Jean-Michel Verner

A woman and two young homosexuals spend a hectic late night.

Ben, 35 ans, profite des 30 ans de Karine pour lui faire ce qu'elle n'attendait plus. Sa déclaration d'amour, la totale : mariage, vie à deux, appart', enfants, chien, ou l'inverse. Une petite révolution pour Ben, fermement accroché depuis trois ans à son indépendance. Mais il est trop tard, Karine profite de ce dîner anniversaire pour lui annoncer que c'est fini. Pour Ben l'angoisse commence.

Mikael, Skip and P'tit Louis are planning a big job. In his car, Michael pulls out his hair by making P'tit Louis repeat the insults that he will have to utter to Perron's secretary. Perron (Miki Manojlovic) is the producer they have come to bully for ignoring their script seven times in a row. The three guys have a grudge against the entire film industry. What they are looking for is a minimum of interest in their plot, a deign to read their script. So they take the producer and his daughter hostage, then demand a TV crew to make their demands known.

The thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a dead end. The liar: a young woman he meets in a restaurant tells him the story of her life based on the screenplay of a movie she was to make. They fall head over heels in love. The convict who has just escaped from jail wants to keep her out of his predicament, but after a night of desperate love, she refuses to leave him.And the police are tracking him down.

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.

Barnabé is dreaming, Antoine's complaining, Patrick's laughing ; 35 years ago he was doing the same thing in a short film by Godard.