De vrais mensonges is a French comedyromance film starring Audrey Tautou and directed by Pierre Salvadori, released in 2010. The screenplay was written by Salvadori and Benot Graffin.
milie Audrey Tautou, coowner of a hair salon, receives an anonymous love letter from her worker Jean Sami Bouajila who, unknown to milie, is highly educated but took up the handyman job in the salon after a depression. milie doesnt fall for the love letter but passes it on to her mother Maddy Nathalie Baye who is depressed since the breakup of her marriage. Maddy falls for the love letter and is in high spirits again. Jeans high education as a translator in several Asian and European languages is uncovered in a verbal fight in Chinese with two women. milie is now fearing criticism from Jean as her education is no match to his.In the meanwhile Maddy is losing her high spirits as no new letter arrives. milie then writes new anonymous letters to her mother, but the letters style get heavily criticised for the lack of style and emotion. To avoid Jean he is sent out to do errands, posting the mail is one of them and when he runs out of stamps he delivers one letter by himself, another anonymous faux love letter from milie to Maddy. Jean is being witnessed posting the letter and Maddy follows him back to the salon and consequently she flirts with whom she believes is her secret admirer. ........
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