Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne) 2017

     Anne Lockwood has been traveling in Europe with her movie producer husband Michael.  He is taking a small plane to another destination to check on a movie but Anne's been having trouble with her ears.  The pilot advises her that it will be difficult and painful for her to take this flight.  Jacques Clement is an associate of Michael’s and he offers to drive Anne to Paris instead.  It should be a two-day drive but it starts to last several days with their side trips.  There are stops at picturesque sights, dining on fine food, wonderful wine, wisdom gained and a little added romance?  Anne feels she is at a crossroads in her life.  She has been married a long time, her husband is successful but he is driven and inattentive?

     This film is listed as a comedy but I find it very stiff and meandering!!  Anne wants to speed up the journey but her heart isn’t really into quickly getting to Paris.  As the audience, there is the feeling is of constantly dragging out the trip instead of enjoying the trip.  There has to be some kind of an ending?  You don’t know what it will be and if it will ever arrive??  The scenery of France is very beautiful and the food looks delicious!!   I think viewers can gain weight just by looking at the food?? 

92 min, Comedy directed by Eleanor Coppola with Diane Lane Arnaud Viard, Alec Baldwin, Elise Tielrooy, Elodie Navarre, Serge Onteniente, Pierre Cuq, Cedric Monnet, Aurore Clement, Davia Nelson, Eleanor Lambert, Severine Bichon.  2 1/2* (This movie is so-so)

Note:  Imdb 5.8 out of 10, 46% critic 40% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*, Metacritic 48 out of 100 with 25 critics 4.9 out of 10 with 11 reviews, Amazon 3.6* out of 5* with 39 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Bouches-du-Rhone, Paris, Alpes Martimes, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Cogte d’Azur, Provence, France.  This is the first feature film by Eleanor Coppola since her Emmy Award winning documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse of 1991.  Also, this is her narrative feature film debut at the age of 80 years old.  This makes her one of the oldest first-time directors of this type of film.  The oldest person to direct was Takeo Kimura, 90 years old at the release of Dreaming Awake of 2008.