![]() The movie is an altogether more French affair than that. Though “Priceless” is billed as a re-imagining of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” the film, with its canny, supremely pragmatic heroine knocking against a dreamy romantic hero, is closer to “The Palm Beach Story” and “The Lady Eve.” Director Pierre Salvadori doesn’t try to contextualize Irene or make excuses for her. When a twist of fate lands Jean in a relationship similar to the ones to which Irene is accustomed, she gleefully takes him on as a project: the kept man in training. Jean (Gad Elmaleh) is a sad-eyed service serf with the dejected air of a Fellini hero, whom she mistakes for a patron, an error that puts her right back in the poorhouse. Irene’s rather arduous profession involves nabbing, milking and holding onto very rich (and usually very old) men for as long as she can. The perfect frothy fantasy for the obscene wealth gap era, “Priceless” (Hors de Prix) stars a gorgeous, cellophane-thin Audrey Tautou as Irene, a dedicated gold digger who finds herself accidentally mixed up with a penniless bartender.
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