Four playful vignettes that dramatize the anxieties of modern life: a man reads vampire novel beside his sleeping wife but cannot seem to separate reality from fiction; a simple afternoon at the movies becomes a consumer-culture assault; a jarringly noisy city keeps its population on edge; and the bickering between a picnicking couple and a farmer escalates into hilarious gunfire and electrocution.
The complete works of Pierre Étaix have been restored by Studio 37, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage.
The retrospective of Pierre Étaix presented by Taipei Film Festival and Institut français with the support of Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage and Bureau Français de Taipei.