This is a film about a woman with the above name (information in French: Imogène McCarthery), a mixture between James Bond, Chief Inspector Jacques Closeau and one of Louis de Funès characters.
Imogène (Catherine Frot) is Scotish and very proud of that, although living and working in England. She loves rugby and bagpipes.
She works as an secretary at the British Admiralty with a superior who she detests and of course this feeling is mutual. They quarrel all the time and one day her superior tells her that the Big Boss - sir Woolish (Michel Aumont) - wants to talk to her.
She prepare herself being dicharged from her job but instead he assigns her for a secret mission to Scotland and notably her hometown Callander, where she was born and where she lived for many years.
Her mission is to deliver a secret document containing a plan for a new war aircraft, to one of their contacts in Scotland.
On the train down she encounters three Scottish men with whom she becomes acquainted.
Unfortunately it turns out to be three Russian spies, inviting her to drink her favourite alcohol, whiskey.
This leads to that she falls asleep. Meantime they steal the plan.
When arriving she is met by her gouvernante (who later turns out to be her mother) and she also meets her first love Samuel Tyler (Lambert Wilson).
He is now working as a police man - or at least that is what it seems as.
She becomes aware of that the plan is stolen, in connection to her meeting the contact person and now the hunt to find starts, confronting her with 'tough' Russian agents among others.
In a way I found that this film couldn't really decide whether it should be a straigth forward, silly comedy or somewhat more 'serious'. It ended up in between I think.
This might be due to the fact that there where comical hints that I didn't understand, connected to the fact that England and France to some degree has been enemies over the years and that they like to make fun of each other (this in spite of the fact that they helped France during the Second World War and also protected France 'war hero' no 1 - or coward - Charles de Gaulle).
All 'British' characters talked French and the only French woman in the film talked French with a British accent!
The French sense of humour?
Well I can't say that I always understand French humour mais c'est pas grave!
A kindheartedly film with some good laughs and maybe more so among the French audience, better understanding the 'blinks'?
Directors: Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier. This two have also collaborated - as writers - when making the films R.T.T.; Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis and Astérix aux jeux olympiques.
Imogène (Catherine Frot) is Scotish and very proud of that, although living and working in England. She loves rugby and bagpipes.
She works as an secretary at the British Admiralty with a superior who she detests and of course this feeling is mutual. They quarrel all the time and one day her superior tells her that the Big Boss - sir Woolish (Michel Aumont) - wants to talk to her.
She prepare herself being dicharged from her job but instead he assigns her for a secret mission to Scotland and notably her hometown Callander, where she was born and where she lived for many years.
Her mission is to deliver a secret document containing a plan for a new war aircraft, to one of their contacts in Scotland.
On the train down she encounters three Scottish men with whom she becomes acquainted.
Unfortunately it turns out to be three Russian spies, inviting her to drink her favourite alcohol, whiskey.
This leads to that she falls asleep. Meantime they steal the plan.
When arriving she is met by her gouvernante (who later turns out to be her mother) and she also meets her first love Samuel Tyler (Lambert Wilson).
He is now working as a police man - or at least that is what it seems as.
She becomes aware of that the plan is stolen, in connection to her meeting the contact person and now the hunt to find starts, confronting her with 'tough' Russian agents among others.
In a way I found that this film couldn't really decide whether it should be a straigth forward, silly comedy or somewhat more 'serious'. It ended up in between I think.
This might be due to the fact that there where comical hints that I didn't understand, connected to the fact that England and France to some degree has been enemies over the years and that they like to make fun of each other (this in spite of the fact that they helped France during the Second World War and also protected France 'war hero' no 1 - or coward - Charles de Gaulle).
All 'British' characters talked French and the only French woman in the film talked French with a British accent!
The French sense of humour?
Well I can't say that I always understand French humour mais c'est pas grave!
A kindheartedly film with some good laughs and maybe more so among the French audience, better understanding the 'blinks'?
Directors: Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier. This two have also collaborated - as writers - when making the films R.T.T.; Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis and Astérix aux jeux olympiques.
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