Synopsis

Simon is alone in his apartment, keeping watch over his wife Anna's corpse. She has just committed suicide. In his grief, he recalls the first time they met, a year ago: Simon is a pawnbroker in Spanish Harlem. One day, Anna (Lorie Marino) enters his shop to sell some of her jewelery. She is a beautiful, mysterious, thirty year-old woman. She seems to come from nowhere, and knows not really where to go. Touched by her beauty, Simon asks her out to diner one night, and suddenly asks her to marry him.

About the director

Raphael Nadjari studied Fine Arts at university. After a stint for Arte in Strasbourg, he went to Paris and worked with a graphic designer on TV program presentations (La Marche du Siècle, Etat d'Urgence). He then quit his job in 1997 and settled in New York. There, he wrote the script of The Shade which became his first film as a director. His tastes for cinema are very eclectic: French popular comedies, B movies... He has a strong penchant for Samuel Fuller, Michael Mann, John Cassavetes, François Truffaut, and actors like James Coburn, Charles Bronson and Jean-Pierre Léaud.
He completed in december 99 his second film Burnt, shot in super 8 on a shoestring budget. The story of a man who investigates the death of his brother. Richard Edson leads the cast once again.