Le Voyage en douce is a 1980 French drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Michel Deville

Michel Deville

Michel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors...

. The screenplay is shaped around 15 different sexual anecdotes, penned by 15 writers. The film stars Dominique Sanda

Dominique Sanda

Dominique Sanda is a French actress and former fashion model.Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne and Gérard Varaigne...

 and Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...

. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival

30th Berlin International Film Festival

The 30th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 18 to February 29, 1980.-Jury:* Ingrid Thulin * Betsy Blair* Mathieu Carrière* Alberto Isaac* Peter Kern* Károly Makk* Alexander Mitta* Alexandre Trauner...

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Plot

Disillusioned with the men in their lives, two friends, Hélène (Sanda) and Lucie (Chaplin) embark on a journey together to the South of France. As the pair continue to travel they recount their sexual histories, and repeat some of them along the journey.

Cast

• Dominique Sanda
  Dominique Sanda
  Dominique Sanda is a French actress and former fashion model.Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne and Gérard Varaigne...
  
   - Hélène
• Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...
  
   - Lucie
• Jacques Zabor
  Jacques Zabor
  Jacques Zabor was a French actor and comedian. In 1980 he starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-External links:...
  
   - Denis
• Jean Crubelier
  Jean Crubelier
  Jean Crubelier is a French actor. In 1980 he starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-External links:...
  
   - L'homme des maisons
• Valerie Masterson
  Valerie Masterson
  Margaret Valerie Masterson , is a retired English opera singer, a lecturer and Vice-President of British Youth Opera. After study in Italy, she began to sing opera in Europe...
  
   - La cantatrice
• Cécile Le Bailly
  Cécile Le Bailly
  Cécile Le Bailly is a French actress. In 1980 she starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-References:...
  
   - Marie
• Jacqueline Parent
  Jacqueline Parent
  Jacqueline Parent is a French actress. In 1980 she starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-References:...
  
   - Mathilde
• Jacques Pieiller
  Jacques Pieiller
  Jacques Pieiller is a French actor. In 1980 he starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-External links:...
  
   - Pinson
• Françoise Morhange
  Françoise Morhange
  Françoise Morhange is a French actress. In 1980, she starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-References:...
  
   - La grande-mère
• Frédéric Andréi
  Frédéric Andréi
  Frédéric Andréi is a French actor. In 1980 he starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville. The next year he played the lead in Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva, as Jules, a moped-riding postman, obsessed with an American opera singer.-References:...
  
   - Le jeune homme de l'hôtel
• Christophe Malavoy
  Christophe Malavoy
  -Selected filmography:* Madame Bovary* Le Cri du hibou* La Balance* A Captain's Honor* Le Voyage en douce* Death in a French Garden-External links:...
  
   - L'homme du train
• André Marcon
  André Marcon
  André Marcon is a French actor. In 1980 he starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-References:...
  
   - L'homme du concert
• Catherine Le Dall
  Catherine Le Dall
  Catherine Le Dall is a French actress. In 1980 she starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-References:...
  
   - La marraine
• Hélène Garcia - La pompiste
• Robin Camus
  Robin Camus
  Robin Camus is a French actor. In 1980 he starred in Le Voyage en douce under director Michel Deville.-References:...
  
   - Lucas

Reception

Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times. She served as the Times film critic from 1977–1999.- Biography :...

 of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

praised the ambiguous nature of Hélène and Lucie's relationship; "its teasing is effective, thanks particularly to Miss Sanda, who is as beautiful and insolently alluring here as she has ever been. With timing that is constantly surprising, with a knowing sensuality just this side of brazeness, Miss Sandra is enough reason to see the movie. And she and Miss Chaplin share an abandon that is intricately balanced, and gracefully played." Maslin felt that the film was "finally aimless" but that it was still "seductive all the same."