In Thomas Gilou’s 1997 French-box-office hit La vérité si je mens/Would I Lie to You?, Eddie (Richard Anconina) was trying to pass so he could gain acceptance in Paris’s Garment District, where he hoped to make his fortune. He’s made the transition and then some in this sequel, but his thriving business is taking a beating from the big discount chains, and when he tries to deal with them, they eat him alive. So this film is not so much about an outsider trying to enter a secluded community as it is about a naive but tough troop of underdogs taking on the smug establishment. Given that the spotlight is more on his loutish colleagues than on the low-key Eddie, it’s hard at first to warm to the film, but their rough charm prevails, and the climactic scene, a triumph of costume design, is a comic gem. In French with English subtitles. (105 minutes)