Bon Voyage (2003)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 115m
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Grégori Derangère, Peter Coyote, Aurore Clément
Synopsis:
As Paris falls to Hitler's advance, a film star, a government minister to whom she has attached herself, a young writer who has taken the fall for her, a Jewish scientist with a carload of heavy water and his adoring assistant all converge on Bordeaux where they await the decision of the cabinet regarding capitulation.
Review:
Busy comedy-melodrama in the best French tradition (some of the situations and character clashes do indeed seem remarkably dated); it deals with a period of the gravest import with astonishing insouciance, the fate of the poor scientist and his water almost always taking second place to the amorous web woven by the self-absorbed Adjani and the various men caught in it. But it has a couple of those characters (Attal for one) who recall the best of the nation's popular cinema.
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 115m
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Grégori Derangère, Peter Coyote, Aurore Clément
Synopsis:
As Paris falls to Hitler's advance, a film star, a government minister to whom she has attached herself, a young writer who has taken the fall for her, a Jewish scientist with a carload of heavy water and his adoring assistant all converge on Bordeaux where they await the decision of the cabinet regarding capitulation.
Review:
Busy comedy-melodrama in the best French tradition (some of the situations and character clashes do indeed seem remarkably dated); it deals with a period of the gravest import with astonishing insouciance, the fate of the poor scientist and his water almost always taking second place to the amorous web woven by the self-absorbed Adjani and the various men caught in it. But it has a couple of those characters (Attal for one) who recall the best of the nation's popular cinema.
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 115m
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Grégori Derangère, Peter Coyote, Aurore Clément
Synopsis:
As Paris falls to Hitler's advance, a film star, a government minister to whom she has attached herself, a young writer who has taken the fall for her, a Jewish scientist with a carload of heavy water and his adoring assistant all converge on Bordeaux where they await the decision of the cabinet regarding capitulation.
Review:
Busy comedy-melodrama in the best French tradition (some of the situations and character clashes do indeed seem remarkably dated); it deals with a period of the gravest import with astonishing insouciance, the fate of the poor scientist and his water almost always taking second place to the amorous web woven by the self-absorbed Adjani and the various men caught in it. But it has a couple of those characters (Attal for one) who recall the best of the nation's popular cinema.