![]() ![]() Priceless never moves into explicitly seamy (or steamy) territory, but there's an unpleasant feel to much of the goings-on here: viewers are supposed to find the couple charming and root for them to wind up together, but that's difficult because she's a complete mercenary and he's such a sad sack (the part of the plot revolving around Jean's instruction in the art of sexual grifting is particularly off-putting, even if the marks are no more appealing than the perpetrators). ![]() Thus begins a love affair in which, under Irène's tutelage, Jean becomes a wealthy dowager's kept man while Irène continues to search for an elderly tycoon whom she can marry-and the pair continue to cheat on their benefactors with each other. In Pierre Salvadori's romantic Gallic comedy, lovely, perky Audrey Tautou ( Amélie) stars as gold-digger Irène, who-while spending time at a five-star Biarritz hotel with an aging sugar daddy-seduces bumbling but hardworking waiter Jean (Gad Elmaleh), whom she mistakes for an even richer catch.
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