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
“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