Harry, he’s here to help

Summary: Frazzled father of three Michel bumps into Harry, an old school friend. The mysterious Harry and his girlfriend worm their way into Michel and his family's affections, and Harry sets about making life easier for Michel. But it seems he will stop at nothing to achieve his altruistic aims.

With: Laurent Lucas, Mathilde Seigner, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Guillemin

Directed by: Dominik Moll



The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw: one of the most intelligent and original homages to the Master that could reasonably be expected in a movie culture so saturated with dubious Hitchcock-connoisseurship

The Observer
Philip French: ...it's the best European movie in a Hitchcockian vein since George Sluizer's The Vanishing and is made with a confident grace and ironic wit.

It was almost a year ago, at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival that a little French entry made it’s debut and wowed the critics and audiences alike. The film Harry, Un Ami Qui Vous Veut Du Bien, or With A Friend Like Harry as it’s now known in English, left Cannes riding a wave of great favour that culminated in the film winning four 2001 Cesar Awards (the French equivalent of the Academy Awards). For Best Director winner, Dominik Moll, its been a whirlwind year of international praise and professional success.


With only his second film, German born Dominik Moll has crafted a winning psychological thriller that tweaks the traditional concepts of contemporary life and the moral boundaries that we live within. Moll has ably stitched together a film that incorporates everything from the mundane to the surreal including gruesome killings to abstract visions of flying monkeys (Michel’s sci-fi book idea).

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