Abdel Sellou Livres

Abdel ne voulait pas de cette place. Il sortait à peine de prison, n'avait aucune expérience, aucune envie du jouer les nounous, et encore moins pour un riche. Philippe ne voulait que lui : les autres avaient trop de fausse pudeur, trop d'apitoiement. Chacun a donné sa chance à l'autre, sans trémolos, dans une provocation mutuelle qui tenait d'un double défi : faire de leurs faiblesses réciproques autant de forces. Dans son autobiographie, Abdel Sellou nous livre une surprenante version de cette aventure, taie leçon de vie, un coup de foudre amical aussi hilarant qu'émouvant.

The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) inspired the award- winning French movie Les Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke records as one of the most successful French movies of all time. Now, The Upside, the American remake of Les Intouchables, starring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, and Nicole Kidman will be released in both the US and the UK in January 2019. Abdel Sellou and Philippe Pozzo di Borgo were two people marginalized by society: Sellou a wisecracking, unemployed immigrant, just out on parole; Pozzo a man born to wealth and privilege, recently paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident. How they came to help each other, and the unlikely friendship that became a lifeline for them both, is an uplifting story that's now been told and retold around the world.

The true story of a charming Algerian con-man whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat inspired the record-breaking hit movie The Intouchables (U.S. release coming May 2012).