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When Irène discovers her mistake after a night of passion, she fleeces then drops the smitten barman, who takes an odd sort of vengeance by allowing himself to become the pampered boy-toy of a glamorous but aging society woman (Marie-Christine Adam). What pops the champagne bubble is the unconvincing script (credited to Salvadori and Benoît Graffin), which attempts to make a few points about the privileged class' exploitation of the worker while also working overtime to keep its two stars at odds until the expected happy fadeout.Įlmaleh plays Jean, a bartender at a ritzy hotel who is mistaken for a millionaire by a beautiful gold digger, Irène (Tautou). (Memphis foreign-film fans may remember Elmaleh from the farce 'The Valet,' which played here for two weeks in September.)ĭirector Pierre Salvadori (whose 'Après Vous' managed only one week in Memphis in 2005) says 'Priceless' was inspired by 'Breakfast at Tiffany's.' Indeed, the movie evokes the sophisticated and 'daring' romantic comedies of the early 1960s, not just with its bed-hopping storyline and the casting of Tautou (who shares a certain pixieish glamor as well as a first name with the famous star of 'Tiffany's'), but with Camille Bazbaz's frothy, Mancini-esque musical score and Gilles Henry's glossy cinematography, which treats the luxurious Monte Carlo and Nice locations the way a tongue treats a lollipop. The other reason, for some viewers, will be Tautou's talented co-star, Gad Elmaleh, who, being male, is supposed to be kind of sexy even though he's naturally funny-looking, with a long, elastic face that suggests a more handsome Buster Keaton. Dressed to les neufs in scanty dresses that protect modesty through what appears to be some sort of mysterious adhesion process, Audrey Tautou - the gamine of 'Amélie,' who wisely decamped to her native France after the dispiriting Hollywood experience of 'The Da Vinci Code' - is the principal reason to view the French-language romantic comedy 'Priceless.'

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