Paul & Paulette Take a Bath – Fiction Feature

Paul & Paulette Take a Bath is a feature film that premiered at The Venice international film festival in 2024, where it was awarded with the Critics’ Week Audience Award. Directed by Jethro Massey.

It is 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.

Shot on Arri Alexa LF with Leica R Primes

Paul & Paulette Take a Bath – Cast & Crew

Written, Directed and Produced by
Jethro Massey

Music by
Marc Tassell

Cinematography by
Ole Marius Dahl
Isarr Eiriksson

Editing by
Julien Chardon

Set Decoration by
Louise Lorendeau

Makeup Department
Noémie Vargas … Makeup Artist

Production Management
Daniel Garlitsky … Production Manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Simon Caron … Second Assistant Director
Laure-Elie Chénier-Moreau … Assistant Director
Marine Pédeboscq … Crowd Marshall
Perle Tharinger … Crowd Marshall

Sound Department
Christophe D’Ornellas … Sound
Olivier Leroy … Sound Editor
Xavier Thibault … Sound Mixer

Visual Effects by
Pierre-Alain Mbarga … Visual Effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Gaspard Christin … Grip
Robyn Dupuis da Silva … Electrician
Tom Lallement … Key Grip
Samuel Ribeiro … First Assistant Camera
Matias Sahnoune … Steadicam Operator
Ruben Samson … Grip
Michel Tran … Second Assistant Camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Joanna Wojtowicz … Wardrobe

Editorial Department
Sarah Kerjean … Assistant Editor
Alice Syrakvash … Colour Grader

Script and Continuity Department
Marielle Alluchon … Script Supervisor

Additional Crew
Ben Magnier … Régisseur Général

Cast (in credits order)

Marie Benati … Paulette
Jérémie Galiana … Paul
Fanny Cottençon … Charlotte
Gilles Graveleau … Gilles
Laurence Vaissiere … Valérie
Margot Joseph … Margerita
James Gerard … George
Marc Tassell … Self

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Laura Bourdeau … Juliette
Natasha Cashman … Solène
Isham Conrath … Alex
Ralf Legat … Walter
Pauline Malinet
Mustapha Taibi … Landlord
Inès Weill-Rochant … The Date (as Inès Weill Rochant)

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