An aging cabaret singer accepts a marriage proposal to get some order in her life.

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Angélique has always been a creature of the night, working in a cabaret on the French-German border, where for a living she gets strangers to drink. But at 60, with four children from as many fathers, she realizes her life is behind her. When one of her regular boyfriends asks her to marry him, she accepts his proposal to get some order in her life. But it’s not that easy to take the party out of the girl...

Winner of the Golden Camera at the last Cannes Film Festival, Party Girl imbues a certain idea of French auteur cinema: co-directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, graduates of FEMIS, it oscillates between dramatic fable and social comedy. The film is inspired by the life of Angélique Litzenburger, who stars and is the mother of Theis, who plays her son alongside his real brothers and sisters. Very classic camera work and whimsical characters don’t make the film a less appealing portrait of a indomitable woman, played with a great deal of sensitivity by Litzenburger herself, a former cabaret dancer turned actor just for the occasion.