Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Country: GB/FR/GER
Technical: col 90m
Director: Steve Bendelack
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
An autistic and accident prone raffle winner journeys south to Cannes to enjoy his prize, and on his way loses his passport, currency and luggage, while acquiring the son of a Russian film director attending the festival there.
Review:
The self-contained logic of the eight-minute televisual sketch transfers awkwardly to the big screen, and so sadly, despite making explicit through its title the Tatiesque borrowings of Atkinson's gawky misanthropist, this cringe-making vehicle has more in common with Pierre Richard. The main problem is the presence of an over-arching narrative, however slight, that induces audience involvement and, consequently, frustration! The character of Mr Bean gets softened, too, resulting, nonetheless, in the film's funniest sequence when he 'restores' lost footage of de Caunes to a festival screening of Dafoe's navel-gazing vanity project. Overall, though, this is a dispiritingly laugh-free experience.
Country: GB/FR/GER
Technical: col 90m
Director: Steve Bendelack
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
An autistic and accident prone raffle winner journeys south to Cannes to enjoy his prize, and on his way loses his passport, currency and luggage, while acquiring the son of a Russian film director attending the festival there.
Review:
The self-contained logic of the eight-minute televisual sketch transfers awkwardly to the big screen, and so sadly, despite making explicit through its title the Tatiesque borrowings of Atkinson's gawky misanthropist, this cringe-making vehicle has more in common with Pierre Richard. The main problem is the presence of an over-arching narrative, however slight, that induces audience involvement and, consequently, frustration! The character of Mr Bean gets softened, too, resulting, nonetheless, in the film's funniest sequence when he 'restores' lost footage of de Caunes to a festival screening of Dafoe's navel-gazing vanity project. Overall, though, this is a dispiritingly laugh-free experience.
Country: GB/FR/GER
Technical: col 90m
Director: Steve Bendelack
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
An autistic and accident prone raffle winner journeys south to Cannes to enjoy his prize, and on his way loses his passport, currency and luggage, while acquiring the son of a Russian film director attending the festival there.
Review:
The self-contained logic of the eight-minute televisual sketch transfers awkwardly to the big screen, and so sadly, despite making explicit through its title the Tatiesque borrowings of Atkinson's gawky misanthropist, this cringe-making vehicle has more in common with Pierre Richard. The main problem is the presence of an over-arching narrative, however slight, that induces audience involvement and, consequently, frustration! The character of Mr Bean gets softened, too, resulting, nonetheless, in the film's funniest sequence when he 'restores' lost footage of de Caunes to a festival screening of Dafoe's navel-gazing vanity project. Overall, though, this is a dispiritingly laugh-free experience.