Jean-Paul Rappeneau's "Bon voyage" has a good plot. It focuses on a group of people traveling across Nazi-occupied France to deliver heavy water to England. It could've been a better movie had it developed the characters a little more. Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, and the rest of the cast all put in fine performances amid a pulse-pounding storyline. It's just that the characters are too thin for it to be any sort of masterpiece.
I guess that I can recommend the movie, even knowing that it's nothing great. The plot moves along at a smooth pace, keeping you on the edge of your seat the whole time. That and the performances are what I can recommend about the movie. Not much else. Louis Malle's "Au revoir, les enfants" is the truly worthwhile French movie about this period.
I guess that I can recommend the movie, even knowing that it's nothing great. The plot moves along at a smooth pace, keeping you on the edge of your seat the whole time. That and the performances are what I can recommend about the movie. Not much else. Louis Malle's "Au revoir, les enfants" is the truly worthwhile French movie about this period.