Film Review: On My Way

Deneuve’s compelling performance salvages run-of-the-mill French dramedy

Catherine Deneuve's Bettie and Nemo Schiffman's Charly share a rare tranquil moment in On My Way.
Catherine Deneuve’s Bettie and Nemo Schiffman’s Charly share a tranquil moment in On My Way.

With her new film On My Way, French writer/director Emmanuelle Bercot has made a fairly standard finding-yourself-late-in-life picture (see About Schmidt and Something’s Gotta Give, among others), with the saving grace that the inestimable Catherine Deneuve is its star. Deneuve elevates what could have been a dime-a-dozen quirky French dramedy into a picture worth watching, if only for her performance. Continue reading “Film Review: On My Way”