Fais-moi plaisir! is a 2009 French romantic comedy film directed by

Emmanuel Mouret Emmanuel Mouret (born 30 June 1970) is a French actor, Film director, director and screenwriter. Life and career He was born on 30 June 1970 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. He graduated from La Fémis (9th ...

, also released under the English title ''Please, Please Me!''. It stars Mouret alongside

Judith Godrèche Judith Godrèche (; born 23 March 1972 in Paris) is a French actress, author and feminist activist, who has appeared in more than 30 films. Early life Judith Godrèche was born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Her father is a psychoanalyst ...

, Frédérique Bel,

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and

Jacques Weber Jacques Weber is a French actor, director, and writer. Life and career Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and ...

. It received generally positive reviews from critics in the French-speaking press.

Plot

Ariane is upset one morning when Jean-Jacques, who she lives with, answers his portable phone and speaks to a woman. When she demands an explanation, he tells her the story. An old friend he met in a bar told him a sure way to arouse a woman's interest: you write a heartfelt note asking her to meet you alone in five minutes time. When Jean-Jacques tried it on a train, it worked. He next tried it in a bar with Élisabeth, the one who had just rung him. Ariane decides he must get this out of his system and see this Élisabeth once again, even if he sleeps with her. So he agrees to go to a party that evening at Élisabeth's palatial apartment. Before it begins she takes him to see her father, who is the President of the Republic. Jean-Jacques knows nobody at the party and when it ends Élisabeth takes him to her bedroom, where she passes out. Élisabeth's fiancé then turns up, and Jean-Jacques is smuggled out by the sympathetic maid, Aneth. She takes him back to her apartment to sew up his trousers, which had been damaged, and a romantic night is about to begin when her male flatmate wakes up. Smuggled out, Jean-Jacques is arrested on the street and is only freed when Élisabeth confirms his story. On his way home, he sees Ariane. She says she went to a bar with a girlfriend and was passed a note. Rather full of mojitos, she went out to meet the man and told him off for his cheap misogynistic ploy. He took it very well, bought her some more drinks, and they went back to his apartment. When Jean-Jacques asks what they did, Ariane just says: “The same thing as you”.

Cast

as Jean-Jacques *

as Élisabeth * Frédérique Bel as Ariane *

as Aneth *

as the French President *

Frédéric Épaud Frédéric Épaud (born 12 May 1970) is a French actor. He was born in Les Sables-d'Olonne.

Dany Brillant Dany Brillant (; né Daniel Cohen-Biran; born 28 December 1965 in Tunis), is a French singer of a Jewish- Tunisian origin. Born in Tunis, his parents immigrated to France while he was a newborn infant. They settled in Sainte-Geneviève-des-B ...

as Rudolph

References

External links

* * 2009 films French romantic comedy films Films directed by Emmanuel Mouret 2009 romantic comedy films 2000s French films 2000s French-language films French-language romantic comedy films {{2000s-France-film-stub