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Journalism of Courage
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Max Baldy, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe
Director: Steve Bendelack
Probably there are few other Englishmen who can get away with poking fun at the Cannes Film Festival, but Mr Bean or Rowan Atkinson manages it. He also manages to poke fun at the Americans and the English all at the same time, but then, he is Mr Bean. He can walk over people, drop them in the river, steal someone8217;s bicycle, manage to make someone miss his train, but still no one stops loving him.
On holiday in France that solves the problem of having Mr Bean talk, which he never does, Mr Bean manages to separate a father from his son. The father is on the Cannes jury, and it is now up to Mr Bean to restore the son to him. By then, the father has alerted the whole of France that his son has been abducted by a strange Englishman.
While taking the boy to Cannes to be with his father, Mr Bean leaves a trail right across the French landscape 8212; from its cordon bleu restaurants to its flea markets and its quiet countryside to its beaches.
But all that8217;s nothing compared to when Mr Bean reaches Cannes.
This is far from the best Atkinson has done, but since he has announced that this is the last story of the character Mr Bean Atkinson is now 52 years old, and the age is showing on 8220;the child in a grown man8217;s body8221;, don8217;t miss it.
