Sky

"Sky," despite its Hitchcockian beginning, is no thriller; instead, it's a character study of a woman seeking a second act, and of a landscape that gradually transforms from foreign to welcoming.

Are the French especially prone to this kind of unintended silliness? "Sky" almost seems determined to prove they are.

This expressionistic portrait of the American West is an oddity that only a director from another country could have conjured.

A road movie promising to trek the road less traveled ultimately runs in circles, though Kruger and several pleasurable asides elevate Berthaud's outsider portrait from a forgettable banality.