My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
A whimsical, hurlyburly quasi-autobiographical love romp from the master of operatic love that is intellectual! French pop celebrity Jacques Dutronc is a genius computer programmer diagnosed with a terminal brain disease, also Sophie Marceau could be a hilariously surreal mentalist nightclub act's principal attraction. Embarking on a billowy, tempestuous May-September fling (mirroring Zulawski and Marceau's very personal union )they both move through their various childhood traumas, while racing to maintain Lucas' grip of language. Even a pastel-and-neon heterosexual feast not merely on the visual grade, but also literally, My Nights... astounds with its own lush word-play -- to get the only way that Lucas is able to progressively combat his or her own evaporating mind is to consult with increasingly rhyming and metaphorical flourishes, until the entire world becomes just one big sweet-toothed, Zulawskian word association game.
Released: 1989-04-19