In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
Acting
Deneuve and Depardieu's weathered chemistry—decades of history in one glance.
Cinematography
Tangier as liminal space: neither Europe nor Africa, neither past nor present.
Direction
Téchiné's refusal to let nostalgia win.
Director
André Téchiné
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Deneuve and Depardieu had previously co-starred in seven films; this was their eighth and final collaboration.
Shot during heightened Franco-Moroccan tensions; Tangier's liminal status mirrors the characters' own unbelonging.
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