Andrzej Żuławski @ BAM: My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days, Possession, Boris Godounov, Blue Note, and Fidelity
Andrzej Żuławski's most lyrical movie to date, 1989's My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days , begins with a stroboscope frenzy of radiating colors, as computer programmer Lucas (Jacques Dutronc) watches garish x-rays of his brain and learns about his mysterious—and terminal—condition. As if in accordance with that rousing opening (scored to Andrzej Korzyński's hypnotizing electro-throb), the movie itself is structured as a relentless series of emotional paroxysms. They're all centered on Lucas's strange relationship with Blanche, uneducated medium and fluent nightclub mind-reader, played by Sophie Marceau at her most radiant and cushy. Since she was Żuławski's real-life partner from the time L'Amour Braque hit them both in 1984, and until their post- Fidelity break-up in 2001, it's difficult not to approach My Nights as an autobiography of sorts. A story of a generationally mismatched couple feeding off each other's power...