Over the top story of l'amour fou that bears similarities with both Godards reflexivity, Fassbinders artsy and campy melodramas and De Palmas excessiveness. Romy Schneider is excellent as the actress torn between two men.

Gorgeously filmed, intense and moving anti-romance film, sadly a little disjointed and overlong in places.

It feels like the work of a young director still fascinated with the endless possibilities of film that its numerous camera movements, sentimental score and dramatic cliches almost makes it self-indulgent. Yet, it's ambitious and exciting enough to keep us on its side even when it loses track. Kind of halfway between Godard and De Palma, it bears the reflexivity of the former (and the music of Delerue) along with the excessiveness of the latter, and combines it into something quite interesting.