Colette, a prostitute in love, receives a phone call in the middle of the night. An unknown colleague asks her for a favour in the form of a cry for help: to pick up her boy and bring him to her. She, herself, needs a child to make her loved ex return to her.
Acting
Vanessa Paradis plays exhaustion and tenderness like she's lived it.
Direction
Frydman keeps the squalor poetic without romanticizing a thing.
Cinematography
Paris at 4am never looked this lonely and beautiful.
Director
Serge Frydman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Frydman's directorial debut after two decades as a screenwriter; he wrote it specifically for Paradis.
Part of a 2000s wave of French cinema humanizing sex workers without glamor, alongside films like 'La Vie Rêvée des Anges.'
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