Bon Voyage (1944)
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 26 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 73 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man recounts his escape from occupied France during World War Two but two different versions of the same events emerge. The film questions what is true and who can be trusted.
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What happens
Bon Voyage is a 1944 short French language propaganda film directed by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. It was written by Angus MacPhail and J.O.C. Orton. Although the film is short (26 minutes), it uses two radically different interpretations of the same events, a technique not unlike that used by Akira Kurosawa in Rashomon (1950), Errol Morris in The Thin Blue Line (1988), and Fernando Meirelles in Cidade de Deus (2002). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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