• Rating:
• Director: Francis Reusser
• Main Cast: Niels Arestrup, Christine Boisson, Michel Lonsdale, Bulle Ogier, Olimpia Carlisi
• Release Year: 1980
• Country: CH
• Run Time: 90 minutes

Plot

Jean (Niels Arestrup), the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams (someone he has invented), and a struggle with his latent bisexuality. Jean finds some photos inside an automatic photo station that look like his mother who died soon after he was born. He starts to fantasize about the woman, giving her a name and identity and waiting for her to appear. During this time, he meets Carole (Christine Boisson) and has an affair with her, all the while pretending he has this other relationship with the woman in the photo. Significantly, the couple who introduce him to Carole is childless, and they eventually split up - perhaps a comment on the importance of childhood to the adult world. In the end, Carole discovers that Jean's "other woman" has no real existence, causing a crisis that finds a symbolic expression as the last scenes close on the story. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Niels Arestrup - Jean
• Christine Boisson - Carole
• Michel Lonsdale - Ludovic
• Bulle Ogier - Lucienne
• Olimpia Carlisi - Marlene

Andrée Tainsy - Aunt; Walo Lüönd - Laval

Credit

Renato Berta - Cinematographer; Michael Galasso - Composer (Music Score); Christiane Grimm - Screenwriter; Francis Reusser - Director; Francis Reusser - Editor; Francis Reusser - Screenwriter; Elizabeth Waelchli - Editor; Luc Yersin - Sound/Sound Designer