“It’s all gone,” Frances’s accountant says, referring to her money. Yet the line encapsulates the essence of a movie that trembles with loss: Looks, home, love and life itself are on the fade. After years of ignoring her dwindling fortune, Frances, along with her depressive adult son, Malcolm (Lucas Hedges), must sell up and accept the loan of a friend’s vacation apartment in Paris. The length of stay is undefined, but, this time, Frances doesn’t intend to outlast the dribble of cash that remains.
“Michelle Pfeiffer is
Ty Burr – The Boston Globe
a national treasure.“
Pfeiffer is flat-out fabulous here, at once chilly and poignant. As Frances dispenses the last of her money to homeless men in the park, her largess seems more to do with weariness than compassion, her beneficiaries simply useful receptacles for something she no longer needs. A strange mixture of highbrow looniness and quiet rue, “French Exit” is finally less about one woman’s desire to die than about her inability to summon the energy to live.
“Dazzling. Pfeiffer, gloriously back, tops an aces cast that is sublime in every way.“
Pete Hammond – Deadline
Director
Azazel Jacobs
Writer
Patricks DeWitt
Director of Photography
Tobias Datum
Editor
Hilda Rasula
Executive Producers
Matt Aselton, Marc Marrie, Mal Ward
Behind the Scenes
