Since I've only ever seen Isabelle Adjani in heavy dramas, it was really fun to see her in Bon voyage, a lush melodrama that only halfway takes itself seriously. She plays a movie actress in the 1930s, and her planned hysterics to get what she wants out of her simpering male public are quite funny. The story itself is dramatic, centered around a murder in pre-WWII, but she leans on everyone else to do her dirty work and doesn't seem to understand that something really bad could happen to her.
When a man is found dead in her apartment-which was so gorgeously furnished and designed I wished the entire movie took place there-Isabelle calls her longtime friend and admirer, Grégori Derangère to help her out. She's beautiful and starts to cry, so he agrees. But, with the dead body in the trunk of his car, his windshield wipers stop working as he's driving in a storm and he crashes into a police station. It is a tense scene, but it's also a little tongue-in-cheek. Grégori accidentally breaks his windshield wipers and reaches around to wipe the glass with his hand.
With Gérard Depardieu as a minister of justice who also falls under Isabelle's spell, and Peter Coyote as a mysterious character who might be either friend or foe, there's enough dramatics to last the rest of the movie. Keep in mind the setting. This isn't your average 1930s period piece; it takes place in the last few months before the war. It's very lush and glossy, and Gabriel Yared's music helps set the tone, so if it sounds good to you, you'll probably like it.
When a man is found dead in her apartment-which was so gorgeously furnished and designed I wished the entire movie took place there-Isabelle calls her longtime friend and admirer, Grégori Derangère to help her out. She's beautiful and starts to cry, so he agrees. But, with the dead body in the trunk of his car, his windshield wipers stop working as he's driving in a storm and he crashes into a police station. It is a tense scene, but it's also a little tongue-in-cheek. Grégori accidentally breaks his windshield wipers and reaches around to wipe the glass with his hand.
With Gérard Depardieu as a minister of justice who also falls under Isabelle's spell, and Peter Coyote as a mysterious character who might be either friend or foe, there's enough dramatics to last the rest of the movie. Keep in mind the setting. This isn't your average 1930s period piece; it takes place in the last few months before the war. It's very lush and glossy, and Gabriel Yared's music helps set the tone, so if it sounds good to you, you'll probably like it.