The Price to Pay
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly develops as the two find they have much in common. Are they just cash machines for their wives? Don't they deserve some love in return? Jean-Pierre confiscates his wife's credit card, but things don't turn out exactly the way he'd hoped...
Our read · The Price to Pay (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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