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THE GIRL FROM MONACO Send This Review to a Friend
Written and directed by Anne Fontaine, this French import, “The Girl from Monaco,” has all the earmarks of surface success. It’s the kind of a glossy film that gets attention. It has a good cast, but is glib and, while accomplished, it offers only minor rewards.
Fabrice Luchini, always a fine actor, plays Bertrand, a hot-shot lawyer who is in Monaco defending a renowned woman (Stéphan Audran) accused of murder. Since Bertrand could be in danger, he is assigned Christophe, a bodyguard played with staunch determination by Roschdy Zem.
Trouble begins when Betrand falls for Audrey (Louise Bourgoin), an attractive, high-spirited young woman who is the weather girl on a cable network, but has aspirations for greater success. Bertrand could be useful. Meanwhile, the bodyguard is trying to break up the attraction between Bertrand and Audrey. What is Christophe’s real motive?
The film is slickly done and Audrey is quite an eyeful, but while fairly entertaining, “The Girl from Monaco” is still fluff. A Magnolia Pictures release.
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