| Alain
Chabat, Charlotte Gainsbourg , Bernadette Lafont, Vladimir Yordanoff,
Gregoire Oestermann , Veronique Barrault .
A man tries to hold on to his bachelor
lifestyle by getting engaged in this romantic comedy. Luis (Alain
Chabat) is a man in his mid-fourties who has been happily unmarried
all his life. Luis nearly wed his sweetheart when he was 21, but
the meddling of his mother (Bernadette Lafont) and five sisters
drove the young lady away, and since then he's devoted his romantic
attentions to short-term relationships while earning a good living
working in the perfume industry. However, his family remains determined
to fix him up with eligible women, and Luis has grown tired of it.
With the help of a colleague, Luis concocts a plan -- his friend's
daughter Emma (Charlotte Gainsbourg) agrees to pose as his fiancée
and then abandon him at the altar, which should silence his mother
and sisters on the subject of matrimony once and for all. While
Luis and Emma's relationship is all business, she does a flawless
job of convincing his family that she loves him and is determined
to be his wife -- so much so that Luis wonders if she might be serious
about him after all. Directed by Eric Lartigau, Prête-Moi Ta Main
(aka I Do) was a major box-office success in France, attracting
nearly three million viewers in its first month of release. |