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FREEDOM SPIES
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Santa Fe Reporter
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June 11, 2008
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FREEDOM SPIES
Working title: The Spy Who Made L'Amour to Me.
The French Ministry of Culture may have enacted laws that mandate 40 percent of music made in France to be in French, but that doesn't mean a French filmmaker can't purloin 90 percent of his film from English-speaking influences. Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius has done just that with his Get Smart meets Austin Powers spy film send-up, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies.
The results of Hazanavicius' thievery are mixed. Nest of Spies' primary strength lies in its fantastically detailed aesthetic recreation of the spy films of the 1960s. It's also got a few very funny scenes. But its total laugh-count is middung and its overwrought, ...