Monday, June 16, 2008

Priceless

With Audrey Tautou of Amelie and Gad Elmaleh of The Valet, this charmer pleases from beginning to end.

Irene is a schemer, hoping to hook a sugar daddy. Jean is a hard working hotel employee.

She shouldn't give him a second look.

But she does and we benefit from it.

Set on the coasts of Southern France, Hors de Prix (its French title) presents the European world of luxury and society, along with its pervasive gold-diggers, boy toys, cougars and sugar daddies.

But, in its French farce fashion, Priceless uses the mistaken identity plot device to show us the heart underneath all of that conniving.

Delightful.

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