Audrey Tautou’s latest film has her starring as the joint owner of a hairdressers who, after receiving an anonymous love letter from one of her male employees and originally throwing it in the bin, decides to retype it and send it to her down on herself mother in order to cheer her up. It does the trick and before long we have a comedy of errors re who is chasing who. Unfortunately you won’t care, as all three of the main characters are all pretty unlovable in their own ways. Even Tautou (now looking more like a Pixie than ever) can’t save the day. What’s most disappointing of all is that this actually has quite a decent start, but any ideas of this becoming a knock-about farce are quickly forgotten about as the characters begin to make a serious of implausible decisions and the ending is as unlikely as it is distasteful. Director Pierre Salvadori was also the man behind the somewhat morally dubious Priceless as well, so perhaps it’s not a surprise to have your eyebrows raised in this sense. What also doesn’t help are the subtitles which numerous times don’t translate what is actually being said on screen and in one case there is an hilarious mis-spelling. All in all, unless you’re a fan of Tautou and never miss any of her films, I’d avoid this and spend the money you were going to put towards the cinema ticket on a trip to the barbers / hairdressers instead. There’s a good chance you’ll have more fun there.
The OC Film Sting Final Verdict
A decent premise is ruined by a screenplay that has virtually no likeable characters and countless jokes that fall flat. Rating: 3/10
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