OSS 117: LOST IN RIO - film May 7, 2010

OSS 117: LOST IN RIO
French comedic spy spoof filled with adventure
Opens at Nuart, Los Angeles on May 7, 2010

Landmark’s Nuart Theatre (310) 281-8223
Tickets are $10.00 for general admission and $8.00 for seniors, students and children
Showtimes (valid 5/7-5/13): Fri-Sun at 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 & 10:00; Mon-Thu at 5:00, 7:30 & 10:00

Showtimes and tickets available at theatre box office and at:
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets/

He’s France’s top agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (the fabulous Jean Dujardin), better known as OSS 117, agent double-one-seven (or “one seventeen” as he would have it). Suave yet clueless, a cross between James Bond and Austin Powers, OSS 117 is back for another mission, following his smash debut in OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies. Dispatched to Rio to purchase an incriminating microfilm containing the names of French WWII collaborators from a Nazi in hiding (Rudiger Vogler), he teams up with a beautiful Mosad colonel (Louise Monot)—after first mistaking her for the secretary—whose mini skirt and kinky boots disguise dangerously forward-thinking views on women’s lib and world politics. Along the way they encounter the Nazi’s hippie son Heinrich, a C.I.A. agent named Trumendous, and a man-eating alligator. Masked Mexican wrestler bodyguards, not to mention pesky Chinese hitmen after agent 117 for a past grievance, make matters irksome. LOST IN RIO culminates in a North By Northwest-meets-Vertigo sequence on Rio’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking the city that you won’t want to miss! Note: Contains risqué sexual humor. (France, 2009)
Official film website: http://www.musicboxfilms.com/oss-117-lost-in-rio

“Not only is it funny, it looks and feels fantastic, thanks to its duplication of the breezily kitsch cinematography and direction of Sixties spy flicks, right down to the Technicolor wash.” -Ben Machell Times UK

“The chief glory is the way its director, Michel Hazanavicius, manages to copy the thrillers of the time while taking the mickey out of them - this is funny, mischievous and sly.” –Derek Malcolm This is London

“Michel Hazanavicius's parodic return to the 1950s espionage novels of Jean Bruce is sharp, uproarious and outrageous…” –David Parkinson Radio Times

The film’s running time is 97 minutes; the film is not rated. In French; fully subtitled in English.