Synopsis
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.
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Cast
- Catherine DeneuveBettie
- Claude GensacAnnie
- Dominique RocheteauEtienne (voice)
- Gérard GarousteAlain
- Hafsia HerziJeanne
- Némo SchiffmanCharly
- Paul HamyMarco
- Mylène DemongeotFanfan
- Évelyne LeclercqMiss Champagne 1969
- Valérie LagrangeMiss France 1969
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
There are so many echoes of “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” that it starts to feel like a barely disguised sequel. But those reminders, and the rather trite journey-of-self plot, are just decoration. This tender film works to remind us of how much we still love Deneuve, and succeeds in scene after scene. - 70
Village Voice
Its realism is patient and inclusive. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Deneuve suggests the self-absorption of the beautiful, coping with the petty insults of age, making Bettie a bundle of nerves wrestling with a complicated past and an increasingly frazzled present. See it for her performance, and a lovely slice of French scenery. - 60
Time Out
Family members fight and reconcile over delicious-looking regional cuisine, new romantic possibilities present themselves, and Deneuve swans through all the heartstring-plucking silliness like the ethereal superstar she is. There are worse things in life. - 60
New York Daily News
Predictable as the adventure may be, the company — and the countryside — make it worthwhile. - 60
The New York Times
Because Ms. Deneuve, 70, is in almost every scene, On My Way feels like Ms. Bercot’s loving character study of a star who has always stood above the fray, a symbol of resilient Gallic femininity. - 58
The A.V. 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. - 50
The Dissolve
While her film abjectly fails in reconciling its modest ambitions with its ungainly story, Bercot was certainly right to trust that Deneuve’s compulsive watchability—and her palpable connection to the part—would be enough to anchor this otherwise weightless coming-of-old-age saga.
