Curiously, "Leave One Day" also bucks that trend, heralding a director with only a few shorts to her name and a cast bereft of recognizable faces. Turn on French radio, however, and you'll hear ...

Leave One Day as an opening film feels almost designed to ease us in rather than shock us awake. It's clear the film doesn't take itself too seriously, to its detriment.

Leave One Day, however, is a smarter choice than it might first appear — a stealth charmer, if you like — and almost certainly a film to baffle the international festivalgoers who descend on ...

“Leave One Day,” Amélie Bonnin’s feature film that opened the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, is an unusual film for a Cannes opener in several ways. It’s a musical, only the third to open ...

Amélie Bonnin ’s romantic dramedy Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) made history at the Cannes Film Festival this evening, becoming the first debut feature to ever open the event. It also got a ...

Amélie Bonnin’s romantic dramedy Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) made history at the Cannes Film Festival this evening, becoming the first debut feature to ever open the event. It also got a ...

“Leave One Day” has a tidy story about Cécile returning to the village she grew up in, where her parents, who are also chefs (but of a much lower order), still spend their days cooking up ...

Which makes “Leave One Day” a bit of a contradiction. It wants us to get all melancholy and wistful about someone too self-actualized to change. Best of Variety The Best Albums of the Decade ...

“Leave One Day” has a tidy story about Cécile returning to the village she grew up in, where her parents, who are also chefs (but of a much lower order), still spend their days cooking up hanger steak ...