Paris, 13th District

Four young Parisians explore sex and city life. Emilie is an underachiever who’s living her best sex life. To help pay the bills she takes in Camille; charming, fit, and fine with no-strings hook- ups. Meanwhile, serious-minded Nora is mistaken for a porn-cam performer by her peers. Her social life’s tragique, until she lands in Camille’s workplace. This contemporary, multiracial update of classically French ideas combines U.S. cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s urbane takes with Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)’s script, and Jacques Audiard (A Prophet)’s robust direction.

‘I chose the 13th District for a very simple reason: I lived there for a long time and I know the district well. It’s one of the districts that’s changed the most over the last 10 or 15 years. It’s a very concentrated place between the Seine and the upper part of Paris, and there’s this area called the Olympiad where the architecture is absolutely stunning. What I really like is that it’s a district which depicts the modern era in Paris. It’s a difficult city to film. But this 13th District has really emerged as quite magnificent, where all classes of society are mixed together in that neighbourhood, and it seems more real than many other districts of Paris.’

Jacques Audiard, Director