Le grille-pain de Madame Grenier

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual friendship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. As their morbid road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.

It’s a big day for Joseph, his family is taking him on a trip to the Smile-Rite® toy factory, it’s his tenth birthday. And everybody knows that when you turn ten, that’s when you become a man…

Francesca likes music and complex mathematical equations. She also likes Bobby. Bobby likes salt.

A shark swims through the streets of Paris. An old lady tries to escape.

The Villain looks back at his childhood, the day he discovers that the image others have of him does not match the one he has of himself. When face to face with his portrait, he does everything to hide and destroy the painting.