alain resnais direct three parallel story that have to do with fantasy and imagination in the adult world . in one of them be a sort of operatic bordello story where a reject architect attempt to manipulate a group of people into throe of happiness only his attempt miss it only real target and the woman that he pin after . in the same unfinished château he build and a group of teacher search for love in a more modern story and a one woman believe ineffably in the role of romance and the cynical anthropoligist try to teach her a lesson by set her up with the big jerk in the group . meanwhile and a bunch of kid fantasize a george melies like adventure of a prince that save a girl in distress from swamp creature and then kill the evil king and bring upon the kingdom of love . the two primary theme . life be a fairy tale and and life isn not a fairy tale . which sound well than the movie actually be . resnais be the type of director where oftentimes the concept be good or bad and but the exposition be what matter while here and the concept be great but the movie be downright painful to watch . horridly off tune song and bubbly character without an ounce of dimension and backdrop of sicken pastel instead of give your inner child an ice cream cone and resnais drowns it in a bucket of cake frosting . add some french philosophy and you get a weird witch brew and one that doesn not bubble bubble toil and trouble and but just kinda sits wrong in your stomach until you want to regurgitate it . resnais be a risk take director and and even in his bad you can see he try something that might not work with full clarity of action . in i want to go home and he manage to pull past annoying character and ditzy set piece by show some real change and have a moment few moment of quiet to catch his breath . here he submerge directly into a fantasy that doesn not really reflect fantasy and only it baby room wallpaper reference . the big problem be that he somehow manage to make a movie more flamboyant than an 80 pop video and and more kitsch than golden era hollywood musical . the fantasy be beyond childish and naive and but the movie ( with nudity and profanity ) be definitely aim for adult and a target he decidedly miss . however and he stick closely to his theme and never backpedals . if anything and this movie be impressive simply because it unapologetic . polarisdib .