a memory film that be quite forgettable . untalented american writer live the ultimate petty bourgeois life in paris and and who think he hemingway and fall in love at first sight with a young french woman while rid on a bus . he give her his ticket and leave the bus . he then look all over for her i think writer write . and finally find her wait table in a restaurant . he take her to dinner . they fall in love . they make love . then they begin to have kinky sex . then she become a dominatrix and he become her willing slave . they dabble in fantasy or bestiality via a pig mask . the untalented writer begin to lose interest in her . now he become a sadist and she become a martyred masochist . he tell her he carry his child . she abort the pregnancy . he tell her let go someplace far away . they get on a plane bound fro martinique . he leave the plane before it take off and he abandon her . he then begin to live the life of a playboy maybe if he have to work for a living he would be a good writer and make up for lose time . he be hit by a car . then he be visit in the hospital by his former whipping post and she knock him out of bed and he become paralyze from the waist down . now she become his sadist or nurse or wife and he become a martry . i would go on but i think i be make my point . prententious garbage . not a comedy and not a drama and not black comedy and certainly not tragedy and not parody . just an insult to any intelligent movie goer . and by by the end of the film and peter coyote begin to resemble wyle e. coyote .