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.
Cinematography
Paris shot like a crime scene waiting to happen
Writing
Dialogue that flirts between charming and deeply unwell
Costume
Period-accurate crime reenactments on a shoestring
Director
Jethro Massey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'human zoo' keyword references actual 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition atrocities, making Paulette's family trauma historically grounded rather than invented.
Marie Benati and Jérémie Galiana improvised the entire Metro scene after missing their train; Massey kept rolling for 23 minutes.
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