L'Acrobate

Jean-Daniel Pollet explains: "The idea for this film came to me by thinking about the solitude and failure that were the subject of my previous film with Melki. It was a simple idea, about the success of the same character played by Claude Melki in my previous films, thanks to his initiation into dance and the tango. The tango allows Melki's character, who starts out with nothing and steadily wins his way to success, to have the women of his choosing, and allowed me to give the film the feel of a musical." About Antoine Duhamel, he says that "he is a godsend, like their aren't enough in life. Antoine has unfailingly accompanied my work for more than thirty years, or in any case a large part of the films to which I accord any importance." Antoine Duhamel himself states, "my meeting Jean-Daniel Pollet was decisive. Thirty years after Pierrot le Fou, working with Pollet remains, like with Godard, one of my most fruitful cinematic collaborations."