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 enlarge | Director: Pierre Salvadori
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh
Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 18310
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Ntsc, Soundtrack, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 102
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 12606
UPC: 687797126061
EAN: 0687797126061
ASIN: B001CITQWC
Theatrical Release Date: November 18, 2008
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 102 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
Priceless provides a sweet and sour look at the world of the super-rich. Jean (The Valet's Gad Elmaleh) works at a luxury hotel on the French Riviera. His opposite number, Irene (Amelie's Audrey Tautou), lives off wealthy men, like elderly benefactor Jacques (Vernon Dobtcheff). While staying at Jean's Biarritz hotel, Irene meets the bartender, mistakes him for a guest, and plies her considerable charms. Flattered, Jean neglects to tell her the truth, and they spend a drunken evening together. The next day, she's gone. The only trace of her presence: a discarded paper umbrella. A year passes, and Irene returns with Jacques, who dumps her when he find out about the cheating, so she bilks Jean out of everything he owns before disappearing again. Wealthy widow Madeleine (Marie-Christine Adam) offers to takes care of Jean's debts--for a price. And just like that, he's sunk to Irene's level. The next time she sees him, she quips, "Now we're equals." So, instead of teaching her the value of legitimate work, Irene teaches Jean how to play Madeleine like a violin. Following in the footsteps of Pierre Salvadori's Apres Vous, which centered around a suicidal sommelier, Priceless is unexpectedly melancholy for a comedy. Like the couple in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Jean and Irene are essentially two lost souls. Irene may be an icier creature than Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly, but Salvadori finds a satisfying way to tie a pretty bow on this somewhat prickly package and, naturally, the scenery is ravishing. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Great date movie! November 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Adult without ever getting purient, both hard hearted and romantic, I found "Priceless" to be great fun all around: Tatou is stunning playing a role that might have gone to Audrey Hepburn had she been better known as a dramatic actress (as seen in "The Childrens' Hour") than as a beautiful gamine (or if say, the film version of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" been more upfront about Holly GoLightly's working life.... but the real star of the show is Gad Elehrah, the waiter who stumbles into a new life as a gigilo, paradoxically in the name of love. His Chaplin-esque gestures and facial expressions speak volumes. And yet, for all this, the movie's plot is silly. gorgeously fun. A great date movie.
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