My Nights are More Beautiful Than your Days

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Lucas, a computer genius facing an unnamed terminal illness that causes him to lose his memory, meets Blanche, a young woman who seems unable to break free of her vicious environment. The two plunge into a brief but intense affair, understanding that their days together are numbered. This a strangely poetic and powerful film that celebrates love's victory over death and suggests that sentiment has some currency even in a pragmatic world. ~ Yuri German, Rovi

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Art House & International, Drama, Romance
Directed By:

Andrzej Zulawski
In Theaters:

Apr 19, 1989 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Jun 14, 2005
Runtime:

110 minutes

Cast

Sophie Marceau
as Blanche

Jacques Dutronc
as Lucas

Valérie Lagrange
as Blanche's Mother

Myriam Mézières
as Hedwige

Laure Killing
as Ines

François Chaumette
as Concierge

Saddy Rebbot
as Francois

Isabelle Illiers

Alexandra Kazan

Sylvie Herbert

Christian Loustau

Didier Rousset

Dimitri Rougeul

Arnold Walter

Michael Goldman

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Jun 03, 2015

As 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.

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