French Exit

French Exit (2021)

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, 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 and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

Date of release
2021-02-12
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (179)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Azazel Jacobs

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: French Exit
  • Filmed in: rue de Béarn and rue Payenne

French Exit is a 2020 black comedy drama film directed by Azazel Jacobs and adapted by Patrick deWitt from his 2018 novel. It tells the story of a Manhattan heiress who moves to Paris with her son with the little money they have left.

Production

It was announced in May 2019 that Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges and Tracy Letts were cast in the film, with Azazel Jacobs directing and the novel's author Patrick deWitt writing the screenplay. Danielle Macdonald was cast in October.

Principal photography began in October 2019, with Paris and Montreal as the filming locations.

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