PRICELESS (2008)

Who's in It: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh
The Basics: Two gold-diggers find sex and then, of course, love with each other after coming to the end of their careers as professional suitors of rich old guys and their cougar counterparts. That you can figure this out after about 10 minutes won't lessen your enjoyment of the scenes where they indulge in luxury goods and resort surroundings. It's like they made a whole movie out of the Pretty Woman shopping montages.

What's the Deal? There are "French films" and then there the ones that happen to be in French. I finally understand that concept after voluntarily paying 14 dollars extra a month to Time Warner Cable for the French movie channel, where they ditch the Godard and air stuff like this crowd-pleaser instead — where people are being wacky and beautiful and lounging on chaises or else pulling off explosion-filled heists.

For Fans Of: Chanel and the thrill of watching people try on that label's shoes, copious amounts of amoral whoring, the interiors of fancy hotels on the French Riviera, that part in Amélie where Tautou rides around happily on a scooter, lame French hip-hop on film soundtracks, French people pronouncing the word champagne in the way you always thought was an exaggerated cliché but, in fact, turns out to be the way they really say it.

Where You've Seen the Main Guy Before, Provided You Even Keep Up With French Movies: Elmaleh was most recently the star of the romantic comedy The Valet.

One Concern: Tautou has a major sternum situation happening. I don't like to write negative things about women's bodies, usually, but you see her being very skinny and bony in low-cut dresses a lot, and it never gets comfortable to look at.

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