Paulette – cannabis, pastry and survival

Not glamour. Not empire.
Not ideology.

In Paulette, cannabis enters through poverty, age and pastry. Paulette is not a gangster, not a grower, not a rebel by design. She is an elderly woman in the Paris suburbs, living alone on a pension that no longer keeps her alive with dignity. When ordinary survival becomes impossible, she reads the traffic outside her building as a sign and decides to sell cannabis.

But the film becomes more interesting when her old life returns.

Paulette was a pastry chef. So cannabis is transformed through skill: cakes, biscuits, recipes, trade, taste, habit. The illegal market is filtered through an old woman’s craft and a lifetime of knowing how to make something people want.

For LIBERA HERBA, this belongs in Cannabis on Screen because it shows the plant as social comedy, survival economy and forbidden ingredient.

Not glamour. Not empire.
Not ideology.

Just a woman with rent to pay, hands that remember pastry, and a plant standing between poverty and invention.

Cannabis, pastry and survival.