In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. He returns to his apartment where he sees the vision of a woman who had lived there 30 years ago. His psychedelic hallucinations increase with time. Starring Richard Leduc and Danièle Gaubert with Serge Gainsbourg who also did the score.
Score
Gainsbourg's jazzy, sinister compositions carry the whole trip
Cinematography
Melting time-lapse sequences that aged better than the plot
Acting
Leduc's vacant intensity perfect for a man unmoored from now
Director
Robert Benayoun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Benayoun coined the term 'le regard oblique' for French cinephiles—this film embodies it literally as slanted perception.
Gainsbourg recorded the score with Jane Birkin's future collaborators weeks before meeting her; the sound became their template.
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