UK, [Thursday 3rdJuly, 2025] – Paul & Paulette Take a Bath, winner of both the Critics’ Week Audience Award and Cinema & Arts Award at the 2024 Venice Film Festival where the film premiered, will be released in UK and Irish cinemas on 5th September through distributor Conic.
An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre. Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual relationship 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. As their road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, butfinding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.
The film was written and directed by Jethro Massey. Paul & Paulette Take a Bath is his first feature.
