Cinema: A Private Life (2025) - French with subtitles

Jodie Foster speaks fluent French. In this film she speaks both French and English so it's great that this film at the Ciné Lumiere cinema at the Institut Français is shown in French with English subtitles. I am excited to see this! I studied French for a while so I hope I'll understand a little bit.

Book your own ticket (standard £14, concs £12):
https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-private-life-2/#/

"When sophisticated psychiatrist Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster) learns of the death of one of her patients, she is deeply troubled. Convinced it was murder, she sets out on an investigation that takes her across France. Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest film (Grand Central, An Easy Girl) combines the tension of a thriller with a sharp reflection on the place of psychoanalysis in today’s world. Jodie Foster brings depth and brilliance to Lilian in her first major French-language role in more than two decades."

This was called a black comedy mystery thriller film ... with particular praise for Foster's performance, which earned her nominations for the César Award, and Lumière Award for Best Actress, becoming the first American to receive nominations in these categories in respective ceremonies.

Screen Rant: "What begins as an off-kilter character portrait of a prickly intellectual comfortably slides into a murder mystery investigated by an amateur sleuth with a personal life more chaotic than the lives of the people she treats."

Sony Pics Classics/YT: "A frisky, feminine, film noir about psychoanalysis and many other things…"

Let's go for a drink afterwards to chat about the film.