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.
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
germany think they can be any renegotiation of that, in fact is an international treaty the uk has to abide by its pretty much the message she was sending. yes. abide by its pretty much the message she was sending. abide by its pretty much the message she was sending. yes. we must leave it there. she was sending. yes. we must leave it there- time she was sending. yes. we must leave it there. time pressing. she was sending. yes. we must leave it there. time pressing. thank - she was sending. yes. we must leave it there. time pressing. thank you . it there. time pressing. thank you very much. much more coming up at six. i ll have the latest news for you then. now on bbc news, anna smith has the film review. 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 glamourous entrance to uk cinemas this weekend. it is all gone. i spoke t
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