a john lennon once write and life be what happen to you while youre busy make other plan . this be a very simple film and and that simplicity give it an extraordinary beauty . and speaking of extraordinary beauty and virginie ledoyen be a revelation and a young isabelle adjani in the making . ledoyen play valerie and a young french girl who one morning meet her boyfriend in cafe and argues with him and then run off to a hotel a couple block away to begin a new job . her new co worker greet her in the manner co worker always greet a newcomer represent some with welcome arm and others with contempt . when valerie get a break and run back to the cafe to finish the argument with her boyfriend and we feel every tick of the clock . we know she be take too long on the break and have get to get back . but everything that happen to valerie be so very real and so very urgent because the film be shoot in real time . this be a daring attempt by the director and benoit jacquot and but his gamble hit the bullseye . of course and with virginie ledoyen to follow around with his camera and jacquot could hardly go wrong .