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France, Belgium · 2017
1h 37m
Director Léonor Serraille
Starring Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Nathalie Richard
Genre Drama
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Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.
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French director Léonor Serraille’s debut film could easily have been unbearably twee. The fact that it isn’t, at all, is a tribute both to her unsentimental storytelling, and to the prickly strength of Laetitia Dosch’s central performance.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
It is clear that Serraille has made a portrait of a very specific individual but that she’s also saying something more general about her own generation.
Thrillingly capturing both time and place and fizzing with non-judgemental empathy and cinematic flair, this is a magnificent debut that catapults Laetitia Dosch into the front rank of French actresses.
Serraille avoids every miserablist cul-de-sac and tries for something much more radical: optimism.
Screen International by Lisa Nesselson
This first film by writer-director Léona Serraille is full of snap and surprises.
The Playlist by Nikola Grozdanovic
Dosch, though she’s been appearing more and more in French films of recent years (including Maïwenn’s “My King”), will make heads turn in the role of her career thus far. Her Paula is instantly charming, never too outrageous, hilarious and supremely sympathetic. She will steal your heart.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
[An] attractive and sympathetically acted movie in a classic New Wave style.
Serraille studied literature before switching to cinema, and her sharp attention to the detail distinguishes Jeune femme from so many first-time indie features.
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In the final installment of Truffaut's saga, Antoine Doinel finds himself torn between several loves.
A vivid display of conflict between passion and art.
A story of love and conflict in Nazi-occupied Paris.
The tenant before him is dead, and Trelkovsky thinks he might be next.
Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastary, one a gambler, and one an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
A powerful story about unhealthy family relationships.
A thriller on the frontier of Eastern Europe.
Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected.
After all the men in Violette's village are arrested, the women must run everything without them.
A young journalist starts writing about her experiences as a sugar baby looking for money and success.