Unforgettable Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester returns to our screens. The actress is starring in The Weekend Away, a thriller available on Netflix.
A new thriller has just been added to the Netflix catalog and it should attract subscribers to the platform: The Weekend Away, worn by Leighton Meester, the unforgettable Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl. Rather discreet since the series that dedicated her, the actress has distinguished herself in a few dramas and comedies on the big screen and has been invited to several more or less popular series such as The Last Man on Earth, Defending Jacob, Single Parents and more recently How I Met Your Father.
This time, Leighton Meester returns in a film that should appeal to fans of honest and forgettable but quite effective thrillers at the time. Netflix is full of thrillers in the style of TV movies that air on the major terrestrial networks in the afternoon and The Weekend Away is one of them.
A weekend that turns to tragedy
In this adaptation of Sarah Alderson’s bestseller, Leighton Meester plays Beth, an unhappy young mother who leaves to join her best friend Kate (Christina Wolfe) in Croatia for a weekend reunion. While they want to find a second youth, Beth and Kate are partying during a very alcoholic evening.
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When she wakes up, Beth finds Kate missing and can’t remember what happened. Lost in a foreign city, Beth will do everything to find her best friend with the help of Zain (Ziad Bakri), a taxi driver. But his research leads him into an infernal spiral where sex, lies, drugs and crimes become entangled.
Each clue leads her to a disturbing new disillusionment and to being suspected by the police, who do not seem to want to find the missing woman. This tragic event will profoundly change Beth and mark a real turning point in her life.
If Leighton Meester and the rest of the cast do the minimum in terms of acting, the plot and the many twists and turns of The Weekend Away are rather well brought and hold enough in suspense to go until the end of the film of one hour and thirty minutes. minutes. For the pleasure of seeing Blair Waldorf again and for an effective story, one can easily be tempted by The Weekend Away, a little guilty pleasure.