OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

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OSS 117 - Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
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STARS...........: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, François Damiens,
DIRECTOR........: Michel Hazanavicius
WRITERS.........: Jean-François Halin, Michel Hazanavicius
GENRE...........: Action, Adventure, Comedy
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1167660
RUNTIME.........: 1h 39mn
SIZE............: 3.43 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC ([email protected])
BITRATE.........: 4200 Kbps (CRF)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x820
ASPECT RATIO....: 2.35:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: French E-AC3 5.1 640kbps
AUDIO2..........: Commentary with Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin (FRE)
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Gaumont Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2020-11-07
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies constitutes the eighth installment in a long-running series of movies about OSS 117 -- a French super-spy and European equivalent of James Bond. The creation of author Jean Bruce, OSS eventually starred in over 265 novels and seven cinematizations through 1970. The first seven film outings were sober and straight-faced; the eighth go-round (the first after a 38-year lapse) does a 180 to shamelessly poke fun of the rules established by the genre. A glib yet intelligent spoof, it joins the ranks of Our Man Flint (1965), Aghaye Hallou (1970), Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street (1984), and other international pictures that glibly satirize the subgenre made infamous to Americans by Bond; like Mad Mission 3, it even packs in an OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) with a startling resemblance to Sean Connery. The film's comic conceit involves making OSS 117 arrogant, conceited, culturally insensitive, chauvinistic, and thoroughly moronic; yet the character somehow manages to slide through outrageously dangerous situations unscathed, time and again. The teaser prologue finds OSS 117 in Berlin, where he outwits the Nazis by stealing vital documents from them, hijacks an Axis plane in mid-nosedive, and saves himself and the craft at the last yawning moment. Ten years later, he journeys from Rome to Cairo, where he investigates the death of a fellow agent, posing as the proprietor of a chicken farm. His "side" activities during this jaunt involve hammering out a peace arrangement for the Middle East, keeping tabs on the Suez Canal, and monitoring the Russians. Jean-François Halin scripted the film, maintaining an utterly deadpan tone throughout; Michel Hazanavicius directed