Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne)

Critics Consensus

Paris Can Wait's likable stars are ill-served by a film that lacks interesting ideas or characters and has little to offer beyond striking travelogue visuals.

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When her director husband is occupied with work in Paris, an American woman takes a jaunt with his business associate, a charming Gallic rogue who is happy to squire her on a tour of some of the finest meals in Provence. The first feature directed by Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis and director of the "Apocalypse Now" documentary "Hearts of Darkness".

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Cast

Diane Lane
as Anne Lockwood
Alec Baldwin
as Michael Lockwood
Arnaud Viard
as Jacques
Cédric Monnet
as Gardien de musée

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Critic Reviews for Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne)

All Critics (109) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (59)

  • Lane possesses a wry, self-deprecating grace that can invigorate the lamest cliche. But she's really up against it this time.

    Jul 19, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Sandra Hall

    Sydney Morning Herald
    Top Critic

  • It has its moments, but mostly it feels like being stuck in the backseat on a long car ride.

    Jun 9, 2017 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

    Adam Graham

    Detroit News
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  • "Paris Can Wait" isn't exactly a feast, but it's a snack worth having.

    May 31, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

    Moira MacDonald

    Seattle Times
    Top Critic

  • Anne doesn't drive her own journey. She spends scene after scene passively letting Jacques tell her what to do, eat and think. And there's no detouring around that.

    May 26, 2017 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

    Johanna Schneller

    Globe and Mail
    Top Critic

  • Perhaps worst of all are the limited expectations Coppola has for her own heroine. It's hard to love a movie where a woman finds herself from the passenger seat.

    May 25, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

    Ryan Porter

    Toronto Star
    Top Critic

  • It would be cheering to report that it's a great movie, but you can't have everything.

    May 25, 2017 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

    Ty Burr

    Boston Globe
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Audience Reviews for Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne)

  • Jul 04, 2017
    As soon as the "Lifetime Movies" card popped on screen, I should have just shut this thing off and watched "Commando". "But it's by a COPPOLA", I said to myself, "it can't be that bad, right?" Eleanor, Francis Ford's wife, has been a documentary film-maker for decades, chronicling the making-ofs and behind-the-scenes of her husband and childrens' feature films. "Paris Can Wait" marks her first foray into non-documentary feature film making, and I think I'd prefer watching a water buffalo being slaughtered instead of this insipid pap. The nonexistent story concerns the wife of a successful filmmaker (imagine that!) on a road trip through France with one of her husband's French business associates. The entire trip is composed of food porn and the Frenchie mansplaining to Diane Lane everything from Roman history to Escargot. "Jou-see, yu Amewikahns do sings lahk ziss, but we Fronsh are supairiair en everay possibul weh. Uh hong hong." She sits passively in the car waiting for her obnoxious cohort to take them to the next picnic or 5 star restaurant, occasionally taking mediocre looking pictures on an extremely expensive camera that would make any shot look professional. In that span of time, we find out she likes roses and chocolate, just like every other person in her pandered-to demographic. Then there is the Lifetime Movies trademark weepy scene where they try to shoe-horn in some emotional depth by having her suddenly remember in a candle-lit church that her baby died. Somehow, someway, the Frenchie annoys her into being attracted to him, and we are left with Lane half-winking at the camera, contemplating the prospect of cheating on her husband. I would only recommend this movie to rich, white, elderly women who don't want to think about anything. As for me I'm swimming up the Nung river to start a Vietnamese death cult after witnessing the horror...the horror...of "Paris Can Wait".
    K Nife C Super Reviewer
  • Jun 10, 2017
    Anne's daughter summed up this movie succinctly when she asked her what she was doing and when told she responded "that sounds boring" and indeed it was. Poor Diane Lane stuck with insufferable dialogue and a creepy French dude. A few Michael Caine impersonations would have helped. Nice scenery but an emotional flat road trip. (6-10-17)
    John C Super Reviewer
  • May 25, 2017
    An acceptable but ultimately forgettable romantic trip across France. It's the sort of movie that your mother would gush about.
    John B Super Reviewer
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