Cancelled due to Sony removing availability of the film

Friday 10th December

FRENCH EXIT (2020)

15 (COMEDY/DRAMA)

Director: Azazel Jacobs

With Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges Runtime:

113 mins

“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.

WHY BOOK THIS FILM? Despite distant echoes of the likes of Amélie and Midnight In Paris, this won’t be for everyone. But Pfeiffer deserves her Golden Globe nomination, there are some genuinely funny lines and Valerie Mahaffey is scene-stealingly good as the unwanted new best friend. “Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance as the quick-witted Upper East Side socialite Frances Price is picture-perfect. And so is that of Lucas Hedges as her son Malcolm.” Eye for Film

“Is there any living actor better at the disdainful eye roll than Michelle Pfeiffer? Her latest turn in French Exit should end all debate on the matter. The film itself is a bit of an odd duckling.

It’s arch, cold and self-consciously contrived, works more often than it doesn’t. Pfeiffer is flawless in her most delicious performance in years.” The Independent