Cinematically speaking, Jodie Foster can do, and has done, just about everything, including speak fluent French in three big-screen features: 1997’s little seen Stop Calling Me Baby!, 1984’s Claude Chabrol drama The Blood of Others, and 2004’s Jean-Pierre Jeunet wartime romance A Very Long Engagement.

A Private Life marks her fourth such effort, and the first in a leading role, and her anxious and agitated performance is the undisputed highlight of writer/director Rebecca Zlotowski’s film, which premieres at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

As a psychiatrist convinced that the death of a patient is in fact murder most foul, and that she’s the sole one who can deduce the killer, the Oscar winner is a frantic and frazzled mess of a physician, tumbling down a rabbit hole t

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