What if you could step 70 years into the future from a portal in your bathroom? French director Cedric Klapisch asks this question and many others in this oddball sci-fi flick. The film opens at a wild Buck Rogers-themed New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. After smoking a requist amount of drugs, 25-year-old Arthur (Romain Duris) and his girlfriend Lucie get in the millennial spirit with a spontaneous ...

In five glimpses of a married couple Marion and Gilles we see the couple's story backwards. First, there are the unhappy divorce proceedings, followed by an uneasy dinner party, childbirth and their wedding, and the moment the couple meet. The couple's dissatisfactions and tensions unfold, revealing their sources in rifts or in seemingly innocent moments that become the seeds for the eventual separation.