Gilbert Perez is a confidence trickster of the first rank. Armed with
his mobile phone and an unerring capacity to pull the wool over the eyes
of others, he can't help swindling his victims out of thousands of euros.
His career of crime has become a drug to him - every success stimulates a
craving for yet more victories over the greedy and gullible. His dream
is to provide his wife Barbara with a normal life, but his wild fraudulent
escapades will soon lead him to ruin...
American film comedy had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, but it remains an important genre and has given American cinema some of its enduring classics.
With so many great films to choose from, it's nigh on impossible to compile a short-list of the best 15 French films of all time - but here's our feeble attempt to do just that.