This film is like the French challenge to Hollywood, using non-Hollywood drama to create a commercial romance film. It also has laughs and tears, but as a European film, it still needs to be integrated into the director's thinking. For example, this film is actually It is a movie of a movie itself. What is a movie? Movies are dreams, and often beautiful dreams. We are all willing to be immersed in them and not want to wake up, just like the male protagonist, but in the end, the movie will end and return to a dark reality. We may not be able to face such a reality, then The director simply recreated a dream (the two met on the set at the end) for the male protagonist and his real wife to realize the dream. But there are some deficiencies in this film. I feel that it is too dense in fragmented narrative and loses its sense of rhythm.
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