English titles: Keep an Eye on Amelia; Oh Amelia!
Based on a play by Georges Feydeau, first performed in 1908.
Amélie is a courtesan, supported by her lover, a military officer. She is to feign marriage to another man so the latter receives an inheritance. In the midst of all that, a foreign prince wants her as his mistress.
An amusing farce, creatively transposed to the cinema. The boundaries of the several levels of diegesis are deliberately blurred: the story we watch is seen as a play being performed in a theater, the spectators interfere with the action, etc.
Rating: 63
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