Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés
2003 Comedy / Thriller
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Summary
When he arrives on the Côte d'Azur, accountant Edgar Lamarck is expecting nothing
more than to do some business, conning a shipyard owner, Thierry Ferrand, with an under-valuation
of his business. He doesn’t expect to be caught up in a hair-raising, death-defying
thriller intrigue. His big mistake was to go looking for some night time entertainment
to round off the evening. "Lovely Rita" turns out to be nothing like the sumptuous
blonde Edgar happened to come across on the internet. She is in fact a fiery redhead
who pulls a gun on him when she meets him. And then she insists that he, a respectable
accountant, helps her to dispose of the body of a man she has just killed. It was
obviously going to be one of those nights…
Review
An uninspired script and some complacent direction effectively scuttle this inconsequential
comedy thriller more or less from the word go. A sackload of borrowed ideas are
regurgitated without any real thought and the result is about as tedious and trashy as
a film of this genre can get. The only thing more excruciating than the trite dialogue
and the ridiculous plot is having to watch actors of the calibre of Julie Gayet, Pierre
Mondy and Christian Clavier struggling hopelessly to make anything of it.
For a comedy, there’s very little to laugh at – apart from another embarrassing performance
from Arielle Dombasle.
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