Audrey Tautou as Irene does her gamin number ably partnered by poker-faced comic Gad Elmaleh as Jean. The setting is the haunts of the filthy rich on the French Riviera. She is a shameless gold-digger, he is a bartender, and when she mistakes him for a rich quarry, he falls in love with her. Lots of posh hotels and restaurants, a fancy party and generally opulent living by the undeserving rich, who think that youth and beauty are for sale The problem of course from the viewer's aspect is that someone like Irene, no matter how attractive, is very hard to like, especially as she continues to bleed Jean after she has discovered he's not rich. Nicely paced and entertaining, but essentially a cinematic soufflé.
