French Exit, review: Paris with Michelle Pfeiffer suddenly feels like a prison sentence
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msn.coma successful-ish 2018 novel by Patrick deWitt. In her most prominent role for at least a decade, Pfeiffer plays Frances Price, an ageing Manhattan socialite, and her adult son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) is the target of this waspish aside.
Malcolm is engaged to his girlfriend Susan (Imogen Poots), but he isn’t champing at the bit to leave the family home, where he and his mother have been living in a state of directionless ease, sustained by her late husband’s nest-egg.
Not for much longer, though. “My plan was to die before the money ran out,” Frances tells her financial adviser, when he reveals her accounts have finally been drained dry. “But I kept and keep on not dying, and” – she pauses to savour this misfortune, as if swirling brandy –.
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