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As Paris prepares to reopen cafés and cinemas from its third lockdown on May 19, Le Cinéma Club presents the online premiere of Lucca Dahan-Fletcher’s April 2020 Paris. The French-American filmmaker’s charming short spotlights the social solidarity that keeps a city together, even in isolation. Three Parisian women—Frances (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Pauline (Pauline Chalamet), and Satu (Camélia Jordana, star of Emmanuel Mouret’s latest Love Affair(s))—chat in their apartment’s courtyard over a socially-distanced cup of tea. Between lighthearted banter, they relax through stories of chance encounters, awkward neighbors, and family dynamics: the everyday meetings that make up daily life. Their conversations play out in voiceover amid images of Paris’s empty streets, and seem to breathe new energy into the picturesque architecture.
