Questioning, fascinating, daunting and quite good

Rating: 8/10 (7 September 1999)

Filmed with aesthetism, almost mannerism for some scenes, the film takes the spectator into a world of semi reality. Not all answers are provided, a feature that I really like for films.
The main character is not obsessed nor bored by married life, he is in my opinion obsessed by death. Sexuality and voyeurism are means to reassured himself that he is still alive. He lives a lot of different seemingly disconnected scenes during the night, and he is so puzzled that the day after he has to visit again into the same places and tries to unravel what happened. Yet, nothing is the same, every scene shows a negative picture like a photograph, revealing a different truth. Which one is the real one?
Obsessed and surrounded by death, who crisscrosses his path so often: Mandy (the party girl) almost dies at the beginning; his patient dead lying on his bed and whose daughter declares to him her crazy obsession (what a disturbing, incongruous yet beautiful scene); then Domino the street girl who the morning after discovers is brushed by death (HIV positive); finding again Mandy really dead this time; in the cafe the Mozart Requiem is played. The climax is when he comes back home, and sees the mask on his pillow close to his wife: representation of his own death, he is so shocked that he starts crying; being human, he cannot bear this idea.
Obsessive musical score, but the ideas are obsessive, quite well suited.