A family villa is about to be sold; a pretext for a reunion, nostalgia and a false new beginning.

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Young Ludovic (Filippo Timi) plays at acting without much conviction. Not far from the set, he meets Louise (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), who is 20 years older than him. She is a former actress come to deal with the sale of the family villa, the last jewel in the crown of an industrial empire squandered by her mother (Marisa Bruni-Tedeschi, Valeria’s real mother). Her brother Nathan (Louis Garrel, former boyfriend of Valeria) still lives there, suffering from AIDS. Brother and sister have fun chasing each other down the hallways, reliving the insouciant and whimsical time of their spoiled childhood. Back home, Louise finds Ludovic at her front door. She turns him away. She’s looking for love (and to become pregnant at all costs) and he’s looking for fun. In the end, Ludovic moves in with Louise...

This is Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s third movie inspired by her own life. Brilliantly alternating tragic scenes (her brother’s suffering, Louise’s dance in a dead man’s shoes) with hilarious ones (Louise rubs holy water onto her belly and underwear and clings to a church chair purported to help her become fertile, sperm is gathered for artificial insemination), but the whole lacks coherence to some extent (perhaps due to the lack of distance to the subject?) With a moving soundtrack, like "Che Bambola", the excellent song by Fred Buscaglione.