In 1955, is the film that does what Austin Powers franchise couldn't: he managed to usurp the spy genre while remaining true to the form of classic espionage films.
Jean DuJardin stars as Hubert Bonisseur of bath, agent OSS 117. Performance of the DuJardin is absolutely brilliant. Agent OSS 117 looks suave and sophisticated, but under his tux fashionable beats the heart of a fool well intentioned, but not least. Assignment in Egypt, moments after his meeting, he manages to insult her (beautiful Berenice Bejo as Larmina El Akmar Betouche) contact by bursting into laugh in disbelief when she said that more than one million people speak Arabic. "Silly girl, do you know how much is a million-!" Insults do not stop there. OSS 117 is clearly a man with unusually high self-esteem and some of the best comedy moments arise from his overconfidence.
This travesty hits right notes, Western colonialism eye blink and our sexist past. Clueless racism is also endowed fun at, as OSS 117 Egyptian foreman asked, his work as a "cover" as an importer of chicken how many children he has "Eight, nine?" investigation, his voice dripping with concern and sincerity.
The action sequences acted as human right in this film and the choreography for fight scenes were nice to look at, but one of the best surprises this film was its cohesion. Most parodies are a string of jokes loosely bound together create a movie, but "OSS 117: Cairo, nest of spies" feels like a complete film. Much of the credit has to go to DuJardin; willingness to make an ass full of itself a key element in the success of this French comedy.
Product details
Actors: Jean Dujardin, Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre, Constantin Alexandrov B?r?nice
Directors: Michel Hazanavicius
Format: Anamorphic, color, DVD, NTSC
Language: French, English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (United States and Canada) only.
Aspect ratio: realizing
Number of discs: 1
Note: unrated
Studio: film music box
DVD release date: September 30, 2008
Run time: 95 minutes
For more information on French cinema, go to I Love French films, where you will find information about some of the best action, comedies and dramas that the French have to offer, as well as a few American films filmed in France. (C) Atkinson Will
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