After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
Acting
Sophie Marceau's feral, unpredictable Marie breaks every manic pixie dream girl rule.
Direction
Żuławski's camera never stops moving — anxiety as cinematography.
Score
Carlos de Los Rios synths that sound like a panic attack wearing leather.
Director
Andrzej Żuławski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Żuławski allegedly banned Marceau from sleeping during the final week of shooting to achieve her exhausted, volatile performance.
Released the same year as 'Betty Blue,' this helped define 1980s French cinema's obsession with beautiful women destroying themselves and the men who love them.
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