

A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.
Acting
Bouillon's committed unraveling of a man who refuses to see himself.
Direction
Donzelli's unsentimental gaze on male creative delusion.

Director
Valérie Donzelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Donzelli continues her exploration of French bourgeois self-destruction after 'Declaration of War' and 'Marguerite & Julien.'
The film slyly critiques the 'writer in garret' myth by showing Paul's poverty as chosen performance, not necessity.