“A delectable comedy! A sinfully delicious bonbon! Francis Veber
is a master of the modern French farce.”
Stephen Holden, The New York Times

THE VALET

Written and Directed by Academy Award Nominee ®Francis Veber
Starring Academy Award Nominee® Kristin Scott Thomas and Daniel Auteuil

Available on DVD September 18, 2007

Culver City, CA (July 16, 2007) –From Academy Award nominee® writer-director Francis Veber (1980, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, La Cage aux Folles) comes The Valet, a delightful comedy about mistaken identities and star-crossed lovers. This Sony Pictures Classics film features an international cast including Academy Award® nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (1997, Best Actress in a Leading Role, The English Patient) and Daniel Auteuil (Caché) and will debut on DVD September 18 for an SRP of $29.95. In a career which spans more than 30 years, Francis Veber is one of the most successful and prolific French writer/directors of all time. His hit French films have been admired and remade in America by some of the best filmmakers, including L’Emmerdeur, which, as Buddy, Buddy, was directed by Billy Wilder; Le Jouet, directed by Richard Donner as The Toy and La Cage Aux Folles, directed by Mike Nichols as The Birdcage. The Valet, his latest hit, continues his tradition of putting simple characters into extraordinary circumstances which force them to take stock of their lives, with hilarious results.

DVD Special Features
•“Making of The Valet”
•Commentary with writer/director Francis Veber

Synopsis
François (Gad Elmaleh), a parking valet at a posh Paris restaurant, is photographed by a paparazzo leaving the restaurant along with Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil), a wealthy tycoon, and his beautiful supermodel mistress Elena (Alice Taglioni). In a desperate attempt to avoid an ugly divorce with his wife Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas), Pierre’s scheming lawyer (Richard Berry) concocts an outrageous plan. By paying the valet a large sum of money to live with Pierre’s mistress, the two men hope to mislead the tabloids and, most importantly, hide the affair from Christine. Meanwhile, the ruthless Pierre must convince the stunning Elena to live with François in his crummy apartment until the dust settles. All the while, he continues to reassure his wife that François is really Elena’s boyfriend.

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