Priceless (Hors de Prix)

Jean (Gad Elmaleh) is a barman in an upmarket hotel in the South of France. One evening Irene played by Audrey Tautou (a high class hooker or gold digger) walks into his bar and mistakes him for a millionaire. Unfortunately for them both her sugar daddy (Jacques) discovers that they have had a night of passion, and he ditches Irene just as he was due to propose marriage - her meal ticket for life. Jean is besotted.

Irene finds out the truth about Jean's lack of money, and when he pursues her to her new 'target group' in Nice she takes her revenge by emptying his bank account and abandoning him. Fortunately for him a passing rich woman takes him on as a gigolo. Irene sets about teaching him the ropes - showing how he can exploit the situation financially, but at the same time beginning to fall in love with him. This film is so typically French, and very funny. I keep asking - why don't they make British films like this? Perhaps the situation is uniquely Continental to use an old-fashioned phrase. Rating: 8/10