Pullman paradis

Traveling is not just going places but meeting people remarks a character in Michèle Rosiers refreshing human comedy 18 people board a tour bus to MontSaintMichel eager and jittery cameras aimed desires out of focus The motley crew includes a maturing maid mad to marry a discreet Irishman a pompous bourgeois and a mysterious lady in Renaissance attire who looks as though shes lost her castleNo matches made in heaven here in fact the characters seem bent on driving each other crazy before the tours endWhen the bus is attacked by highway thieves and its occupants divested of jewels and money the misadventure makes them accomplice a kind of spell is cast on these mere mortals shaken from their moorings who quit their banality and take off from the big bus into another space outward bound Joan Dupont