Paulette
A darkly comedic portrait of an elderly woman in financial desperation who turns to unlikely means to survive, balancing humor with the genuine hardship of poverty.
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
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