The Valet (La Doublure)

The Valet (La Doublure)

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The Valet (La Doublure)

Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Gad Elmaleh, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille

When billionaire Pierre Levasseur is snapped by a papparazzo with Elena, his dazzling, supermodel mistress, he tries to avoid a catastrophic divorce by coming up with an outrageous lie. He asserts to ...( read more  read more... )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.

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  • April 14, 2009
    Francis Veber at its purest, most entertaining, harmless state. So light on its feet it barely touches the ground. It isn't Veber's best film by a long shot, and it isn't anything to leave an extra-large tip for, and you're not going to dent your sides laughing. But it is French ...( read more)comedy at its easiest to handle, starring beautiful, sheerly talented people, and for some, that's all that it needs to be.
  • May 29, 2008
    The cast is great, Paris is beautiful, the story is ammusing (if not trite at times).

    Gad Elmaleh is (once again) absolutely charming as Pignon, the down on his (romantic) luck valet and Kristen Scott Thomas is great as the wife of the philandering millionaire (Daniel Auteuil)...( read more).

    Unfortunatley things just never seem to develope fully. I was almost expecting (when the screen went black) to see a "Insert Disc 2" message pop up, but instead the credits started rolling! We even scrolled through all of the credits, in the hopes that they would have one of those little "epilogue" clips that some films tag on to the end. But nothing.
  • March 30, 2008
    The Valet is such a funny foreign film. Kristin Scott Thomas whom was great in The English Patient co-stars in this comedy.

    A valet is caught in a taploid magazine beside a famous model whom is having an affair with a very wealthy man that is also in the picture. In order to ...( read more)not get divorced the model and valet must con there way to prove they are a happy couple whom live together...it is too funny.
  • October 28, 2007
    A great movie, its in French with English subtitles, but a very funny movie. Alic Taglioni could become a favorite female actor real fast, I'm free for dinner. Worth the rent.
  • December 3, 2009
    So much fun! A lot of French comedies are almost too farcical for my liking, but La Doublure is just silly. The main characters are super likeable, and though it resolved a bit too quickly, it was generally very well-written and enjoyable.
  • November 6, 2009
    "Smart, funny, and romantic...all in one movie"
  • November 5, 2009
    It was alright.Something different
  • October 14, 2009
    Relatively entertaining. Gad Elmaleh was a bit whiny in a Ray Ramone kind of way.
  • September 9, 2009
    C'est bien une comédie à la Weber... ;) :P
  • March 5, 2009
    so entertaining when in french (in french class) typical romantic comedy but soo much more fun with the ever lovely subtitles and realization that you can understand much of what they are saying (-:

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