Movie Cosmos - OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Description:

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

Top Cast >

Jean Dujardin

As Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117

Bérénice Bejo

As Larmina El Akmar Betouche

Aure Atika

As La princesse Al Tarouk

Philippe Lefebvre

As Jack Jefferson

Konstantin Aleksandrov

As Setine

Saïd Amadis

As Le ministre égyptien

Laurent Bateau

As Gardenborough

Claude Brosset

As Le patron

François Damiens

As Raymond Pelletier

Youssef Hamid

As L'imam

Khalid Maadour

As Le suiveur

Arsène Mosca

As Loktar

Abdellah Moundy

As Slimane

Eric Prat

As Plantieux

Richard Sammel

As Moeller

Top Crew >

Michel Hazanavicius

Adaptation, Director

Nicolas Altmayer

Producer

Eric Altmayer

Producer

Jean Bruce

Novel

Betty Beauchamp

Makeup Artist

Jean-François Halin

Scenario Writer, Adaptation

Noureddine Aberdine

First Assistant Director

Luc Bricault

Second Assistant Director

Bettina Keller

Key Hair Stylist

Amina El Halhouli

Makeup Artist

Mustapha Grumij

Second Assistant Director

Harry Bardak

Visual Effects

Julien Fabbris

Visual Effects

Didier Saïn

Sound

Rachid Doha

Third Assistant Director

Sade Zeriffi

Second Assistant Director

Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux

Assistant Director

Philippe Guégan

Stunt Coordinator

Delphine Heude

Third Assistant Director

Matthew Gledhill

First Assistant Director

Natacha Raymond

Assistant Camera

Hind Ghazali

Set Decoration

Stéphane Touitou

Casting

Ludovic Bource

Original Music Composer

Maamar Ech-Cheikh

Production Design

Kamel Ech-Cheik

Original Music Composer

Charlotte David

Costume Design

Alexandre Husson

Set Decoration

Fabrice Leuci

Art Direction

Reynald Bertrand

Editor

Guillaume Schiffman

Director of Photography

Reviews:

talisencrw (9/10)

This was a solid debut for Hazanavicius and a very fun film. There's uneven pacing, but I was very pleased with this, which seemed an interesting hybrid between the James Bond and Pink Panther film series. I loved the scoring and cinematography as well. Dujardin's character was a bit strange and the pacing was a tad uneven, but those are small flaws. This is the first of Hazanavicius' films I have seen, though I have 'The Artist' on blu. I've heard that in the sequel, he jumps a decade to the 60's--it would be interesting, if they decide to eventually continue the series, if each film could be of following decades, straight through to the present day. It was clever of the writers, through parallelism, to subconsciously suggest a linkage of the Nazis to radical Arab terrorists, so soon after 9/11, and, six years before 'Skyfall', what anyone knowing anything about espionage and counterintelligence would undoubtedly know--that all agents would probably be bisexual. I look forward to checking out Hazanavicius' other films, and hope there are eventually more in this series, for I have loved all kinds of spy films and spoofs of them, in the history of cinema.

2016-05-11