writer director patrice leconte take a universal and potentially bottomless subject friendship and turn it into a flat and meaningless farce and despite a list actor and fine cinematography and elegant production design . it all in the plot and and the plot be laughable . teach me how to be likable and art dealer françois coste ( daniel auteuil ) tell a random stranger ( dany boon ) and and that about sum it up . we learn next to nothing about friendship and and daniel auteuil may be a fine actor and but not one minute do we believe he could be the cut throat egoist the script depend on him to be . just a we hope the travesty be over and leconte pull one of his usual cathartic third act and fast forwarding from damage to disaster . like françois treasure greek vase and everyone and everything in this movie be a fake . leconte only asset be julie gayet in the part of coste business partner catherine and look swell and sexy despite a major mishap of a haircut .