Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (1989) - film review

Shortly after learning that he has rare brain condition that affects his memory, Lucas sets out to seduce a stranger.  He encounters Blanche, an attractive actress who is strangely drawn to him.  The couple embark on a turbulent and passionate affair…

Avant-garde Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski (one-time assistant to the great Andrzej Wajda) directed this unconventional romantic drama, which seems to lie somewhere between a cinematic joke (possibly a pompous deconstruction of the familiar French melodrama) and a wildly O.T.T. self-indulgent experiment in cinematographic style.  The ridiculously unconvincing performances from the two lead actors – Jacques Dutronc and Sophie Marceau at their worst – certainly do not help matters, neither does the incoherent marauding mess that masquerades as a narrative. However, it’s Zulawski’s absurd, overly self-conscious theatricality that is most off-putting, making this a hollow, painfully laboured and thoroughly unwatchable piece of misguided artistic nonsense.

© James Travers 2007

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