My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
"A most fantastically madcap, semi-autobiographical, madcap love story from the king of operatic intellectual romance!" Jacques Dutronc is a smart computer programmer who has been diagnosed with a terminal brain ailment, and Sophie Marceau is the flighty star of a hilariously weird mentalist nightclub act. Both Zulawski and Marceau are dealing with their own childhood traumas as they embark on a turbulent May-September romance, all the while racing to keep Lucas' language skills sharp. As a visual feast of pastel and neon poetry, My Nights... astounds with its rich wordplay, as Lucas' only means of combating his own evaporating mind is to speak with increasingly rhyming and metaphorical flourishes, until the entire world becomes one big sweet-toothed, Zulawskian word-association game.
Released: 1989-04-19