Bon Voyage

Isabel Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Peter Coyote, the guy from Ma femme est une Actrice, and some other guy with light brown hair star in this mildly interesting thriller, in which the French (this is an exceedingly unfair generalization) try to show, once again, that their country is best typified by the extreme minority that was la Resistance, and are not, in fact, the ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’ that Bart Simpson and others have called them. Peter Coyote speaks both French and German, I think with a fairly heavy American accent. Forgive me again, but I couldn’t help but wonder whether using an American to play a German sympathizer wasn’t a calculated bit of casting. Then again, I’ve also heard Coyote speak Spanish in an Almadovar movie, so perhaps they were just availing themselves of his linguistic talents.