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
Summer 2025
A twisted romantic comedy about an American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual friendship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred.
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
“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
“An unashamed ‘boy meets girl in the City of Love’ movie, in the key of the New Wave, Before Sunset and Wes Anderson’s early beta-male character studies”
— Cineuropa
“Rarely have screen lovers felt quite so effortlessly magnetic… performances from the leads pulsate with smoldering charm”
— Gazettely