Jet Lag
by Dani?le Thompson
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Actor: Jean Reno, Juliette Binoche, Karine Belly, Scali Delpeyrat, Sergi L?pezDirector: Dani?le Thompson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Jet Lag
Movie Review: Sweet Romance
Summary: 4 Stars
Juliet Binoche is "Rose", a beautician waiting for a flight to a new job and life in Acapulco, Mexico. Her "baggage" is a boyfiend (Sergi Lopez) in bad need of an anger management class. Jean Reno is "Felix," a confirmed misanthrope, on his way to a funeral in Munich for the mother of an ex-wife. His "baggage" is his father, a master French chef of fine cuisine living in Burgundy. The father's constant disapproval of Felix's cuisine inventions has discouraged Felix from being a fine cuisine chef himself.
Felix is a successful but much less than happy frozen food executive with two failed relationships with women when he meets Rose. Both Felix and Rose are stranded in a Paris airport for the night due to a transit strike, faulty airline computers, and bad weather. Felix loans Rose his cellphone when they accidentally bump into each other as strangers.
Most of the inter-personal drama between Rose and Felix takes place at the airport Hilton where Felix is put up for the night by the airline because he is flying first class. He reluctantly invites Binoche, who gives a first impression of being nothing more than cosmetic, to share the room non-romantically after he sees her trying to settle down to sleep in seats in the airport and takes pity on her.
Casting Binoche as a beautician whose life revolves around makeup is inspired. It gives the camera many opportunities to persistently focus on one of the most beautiful faces in modern cinema. Even when she takes her makeup off Binoche is an exquisite beauty. She is also a surprisingly good romantic comic.
The deep-voiced Reno manages to look jet-lagged, world-weary, and handsome all at the same time. His Felix finds Binoche by turns mundane and fascinating. Her homespun wisdom changes him, of course, for the better. True love cannot be denied even though we see a couple so seemingly poorly matched at the beginning of the movie.
If you don't mind English subtitles in this French film it is well worth adding to your collection. The musical director even manages to effectively slip in a little of the plaintive music from "Midnight Cowboy" toward the end of the movie. This film is highly romantic and entertaining. It is also priced right on Amazon.
Summary of Jet Lag
Oscar(R) winner Juliette Binoche (Best Supporting Actress, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, 1996; CHOCOLAT) and Jean Reno (RONIN, THE PROFESSIONAL) soar together in a wonderfully fun and sexy comedy where opposites don't just attract, they collide! Pampered beauty queen Rose (Binoche) and over-stressed insomniac Felix (Reno) have only one thing in common: They're through with bad relationships and have both sworn off the opposite sex. So when an airline strike grounds these total strangers together in Paris -- and they're forced to share the last available hotel room in town -- neither can wait to leave the other behind. But the more they try to go their separate ways, the more obvious it becomes that there's no place else they'd rather be!A glammed-up Juliette Binoche and a slimmed-down Jean Reno are the main attractions in this very slight comedy--sort of a Planes, Trains, and Automobiles without the trains and automobiles. After they meet repeatedly at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris, beautician Binoche and chef Reno decide to share an airport hotel room during a layover. She's a self-dramatizing chatterbox with a fondness for make-up and perfume; he's a fussy neurotic who can't stand artificial fragrances. They've just met and they're headed to different parts of the globe, but still... could this be... amour? Director Daniele Thompson, whose previous feature, La Buche, was a much more entertaining effort, would like it to be so. But the setting gets monotonous and the stakes never seem terribly urgent. Without the Chocolat smile of Binoche and the uniquely rough-and-tumble coolness of Reno, this one would never get off the ground at all. --Robert Horton
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