[2][3][4][5] He wrote the script in cooperation with Bianca Olsen, Laurie Aubanel and Cyril Rambour.

She starts a spectacular attempt to free him but in the end it is her son-in-law Ousmane who saves the day.

Finally she leaves France and opens a cannabis coffee shop in Amsterdam, hereby becoming herself the kind of person she used to dislike: an emigrant.

Brendan Kelly wrote for Montreal's Gazette and The Vancouver Sun the film had "its highs and lows".

[8][9] Carola Almsinck (kinocritics.com) wrote on the occasion of the German release "Paulette" was a "very French" film and eligible as an "amusing fairytale".