The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

The director Gaspard Bazin is preparing a new feature film. For now, he is still in the casting and financing stages. He’s asking the help of Jean Almereyda, a producer once fashionable but now at low ebb, who has more and more difficulties to raise cash for his company. His wife, Eurydice, dreams of being a movie star. Between the two men, a perverse game is starting, Almereyda wishing to please his wife, but the unrepentant seducer reputation of Bazin hold him to require a part for Eurydice. Poking fun at his late French New Wave friend and rival, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard created his own version of Day for Night (1973), an alternately witty and sentimental ode to the movie business that Godard himself detested.