The end and beginning of the love of the French couple Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stéphane Freiss) is disclosed backwards through five moments in their lives: 1st moment: They divorce and have one last brutal intercourse without love. 2nd moment: With their relationship shaken, they have a dinner party with Gilles's gay brother Christophe (Antoine Chappey) and his younger mate, when an infidelity is disclosed at the dinner table. 3rd moment: The troubled pregnancy of Mar ...[Read Story ]
The ship in the final sequence is referred to as the Higgins. Higgins is the name of the film's screenwriter. Reed Hadley is often mistaken for the narrator of this film, but the actual narrator is sound-alike Gayne Whitman.