Bon Voyage

Jean-Paul Rappenau’s film ‘Bon Voyage’ was great entertainment. The film is about a group of French people coming to terms with the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940.

Movie stars, spies, government ministers and jailbirds collide in a panoramic gridlock. The cast of characters include a stunning film actress (Isabella Adjani) who is trying to get out of being caught on a murder rap, a politician (Gerard Depardiu), a suspicious journalist (Peter Coyote), a pretty physics student (Virginia Ledoyan), and a young writer (Gregori Deranjere), all thrown together by the crisis.rrival of the German army and the city’s upper crust flee en masse to the Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux.

There was so much I loved about ‘Bon Voyage’. I loved its breakneck fast pace. There was never the slightest risk of being bored.
I loved the way the way that all the film elements were thrown together in a liberating, anarchic style…murder intrigue, a resistance plot, romances.
I loved the way the film was so tongue in cheek and impish. Everyone seemed to have fun being in it.

Bon Voyage’s characters were much larger than life, and made strong impressions. No-one more so than Isabella Adjani played an upper class lady with more front than the Harbour Bridge, manipulative as hell, totally charming, and full of feminine wiles. This was a classic femme fatale role and Adjani devoured it with relish

Catch ‘Bon Voyagé’. Its well worth a look.