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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘A Private Life' Review: A Delightfully Paired Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil Escape Injury in a Messy but Pleasurable Genre Collision
Caught between sophisticated comedy and silly fluff, between Hitchcockian mystery and zany amateur sleuth caper, A Private Life (Vie Privée) is a lot more fun than it probably deserves to be thanks to the disarming chemistry of its seasoned leads, Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil. Rebecca Zlotowski's latest doesn't have the intoxicating sun-kissed sensuality of An Easy Girl or the emotional complexity of Other People's Children, her last two films. This one is too busy careening all over the tonal map for any of that. What it does have is the French director's customary light touch; it's chaos with charm. Foster's French — at least to these ears — sounds impeccable and this is her first feature in the language since 2004's A Very Long Engagement. She jumps into it with a spiky vitality and an unexpected playfulness that buoy the movie as much as Zlotowski's zippy direction. More from The Hollywood Reporter Cate Blanchett, Afghan, Syrian Creators on Fund for Displaced Directors Backing "Surprising Narratives" Kelly Reichardt on 'The Mastermind,' Josh O'Connor and What the '70s Have to Teach Us Today Cannes: Hasan Hadi's 'The President's Cake' Wins Directors' Fortnight Audience Award Her character, Dr. Lilian Steiner, is an American psychoanalyst working out of her home office in Paris. At first glance, she seems like classic Foster material — fiercely intelligent, controlled, professional, a touch guarded. But as Lilian starts unraveling, she becomes impulsive, irrational, emotional, insecure about her work and at times almost ditzy. Coming off her brilliant turn as the haunted, tightly wound police chief in True Detective: Night Country, it's a pleasure to watch Foster loosen up and have fun with a role, getting to exercise comedy chops too seldom tapped in her American projects of recent decades. Just the novelty of watching her act in another language, as a woman in her adopted country long enough to absorb many of the mannerisms yet still markedly different from the locals, is a kick. And when Lilian gets flustered or annoyed and mutters an occasional 'motherfucker' or some other expletive in English, it humanizes her, acknowledging that she doesn't have all the answers. The script, co-written by Anne Berest and Zlotowski, right off the bat throws curveballs at Lilian to inject nagging doubts into her work. She learns that the reason her patient of many years, Paula (Virginie Efira), has missed her last three sessions without canceling is that she committed suicide. She's still digesting that news, asking herself why she saw no red flags, when an angry patient (Noam Morgensztern) bursts in. He aggressively informs Lilian that his many sessions with her to quit smoking were a waste of time and money, but he kicked the habit with just one visit to a hypnotist, freeing him from cigarettes and from her. Lilian makes the mistake of going to Paula's home while family and friends are sitting shiva. She's ordered to leave by grieving widower Simon (Mathieu Amalric), who flies into a rage, shouting that after all the years Lilian had been treating his wife, she should have known something was wrong. Later, he accuses her of over-prescribing antidepressants, leading to the overdose that killed her. Meanwhile, Lilian, who has never been able to cry, starts shedding tears uncontrollably, often without knowing it's happening. She consults her ex-husband Gabriel (Auteuil), an eye doctor whose droll response to seeing her weep for the first time is, 'It suits you.' Lilian seems on better terms with Gaby, as she calls him, than with their adult son Julien (Vincent Lacoste), with whom she's never been close. That emotional block now extends to her infant grandson. Zlotowski inserts a funny montage of patients banging on about their mostly banal issues while Lilian, mortified to appear so unprofessional, dabs at her face with tissues to mop up the almost nonstop waterworks. In a Freudian detour that's arguably the movie's least successfully integrated scene, Lilian tries fixing the tear duct problem by seeing a hypnotist (Sophie Guillemin), who tells her she's in mourning and coaxes the skeptical shrink to return to her mother's womb. Suddenly, the hypnotist is guiding Lilian through a vast red space in another dimension with various doors and stairways. Under hypnosis, Lilian enters a hall where she and Paula are cellists in an orchestra recital in early 1940s occupied France; Julian is one of the uniformed Nazis in the