OSS 117: Lost in Rio DVD, 2009

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MovieMail's Review

Jean Dujardin returns as the suave but clueless French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath in this latest tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation from Jean Bruce's classic spy novels.

De La Bath... is back! Having rid Egypt of the Nazi menace in Cairo: Nest of Spies (2006), France's premier secret agent is dispatched to Rio to recover a microfilm of French WWII collaborators. "No surprise it's a 'micro' film - the list must be tiny!" explains the ardent Gaullist.

Writer Jean-Francois Halin and director Michel Hazanavicius return for another tongue-in-cheek re-interpretation of Jean Bruce's classic spy novels. This time Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka OSS 117 (a superb Jean Dujardin) must team up with a Mossad lieutenant (Louise Monot) to foil a blackmail plot by an escaped Nazi turned wrestling impresario. As before it's a pitch-perfect recreation of postwar Gallic arrogance and 60s split-screen cinematography.

Some of the jokes are extremely silly, but Dujardin's impeccable comic charisma recalls the very best of Peter Sellars, and the film's defiance of any semblance of political correctness is bracing. But whether he is dispatching hoards of 'Chinamen' or bedding roomfuls of beauties, de La Bath always means well, asking his horrified Israeli counterpart whether "there could ever be a reconciliation between Jews and Nazis...?".

MovieMail on 25th February 2010
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Film Information

Director - Michel Hazanavicius

Produced - 2009

Main Language - French with English subtitles

Countries & Regions - European Film, French Film

Cast - Rudiger Vogler, Serge Hazanavicius, Louise Monot, Jean Dujardin

DVD Details

Certificate:	15	Publisher:	ICA	Region:	2
Length:	100 mins	Cat No:	ICA041DVD
Format:	DVD Colour

Film Description

Jean Dujardin returns as suave, sophisticated and utterly clueless French spy Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, France's answer to James Bond.The year is 1967 and de Gaulle's France requires OSS 117 to travel to Brazil and track down a former high-ranking Nazi, who wants to sell a microfilm of names listing French collaborators during the World War II. In Rio he joins forces with Dolores, a charming Mossad agent also on the trail of underground Nazis, but with the aim of bringing them to justice. Armed with an arsenal of weapons including classic good looks, matchless charm and unrivalled stupidity, OSS 117 is the man to call when villains need to be found, peace needs to be brokered and women seduced.