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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

directed by Michel Hazanavicius
starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Béjo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefèbvre, Constantin Alexandrov, Saïd Amadis, Claude Brosset

A box-office sensation in France, comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude.

After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, Hubert is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack's death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France's reputation, quells a fundamentalist rebellion and brokers peace in the Middle East.

A blithe and witty send-up not only of spy films of that era and the suave secret agent figure but also neo-colonialism, ethnocentrism and the very idea of Western covert action in the Middle East.

Awards

  • 2006 Seattle International Film Festival - Audience Award
  • 2006 Tokyo International Film Festival - Grand Prix

Press Reactions

  • Sparkling production design, a jubilantly retro score and a genuine flair for using the film and TV vocabulary of the '60s to revisit colonial arrogance put pic in the same conceptual ballpark as Austin Powers or 'The Naked Gun' series. - Variety
  • This inspired piece of silliness boasts gorgeous period design, deftly tweaks French colonial smugness and, in Jean Dujardin's self-mocking playfulness as Agent 117, offers a charging comic turn, closer in spirit to Cary Grant than Mike Myers. - Vogue
  • Perfectly mimics the swinging style of Connery-era James Bond... With a wry sense of humor and killer visual design, it's the best skewering of the intelligence community since the Bay of Pigs. - Radar Magazine
  • An uproarious send-up. A lead actor who plays the role to clueless, arched-eyebrow perfection - LA Weekly

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Jean Dujardin as OSS 117

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Béjo as Larmina

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Béjo

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Jean Dujardin and Abdellah Moundy as Slimane

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Director
Michel Hazanavicius


Technical Information

Production Year
2006
Country of Production
France
Language
French with English subtitles
Running Time
99 min
Screen Ratio
2.35:1
Sound
Dolby digital
Rating
unrated