movie review french exit Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (language and sexual references.) In select theaters.
One day, director Azazel Jacobs and screenwriter Patrick deWitt woke up, ate omelets and challenged themselves to make the most pretentious movie of all time.
There is no record of this conversation, but it’s the only explanation I can come up with for “French Exit,” a comedy that, from start to finish, is determined to be cold and off-putting.
Michelle Pfeiffer, luminous as ever, plays a New York socialite named Frances who’s run out of money and, it would seem, the will to live. Destitute-ish, she and her son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) embark aboard a trans-Atlantic ocean liner for Paris with her last stacks of...