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‘Leave One Day’ Review: Cannes Opens With a French Musical Confection About a Celebrity Chef in Midlife Crisis. But It’s a Less Than Rich Dessert
The pop star Juliette Armanet evokes the pensive young Meryl Streep, but Amélie Bonnin's first solo feature is at once affecting and aimless.
With America not only spinning out of control but threatening to take the rest of the world with it, the Cannes Film Festival can be a place to play out that tumult, to see it writ large — on the big screen, where over the next two weeks it inevitably will be. I enjoyed the casual everydayness of the musical numbers — at times they’re just snippets — that pop out of the story like the fruits in a plum cake, only to return us to that rather neutral tone of semi-documentary drama that has been the house style of French cinema since the days of Maurice Pialat. Juliette Armanet, who’s a huge pop star, is relatively new to the big screen, but she’s a natural actor, with a look and aura that evoke the Meryl Streep of decades ago: quick, pensive, wary, with neurotic feelers that catch just about everything.
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