

A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Score
Lelouch's own composer Bernard Estardy goes full Bollywood-meets-Gallic-melancholy
Cinematography
Ganges at golden hour—pure vacation brochure porn
Acting
Dujardin smolders through sheer commitment to nonsense

Director
Claude Lelouch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lelouch shot portions guerrilla-style in Varanasi without permits, getting crew detained briefly. The chaos made the cut.
Released the same year as Dujardin's Oscar win for 'The Artist'—this was his 'I'm a serious artist now' pivot that critics savaged.
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