basically the storyline be as hackneyed a could be represent wealthy exec ( daniel auteuil ) get catch in the company of a supermodel ( alice taglioni ) who be not his wife ( kristin scott thomas ) . to avoid scandal and the possibility of divorce and lose half his fortune and auteuil and his lawyer concoct a scheme whereby an innocent bystander ( gad elmaleh ) who happen to be very close when the incriminating picture be snap will be pay to pretend that taglioni be his girlfriend and living with him . alas this complicate life for elmaleh and a working class valet and in his pursuit of his own true love and a struggle book store owner play by virginie ledoyen . and taglioni get more and more angry at auteuil for dicking her around and promising to divorce his wife but clearly not want to . this plot could come out of a screwball comedy from the 30 and three company and any number of french or italian sex farce of the 60 70 and etc . that alone isn not necessarily a problem and but when you have get a really ordinary and simple storyline you have really get to work to make it interesting and alas writer or director francis veber doesn not do anything with the material that isn not highly predictable and dull . auteuil spend much of his time mugging or get over the top angry and become more and more of a scumbag a the film go on want to guess whether he and taglioni end up together at the end . scott thomas be one note severe and calculate and nasty it clear from the first that she and auteuil deserve each other . our lowly valet manages to prove his love for his bookstore owner ideal and the supermodel turn out to be the nice and most mature person of the whole bunch and those that deserve to be happy be and etc . there be some nice touch here and there the valet father be chronically sick and but the doctor who attend him be even sick and the father end up attend to his physician more than the reverse while i kind of like the jag off cell phone salesman who be also pursue ledoyen and at least at first and he so over the top smarmy . but mostly this be by the number rom com and and with a pg 13 rating it doesn not even get to have any sex to speak of very mild and lack in juice all around . and what be with the extremely bright and overlit cinematography throughout . it paris and not cannes . at least it be short .