Walking out of Tuesday’s Cannes premiere, a local remarked how delightfully New York-y “A Private Life” felt. At first, the comment struck me as odd – Gallic spirit so suffuses this Paris-set cerebral ...

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Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics releases “A Private Life” in select theaters Friday, January 16, 2026. Before Jodie ...

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Jodie Foster plays a self-assured psychoanalyst whose composure unravels after a patient unexpectedly dies in the genre-bending French film “A Private Life.” Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest, in theaters ...

In “A Private Life,” Jodie Foster plays Lilian Steiner, an American expatriate in France with a comfortable life as a psychoanalyst, a beautiful Parisian apartment, and an ex-husband who still loves ...

Considering the subject matter, A Private Life shouldn't be as funny as it is. But in Jodie Foster's hands, it's a darkly comedic triumph. Making a masterpiece of dry, offhand remarks and eye rolls, ...

Viewers watch movies from the standpoint of the protagonist. We trust the main character's perceptions and opinions, and we receive any subsequent information as though we and the protagonist were on ...

Along with the haunting presence of Hitchcock, there's a whiff of Patricia Highsmith's misanthropic tales and a twist of mysticism. The preternaturally stoic Dr Steiner is baffled when tears keep ...

After dozens of films over a storied six-decade career, Jodie Foster is trying something new, playing the lead role in a French film for the very first time. There's hardly a trace of an American ...