Right Now (film)

Right Now is a 2004 French film by director Benoît Jacquot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

In 1975, a young bourgeois woman falls in love with a bank robber. She follows him and his partner on the run after a bank heist resulted in a death and hostage taking. Using fake IDs, they leave Paris and travel to Spain, Morocco, and Greece.

Cast

Isild Le Besco as Lili
Ouassini Embarek as Bada
Nicolas Duvauchelle as Alain
Laurence Cordier as Joelle
Odile Vuillemin
Emmanuelle Bercot as Laurence

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 70%, based on 44 reviews, and an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A mesmerizing performance by ingenue Isild Le Besco makes this stylish French drama a taut, compelling escapade." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".