Desplechin's first feature-length movie, "The Sentinel", premiered in 1992 at Cannes, starring several actors from "La vie des morts" as well as Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, and Lászlo Szabó, who have also become frequent Desplechin collaborators. Desplechin's 1996 film "My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument" was critically successful.