French singer Juliette Armanet toplines this year's Cannes Film Festival opener, about a celebrity chef who returns home to help out at her parents’ roadside restaurant.

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

If there’s any doubt of that, consider the film that opened the festival tonight, “Leave One Day (Partir un jour).” It’s a trifle, and not even fully successful on its own small-bauble terms.

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 ...

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 ...

Sylvie Pialat (“Timbuktu”), the producer of Cannes’ opening night movie “Leave One Day” directed by Amelie Bonnin, is on the roll. The Cesar-winning producer, who runs the Paris-based ...

Logline: Cécile (Juliette Armanet) is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when her father suffers a heart attack. She is called back to her small ...

It also wants to pave the way with comfort food. If there's any doubt of that, consider the film that opened the festival tonight, "Leave One Day (Partir un jour)." It's a trifle, and not even ...