My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
A most hurly-burly love that is quasi-autobiographical romp from the master of intellectual romance that is operatic! French pop celebrity Jacques Dutronc can be really just a genius computer programmer identified as having a terminal brain disorder, and Sophie Marceau could be your flighty principal appeal of a surreal mentalist nightclub act. Embarking on a billowy, tempestuous May-September fling (mirroring Zulawski and Marceau's own union )they move through their respective youth traumas, while simultaneously racing to retain Lucas' grip of language. A pastel-and-neon poetic feast not only on the visual level, but also literally, My Nights... astounds with its lush word play -- to get the single way that Lucas can progressively battle his or her own vanishing mind would be to speak with increasingly overburdened and metaphorical flourishes, until the entire world becomes just one big sweet-toothed, Zulawskian word association game.
Released: 1989-04-19