Amélie Bonnin’s feature film that opened the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, is an unusual film for an opener.

French film-maker Amélie Bonnin made history at the Cannes International Film Festival. Her romantic dramedy Leave One Day got a five-minute-plus ovation from the audiences.

The Cannes Film Festival kicked off its 78th edition with the Opening Ceremony and the world premiere of Amélie Bonnin’s ...

Opening Cannes, like closing it, has traditionally been a poisoned chalice. The festival has tried a few moves to address the ...

Amélie Bonnin’s romantic dramedy 'Leave One Day,' the first debut feature to ever open the Cannes Film Festival got a ...

In short, “Leave One Day” isn’t the movie you show after an opening ceremony where Quentin Tarantino has just bellowed that ...

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 ...

From Michel Gondry to Juliette Armanet, "Leave One Day" director Amelie Bonnin shares the influences that inspired her Cannes ...

film profile], which opened the 78th Cannes Film Festival out of competition. It’s "a sophisticated cuisine, inherited from the French tradition", taking the form of a rural musical which this young ...

Chalk it up to Cannes’ unique position that you’re reading this review. Which isn’t to say that Amélie Bonnin’s locally flavored jukebox musical “Leave One Day” is anything close to a wash — nor does ...