Dir. Jethro Massey, UK, 2025, 109 mins.
Friday 12th September at 8.30pm
Saturday 13th September at 8pm
Wednesday 17th September at 6pm
Thursday 18th September at 8.30pm
Cast. Marie Benati, Jérémie Galiana, Laurence Vaissière, Fanny Cottençon, Gilles Graveleau, Margot Joseph.
An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul & 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. For Paul, the game is a way of getting closer to Paulette. For Paulette, it’s a way of escaping a painful break-up with her girlfriend, and of processing her own inherited trauma.
As their morbid 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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