Jeune Femme

Montparnasse Bienvenue is a 2017 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Léonor Serraille. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 70th Cannes Film Festival and won the Caméra d'Or (for Léonor Sérraille). The film stars Lætitia Dosch as Paula, a woman recently returned to Paris after years living abroad, who is forced to forge a new life for herself after being abruptly dumped by her wealthy boyfriend. Plot After her wealthy boyfriend Joachim locks her out of their shared apartment, Paula screams to be let back in and is taken to a mental ward. Escaping the ward she returns to Joachim's apartment and discovers he has locked out her cat as well. Having only recently returned from years abroad in Mexico, Paula has no job and few friends. After quickly exhausting what little money she has, and angering her friends, she turns to the mother she ran away from years earlier, only to be quickly rejected. While riding the subway, she meets a woman, Yuki, who mistakes her for a former classmate. Desperate for help, Paula plays along and allows Yuki to buy her groceries in order to help tide her over. Paula manages to lie her way into a live-in nanny job she has no qualifications for. She also takes a second job working at a lingerie store at the mall where she befriends Osman, a standoffish security guard who warns her that the women at that store never last long.