REVIEW. French comedy as we all love it. Champagne-froth but with a heart-felt message. Francis Veber’s movie is the funniest French Comedy I have seen recently. Fabulous!

WHERE. DVD. 2006. Madman.

Daniel Auteil (a great actor) is a billionaire who gets photographed with his supermodel mistress & a valet. Caught in a trap by his long-time wife (Kristin Scott-Thomas), he does what any Frenchman would do.

i.e. Concoct an incredibly stupid plan to regain the wife’s trust & keep the mistress. It’s French farce.

Having known more than a few French people over the years, I can say that sometimes their lives do resemble their movies. So for me, at least, the love quadrangle is a fair call.

20,000,32,450 EUROS later, he is the proud renter of 1 valet, 1 apartment, 1 supermodel and some optional curtains.

Needless to say the valet, Gad Elmaleh, is the star turn of the piece as he turns being a low-paid valet into an advantage, to try & get his real girlfriend interested in him again.

Whilst he lives with a billionaire’s super-model & his valet work colleagues turn purple. And the billionaire’s & wife’s minions duke it out, curtains and all. The curtains are very important…

French farce. Four-letter funny, French, pithy, witty and seductively sly.

I can’t watch most Hollywood comedies any more. And if you’re bored with the usual schtick Sandler-style formula flicks, give the French (or Italian) oeuvre a try.

Do, then, start with the Valet. At 88 minutes. You’ll laugh.

It’s really a gem of a movie. Enjoy with a glass of Syrah!