Film Review Priceless

Film review Priceless (2006) Audrey Tatou and Gad Elmelah. A delightful often-irreverent French comedy farce, owing much of its influence to Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s.  (A fact made more apparent by the starring role going to Audrey Hepburn like Audrey Tatou, best known for her performance in Amelie). Here, she is a shameless, ruthless gold-digger and con merchant, prowling the French Riviera for rich playboys in order to enjoy being showered in their gifts and luxury lifestyles. While with her latest ageing conquest, she attracts the attention of a young hotel waiter who pretends to be wealthy to seduce her. He uses a vacant penthouse hotel room as if it was his own to impress her, but they are caught when genuine guests arrive to take the room, and catch them in bed. As she moves to Nice in search of a new sugar daddy, Gad Elmelah’s lovesick waiter goes after her ruining her chances, and then trying to support her until she virtually bankrupts him, dumping him as he literally spends his last euro on her. On the brink of arrest for not being able to pay his expensive hotel bills, a new seductress, an ageing wealthy lady who pays his bills and starts to rain gifts on him, reprieves Gad Elmelah. When Tatou returns to the hotel with a new sap in tow, she is impressed by Gad’s transformation into a male gold-digger, and starts advising him how to get even more from the older woman. It soon becomes apparent the two con-merchants still love one another though, and their cat. Mouse point scoring on their respective lover / benefactors is hilarious. A wonderful, ultimately heart-warming film with one of the worlds most beautiful and talented actresses on the big screen today. The film on the International Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482088/

Arthur Chappell

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