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At the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2025, Jodie Foster made a memorable appearance on the red carpet for the French psychological thriller mystery A Private Life (original title: Vie Privée). Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, the film marked Foster’s triumphant return to French-language cinema—her first lead role in French in nearly two decades. In the film, she portrays Lilian Steiner, a renowned psychiatrist whose world turns upside down when the sudden death of one of her longtime patients plunges her into a complex mystery filled with psychological twists and family secrets.