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Bon Voyage (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 92 Fresh: 71  Rotten:21 Average Rating: 6.7/10
 
Consensus: It's froth, but stylish and giddily entertaining.
 

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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... 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 Bordeaux's Hotel Splendide. The result is a picturesque period piece full of energy, adventure, and breathtaking scenery. Dynamic performances from an all-star cast that includes Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, and Gregori Derangere complete this delightfully pert film. Forced to flee Paris as the Germans advance, a mismatched group of oddly acquainted personalities reassemble in Bordeaux. Viviane (Adjani) is a stunning film actress whose talents are used both on-screen and off. She swiftly seduces the French prime minister, Beaufort (Depardieu), on the eve of WWII--a convenient catch in wartime. However, her former flame Frederic (Derangere), who Viviane neatly framed and sent to prison for a murder she committed, is now free and is still pursuing her. Frederic's jailbreak buddy Raoul (Yvan Attal), is also in tow, with nothing but trouble up his sleeve. Meanwhile, a pretty physics student, Camille (Virginie Ledoyen) tempts the hearts of both ex-cons, while protecting her professor and their scientific discovery, which must not fall into German hands. Waiting on the wings is the suspicious journalist Winckler (Peter Coyote), whose sneaky demeanor is only matched by Thierry (Nicolas Vaude), the revenge-crazed nephew of the man Viviane murdered. [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

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 17, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Stereo - French

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06/24/06
Time Out
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Are you ready for a World War II, romantic, murder-in-Act-One, escape-from-the-Nazis, French farce?

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07/03/05
Brandon Judell
New York Theatre Wire
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This is one nutty, but enjoyable movie.

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02/06/05
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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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'.

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01/15/05
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette
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9/10

A nonstop, peripatetic, neo Hitchcockian farce...captures the chaos of a government in ruin.

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09/26/04
Tony Medley
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...grand, intelligent, confident and adult -- which is just another way of saying that it is very French, in all the best ways.

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08/25/04
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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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.

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08/01/04
David Denby
New Yorker
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3/5

If blockbusters leave you cold, then this is one trip well worth taking.

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07/16/04
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)
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3/5

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.

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06/22/04
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
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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.

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06/09/04
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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06/07/04
Sunday Times (Australia)
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A film with a lot of energy -- more energy than substance, in fact. An average trip for hardcore foreign film aficionados.

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05/31/04
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today
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Never quite worked even as a fluff film meant only for escapist entertainment.

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05/29/04
Dennis Schwartz
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05/28/04
Susan Granger
Modamag.com
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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.

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05/28/04
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star
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A cinematic trifle that quickly wears out its welcome.

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05/28/04
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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The dense plotting and a comic insensitivity just this side of Hogan's Heroes leave Bon Voyage an enervating experience.

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05/28/04
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune
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This Hitchcock like French film taking place during World War II buildup is excellent.

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05/25/04
Vince Koehler
Entertainment Spectrum
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It's all about as believable as those comic shorts in which The Three Stooges smacked around Adolph Hitler -- and no less entertaining.

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05/24/04
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
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...a film drenched in rich character and drunk with the buffoonery of life amid chaos and circumstance. It's a rousing Gallic gem.

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05/24/04
Elias Savada
Nitrate Online
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