Synopsis
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
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Cast
- Gad ElmalehJean
- Audrey TautouIrène
- Marie-Christine AdamMadeleine
- Vernon DobtcheffJacques
- Jacques SpiesserGilles
- Annelise HesmeAgnès
- Charlotte VermeilLa dame au chihuahua
- Claudine BaschetLa dame au dogue
- Laurent ClaretLe responsable du bar à Biarritz
- Jean de ConinckLe client au cigare
Recommendations
- 88
TV Guide Magazine
The lovely Audrey Tautou and sad-eyed Gad Elmaleh are perfectly cast as a gold digger and the poor sap who loves her, but the real star of Pierre Salvadori's larky, Lubitsch-esque farce is France's impossibly chic Cote d'Azure. - 80
Wall Street Journal
Calls to mind Lubitsch's "Trouble in Paradise" and beguiles all the way from the parade of umbrellas decorating the opening titles to the closing credits. - 80
Los Angeles Times
A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, or so the saying goes, but the unadulterated joy Irène takes in throwing open the closet door to show Jean how this gold digging is done is positively infectious. - 80
Washington Post
Tautou is a delight, as always, using her bubbly personality to comic advantage. And Elmaleh makes for a sort of poor man's Buster Keaton, perpetually stressed but refusing to surrender, no matter how much damage he sustains to himself or his wallet. - 75
New York Daily News
Dirty, kinda-rotten scoundrels Elmaleh and Tautou make an engaging pair. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Stop laughing long enough, and you'll see that it's a picture about compromised lives and love for sale. But no one who watches Priceless will stop laughing for that long. - 70
Variety
Co-scripter/helmer Pierre Salvadori serves up an enjoyable riff on genuine romance versus the pay-as-you-go variety, in crowd-pleasing, exportable picture. - 70
Village Voice
Priceless begins as standard, unconvincing, assembly-line French farce and ends as a cop-out, feel-good rom-com. In between, it develops into something considerably more interesting.