audience and Simon conducts with a baton that becomes a gun. It's like a stoner's take on Truffaut's The Last Metro — enjoyably arch but too loopy to have much relevance beyond the hypnotist's assertion that Lilian and Paula were lovers in a past life. All very Shirley MacLaine. It does, however, stop the weeping, address Lilian's disgust with antisemitism and plant a subliminal hint as to why she was never able to bond with Julian. Not that any of that is clearly articulated. The movie is on more accessible ground back in the real world, where a visit from Paula's pregnant daughter Valérie (Luàna Bajrami) leads Lilian to believe her patient was murdered, either by her daughter or husband. She enlists the help of the amiable Gaby to start tailing them, at the same time listening to her recordings of sessions with Paula for clues. The mostly preposterous mystery thread never acquires much substance despite tossing a lot of balls in the air. Someone breaks into Lilian's apartment and steals the audio file from Paula's final session; suspicions arise concerning an inheritance from a wealthy aunt (screen veteran Aurore Clément, perhaps a nod to Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien?); Simon picked up Paula's medication from the pharmacy and possibly tampered with it; and he appears to be leading a double life with another woman and a child tucked away in Chérence, outside Paris. These questions are resolved, more or less, in an anticlimactic wrap-up that yields the relatively meager payoff of Lilian learning to be a better listener and a more accepting mother. But the flimsy plot becomes secondary to the fizz generated every time Foster and Auteuil share a scene — Lilian wired and Gaby supremely chill. They toss badinage back and forth with an ease that rescues the movie, and they exchange looks that point to mutual affection and desire undimmed by divorce. If the messy strands of this genre-blurring film struggle to cohere, the parts that veer toward a remarriage comedy make it enjoyable. A Private Life rolls along at a jaunty pace, frequently prodded by percussive staccato bursts of mononymous composer Rob's whimsical score. The glossy, good-looking production feels like a throwback to French fare from a few decades ago — middlebrow passing for intellectual, mainstream commercial passing for arthouse. But there's a nostalgic appeal to it, boosted by an unlikely middle-aged rom-com dream team in Foster and Auteuil. 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NZ Herald
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Auckland Restaurant Review: Five Years Later, Lilian Is Still Worth The Wait
Five years on, this neighbourhood favourite is still packing out – and still earning every seat. As a resident of leafy Grey Lynn (I'm actually in cramped Arch Hill – but it says Grey Lynn on our postcode) it was fascinating to observe the arrival of Lilian in 2020, the
29-04-2025
- Health
Influencer announces unexpected death of 1-year-old daughter
Influencer Lizzie Kieffer and her family are grieving the unexpected death of their 1-year-old daughter. Kieffer, who posts as @doclizziedpt, has grown a social media following as a physical therapist, sharing pelvic floor workouts for expectant mothers, as well as prenatal and postpartum fitness programs. She has nearly 300,000 followers on Instagram. Kieffer, who is currently expecting another baby, made the heartbreaking announcement about her daughter Lilian Louise Kieffer in an Instagram post over the weekend. "We are shattered," Kieffer wrote in the statement. Kieffer said she and her family awoke on April 23 to find that Lilian, whom they call Lily, had "passed away," adding that the family later learned the 1-year-old had a "large mass on her brain." "We also have come to learn that Lily had a large mass on her brain that we could have never known about as she never showed signs," she wrote. "We won't know more answers with many of these things for months until further testing is done." Kieffer called Lilian, who had just celebrated her first birthday on April 13, the family's "angel." In the post's caption, she wrote that the toddler "taught [them] more in 1 year than most can in their life." "You will always, always be a part of us and although the hole will never be filled, speaking your name will sing through our days bringing joy into the moments," Kieffer wrote. "You're our light in this darkness and we know God is holding you in an extra special place." An obituary for Lilian also described her as "Daddy's girl," adding that the young girl loved "climbing into the ball pit" and "riding around in her little red car" with her older sister Mia, 2. Kieffer and her husband Matt Kieffer are expecting a third child in September.
