I made this film because I love music.
I made this film because I love love-stories.
I made this film because I love the lights in the night, because I love the atmosphere of industrial ports, empty streets, landscapes left untouched.
Therefore, I made this film about love through music, which takes place one evening in the port of Brest.
To make a film is putting together people and places in an ideal order, having them perform a score. The best score will always depend on the talent of the performers. I was very lucky. Some extraordinary people helped me to tell this simple yet profound story:

Actor Thierry Harcisse, from the renown Comédie Française. He is Simon in his simplest gestures, his simplest looks, his hesitations, his inability to decide for himself, his temptations, his desires. He gave the character all of his vulnerability and all of his talent. We hardly know where he is coming from or where he will go. Time has stopped. He has come to a halt here, at the edge of a dock, at a club he did not even want to go into.

Elise Caron. Who else to embody a fantasy? Who else could be the voice of this music? Who else to know how to be so close yet so far away, so honest with the emotions that the arrival of this strange man evokes? She doesn’t exist, but she is so very real.

Actress Marilyne, Canto from Comédie Française too, in the part of Suzanne. Alone, faced with what she knows, alone with what she foresees. Suzanne isn’t afraid of losing Simon; she fears that he will lose himself. Her entire character is structured around this nuance. Maryline delivers this line so strongly, so clearly.

Then there is the encounter with Brest. The city for which, without me knowing, the film had been written. A legendary club, “L’Espace Vauban”, the ‘San Francisco’ streets, the port and the docked ships.

I want to talk here only about what I put in the film; to talk about those who warmly welcomed us would be another story, more encounters with remarkable people.