Between Steven Soderbergh's Let Them all Talk and this, it's clearly the year for Lucas Hedges playing young men related to slightly eccentric, cranky older women. Or, in the case of French Exit's Michelle Pfeiffer, an exceedingly cranky older woman. Find the trailer below.
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (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 (Hedges) and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
Pfeiffer's on winning, spiky form here, getting waiters' attention with unorthodox methods and generally operating with zero filter. The film will be in UK cinemas on 26 February. You know, hopefully...