Elle s'en va 2013

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: Watching Bettie get her groove back, it's easy to think that of course she still has men in their 30s chasing her. She's Catherine Deneuve, for heaven's sake. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Disappointingly tedious, On My Way is a contrived vehicle for Gallic icon Catherine Deneuve. Read more

Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: This isn't the kind of movie that's in a hurry to get anywhere in particular. Still, there's no need for the journey to be quite so blah. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: You can tell Deneuve is relishing the chance to play not a great beauty, not a national legend, but a simple, human basket case - a woman who has been her own worst enemy for so long that she's ready to give up the fight. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: Deneuve, fine as always, subtly emphasizes the character's self-destructive side, providing a little medicine to help the sugar go down. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Deneuve was 70 when she made this film, and Bercot draws on everything we know about her as an actress and as an icon. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Writer-director Emmanuelle Bercot certainly hits a lot of notes along the way, playing neither dark nor light in full, traipsing through family dysfunction and betrayed love with both mortality and a smile ever overhead. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: Emmanuelle Bercot's agreeably ambling feature celebrates the inimitable Deneuve-ness of her leading lady, whose character, Bettie, appears in every scene. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: A handsome vehicle for Denueve, who drives it with elegant sanfroid. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's a slight film which very much depends on the fond affection engendered in audiences by its star. Luckily that's still in ample supply. Read more

Ella Taylor, NPR: The movie has a soundtrack full of pop delights and a loose-limbed way of making itself up as it goes along. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Predictable as the adventure may be, the company - and the countryside - make it worthwhile. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Just when "On My Way" seems about to be stranded in the middle of nowhere, Bettie and Charly's fraught relationship gives the movie an emotional center and comedic drive. Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: A droll if minor dramatic comedy about a woman who goes out for a pack of smokes and ends up on an odyssey of self-discovery through the back roads and tiny villages of rural France. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: "On My Way" finds Deneuve warm and natural, completely open and yet subtle, able to suggest much with little, allowing us to read her thoughts. Read more

Claude Peck, Minneapolis Star Tribune: [Deneuve] conveys in every scene a convincing and touching openness to life as experienced in the moment. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Finally, a movie about Catherine Deneuve driving around the French countryside! Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: It manages to be a mildly merry film in any case, because its realism is patient and inclusive ... Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: These series of vignettes still leave an impression, thanks in no small part to Deneuve. Read more