My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days

My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
Theatrical release poster
French	Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours
Directed by	Andrzej Żuławski
Screenplay by	Andrzej Żuławski
Based on	My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days by Raphaële Billetdoux
Produced by	Alain Sarde
Starring	Sophie Marceau Jacques Dutronc Valérie Lagrange Myriam Mézières Laure Killing François Chaumette Sady Rebbot
Cinematography	Patrick Blossier
Edited by	Marie-Sophie Dubus
Music by	Andrzej Korzyński
Production company	Saris
Distributed by	Acteurs Auteurs Associés
Release date	19 April 1989 (1989-04-19) (France)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (French: Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours) is a 1989 French romantic drama film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Raphaële Billetdoux. In unique dialogue full of rhymes, puns and quotations, it tells the story of a sudden love affair between two gifted but damaged people.

Plot

In Paris, Lucas is a talented and successful computer scientist who is diagnosed with a rare and fatal brain disorder, which means he will rapidly lose his memory and his ability to speak coherently. Going from the hospital to a café, he is struck by a beautiful but eccentric young woman called Blanche. When she walks out on him just after he orders them dinner, he waits in the street until dawn. Driving by, she stops and weeps at his devotion, but has to go to work.

Her job is in a hotel at Biarritz, where she does a clairvoyant act removing her clothes. He follows her there and takes a luxury suite. At dawn she comes in exhausted and falls asleep. Just after he orders them breakfast she walks out, not realising that his awkward remarks are through failing mental powers.

Later she returns and the two make love. She too is under heavy stress, forced by her promiscuous mother into an exploitative act she detests. That night she breaks down on stage and at dawn comes to find Lucas. He takes her onto the deserted beach, where the two laugh and kiss as they walk to their deaths in the Atlantic breakers.

Cast

• Sophie Marceau as Blanche
• Jacques Dutronc as Lucas
• Valérie Lagrange as Blanche's mother
• Myriam Mézières as Edwige
• Laure Killing as Ines
• François Chaumette as hotel concierge
• Sady Rebbot as François
• Salim Talbi as Page

External links

• My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days at IMDb
• My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days at AllMovie
• My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days at AlloCiné (in French)
• My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days at Rotten Tomatoes