Like most men who have seen Amelie, I fell in love with Audrey Tautou at a young age, therefore I have always held a strong affection for the films she is in. Some of them are marvellous, like A Very Long Engagement or Dirty Pretty Things, some are not, like The Da Vinci Code, or Beautiful Lies, which I really struggled to fall for. Priceless does not sit amongst her best, but thankfully it is far from her worst and has much to like about it.

The film is a little darker than I was expecting, with my memory of the trailer portraying the film as a farce based mostly around the slapstick comedy of Gad Elmaleh, getting tangled up…

Like most men who have seen Amelie, I fell in love with Audrey Tautou at a young age, therefore I have always held a strong affection for the films she is in. Some of them are marvellous, like A Very Long Engagement or Dirty Pretty Things, some are not, like The Da Vinci Code, or Beautiful Lies, which I really struggled to fall for. Priceless does not sit amongst her best, but thankfully it is far from her worst and has much to like about it.

The film is a little darker than I was expecting, with my memory of the trailer portraying the film as a farce based mostly around the slapstick comedy of Gad Elmaleh, getting tangled up…

Um es gerade heraus zu sagen: Audrey Tautou reicht nicht aus um aus “Liebe um jeden Preis” ein Highlight zu machen. Dank ihrer Leistung schafft es der Film sich gerade einmal so im Mittelmaß zu positionieren. Ohne sie, wäre der Film vermutlich ein Film, den man getrost links liegen lassen kann.

Die Story von “Liebe um jeden Preis” hat zwar tolle Ansätze, doch gelingt es Regisseur Pierre Salvadori (White Lies, After You) nicht diese Ansätze unterhaltsam umzusetzen. Sein Hauptdarsteller Gad Elmaleh (XXL, The Dope) macht es ihm allerdings auch nicht gerade leicht. Elmaleh kommt nämlich nicht gerade sympathisch rüber und seine darstellerische Leistung wirkt hölzern und uninspiriert. Da ist es wirklich gut, dass im Tautou zur Seite steht, die in…

Eu até sabia que tinha um filme com a Audrey Tatou em cartaz e que ele havia sido bem quisto pela crítica, mas, confesso, entrou e saiu pelos meus ouvidos. Mas, sendo este um dos poucos filmes que faltavam ver nessa semana, tive uma ótima surpresa.
Trata-se de um filme leve, com um humor muito bom e sem muitas reviravoltas. Apenas assista e se divirta. E, no meu caso, treine o francês.
Audrey interpreta Irène, uma bonita e esperta golpista que visa o casamento com um velho muito rico, mas se vê envolvida sem querer com o garçom do hotel de luxo onde passa seu aniversário e acaba jogando tudo pro alto.
O garçom, Jean, se apaixona pela bela moça…