Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Taking a look at a DVD sellers page,I spotted a strange-sounding title starring Anna Karina.Since I've only read about the work she did during the French New Wave era,I decided that it was the perfect time to give Karina the ring.The plot:Leaving the countryside for Paris, veterinarian Hugues starts to think about finding a woman to get married to,who will helpfully own a big enough house for him to run his own private practice (aww..how romantic!) Meeting via dating agency,Hugues soon gets married to Jeanne and moves into her house.Finding Hugues to spend more time with the animals than with her,Jeanne starts to play games on her husband,which leads to Hugues sinking deeper into his small world,and being suspicious that Jeanne will soon fly away with the birds. View on the film:Playing a major part behind the scenes by co-writing the screenplay and writing the novel it is based on, Jean-Claude Carrière gives a creepy performance as vet Hugues. Looking stuffy in his woollen jumper and mangled beard, Carrière chips away at Hugues work with animals to reveal an obsession with no room for compromise that is verging on madness. Radiating beauty, Anna Karina shows a great care in vividly displaying each of Jeanne,whose initial delight in "pushing" Hugues Karina hits with a real relish that gradually crumbles into an eerie sense of doubt which Karina tangles Jeanne in,as Hugues starts to react to Jeanne's games in a dangerously unpredictable manner.Bringing Carrière's own novel to the vets,the screenplay by co- writer/director Christian de Chalonge and star Carrière entwines a peculiar,unique atmosphere. Bringing a touch of mystery to the film with a fragmented exposure of the disease seeping to the core of Hughes and Jeanne "difficult" relationship,the writers give the title a strikingly odd Sci-Fi mood,as Hugues mumbled cassette recordings and his nihilistic-slanted outlook on the future of the human race being the pure dreams of a mad scientist.Burning the midnight oil at Hugues vet surgery,director Christian de Chalonge & cinematographer Alain Derobe brilliantly make the skin crawl with grime covered walls and a thick musk tapping into the eerie Sci-Fi atmosphere of everything being slightly off-centre. Scrubbing dirt on the screen,Chalonge takes a wonderfully sudden turn into poetically haunting Sci-Fi,as the wedding bells ring out for all time.

Very strange but good looking film from little known director, Christian de Challonges which was a pretty ambitious project to take on but these were strange times in cinema, especially French cinema. Jean-Claude Carriere stars but also wrote the screenplay which is based upon his own novel. Indeed he was better known as writer and veteran of very many screenplays including several for Luis Bunuel and some of those he also appeared. Anna Karina, best known for her work with Goddard, is wonderful here, radiant throughout. Carriere is also most effective as the obsessive veterinary surgeon and if he seems to only have one expression it is a worrying one. Creepy and worrying is the name of the game here as the couple's Parisian is gradually filled with animals and insects as the two humans become more and more suspicious of each other. Ultimately unsatisfying, the film is nevertheless compelling and well worth a watch.

This very fine movie has a sad ending.The previous posts asked what the tape record was. Basically it is "I never told her that I loved her"But there is a technical goof in that final shot. This is a cassette recorder, buried in sand, and looping while failing on this sentence.It is possible with a vinyl record, but NOT on a normal cassette player, even if it is badly damaged, the tape cannot loop.Beside this, the story builds up from the beginning in a funny and mysterious way. The hunt for a wife with a 'Large apartment' and a closet is doted with humorous comments, and the various patients are more bizarre as the script goes on.

Definitely an interesting fantastic movie , worth watching,but nobody says anything about the end , which is kind of at your own appreciation.I don't wanna say more. Just watch it ! Anna Karina is great ,but also Jean-Claude Carriere is doing a good job .I don't know but it's the first time I heard of a novelist playing in an adaptation of his own book . Interesting ,no ? What I like also about the movie is also that is original , can't be compared to any other movie . It's not only about a devoted veterinarian and scientist but also about his marriage with a mysterious woman . Basically they are 2 characters : HIM and HER , they met by an agency , they wed , so far nothing special but there's suspense , and mystery in the air especially her trips where she ...buys nothing.On the other side him is turning the huge bourgeois apartment into a zoo , interested in extrasensory perceptions of the various animals he's collecting.What do you think , somebody (lover ?) resided in that apartment before ? Before him.