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Viviane(played by Adjani) or... Josseline Gaël???!!


Je viens juste de voir ce film and Adjani's character reminded me of the French movie star during the war time, Josseline Gaël, who was the mistress of a very French well-known actor at the time, Jules Berry. She was frivolous, just like Adjani's personnage, and ended up badly. She was dishonered nationaly for her collaboration with the Nazis (one of her lovers was a Nazi)and her career was ruined! She died in her thirties, I think, poor, ill and abandoned. That's what the ending suggested to me... when she goes with Peter Coyote as a Nazi spy (BTW, I don't know if his German was good but his French was excellent! and it was definitely his voice! No dubbing! Bravo, Monsieur Coyote!) The movie is a sort of a mediocre Georges Feydeau's play. Ça court, ça court et ça court sans arrêt, les portes claquent et reclaquent continuellement, c'est bourré de clichés que les clins d'oeil n'arrivent pas à alléger... et Adjani n'est pas drôle! Elle alourdit le film ou le court-circuite! Qu'on imagine une Sophie Desmarets, une Dany Robin ou même... une Martine Carol dans ce rôle! (Pour ceux et celles qui connaissent le cinéma français, of course!) et tout de suite, le film pétille ou pétillerait comme du champagne!!! Et c'est ce qui lui manque! Hélas! La réalisation est soignée, léchée, le début engageant, la fin, originale mais bon, on a déjà tout vu cela et en beaucoup mieux... Depardieu is just as usual: majestueux! Magnifique! Cet acteur est prodigieux. And I did not know who was Grégori Derangère (strange name) but he was really good. His part was a very difficult one and there is not a false note in his work... I was just wondering why he is not more well-known.. and famous... He has everything to be a superstar... He is talented and handsome... The future will tell... Still, Bon Voyage was... amusing! And not so bad!

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