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6.2/10   349 votes
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Director:

Philippe Le Guay

Writers:

Jean-François Goyet (writer)
Philippe Le Guay (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

30 July 2003 (France) more

Awards:

1 nomination more

NewsDesk:
(3 articles)

Getting 'Lost,' Week 8: You Know, Like in Cartoons, When You Watch Too Much and Your Eyes Swell?
 (From BuddyTV. 21 October 2009, 4:15 AM, PDT)
Should Unemployed Americans Look for Work Abroad?
 (From Fast Company. 19 October 2009, 1:30 PM, PDT)

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It's about money more (2 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Fabrice Luchini ... Brett
Vincent Lindon ... Coway
Camille Japy ... Milène
Géraldine Pailhas ... Helena
Isild Le Besco ... Laurence
Lorànt Deutsch ... Patrick
Claude Rich ... Maurice
Catherine Hosmalin ... Karine
Nils Hugon ... Robin
Jean-Claude Leguay ... Gérard
Fabien Béhar ... Le manager
Bernard Bloch ... Richet, l'huissier
Chantal Neuwirth ... Granny
Xavier De Guillebon ... Denis
Daniel Martin ... Eric
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Cost of Living (International: English title) (USA)
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Runtime:

France:100 min | USA:110 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France more

Company:

Gimages 6 more

Fun Stuff

Soundtrack:

The Triumph of Time & Truth more

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It's about money, 31 May 2009
9/10
Author: Bob Taylor (bob998@sympatico.ca) from Canada

This is one of the most engaging, well-constructed and satisfying comedies to come from France in recent years. It reminds me of some of Jean-Paul Rappeneau's classics--I can't give higher praise. The subject here is money: who has it, who wants it and who is resourceful enough to get it. Fabrice Luchini plays a software executive who is incredibly tight-fisted; we see him trying to duck out of paying the bill at a restaurant, and taking his contribution out of a fund for a retiring employee. He meets his match in a prostitute (played unforgettably by Géraldine Pailhas) who knows exactly how to mulct money from a man whose emotional development has been arrested by his avarice.

Vincent Lindon's character has the reverse problem: his restaurant is failing because his money-managing skills are non-existent. He's got the bailiff on his back (wonderful performance by Bernard Bloch) and his pregnant wife is trying to impose her family wealth on him. The supporting actors are fine; Claude Rich and Isild Le Besco are a father and daughter boiling with unresolved issues around his great wealth.

Philippe Le Guay has written some films that stick in my memory (Outremer and Post coitum animal triste) and Le coût de la vie is a very fine effort indeed.

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