Storyline
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, 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 and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
Directors
Cast
Larry Day, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matt Holland, Imogen Poots, Isaach De Bankolé, Vlasta Vrána, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Robert Higden, Danielle Macdonald, Una Kay, Bruce Dinsmore, Younes Bouab, Christopher B. MacCabe, Julian Bailey, Jean-Michel Le Gal, Christopher Hayes, Daniel DiTomasso, Eddie Holland, Christine Lan, Laura Mitchell, Rebecca Gibian, Saboor Aiasuddin Adbul, Benoît Mauffette, Marc Raffray, Marine Chard, Charlotte Hoepffner, Deen Abboud, Nikola Masri, Jelena Djukic, Stéphane Boucher
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Reviews
70
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.
70
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.”
67
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.
67
The result is an anodyne if increasingly tender little film that would have been lost in its own lineage if not for the strength of its cast.
66
TheWrap
French Exit walks an uneasy line between darkness and light, elegance and eccentricity, delicious humor and disturbing tragedy. These are not normal people, and this is not a normal film. But Pfeiffer makes it an odd, enjoyably twisty ride.
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