Jodie Foster (茱蒂佛斯特 )：美國奧斯卡影后在巴黎《私人生活 “A Private Life,” (法文片名: “Vie privée”) 》幾十年來，福斯特出演了數十部電影，演員兼導演。她很欣賞法國人對隱私( privacy)的尊重。回到美國後，她習慣了更謹慎的生活方式。

茱蒂佛斯特：一位美國奧斯卡影后在巴黎

在電影《私人生活》中，這位女演員首次擔任主角，並在片中展現了流利的法語。但她與法國的淵源可以追溯到童年。

“哇，這太棒了！”她說道，“我吃了兩片布洛芬，所以應該沒事。這簡直就是天堂！”

隨後，她在塞納河畔拍攝了一組照片。即使細雨轉為傾盆大雨，福斯特依然笑容滿面地擺著姿勢。直到冰雹如雨般落下，拍攝才被迫中止。 “我有一種意志力，”她說道，“這是我的工作。”

圖：福斯特（右）與《私人生活》的導演麗貝卡·茲洛托夫斯基在巴黎合影。

幾十年來，福斯特出演了數十部電影，既是演員又是導演。其中三部是法國電影。但《私生活》（法文片名：Vie privée）是她首次在法文電影中擔任主角。而且她的法語說得非常流利，語速很快，幾乎沒有口音。

她飾演莉蓮史坦納，一位美國精神分析師，在巴黎過著井然有序的生活。然而，在她交往九年的病人（維吉妮艾菲拉飾）突然過世後，一切都開始崩塌。病人看似自殺，但莉蓮堅信病人是被謀殺的，於是展開了一場執著的私人調查。她的前夫加布里埃爾（丹尼爾·奧圖飾）同意幫忙。調查過程中，她諮詢了一位催眠師，並進入了一個幻覺般的夢境：在夢中，她和病人前世是一對戀人，在納粹佔領時期的巴黎，他們曾是交響樂團的弦樂組成員。

這部被譽為喜劇悲劇懸疑片的電影由麗貝卡·茲洛托夫斯基執導，去年五月在坎城影展上獲得了熱烈的掌聲，但在法國上映後卻褒貶不一。

她很欣賞法國人對隱私的尊重。回到美國後，她習慣了更謹慎的生活方式。
She appreciates that French life truly respects privacy. Back home in the United States she is used to being more guarded.

“Sometimes when I had to speak French all day, I could barely move my jaw by the end of the day,” Foster said.

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“Wow, this is so cool,” she said. “I took two Advils, so I’m gonna be OK. Isn’t this heaven?”

A photo shoot along the Seine followed. Foster grinned and posed even when a cold drizzle morphed into a downpour. Only when plump hailstones rained down was the shoot called off. “I have a mind over matter thing,” she said. “It’s my job.”

ImageFoster, right, with the director of “A Private Life,” Rebecca Zlotowski, in Paris.


Foster has made dozens of films over the decades, both as an actress and a director. Three of them have been French. But “A Private Life” (the French title: “Vie privée”) is the first in which she delivers a solo lead performance in French. And she speaks not just any French — but fluid, fast-moving, just about accent-less French.

She plays Lilian Steiner, an American psychoanalyst whose tightly controlled life in Paris unravels after her patient of nine years (Virginie Efira) dies suddenly, apparently by suicide. Convinced she was murdered, Lilian begins an obsessive private investigation. Her ex-husband, Gabriel (Daniel Auteuil), agrees to help. Along the way she consults a hypnotist and enters a hallucinatory dream state in which she and her patient were lovers in a previous life, playing in the string section of a Paris orchestra during the Nazi occupation.

The film, billed as a comic-tragic whodunit and directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, received an enthusiastic ovation at Cannes last May but opened to mixed reviews in France.