priceless

starring audrey tautou rescued from hollywood and looking her old self again, priceless perpetuates the myth that all french girls, drink ,smoke, eat what they like and still look dewey eyed and chic.this is enough to give the pc health police an apoplectic fit. the setting is the posh end of the riviera. huge hotels with bills as big as third world economies are the backdrop .tatou plays an amoral lady after a sugar daddy , who has a brief liason with a waiter on the side. he falls for her follows her gets drawn into the same milieu .as this is a rom com you know what happens in the end. fast paced, self effacing ,glamorous, the only flaw is the leading man gad elmaleh, who is neither boyish enough nor handsome enough to encourage an older lady to buy him a watch worth 35,000 .shame really because without a plausible leading man its pretty much reliant on the tautou show .in subtitles and on sky you can enjoy the scenery ,the interiors, the endless meals,shame free consumption of alcohol and cigarettes and improve you french at the same time.priceless is a harmless wallow in glamorous trivia for those who regard themselves as francophiles.