8/10
Sleek, soapy suds in the South (of France, that is..)
5 August 1999
An excellent example of the "Hollywoodized" Jean Seberg, as opposed to her better-known persona as the cropped-blonde gamine girl of the French New Wave cinema. In this silly-but-likable bit of pseudo-suspense fluff, Jean gets to wheel around the Nice flower market and the Corniche in her elegant Citroen DS21 ragtop with an equally elegant YSL wardrobe to boot!! If the juvenile-bullfrog sounds coming from her son Timmy (child actor Peter Robbins) sound vaguely familiar to you, it is perhaps because Peter provided the voice of Charlie Brown in those classic "Peanuts" TV specials (Chas. Brown Xmas, Great Pumpkin, etc.). Too bad Universal had to shoot so much of the film on a backlot set that is quite obviously NOT the Cote d'Azur, but weather conditions (an unseasonable cold snap) precluded most of the location shoot. Overall though, a fun film (how can you not have fun when your next-door neighbor is Pussy Galore, aka Honor Blackman?). A votre sante!
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