alamosa moviereview This is a budget brainless waste of time. DeNeuve always plays the same type character a sort of perpetual flower child meandering about she finds the meaning of life.Unfortunately the somewhat chunky Ms. DeNeuve is now in her late 60s and looks every year of it. Malheureusement plastic surgeons have not figured out how to redo hands and undo years of pills and liquor. In this movie she is cast as a 60 year old chef who owns a restaurant with her mother....she is estranged from her daughter...and a nebulous unsatisfactory history of love affairs and marriage is hinted at--but she has floated through them and now finds herself unhappy. So she goes to get cigarettes and keeps driving in a road movie.While drunk she is picked up by a man in his 20s who while good looking is a complete imbecile--the first cartoonish overplayed character in this flic. Then she is corralled by her family via cell phone and picks up her road adventure companion--an obnoxious androgynous elf looking 11 year old grandson--a victim of estrangement who wants a family.There is a scene where she an ex-Miss Brittany is at a resort to make a photoshoot calendar with the other contestants in the Miss France contest of 1969. What a grotesque calendar--at some point you need to accept your age.All the leftie PC items are in the movie in fact is there a French movie without them? You know the token Black....a rude reference to Marine Le Pen...they are a constant background hum.Finally through the machinations of the elf she meets her end of life companion a handsome mayor of some small town and also the paternal grandfather of her grandson.This thing reeks of budget filming of just plain stupid writing so do yourself a big favor and avoid it.. EVITEZ! unless you a hell bent fan of Ms. DeNeuve manufactured image.

Armand in a bitter manner. with an admirable script. story of a lady who desires to escape from her every day life. and the result. Catherine Deneuve does a fascinating role not only as remember of a long career but using new tools for create a character who has a profound force, convincing grace, delicate power.her great virtue - the links with the entire cast. and the fine exploration of each nuance. a film about family and choices. about happiness. and about fights. about beauty and honesty to yourself. nothing new. nothing complicated. only a beautiful film who propose few useful questions.and it is enough for discover the freshness of the new French cinema.

Paul Allaer "On My Way" (2013 release from France; 113 min.; original title "Elle S'en Va") brings the story of Bettie (played by Catherine Deneuve), a sixty-something widow who runs a small restaurant somewhere in Bretagne. Things are not well with Bettie: the restaurant is barely surviving, and her love life is in tatters. One afternoon, Bettie leaves the restaurant, on the pretense of getting some cigarettes, but instead Bettie hits the road. In a separate but parallel story line, Bettie's daughter Muriel, a single mom, has a job offer in faraway Brussels, and can Bettie pick up Charly, Muriel's 11 yr. old son, and take him to Charly's grandfather (on Charly's dad's side). Bettie reluctantly agrees. To tell you more of the plot would spoil your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.Couple of comments: first, this movie is written and directed by French actress/director Emmanuelle Bercot, specifically with Catherine Deneuve in mind for the role of Bettie. Second, I have seen many movies of Catherine Deneuve, and this is yet again a top notch acting performance. Hard to believe that she is 69 years when this was filmed! It comes as no surprise that this role netted her yet another, the umpteenth, nomination for Cezar Best Actress (the Oscar equivalent in France). But kudos as well to newcomer Nemo Schiffman who is outstanding as the 11 yr. old boy. Third, a good chunk of the movie plays out like a true road movie, French style of course. The movie takes us on the back roads of various regions in France, including of course Bretagne, but also the Loire region, and Haute-Savoie. Last but certainly not least, while there is a good amount of "family drama", the movie is also an ode to life in rural France that is becoming more and more out of reach or simply disappearing. Check out the long scene where the entire family is having dinner outside. So French! Bottom line: this movie is an unexpected pleasure which I enjoyed from start to finish. This movie showed up this weekend without any pre-release hype or advertising at my local art-house theater here in Cincinnati, and I figure this won't play long so I went to see it right away. The matinée screening where I saw this at today was better attended than I had expected. If you are in the mood for a top quality foreign movie that is miles away from your standard Hollywood fare, and where you get to watch one of the top actresses of this generation, by all means, don't miss this, be it in the theater or on DVD/Bly-ray. "Elle S'en Va" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Mozjoukine Meandering but always on target account of Granny and one time Miss Brittany Catherine, exasperated by the problems of her small town life to the point of getting into the car and driving across France, only to get caught up in the dramas of her daughter, needing her to supervise the grandson who she has to shuffle to his already ticked off paternal grandfather - and we end up with yet another out of doors meal.Though it avoids the touristy locations this one is a remarkable non judgmental cross section of 21st Century France, peopled by vivid characters just short of real. Deneuve continues to find vehicles which show off her stellar presence.