Guys i want to start this post by a post which i had wrote earlier, those days i used to get time to watch UTV world movies and this one is a sought of a review of a movie called as Priceless, if you are interested , get hold of a CD.
Yesterday (4th june 2009) i was surfing channels on tv after my hectic work in office i stumbled upon a french movie called as priceless on UTV world movies.
What glued to me to this movie initially was the female lead of the movie which i thought i have seen here somewhere, oooh no dont mistaken me for an avid traveller who goes all the way to cannes or french reviera to met some gliterattis and whos who....but hold on i must have seen her in a movie but which?
yes someday i wish to travel that far too....thats a diferent issue.
The films plot revolves around "Irene", a woman who enjoys the finer things in life but will not get them the normal way, i.e., by getting a job and saving up to buy them. Instead, she uses her good looks and her charms to woo wealthy man, usually older than herself, and extract lavish gifts from them. She sticks around until she gets bored, or until the guy wises up and dumps her.
Her ultimate goal is to marry one of these fools and be set for life.
Sometimes i feel what is the difference in her and a prostitute?
Still my mind was wondering who is she and in which movie i saw her?
At a posh hotel in the south of France, she meets Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a bartender whom she mistakenly thinks as a millionaire. (Imagine her delight or may i say plight: This guy's actually her own age and actually kind of handsome! She will be the envy of all her gold digger friends.) Jean realizes her mistake and plays it up for as long as he can; fortunately, the movie only dabbles in the comedy of that mistaken identity for a few minutes before moving on. Jean is deeply smitten with Irene, so much that even after she realizes he's poor and is angry at him for wasting her time, he continues to gladly bankrupt himself just to be with her.
At one point he offers her a one-euro coin for 10 seconds of her time. He spends the 10 seconds gazing at her with huge love-struck eyes.
I felt this scene was really good but what lacked here was a good background score to backup the lead pairs.
Anyways but by now my mind was hooked on to the movie forgetting,"who is the actoress?"
In the process of wooing Irene the honest, non-monetary way (which is of no use for irene as she is shrewd and a gold digger), Jean finds himself the object of someone else's affection: Madeleine (Marie-Christine Adam), a wealthy widow of may be late 50s.
She happily treats him with expensive clothes and watches in exchange for being her arm candy. The two are staying togather at a hotel on the
French Riviera, with Irene and her latest find (read a wealthy bakra ) at the place across the street. Irene and Jean meet regularly whenever they could , first so that she can give him gold-digging tips, and eventually because she's realizing her fondness for him.
Ahh now it gets interesting, for a gold digger Irene falling for a honest guy Jean.
In all the movie can be watched with family, yes you might think in all this gold digging thing and lifestyle and with all splitsvilla and roadies making enteries in our household,still this is a film where there is no nudity or may be less if you feel wearing a bikini can be termed as nudity then yes some nudity, i feel director never wanted to show this.
Hmm now my ghajini effect is over,suddenly i realised this actoress was in the movie "Da Vinci Code" opposite "Tom Hanks" and also lead in film "Amelie" in 2001.She is Audrey Tautou as Irene.
Now what happens next its for you to watch out....do bring in a dvd or may be watch out the schedule on UTV world movies.
I have seen this movie all with subtitles...as they say
"Music has no language....should i say.....
A good film can be understood and felt no matter in which language it is made?
By the way i would love to travel that far to french riviera if i get Irene...hahahaha
A feel good and light hearted movie for lazy afternoon/evening !!
Yesterday (4th june 2009) i was surfing channels on tv after my hectic work in office i stumbled upon a french movie called as priceless on UTV world movies.
What glued to me to this movie initially was the female lead of the movie which i thought i have seen here somewhere, oooh no dont mistaken me for an avid traveller who goes all the way to cannes or french reviera to met some gliterattis and whos who....but hold on i must have seen her in a movie but which?
yes someday i wish to travel that far too....thats a diferent issue.
The films plot revolves around "Irene", a woman who enjoys the finer things in life but will not get them the normal way, i.e., by getting a job and saving up to buy them. Instead, she uses her good looks and her charms to woo wealthy man, usually older than herself, and extract lavish gifts from them. She sticks around until she gets bored, or until the guy wises up and dumps her.
Her ultimate goal is to marry one of these fools and be set for life.
Sometimes i feel what is the difference in her and a prostitute?
Still my mind was wondering who is she and in which movie i saw her?
At a posh hotel in the south of France, she meets Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a bartender whom she mistakenly thinks as a millionaire. (Imagine her delight or may i say plight: This guy's actually her own age and actually kind of handsome! She will be the envy of all her gold digger friends.) Jean realizes her mistake and plays it up for as long as he can; fortunately, the movie only dabbles in the comedy of that mistaken identity for a few minutes before moving on. Jean is deeply smitten with Irene, so much that even after she realizes he's poor and is angry at him for wasting her time, he continues to gladly bankrupt himself just to be with her.
At one point he offers her a one-euro coin for 10 seconds of her time. He spends the 10 seconds gazing at her with huge love-struck eyes.
I felt this scene was really good but what lacked here was a good background score to backup the lead pairs.
Anyways but by now my mind was hooked on to the movie forgetting,"who is the actoress?"
In the process of wooing Irene the honest, non-monetary way (which is of no use for irene as she is shrewd and a gold digger), Jean finds himself the object of someone else's affection: Madeleine (Marie-Christine Adam), a wealthy widow of may be late 50s.
She happily treats him with expensive clothes and watches in exchange for being her arm candy. The two are staying togather at a hotel on the
French Riviera, with Irene and her latest find (read a wealthy bakra ) at the place across the street. Irene and Jean meet regularly whenever they could , first so that she can give him gold-digging tips, and eventually because she's realizing her fondness for him.
Ahh now it gets interesting, for a gold digger Irene falling for a honest guy Jean.
In all the movie can be watched with family, yes you might think in all this gold digging thing and lifestyle and with all splitsvilla and roadies making enteries in our household,still this is a film where there is no nudity or may be less if you feel wearing a bikini can be termed as nudity then yes some nudity, i feel director never wanted to show this.
Hmm now my ghajini effect is over,suddenly i realised this actoress was in the movie "Da Vinci Code" opposite "Tom Hanks" and also lead in film "Amelie" in 2001.She is Audrey Tautou as Irene.
Now what happens next its for you to watch out....do bring in a dvd or may be watch out the schedule on UTV world movies.
I have seen this movie all with subtitles...as they say
"Music has no language....should i say.....
A good film can be understood and felt no matter in which language it is made?
By the way i would love to travel that far to french riviera if i get Irene...hahahaha
A feel good and light hearted movie for lazy afternoon/evening !!
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