Nuit et jour

JACK AND JULIE WERE VERY YOUNG. They probably came from the country. They had a small one-bedroom apartment with a tiny kitchen and a shower on the fifth floor of a Parisian building, not far from Boulevard Sebastopol. Jack drove a cab during the nights. He preferred working at night so he could spend the days with Julie. They loved each other and that was all. More and more, with each day - especially after what was going to happen to Julie.
It was hot. It was summer. It was a particularly hot summer.
They lived between the bed, the shower and the kitchen.
They had no troubles, no friends. They didn't know anyone in Paris.
Julie walked around Paris in the nights. She said:
''You're not sleepy in the summer!''
They didn't sleep during either day or night: it would have been a waste of time.
One night, for arbitrary reasons, Jack got the chance idea to introduce Joseph to Julie. Joseph drove Jack's cab during the day and had the nights off.
He was from the country, too. He didn't have any friends in Paris either.
Julie liked Joseph from the very beginning.
She loved Jack so much that she fully trusted both Joseph and herself.
A glance was enough for Joseph. He was ready, maybe exactly that day, to approach her and love her.
She began loving both young men, without mixing up her feelings.
Julie made Jack happier and happier. And Joseph. She was content.
She thought she could continue her relationships within the framework of her very own morale: demanding and absolute.
Fatigue, and the fact that Joseph knew about Jack's and Julies relationship, that it became increasingly difficult for him when she left in the mornings, some mistakes here and there, the agony killing Jack without him knowing why - allied to something quite different.
A love story with no compromises.
Characters struggling to keep what they irrefutably will lose, the edge between youth and adulthood: the feeling for the absolute... _ CHANTAL AKERMAN

Medverkande
Guilaine Londez, Thomas Langmann: Producent
Martine Marignac, Maurice Tinchant: Manus
Chantal Akerman: Foto
Jean-Claude Neckelbrook, Pierre Gordower, Bernard Delville, Olivier Dessalles: Musik
Marc Herouet: Talat språk
French