BIENVENIDA A MONTPARNASSE

Léonor Serraille

France 97 min Catalan premiere Fiction

Synopsis

Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she’s determined to make a new start and she’ll do it with style and panache!

Filmmaker

Léonor Serraille

(Lyon, 1986)  Writer and director. After studying Screenwriting at La Fémis, she worked as a screenwriter on various films including Tang Meng (2013) and Lil’ Sister (2013). Her first film as a director, Body (2016) screened at Brive FF, and her debut feature film Jeune Femme (2017) was selected for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where she was the second ever female director to win the Camera d’Or.

Filmography: Bienvenida a Montparnasse (2017), Body (2016, curt)

Léonor Serraille

Film information

Original Title: Jeune Femme
Director: Léonor Serraille
Script: Léonor Serraille
Contact: La Aventura Audiovisual
With: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye
Country: France
Year: 2017
Format: DCP
Length: 97 min
Language: French
Subtitles: Spanish
Edition: 2018

Awards

Golden Camera in Cannes