Ephesian

Slow, repetitious, and narcissistic: the narrative threads are lost early on in the director's attachment to the young stars who play Paul and Esther. She, at least, has an expressive face and plausible confusions; he is a handsome, baby cheeked cipher for the director's fantasy of an intense, intellectual youth. His teacher and mentor is almost insultingly cartooned as the wise older woman anthropologist, black and all knowing. the worst sort of French cinema!