If you’re not already inclined to try French cinema, you might after seeing the trailer for Academy Award winning actor Jodie Foster’s next project.  Director Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life is new territory for Foster fans, being a French production.  But who can pass up a new Foster project, especially when you see it’s a “black comedy mystery thriller” and it has a trailer like this?  Foster makes a great cagey sleuth, non?

Check out this trailer for A Private Life:

Foster plays a noted psychiatrist who believes a client she treated for years was murdered.  Is that a Pink Panther vibe?  And is it because it’s in French or because of that evocative music, courtesy of Rob Coudert?  The movie co-stars Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Amalric, Luana Bajrami, Virginie Efira, and Vincent Lacoste.

And hey, can we have a Renaissance of the card catalog?

Look for A Private Life in theaters January 16, 2026.

C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg