When The Cat's Away
Director: Cedric Klapisch

France, 1996, 90 mins.

When lonely make-up artist Chloe leaves her Bastille apartment for a holiday, she entrusts her beloved cat Gris Gris to the eccentric Mme Renee and her brood of felines. But on her return, discovers her cat has gone missing so she rounds up a search party, which includes her gay flatmate and a battalion of old ladies. In the course of the search Chloe finds romance and gets to know the other residents of her run-down but colourful quarter.