PAUL AND PAULETTE TAKE A BATH / ПОЛ І ПОЛЕТТ ПРИЙМАЮТЬ ВАННУ

Leonid Nefedovich
Sep 18
2 min read

Updated: Sep 19

2024 / 109' / feature / United Kingdom

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.

Screenings schedule:

September 25, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. at the Zhovten Cinema, Hegemon Hall

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DIRECTOR - JETHRO MASSEY

Biography

Jethro Massey is a British-French filmmaker based in Paris. He’s drawn to the poetic and the absurd, and loves digging up the past to investigate the world around him today. He studied Russian, hitchhiked from Moscow to Vladivostok then moved to Paris to start his career, a journey that has taken him from the backstage of the Bolshoi to the deepest villages of the Mali filming with tribal shamanic clowns.

In 2015, he founded Film Fabric, a London-based production company, for whom he has produced and directed over 300 commercial films, in over 30 countries, for some of the world’s leading brands. His short films and music videos have travelled the festival world, picking up a few shiny objects along the way for their aesthetics, storytelling, and originality.

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