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21 out of 27 people found the following review useful:
A movie Hollywood could never make..., 27 April 1999

Author: Michael Ross Murphy from Ottawa, Canada

The Voyage in question immerses the viewer in the world of these two talkative yet strangely inarticulate friends without offering easy answers or facile insights. The viewer follows where the Voyage leads, as the characters themselves do, and bask in the summer sunlight of the French countryside. There are answers but the questions themselves are ambiguous and contradictory. Chaplin and Sanda, consummate actors, bring a crackling intensity and (at times) affecting vulnerability to their roles. The soundtrack enhances contemplative episodes with tenderly played bagatelles from Beethoven, which offer ironic counterpoint even while evoking a nostalgia for "lost time".

The claustrophobia-inducing tight interior shots bracketing the beginning and end of the film also intensify the exchange of roles between the two main characters that has gradually taken place during the journey. Elena (Sanda) has helped Lucia (Chaplin) rebuild her confidence and self-esteem but has herself become vulnerable and unstable in the process...

2 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
A Sexual Oddyssey, 2 August 2009

Author: kenjha

Two women who have been lifelong friends take a few days off to bond while wandering around the French countryside. The whole film is little more than the two relating events to each other, mostly told in flashbacks. As such, it is not particularly engaging. To make up for the shortcomings of the script, the director comes up with excuses for each actress to strip every once in a while - not that there's anything wrong with that, especially when one of the bodies belongs to lovely Sanda. This being a French film, most of the exploits related by the women are sexual, including a truly bizarre one involving Sanda and her grandmother!

4 out of 18 people found the following review useful:
Contains a haunting and excellent sound montage., 11 June 2000

Author: brashest - 0

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Against a long shot of a hilly French countryside with two miniscule figures strolling together, we hear a C.U. scene of violence and rape in a parking garage. The scene is all the more powerful because the device is a surprise in the film.

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