In this grown-up tale of autumnal change, q dissolute divorced New York socialite, oblivious to life's realities, finds herself penniless, having to sell everything and taking up a friend's offer of a Paris apartment. With its parade of quirky characters and events, French Exit feels like a slightly less stylised Wes Anderson movie. It plays like an elegant theatrical character study with its fractured mother-son relationship at its core, but set against its artfully-shot Parisian backdrop. Michelle Pfeiffer makes an excellent job of conveying the unpredictablilty of the broke and broken woman, matched by another thoughtful and considered performance by Lucas Hedges as her put-upon son. Interesting more than entertaining, French Exit is well-written, extremely strongly performed and engagingly shot.
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