In June 1940, ministers, journalists, high-class people, demi-mondaines and spies of all stripes gathered at the Hotel Splendid in Bordeaux. There, a young man will have to choose between a famous actor and a passionate student, between politicians and thugs, between carelessness and adulthood.
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This is the pitch for the juicy comedy Bon voyage, which the Arte channel has a rich idea to offer this Wednesday evening. Nominated 11 times for the 2004 César (and winner of three prizes, including Best Young Actor for Grégoire Déranger), Jean-Paul Rappenau’s feature film is a real treat, an oh-so-clever popular piece that touches on the prism of humor. and adventure through a dark period of French history.
“Thirty-five years later Good lifeMy first film, I go back to the war period of my childhood”entrusts Jean-Paul Rapenot. “What I saw, heard, experienced, the upheavals in the lives of the adults around me, is something that has stayed with me very strongly.
Romance, humor and love…
shooting of Happy journey It lasted almost twenty weeks and there was no shortage of plans. “There are 1,400 here… and we had to convert them”laughs the director. “In my films, even in a seemingly simple scene, something always happens that complicates everything: rain, smoke, crowds, where extras intervene at specific moments.
This is fun Happy journey In the form of a mural and with an optional cast (Virginia Ledoyen, Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Ajan, Ivan Atal…), there is romance, humor, love… in fact, a little bit of everything that makes this a truly beautiful film, a tribute to the 30s and 40s On American works that would be a shame to ignore… what about traveling?
Tonight at Arte at 20:55.
Source: Allocine
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