Philip French 

Priceless

Philip French: With a better script, this might have been a suitable subject for Ernst Lubitsch or Billy Wilder. Here, the result is unfunny and deeply dislikable
  
  


Priceless (104 minutes, 12A)
Directed by Pierre Salvadori ; starring Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Vernon Dobtcheff, Marie-Christine Adam

Pierre Salvadori's Priceless (aka Hors de prix )is a comedy starring Audrey Tautou as a charmless gold-digger dropped by her sugar daddy when she has a fling with naive waiter Jean (Gad Elmaleh) at a Biarritz hotel, believing him to be a millionaire. She subsequently takes the poor guy for every penny, then, when he follows her to the Cote d'Azur, teaches him how to be a successful gigolo and exploit rich, middle-aged widows.

With a better script, this might have been a suitable subject for Ernst Lubitsch or Billy Wilder. Here, the result is unfunny and deeply dislikable.

 

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