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Paula

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Paula

Originally produced by Films We Like in 2016

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Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules. The exuberant 24-year-old rejects the conventional and explores her unique style. By marrying painter Otto Modersohn, she hopes to find a creative soulmate. He allows her to continue painting while assuming her duties as a good wife. Five years of domesticity take its toll on Paula's spirit, and she travels alone to modern Paris, where she studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and soon begins a romantic affair. Headstrong Paula is unstoppable: she embarks on a period that will become her most compelling; a long-awaited period of creative fulfilment and self-realization... Nominated for the Variety Piazza Grande Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival**. *"Pioneering female painter Paula Modersohn-Becker is portrayed in loving, colorful strokes in this engaging German biopic." - Guy Lodge, **Variety***

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