Konterr Brilliant and touching

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

MartinHafer If "Hors de Prix" ("Priceless" ) is supposed to be romantic or a comedy, it has some plot problems which work against it. Part of it is that I am indeed old fashioned, but even common sense tells you that Jean is going about finding love in a ridicuous and self-defeating fashion! In other words, "Kids: Don't Try This at Home!".When the story begins, Jean (Gad Elmaleh) is working as a bartender in a very upscale hotel. His night has been very slow and when Irène (Audrey Tautou) comes to the bar, she mistakes him for one of the hotel's rich patrons. Soon, they end up in bed together. Later, they repeat this...and the man who is footing the bill for Irène discovers this is happening and cuts her off. Now, in need of a rich sugar daddy, she returns to Jean...not knowing he's just a lowly working man. He doesn't realize that she is, in fact, a lowly working woman...albeit a very high priced one! And, in order to impress her and keep her, he spends what little he has on her...and it disappears very, very quickly.So, Jean is a liar and beds a woman on false pretenses. And, Irène is a high priced call girl. Sounds like the ideal basis for a relationship, don't you think? And that is my problem with the film. While the actors were very good, I just couldn't get past the fact that they were very selfish and unlikable...especially Irène. As for Jean, he was just completely foolish and his indiscretions only get worse! Normally, you should like characters in a film...particularly a romantic comedy. But here they just seemed selfish and awful...and it ruined the experience for me.

ElMaruecan82 "Priceless" is the kind of screwball comedies that could have been made by Capra, Hawks of Wilder, with enough controversial material to be tailor-made for the 2000's audience. It's the story of a wacky romance, set in the Riviera, the richest and most luxurious destination in France and starting out of an unfortunate misunderstanding when a young gold-digger named Irène (Audrey Tautou) mistakes the hotel's bartender, the docile and good-natured Jean (Gad El Maleh) for a rich suitor.This is gold material for the comedy genre, and maybe the movie could have been much better if handled by a gutsier director, something in the same level of John Landis' "Trading Places". The beginning is almost a remake of the 'Sprinkler sprinkled' with a very efficient pay-off, one of the most hilarious moments of the film when Irene realizes she was mislead by her intuition. But thereafter, it's like the film never truly respects the potential carried by the story, by making a social commentary or at least elevating the comedic level, the result isn't insipid but not spicy either. And since this is obviously not the kind of romantic comedy to end in a bad note, it needed a more ambitious material to be a much more memorable film.But it could have been worse too, after a promising start; the movie takes an unexpected turn into what is probably one of the most upsetting displays of dependent relationship between a man and the woman he's in love in. The way Irene takes advantage from Jean's naivety reveals a very disturbing mean-spiritedness while his generosity and eagerness to buy whatever she wants till the last euro, are more pathetic than inspiring. At least the look and the body language of the two leads efficiently convey the contrast between their two personalities, she's mousy with treacherous black eyes and he's got a sort of Buster Keaton-like apathetic face with a blue suggesting the idea of a heart's purity, Gad and Audrey form a nice duo but this sequence is upsetting nonetheless. The gold-digger becomes a villainous pocket-emptier and if it's not for the miraculous encounter of Madeleine, a rich widow who accepts to 'take care of' Jean, he would have been put in jail, and Irene would have probably never heard of him. Their reconciliation is like their relationship, only made of pure circumstances.It's only at this moment that the film takes off for a more satisfying turn of events, when Jean makes his bones as a personal escort-boy and neighboring Irene who found a new prey in the same hotel, he starts knowing the ropes and the tricks about how getting more honey, how seducing by playing the mysterious guy with both close and distant eyes. Jean learns to play with his look, to have a more virile demeanor and exploits the blueness of his life, for more serious prospects. The mentor/disciple relationship with Irene will also affect her, as she will find more interest in this man, who's not rich by his own merit, but enough so she can let her heart fall in love for him. The movie interestingly leaves some ambiguity in Irene's true motivations. She's still ambitious, she's still a gold-digger, but she doesn't act like a true professional. Or maybe it's this very mistake of her that is supposed to redeem her character; maybe all she just needed was a turning point.The movie evolves on the surface without leaving much to embrace from this film, like inviting us to focus on the romance because it's the 'most interesting issue'. That's the problem with light-hearted comedies when they deal with some politically incorrect themes or whose content exceeds the limits of the genre. It would have been interesting to understand the behavior of these divorced and rich old men aware that their appeal relies on the content of their wallet more than anything, but still using this power to have good company. More interesting are these old widows who need younger men not only for sex (we never see Jean in bed with Madeleine) but like little toys that would drive some sort of maternal impulse, feeling alive by taking care of someone dear. I know this wasn't the point of the film but the directors acted as if we would only care about the two leads, while the film could have shined by exploiting the peripheral characters.I was not disappointed though, because that's the unfortunate reality with French comedies, and why a few of them find the right combination of humor and seriousness. "Priceless" was probably not meant to be serious, but it still dealt with some contemporary issues that highlighted some sad realities in today's societies. If one thing, the movie shows how things are easier for a girl if she's pretty, even without the brains or the intellectual background. There are two drivers in today's shallow world: sex and money; and women and men use the premise of one to have both, and this leads to a vicious circle that maintains the sensation of boring redundancy inhabiting this world. The romance between Jean and Irene is the getaway from this circle, but to make this getaway more uplifting, the movie lacked a cruder and deeper view on it.But overall, the result is quite satisfying and maybe the subject of gold-digging is such a taboo enough in France it needed a light-hearted treatment, with a positive message at the end. While "Trading Places" ended in a typical celebration of wealth, money and success, Jean Salvadori concludes by demonstrating that there are things in life, which are indeed "Priceless".

petropolisy I really liked this film you should see it or see it again do not wait for the Hollywood remake or was this a remake of a a Hollywood film of old. All women are whores is a saying, it has been used in a few films this film shows not just that men or women sell themselves short (rather than going long, but this is a bear market) My biggest complaint is that the lead actress did not show enough skin, but she is so great an actress that I would watch her in a time share video, and review it as being a great film. Any film is a group effort and often times one week link and it brings a film down, that is not the case here.Original or not this film is both funny and fun. So as so many reviewers say go to your local library and rent it for free. There are many great films as well as books at the library.

craftercool French movies.... why they cant be like American movies? Audrey Tatou is beautiful and since Amelie I realized she had potential, but men, both are very slow motion movies, those kind of movies that suddenly makes you feel that nothing is happening and nothing is going to happen, you need to have a very good patience to finish this kind of movies because there is a lot of people that if in the first 30 minutes they don't get the idea of the story they just leave, and there is something about the guy that appeared like the Audrey's friend, isn't there in France another better looking actor? Audrey she's pretty, she must appear kissing very handsome guys, but no, she appears in this movie with a very strange man that reminds me a lot to the new James Bond, the same weird eyes, but talking about the story, its not the better that I've always seen.