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Title: La fille de Monaco (2008)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Fabrice Luchini | ... | Bertrand Beauvois | |
| Roschdy Zem | ... | Christophe Abadi | |
| Stéphane Audran | ... | Édith Lassalle | |
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Gilles Cohen | ... | Louis Lassalle |
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Alexandre Steiger | ... | Alain |
| Philippe Duclos | ... | Inspecteur Taurand | |
| Jeanne Balibar | ... | Hélène | |
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Hélène de Saint-Père | ... | Carolina |
| Louise Bourgoin | ... | Audrey Varella | |
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Christophe Vandevelde | ... | Tony |
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Pierre Bourgeon | ... | Boulie |
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Claire Joseph | ... | La fille du groupe |
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Denis Dallan | ... | Denis |
| Marine Renoir | ... | Danseuse à la piscine | |
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Francisca Viudes | ... | La cliente de l'hotel |
Bertrand Beauvois, a well-known attorney, is in Monte Carlo to defend a businessman's mother who murdered a gigolo with ties to gangsters. The businessman provides a bodyguard, Christophe, who is thorough and unsmiling. The middle-aged Beauvois is drawn to Audrey, in her 20s, free spirited, a local TV weather girl who once dated Christophe. Although Christophe warns Beauvois to stay away from Audrey, he's hooked and spends every moment with her he's not in court. What's her angle: is she a plant who'll ruin the case; is Beauvois her toy; is she digging for gold; or, is she genuine? Beauvois loves the wild sex but not her promiscuity. Has Christophe failed to protect him? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Director Anne Fontaine ambitiously tries to mix traditional rom-com elements with drama. If she had succeeded, La fille de Monaco could have been a standout movie in 2008. Unfortunately, the end result feels awkward and we are left unable to connect with the movie or the characters.
Fabrice Luchini plays Bertrand Beauvois, an elite lawyer coming to Monaco to work a high- profile case. He is assigned a bodyguard, Christophe (Roschdy Zem) and while in Monaco, develops a relationship with a quirky weather girl (Louise Bourgoin) who was formerly romantically involved with the man assigned to protect him.
Audrey, our weather forecast girl is considerably younger than Beauvois and her behaviour will remind many viewers of traditional movies where a (usually stuck up) guy sees his life turned a little upside down by a wild woman. It helps that Louise Bourgoin is absolutely stunning. The classic European look you would expect in a Bond Girl. Unfortunately, her acting is not as great as her looks, which makes this Love Triangle of a sort rather inefficient.
Luchini and Zem have slightly more chemistry and the bound they form as protector and protected is potentially interesting but never fully realized. The contrasts between the two (social class, education, outlook on life) still provides for the only interesting bits in the film.
Unfortunately, the film suddenly and unexpectedly slides into very dramatic territory. I do love when a movie elegantly does this but because of lack of character development, it is difficult to buy the turn of events experienced here.
I would be curious to see more of Fontaine's work because I love the general direction and tone this movie was going for, but it failed in the execution. Better casting and more work on the script could have led to a balanced movie that would have been haunting and powerful.
But in its actual state, it just ends up being a forgettable movie because it fails to engage us enough to care about the events unfolding.