Mr. Bean reaches Paris during the opening journey in Mr. Bean’s Holiday.
The film begins when Mr. Bean wins a holiday raffle that includes a camcorder, a trip to France, and a train journey. He travels to Paris and visits the Gare de Lyon, where an accidental separation from a young boy begins the central chain of events.
Paris is an important starting point rather than the film’s only setting. After the boy becomes separated from his father, Bean’s attempts to reunite them lead through several French locations and eventually into the world of filmmaking. The journey gives the movie a road-film structure built around visual misunderstandings.
Viewers sometimes remember the later seaside and cinema sequences more strongly than the opening railway scenes. However, Paris is the first major city in the story and establishes the travel mishap that drives the rest of the plot.