Pardon his French

I appreciated Susan King’s long and positive article on Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s wonderful film “Bon Voyage” (“Revisiting a Fateful Time in 1940 France,” March 22). I was sorry that the only negative note in the entire piece was her gratuitous observation that I had a “bad French accent.” Perhaps if she had noticed that I was not playing an American journalist as she reported but an English journalist, and speaking French with the cadences of an Englishman, she might have been more charitable.

Peter Coyote

Mill Valley