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About the Film
Director: Francis Veber
Actors: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil
About the Film
When billionaire Pierre Levasseur is snapped by a paparazzo with Elena, his dazzling, supermodel mistress, he tries to avoid a catastrophic divorce by coming up with an outrageous lie. He asserts to his wife that a third person, a passerby, François Pignon, who is also on the photograph, was in fact with Elena. She's Pignon's girlfriend not his. Pignon is a parking valet. He's a very ordinary fellow. Levasseur, to back up his lie, has to convince the overly beautiful Elena to go live with Pignon. Elena, shacked up with Pignon, is a bird of paradise in an apartment in the sticks. It's also a load of comic situations for The Valet.Praise
Francis Veber's The Valet, from his own screenplay, turns out to be a surprisingly satisfying Parisian screen farce.– Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
A deft, daft, totally unbelievable yet somehow totally engaging comedy.- Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
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This program is made possible thanks in part to TV5MONDE, the Mosaïque Cultural Fund and Steven Galante, Chairman of the French Library.
Refreshments for this event have been provided by Vinadeis.
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