From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

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If you know one thing about Harvey Weinstein, it's his passion.

It can sometimes be tenacious.

It can sometimes be soft and tender.

I think it's all of those things for the movie Untouchables,

which is now opening in the United States.

Harvey, first of all, thanks so much for coming.

Elvis, it's a pleasure to be here.

Tell me about what...

I'm going to be soft and tender.

At least at the start.

But I've got to ask you, what about this movie struck you so much?

Because it strikes me as being a particularly kind of universal story, but what does it that

really hit you about it?

You know, it's just very rare that you see a true story that at least, you know, moved me so

much emotionally. And I've never had a movie where people, you know, put billboards on and

talk about how much they love this movie. It's a true story about, you know, a French immigrant

and a very aristocratic Frenchman who's paralyzed and one takes care of each other, but not in any

traditional way. They smoke funny cigarettes. They chase girls. They jump out of airplanes.

And it has a very interesting, funny kind of trick opening. You know, this is just pure, gorgeous

storytelling. And I think a lot of people don't know those about French immigrants and the problems in France where, you know, 10% of the population of France is the immigrants.

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