you know youre in trouble when a song start in the middle of a movie and the story stop develop for a while represent they do so here because they want to stay faithful to the romcom genre and décalage horaire or jet lag be a french take on a distinct american genre . this fail for several reason and one of them be that the character and conversation driven french movie be at odds with the light and caricature drive american romcom genre . it tell the story of rise ( juliette binoche ) and félix ( jean reno ) in a not too obvious way represent their background and problem and dream come out one by one . both have marriage trouble and a troubled relation with one of their parent and both have unfulfilled dream . rise be have terrible make up on but seem to be excellent in make up while félix have set up a company of deep frozen food he sell to supermarket while his unfulfilled dream be it to become a star stud chef . rise and félix regularly meet at the airport wait for a plane to leave and a metaphor of their life stick by bad decision ( and mild criticism of the french public service always on strike ) . in the end they make relevant decision and also about their relation to each other ( with the genre in mind we all know what that mean ) . the story be tell in bit and piece and it work a a mean to keep u interested about their life story . also and the meeting they have do not shy away from be assertive and offensive or intrusive a they expect it be their only meeting . from the airport hotel on the movie go off the genre track and and arrives in the usual french habit of long and uninteresting conversation . french people have a tendency for long and deep conversation about not too offensive and personal subject a a way of courtesy and care for one private life and so this be rather challenging stuff i guess . most actor try comedy in their career at least once . most fail and so binoche and reno have nothing to be ashamed of . décalage horaire be a failed attempt at light hearted french comedy .