BON VOYAGE
Year: 2003
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Gregori Derangere, Peter Coyote, Jean-Marc Stehle, Aurore Clement, Xavier De Guillebon, Edith Scob, Michel Vuillermoz, Nicolas Pignon, Nicolas Vaude, Pierre Diot, Pierre Laroche, Catherine Chevalier, Morgane More, Olivier Claverie, Wolfgang Pissors, Jacques Pater, Jean-Pol Brissart, Vincent Nemeth, Benjamin Bellecour, Marie-Armelle Deguy, Marie-Christine Orry, Serpentine Teyssier, Patrick Medioni, Gary Matthews, Benoît Bellal, Christian Drillaud, Michel Dubois, Christian Ruche, Jacques Roerich, Robert Darmel, Gerard Collewaert, Pascal Guegan, Jean Girard, Loïc Pichon, Vincent Schmitt, Frederic Hulne, Marc Bodnar, Edward Hamilton-Clark, Marie Berto, Martine de Rohan, Andree Saint Andre, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Louis de Rohan-Chabot, Jacques Gallo, Dominique Touze, Jean-Marc Bonnarme, Olivier Lefevre, Philippe Warembourg, Catherine Pepinster, Jean-Pierre Teliet, Bernard Beaune, Franck Thepener, Johannes-Maria Lansche
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 115 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some violence
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate violence
USA Release Date: 19 March 2004 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 14 May 2004
Synopsis
Academy Award nominated director Jean-Paul Rappeneau (CYRANO DE BERGERAC, HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF) unites the cream of French acting talent in BON VOYAGE, Rappeneau's first film since HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF. Nominated for 11 Cesar Awards, BON VOYAGE also sees Jean-Paul Rappeneau and Gerard Depardieu united for the first time since the phenomenal success of CYRANO DE BERGERAC.
Action and adventure unite in this hilarious comedy. Against a back-drop of confusion and tumult Isabelle Adjani (LA REINE MARGOT, SUBWAY) stars as the actress, Gerard Depardieu (GREEN CARD, CYRANO DE BERGERAC) as the politician, Virginie Ledoyen (THE BEACH, 8 WOMEN) as the impassioned student and Gregori Derangere (OFFICER'S WARD) as the writer, Yvan Attal (as the hoodlum), and Peter Coyote (as the journalist) all thrown together in the face of a defeated France at the start of World War II.
The fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies of all persuasions gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. High society socialites hobnob with jailbirds. Murderous intrigues, scientific secrets and love affairs flourish.
In Jean-Paul Rappeneau's BON VOYAGE, elaborate personal schemes and political plots escalate, intersect and fly off in all directions, as a young man (Gregori Derangere) must choose between Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani) and Camille (Virginie Ledoyen), an impassioned student, between politicians and hoodlums, between carefree youth and adulthood.