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Khaleej Times
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
Cannes Film Festival 2025: Jodie Foster prefers life outside US
Jodie Foster prefers to be outside the US right now, the Oscar-winning actor told Reuters at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, citing better conditions in Europe's film industry as well as more freedom now that her children have grown up. Foster was in southern France for the premiere of A Private Life, a psychological thriller in which Foster assumes the role of a psychiatrist who tasks herself with investigating the death of her patient, played by Virginie Efira. The US-born actor, who won two Oscars for The Accused in 1989 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1992, had to speak in French only for the Cannes film that is screening out of competition. Foster, 62, began her career filming commercials at the age of 3 and has received numerous awards throughout her career, including an honorary Palme d'Or award from Cannes in 2021. "I'm really enjoying working outside the United States," she said, recalling how she is not as tied down to the US now as she was when her children were little and she had to stay close to home. Foster, who first came to Cannes as a 13-year-old when she starred in Taxi Driver, said working as a director in France was better than in the US because of more creative freedom. Blending genres, like director Rebecca Zlotowski does in Foster's new film, is very uncommon in the US, she said. Studios want a film to be either a thriller or a comedy, they don't want a mixture of the two, she said, whereas France allows the director to have more authority on such decisions. "That's the reason why filmmakers love to come here." In Europe, female directors also have had more opportunities compared with the US, said Foster, herself a director. "I'd only worked with one female director until a few years ago. Isn't that kind of amazing? After I've made 60 movies that I've barely ever worked with another woman?" she said. "Europe has always had a female tradition, or at least for quite a while. But in America, somehow that bias really took hold."
Free Malaysia Today
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Free Malaysia Today
Jodie Foster says she prefers life outside the US
Jodie Foster at the photo call for the film 'A Private Life' at the Cannes Film Festival. (Invision/AP pic) CANNES : Jodie Foster prefers to be outside the United States right now, the Oscar-winning actor told Reuters at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, citing better conditions in Europe's film industry as well as more freedom now that her children have grown up. Foster was in southern France for the premiere of 'A Private Life,' a psychological thriller in which Foster assumes the role of a psychiatrist who tasks herself with investigating the death of her patient, played by Virginie Efira. The US-born actor, who won two Oscars for 'The Accused' in 1989 and 'The Silence of the Lambs' in 1992, had to speak in French only for the Cannes film that is screening out of competition. Foster, 62, began her career filming commercials at the age of 3 and has received numerous awards throughout her career, including an honorary Palme d'Or award from Cannes in 2021. 'I'm really enjoying working outside the United States,' she said, recalling how she is not as tied down to the US now as she was when her children were little and she had to stay close to home. Foster, who first came to Cannes as a 13-year-old when she starred in 'Taxi Driver', said working as a director in France was better than in the US because of more creative freedom. Blending genres, like director Rebecca Zlotowski does in Foster's new film, is very uncommon in the U.S., she said. Studios want a film to be either a thriller or a comedy, they don't want a mixture of the two, she said, whereas France allows the director to have more authority on such decisions. 'That's the reason why filmmakers love to come here.' In Europe, female directors also have had more opportunities compared with the US, said Foster, herself a director. 'I'd only worked with one female director until a few years ago. Isn't that kind of amazing? After I've made 60 movies that I've barely ever worked with another woman?' she said. 'Europe has always had a female tradition, or at least for quite a while. But in America, somehow that bias really took hold.'
Reuters
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Reuters
Jodie Foster, in Cannes for new French film, prefers life outside US
CANNES, France, May 21 (Reuters) - Jodie Foster prefers to be outside the United States right now, the Oscar-winning actor told Reuters at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, citing better conditions in Europe's film industry as well as more freedom now that her children have grown up. Foster was in southern France for the premiere of "A Private Life," a psychological thriller in which Foster assumes the role of a psychiatrist who tasks herself with investigating the death of her patient, played by Virginie Efira. The U.S.-born actor, who won two Oscars for "The Accused" in 1989 and "The Silence of the Lambs" in 1992, had to speak in French only for the Cannes film that is screening out of competition. Foster, 62, began her career filming commercials at the age of 3 and has received numerous awards throughout her career, including an honorary Palme d'Or award from Cannes in 2021. "I'm really enjoying working outside the United States," she said, recalling how she is not as tied down to the U.S. now as she was when her children were little and she had to stay close to home. Foster, who first came to Cannes as a 13-year-old when she starred in "Taxi Driver", said working as a director in France was better than in the U.S. because of more creative freedom. Blending genres, like director Rebecca Zlotowski does in Foster's new film, is very uncommon in the U.S., she said. Studios want a film to be either a thriller or a comedy, they don't want a mixture of the two, she said, whereas France allows the director to have more authority on such decisions. "That's the reason why filmmakers love to come here." In Europe, female directors also have had more opportunities compared with the U.S., said Foster, herself a director. "I'd only worked with one female director until a few years ago. Isn't that kind of amazing? After I've made 60 movies that I've barely ever worked with another woman?" she said. "Europe has always had a female tradition, or at least for quite a while. But in America, somehow that bias really took hold."
The Guardian
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French-language Hitchcockian mystery
Rebecca Zlotowski serves up a genial, preposterous psychological mystery caper: the tale of an American psychoanalyst in Paris, watchably played by Jodie Foster in elegant French, who suspects that a patient who reportedly committed suicide was actually murdered. Zlotowski is perhaps channelling Hitchcock or De Palma, or even late-period Woody Allen – or maybe Zlotowski has, like so many of us, fallen under the comedy spell of Only Murders in the Building on TV and fancied the idea of bringing its vibe to Paris and transforming the mood – slightly – into something more serious. Foster is classy shrink Lilian Steiner, stunned at the news that her client Paula Cohen-Solal (Virginie Efira) has taken her own life. She is also furiously confronted by Paula's grieving widower Simon (Mathieu Amalric), who believes she bears some responsibility for her death, having prescribed antidepressants which were apparently taken in overdose. But a tense visit from Paula's daughter Valérie (Luàna Bajrami) leads her to suspect foul play. Soon, she and her tolerant ex-husband Gabriel (Daniel Auteuil) are putting people under surveillance and generally staking them out; then someone breaks into Lilian's private office and steals the minidiscs on which she records analysis sessions. Things get even weirder: Lilian, stressed out and drinking, pays a visit to a cheesy hypnotherapist (Sophie Guillemin) who regresses her into some kind of past-life dream state in which she and Paula were lovers, playing in the string section of a Paris orchestra during the Nazi occupation and one of the Hitler militia is her estranged son Julien (Vincent Lacoste). Huh? Lilian's own analyst, incidentally, is played in cameo by iconic documentary-maker Frederick Wiseman, and he angers her by raising the painful question of Lilian's mother – a plot point that is not pursued and may have been lost in the edit. But what is the point of these bizarre Nazi orchestra scenes with Simon conducting, his baton transformed into a revolver? They are striking and amusing (and maybe show the influence of 40s movies such as Nightmare Alley or The Seventh Veil). Do they reveal Lilian's concern with antisemitism? She certainly objects to a bigoted wisecrack from the hypnotherapist about Freud. Her ex-husband is an ophthalmologist who has treated her for problems with tear-ducts; again, it could signify something about Lilian's problems with compassion, or perhaps it's just the pretext for a bit of high-spirited comedy, a style that Foster carries off rather well, despite being hardly a natural. Vie Privée canters along to a faintly silly, slightly anticlimactic conclusion and audiences might have been expecting a bigger and more sensational twist. Yet Foster's natural charisma sells it. Vie Privée (Private Life) screened at the Cannes film festival.
