Monday Night Cinema

A Private Life

(Vie privée)

Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs) - speaking fluent French throughout - leads the cast of Rebecca Zlotowski’s new film. Part psychological character study and part suspense thriller - with a dash of farce for good measure - this is a thoroughly enjoyable mystery with some of contemporary French cinema’s finest actors starring alongside Foster.

Dr. Lilian Steiner, an American psychiatrist living in Paris, is already struggling with professional and family life stress when she receives the news a patient, Paula, has died. Attending the wake, Steiner receives a hostile reception from Paula’s husband and becomes convinced there’s more to her patient’s death than meets the eye. She embarks on her own investigation into the death, confronting some of her own neuroses and unresolved traumas along the way.

Best Actress & Best Music Nominee, Lumière Awards 2026