Q:Build a movie plot around this: What does she teach Jean? The tricks of gold-digging.
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Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a waiter/barman at a luxury hotel, is mistaken to be a millionaire by Irene (Audrey Tautou), a gold digger who convinces wealthy men to fund her lavish lifestyle in exchange for companionship and sex. Irene's elderly lover gets drunk and falls asleep on her birthday, so she goes to the bar in the hotel where she and Jean meet. After making her several impressive cocktails they retire, tipsy, to the hotel's Imperial suite where they spend the night together. In the morning, Jean awakens to find Irene has gone.A year later Irene returns to the hotel with Jacques, who asks her to marry him. Irene is surprised to see Jean and he manages to conceal his occupation from her again. Jean and Irene sleep together again, but Jacques sees them and breaks off the engagement. Irene goes to Jean pretending she gave up Jacques to be with him, but as they lie in bed together, they are discovered by guests and staff in the Imperial suite. When Irene discovers who Jean really is, she walks out. However, Jean is now in love and follows her, finding her at Cote d'Azur. Pursuing her, he spends all the money to his name to pay for her presence, including his savings and pension plan, until he uses his final euro for "10 more seconds" to look into her eyes.Irene leaves him for another rich man and Jean is left with a hotel bill he can't pay. Luckily, Jean is picked up by a wealthy widow, Madeline, who pays his bills in exchange for his companionship. Irene bumps into him again with another lover, Gilles. She is a little jealous, but now that they are "equals", she teaches Jean the tricks of gold-digging. Using her advice, he soon wheedles a 30,000 watch from Madeleine, after she forced him to have plastic surgery on his ear. On a shopping spree, Irene meets up with Jean and coyly offers him the euro for "10 more seconds".Jean continues to prove himself a skillful gold digger and he and Irene steal away from their sponsors at every chance they get to meet, falling in love in the process. On the...