French Exit

[Opens April 2 in theaters.] Azazel Jacobs' quirky, unusual, surreal, entertaining, somber, star-dotted (Imogen Poots, Valerie Mahaffey, Danielle Macdonald, Isaac de Bankolé, Daniel di Tomasso, and Stéphane Boucher), 110-minute, 2020 comedy dominated by wacky characters and adapted from Patrick deWitt's bestselling 2018 novel in which a broke, eccentric, cigarette-puffing, widowed, mentally unbalanced, cynical, 60-year-old Manhattan socialite (Michelle Pfeiffer) moves to Paris to live in an apartment owned by her best friend (Susan Coyne) with her aimless, anxiety-prone son (Lucas Hedges) and green-eyed feline companion who she believes embodies her deceased husband (Tracy Letts) and then proceeds to be even more reckless with her money.
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