That was an excellent one.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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.

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.

This movie aims at cute but suffers from a sloppy and tired script. It aims at realism, but instead gives us a fairy tale about the "rescue" of a bereft woman by a fine and -of course- handsome man. As that woman is in her mid sixties and her past clearly shows a lot of reliance on men all her life, this poor excuse for a scenario ("geriatric woman still attractive in France!") is not only flawed in its backward philosophy: it is also statistically improbable. No, granny, things don't happen so easily in life- sorry. I do not object to the loose threads and the little action in the script-that is actually what most human lives are about- but to keep a reasonable viewer's interest, whatever is presented to that viewer needs to be coherent and realistic. Instead, we have a disjointed road movie, where one cartoonish character after the other crosses the path of our spoiled 60ish heroine, and it feels like the director said to himself: " Oh, let's throw them in: this character is interesting! This character is fun! This character is edgy!" Unfortunately, no one in this film is either fun or interesting or edgy, or the opportunities to show them as such sadly fail to be exploited by the script. The grandson is an annoying brat, the great-grandmother is an annoying nag, and the older male rescuer is Mr Rochester (remember, Jane Eyre?): a gruff bear who transform into Prince Charming overnight. A feminist or even clever script, this ain't. An upbeat story on aging and possibilities? Not unless 1) you are Catherine Deneuve and the camera lingers on you lovingly 2) shows you smoking obsessively as if that were part of your charm (really? in 2014? How is that for a new idea!) 3) the script has young studs bed you eagerly even though you are in your 60s 4) and a strong man in your age range miraculously falls in love with you by the end. This script is a collection of magical-thinking inanities, and glorious Catherine Deneuve is wasted in them.

"Elle s'en va" or "On My Way" is written and directed by Emmanuelle Bercot and pretty much as a whole a Catherine Deneuve showcase fittingly for her 70th birthday. She is in almost every scene in the movie and her character is the only one that is truly explored in depth.It starts as we see Deneuve's character owning a restaurant and quickly being fed up with coordinating the whole process. So she goes into her her own form of retirement. Actually, early on, I expected the restaurant background to play a more significant role in the film, but things turned out differently. Unfortunately, aside from Madame Deneuve's good performance, the film suffers a lot in other area. The performances from those who play her daughter and grandson are not convincing at all and many characters are simply too much in the face instead of quietly subtle. As a result of that, quite some credibility is lost. The writing was not outstanding either and constant random changes in Deneuve's mood (positive as well as negative) make it look a bit ridiculous as the film goes on. Admittedly, it would probably have been even worse with another actress in the main role. Deneuve saved the movie to an extent.The choice of music was occasionally spot-on, but sometimes off the mark too, which is a bit disappointing as the score is usually really strong in French films. One of the emotional highlights intended by the makers was probably the road trip with Deneuve and her grandchild, but even here it was not as effective as it could have been. As a whole, I can't really recommend this movie. Only one for French cinema lovers and Deneuve completionists.