Official Selection
PAUL AND PAULETTE TAKE A BATH
Jethro Massey | United Kingdom | 2024 | 109 min. | In English and French with English and Spanish subtitles

Winner of the Audience Award at the Venice Critics’ Week, this unconventional and even less predictable dark romantic comedy tells the story of the chance meeting in Paris of two historical true crime buffs: an aspiring American photographer and a local girl with a morbid curiosity. Together, they explore the French capital, not the city of amour and perfumes, but the one that witnessed horrific events. Inspired by the disturbing photograph of Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathtub on the day he committed suicide, this charming tale of twisted humour flirts with reverie – echoing the Rivette classic its title nods to – somewhere between the carefree noir of Truffaut and Godard and the delightfully retro extravagance of Wes Anderson.