Beautiful Lies

Beautiful Lies stars Audrey Tautou as Emilie (yes Emilie, not Amélie) the owner of a hairdressing salon full of oddball characters situated in the sultry south of France. Emilie receives a passionate hand-written anonymous love letter from shy salon handyman Jean (Sami Bouajila) which she promptly discards; but when she later visits her mother Maddy (Nathalie Baye) and finds her still distraught over the betrayal of Emilie’s father, she hatches a plan to re-send the love letter anonymously to Maddy, to cheer her up. The trick works a little too well, and a rejuvenated Maddy falls head over heels with the sender, eventually believing it to be Jean. As Emilie tries to pay Jean to date her mother and keep up the pretence she finds herself falling for him herself, culminating in an awkward and funny love triangle.