In her most ambitious feature, "Anne–Marie Miéville presents her film like a theatrical daydream with four characters. It's also a philosophical daydream" (Louis Skorecki). When Godard, Miéville, and Claude Perron converge in an apartment, joined later by Jacques Spiesser, the dialogue is nonstop, highly mannered, and equally exciting and exacerbating, kind and cruel. A flirtation is interrupted by grumbling, a philosophy of life by a fit of name–calling. Teetering between conversation and monologue, the four highly verbal, intelligent characters struggle with the meaning of words and the ways of the world. At one point, Godard, breaking into tears, asks Miéville if she has to talk so much. They all must. Like the plants shown struggling to live amidst the concrete, one feels they nourish themselves with language. It is their way of reconciling themselves with today's world. - Kathy Geritz