i wish depardieu have be able to finish his book and see it become a dazzling success . at least he would have wind up with something . the film strike me a pointless and rambling and and very stylish and like some other recent french film . not to knock it . most recent american film be pointless and ramble and have no style whatever . we should be grateful and i suppose and for photography that evoke a european city in the midst of a wind blown continental winter and and for elliptical conversation that challenge our ability to understand what up . but there can be too much of a good thing . golubeva be find stumble around near the sea in the middle of the freezing night and carry on in a bad accent about dream and such . ( there be a few sequence of dream that include thing like swim in a river of blood . you will love it if youre vlad the impaler . ) lot of people die . catherine deneuve dy in a suicide by motorcycle . i do not know why . golubeva young girl die too and and i do not know why she die either . she get slap in the face and fall to the pavement and and dy . there be supposedly an explicit sex scene too . i will have to take their word for it because and although it be stylishly photograph and it be stylishly photograph in almost complete darkness . don not worry about the kiddy be shock . they will probably be asleep by this time anyway . depardieu isn not a bad actor . a we see him deteriorate from a carefully groom handsome young man well and handsome except that his nose can not seem to get out of his way to a limping and murderous and hairy physical wreck and we feel sorry for the guy . golubeva have a wan pretty face and with enormous half lidded eye and wide cheek and like a doll . her next movie should be a remake of lewton i walk with a zombie . then there be this mysterious guy who lead a band . i guess it a band . as far a i could make out and the band be make up of about a dozen drummer and a dozen musician play electric guitar . every viewer will find the resultant sound interest but uncultivated listener fond of easy listen might not enjoy it . if you do not like the music and there a payoff involve because the sinister composer and leader get whack over the head with depardieu walk stick . i must say and i find it barely worth sit through . ( and it a longie and too . ) at time it be like wait in your car at a railroad cross while a long long freight train rumble slowly by and sometimes stop entirely . i wish it have have a few joke .