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Great acting with a Christian Clavier in top form. Good chemistry between him and Gerard Lanvin. Worth watching.

The story is well written, but a bit too many products placements. That is a shame.

Nathalie Baye is as expected, in control.

You will have a pleasant time watching this movie. A safe bet. At the moment too many average or bad comedies out so it is quite refreshing to find a descent one that makes you giggle on a nice rythme without being an over the top comedy. I really think it's deserve more that the 5.4 /10 rating. I usually agree with IMDb's rating but this movie definitely deserve at least a 6.5/10.

It's a movie mainly about rich people and their problems and i don't give a s..t, especially if it's french bourgeoisie in Paris. With all their money, their cars, their shopping and fine clothing, their maid, their driver, they don't have any dust of intelligence or wisdom and they are poor in communicating and sharing together. If their only goals in life are money and sex, well, they don't know what life is about. In addition, this movie isn't funny because it tries to make laugh by taking shoots at the daily life of common people, that's to say us! Geraldine is the only welcoming light in this crap and she is clever enough to run away from it.

Good performance, good production quality . plot is also simple. but the ending is not good, not satisfying.

two couples , 1 married and other living together. their wives lost the passion and they avoid to have sex with their husbands, and then husbands had enough of it and they do something about it.

the married couple is rich (only husband) , wife just enjoying shopping n outing. but she dont want sex with husband because he is snore at sleep? he burp ? he eats loud? the reasons which she doesn't like and they sleep different room.

2nd couple, guy is chauffeur of rich guy , his gf just write some books all the time, but she also dont want sex with him because she doesn't feel passion ? or she want to fulfil her dream?

the movie has really not good ending, especially for rich couple. kinda good ending for poor couple.

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in the end, rich husband saw his wife having an affair with another man, his heart broke. he knew he lost his wife, so he finally divorced her in the end, but as he loves her so he gave him the big apartment that she can live easily, at least. in the end, even wife doesnt regret having sex with other guy , but she want to come back to her husband but its too late.

last scene at lunch when he gave her check. she doesnt say anything or feel regret or sorry , she said " well i was almost rich".. what..? really? ungrateful and unfaithful wife ever.

atleast the another couple had good ending, he slapped her nd kicked her out.

Frankly, the trailers for this film looked a lot more promising than what the finished product turned out to be. We are presented with what appears to be the way bored people with money do with their meaningless lives. Now, we are not opposed that Odile, a woman in a marriage that has seen better days, spends her time in the pricey Parisian boutiques frequented by women like her. After all, if she gets her kicks out of doing that, let her have her fun.

In the meantime, her husband Jean-Pierre is at his wits ends trying to win the affection of her wife. Instead of dealing directly with the problem, he follows his chauffeur Richard's advice seizing Odile's credit cards. If he thinks he will get away with that, he's got another thing coming to him. Richard, the driver, it turns out, has the same problems his boss has, without the money element.

Alexandra Leclere, the writer/director of this French farce, touches on themes that are deeper than what one sees on the screen. Consumerism, machismo, and non-communication between couples that have been married for a while, are some of the themes behind this comedy.

The exceptional cast gathered for the picture deserved better material than what they were given. The marvelous Natalie Baye does all she can with Odile. Christian Claver, who plays Jean-Pierre, makes a good impression. Gerard Lanvin's Richard is instrumental in giving his boss the solution for all his problems. Geraldine Pailhas appears as the wife of Richard, a lady with her own problems in a marriage that is also having difficulties.

There are a few laughs, but in the end the film doesn't completely satisfy. One wishes Ms. Leclere better luck next time.

The title means, "No a**, no cash." The sense conveyed by those words pretty handily sums up the light-but-heavy nature of this film. Jean-Pierre has it all: successful career, beautiful wife, pretty daughter, lots of money, a fabulous apartment and a personal driver to boot. And like so many people of his station in life, he is unhappy.

The reason: his wife, Odile, is also unhappy with their marriage. However, she does not show her unhappiness; she simply casts it aside by not putting out and by going about her lunching and shopping. After seven years of this, Jean-Pierre has had enough. He lets his problems slip to his chauffeur Richard, who has a similar problem, sans argent. But Richard knows what he WOULD do if he had money--and he suggests Jean-Pierre do the same.

Bye, bye, carte bleue (the universal French debit card) ! The premise is entertaining and the actors are excellent. The visuals are not spectacular for a film set in the Paris region, but that fits quite well with the theme: nouveaux riches with too much money, too much time, no taste at all and in general no substance, virility or profondeur. On the whole, the Ménard foyer is one of materialism and avoidance--thus the source of the problem.

However, the poor man doesn't get off any better: between Richard's misplaced machism and unwillingness or inability to communicate on complex ideas and Caroline's inflated ego and voluntary emotional detachment, that marriage is also on the rocks.

The longer the film goes on, though, the more it suffers: the premise is comic enough but the themes and the substance are very heavy, and the ultimate development of events leads to something that simply cannot be swallowed comically. The last third or so of the film would work much better as a melodrama, but it is not properly executed as such.

The ending is a welcome positive note, but on the whole I have to think that this would have been much better had it been shot on a more up-scale, serious, "classical" level.