Le battement d'ailes du papillon

Films that crisscross different stories are no novelty (Short Cuts, Magnolia, Iossellani's "Favoris de la lune"...) but few of them have dared go as far as "Le battement d'ailes...". It would take a good deal of thinking and remembering to tell just HOW MANY stories are embedded in this wonder. And it would be pointless because, precisely, the object of the film is to show that it is not possible to separate one individual story from another.

One day in the life of so many people, characters that can be in turn charming, infuriating, lovable... And, on top of that, you get the feeling the director really loves them all (or, at any rate, most of them because some are frankly off-putting. That's life, here, just for you, on the screen.