Michelle Pfeiffer plays a socialite who goes from riches to rags after her dead husband's money runs out. Co-stars Oscar-nominee...
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.
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"For those on its wavelength... the matter-of-fact presentation of odd behaviour gets funnier and funnier..."
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A.V. Club
A.V. Club"Hampered by clockwork quirkiness and disaffected dialogue."
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The New York Times
The New York 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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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"As the Paris flat grows crowded with the arrival of wacky supporting characters, French Exit loses its way."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com"An arch and laboured comedy..."
—A.V. Club
A.V. Club"Michelle Pfeiffer shines in tonally odd trans-Atlantic tale."
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Stuff
Stuff"The various elements add up to an amuse-bouche rather than a full banquet."
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FilmInk
FilmInk"A head-scratching failure for all involved."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"In French Exit’s best passages, sadness and curt, resonant comedy exist side by side unceremoniously."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"The film does not waste the brilliance of its two leading performances."
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Slash Film
Slash Film"Would have been lost in its own lineage if not for the strength of its cast."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"There's more to admire than to love in Azazel Jacobs' arch drawing-room comedy..."
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly"It’s nicely cut with the schadenfreude of “Schitt’s Creek.”"
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Variety
Variety"Ranks among her most captivatingly Pfeiffer-ian."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterFrench Exit | Details
- Rating
- M, Offensive language & sexual references
- Runtime
- 113
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- UK, USA
