
Alain Resnais one of the towering figures of the French New Wave demonstrates he still has plenty to say in this drama based on a novel by Christian Gailly Marguerite (Sabine Azema) is a successful dentist with a busy practice & an offbeat hobby flying small airplanes One day while running errands Marguerite loses her wallet & it's found by Georges (Andre Dussollier) a seemingly happy man with a wife Suzanne (Anne Consigny) & two children (Vladimir Consigny & Sara Forestier) As Georges looks through the wallet & examines the photos of Marguerite he finds he's fascinated with her & her life & soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession Georges' attempts to integrate himself into Marguerite's life begin to alarm her & she hires a private security team (Mathieu Amalric & Michel Vuillermoz) to keep him away but Georges is determined that his new love for her will not be denied