- Moullet, the jester of the Nouvelle Vague, plays an elderly director who is past his best. He comes up with a plan to breathe new life into his fame and status: under the motto 'speak no evil over the dead', he fakes his own death and adopts the identity of a dead tramp (whom he finds on a deserted Alp, typical for Mou…
- Nel Regno di Napoli, Schroeter's own voyage to Italy, has the appearance of something much more straightforward, hewing closely to a postwar timeline (actually marked and measured by emblematic intertitle cut-ins announcing the year, accompanied by radio bulletin-like narration updating us on the historical/social/poli…