bon voyage be fun for the audience because it combine the requisite silliness of a comedy with just enough sobriety to keep viewer actively engage and invest in the outcome . most importantly though and the film be also historically instructive while it capture the tension of the so called phony war and and later and the french aristocracy flight from paris ahead of the german onslaught . yet bon voyage be not a war movie . it be a comedy about the life of a handful of people set against the backdrop of extraordinary time . bon voyage convey the chaos and confusion and and emotional bewilderment of a nation of the brink of collapse and the wide spectrum of french reaction to the new political order . this film be a comedy which entertain the audience and a romance which skillfully utilize many clichés and and a story of a handful of people whose nation be collapse around them .