It's possible to believe in Stephane, the con man who operates in a smart hotel on the Riviera, but he's not particularly interesting or likable; and why he falls in love with the schoolteacher who is spending her small inheritance is a mystery. And we are supposed to believe that the schoolteacher instantly transforms into a tough business-person, and falls in love with Stephane. I didn't. I neither believed her character, nor liked her dishonest and greedy manner. Stephane's friend the tongue-tied, love-struck racing car champ (Cluzet) was another idea without any basis in character. And everyone talks all the time, while I was longing for them to get out and see a bit of the Riviera and do something. By the halfway mark I was wondering if this might have made a decent film with a better script some charismatic actors, and a director with some visual flair, but it was merely an idea to revive a sort of "To Catch a Thief" with very little understanding of the dramatic infrastructure or charm, or pace of that film, I realised I was dreaming. The Hitchcock picture isn't that good, but next to this one, it's a masterpiece. "Quatre Etoiles" has a couple of good ideas, but they do not a feature film make.

This french movie is not so bad.There's maybe not so interesting and very regular,or even a little bit Hollywood,in the beginning,but it's gonna be cool after that.If you like movies made by France,so buy this movie on DVD and watch this.That's my recommendation.The acting is good,the directing of the picture is also good enough.This is comedy and you find yourself really funny till the end of the film. " "When I was just as far as I could walkFrom here today,There was an hourAll stillWhen leaning with my head against a flowerI heard you talk.Don't say I didn't, for I heard you say--You spoke from that flower on the windowsill--Do you remember what it was you said?" Robert Frost"

This may be indeed the worst film billed as a serious feature to have ever been made. Besides the ridiculous "love story" between two disgusting characters, the plot proceeds without giving any regard to the several propositions (some of them admittedly intriguing) which are made at the film's start. As the standards of production are up to the commercial circuit, one does not feel immediately tempted to click out the DVD and go on to some more rewarding chore. Thus proceeds the expectation that, somehow, the apparently random sequences of scenes - some of them slightly funny, mainly due to the performance of the Formula 1 retired driver - will wrap up in some slightly logical way. No way. The ending is so absurd, that I felt inclined to shoot at my TV set. Of course, this would only add injury to the insult.

Even though the chances of her equalling let alone eclipsing her fantastic performance in Se Souvenirs des belles choses are remote to non-existent I will always seen anything Isabelle Carre appears in because she is not only a fine actress but also gorgeous in a quiet, under-stated manner. Mostly she's chosen or been lucky enough to appear in quality product but there's always a first time and this, I guess, is it. We have not one but two dodgy premises here; first that someone as gorgeous as Carre would choose to shack up with Michel Vuilleroz; Vuilleroz is, read my lips, a great actor, he is, after all, a member of Le Comedy Francaise and they don't do chopped liver but even his mother would not presume to cast him as love interest and Carre DOES find him boring but the point is she would NEVER have found him partner material in a million years. Second dodgy premise; having inherited 50,000 euros out of the blue Fransouss (Carre) decides to spend it all in one fell swoop, accordingly she buys a classy car and checks into the Carlton at Cannes where she encounters a guy, Stephane Garcia (Garcia) who makes Vuilleroz look like Tom Cruise and is mean with it so naturally she falls for him like Richmond fell for Grant. Not only is Stephane a small time con man - he is 'promoting' Elton John who, he claims, will check into the Carlton any day now and until he does Stephane is living on the cuff - but also beats up Fransouss and leaves her stranded in the country. Despite this .... well, some girls NEVER learn. It wouldn't be so bad if Garcia had any personality or charisma - I STILL don't know what Sandrine Kiberlain was doing with him in Apres Vous when she could have had Daniel Auteuil - let alone looks and when the leading man is a no-no it only makes everything else that much worse. On the credit side we have Isabelle to look at and though it should be it's not quite enough.