A black and white movie of three and a half hours in which there is, mostly, a conversation about sex may not seem extremely attractive to the public at the first glance but it is considered as the crucial value in the history of the French cinematography. It is the first of the three movies of Jean Eustache (1938 – 1981), almost unknown in Croatia, who started his film career as a film critic, and then as author of the documentary movies remaining during his short life true to the non-commercial concept of the movie. In this movie his hero is a young man at leisure, Alexandre, who passes his time reading or having arguments in the cafes of Paris. In the evening he dates Marie who works in a fashion boutique and when he meets a nurse Véronica, he brings her to Marie. Even though it was supposed to become a commune with no obligations, the relationships become more and more complicated. Eustache uses long sequences and dialogues in order to reveal what is beneath the surface of his characters, all the difficulty of that kind of living and search for some new morals, in which sexual freedom brings not only tenderness, but anxiety, suffering, even madness, and with such an authenticity that this post-new wave movie deserves by all means a special place among the original works of French cinematography. The film was awarded a special prize in Cannes. (Tomislav Kurelec)