Priceless begins as standard, unconvincing, assembly-line French farce and ends as a cop-out, feel-good rom-com. In between, it develops into something considerably more interesting.
Priceless(Hors de prix)
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France · 2006
Rated PG-13 · 1h 44m
Director Pierre Salvadori
Starring Gad Elmaleh, Audrey Tautou, Marie-Christine Adam, Vernon Dobtcheff
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
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Mistaking him for a wealthy suitor, gold-digger Irène sets out to woo handsome bartender Jean. After realizing her mistake, she leaves, but Jean seeks out her help to tutor him in the art of fleecing wealthy lovers.
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What are critics saying?
Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano
A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, or so the saying goes, but the unadulterated joy Irène takes in throwing open the closet door to show Jean how this gold digging is done is positively infectious.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Tautou is a delight, as always, using her bubbly personality to comic advantage. And Elmaleh makes for a sort of poor man's Buster Keaton, perpetually stressed but refusing to surrender, no matter how much damage he sustains to himself or his wallet.
The lovely Audrey Tautou and sad-eyed Gad Elmaleh are perfectly cast as a gold digger and the poor sap who loves her, but the real star of Pierre Salvadori's larky, Lubitsch-esque farce is France's impossibly chic Cote d'Azure.
Co-scripter/helmer Pierre Salvadori serves up an enjoyable riff on genuine romance versus the pay-as-you-go variety, in crowd-pleasing, exportable picture.
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Stop laughing long enough, and you'll see that it's a picture about compromised lives and love for sale. But no one who watches Priceless will stop laughing for that long.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The movie is an amusing ball of fluff that refuses to judge its characters’ amoral high jinks. Winking at the vanity of wealthy voluptuaries and hustlers playing games of tainted love, it heaves a sigh and says welcome to the human comedy.
Priceless provides lightweight, predictable entertainment that will make you yearn for the Tatou of yesteryear.
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