VITA PRIVATE
Type: psychological comedy ✦✦✦
Direction: Rebecca Zlotowski. With Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste
Lilian Steiner cries. Senseless tears, the most eloquent tears (“They are my eyes, they are not me”). An American transplanted to Paris, separated, but still tied to her ex-husband (a doctor, but he cannot help her), devoid of affection towards her son who has just become a father, Lilian is a psychoanalyst: relationships for her are a matter of study, never of abandonment.j
Until a patient undermines his certainties and a patient commits suicide. But is it really true? Jodie Foster, the most French of American actresses, fits in like no one (or rather, like Diane Keaton in Mysterious murder in Manhattan) in the role of detective and, by investigating the death of a woman she had promised to save, she saves herself.
Jodie Foster with Virginie Efira in “Private Life” (© Jérôme Prébois).
An elegant film even when it derails (The Hypnotist) which is both a psychological thriller and a re-marriage comedy. A delight, to be seen in the original version to appreciate Jodie Foster’s bilingualism.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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