Synopsis
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
Facts
Setting
Paris
Production
Périphéria, Avventura Films, Vega Film, Arte France Cinéma, DF1, Radio télévision suisse
Original language
French
Trailer
Stills
Festival History
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002 generic
- BFI London Film Festival 2001 generic
- Cannes Film Festival 2001 generic
- Toronto International Film Festival 2001 generic
