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...added incentive for audiences to visit the Pool Theater this weekend, Glick says with a smile, “We’ve added a little bit of our own stuff––that’s going to be the interesting part??–the secret stuff...
Similarly unexplained behavior on Maya’s part??her unexplained interest in Miles—reflects another broad problem: Payne spends remarkably little time giving us a sense of his female characters—God forbid we lose some of the shots of scenery and endless montages of vineyards to make room for character development. So little time is devoted to his female characters that Payne is forced to use the cheap tactic of writing Maya a soliloquy about “the life of wines” in order to give her supposed spiritual depth...
...American clothes, music, movies and television programs at the expense of their native industries, for their incessant focus on America in their news coverage (to the point of following our election more closely than their own), for their avid taste for American food—well okay, the food part??s not true—but you get the picture...
...Crimson players did restrain—for the most part??any reaction to the Brown taunting, preferring instead to celebrate good points with screams, fist pumps and recognition of the outnumbered-but-loyal Crimson crowd in attendance...
...subplots, many of which are left maddeningly unresolved. At times the film verges on self-parody—Viviane’s hammy, melodramatic antics, for example: the way she throws herself on her bed, her eyes oozing crocodile tears. These keep the tone light for the most part??thank God for small mercies. But it is a testament to the egregious Eurocentrism of American film distribution that mediocre movies like Bon Voyage receive U.S. distribution with remarkable ease, while far superior international films often lack an American audience...