RECOMMENDED (Hors de prix) Audrey Tautou is as Tautouesque as they come in Pierre Salvadori’s “Priceless,” a comedic variation on “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” about a French golddigger’s dreams gone wrong. Tautou plays Irene, a waif-er-thin collector of sugar daddies in the moneyed public spaces along the Riviera. One night, she mistakes Jean (Gad Elmaleh, terrific in “The Valet”), a hotel bartender, for one of her moneyed marks. Complications ensue and quiet commentary about what comes of emotions bought and sold underlines the sometimes so-so farce that hits some appealingly acid notes in its second act. Both Elmaleh and Tautou are watchable, but don’t have any chemistry of note. 106m. (Ray Pride)
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