If I only had a smoke

Elle s'en va (On my way)

Crit

Oz keeps moving around, and Kansas (Brittany) is never overvalued, but this is clearly a French Wizard of Oz movie, with Catherine Deneuve as perhaps the oldest and certainly the most beautiful Dorothy ever. Her Bettie initially splits for cigarettes, or solitude, or maybe just to get away from her mother, her debt-strapped restaurant, and the longtime lover she has just learned has dumped both her and his wife for a 25-year-old.

As in any Oz story, she has odd and sometimes scary encounters along her way--dart players and an amorous cigarette smuggler at a country and western bar; a kindly African night watchman who lets her crash at his furniture store; her reuning 1969 beauty-pageant compatriots--and she finds someone to share her quest: Charly, the eleven-ish son of her estranged daughter.

A delight.