Again, I'm reminded of both Rohmer and Woody Allen in this Emmanuel Mouret film. Here we have Lucie (Marie Gillain), who sells swimming costumes on the beaches of Marseille and lives with Lucien (Emmanuel Mouret), who doesn't do anything much but would like to be a gendarme. And then he doesn't make it to be a gendarme but becomes a secret agent with his cover being the bourgeois layabout he is.
Of course, secret agents have to remain very strictly secret, as does Lucien unless he uses the stupid password 'Il fait beau', which of course leads to (very minor) hiccups. And then he meets Jennifer (Dolores Chaplin) who wants him to initiate her into love techniniques, but he scares her off by accident when trying to cure her hiccups. Then Lucie becomes attracted to Bernard (Arnaud Simon), and although Lucien's lied to her about sleeping with someone else so as not to blow his cover, she doesn't respond to his overtures in the end.
Of course, there are subterfuges, evasions, misunderstandings, confusion in general, especially with Lucien being – as can only be expected of the main Mouret character – awkward, shy, etc. But in spite of himself he seems to be a good secret agent, although he now changes his cover: selling swimming costumes on the beaches with Lucien.
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