An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre.
Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual relationship that grows around a dark game; re-enacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. For Paul, the game is a way of getting closer to Paulette. For Paulette, it’s a way of escaping a painful break-up. As their road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.
Awards & Festivals
Winner: Critics’ Week Audience Award and Cinema & Arts Award, Venice Film Festival 2024
Winner: Best First Feature, Dinard British & Irish Film Festival 2024
Winner: Best Actress Award, Marie Benati, Monte Carlo Comedy Film Festival 2024
“An unashamed ‘boy meets girl in the City of Love’ movie, in the key of the New Wave, Before Sunset and Wes Anderson” – Cineuropa
“This charmingly quirky Paris-based romantic comedy-drama has an achingly Gallic sense of coolness that could propel it to cult status” – Next Big Picture
“Rarely have screen lovers felt quite so effortlessly magnetic… performances from the leads pulsate with smouldering charm” – Gazettely
