And an encounter between Paul and the aunt of Pierre (Liliane Montevecchi), an aging theater diva who tells him in no uncertain terms not to go and look for her nephew because it’s “not the virile thing to do,” is similarly shot through with irony and black humor.Īs with almost all road-trip movies, the narrative is fragmented and sprawling as especially Pierre meets one new stranger after the other. And Paul first realizes Pierre might not be coming back at a performance of Così fan tutte, the Mozart opera about two women who fall into the arms of each other’s disguised fiancés, thus cheating on their other halves but unaware of the direct consequences. There’s a kind of droll irony, for example, in Pierre, a man who chases sexual encounters with unknowns, telling a female singer (Fabienne Babe) he’s giving that he’s not the kind of man who likes to be touched. Reybaud, who wrote the screenplay as well, also has a sly sense of humor.
