“Paris, 13th District” Jacques Audiard and two female filmmakers created an orthodox romantic comedy.

“Paris, 13th District” Synopsis

Emily (Lucy Cheung) is a Taiwanese-French girl. She studied politics at university, but now works as an operator at a call center. Emily's new roommate is Camille (Makita Samba), a high school teacher who is currently on leave due to her qualification exam. Camille then meets Nora (Noémie Merlant), who has moved to Paris from Bordeaux to attend university. Adding former porn star and cam girl "Amber Sweet" (Jenny Beth), the fates of four seemingly unconnected people become intertwined.

Index

• A love drama based on sex and conversation
• A bold change from Adrian Tomine's original work.
• What the collaboration with two female filmmakers brought us
• The aim was to create a classic romantic comedy.

A love drama based on sex and conversation

The slowly moving camera shows the arcades and passageways designed in a geometric pattern from directly above. A huge apartment complex stands next to it. The scene, photographed in black and white, looks like a space station. Eventually, the camera approaches one of the houses and looks out the window at each room, as if guided by a Chinese song that can be heard from somewhere. However, when the cut changes, the camera has already entered a room in the apartment and captures a young woman, who appears to be of Asian descent, singing in the nude. Then, a man's voice is heard from off-screen, and a conversation between the two begins.

Jacques Audiard's latest film, ``Les Paris, 13th District,'' is, as the title suggests, a romantic film set in the Olympiades district of Paris, 13th District. The scene shown at the beginning is the Olympiad. However, the film's basic principles are clear as we move from the city to the rooms and then to the faces and bodies of the people who live there. The main characters are not the city itself, but the people who live there, and the important themes are skin and voice. This is a drama that takes advantage of people's skin and voices, that is, a love drama based on sex and conversation.

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There are four main characters. The first person to appear is Emily (Lucy Cheung), a Taiwanese-French girl. She studied politics at university, but now works as an operator at a call center. Emily's new roommate is Camille (Makita Samba), a high school teacher who is currently on leave due to her qualification exam. Camille then meets Nora (Noémie Merlant), who has moved to Paris from Bordeaux to attend university. Adding former porn star and cam girl "Amber Sweet" (Jenny Beth), the fates of four seemingly unconnected people become intertwined.

A bold change from Adrian Tomine's original work.