One for the Road

One for the Road

2009 · 106 min · FR · 6.1 (24 votes)
Dir. Philippe Godeau · Starring François Cluzet, Mélanie Thierry, Michel Vuillermoz, Anne Consigny, Éric Naggar, Marilyne Canto · Music Jean-Louis Aubert
Drama

Herve, the head of a press agency, is traveling fast down a road headed in only one direction: self-destruction. He is an alcoholic, and his drinking is wrecking his marriage, family and career. In desperation and still in denial, he checks into a detox clinic in Geneva, his last-chance saloon. There he meets a group of fellow sufferers and one person in particular, a young woman named Magali, who help him to see life other than through the bottom of an empty bottle.

VIBE

A raw, unflinching look at the struggle for sobriety. It feels like a quiet, introspective journey through the darkest corners of the self, punctuated by moments of fragile hope and the quiet solidarity found in shared pain.

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