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Ah! Si j'étais riche
2002 Comedy
 Review
Having scripted the two popular
Vérité si je mens films, writers
Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz made their directorial debut with this unashamedly
commercial French film comedy. Despite a few promising script ideas and an attractive
cast, the film doesn’t achieve its full potential, and the lack of ideas in the
second half is painfully noticeable. Still, the film is entertaining, with several
well-realised and very funny comic situations (although in retrospect most of the jokes
are somewhat obvious and a few are actually rather offensive). The lead actors (Darroussin,
Tedeschi and Berry) are clearly worth much more than the material they are lumbered with,
but, despite this, and the stereotypical casting (sympathetic loser, sad female loner
and nasty womaniser... again), their contributions give the film the colour, weight and
energy that is lacking in the script.
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Director:
Gérard Bitton, Michel Munz
Starring: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Richard Berry, François Morel, Héléna Noguerra Synopsis
Aldo is a modest salesman with mounting debt problems. Things take a sudden turn
for the worse when his wife, Alice, walks out on him and starts to have an affair with
his new boss, Gérard. Then Aldo wins a fortune on the lottery. To prevent
his wife from getting her hands on his new-found wealth, he decides to conceal this fact
until after their divorce…
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