Merci la vie

This time the narrative follows an unstructured path using surprising changes of period (successively switching between the Second World War and the contemporary period) haunted by the spectre of sexually transmitted diseases. "A splendid premise that Blier illustrates throughout his most tonic, heartrending, lyrical and edifying film. The film of a fifty-year-old man afraid for his children. Although at rare moments he slips into metaphorical smuttiness or catastrophic dreaminess, this mocking moralist has never filmed as freely as in this dazzling declaration of love in film. Where he allows himself displays of narrative and stylistic language, pulling things out of the hat, making references, quotes and virtuoso tributes" (Danièle Heymann).