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BY LOIS WADSWORTH 686-2458 For the week of May 7th! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! www.bijou-cinemas.com "Bon Voyage, a rich, teeming French farce set in and around Bordeaux in 1940 on the eve of the German occupation of Paris, is a triumph of narrative ingenuity." Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 5/7-5/13 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM VAN HELSING PG13 12:20, 1:25, 2:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 8:15, 9:40, 10:20 -- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES Isabelle Adjani CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD Gerard Depardieu Bon Voyage NEW YORK MINUTE PG 5:00 & 7:20 Nightly Sun Mat 2:40 pm PG-13 ENVY PG13 "A funny and sharp satire that musters gentle nostalgia for East German communism while mocking the not-so- distant past." LAWS OF ATTRACTION PG13 12:05, 1:40, 2:50, 4:15, 5:20, 7:15, 7:55, 9:45, 10:25 In French with English subtitles. 11:55, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 2:00, 4:25, 7:40, 10:10 -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY MEAN GIRLS PG13 1:45, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15 GODSEND PG13 In German with English subtitles. 1:20, 3:55, 7:20, 10:00 9:35 Nightly Sat Mat 2:40 pm R Sells out regularly! Come in to buy advance tickets for any show! WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!? "How Far Down the Rabbit Hole of Mysteriousness Do You Want to Go?" 4:50, 7:10 & 9:25 Nightly Sat & Sun Mat 2:30 BIJOU LATENITE Fr-Sat $4 Su $3 Japanese Erotic Anime-— Buttobi CPU: I Dream of Mimi ADULTS ONLY! Fri, Sat, & Sun 11:40 pm Soon: THELONIOUS MONK MAXIMUM R&B! 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Bill Murray NOT RATED Call or log on for showtimes DOLBY in STEREO SURROUND SOUND $6.50 General • $5.50 Student • $4.50 SC, Matinee & Wed. 752-4161 avaloncinema.com v m 28 MAY 6, 2004 HELLBOY PG13 7:10, 10:05 SCOOBY DOO 2 PG 1:35, 4:05 THE PASSION OF CHRIST R 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 HOME ON THE RANGE PG 12:15, [2:30], 4:45 SNEAK PREVIEW - SUNDAY 2:00 ELLA ENCHANTED [ ] NOT ON SUNDAY 12:00, 2:40, 3:40, 7:00, 8:00, 10:25 *NO PASSES/NO SUPERSAVERS MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 5/7-5/13 Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 BIG FISH PG13 [12:05], 3:05, 6:40, 9:40 LORD OF THE RINGS PG13 [11:15], 3:30, 7:45 MYSTIC RIVER R [11:40], 3:10, 6:50, 10:05 SECRET WINDOW PG13 [11:50], 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 2:20, 7:20 TAKING LIVES R CONNIE AND CARLA PG13 THE GIRL NEXT DOOR R [11:30], 2:00, 4:35, 7:00, 9:30 [11:55], 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 DAWN OF THE DEAD R WALKING TALL PG13 7:30, 9:55 [12:00] 2:35, 5:00, 7:15, 9:50 EUROTRIP R YOU GOT SERVED PG13 [12:10], 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:15 [11:35], 4:55, 9:45 KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 R [ ] FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY ONLY [11:25], 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 12:10, 3:25, 7:05, 10:15 MAN ON FIRE R CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN PG 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 KILL BILL 2 R SNEAK PREVIEW DAILY 2:05 1:00 [11:20], 1:55, 4:30 HARVARD CINEMAS 6:50, 10:05 BOBBY JONES: STROKE RAISING HELEN PG13 OF GENIUS PG CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN PG SCHEDULE FOR 5/7 - 5/13 • [ ] FRIDAY-SUNDAY ONLY PUNISHER R SONY PICTURE CLASSICS, 2004 492 E. 13th Attraction grows slowly between Camille (Virginie Ledoyen) and Frederic (Gregori Derangere). [12:15], 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM Ingenious Farce On the cusp of war BON VOYAGE: Directed and co-written by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Co-written by Patrick Modiano, Jerome Tonnerre, Gilles Marchand and Julien Rappeneau. Produced by Michele and Laurent Petin. Music, Gabriel Yared. Cinematography, Thierry Arbogast. Production design, costumes, Catherine Leterrier. Art director, Jacques Rouxel. Editor, Maryline Monthieux. Starring Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Viginie Ledoyen and Gregori Derangere, with Yvan Attal, Peter Coyote and Jean-Marc Stehle. Sony Pictures Classics, 2004. PG-13. 114 minutes. F rance, 1940. The Nazi Germany military machine is about to invade Paris. The government is in last- minute negotiations. The French people are divided between fighting against the Germans and making an uncomfortable peace. And those who can afford to, are fleeing the city for the South. While this is going on, a beautiful, deeply self-absorbed actress, Viviane (Isabelle Adjani), asks an old friend, Frederic (Gregori Derangere) for a favor. A man forced his way into her apartment and has met with an accident. Frederic, who's loved Viviane since they were children, agrees to dispose of the body and the vehi- cle. But Frederic is captured and put in jail for murder. Viviane does nothing to help his case. Instead, she flees the city with a government minister, Beaufort (Gerard Depardieu, looking trimmer than usual). French farce is alive and well. Frederic and cellmate Raoul (Yvan Attal) are released from prison before the Nazis arrive. They catch the last train. Onboard they meet the lovely Camille (Virginie Ledoyen), a science student. She leaves the train to meet an important French physicist, Prof. Kopolski (Jean-Marc Sthele), to drive south. The professor and the student are trying to get several large bottles of a secret atomic substance out of the country. They give Frederic and Raoul a ride. When these characters converge on the Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux, comic chaos reigns. A journalist, Winckler (Peter Coyote), lingers at the edges of the ensuing upper-crust muddle. Writer, director Jean- Paul Rappeneau finds the scene rife with comedy, as confusion brings out the worst in the wealthy Parisians. But what’s truly amazing is that the actors rarely miss a beat, particularly the astonishing Ledoyen and the charismatic Derangere. Both bring savvy, comedic warmth to their roles, which are central to the film’s slippery grasp on the underlying, grim reality the Nazi victory means for France. The film also achieves success in its ability to weave together different dramas in an ensemble effort of such proportions. Imagine Robert Altman’s enormous upstairs/downstairs cast from Gosford Park turned loose in a resort city on the eve of war, and you get some idea of what Rappeneau pulls together here. Ensemble either works or it doesn’t, and in the past few years, a number of attempts have failed, notably Peter Bogdanovich’s Hollywood scandal/mystery, The Cat’s Meow; François Ozon’s country estate mystery, Eight Women; and Jacques Rivette’s love and theater piece, Va Savoir. But here, the stories are entwined artful- ly, and the cast performs impeccably. Music by Gabriel Yared (The English Patient) also brings a unified vision to the whole. The audience is easily able to follow the ongoing machinations of various char- acters, the frenetic movements of displaced populations, and the changing settings of the story. It helps that against the panorama of history, the story itself is simple and rel- atively contained. Many scenes take place in rooms and vehicles, where we are wit- ness to private moments. The rich details of Viviane’s apartment and the opulent appointments of the posh hotel add to the farcical goings on. Visual styles of period films such as Casablanca appear here as well. On the surface, the film seems obsessed with the shallow Viviane, but its truer story is of Frederic’s maturation and Camille’s singular vision. Both the emptying of Paris prisons and the research secrets relating to radioactivity that were taken out of the country are imag- inatively based on actual events. An engaging collaborative work, Bon Voyage opens at the Bijou on Friday, May 7. Highly recommended. ew
