Une Chance Sur Deux (aka Half A Chance) (1998)

After serving an eight month prison sentence for stealing cars, a young girl (Vanessa Paradis) receives a taped message from her recently deceased mother. On the tape, the mother reveals she was in love with two men (Alain Delon, Jean Paul Belmondo) at the same time and one of them is the girl's father. Directed by Patrice LeConte (MONSIEUR HIRE). What starts out as a charming comedy about a young girl seeking the identity of her father takes a different turn about forty minutes into the movie when she steals a car containing drug money from a Russian cartel. Then it becomes an action movie and while still grandly entertaining, I started to lose interest in it. Delon and Belmondo are icons of French cinema. Here, both in their 60s, they've lost their matinee idol looks and make for a delightful pair of rival seniors clucking over their newfound daughter. I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't snapped it up for an American remake. There's a nice underscore by Alexandre Desplat. With Eric Defosse and Michel Aumont.