“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Michelle Pfeiffer), 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 (Lucas Hedges) and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
2021 Golden Globe® Nominee
Michelle Pfeiffer BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"French Exit is headlined by the sharpest Michelle Pfeiffer we've seen in years, in a role so handsomely form-fitted to her talent, style, and attitude, it's as if the movie had been written with that distinctive curl of her mouth."
- Rolling Stone
"Michelle Pfeiffer is a vision: chilly and distant at first, but deeply, even painfully relatable in the aftermath to anyone preoccupied with a future of unknowns, often asking themselves, "now what?" "
- The Playlist
Thursday 18th March
113 min
M
Azazel Jacobs
Comedy
Pentridge Cinema, Palace Balwyn, Palace Cinema Como, Palace Dendy Brighton, The Kino, Palace Westgarth, Palace Norton Street, Palace Central, Palace Verona, Palace Byron Bay, Palace James St, Palace Barracks, Palace Electric Cinema, Palace Raine Square
