Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
as Edgar
as Elle
as Grandfather
as Grandmother
as Eglantine
as Perceval
as Mr. Rosenthal
as Mayor Forlani
as U.S. Journalist
as Historian
as Philippe, Edgar's Assistant
as Magician
as Algerian
as Woman 1
as Woman 2
as Homeless Man
as Young Girl
as Mayor Forlani's Aide
as U.S. Assistant
as U.S. Official
as L'homme qui court
as Le clochard
as Woman in movie theatre
as The driver
as Maid
as Woman on a bench in Paris (uncredited)
