OSS 117 CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES

| 2008 – 99′ – COMEDY, SPY
Written by: Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-François Halin.
based on the original work by: Jean BruceDirected by: Michel Hazanavicius.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefèbvre, Constantin Alexandrov.
Speciale Presentation COLCOA 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release. |

Academy Award Winner writer/director Michel Hazanavicius’ easy, unpretentious, and stealthily smart comedic style found its perfect vehicle in a send-up that spoofed not just the spies, but the preposterous chauvinism of the ‘60’s. Riffing on the Jean Bruce created character OSS 117, aka Hubert Bonnisseur de la Bath – who incidentally predates Ian Fleming’s James Bond – the film is an affectionate, richly detailed period pastiche. And the irresistible, mischievous charm of actor Jean Dujardin was never put to better comic purpose as the man France dispatches to Cairo with one absurdly simplistic mission: to make the Middle East safe.

OSS 117 CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES

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