Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

toddxdavis I did not pay much attention to the actors, I just chose it off my on-line movies and was I pleasantly surprised. Part whimsical, part romance, part adventure, and after I finished watching I realized it is the ultimate date night movie so I'll watch it again with my date. The actors are enjoyable, the scenery great, the pace keeps you engaged, the change-ups between 'couples' is fun and not that easy to track or guess but in retrospect it aall makes sense.

ironhorse_iv Inspired by director Blake Edwards 1961's film, 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' & director, William Wyler 1953's 'Roman Holiday', 'Priceless' is a 2006 French film directed by Pierre Salvadori that I found, nearly unwatchable. Don't get me wrong, I like the first part of the film, where beautiful, scheming opportunist gold digger, Irène Mercier (Audrey Tautou) mistakes love-struck hotel bellboy/bartender Jean Simon (Gad Elmaleh) for a millionaire. The way that Jeans try his hardest to keep up the façade, so they can fall in love is a bit charming. It made a lot of great comedy moments that I laugh, throughout. However, it's the second half of the film, where the ugliness of both of these unlikeable characters really did shown. First off, Irene really does mistreat Jean, quite a lot in this film, like forcing him to save her, by pay for expensive dresses, hotels and dinners, when he really doesn't have to, and then running off with another man, after Jean's money run dry. She's so horrible that she left him with expensive hotel bills to pay as well. That's really cold. I really don't get, why Jean would allow himself to be, mistreated like that. She doesn't help once, pay the bills. Why is he so smitten by her!? Another problem with the film, is Jean's over-stalking behavior. He really does seem creepy at parts of the film, by staking restaurants bars & hotels lobbies for her presence. He even calls her lover's room pretending to be room service. Who does that? Another good example of this, was the dinner scene with Irene trying to date another millionaire. The idea, that he was watching the whole scene in the background, is a bit disturbing. Ask any women, out there in the world, and they will agree with me. Having your ex-lover, peeping tom you, while you're on a date is not romantic at all. However, the worst thing about this movie is, how Irène & Jean were conning others lovers, to fund their lavish lifestyle in exchange for companionship and sex. The combine cheating and greedy nature between these two people is nearly unbearable. It's doesn't help that the victims, French businessman, Gilles (Jacques Spiesser) & mature heiress/widow, Madeleine (Marie-Christine Adam) weren't really bad people. After all, Madeleine did help Jean with the hotel bill, after Irène leaves him, for another man & Gilles isn't a lazy drunk, like Irene's elderly ex-lover, Jacques (Vernon Dobtcheff). Jean and Irene had no reason, to mistreat their sponsors like that. It's not like, they were doing it for good causes, supporting their poor or sickly family members. They were just doing it, for selfish shallow reasons. Yes, I get that the film slowly exposes the realization that money can never buy love and happiness, toward the end, but that was far too late, and not really explore that well. There was very little redemption. It's sucks, because I honestly like, both Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh as actors. They were wonderful in other films like 2001's 'Amélie' & 2011's 'Midnight in Paris'. Plus, they really do have chemistry with each other, and seem like good people in real-life, but their screen presence really didn't 'Priceless', worth the price of admission. Instead, I got really turn off by the posh attitude of their characters. In my opinion, the real star of this film is the exotic French Riviera. The cities of Cote d'Azure are really beautiful. It's too bad, the weak European haute first world conflict makes this escapism film, somewhat unrelated to me, a middle class citizen of the United States. I found the film to be a very snobby and predictable. I guess, the culture clash between French & Americans are just too different to related to. Despite that, the best thing about the film isn't its dialogue. It's the use of stares, and body language that really drives the story, forward. A good example of this, is the moment, they reunited after months of not seeing each other. Another great thing about this film is how film music speaks more volume than French words. Most of the music really has that French harmonica that I love. The score 'Scooter' is a treat to the ears that remind me of fun 1970s French Wave music. Composter, Camille Bazbaz really did a great job with the soundtrack. Overall: 'Priceless' has its sweet moments, but too few of them for me. Way too superficial and extensive for my taste. I can't recommended watching.

