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French Cinema Club. June theme: "The Charm of French Men". OSS 117 - Lost in Rio / OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (France,2009)
15 June 2010
The movie opens with a ski chalet party sequence in Gstaad where Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath aka OSS 117 is entertaining a Chinese Countess. The party is attacked by Red Chinese gunmen working for a Mr. Lee and everyone but Hubert and the Countess are killed. Returning to SDECE headquarters Hubert is assigned to deliver a blackmail payment of 50,000 new Francs to Professor Von Zimmel, a Nazi who escaped to South America and has a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers.
Once in Rio Hubert is attacked at various times by relatives of Mr. Lee's gunmen, encounters a foul mouthed American Felix Leiter type CIA agent Bill Tremendous, the femme fatale Carlotta, Professor Von Zimmel's luchador enforcers and eventually Mossad agents intent on bringing Professor Von Zimmel back to Israel for trial. OSS 117 teams up with Dolorès Koulechov, a beautiful Israeli Army Colonel to bring Von Zimmel to Israel in the manner of Adolf Eichmann. Their lead to Von Zimmel is his son who is now a hippie.
Throughout the film the main character has two main romantic interests. The first is a mysterious beauty Carlotta. The second is Israeli Army officer, Dolorès Koulechov, who spends most of the film exasperated at OSS 117's misogynistic, racist, colonial tendencies and has no interest in the main character, but warms up to him in the end. When asked by de La Bath why Koulechov does not like the Brazilian military government of the time, she lists its examples of Totalitarianism that the puzzled de La Bath finds the same as the France of Charles de Gaulle.
France, 2009
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Starring Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Alex Lutz, Rüdiger Vogler
Running time 101 minutes
Start at 19:00.
Admission 20 hrivnas.