Jodie Foster speaks French at the 66th Thessaloniki Film Festival with A Private Life

The 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival offers audiences a uncommon accidental to spot the exceptional Jodie Foster performing successful her 2nd connection — French — according to Proto Thema.

In A Private Life / Vie Privée, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski and featured successful the festival’s Open Horizons section, an aggravated and moving enigma unfolds successful the beingness of Lillian (Jodie Foster), an American psychiatrist who makes her surviving exploring the astir concealed corners of the quality mind.

“The truest parts of myself I find connected screen”

Jodie Foster explained that the rubric Vie Privée (“Private Life”) was 1 of the things that attracted her to the script, arsenic she was intrigued by the wordplay betwixt “private life” and “a beingness deprived.” The movie revolves astir the ambiguous decease of a pistillate — a communicative that moved Foster connected a idiosyncratic level.

“I’ve ever protected my backstage life,” she says, “but the truest parts of myself I find connected screen.”
The Oscar-winning histrion emphasized that she has fixed everything to cinema since she was a child.

The enigma of A Private Life

Is determination a greater enigma than the lives of others? That is the question astatine the bosom of the film. When 1 of Lillian’s patients is recovered dead, each grounds points to termination — but could an unconventional method, challenging the aged saying ‘don’t aerial your soiled laundry successful public’, pb to antithetic conclusions? And could the audio recordings of Lillian’s sessions incorporate hidden messages that necessitate different benignant of decoding?

By inviting the ever-brilliant Jodie Foster to execute wholly successful French (she studied astatine a French schoolhouse and often dubs her ain films successful French), Rebecca Zlotowski unlocks the audience’s subconscious arsenic if guiding them onto a hypnotist’s couch.

Alongside Foster look a stellar formed representing some the aged and caller generations of French cinema — Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, and Mathieu Amalric — portion legendary observational documentarian Frederick Wiseman makes a astonishing quality successful beforehand of the camera for the archetypal time.

“I’ve agelong wanted to marque a French film”

“It’s existent that I’ve wanted for a agelong clip to marque a French movie — with a French director, changeable wholly successful French, not thing that imitates an American accumulation or, adjacent worse, a Franco-American co-production,” Foster said.

“I wanted thing simpler, much contemplative, focused connected ideas — connected the beingness of the mind. Vie Privée is ambitious. It’s an important movie for Rebecca… and for me.”

The movie volition beryllium released successful theaters by Spentzos Film connected January 1, 2026.