Freelance journalist Pierre (Jean-Luc Bideau) and his friend Paul (Jacques Denis), a poet, join forces to pen a screenplay about Rosemonde (Bulle Ogier), who may or not may not have shot her uncle many years earlier.
Pierre pursues the facts while Paul begins to create a fictional Rosemonde -- that is, until he meets her and oddly finds his creativity fading away.
With a sense of comedy reminiscent of the early French New Wave, Swiss writer-director Alain Tanner delivers this often-overlooked film about ways of seeing and the slipperiness of truth. Tanner, who co-wrote the film’s script with the British art critic and novelist John Berger, said he drew his inspiration from working in television — a field riddled with “the problem of objectivity” where the relating of facts is always at odds with the possibilities of imaginative storytelling.
Introduced by writer Tom Overton, author of the new biography John Berger: From Life.