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FRENCH EXIT I Michelle Pfeiffer escapes to Paris in a onepercenter satire.
RUNNING DRY Pfeiffer’s Frances will rather give up her life than her lifestyle.
There’s a scene in French Exit, director Azazel Jacobs’ adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s novel, that the film hinges on. In it, Michelle Pfeiffer’s disgraced socialite Frances Price holds a séance with a motley crew of friends and family she’s assembled in her temporary Paris apartment. Precisely why, and what happens, deserves to be discovered on screen. All you need to know is that upon hitting the scene in the book, Jacobs had one thought: “Uh-oh, this is going to be really, really, really hard!”