Cannes 2025 – Privacy: Jodie Foster in a thriller Faisandé
Presented out of competition, the new film by Rebecca Zlotowski does not know on what foot to dance. Using.
Jodie Foster speaking French in a French film? We have investigated for a long time, interviewed many sources, overlooked our information, and we are now able to affirm that this had not happened since 2004 and A long Sunday of engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Event, therefore, that this Privacy by Rebecca Zlotowski (Large Central, the children of others…) Where the American star embodies a psychiatrist who learns the suicide of one of her patients (Virginie Efira, presents almost three minutes in the film) and is persuaded that it is a murder. Unfortunately for us, a painful obsessive investigation begins …
Emotional constipation
Strange film straddling Secret conversation,, Mysterious murder in Manhattan And Claude Sautet’s cinema (Brasseries lovers will be delighted), never very sure of his tone or what he wants to tell: complicated to see clearly through dialogues often on the edge of ridiculous (Foster in saving a lot with his charming accent), the pieces of remarriage comedy with the ex-husband (Daniel Auteuil, very funny) and the furiously annoying hypnosis sequences In a previous life, in the heart of Paris occupied by the Germans …
We no longer know very well if we laugh with or against the film. And should we take the Thriller aspect seriously, or is this DIY detective framework only as a pretext to tell the inner journey of an emotionally constipated woman? In both cases, Privacy A magnifying glass, never funny enough to assume yourself as a parody and far too weak to hold the road on the field of tension.
Privacy by Rebecca Zlotowski, with Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira… released on November 26.
