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  • Actors: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry
  • Directors: Francis Veber
  • Writers: Francis Veber
  • Producers: Francis Veber, Candice Zaccagnino, Francesco Pamphili, Patrice Ledoux
  • Format: PAL
  • Language French, English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Gaumont
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Oct 2006
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000H0MHMW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 74,066 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant but rather short of real laughs, 16 Jun 2009
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Valet [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
The Valet (aka La Doublure, which translates much more appropriately as The Stand-In) is another one of Francis Veber's glossy and generally well cast comedies where the strength of the premise and the filmmaker's good nature somehow seem to make it not matter so much that the film itself isn't particularly funny. When tycoon Daniel Auteuil is photographed in the street with his supermodel mistress Alice Taglioni, to prevent his wife (Kristen Scott Thomas) - the majority shareholder in his company - from divorcing and bankrupting him, he claims that her boyfriend is actually a passer-by in the photo, Gad Elmaleh's valet at a swank restaurant (the latest in a long line of Veber sadsacks called Francois Pignon). Since his girlfriend Virginie Ledoyen has turned down his proposal of marriage citing the loan her new bookshop is paying off, he agrees to the deception if Auteuil will pay it off. But while Elmaleh suddenly becomes a minor celebrity and the envy of his friends because of his new girlfriend, Scott Thomas isn't fooled for a moment but decides to play along with the deception until she can get enough evidence to hang her errant husband out to dry...

So, no shortage of comic potential. Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond could have had a field day with the plot, but Veber seems to like his characters too much to really let rip at their expense - even Elmaleh's vain yuppie mobile phone salesman rival for Ledoyen's hand gets off pretty lightly. Too often the film seems to let its best chances slip through the cracks. Indeed, there is even a very curious gap in the film's narrative after Elmaleh agrees to the deception where it literally looks as if a reel is missing: we never see him and Taglioni meet but suddenly jump ahead rather jarringly after she's already settled-in at his apartment. Unfortunately the central couple are rather outshone because, aside from being likeable, they're not really given enough to do, with most of the laughs coming from the characters on the sidelines. There's some comic mileage from Dany Boon's reactions to his flatmate's sudden change in fortunes and from Richard Berry's straight faced lawyer, but the biggest laughs come from Michel Aumont's ageing Doctor who always ends up being treated by his patients on his house calls. Still, while it's not up to the standards of The Closet/La Placard, Le Diner de Cons or La Chevre, it's a distinct improvement over Tas-Toi.

The 2.35:1 widescreen transfer on Sony's Region 1 NTSC DVD is quite good, though the second line of subtitles is slightly cropped off at the bottom on widescreen TVs. Still, Sony have put together a good extras package - an English-language commentary by Veber and a 45-minute French making-of documentary as well as scores of trailers for other Sony foreign films, though not, curiously enough, for The Valet itself.
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