‘Private Life’ Review: Fluent in French, Jodie Foster Steers an Upscale, Paris-Set Psychological Thriller

A sophisticated American in Paris, psychiatrist Liliane Steiner has a habit of recording her sessions. Is it because her patients speak French, and she’s afraid of missing a thought? (I doubt much eludes Jodie Foster, who plays the almost Hitchcockian character in her first significant French-language role in more than 20 years.) Or is it because Liliane isn’t really listening to these people, whose problems all sounds so frivolous, they practically blend together in a torrent of white noise on the soundtrack of “Private Life”?

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