An Audrey Tautou product to be filed right alongside 2006's
Priceless,
Beautiful Lies has the go-to-gamine as a hair salon owner riled by her mother's refusal to get on with life after her husband's abscondment, and discombobulated to discover that the office handyman is something of an intellectual prodigy. Who, meanwhile, is hopelessly in love with her, of which she's quite unaware. Yes, it's a romantic comedy ripe with farcical potential, the type that the French have made their bread and butter, and consequently repeatedly execute with panache.
Beautiful Lies does have its share of succulently embarrassing quandaries, but falls on one critical hurdle: making the inevitable romantic union between the leads desirable. Too much faith is placed on Tautou's trademark adorableness, when her character here is actually just a petty manipulative bitch undeserving of riding off into the sunset glowing, no matter how much she's supposed to have been redeemed by a weepy catharsis.
5/10
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