This loopy absurdist comedy is the final work of Andrzej Zulawski, the famed Polish filmmaker who died in February. Based on a novel by Witold Gombrowicz, it has no summarizable plot. It does have a main character, aspiring novelist Witold, played by Jonathan Genet, a lanky actor who resembles a handsome whooping crane. And it has a setting: a bed and breakfast occupied by eccentrics including the marvelous Sabine Azéma as the proprietor, Jean-François Balmer as her unceasingly garrulous husband and Johan Libéreau as a streetwise fashion executive.
Farcical doings ensue, most of them engagingly funny as individual scenes. Trying to make the parts add up to a coherent whole, however, could drive a person as crazy as the characters. It’s a surreal piece of mischief, equal parts breezy fun and maddening confusion.



