23 minutes of watching a man watch a woman — somehow it's devastating.
Antoine - a grieving loner - spends his days in a cafe on Place Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the subway and go to the movies. Today, he takes it upon himself to talk to her. Thus began Antoine's down-going.
Acting
Wapler's Antoine — all nervous philosophy and barely contained need.
Direction
Rigoux turns a café terrace into a theater of romantic delusion.
Writing
Dialogue that name-drops Proust while emotionally drowning.
Director
Paul Rigoux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title echoes Nietzsche's 'down-going' (Untergang) — not destruction, but necessary descent into meaning.
Place Clichy is where Proust's narrator first spots Albertine in 'In Search of Lost Time' — the film's entire geography is a literary ghost.
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