French Exit

A dry, bittersweet comedy of manners that drifts between melancholy and absurdity, anchored by a sharp, eccentric performance.

Directed by

Azazel Jacobs

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Starring

Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts

Overview

“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.

How it feels

Melancholic, cynical, whimsical and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Grief, family, identity, death

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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