Academy Award winner Jodie Foster stars in this scintillating, slyly comic psychological thriller from French director Rebecca Zlotowski, in which a suspicious death yields a series of twists that lead back to old grievances - and maybe even to past lives. Lilian (Foster), an American psychoanalyst in Paris, is devastated to learn that her client Paula has taken her own life. Or has she? Assisted by her ex-husband Gabriel (Daniel Auteuil), Lilian undertakes some amateur sleuthing. A Private Life deftly rides the delicate line between intrigue and zaniness. Perfectly paced and loaded with diverting supporting turns, the film is partly a whodunnit and partly a story of revisited relationships, with a French-speaking Foster and Auteuil delivering effortlessly charismatic performances.
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