(L’untouchable, 2006) Benoit Jacquot has made several films (“Sade,” “A tout de suite”) with Isold le Besco, his cheeky young muse (and better-looking look-alike to Scarlett Johansson), and she makes a radiant center to an opaque story in “The Untouchable,” about a Parisian actress who decamps to India to discover her father, who belongs to the titular caste. Jacquot’s cinematographer, Caroline le Champetier finds as much to admire in le Besco as Jacquot does. Grade-A eye candy, and not much more. 80m. (Ray Pride)
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