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This Parisian comedy has a particularly mint opening scene, giving the grandeur and allure of the Paris in lush beachside cafes. The premise of the movie is based on the interference of high prices in the pursuit of love and romance but also the general malaise that a lack of on hand funding can cause towards just about everything. The movie opens up with Irene, an attractive young woman, with her inattentive but wealthy older gentlemen Jacques who can’t wake up from his drunken stupor to properly entertain her on her birthday. She reacts to searching the bar at the super posh hotel where the very wealthy could easily be treading and stumbles on a gentlemen who is a waiter on his break but whom she has mistaken as also being wealthy and seduces him for the evening. When she later finds he is not what she thought, her exit move is as quick as a blink, showing her business like approach, and her quick amalgamation of the new undesirable information. Maybe there is something to be said for this, that a quick exit is actually sometimes desirable and pragmatic. Jean being for now this relative pauper, however is mesmerized by this dream like experience in spending the evening with her and follows her to the French Riviera as in the meantime her rich boyfriend, Jacques ditches her when he finds about the one night affair and she has to find her substitute or substitutes for his role. The way Irene is portrayed earlier in this movie, is that she is under pressure to find and have around the rich guy to keep the engines running that way, and if she doesn’t it is almost like she is in a personal tailspin bordering on desperation. One of her targets meets her for a dinner at the Riviera and this is a young and attractive one to boot. However, Jean has trailed her for at least one last look and her date gets intimidated by his looking over to the table and leaves. Her desperation shows when she says will you at least take my number and this is like a last plea for help. She decides to take Jean for one more ride and to get back at him by having him bring her to the most expensive places. He makes a call on his cell phone to have everything transferred including his retirement account to his credit card, but he is still intimidated by the prices he is facing in this dalliance. But the hook is strong and he continues for the moment until the hotel bill is not going through and then he is facing the hotel personnel about to call for the police. In the meantime, he had an earlier chance encounter with a wealthy widow in the elevator and she comes to the rescue on all bills and more, and the exchange is for his company. Now he is at the same game as Irene and the story continues from there. The acting on the part of Jean was somewhat timid earlier but he emerges into a stronger character and therefore more desirable character as the movie goes on. Although this is mainly a comedy, the drama involved is interesting in relating to relationships. It makes you think, how much pretending can people get away with in relationships in the first place? For example, someone might pretend to be an athlete, but if this was lacking, it could be quickly found out the first time she sees him try to throw the ball a long distance and he comes up way short or sees him struggling to walk up the stairs when he claims to be a marathon runner. Then pretense as to interests could quickly be found out if false, when the person can’t pony up to actually knowing something about the subject. So in a sense, a lot of what people could pretend about can be quickly found out to being false. There is also the dig on the idea of being on the clock in this movie, as he is put on the clock by the rich widow, and this somewhat related to how anything that is based on being on time and prompt, maybe your typical job, where there is a degree of precariousness to whether you can keep your job and you think of the person who is late for the first time n years for a job and then gets fired on that basis. The other aspect of this movie, is it is about acting and how so much can be just acting and within this movie, even Theresa’s interactions with her rich lovers are acting jobs or like an acting gig and she seems to enjoy the acting aspect of it but still prefers to move on to something that is more ultimate in excitement and passion for her. While Theresa goes overboard in taking advantage of the rich guys, Jean doesn’t really have those type of intentions with the rich widow and has to be coached towards more going in that direction to where he will get every last drop out of the situation. As the plot unfolds, the question also becomes who do you want to actually spend your time with, and people might need another outlet as pertaining to relationships that has less to do with what has a price on it and more to do with less measurable commodities such as with whom does the time best pass with and thence comes the title priceless. This movie may not be all that funny however to people that are annoyed with cash flow problems and you could easily relate to the comedy here to all of the sudden being short or for example watching the credit go down as gallons go into the mobile or your cell phone bill skyrocketing as the conversations extends. And then when someone is attempting to court an attractive woman like in this film, there is enough to be concerned with aobut that within worrying about price tags and once this complication sets in, the deflation on the endeavor quickly escalates. Money is an issue, but there is additional sorting to do before whom it is someone really does want to hang with and be companions with. Indeed there are passions that people need an outlet for that are hard to quantify and good companionship is the theme here. For sure there are priceless aspects, but you do need a buck.
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