Bon Voyage (2004)
77 %
Reviews Counted: 92 Fresh: 71 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Consensus:
It's froth, but stylish and giddily entertaining.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 26, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $2,284,747
Synopsis: Set in 1940s France in the moments before the German occupation of Paris during World War II, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's lively farce BON VOYAGE combines a murder mystery, a political drama, and a series of madcap subplots including a secret scientific discovery and a gathering of socialites at... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Gregori Derangere
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Screenwriter: Patrick Modiano, Jerome Tonnerre
Producer: Michele Petin, Laurent Petin
Composer: Gabriel Yared
Screenwriter: Patrick Modiano, Jerome Tonnerre
Producer: Michele Petin, Laurent Petin
Composer: Gabriel Yared
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06/24/06
Are you ready for a World War II, romantic, murder-in-Act-One, escape-from-the-Nazis, French farce?
07/03/05
Bon Voyage has much to commend it - but by the time it is over, you will be more likely to bid it a relieved 'adieu' than a dewy-eyed 'au revoir'.
01/15/05
A nonstop, peripatetic, neo Hitchcockian farce...captures the chaos of a government in ruin.
09/26/04
...grand, intelligent, confident and adult -- which is just another way of saying that it is very French, in all the best ways.
08/25/04
No more than a shallow, style-mad entertainment, but it never flags or loses its balance, and, despite the theatricality of the staging and the acting, it's precisely the materiality of the cinema ... that makes us devour it with pleasure.
08/01/04
Top Critic
If blockbusters leave you cold, then this is one trip well worth taking.
07/16/04
Adjani has suddenly hit her stride; you can hope - and I do - that a great career is being born at last in this arresting actress.
06/22/04
This is no heavy drama about the Nazi occupation of France, but a witty story about a group of people making do under those circumstances.
06/09/04
A film with a lot of energy -- more energy than substance, in fact. An average trip for hardcore foreign film aficionados.
05/31/04
Never quite worked even as a fluff film meant only for escapist entertainment.
05/29/04
Bon Voyage has been sumptuously mounted, with spectacular cinematography and a lush (perhaps overly so) musical score by Gabriel Yared ... that's a throwback to '30s moviemaking.
05/28/04
The dense plotting and a comic insensitivity just this side of Hogan's Heroes leave Bon Voyage an enervating experience.
05/28/04
This Hitchcock like French film taking place during World War II buildup is excellent.
05/25/04
It's all about as believable as those comic shorts in which The Three Stooges smacked around Adolph Hitler -- and no less entertaining.
05/24/04
...a film drenched in rich character and drunk with the buffoonery of life amid chaos and circumstance. It's a rousing Gallic gem.
05/24/04
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