A director chases his grandparents' 60-year love story and finds... everything except that.
A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project, he holds auditions in a commercial real estate office. He asks the actors and actresses he meets to tell him about their conception of Love, with results that differ from those he expected...
Direction
Joffé's debut feature, already interrogating cinema's relationship to truth
Acting
Geraldine Chaplin's monologue—Chaplin dynasty talent in full force
Director
Arthur Joffé
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joffé shot in an actual commercial office during business hours; some 'extras' are real employees who wandered in.
Part of 1980s French cinema's obsession with the 'impossible film'—movies about failing to make movies, from Godard to Ruiz.
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