The FiFi Report 035

Tais Toi ( shut up!) A French farce
This movie got me at hello or should I say bonjour? A French comedy Tais Toi stars a slimmed down Gerard Depardieu and the cool Jean Reno both with mesmerizingly big noses and both playing criminals who join up after escaping from jail. Gerard Depardieu seems to be like a French Tom Hanks, the kind of funny looking actor who can play anybody so it seems only right that in this movie Depardieu is playing a kind of French Forest Gump: A petty criminal called Quentin who is really dumb, simple, infuriatingly innocent and of course kind. He joins up with Ruby (Jean Reno) when they become cell mates when they escape jail together and the film follows the bad guys (them) and the really bad guys ( evil and rich murderers) and bumbling cops all chasing one another around Paris. It sounds so cliché but the movie pulls it off and it’s very funny and cleverly written (Oh no! The Americans are bound to do a remake) Depardieu steals the show and there are lots of funny quips (so you have to read the subtitles quickly) but laugh did we laugh and so did everyone else in the cinema. And you’d be laughing too if you saw the beautiful streets of Paris and those eyes of Depardieu twinkling at you too. Formidable!