As an actress herself, not to mention the daughter of French movie star Miou-Miou, writer-director Jeanne Herry knows a thing about performance. Her last two features, In Safe Hands and All Your Faces, were both ensemble pieces featuring star-studded casts doing solid work across the board in films that favored characters and emotions over plot.
That approach yields another memorable turn in Another Day (Garance), which stars Adèle Exarchopoulos as a functioning alcoholic who’s also a working actress — or at least an actress looking for work when she’s not too plastered. Already crowned with a César award for All Your Faces, as well as a Palme d’Or for her role in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color, she winningly plays a woman who can’t kick a habit that may prematurely send her to the grave. Nor does she seem to want to.
Another Day
The Bottom Line
A top-notch performance in a wavering drama.
