New French Cinema Comedies

New French Cinema Comedies

Priceless
Irene (Audrey Tautou) is an old-fashioned gold-digger, seducing rich older men in return for dresses, trinkets and baubles. When she mistakes shy barman Jean (Gad Elmaleh) for one of her usual prey, she is abhorred to discover his lowly status and flees to the Riviera. Jean tags along hopefully, so Irene proceeds to viciously bleed him dry before unceremoniously dumping him. But when a rich older woman adopts Jean as her plaything, Irene becomes intrigued and starts to instruct him in her dark arts…

Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gad Lemaleh.
Running Time: 104 minutes
Special Features: Making of Priceless, Deleted scenes, Behind the scenes, Dolby Digital Surround Sound, Original theatrical trailer.

The Valet
Another uproarious comedy for the king of French farce, Francis Veber (The Dinner Game, The Closet). When French tycoon Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil) is spied with his supermodel mistress Elena (Alice Taglioni), the pictures end up on the front page of a Paris daily. Telling his powerful wife Christine (Kristin Scott-Thomas) - who holds a controlling stake in the companies he runs- that there must have been a mistake, he declares Elena was actually the other fellow in the photo. Trying to keep one step ahead of his dubious wife, Pierre engineers it so a naïve car-park valet, Veber's recurring fool Francois Pignon (Gad Elmahleh), appears to be Elena's boyfriend, moving her into his flat and his life. As Pierre's web of deceit widens, so do the possibilities of discovery- and with them disaster after hilarious disaster.

Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Alice Taglioni, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Gad Elmahleh
Director: Francis Veber
Running Time: 85 minutes
Special Features: Making of, Alice's choice, Behind the scenes, Fashion parad, Featurette on Alice Taglioni, The Valet's Valet, Theatrical Trailer.

OSS 117 Cairo, Nest of Spies
Introducing Hubert Bonisseur de la bath, French special agent 0SS117.

After the mysterious death of his colleague Jack Jefferson while on assignment in Egypt, OSS117 is sent in to find the killers. And monitor the Suez Canal. And the British in Cairo. And the Russians too. In fact, save the entire Middle East. Under cover as a poultry fancier, OSS117- handsome and irresistibly suave, suitably arrogant but culturally clueless-gives his all for his country, in Cairo, in bed and in the dark.

Set to a hip-shaking score of arabesque cocktail music, from the minute the credits roll 0SS117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a side-splitting spoof of the screen's greatest spies from James Bond to Inspector Clouseau, Maxwell Smart to Austin Powers.

Running Time: 99 minutes
Directed: Jean Bruce
Special Features: 61 minutes of bonus features including Alternative and deleted scenes, the making of 0SS117, Gag reel and the original French trailer.

New French Cinema Comedies
Genre: Comedy
Rated: M