Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

Sep 5, 2025

1h 49m

★ 0.0

Paris will never seem the same again.

Overview

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl 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. 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.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Film Fabric

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Cast

Paulette

Marie Benati

Paul

Jérémie Galiana

Valérie

Laurence Vaissiere

Gilles

Gilles Graveleau

Charlotte

Fanny Cottençon

Margerita

Margot Joseph

George

James Gerard

Juliette

Laura Bourdeau

Marc Tassell

Landlord

Mustapha Taibi

Walter

Ralf Legat

Alex

Isham Conrath

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