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From NPR: Frenchman Jean Dujardin may have won this year’s Academy Award for best actor for his role in The Artist, but in France he was beat out for the country’s most prestigious acting award, the Cesar, by a new acting sensation: The 34-year-old son of African immigrants, Omar Sy.

Sy’s movie, The Intouchables, was a hit across Europe and is now playing in theaters in the U.S.  It’s a feel-good buddy comedy about a quadriplegic white aristocrat who hires an unemployed black kid from the projects as his personal aide. Despite the differences in age, race and background, Philippe the millionaire (renowned actor Francois Cluzet) and Driss (Sy) form a deep bond. The film confronts racism, poverty and infirmity, while Sy illuminates the screen with his rapid-fire banter and infectious laugh.  Continuez.