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SONY PICTURE CLASSICS, 2004
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Attraction grows slowly between
Camille (Virginie Ledoyen) and
Frederic (Gregori Derangere).
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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.
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