BBC News
25-04-2025
- General
- BBC News
Sunderland shipbuilders bring back heritage with boat launch
Volunteers have launched what they believe to be the first boat built in Sunderland since the loss of the shipyards nearly 40 years is a 20ft (6m) replica of a Wearside foy coble used over many centuries to ferry goods and people along the North Sea Maritime Heritage (SMH) has been working on building the vessel since 2019, with lead boatbuilder Philip Smith saying it required "every skill... that would have been done on the Wear 30, 40 years ago".Mr Smith celebrated the launch by saying it "didn't leak, it didn't sink", following its successful maiden voyage. Wearside's shipbuilding history dates back to 1346 and was once dubbed "the largest shipbuilding town in the world".Throughout its history, Sunderland had more than 400 registered shipyards, with the last closing in trustee Peter Johnson said the foy coble would have been a "regular boat" on the Wear and "all over the place". SMH said it had taken four years to create and "started life as a few planks of wood" from a "couple of trees".Loved ones and spectators waved the Lilian off on her first vessel has already been sold to a private buyer and will live on in the River Johnson said: "It was never about building a boat to sell, it was about learning how to build a boat."When asked if the team was taking anymore orders, Mr Johnson added: "We have a squad of builders now, so who knows." Follow BBC Sunderland on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
Daily Mail
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Boris Becker, 57, cuts a suave figure as he steps out with his glamorous new wife Lilian de Carvalho, 34, at Madrid's Laureus World Sports Awards
Boris Becker and Lilian de Carvalho looked as loved-up as ever as they attended the 2025 Laureus World Sports Awards in Madrid on Monday night. The former tennis champion, 57, cut a suave figure as he enjoyed a date night with his glamorous new wife Lilian, 34, at the Palacio de Cibeles. Boris looked dapper in a sharp black three-piece suit and a spotted tie, which he styled with smart black boots. He posed arm-in-arm with Lilian as they put on a cosy display just months after tying the knot in September 2024. Lilian showed off her incredible figure in a completely sheer black dress with glitzy gold detailing, which she wore over a slip dress. The political risk manager added a few extra inches to her frame with a pair of strapped heels and toted her essentials in a black clutch bag. Lilian added a pop of colour with a statement pair of square red and gold earrings and accentuated her features with a smokey-eye make-up palette. The couple led the arrivals at the annual awards, which has been running since 1999 and honours the biggest sports achievements of the year. This year's honorees saw Simone Biles and Armand Duplantis named as the World Sportswoman and World Sportsman of the year respectively. Surfing champion Kelly Slater received the Lifetime Achievement award while tennis pro Rafael Nadal was awarded the Sporting Icon gong. Boris' outing at the ceremony comes after he tied the knot with Lilian in a romantic ceremony in Italian celebrity holiday hotspot Portofino. Lilian, who was born on the African island of São Tomé and Príncipe, wore three outfits for the occasion. Her old school friend, designer Andra Ravieli, designed the elegant strapless gown which she walked down the aisle in. German tennis star Boris, tying the knot for the third time, looked suave in a cream tuxedo as he said 'I do' in front of their 100 guests. Discussing their lavish nuptials, Boris told Hello! Magazine it was a 'magical weekend' and they chose Portofino as their destination after spending many happy weekends there together. He said: 'Everyone cried, including me... the location where we had the ceremony is, I think, one of the most unique places I have been in my life – and trust me, I have been to a lot of beautiful places!' Boris, who has six Grand Slam titles, joined by his two sons, Noah, 30, and Elias, 25, from his first marriage to Barbara Feltus as they acted as his joint best men. Boris' daughter Anna Ermakova - who he shares with his ex Angela Ermakova - was not at the wedding and there have since been rumours of a falling out between them. His other daughter Amadeus, 14, who he shares with his second wife Lilly Becker, was not present at the wedding either. Guests included former Dutch footballer Ruud Gullit and German actor and model Boris Kodjoe. Boris and Lilian, who live in Italy and first started dating in 2019, shared the news with their Instagram followers just hours after the ceremony. The celebration was extra momentous for Boris after he was released from British prison in December 2022 following eight months behind bars for bankruptcy fraud. Lilian, who is 23 years his junior, stood by Boris through thick and thin after he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in the UK. He was found to have hidden £2.5million of assets and loans in a bankruptcy fraud case and served eight months. Boris said he believes his time behind bars made their relationship stronger, sharing: 'As they say in wedding ceremonies, in good and in bad days, you have to find a way to stick together. 'We certainly had very difficult days, because my personal situation was very challenging, but that's really when I got to know my true friends and my partner for life. 'Sometimes you need to be tested to find out who your true friends are, or your partner, and it happened for me. And I realised who was with me and who was not with me. Lilian was number one.' Boris said married life already feels 'wonderful,' and the highlight of his big day was the chance to finally 'call Lilian his wife'.
