“Paris,13th District” tells an old, interlinking, romantic story of several young people from the same neighborhood.
The film is directed by veteran Jacques Audiard of “A Prophet” and “Rust and Bone,” co-written by the writer-director Celine Sciamma of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and “Petite Maman,” and based on the stories of Japanese-American cartoonist and illustrator Adrian Tomine
Beginning with a caption reading nonchalantly, “It Began Like This,” we meet Emilie Wong (Lucie Zhang), a call center operator who wraps plastic film around her waist to lose weight and lives in her dying, demented grandmother’s spacious Paris flat, renting out a room to help with her expenses.
