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THE VALET
FRANCE, 2006, 85 MIN, Rated PG-13
DIRECTED BY FRANCIS VEBER
In French with English subtitles

Francis Veber (The Dinner Party) brings audiences another hilarious and quick-witted film centering upon the exploits of his recurring character, Francois Pignon (Gad Elmaleh). Here Pignon, an unassuming car valet at a posh Parisian hotel, inadvertently gets mixed up in the devious infidelities of powerful CEO Pierre Levasseur, (Daniel Auteuil, himself an ex-Pignon in The Closet) when he is photographed leaving the hotel with the billionaire industrialist and his supermodel mistress, Elena (Alice Taglioni). Desperate, Pierre and his lawyer must convince Pignon to act as Elena's live-in boyfriend in order to save Pierre from divorce. But things get complicated when Pierre's wife (Kristin Scott Thomas, The English Patient) discovers the truth and concocts her own schemes. Meanwhile, Pignon, who only wants to love a bookstore clerk played by Virginie Ledoyen (8 Women), winds up in the middle of an uproarious media blitz. Veber's balancing act of broad farce and witty dialogue is always cause for celebration, and The Valet is another fine effort from this comic craftsman.