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6.4/10
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Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.
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- 1 win & 5 nominations
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- TriviaThe film was slated to film some scenes in the village of Villebois in Ain, France, on 16 June 2012, with extras hired and events canceled. However, just four days prior, the mayor received a phone call from the production letting him know that the scenes would be filmed in Izieu instead, some 30 km away.
- ConnectionsFeatured in La noche de...: El viaje de Bettie (2017)
- SoundtracksLa nostra casa
Performed by Gino Paoli
Written by Flavio Carraresi and Sergio Bardotti
Courtesy of Universal Music Publishing Ricordi
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trite fairy tale
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.
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- Also known as
- Ella se va
- Filming locations
- Hotel Palace de Menthon, Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Haute-Savoie, France(Hotel where the reunion of the 1969 winners "Miss-region France" takes place.)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $317,324
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,536
- Mar 16, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $5,505,705
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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