Val is 23 years old and full of dreams. She travels to New York to become an actress. She is lonely in a strange country, in a strange city, with little money and no friends. In her path, she meets weird people who they, also, seek their dreams but everyday life gets in the way. Tired and hungry she sits on the corner of a building. Across the street a writer whose fantasy has dry out. In an instant she becomes his muse... At the Oscar's night she will be the one with the Golden Globe in her hands.
Acting
Tautou's desperate optimism crashing against Theroux's creepy desperation.
Direction
Kollek's unflinching eye for New York's unglamorous corners.
Writing
The Golden Globe fantasy that keeps curdling into humiliation.
Director
Amos Kollek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kollek shot guerrilla-style across actual Manhattan locations, often without permits, catching real New York chaos in the background.
This flopped so hard it barely exists in Tautou's filmography—sandwiched between Amélie's global triumph and her Hollywood moment, it's the anti-fairytale nobody asked for.
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