French Film Festival May 15, 2008

The film that will be featured today at Cine Club is "La Vérité si je mens! 2". A comedy revolving around the life of jobless and penniless, Eddie Vuibert who has the good fortune to run into Victor Benzakhem, a Jewish businessman who manages a successful textile business in an immigrant quarter of Paris. Mistaking Eddie for a fellow Jew, Victor offers him a warehouse job. Eddie negotiates a good sale, Victor is impressed and makes him a salesman. But soon, the two men begin to fall out. Eddie falls in love with his employer’s daughter, Sandra, and, in an attempt to show he is worthy of her, he embarks on an ill-fated business idea. When the scheme falls through, his friend Dov is there to help him out and Sandra still wants to marry him. But for how long can Eddie hide the fact that he is not a Jew from his future bride and father-in-law..?