The Valet

Another uproarious comedy from the king of French farce, Francis Veber (THE DINNER GAME, THE CLOSET, TAIS TOI). When French tycoon Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil) is spied with his supermodel mistress Elena (Alice Taglioni), the pictures end up on the front page of a Paris daily. Telling his powerful wife Christine (Kristen Scott Thomas)—who... More »

Another uproarious comedy from the king of French farce, Francis Veber (THE DINNER GAME, THE CLOSET, TAIS TOI).

When French tycoon Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil) is spied with his supermodel mistress Elena (Alice Taglioni), the pictures end up on the front page of a Paris daily. Telling his powerful wife Christine (Kristen Scott Thomas)—who holds a controlling stake in the companies he runs— that there must have been a mistake, he declares Elena was actually with the other fellow in the photo. Trying to keep one step ahead of his dubious wife, Pierre engineers it so a naive car-park valet, Veber's recurring fool François Pignon (Gad Elmaleh), appears to be Elena's boyfriend, moving her into his flat and his life. As Pierre's web of deceit widens, so do the possibilities of discovery—and with them disaster after hilarious disaster. Less «