The principle of the film is to take banal situations, from everyday life, and to twist them with elements of absurdity and mise en abyme. With the background of a killer's journey.
The film relies a lot on the settings: the district of La Défense in Paris and its towers, at night, the empty esplanades, the empty apartment towers, the wasteland at night, the underground station, the underground parking, the deserted corridors, the greenery at the end, the lake and the rocks. All of them being deserted and empty. Including the apartments: Gérard Depardieu's apartment, which doesn't have much in the way of a human touch, or Bernard Blier's apartment with its unpacked boxes. All the sets in the La Défense district, corridors, esplanades, platforms, staircases, halls, are empty. They accentuate the unreal side of the film, almost fantastic.
The film is hard on women: it denounces misogyny and shows how women are transformed into objects. With the very beautiful and tragic character of Geneviève Page.
Beautiful opening scene too, with Michel Serrault on the train platform at La Défense station.
All in all, a symphony to put industrial habitats in abyss and denounce their lack of humanism, the film remains astonishing and unique in its kind.
The film relies a lot on the settings: the district of La Défense in Paris and its towers, at night, the empty esplanades, the empty apartment towers, the wasteland at night, the underground station, the underground parking, the deserted corridors, the greenery at the end, the lake and the rocks. All of them being deserted and empty. Including the apartments: Gérard Depardieu's apartment, which doesn't have much in the way of a human touch, or Bernard Blier's apartment with its unpacked boxes. All the sets in the La Défense district, corridors, esplanades, platforms, staircases, halls, are empty. They accentuate the unreal side of the film, almost fantastic.
The film is hard on women: it denounces misogyny and shows how women are transformed into objects. With the very beautiful and tragic character of Geneviève Page.
Beautiful opening scene too, with Michel Serrault on the train platform at La Défense station.
All in all, a symphony to put industrial habitats in abyss and denounce their lack of humanism, the film remains astonishing and unique in its kind.