Acteur
고다르는 이 영화를 1996년 칸 영화제에 출품하여 건재를 과시했다. 뮈세의 연극, 보스니아 전쟁, 그리고 늙은 감독의 작품 만들기와 그 실패가 모차르트의 음악과 어우러진다. 고다르의 분신이기도 한 노감독을 통해 고다르는 상업이라는 이름으로 감독에게 가해지는 폭력을 보스니아 전쟁과 병치시킨다. 유럽의 장래에 대한 고다르의 우려가 엿보이는 작품.
Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small country town. Divorced, she lives alone with her eight-year-old son, David. One night, returning home from a major operation, Sylvie is violently assaulted and raped in the garage of her building. In the furious struggle with the rapist, she manages to scratch him with a brooch. Several weeks later, the rapist
attacks a pharmacist, but this time, the victim escapes by severely injuring him. The assaulter is hospitalized and must undergo a liver transplant, an operation which only Sylvie Drapier can perform...
Chiffre N°5
Following a climbing accident in the mountains, Pascal loses the use of his legs and is confined to a wheelchair. The film follows his gradual acceptance of this during his stay in a rehabilitation centre and, with the support of fellow residents, the return of his will to live.