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Jodie Foster Takes on Her First French-Speaking Lead Role in Cannes Premiere: 'I'm a Totally Different Person'

Jodie Foster leads the French movie 'Vie Privée,' which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20. At her film’s press conference, the French speaker said she was 'afraid' to take on leading French-language roles before now.

Vie Privée(in English, A Private Life) premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, May 20, starring Foster, 62, as a therapist becoming convinced that a patient’s suicide was actually a murder. Vie Privée, to be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics on a to-be-announced date, received an eight-minute standing ovation after its world premiere screening, outlets reported. Co-written by Zlotowski, Anne Berest and Gaëlle Macé, it costars Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste and Luana Bajrami.

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