Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Stars Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno give Jet Lag everything they've got. Too bad the movie doesn't better reward their effort.
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France, United Kingdom · 2002
Rated R · 1h 31m
Director Danièle Thompson
Starring Jean Reno, Juliette Binoche, Sergi López, Scali Delpeyrat
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
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At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician and a chef are left stranded by an airline strike and bad weather. Even though they can't stand each other, they are forced to share the last remaining hotel room in the city. As they get to know each other, their icy surfaces begin to thaw.
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Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Stars Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno give Jet Lag everything they've got. Too bad the movie doesn't better reward their effort.
Stays resolutely grounded thanks to miscasting of Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno as the leads and a script that contrarily breaks every rule of the genre.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Rather wonderful to sit through. It's fluff with flavor. And a cell phone.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
For those who have a penchant for talky subtitled romantic comedies, this one has its charms, but is probably more worth seeking out once it's on video than during its (probably short) theatrical life.
Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones
Jet Lag's romantic fluffery is somewhat beneath these old pros, but they make its meet-cute scenario work, mostly - and most especially when crusty, grumpy, grizzled Jean Reno announces he's "totally in love."
The writerly restraint that confines them to the airport is admirable, though the fairy-tale ending in Acapulco seems like a throwaway.
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
There are frothy romantic comedies and then there is Jet Lag, a movie so thin it borders on nonexistence.
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
This French pastry, directed by Danièle Thompson, who wrote it with her son Christopher, is a meet-cute comedy in excelsis. Or very near excelsis.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
A peppy romantic trifle from France that rises above the mundane on the strength of its beautifully detailed lead performances.
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
It's got a subtext but not a subplot.
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