This is a Paris lover's/Paris lovers' film. Julie and Jack, young refugees from the provinces, devote their days to love. By night, Jack drives a taxi and Julie wanders the summer streets. She embarks on a nocturnal affair with Joseph, a daytime cabbie, magically managing to juggle her feelings for both men. Akerman freely reworks myth (e.g., Julie's Achilles' high heel) and treasured film references. 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 the director a maze of windows through which to reframe her actors as the story progresses; the outdoors with its luminous oranges and yellows is always poised to enter the inner sanctum until, in an audacious tracking shot, it takes over completely.