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OSS 117, Rio ne répond plus

Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Actors: Jean Dujardin / Louise Monot / Antoine Lutz

TWO CÉSAR NOMINATIONS! Best Art Direction, Costume Design

The laughs are up, the tops are down and cultural sensitivity is at a record low in this send-up of super-spy Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka OSS 117, the foreigner-fighting, Cold War hero of the popular de Gaulleera novels by Jean Bruce. Yep, he's back for another mission.

Sent on the trail of a microfilm that could compromise the French government, OSS 117 fumbles merrily through Brazil, here a bossa-nova dreamland of bikini-clad women, perma-tanned foreign agents and pesky, gun-wielding 'Chinamen' (as he calls them). OSS 117 is in hot pursuit of a Nazi blackmailer, and in collaboration with a rather-hotherself Mossad agent. To call this Frenchman a "fish out of water" would be to assume he realizes that the pool has a border beyond the island bar.

In this follow-up to international hit "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies", cowriter- director Michel Hazanavicius delivers more international scandal, hijinks, outrageous chauvinism and self-ridicule with this audiencepleaser: a merciless skewering of 60s colonial arrogance.

MA15+
100 mins / 2009
Opening Night Film
Micmacs

Closing Night Film
Gainsbourg : Je t'aime...moi non plus

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Bellamy
Blame It On Mum
Father Of My Children
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive
LOL
Making Plans For Lena
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Tomorrow At Dawn

First feature film
Anything For Her
First Snow
In Your Arms
Legal Aid
One For The Road
Queen To Play
The Hedgehog
You'll Miss Me

Comedy
Change Of Plans
Fashion Victim
Incognito
Little Nicolas
Lucky Luke
Neuilly Yo Mama!
OSS 117, Lost In Rio
Please, Please Me!

Love at first sight
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Every Jack Has A Jill
Leaving
Mademoiselle Chambon
Regrets
Someone I Loved
Wild Grass

Resistance
In The Beginning
Korkoro
No Pasaran
Skirt Day
The Army Of Crime
Welcome
White Material

Kids
The True Story Of Puss'n Boots
Trouble At Timpeltill
 
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