A.V. Club
For those on its wavelength... the matter-of-fact presentation of odd behaviour gets funnier and funnier...
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French Exit
Michelle 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.
2021Rating: M, Offensive language & sexual references113 minsUK, USA
ComedyDrama
- Director:
- Azazel Jacobs ('The Lovers', 'Momma's Man')
- Writer:
- Patrick deWitt
- Cast:
- Michelle PfeifferLucas HedgesTracy LettsValerie MahaffeySusan CoyneImogen Poots
French Exit / Reviews
Los Angeles Times
French Exit is so genuine in its mix of arch and earnest, idiosyncracy and earthiness that it creates a space all for itself.
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RogerEbert.com
As the Paris flat grows crowded with the arrival of wacky supporting characters, French Exit loses its way.
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Slant Magazine
In French Exit’s best passages, sadness and curt, resonant comedy exist side by side unceremoniously.
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Entertainment Weekly
There's more to admire than to love in Azazel Jacobs' arch drawing-room comedy...
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