In cinemas from 5 September
Paul & Paulette Take a Bath
UK 2024
Dir: Jethro Massey
Cast: Marie Benati, Jérémie Galiana, Laurence Vassière, Margot Joseph, Gilles Graveleau, Fanny Cottençon
English / 109m
In cinemas from 5 September 2025
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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; reenacting 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.
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
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◾ Bath The Little Theatre (+ Q&A with Director Jethro Massey) - 5 September
Bath The Little Theatre - from 5 September
Birmingham The Mockingbird Cinema - from 5 September
Bradford Pictureville Cinema - 19-21 September
Broadstairs The Palace Cinema - from 19 September
Buxton Buxton Opera House - 22 September
Chichester Chichester Cinema at New Park - from 26 September
Coventry Warwick Arts Centre - from 27 September
Glasgow GFT - from 5 September
Ipswich King Street Cinema - from 19 September
Kingston upon Hull Hull Truck Theatre - 31 October
London ActOne Cinema - from 12 September
London Curzon Bloomsbury - from 5 September
◾ London The Garden Cinema (preview + Q&A with Director Jethro Massey) - 4 September
London The Garden Cinema - from 5 September
Plymouth Plymouth Arts Cinema - from 12 September
Romford Lumiere Romford - from 5 September
◾ Totnes Totnes Cinema (+ Q&A with Director Jethro Massey) - 6 September
Totnes Totnes Cinema - 7 September
“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 Best Picture
“Rarely have screen lovers felt quite so effortlessly magnetic… performances from the leads pulsate with smoldering charm”
— Gazettely