Pierre Salvadori's De vrai mensonges is certainly a piece of fluff, but then it is like so many films or plays: mistaken identities, impossible to believe plots, and of course a happy end for two lovers. But's it's also very well accomplished and very amusing, in which (with hindsight) Émilie (Audrey Tautou) again plays matchmaker as in Amélie Poulin, but under very different circumstances.
The unnamed Sète is where the film is, er, set, which is in the background of many of the scenes, although most of the scenes are in the hairdressing salon of Émilie, often with co-stars Nathalie Baye (Émilie's mother), who plays Maddy, and Jean (Sami Boualjila), Émilie's employee (who speaks thirty-one languages, and is in love with Émilie).
Émilie doesn't know anything about Jean, bins the anonymous love letter he writes to her, and then fishes it out to type to her mother, who has been divorced for four years, is mentally rotting away and could do with a shot in the sexual hormones. Alas, big mistake leading to much confusion. But then, would Émilie have been aware of Jean without all the confusion she created? A questionable question.
Yes, this is a very amusing, very well made and very engrossing film. So what's wrong with that?
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