Cécile Tanner

It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime sweetheart Lila. Over the course of six months, the couple meet a number of interesting people, including Irina, an exiled Russian actress, as well as spending their time with Jonah’s sister Cecile and his filmmaking mentor Anziano. The discussions Jonah has with these friends and strangers help him to gain some perspective on his life and the new millennium.

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.

Lionel es un seductor, un mujeriego a la vieja usanza, que despierta pasión entre sus amantes y la envidia de todos sus conocidos. Una noche acude al teatro con Alain, uno de sus mejores amigos, y allí entablan una curiosa conversación sobre el sexo femenino. Mientras Lionel considera a las mujeres románticas y sentimentales, Alain defiende que sólo buscan sexo y diversión. Para demostrarlo propone a su amigo una divertida apuesta: deberá pasar una noche con una mujer elegida al azar, sin mantener ningún tipo de relación sexual.

Six years before this story begins, Rosemonde killed a would-be rapist. She was acquitted and returned to working part-time in a Geneva bar. Back in the present, a brand new television station seeks to create a television film about Rosemonde's life. The project is helmed by independent producer Kevin assigns his screen-writing pal Paul to interview Rosemonde and use it for the basis of a fictionalized teleplay. Unfortuantely for him, the taciturn and cynical barmaid wants nothing to do with project and refuses to speak to Paul. This satirical French-Swiss drama follows Paul as he simultaneously attempts to get her story and into her bed. Since Rosemonde refuses to speak to him, Paul decides to pay his ex-lover Marie, a serious stage actress, become the bar maid's friend.

Una reflexión sobre las relaciones sexuales a través de tres personajes. Denise Rimbaud (Baye) es una editora descontenta con su trabajo que un día decide abandonar a su amante, Paul Godard (Dutronc) e irse a vivir al campo. Paul no quiere abandonar la ciudad, pero no puede vivir sin Denise. El tercer personaje es Isabelle (Huppert), una prostituta que lucha por sobrevivir en la ciudad.