this film have almost no merit . it be the pseudo intellectual and senile gibberish of an impotent and burn out one time maybe genius . what some reviewer view a highbrow filmmaking be nothing but a compilation of name drop ( hannah ahrendt and simon weil and iris berry and if you do not know who they be and so much the good and if you do and you ought to be verly impress ) and vicious anti american tirade so fashionable these day among the french ( american have no past and therefore they borrow others history ) semi allusion to historical figure and event . the story ( . ) itself be incoherent and incomprehensible and the character repulsive and full of bellyache and weltschmerz and negativity and lack of irony or humor . the only good thing be the stunning black and white photography of the first part of the film .