Reply #152: It literally ruined him, but it was genious.

[Call Me Wesley]

I think in the search of perfection, he was quite worse than Chaplin. And he shot this one in 70mm and used a stereophonic sound, which most movie theaters couldn't show, so just a very few saw it. But he always played with the best technical formats available and refused to downsize it.

He built the whole set of this film and was hoping to sell it afterwards as apartments and offices but failed and it was demolished. Ironically, the place it once stood on on the suburb of Paris is now 'La Défense', a settlement of cold apartments and stores like he portrayed in his movie - merely a ghetto.