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In the early morning hours on the outskirts of Paris, Le Roi Soleil serves as a way station for lives in transit. It’s a modest bar where the last dregs of the night mix with the first light of dawn. The air is thick with fatigue and stale beer until a sudden jolt of electricity cuts through the gloom.

Monsieur Kantz, a quiet regular, checks his lottery numbers and discovers a truth that is impossible to whisper: he has just won €294 million. For a fleeting moment, a new reality seems possible. Then, a gun appears. A shot rings out.

The dream vanishes, replaced by a body on the floor and a small paper ticket that now represents an immense, unclaimed fortune. The few remaining patrons, a collection of strangers, are left with a corpse and a choice.

Their decision to forgo a call to the authorities in favor of...

As the Cohen Media Group continues to roll out every French film (ever made) on Blu-ray, we are presented with the charming “road” film On My Way. Starring iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve, the film follows her late-life crisis road trip as she pursues a change. Still an incredible beauty, Deneuve is the perfect actress to bring aging Bettie to life.

A lot in Bettie’s life is not going quite right. Her restaurant is under threat from the bank. She is estranged from her daughter Muriel (Camille) and her grandson Charly (Nemo Schiffman). And her longtime affair with a married man has imploded when he finally files for divorce so he can be with his much younger lover. (In a highly amusing scene we learn that Bettie met her lover when he performed surgery on her own husband who had a heart attack while having an affair with the...

A beautifully observant meander through the difficulties and discoveries of wise but still confused advanced age, led by a gorgeous, vital, 70-odd Catherine Deneuve. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Ah, Catherine Deneuve. Gorgeous, vital, and sexy at 70-odd — and in a way completely suited to her age, and not like she’s aspiring to youth long gone — she remains a goddess. Even as– nay because she here portrays a down-to-earth, realistically human woman whose life is a mess. Deneuve’s (Persepolis) Bettie runs a financially strapped restaurant in the small French village she grew up in. Her very elderly mother is a stroppy handful. Her married lover has just left his wife… for a much younger other other woman. Fed up with it all, she gets in her car one Sunday afternoon, right in the middle of lunch service,...

Title: On My Way Director: Emmanuelle Bercot Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nemo Schiffman, Gérard Garouste, Claude Gensac, Paul Hamy Cineastes the world over can readily agree that Catherine Deneuve, who came of age as the muse of a number of influential filmmakers in the 1960s and ’70s, is an enchanting screen presence. And they can presumably agree that quality, leading roles for women as they age — complex roles in which they drive the action and don’t stand as an accessory to the men in their characters’ lives — are at a premium. Reasonable minds can agree on these things and still not walk away thrilled and uplifted by ”On My Way,” the road [ Read More ]

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French veteran actress Catherine Deneuve, who made a name for herself in the films of Luis Buñel and Roman Polanski, stars in "On My Way," a third-time feature from director Emmanuelle Bercot.  In the film, Deneuve stars as Bettie, a restaurant owner and former beauty queen who is tired of wrestling with her estranged daughter, rowdy grandson and aging mother and decides to go on a impromptu road trip around France. In the trailer, Deneuve navigates through her complex family life and lost opportunities all with a beautiful backdrop of suburban France. Read More: Baffled Catherine Deneuve and 'On My Way' Director Laugh through Berlinale Press Conference Nominated for two 2014 César Awards (for Deneuve and newcomer Nemo Schiffman), "On My Way" will premiere opening night at the 2014 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival on Mar. 6. The Cohen Media Group will later release the film at Lincoln Plaza Cinema on Mar 14 with a national roll-out to.