The destination may be predetermined, but before you reach it director Christian Carion takes you a lot of places you didn’t expect to go...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 16, 2025

An emotional French film about sharing stories, deep listening, and a transformative friendship.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 23, 2024

If you’re in need of a lift, take the heartwarming French drama “Driving Madeleine” for a spin.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 4, 2024

The destination of the film might feel like a bit of a foregone conclusion but the graceful and sometimes unpredictable manner in which Carion arrives at it is impressive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2024

Paris becomes a sentimental journey into the past. Exceptional performances by legendary French actors and friends Line Renaud and Dany Boon.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2024

With Paris as the gorgeous co-star to the terrific Dany Boon and ninetysomething Grande Dame Line Renaud, their day-long trip together becomes a 90-minute beauty to behold.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2024

While I was reluctant to be charmed by its spells, in the end I was totally sucked in.

| Feb 1, 2024

The Proustian allusion in the title is entirely intentional, as this is very much a remembrance of things past. The problem is that the movie keeps pulling away from what’s so compelling about the present.

| Jan 22, 2024

Christian Carion’s film provides well-crafted cinematic comfort food, complete with picture-postcard views of Parisian splendors. But I wish its pleasures were a little less predictable, and its sentimentality less pat.

| Jan 22, 2024

“Driving Madeleine” is a gift to all of us, old and young. Director Christian Carion, working from his adaptation of a script by Cyril Gely, has shone a light on the value of living a life, both troubled and indomitable, and sharing that vision.

| Jan 22, 2024

All in all, the film has a ubiquitous presence about it and stands firmly on its own two feet without heavily relying on other narrative features.

| Jan 22, 2024

All in all, the film has a ubiquitous presence about it and stands firmly on its own two feet without heavily relying on other narrative features.

| Jan 20, 2024

Renaud and Boon empathetically chauffeur this worthwhile Parisian trip.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2024

Driving Madeleine doubles as a French history lesson from WWII to Vietnam to today. Quite the sentimental journey.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2024

Dany Boon and Line Reaud make quite a power couple. The Pariis sightseeing is another plus.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 19, 2024

“Driving Madeleine” is held together by the funny and dignified performances of its two leads.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2024

The result is a tender, amusing, and incredibly sweet, spirited day-trip of a movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 18, 2024

Madeleine is a showcase for its two leads; both are exceptional. So is the film, which gently reminds us to feel compassion for others since we never quite know where another person has been or where they might be going.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 17, 2024

Line Renaud and Dany Boon sparkle in this tale of the unlikely friendship that unfolds on a single day when an elderly Frenchwoman bonds with her taxi driver.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2024

I was swept away by this film; emotionally and cognitively.  I can't remember a time when I became so attached to characters in a film that I sobbed uncontrollably at the end, totally satisfied, happy, and heartbroken all at once.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 16, 2024