
Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory. Shortly after that he meets Blanche who acts as a medium in a bizarre traveling show. Dying Lucas follows her to the sea resort where they spend together several days and nights.... (Full plot summary below)
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Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory. Shortly after that he meets Blanche who acts as a medium in a bizarre traveling show. Dying Lucas follows her to the sea resort where they spend together several days and nights.
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| User ReviewMarta FLucas meets Blanche. He has just discovered a new computer language which will be adopted in all of Europe, but a brain sickness is draining his capacity to express concepts: words disappear from his brain. Blanche is a voyante, she sees inside people minds, into their past, into their meanness. She speaks out their secrets, their mischiefs. Her perfomances make her a star in Biarritz where Lucas follows her. " ..et puisque les courants tirent toujours vers le large, puisque Blanche, eveillee, aime son amant, puisqu'elle n'aura rien su, que tout est accident, ils iront boucler la boucle, et etre enfants". |
| User ReviewLyven TIn French " Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours". |
| User ReviewEric RGiven the Zulawski retrospective going on in Los Angeles, I have been revisiting many of Zulawksi's films, wanting to see if I hold the same opinions I once did. After re-watching 'My Nights are More Beautiful Than Your Days', I have decided that this could very well be my favorite of his films. Zulawski's french film on love is an emoting, frantic, wholly fascinating on what the intricacies of love bring to any relationship. The first thing that stands out, which I never seemed to notice before, is just how little of his frantic cinematography actually exists in this film. Instead, Zulawksi has created a frantic, emotionally resonant film without the need, but it's definitely still crazy; just more so from a script standpoint. Many viewers could find the films style abrasive but if one is willing to get past that, this film completely captures all the doubts, pain, suffering, and compassion which come with love. Zulawski paints a picture where the lines between love and misery are blurred, as to show how they are not mutually exclusive. This being said, its not a pessimistic film by any means; it's just honest and as strange as it sounds, it's a very sweet film in sections. While it's defenitely an abrupt style, I always find myself thinking "What If" after this film. As in, What if people wore their emotions and feelings on their sleeves like they do in this film... World would probably be a better place |
| User ReviewLaurent Dgenial, un film bien trippant. a voir ! Les textes sont vraiment beaux, et alors graphiquement, j'ai adoré les jeux de mirroirs |
| User ReviewTomek STo even try and describe or explain what happens in a Zulawski film feels futile and disingenuous. It?s a pastiche of oddities, wrapped in absurdism? the world, especially human relationships as seen through the eyes of an outsider. One can only assume the creator is an alien, understanding human emotion at it?s most grotesque and exaggerated. There seems to be no middle ground, and the subtlety lies in the blatant exhibition of humanity. There is something to be said for the ?strange? actions and movements of the characters, they don?t behave as we do in the so called real world. There is a self-awareness, a blatant style of movement and awareness. Distorted close-ups match up with distorted words, one character is losing the fundamentals of language, the other holding onto it only in trance, both quickly falling from an already shaky concept of reality. They fall in love with each other, a love that is at times tender and vulnerable, or else disturbing and overbearing. Blanche, a beautiful innocent, comes to a strange realization while making love (what seems to be for the first time) that love is very painful. Descriptive of her current physical state, it reflects an also confused and frenzied understanding of relationships. Her own husband is a not-so subtle homosexual who, at times fights and beats her, because she is too beautiful. Her childhood memories of her own parents are violent and painful, and even early on the first couple to make it?s way onscreen are engaged in a something of a fist fight that dissolves in kisses and sweet nothings. Clearly over the top, this seems in part to be an almost child-like view of relationships, no sense of reason, only watching two people move from one state of mind to the next with no real conception of why. Though most filmmakers search or explore the ?why?, perhaps Zulawski is asking ?what? instead. What is love? Physical? Emotional? Both? How does one balance the two, and how far can we push the other until the pain becomes too much. I?m not sure entirely what I think of this film, it didn?t flood me with emotion in quite the same way as Possession, but it?s certainly overpowering. Some scenes were perfect, the ones in the hotel especially.. though I think they were meant to evoke that heightened emotional glee. The film is all around engrossing, and often times troubling. There is no way to prepare someone for this film, especially if they have not seen a Zulawski? you have to open your mind and soul. |
| User ReviewY'ng YWide angle lens and creative shots accentuate the disorientation which mirrors the unstable relationship of the lovers. |
| User ReviewRobert PI need to rewatch Possession to determine if this is my new favorite Zulawski. I guess stylistically Possession is the better film but this one is all about two people being driven mad by the confusion and irrationality of love, a theme I identify with completely. Sophie Marceau is the most beautiful actress I have ever seen. The ending confused me a bit and like all Zulawskis it demands repeat viewing, but I definitely was entranced by this film. EDIT: Possession is just a much tighter film, way better executed. MNaMBtYD is a very good film with great emotion behind it, just sloppy. |
| User ReviewCitizen PGreat acting. But mathar ektu upor diye gese. French women are so beautiful. |
| User ReviewPrivate UWay overhyped and too pretentious for me...kinda stupid, actually |
| User ReviewDoctor SAs pretentious as the obtuse title would lead you to believe it is. Andrej Zulawski's film appears like an attempt by a student of Bunuel to emulate Bergman after he had just watched Kubrick's "The Shining" as evidenced by the cavernous hotel location, bellhop ghost, and men in animal costume. I definitely appreciated the bizarre aspects which kept things interesting, like a guy sitting down in the middle of a city street to carry on a conversation with his agent, when he takes a bath fully dressed in his white suit, and the girl's wholly dysfunctional entourage. Unfortunately the main character played by Jacques Dutronc is so morose that he drains my willing spirit away with every utterance and pained expression. He also has a maddening method of speech, rambling off unrelated phrases in a word game only he can follow. Additionally, Zulawski posits that if you experience a childhood trauma, your adult life will be forever ruined from the scarring. Way to completely discredit the capabilities of the human psyche there. Thankfully the luminous Sophie Marceau is present to rescue the attention during the meandering scenes. She gives a captivating performance as a striptease psychic and has never been more naked on film before or since. Zulawski uses an intrusive amount of extreme closeups of people we'd rather be get far away from to make their misery our own, but the technique is sporadically successful like during a long emotional love scene in which the viewer feels intimately involved in the act to the point of discomfort. |