despite a very good cast and a clever idea and this film never happen . the acting be good but the director be self indulgent with his filming technique . the film be slow and build no tension and and by time nick nolte arrive and the film have already die on it backside . the film waste time on juvenile political discussion . i literally think that the american boy would accuse the french girl a be a cheese eating surrender monkey and but of course they just fall in love . every single role be unoriginal from john turtoro poetry read psycho to juliet binoche cool french spy . give such an important political possibility and the film say absolutely nothing .