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An aging Manhattan socialite existing on the last of her inheritance moves to a small Paris apartment with her son and cat.An aging Manhattan socialite existing on the last of her inheritance moves to a small Paris apartment with her son and cat.An aging Manhattan socialite existing on the last of her inheritance moves to a small Paris apartment with her son and cat.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 9 nominations
Tracy Letts
- Franklin Price
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAhead of the premiere, Michelle Pfeiffer stated at the New York Film Festival press conference that the making of the film ranked in the top five movie-making experiences of her career.
- GoofsAt 1:10:21, when Frances is talking to the brave man in Paris park, there is lip movement of Frances without audio.
- Quotes
Mr. Baker: What did you think was going to happen, Frances? What was your plan?
Frances Price: My plan was to die before the money ran out. But I kept and keep not dying and - here I am.
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Written and Performed by Anthony R. DiMito
Published by Big Tiger Music
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Michelle and Paris and a black cat--What's not to like?
With the adjective "French" in the title French Exit, much more can be expected than someone just leaving a country. With existential echoes and philosophical attitude the French can have over a croissant, an audience can see where writer Patrick DeWitt and director Azazel Jacobs are going in this low-key drawing-room comedy.
The glamorous Michell Pfeiffer plays sixty-year-old former Manhattan socialite Frances, who encourages thoughts that go from the losses aging brings to the mortality ultimately reserved for all. She has lost her wealthy businessman husband, Franklin (voice of Tracy Letts), who returns with the help of randy seer Madeleine the Medium (Danielle Macdonald) in the form of a black cat (yes, the occult element is one of the lighter elements of a film, described as a comedy but really a darkly and quietly humorous melodrama). Call it a farce because it's French, but don't expect to laugh much.
As in the work of Wes Anderson and Woody Allen (check out the Midnight in Paris-type music), the comedic turns are due largely to eccentric characters who don't fit snugly with the overarching themes of love and friendship at the end of things. At French Exit's end, it is far more melancholy than funny.
Dutiful son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) accompanies her to a friend's flat in Paris (one of several friends to help her through her grief such as ditsy Madame Reynard, played by Valerie Mahaffey) never certain how to take his mother's sardonic wit, or maybe just amused while perhaps not knowing it is her time to exit. Whatever, Hedges plays him vulnerable and shy to the world and her (he can't bring himself to tell his mother he's engaged, for goodness's sake)
With echoes of Sartre and Camus, French Exit reminds the audience there is no exit from our common end. Gradually Frances is shedding her wealth, friends, and family and accumulating a retinue of characters who exist to remind her, it seems, of how inextricably we are tied to others until we are not.
The glamorous Michell Pfeiffer plays sixty-year-old former Manhattan socialite Frances, who encourages thoughts that go from the losses aging brings to the mortality ultimately reserved for all. She has lost her wealthy businessman husband, Franklin (voice of Tracy Letts), who returns with the help of randy seer Madeleine the Medium (Danielle Macdonald) in the form of a black cat (yes, the occult element is one of the lighter elements of a film, described as a comedy but really a darkly and quietly humorous melodrama). Call it a farce because it's French, but don't expect to laugh much.
As in the work of Wes Anderson and Woody Allen (check out the Midnight in Paris-type music), the comedic turns are due largely to eccentric characters who don't fit snugly with the overarching themes of love and friendship at the end of things. At French Exit's end, it is far more melancholy than funny.
Dutiful son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) accompanies her to a friend's flat in Paris (one of several friends to help her through her grief such as ditsy Madame Reynard, played by Valerie Mahaffey) never certain how to take his mother's sardonic wit, or maybe just amused while perhaps not knowing it is her time to exit. Whatever, Hedges plays him vulnerable and shy to the world and her (he can't bring himself to tell his mother he's engaged, for goodness's sake)
With echoes of Sartre and Camus, French Exit reminds the audience there is no exit from our common end. Gradually Frances is shedding her wealth, friends, and family and accumulating a retinue of characters who exist to remind her, it seems, of how inextricably we are tied to others until we are not.
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- JohnDeSando
- Apr 10, 2021
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- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- 野蠻法國行
- Filming locations
- Square Trousseau, Paris, France(Location of Paris apartment and Park)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $741,895
- Gross worldwide
- $1,556,763
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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