Stream The Valet Online
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 |
Stream The Valet Online.
Movie Title: The Valet The Valet is available for streaming or downloading. |
Genuinely funny all the way through. I DON”T watch films described as “hilarious”, “zany” as I always find them, in my opinon, stupid. I like real people and real situations. This movie is genuinely funny and the characters are true to themselves. This movie has warm humor. Don’t miss it.
There is a scene in “The Lion in Winter” where Eleanor of Aquitaine is explaining the current royal machination and her son Geoffrey says: “I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it.” Geoffrey then offers a wicked smile and adds, “We’re a knowledgeable family.” I was remind of that line while watching “La Doublure” (”The Valet”), because in this 2006 French farce pretty much everybody knows what is going on, with the ironic exception of the guy who set all this nonsense into motion. In that regard writer-director Francis Veber’s film is not a typical French farce where things are played broadly. As French farces go, “La Doublure” is rather sedate, which I thought actually worked for the film. Farce tends to make everybody look stupid, but Veber clearly decides to make one character the butt of this film.
Buy,Download, Or Stream The Valet! Click Here
That would be Pierre Lavasseur (Daniel Auteuil, “Un Coeur en Hiver”), the chief executive of a company with labor problems who is having an affair with a top model, Elena Simonsen (Alice Taglioni, “Grande Ecole”). Lavasseur’s problems begin with a paparazzi takes a photograph that appears on the front page of a tabloid showing him with Elena. His wife, Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas, “The English Patient”), demands an explanation and all Levasseur can come up with is the lame excuse that he is just an innocent bystander, that he has no idea who the woman is, and that must have been with the other guy in the photograph. That would be Francois Pignon (Gad Elmaleh, “Gad Elmaleh Lautre C’est Moi”), who makes his modest living by parking cars, hence the film’s title. Elena gives Levassuer an ultimatum to either divorce his wife and marry her, or forget about seeing her ever again. A divorce is problematic for Levassuer because his wife happens to be the majority stockholder in his company. Then his laywer, Maitre Foix (Richard Berry), suggests that the solution to all of these problems is to make the lie the truth by finding the innocent bystander in the photography and paying him to pretend he is Elena’s lover.
Francois is in love with Emilie (Virginia Ledoyen, “The Beach”), who runs the local bookstore, but she thinks of him more like a brother. Besides, she is drowning in debt and does not need to marry somebody who has less money than she does. So when Foix shows up and makes the offer to Francois, he immediately demands a specific amount of money equal to that of Emilie’s debts. Elena demands money herself: 20 million euros to go into a trust. If Levasseur divorces his wife, he gets the money back. So it is that Elena moves in with Francois, while both Levasseur and his wife have the faux couple spied upon.
Buy,Download, Or Stream The Valet! Click Here
Without even trying hard you can figure out the sort of things that are going to happen next, especially once Emilie sees Francois and Elena together, not to mention the possibilities when Francois and Elena have to sleep in a bed together. But “La Doublure” forgoes most of those commonplaces and pretty much fast-forwards through the rest. Francois and Elena quickly become friends and she is more than willing to help him with his romance of Emilie. Your assumption is that everybody has to maintain the masquerade with comedic results, but instead Veber makes sure that everybody is in on what is going on. Christine knows that what is happening with Francois and Elena is fake and they know that she knows it. In fact, the fun here is that the only one who does not know that everybody knows is Levasseur. The resolution is also relatively low-keyed, but by this point it is clearly Veber running against form. That might cut against the grain for those who embrace the full-fledged French farce, but I liked the change of pace enough to round up on “La Doublure” in the end.
Watch NFL Football Games Online | Watch NFL Playoffs Online Live
Watch NFL Football Games Online | Watch NFL Playoffs Online Live
Watch Online TV Shows | Watch Sports Online | watch online movies
Watch NFL Football Games Online | Watch NFL Playoffs Online Live
Eliminate Credit Card Debts | Get Rid of Credit Card Debt Now | Credit Card Debt Consolidation