French Exit
1h 50m
Comedy | Drama
About
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Michelle 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 (Lucas Hedges) and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
Director
Azazel Jacobs
Cast
Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne
Rating
Year
2021
Country
Canada | UK
Language
English
Main Trailer
Reviews
- "Pfeiffer's performance in this uneven but charming adaptation of Patrick deWitt's 2018 novel certainly isn't her subtlest, but it ranks among her most captivatingly Pfeiffer-ian."
- The Hollywood Reporter - "Yes, FRENCH EXIT blisters amid the rarefied air of Tom Wolfe or Whit Stillman, but it’s nicely cut with the schadenfreude of “Schitt’s Creek.”"
- Variety - "There's more to admire than to love in Azazel Jacobs' arch drawing-room comedy, with its surreal styling and arch Wes Anderson-y tics — and something essential lost, maybe, in screenwriter Patrick deWitt's own adaptation of his acclaimed 2018 novel of the same name."
- Entertainment Weekly
Awards
- Golden Globes nominee
Festivals
- New York Film Festival