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January 16, 2026

At The Movies: Jodie Foster shines as a psychoanalyst on the edge in ‘A Private Life'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

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Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest film is part noir, part comedy of remarriage, and part Freudian fever dream about past lives.

Jodie Foster plays a self-assured psychoanalyst whose composure unravels after a patient unexpectedly dies in the genre-bending French film “A Private Life.”


 
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