
A.V. Club
For those on its wavelength... the matter-of-fact presentation of odd behaviour gets funnier and funnier...
Full reviewMichelle Pfeiffer plays a socialite who goes from riches to rags after her dead husband's money runs out. Co-stars Oscar-nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester By the Sea) as her equally unguided son who moves with her to Paris.
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Pfeiffer), but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm (Hedges) and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
LessFor those on its wavelength... the matter-of-fact presentation of odd behaviour gets funnier and funnier...
Full reviewFrench Exit is so genuine in its mix of arch and earnest, idiosyncracy and earthiness that it creates a space all for itself.
Full reviewAs the Paris flat grows crowded with the arrival of wacky supporting characters, French Exit loses its way.
Full reviewIn French Exit’s best passages, sadness and curt, resonant comedy exist side by side unceremoniously.
Full reviewThere's more to admire than to love in Azazel Jacobs' arch drawing-room comedy...
Full reviewFrench Exit is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Prime Video and Apple TV and Neon and Neon Rentals.
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