Love at all costs

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Movie
German title Love at all costs
Original title Hors de prix
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2006
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Pierre Salvadori
script Pierre Salvadori,
Benoît Graffin
production Philippe Martin
music Camille Bazbaz
camera Gilles Henry
cut Isabelle Devinck
occupation

Love at any price (original title Hors de prix , translated roughly “priceless”) is a French comedy film by Pierre Salvadori from 2006 with Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh in the leading roles.

action

Irène, an attractive young woman, persuades wealthy men in expensive hotels to pay the bills that were raised during their stay. Jean, a shy waiter at the hotel, arouses Irène's adventurous interest. For the time being, she does not notice his simple professional status and believes he is also a rich guest. After the embarrassing discovery of his real job, she escapes.

But Jean has fallen in love with her and doesn't want to let her go so easily. The reunion will take place on the Côte d'Azur . He finds her in a restaurant and apologizes. After a while, she agrees to go out to eat with him. To get rid of him, she makes him pay all the bills. Jean spends all of his money going to restaurants and shopping trips, but still tries to transfer the money from building society accounts and other investments to his checking account. When everything is finally gone and Irène has also left, the bill comes from the hotel where they both stayed. Since he cannot pay this, he offers himself as a porter and dishwasher, but this is refused. When a female guest asks the front desk to bring her luggage to the room, she refuses the hotel's porter and asks her "friend" (Jean) to bring it up. The next morning they have breakfast together and he gets new clothes. Having got a taste for it, Jean Irène joins the deceitful lifestyle and works as a fictional social man in a great luxury hotel, where Irène is also staying with her new rich lover. Initially still suffering (among other things, his wealthy patroness Madeleine has a plastic surgeon put his protruding right ear on him), he feels more and more comfortable and a little competition ensues (among other things, Irène shows him her wardrobe, which she filled in four days and asks him what he got; reaction: just these four shirts ??) for the things the two get from their respective patrons. The adventure brings both closer together until Irène finally accepts his presence. She regularly gives him useful tips without being fully aware that she is becoming more and more emotionally attached to him. When Irène's lover Gilles happens to witness her and Jean kissing spontaneously, he leaves Irène penniless. Jean sells the expensive watch that Madeleine gave him and uses the proceeds to pay Irène's room for a week in advance.

When Irène's former lover Jacques shows up with his new young playmate Agnès, Irène asks Jean for a favor: As an alleged very rich prince, he should seduce Agnès so that Irène can get back to Jacques. Only when she sees Jean disappear into the room with Agnès turtling and is seized with jealousy, she realizes how much she is in love with Jean. When Jacques asked what she wanted, she replied, “I finally want to love!” And ends the whole hoax. As a poor but happy couple in love, Jean and Irène finally drive away with Jeans' remaining property, a scooter.

criticism

“The romantic-melancholy comedy is elegantly and sensitively staged, but it suffers from the poorly imaginative script, which develops the plot in an all too predictable way and, above all, only draws the characters superficially. It is only thanks to the performance of the main actor that the film reaches touching depth in phases. "

- Lexicon of international film

“With love at all costs , Salvadori relied entirely on the game of its two main actors Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh. [...] Solidly staged, Salvadori's directorial work lacks an element of surprise, because a lot has been seen too often in the cinemas. "

- prism

“Although the erotic remains harmless, the comedy never seems uptight. Which is because of how reluctantly the gorgeous farce celebrates situation comedy and the chic of classic comedies of confusion. Conclusion: Tautou as a sweet beast: simply priceless. "

- Cinema

background

In France alone, where it was shown for the first time on November 18, 2006 at the Arras Film Festival, the film had 2 million viewers in cinemas. It ran in Germany from February 9, 2007, and it was released in theaters on March 28, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Love at Any Price . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 966 DVD).
  2. ↑ Love at all costs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Love at all costs. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Love at all costs. In: cinema.de. Cinema , accessed September 5, 2017 .