Film Festival 09 - OSS 117
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
OSS 117: Rio ne repond plus, France 2009, 100m
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
The not-so secret weapon that makes this po-faced parody of
espionage thrillers and French arrogance so lethally funny - and
relished in France - is that it lifts its suavely self-enchanted
protagonist intact from a series of novels that were widely popular
there 50 years ago. Fabled spy OSS 117, aka Hubert Bonisseur de la
Bath, was the quintessential fictional hero of postwar France,
criss-crossing the world to defend his patrie against slippery
foreigners of every shade. Director Michel Hazanavicius and star
Jean Dujardin first resurrected this forgotten spy movie franchise
in the extremely funny Cairo, Nest of Spies which played less like
an Austin Powers movie than a lost relic from a sadly deluded time.
Now it's 1955 and it's Brazil's turn. - BG. "A boatload of fun,
lovingly period styled, outrageously un-PC and a much, much more
rewarding night at the movies than any James Bond film of the last
20 years." - Jonathan King
In French with English subtitles
