Bon Voyage (2003)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 72 | Rotten: 23
It's froth, but stylish and giddily entertaining.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 6
It's froth, but stylish and giddily entertaining.
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The last frantic days before the Germans seized France in 1940 provide an unlikely backdrop for this dark comedy. Viviane (Isabelle Adjani) is a glamorous and well-known film actress who attracts the attentions of many men -- often many she has no interest in knowing. One night, at a reception following the premiere of her latest picture, Viviane finds herself pursued by Beaufort (Gérard Depardieu), a government official whose girth exceeds his charm. To throw him off her trail, Viviane allows a
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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.
Top CriticIf you like to read subtitles or comprehend French and the beautiful people who speak it, Bon Voyage is a perfectly delightful time-killer at the movies.
Not only does the plot have the required twists and the action keep us at the edge of our seats, but the story is populated with interesting and believable characters.
A sophisticated farce about an unlikely subject.
A strong diva-whore portrayal by Isabelle Adjani and fine sense of time and place give Voyage just enough grounding to make it worth the trip.
It's Adjani, at turns hammy and heartfelt, who makes this film positively levitate.
Although visually appealing, the movie is too cavalier and shallow for its more weighty subject matter.
Are you ready for a World War II, romantic, murder-in-Act-One, escape-from-the-Nazis, French farce?
This is one nutty, but enjoyable movie.
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'.
A nonstop, peripatetic, neo Hitchcockian farce...captures the chaos of a government in ruin.
...grand, intelligent, confident and adult -- which is just another way of saying that it is very French, in all the best ways.
If blockbusters leave you cold, then this is one trip well worth taking.
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.
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.
A film with a lot of energy -- more energy than substance, in fact. An average trip for hardcore foreign film aficionados.
Never quite worked even as a fluff film meant only for escapist entertainment.
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.
A cinematic trifle that quickly wears out its welcome.
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[font=Century Gothic][color=#808000]"Bon Voyage" is a frenetically paced movie for most of its running time but it does go on too long, as one of the plotlines runs out of steam. It is hard to believe how some of the characters are so self-absorbed in the face of crisis. Usually, people will stop for a second after the crisis, have some tea and then go back being so engrossed in their own lives. Plus, there is an inordinately high level of coincedence at work here.[/color][/font]
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