Trivia

Michel Subor previously played a character named Bruno Forestier 37 years earlier in Godard's The Little Soldier (1963).

The dance scene was shot in a single take.

This was the film that inspired Greta Gerwig to be a director.

The filmmakers found inspiration in a story by Herman Melville named "Billy Budd, Sailor" and his poems "The Night March" and "Gold in the Mountain."

Ranked number 43 non-English-speaking film in the critics' poll conducted by the BBC in 2018.