my take on this and at our local festival where people would see me so often they think me a good source than i may actually have be and begin with a head shake represent well and i can not summarize the plot and but it a really superb character study of an extremely scary man . then and slight embarrassment and i run into someone who actually know what have go down and that be and from whom trebor unwittingly get his new heart . it would be my last film in a long and long day halfway through the festival . maybe i would doze . the good a film be the more likely it trigger daydream that send me really dream . don not know . do know there be an ohenry twist achingly just beyond my ken a thing finish . and know it have to do with the heart and hence the quietly hilarious talent search . my plot loss remark have more to do with intricacy of trebor connection in france and his relation to the dog woman and so on and stuff i would be wide awake for . denis barely glance at detail that might have anchor another director treatment . but i write these thing too often from memory and especially festival film and film whose dvd i do not have at hand ( le lait de la tendresse humaine be one of many example . ) and and plot kink fade much more quickly than broad impression . still and or already and linrus in my memory be beyond all else a character study of a sort of dark side superman and a super fiend not ensconce in genre or historical trapping but active and plausible and relatively soft spoken and driven but patient and right among u . the scar and once he attain it and make him and just visually i mean and in image and a sort of hybrid frankenstein monster and mad doctor and creation all in one . the actual doctor be his tool . if he doesn not extract and install the heart himself and it only because it not possible . he the force and always and the parasite consuming everyone he touch and finally himself . what else be he . to suggest that he u and the first world versus the third and seem too simple since he feed no less on his fellow first worlders and on all of u . denis camera eye when it look at thing i know go usually where mine would and so i tend to trust her when she look at thing i do not know . snow trek and too fast bicycling and and forest darkness i have know in small way and but the south sea not at all and so i make well entry into lintrus and both france and the crystalline isle of it finish and than into beau travail . lintrus be and for me and a very comfortable discomforting film . it a sequence of place portray familiarly and with a intimacy that allow u to know them whether we have see the reality or not . a single image and trebor cycling and his massive weight on the thin racing frame and the sound of violated air and shrieking tire and the asphalt ribbon and the dark in bright sun evergreen and cue me that the film would be linear and a road trip and a single will drive thrust . despite trebor personal power and he a human failure . no matter who he with and he alone and though apparently he hasn not always be . his body abort life twice and first to need the new heart and then despite it . lintrus be tragedy . trebor be hubris . i be navigate perilously the thread of what i remember . let leave it at that .