The New York Film Festival comes to a close with the world premiere of “French Exit”, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges.
Adapted from Canadian author Patrick DeWitt’s novel, the story follows an ageing Manhattan socialite (Michelle Pfeiffer) who moves into a small apartment in Paris with her son (Lucas Hedges) and her cat, as her inheritance runs out, in the surreal-yet-heartfelt film.
Filmed in Montreal, Pfeiffer says it was the characters in the script that immediately drew her to the project. Though the characters on the page “could be caricature-ish” according to the actress, DeWitt and director Azazel Jacobs managed to make the characters “three-dimensional.” “I read the script first and immediately followed up with the
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