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The story is farcical and falling-down funny, and yet the actors treat Veber’s material as if it were all serious. Considering how duplicitous married people are when they cheat – playing both sides while stringing everyone along – this seems entirely reasonable. She promises his lawyer (Richard Berry) that he’ll get the money back if Pierre divorces his wife. The model turns out to be no dummy, and though she does demand a deposit of 20 million Euros before she agrees to play along with Pierre’s subterfuge, she isn’t really a gold digger either.
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She’s been married to a Frenchman and lived in that country for years.) The film is full of excellent performances, including a particularly sly lead from Elmaleh as Francois. (If the English actress’ impeccable French accent is a surprise, it shouldn’t be. Scott Thomas is a worthy foil as his wife, and in just a few scenes she makes you understand why Pierre is afraid of her.
It’s a rare opportunity to see Auteuil working from such manic energy, and his splenetic rages at Francois – whom he begins to suspect is playing him … and playing with Elena – are priceless gall. But instead of the story focusing on the unhappy couple, in “The Valet” the humor all radiates out from them, like spokes in a wheel.Īuteuil is France’s pre-eminent screen actor – he starred in “Cache`,” one of the top films of 2005 – and “The Valet” marks his return to comedy and a collaboration with Veber that began in 2001 with “The Closet.” The movie’s setup isn’t very different from “Green Card,” the American picture from 1990 in which Gerard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell enter into a marriage of convenience, then are thrown together when immigration authorities start watching them. That’s why unlucky Pierre needs a beard who parks cars. She’s onto her husband’s affair, and has hired a private detective to force him to choose between her and his mistress. (Even the poor guy’s father thinks he’s aiming too high.) After she turns him down, he’s so busy pining that his gorgeous new roommate hardly impresses him at all.īillionaire bon vivant Pierre Levasseur (Auteuil) is the CEO of a huge corporation, but remains at the mercy of his wife Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas), who retains control of a majority of the company’s stock. But the valet has already overreached in one of the movie’s opening scenes by asking Emilie (Virginie Ledoyen) to marry him. It becomes a very different movie, for instance, if Francois develops a crush on Elena (Alice Taglioni), the beautiful supermodel living in his crummy apartment. Like any good comedy, “The Valet” is an intricate mechanism that would quickly fall apart if all the pieces weren’t carefully fitted together.
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