When asked to make a documentary about her friend’s mother—a Parisian astrologer named Juliane—the filmmaker sets off for Montmartre with a Bolex to craft a portrait of an infectiously exuberant personality and the pre-war apartment she’s called home for 50 years.

• Lisa Pictures
• Maison du Bonheur
• Juliane Sellam
• Albert Eddassouki
• Manouk Kurdoghlian
• Claude Tougard-Lumbroso
• Pierre Tougard