Mes trésors (2017)
Directed by Pascal Bourdiaux

Film Review

Not even the combined talents of Camille Chamoux and Reem Kherici can salvage this comedy disaster which throws all the old caper movie clichés up into the air and ends up as nothing more than a complete mess of a film.  Mes trésors is Pascal Bourdiaux's third comedy offering - after the almost as forgettable Le Mac (2010) and Fiston (2014) - and it has practically nothing to commend it.  Jean Reno gets top billing as a supposed master criminal refusing to bow out gracefully but he looks deflated and frankly bored with the entire sorry venture, and so he should be given the abysmal quality of the writing and direction.

Some frenetic editing and poorly executed digital effects have been employed presumably in an attempt to jazz things up a bit, but this merely makes the film look even more cheap and amateurish.  Happily plundering ideas left, right and centre from at least a dozen other films, the screenwriters not only show a breathtaking lack of originality but they also singularly fail to assemble their recycled ideas into anything even vaguely resembling a coherent narrative.  Mes trésors is lowbrow comedy entertainment of the most disreputable and disagreeable sort - derivative, ponderous and spectacularly unfunny.  It's a smash-and-grab raid of the most lamentable kind.

Film Synopsis

Carole and Caroline are two young women who appear to have nothing in common.  The first is a shy computer programmer who lives a hermit-like existence with her mother.  The second is a career pickpocket who preys on the rich patrons of hotels on the Riviera.  Summoned to a lawyer's office these two women discover they are sisters and that their father, Patrick, has recently died and bequeathed them an alpine chalet.  Arriving at the chalet, the sisters are surprised to find that their father is still alive and kicking, but on the run from the police as he is, apparently, a world-renowned thief.  Patrick desperately needs Carole and Caroline's help to assist him in the theft of a Stradivarius violin that is worth 15 million euros.  Hooked by the prospect of easy money, the sisters agree to take part in the daring criminal exploit, but soon find themselves way out of their depth...