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I have wanted to watch this film for years, so I settled down Dec 23 which is the date of part of the scenario. and I literally felt I needed a bath after it. On the site here much is made of the male nudity in the list of things to watch out for. I am a gay male and believe me this was aversion therapy. Both Duris and Garrel pride themselves on being smelly and dirty and the director who in my opinion should have known better just made them self-inflicted grunge brothers. There is a lot of ' love ' between them in that macho way some straight men have of showing off their body parts to each other and end up in the same bed together ' in all innocence '. This to me was certainly not the Christophe Honore who made ' La Belle Personne ' or ' Les Chansons D'Amour '. The dialogue when it was comprehensible was either shouty, banal or pretentious. A 17 year old young woman seems to commit suicide because she was born with sorrow, and there is a vague reincarnation bit about all this. Depression rules the characters entirely and a run around Paris literally means a jump into the Seine!!! A messy, dirty puppy smelling film and with all that they had a biggish apartment over looking the Eiffel Tower. As for Duris and Garrel again I longed for the days of the eroticism of Jean Sorel. early Alain Delon and Gil Vidal. I also understood them when they opened their mouths and also grateful for never having to see them sitting on the toilet. The father of the two brothers was played by Guy Marchand. A pitiful scene as he drags a Christmas tree along a dismal Paris street. I give the 1 for his excellent acting.