Even from his first feature film The Life of the Dead, Arnaud Desplechin was already establishing a quintessentially dynamic framework for his recurring themes on surrogacy, human idiosyncrasies, and the ephemeral nature of desire.
Using a ground-breaking & fresh new band of actors that have gone on to become some of France’s most famous names as Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos or Chiara Mastroianni.
One of the most intriguing and interesting of the ‘new-breed’ of French filmmakers. This rich and succinct collection also features Desplechin’s fascinating, quasi-thriller The Sentinel and his international career-maker How I Got Into an Argument… (My Sex Life), a poetic portrait of urban angst amongst the contemporary, cultural Parisian elite.
