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Paulette

Paulette

Crime · Comedy · 2012

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Movie details

Paulette

2012 Crime · Comedy 1h 27m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.6 / 10

8.1K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

71 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

40 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.5 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Paulette?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Jérôme Enrico

Written by

Laurie Aubanel · Cyril Rambour · Bianca Olsen

Bernadette Lafont

Bernadette Lafont

Paulette

Carmen Maura

Carmen Maura

Maria

Dominique Lavanant

Dominique Lavanant

Lucienne

F

Françoise Bertin

Renée

André Penvern

André Penvern

Walter

Axelle Laffont

Axelle Laffont

Agnès

Paco Boublard

Paco Boublard

Vito

Court is in session

Put Paulette on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.