2006 · comedy
The Valet
Directed by Francis Veber1h 25m2006
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
Our read: The Valet (2006) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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