This is a Paris lover's/ Paris lovers' film. Two young refugees from the provinces, Julie and Jack, devote their days to love. By night, Jack drives a taxi and Julie wanders the summer streets. Julie embarks on a nocturnal affair with Joseph, a daytime cabbie, magically managing to juggle her feelings for both men. Freely reworking myth (e.g., Julie's Achilles' high heel) and treasured film references, Akerman's latest is a culmination of the playful, dizzying narrative structures, updated women's melodramas, and Demy-like musicals that came before. Julie's "Jules" and "Jim" are almost identical, not two sides of her experience but simply, night and day. This is both comical and a narrative set-up for the inevitable; no self-respecting heroine can be immersed in the Happily Ever After forever. An apartment wrapped around an airshaft allows Akerman a maze of windows through which to re-frame her actors as the story progresses; the outdoors with its luminous beauty of oranges and yellows is always poised to enter the inner sanctum until, in the final, audacious tracking shot, it takes over completely.