Pascal Aubier

A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts... Aubier makes use of a series of successive pictures to portray the series of events that completes a cycle.

Begins with scenes of nature, in which one hears the sounds of birds and water. The final few minutes of the film focus in on a man laying down in the grass.

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), ...