aware of their privileges: chiefly education and an able body, respectively. Of course, this is not a romance, but a bromance: these two against a world that fails to understand either of them properly. It delivers broad laughs and tugs at the heartstrings without delving too deep — the very definition of a crowd-pleaser.
10 bloody important onscreen moments about menstruation
Oscar-winning documentary spotlights stigma of women's periods in India
Skip navigation! Story from Rag Week. Natalie Gil. Menstruation may affect up to half of the world's population, but that doesn't mean it's always portrayed sympathetically — or even accurately — in films and on TV. Oh no. While part of the blame must lay with the male domination of the media industry, there's no doubt that the cryptic way in which we all talk about periods is part of the problem.