Paris movie journal oct.-nov. 2017

[Chris Knipp]

JEUNE FEMME/MONTPARNASSE BIENVENUE (Léonor Serraille 2017). La Fémis graduate Leonor Serraille's debut feature, made with an almost entirely female crew, stars Laetitia Dosch of Justine Triet's 2012 The Battle of Solferino as an aimless young woman trying to get by in the Parisian neighborhood of the English title. The film, which is mainly a tour de force for its lead, who indulges every crazy whim yet implausibly juggles work in a cosmetics store and as an au pair and romances a handsome overqualified black security guard named Ousmane (Souleymane Seye Ndiaye), debuted in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2017. It's a feather in everybody's cap, if not a picture of impressive womanhood. AlloCiné press rating 4.0; Metacritic rating 80%. Watched at UGC Odéon on opening day 1 Nov.