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 has a way with women. His sexual exploits make his friends jealous. One of them, Alain, challenges him to seduce a beautiful woman picked at random, fall in love with her and spend a night with her — but abstain from making love.

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.

고다르가 정치적 비디오 작업에 열을 올렸던 70년대를 마치고 극영화로 되돌아와 만든 첫 번째 작품으로 영화 감독과 애인, 창녀라는 세 인물을 통해 사랑과 성, 삶, 그리고 영화란 무엇인지에 대해 묻고 있다. 제작자인 폴 고다르는 편집일을 하는 드니즈 랭보와 연인 사이이다. 한편 폴은 창녀 이자벨의 단골 손님이기도 하다. 폴이 드니즈와 함께 시골 별장에 간 어느날, 때마침 이자벨 또한 그곳을 찾는다. ‘상상’, ‘상업’, ‘삶’, ‘음악’ 이라는 네 개의 파트로 이루어진 옴니버스 영화로 고다르 특유의 슬로우모션과 실험적인 기법, 매혹적인 이미지와 사운드들이 묘하게 어울린다.