PREVIEW: French Exit (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Michelle Pfeiffer (What Lies Beneath), Lucas Hedges (Manchester By The Sea), Valerie Mahaffey (Sully), Susan Coyne (Snow Cake), Imogen Poots (Vivarium), Danielle Macdonald (Dumplin’), Daniel Di Tomasso (Blood Is Blood), Isaach de Bankolé (Calvary), Tracy Letts (Little Women)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man), director; Patrick DeWitt (Terri), writer; Trish Dolman (Hector and the Search for Happiness), Olivier Glaas (Chasing Sleep), Christine Haebler (Tail Lights Fade), Katie Holly (Love & Friendship), Christina Piovesan (The Lesser Blessed) and Noah Segal (American Woman), producers; Nicholas deWitt (film debut), composer; Tobias Datum (Frank & Cindy), cinematographer; Hilda Rasula (Beach Pillows), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Frances Price (Pfeiffer), a penniless Manhattan socialite whose vast inheritance has dried up, sells the last of her possessions and resolves to live out the rest of her days in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied only by her directionless son Malcolm (Hedges), and a small cat named Small Frank, who may or may not be inhabited by the spirit of her dead husband…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Michelle Pfeiffer delivers the performance of her career in this absurdist comedy-drama about a socialite in the twilight of her glory years, adapted from the novel of the same name by The Sisters Brothers author Patrick DeWitt.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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