More screwy than screwball, Belgian director Chantal Akerman's neurotic comedy of assumed identities is an uneasy blend of old-fashioned American romantic comedy, Freud and a distinctly European art-house sensibility. The couch in question belongs to Dr.
Henry Harriston (William Hurt), an austere Manhattan psychoanalyst who swaps his swank, fully automated Upper East Side apartment for the funky Paris digs of dancer Beatrice Saulnier (Juliette Binoche), an irrepressible gamine who answers Henry's apartment exchange ad in the
International
Herald Tribune. Quickly fed up with leaky pipes and the endless parade of Beatrice's despondent admirers, Henry cuts shor...
Released:
1996
Rated:
R
Length:
104 mins