My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days

My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
Directed by	Andrzej Żuławski
Written by	Andrzej Żuławski
Produced by	Alain Sarde
Starring	Sophie Marceau; Jacques Dutronc
Cinematography	Patrick Blossier
Music by	Andrzej Korzynski
Release date	19 April 1989;
Running time	110 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (French: Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours) is a 1989 French drama film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski^[1] from a 1985 novel of the same name by Raphaële Billetdoux. In unique dialogue full of rhymes, puns and quotations, it tells the story of a sudden love affair between two gifted but damaged people who end their lives together.

Plot[]

In Paris, Lucas is a talented and successful computer scientist who is diagnosed with a rare and fatal brain disorder, which means he will rapidly lose his memory and his ability to speak coherently. Going from the hospital to a café, he is struck by a beautiful but eccentric young woman called Blanche. When she walks out on him just after he orders them dinner, he waits in the street until dawn. Driving by, she stops and weeps at his devotion, but has to go to work.

Her job is in a hotel at Biarritz, where she does a clairvoyant act removing her clothes. He follows her there and takes a luxury suite. At dawn she comes in exhausted and falls asleep. Just after he orders them breakfast she walks out, not realising that his awkward remarks are through failing mental powers.

Later she returns and the two make love. She too is under heavy stress, forced by her promiscuous mother into an exploitative act she detests. That night she breaks down on stage and at dawn comes to find Lucas. He takes her onto the deserted beach, where the two laugh and kiss as they walk to their deaths in the Atlantic breakers.

Cast[]

Sophie Marceau — Blanche
Jacques Dutronc — Lucas
Valérie Lagrange — Blanche's mother
Myriam Mézières — Edwige
Laure Killing — Ines
François Chaumette — Hotel concierge
Sady Rebbot — François
Salim Talbi — Hotel page

References[]

^ "Andrzej Zulawski, Rebellious Film Director, Dies at 75". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-16.

External links[]

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[1] "Andrzej Zulawski, Rebellious Film Director, Dies at 75". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-16.

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