• Lost in Paris

    Directed by Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel
    Belgium/France | 84 minutes | World Cinema Now

  • Lost in Paris

    Directed by Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel
    Belgium/France | 84 minutes | World Cinema Now

  • Lost in Paris

    Directed by Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel
    Belgium/France | 84 minutes | World Cinema Now

  • Lost in Paris

    Directed by Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel
    Belgium/France | 84 minutes | World Cinema Now

Inspired by the slapstick comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Jacques Tati, husband-and-wife team Gordon and Abel (Rumba; The Fairy) concoct a whimsical world that is both romantic and stacked with one perilous pratfall after another: Paris, in other words, especially for a visiting Canadian who’s lost her passport and her bearings.

film synopsis

Fiona receives a letter from her dotty aunt Martha: "Dear Fiona, help! After 48 years living in Paris they want me to move to an old people's home. Ridiculous! I'm only 88." Escaping frozen Canada for the city of romance, gawky, gangling Fiona arrives too late: Martha's apartment is empty. Worse, she loses her passport and her money, and takes an unintended dip in the Seine. Only a local tramp, Dom, takes a shine to her... 

As in their previous features The Fairy and Rumba, Brussels-based husband-and-wife duo Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel take inspiration from Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy in this whimsical slapstick comedy. Innocents abroad, the skinny, hapless clowns concoct a perilous but ultimately benign world where a mischievous fate mostly seems to want to have fun at their expense (and to our great joy) in one perfectly executed pratfall after another. French screen legend Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) is a special treat as the errant aunt.

Winner: Audience Award, Mill Valley 

film details

Director: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel
Producers: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Charles Gillibert, Christie Molia
Screenwriter: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Cinematographers: Clair Childeric, Jean-Christophe Leforestier
Editor: Sandrine Deegen
Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard
Original Language Title: Paris Pieds Nus
Country: Belgium/France
Language: English
Year: 2016
Running Time: 84 minutes
Awards: Audience Award, Mill Valley

2017 PS Film Festival