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Á TOUT DE SUITE (RIGHT NOW) Send This Review to a Friend
French director Benoît Jacquot’s “Á Tout de Suite” (“Right Now”) gains strength by the casting of Isild Le Besco, an actress loved by the camera. She is fascinating to watch, and that carries the film a long way. Le Besco plays Lili, a sullen young woman ripe for rebellion and adventure. It is this state that allows any credibility at all to what happens when she immediately falls for a young man (Oussini Embarek) and, when she learns that he has robbed a bank and escapes after taking hostages, she first offers him shelter and then runs off with him, his accomplice and the accomplice’s girlfriend.
We know that nothing good can come of this adventure, but we follow Lili’s risky road to its conclusion as the action moves from France to Spain, Morocco and Greece. You can put the film in the category of other such crime adventures, but Jacquot gives it a special aura to which his leading lady contributes mightily as a new screen icon.
There is also considerable atmosphere provided both by the rebellious tone of the film and the geography. Le Besco’s revolt against leading a staid life and her reckless behavior stirs memories of Godard’s “Breathless.” Like Jean-Paul Belmondo’s Michel, she and her newly found boyfriend don’t seem to have a clue about the consequences of their action, at least at first, until reality begins to catch up with them.
Jacquot has created one of the more interesting, if not always believable, of the recent French film imports. A Cinema Guild release.
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