Paris, 13th District

Paris, 13th District (French: Les Olympiades) is a 2021 French drama film directed by Jacques Audiard, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Céline Sciamma and Léa Mysius, loosely based on the short comic stories Amber Sweet and Killing and Dying from the book of the latter's name, and Hawaiian Getaway from the book Summer Blonde, all by American cartoonist Adrian Tomine.

Émilie, a call center operator for a phone service provider, is living in an apartment in the Les Olympiades complex belonging to her terminally ill grandmother.

Facing difficulties making rent, she places advertisements for a roommate, to which Camille, a teacher returning to university for his doctoral degree, responds.

When he invites that co-worker over, Émilie goes to a party, takes MDMA, sleeps with a woman, and then has an anxiety attack after returning to her apartment and overhearing Camille having sex with his partner.

She spent most of her early adulthood working for a real estate firm owned by her uncle by marriage, with whom she had a ten-year sexual relationship.

In September 2020, it was announced Jacques Audiard would direct and produce the film, from a screenplay he wrote alongside Céline Sciamma and Léa Mysius, with principal photography commencing that same month.

[2][3] In October 2020, Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Noémie Merlant and Jehnny Beth joined the cast of the film.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Minor but engaging Audiard, Paris, 13th District explores millennial love through a visually compelling lens that's partly undercut by its episodic narrative structure.

The zone of Les Olympiades , 13th arrondissement of Paris , from which the film takes its name