Team, cheerio. Hello and welcome to the film review with me, anna smith. I m filling in for mark kermode to review this week s releases. French exit, a dark comedy starring michelle pfeiffer, is finally making a glamorous entrance to uk cinemas this weekend. It s all gone. I spoke to you about this as a possibility for seven years. And then an eventuality for three. What did you think was going to happen? frances, what was your plan? my plan was to die before the money ran out, but i kept on not dying and, here i am. Based on the novel by patrick dewitt and directed by azazeljacobs, it stars pfeiffer as deliciously curt manhattan socialite, frances price. After her wealthy husband dies, frances is forced to sell up and decides to move to an apartment in paris with her grown son malcolm, played by lucas hedges. There s also a key role for a pet cat, so this is a fittingly feline move for the former catwoman. What s she paying you? paying me? aren t you her gigolo? oh, god no. That s my
To review this week s releases. French exit, a dark comedy starring michelle pfeiffer, is finally making a glamorous entrance to uk cinemas this weekend. It s all gone. I spoke to you about this as a possibility for seven years. And then eventuality for three. What did you think was going to happen? frances, what was your plan? my plan was to die before the money ran out, but i kept on keep not dying and, here i am. Based on the novel by patrick dewitt and directed by azazeljacobs, it stars pfeiffer as deliciously curt manhattan socialite, frances price. After her wealthy husband dies, frances is forced to sell up and decides to move to an apartment in paris with her grown son malcolm, played by lucas hedges. There s also a key role for a pet cat, so this is a fittingly feline move for the former catwoman. What s she paying you? paying me? aren t you her gigolo? oh, god no. That s my mother. It s not clear exactly when french exit is set, but the transatlantic ship journey to paris len
Cat, so this is a fittingly feline move for the former catwoman. What s she paying you? paying me? aren t you her gigolo? oh, god no. That s my mother. It s not clear exactly when french exit is set, but the transatlantic ship journey to paris lends a pleasingly old fashioned flavour. In fact, this emerges as the strongest sequence, despite one or two amusing set pieces later. Frances clearly finds her son s complicated love life rather dull and i would have to agree, although i did enjoy an understated turn from danielle mcdonald as a psychic he has a one night stand with. I ve only been unlucky, but i have a sense that this will change suddenly and permanently. Anyway, that s what i tell myself. But this is pfeiffer s show. She brings a seductive quality to dewitt s stylised dialogue and a tinge of sweetness and regret to the withering, wearily cynical barbs. I ve been incredibly lucky at times and tragically unlucky and others. And tragically unlucky at others. French exit is a stra
like texture. you ve seen that show, dexter. this is all modeled off that. when you take a step back and realize this is a real man who is been murdered. the script was darker than anyone knew. i go, holy mackerel. who are you really? everyone was on the edge of their seat. an underground parking garage. you re watching a violent attack caught on tape. with who is this? what s happening? don or didn t happen at all? law cut. all right, standby. movies like that one are by design deceptive, make believe worlds. but have you noticed maybe it s all the technical doodads that digital cameras and reality twisting reality so stories of claim to be true aren t. anybody can manipulate reality. sometimes with a say is true isn t. sometimes fiction turns out to be facts. and then there are stories, just a few, in which fact and fiction fuse. that s where we re going tonight. it s twilight zone world of illusion and deception and deceit. follow the howling wind nor
fear like that. a rising young director filming a murder, or actually committing one? he tells me, well you do it like dexter. you ve seen that show, dexter. this is all modeled off that. when you take a step back and realize this is a real man who has been murdered. the script was darker than anyone knew. i go, holy mackerel. who are you really? everyone was on the edge of their seat. an underground parking garage. you re watching a violent attack caught on tape. who is this? what s happening? or didn t happen at all? cut. all right, standby. movies like that one are by design deceptive, make believe worlds. but have you noticed maybe it s all the technical doodads that digital cameras and reality twisting reality so stories of claim to be true aren t. anybody can manipulate reality. sometimes what they say is true isn t. sometimes fiction turns out to be fact. and then there are stories, just a few, in which fact and fiction fuse. that s where we r