johnnyboyz We shouldn't enjoy Priceless as much as we do. A film which, on the surface, is frothy and colourful and quite perky; a film driven by a young woman who enjoys the company of older men because of their bank balance than any other quality. A frothy, sugary film set in a place where it's difficult to take anybody, or anything, particularly seriously; a holiday resort divided into two by those much old and rich ploughing on through their fatuous existences and those much younger and much poorer who loath the rich individuals it is whom they must serve in order to make a living. Pierre Salvadori's film does the job; it sets up, depicts and explores to an extent that is wholly satisfying. The film doesn't delve to the depths that it could have done; this is not a sex-laden, depraved and wholly ugly world being depicted here wherein we squeam at the mere presence of these people. Rather, the film is softer on its subjects: it humanises more-so demonises – it doesn't offer excuses or ways out for them, but it takes on an approach and sticks to its guns.The film is about lying; sloth and greed and yet it is the sort of film you can very quickly ease into once you've grasped the aesthetic and general tone of the animal. It's no masterpiece, but such is the effectiveness of most films coming out of France, it can mess about with this approach to this sort of subject matter, and still get away with it. We follow a young clerk at a hotel on the Côte d'Azur named Jean (Elmaleh), a man fulfilling the menial jobs at a luxurious establishment which plays host to France's richer personnel. When we first see him, he is a dogsbody out dog walking; a man struggling along, as those whom do not need to worry about such things, sit far away enough for the overall walk to be as arduous as it is and exist in their flawed and fatuous existence. During the walk, Jean will come to very briefly be near to a young woman named Irène (Tautou); her immediate presence propped up by a close up of a pair of expensive earrings sat perched in a shop window. They do not interact, but this will not be the first time Irène will be stood looming in the background ready to purchase something in the vicinity of our Jean.Jean plods along in life, serving the rich and empty; hobbling along in his job, suffering the wrath of his supervisor should he doze off during his night-shift in this, his bartender-come-security guard-come-anything else role. The Irène of earlier enters his life when the elderly man she's working on, in so much she grants him her time and love on account of being provided with anything and everything she desires, passes out on the night of his birthday through the over consumption of alcohol. Bored and frustrated, Irène spills out into the complex only to bump into Jean – someone who becomes smitten with her when they bond and sleep together. But he is, of course, merely a lowly clerk and she won't stand for anyone who doesn't have at least half the annual income that could supplement a night in one of these sorts of hotels.Disappearing in the morning, but reappearing a year later, she is still with her old boyfriend although but is on course to marry him. Jeans decides to act, and realises he must woo her away from this suitor: but how? She'll only go for very specific men who are endowed in the monetary department, and he only has so much cash. Coming to run out of money himself in trying to live this false existence, Jean must stoop to her level in playing pretty-younger-partner to a rich elderly woman just so that he may remain in her space.Cue a story depicted by Salvadori, which although we predict from a fairly early point, and of which is told to us through an often aggravating 'tourist board' aesthetic, is actually quite good. Ultimately, it is a film about Jean becoming enraptured in a lifestyle where previously he played the black sheep; likewise, Irène's gradual belief that those whom they initially dismissed are actually rather decent and have a heart where it matters is depicted coming up the other way. There is nothing glaringly terrible about Priceless; recall that it is a character study about two people blinded by relationships, or the potential for relationships, who end up looking foolish because of their actions above most things.

simona gianotti A nice setting on the Cote d'Azur, a delicious Audrey Tautou, a shy but sufficiently intriguing Gad Elmaleh and a good chemistry between them would be enough to make a comedy entertaining. And "Priceless" is indeed a pleasant French romance-comedy, let's add also some playful attitude, which remains playful till the end. The movie avoids too sappy scenes, and keeps up an enjoyable cheeky tone, with a consciousness of the nature of these relationships between wealthy men/women and their escorts, but wise enough to move the camera away when curtains are drawn or lights are turned off, simply because the mood of the picture has to remain lively, not serious, not even passionate. The ending is predictable, but it could not be otherwise, and you'll like also for its gentle and delicate progressing to that necessarily predictable finale. And if you look at dresses, well, you will fall in love with Audrey Tautou's splendid evening dresses...