In other story threads, a disillusioned college professor (Fabrice Luchini) falls in love with one of his students (Melanie Laurent of "Inglourious Basterds"), and a love triangle develops among operators of a fish stall at a farmers market. "I wanted to work with French actors I did not know ... Like Romain Duris. I had never met him. Most of the actors in this film I had not worked with." She also wanted to work with Klapisch, whom she first met when he was an electrician on the set of Leos Carax's "The Lovers on the Bridge" (1991).
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