Jean Dujardin & Michel Hazanavicius, OSS 117: Lost in Rio



In OSS 117: Lost in Rio, France's Bond-style secret agent OSS 117 is back, bringing with him even more pointed idiocy and slapstick adventure. Jean Dujardin reprises the peerlessly preening, Clouseau-like anti-hero of Michel Hazanavicius' 2006 OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies in a sequel that sees OSS 117 still not quite caught up with the era's dramatic upheavals. The 1967-set escapade finds the bumbling boob pursuing fugitive Nazis while partnered with a beautiful Israeli agent (Louise Monot). Dujardin and Hazanavicius, in French and English, try to seriously discuss the obstacles of sending up a racist, sexist embodiment of French cultural supremacy while still finding laughs (29 minutes).
 

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