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"Paradis Paris" by Marjane Satrapi with Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier, Roschdy Zem France 2024 - Running time 1h30

Giovanna, a former opera star, rants and raves: she's been declared dead by mistake, and the press tributes are slow in coming. Can Mike, an English stuntman, decently tremble in the face of death when he defies it every day? Smoking kills, but Dolorès doesn't care: on her granddaughter's 15th birthday, she makes a unilateral pact with God. While trying to commit suicide, Marie-Cerise, a harassed, humiliated and depressed teenager, is kidnapped and naturally turns her kidnapper into her shrink. Edouard, who has been presenting a famous crime show on TV for years, takes it all in his stride when he is reminded of his mortality. In the lively, cosmopolitan streets of Paris, these destinies intertwine and respond to each other, connected to each other by universal, everyday figures: a cleaning lady, a cop, a cafe owner. What if, in the face of death, the best thing was still to live?