Posted: 04/24/2008     by Elaine Hegwood Bowen  Film Monthly
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the Movies This Week Interviews TV  After chasing this movie at
the recent 11th Annual European Union Film Fest at Gene Siskel
Film Center with no luck, and also missing a chance to see it in
New York, I finally saw Pierre Salvadori’s Priceless (Hors de
Prix), and in one word, I declare it worthless!  I mean, what
was the point? The French beauty Audrey Tautou, of Dirty Pretty
Things and The Da Vinci Code fame, is a wonderful, delightful,
engaging actress normally. But I just couldn’t get with the plot
of this movie.  I have followed Tautou’s career a bit, since I
saw her in Amelie, even renting Happystance and He Loves Me,
Loves Me Not. But her playing a call girl, prostitute—okay, I’ll
even go former Gov. Spitzer with my description, a high-priced
whore—was just to