Prone to being her own worst enemy, Paula lugs her ex’s pet cat around Paris in a cardboard box, freewheeling but determined to get back on track in life. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she’s determined to make a new start - and she’ll do it with style and panache.

Debut director Serraille hits the ground running with a film as urgent and insistent as the post-punk score that accompanies its attention-grabbing sequences. Made with an almost entirely female crew, this loose-limbed, character-focused film is a celebration of a red-haired free spirit that, however, doesn’t skimp on life’s darker sides.

“I was bowled over by its dynamism and comic brio, and cautiously suggested that Laetitia Dosch might be considered...France's answer to Greta Gerwig. She brings to Jeune Femme the kind of irreducibly intense charisma that Gerwig brought to Frances Ha.” – JONATHAN ROMNEY, FILM COMMENT MAGAZINE