FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: acknowledgment and connectednessChapter 1: Remarriage in Hollywood and EuropeChapter 2: The falsity of social worlds: The Rules of the GameChapter 3: Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night: acknowledgment and deceptionChapter 4: Ingmar Bergman: comedies and tragediesChapter 5: Alain Resnais and the communication of loveChapter 6: Michelangelo Antonioni: learning how to loveChapter 7: Agnès Varda: the construction and destruction of the coupleChapter 8: François Truffaut and the impossible coupleChapter 9: Federico Fellini: love and forgivenessChapter 10: Jean-Luc Godard: in praise of twoChapter 11: Éric Rohmer: the ordinary miracle of loveReferencesIndex