Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges play a mother and son who move to Paris when they run out of money in Azazel Jacobs' adaptation of the Patrick deWitt novel. Read the review for 'French Exit' here:
Playing a 65-year-old New York high-society widow who burns through her savings and moves to Paris with her son in Azazel Jacobs', Michelle Pfeiffer sucks the juice from each line like a Louisianan devouring a crawfish. It's a full-on diva turn — a smorgasbord of side-eye and shade, of lacerating one-liners dispatched between drags on cigarettes and slurps of martinis.
As he proved in two other sensitive studies of oddballs , Jacobs is a deft commingler of tones and registers; he makes space for both grotesquerie and pathos, and knows how to locate the latter in the former. Here, the director and cast build a mood of disarming madcap silliness, then pierce it with moments of melancholy that temper the quirkitude. It's a balancing act thatThe movie opens with a flashback of Frances breaking a preteen Malcolm out of boarding school.
On the cruise to Paris, Frances and Malcolm become entangled — in Malcolm's case, literally — with a medium named Madeleine . Once they settle in the City of Light, their circle expands to include other assorted eccentrics, like lonely, widowed American expat Madame Reynaud and soft-spoken detective Julius .
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