Lurching backwards and forwards in time and packed with philosophical sidebars, conversations with the dying and the dead, and numerous references to Greek myth, Melville and Shakespeare's plays, Arnaud Desplechin's sprawling, two-headed character study is the kind of brainy human comedy that only this formidable French auteur seems capable of making. Parisian art dealer Nora Cotterelle (Emmanuelle Devos) has come to Grenoble to visit her elderly father, Louis Jenssens (Maurice Garrel), an renowned university professor, and collect her son, Elias, who's been spending the summer with his grandfather while Nora prepares for her upcoming wedding to Jean-Jacques (Olivier...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
150 mins