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Denis Côté sketches an intimate portrait of a man drifting at the edges of fragile connections in unexpected places.
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Original title: Paul Year of Production: 2025 Duration: 87 min Country of Production: Canada Languages: English, French Subtitles: English Director: Denis Côté Cinematographer: Vincent Biron, François Messier-Rheault Editor: Terence Chotard Sound Design: Terence Chotard, Stéphane Bergeron Music: Chantale Morin Producer: Hany Ouichou, Karine Bélanger

A portrait of solitude, Paul moves with the quiet rhythm of a life pared down to its bare essentials. Shadows of anxiety and depression drift through the frame, but so too does an unexpected lightness—moments where play, submission, and ritual blur into something tender and restorative. Paul has found refuge in serving women who invite him to clean their homes. By sharing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he combats loneliness and takes it one day at a time.

Paul shapes a private language of connection: the gentle choreography of cleaning, the small theatre of performance, the safety of self-reinvention. The film lingers in the silences between gestures, attentive to the way vulnerability can become a kind of power, and to how identity might be pieced together from fragments of fantasy, discipline, and longing. With an unhurried gaze, it reveals a life lived in the margins—where care and control are renegotiated, where intimacy can be wordless, and where even the most unassuming acts hold the weight of survival.

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Director: Paul

Denis Côté (b. 1973) is a Canadian filmmaker celebrated for his minimalist, poetic portraits of solitude, human contradiction, and fragile connections.

“Paul’s story is about small, defiant rituals that keep him here. It’s an invitation to look closer at what survival can quietly look like.”
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