Jet Lag | 
| Director: Daniele Thompson
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Jean Reno, Sergi Lopez, Scali Delpeyrat, Karine Belly
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 28797
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 3343203
UPC: 786936233063
EAN: 0786936233063
ASIN: B0000E32V2
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: January 20, 2004
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A glammed-up Juliette Binoche and a slimmed-down Jean Reno are the main attractions in this very slight comedy--sort of a Planes, Trains, and Automobiles without the trains and automobiles. After they meet repeatedly at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris, beautician Binoche and chef Reno decide to share an airport hotel room during a layover. She's a self-dramatizing chatterbox with a fondness for make-up and perfume; he's a fussy neurotic who can't stand artificial fragrances. They've just met and they're headed to different parts of the globe, but still... could this be... amour? Director Daniele Thompson, whose previous feature, La Buche, was a much more entertaining effort, would like it to be so. But the setting gets monotonous and the stakes never seem terribly urgent. Without the Chocolat smile of Binoche and the uniquely rough-and-tumble coolness of Reno, this one would never get off the ground at all. --Robert Horton
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Oscar(R) winner Juliette Binoche (Best Supporting Actress, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, 1996; CHOCOLAT) and Jean Reno (RONIN, THE PROFESSIONAL) soar together in a wonderfully fun and sexy comedy where opposites don't just attract, they collide! Pampered beauty queen Rose (Binoche) and over-stressed insomniac Felix (Reno) have only one thing in common: They're through with bad relationships and have both sworn off the opposite sex. So when an airline strike grounds these total strangers together in Paris -- and they're forced to share the last available hotel room in town -- neither can wait to leave the other behind. But the more they try to go their separate ways, the more obvious it becomes that there's no place else they'd rather be!
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 a little gem January 13, 2008
AIROLF (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of my perennial romantic comedy favorites, this French film is delightful. The sets, as well as the characters, are very colorful and the actors who play them (Jean Reno and Juliette Binoche) are marvelous. This movie is always a lovely rewatch. The only lamenting thing about rewatching it is realizing how pitifully and dully Hollywood makes romantic comedies.
 Jet Lag is a big yawn. October 25, 2007
G. Merritt (Boulder, CO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jet Lag (Decalage Horaire) is a yawn, a big 80-minute yawn, to be exact. I always wonder what attracts gifted French actors like Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, and Juliette Binoche to the genre of light romantic comedy, of which Jet Lag is a typical example. Directed by Daniele Thompson (La Buche; Avenue Montaigne), Jet Lag stars Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno (The Professional). After dropping her cell phone into a toilet at the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, elegant beautician Rose (Binoche) asks scruffy French chef Felix (Reno) if she can borrow his phone, and soon they are sharing a room together at the airport Hilton, where they spend most of their time breaking down each other's defenses before falling into Light-Romantic-Comedy-Love together, the kind of love which never quite seems quite real. (When it comes to love, the film, it seems, strives to be a Hollywood movie, only in French. How do you say "predictable" in French?) Whereas Felix is hoping to reconcile with his estranged ex-wife, Rose is running away from an abusive relationship. She has all the looks and he has all the money. I'm a huge Juliette Binoche fan, and her performance will undoubtedly save Jet Lag from obscurity. In fact, Binoche carries the film with her performance as Rose. When she claims to be a Nobel Prize winner in beauty, I believe her. As Rose drops her emotional baggage, she simultaneously wears less makeup. That was a nice touch. Felix claims he has earned a fortune selling frozen foods to Americans. I liked the second half of the highly-polished film better than the first, and although it has many insightful and charming moments, for 80 minutes Jet Lag just taxis down the runway and never really takes off.
G. Merritt
Another enjoyable comedy from Daniele Thompson October 23, 2007
Galina (Virginia, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Decalage horaire" (2002) aka Jet Lag was the third film written/directed by Daniele Thompson that I've seen. It may not be as marvelous as La Buche (1999), her directorial debut or charming and delightful as Fauteuils d'orchestre (2006), her latest film but it is definitely worth seeing for the wonderful acting by two fine French actors, Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno who both played against their types. Binoche does not appear often in the comedies and Reno is not well known as a romantic lead but they were pleasure to watch in the light romantic dramedy that takes place in the famous Paris Charles de Gaulle airport one long rainy night when all flights were grounded by weather and a baggage strike. Two strangers meet by chance, when Rose (Binoche) who had accidentally flushed her cell phone in a toilet, asks a perfect stranger, Felix (Reno), to use his phone. They are both professionally successful. He is a chef who made a fortune in the frozen-food business, and she has won a golden brush, the equivalent of Pulitzer Prize for the make-up artists. Their personal lives are the mess. Each has the problems, disappointments, unsatisfying or unfinished relationships by the time of their first encounter. She flees from her abusive boyfriend of 12 years (Sergio Lopes is memorably scary in a tiny cameo). He still can't recover from his previous relationship and suffers from anxiety attacks. Perhaps, 81 minutes is not enough to convince us that these two flawed and insecure individuals will overcome their past and live happily ever after but Binoche and Reno masterfully and elegantly created on the screen the possibility of love and readiness to accept it.
3.5/5
Odd Little Flick September 30, 2007
Penny Dreadful (Here)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fans of foreign cinema might find more to love in this movie than I did. It's watchable but not much more. It does give a perceptive viewer the unique opportunity of hearing a French actor speak his native language with an American accent, though. (Think Pepe Le Pew in reverse.) As we watch Juliette Binoche transform herself from a stranger to our eyes, buried as she was at first beneath a cocoon of makeup with her hair densely piled atop her head, back to the actress audiences are more familiar with, the movie itself begins to seem warmer and the two lost souls who unexpectedly meet in an airport fall almost plausibly in love. As a sort of public service message to those who rent and buy French films based on an expectation of seeing skin, Jet Lag lacked the copious nudity that keeps many Americans going through subtitled foreign movies but a little bit was gratuitously slipped in almost as an afterthought. Jet Lag wasn't bad or very good either, and if my review doesn't take it seriously, then note that my impression was that the actors in it didn't either.
Lovely Foriegn Film You Can Finally Impress Your Friends September 20, 2007
C. Farley (Bakersfield, CA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was an accidental find and it's a total joy. A devestatingly handsome Jean Reno slowly goes through a coutship ritual with wisely
cautious Juliette Binoche. Great shots of real French life and countryshide, excellent ending--impresses your friends and not suffer for the effort!
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