Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000 (#01)
While some actors like Fabrice Desplechin and László Szabó provide their own voices for the French dub of the film, the dub features some notable French actors such as Marina Hands voicing Esther, Philippe Laudenbach and Denis Podalydès.
Writer/Director Arnaud Desplechin was planning the film at the same time as he was working on his prior work, Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996), with Emmanuelle Devos' character Esther in that film, being named and modeled after the one here.