Directing
A writer suffering from writer's block goes to Paris to write a screenplay. While unsuccessfully trying to complete the screenplay, he is visited by a lady that believes she has escaped from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
Besieged Sarajevo, 1993, Haska (28) finds a love letter in her husband’s pockets after his death on the frontline. She tries to understand what has happened and eventually decides to leave Sarajevo with her son Denis (9).
Moved by his love for his girlfriend Senka, Senad leaves his job at the hospital and comes to the besieged city. Avoiding the armed groups roaming the city, he finally finds Senka at her brother Zan's home. Zan happens to be Senad's best friend and is working in the theater as a clown in the production, "Flying Tours of Duty." His girlfriend Senka is working in a hospital but has no time for love. Dejected Senad returns to his flat, only to find it has been demolished by the war. Zan invites Senad to live together with him, his wife and Senka. The rest of the film recounts the tragic events that befall the group and how they face up to them.
Sarajevo, 1995. Senka, a young actress, misses her boyfriend, Camac, a soldier in the Bosnian army who is often away fighting. Despite everything, she continues to go with her brother-in-law to the theater to perform in a play.
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which itself is also a movie within a movie.
Chez Léon, Coiffure is a film about the presidential election of 2006-2007 through the lives of seven customers of a hairdressing salon in central Paris.
