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I'll tell you why so serious

i must have seen a different film!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

The stars are cute, but this was pathetic. Sorry i wasted my time.

Imagine Buster Keaton pretending to be a cabana boy and Amelie Poulain propelling herself with a sexually pragmatic thrust verging on sluttiness, though Tautou and/or her character never crosses into bad taste, - and there you have it: perhaps the only candidate around for a 21st century "Breakfast at Tiffany's", as another reviewer said, or, I would add, an updated version of "To Catch a Thief" frothiness.But since this is a story of luxurious sexual traffic, this is cross-bread with a realistic grittiness, mostly coming from the secondary characters and accurately so, welcome all the more because it is somewhat unexpected. Pragmatic pungency is something one expects at some point or other in a french film where sexual matters occur. It is elegantly pulled off, and with resonant darker undertones, as with the scene where Tautou is left at the pool shivering and goes from up to low the second time round: "What a fool!" she exclaims, since she is abandoned the second time round, and since it is happening again, it is all the more humanizing, in a way. I also loved the "I would like to...I...no...I want to...", that had something of the pop salaciousness of Gainsbourgh/Birkin's "I love you...neither do I".The best part for me is towards the end, when Irene asks Jean to seduce another woman so that she could rejoin the one she was with. Seduction is a potent pastime in french culture, and I am also thinking of the superb theoretical spin the french theorist Jean Baudrillard gave the word: seduction is a ritual superior to desire, it tries to strip the object from its shadow, it restores sublimity the moment it teaches us how to disappear, not just simply be annihilated...It is a very poetic, challenging thought, explaining also a lot about french idiosyncrasies, I think. And I was thrilled to discover that a french team dared give it a spin that read like this: to seduce another is a proof and a challenge of love! I don't know if this is somewhat neo-catholic (giggles), but I thought it was delicious, yes, to love is to seduce the third party the one you love asks you to! Priceless!

Audrey Tatou is stunning, giving a complex performance as the sexy, conniving, vulnerable and ready to love Irène. The character is a gold-digger reminiscent of that other Audrey, Hepburn, in Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Priceless manages to achieve the same tension of elegance and decadence, playful banter and fraught undertones. There is something very dark about the scene where Irène, dumped by her latest rich beau, and left literally with only the bikini she has on, sits shivering at poolside while the sun sets and the place chances from bathers to dinner jackets. In an instant she goes from queen of her arena to a spectator. It is a complex tone shift few Hollywood (or British) rom-coms manage to attempt, never mind pull off.Gad Elmaleh as Jean is perfectly love-struck and versatile. Strong support comes from Marie-Christine Adam as the hard but equally self-deluding Madeleine, and Vernon Dobtcheff as Irène's first victim, Jacques. There is something quite grown-up and yet naively innocent about this film, with characters who can do the most awful things but never enough to stop you caring about them. Vivid colour palette, and slickly shot, the music works well, too. Well worth seeing.

Audrey Tautou, the sweetheart of France (and, to me, the rest of the world), returns to the romantic comedy in 'Hors de Prix' aka 'Priceless,' a film by Pierre Salvadori ('Après vous...' (2003)).Tautou plays a different type of role (in the same type of film) as swindler Irène who uses her sexuality to make men keep her satisfied (materialistically). Her plans go awry when she's left by her rich fiancé and runs to the arms of whom she assumes is a rich business man, Jean (Gad Elmaleh). Unfortunately for Irène, however, Jean is merely a hotel worker who just happened to be at the right place at the right time.Surprisingly (as she's regularly one of the most attractive women in the world), Audrey looks better than ever. Not only does she have her typical 'adorable' going for her, but here she's extremely sexy as well.The story is charming and cute, but has a bit of a bite to it. It's questionable as to exactly WHY Jean would like Irène so much with as cruel as she is. . . sure, she's drop-dead gorgeous, but Jean didn't really seem, to me, the type that would fall for something like that. Oh well, can't have everything spoonfed to us and we must take it as given. There are many laugh-out-loud moments, mostly from Jean's awkwardness playing off Irène's smoothness. And it all turns out to be a very pleasant & entertaining romantic comedy that's sure to treat fans of the genre well.Final Verdict: 8/10.-AP3-