The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an “established” journalist. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman who can understand love only in terms of life and death, an attitude that generally makes love appear dramatic, but at least burning and flickering, like the flame that glows in her heart.
A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the celebrated story of Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with his favourite Antinous.
Studio Executive
El cineasta Sandy Bates, legendario creador de comedias, está harto de ser gracioso. Al borde de un ataque de nervios, Bates asiste a una retrospectiva de su obra que se celebra un fin de semana, y que le obligará a reflexionar sobre la misma, sobre los recuerdos de su gran amor Dorrie y sobre las virtudes de sentar la cabeza con su nueva novia Isabel. Bates se debatirá por encontrar una razón por la que seguir viviendo.
