This movie was Playwright and Screenwriter Israel Horovitz's directorial debut, at the age of seventy-four.
Although Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) claims in the movie he doesn't speak French, in reality Kline is fluent in the language.
Jane Birkin was originally cast as Chloé Girard, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. She was replaced by Dame Kristin Scott Thomas.
First appeared as a play by Israel Horovitz, it which premiered in 1996 at the Gloucester Stage Co., founded by Horovitz in East Gloucester, Massachusetts.