La femme en bleu

Second viewing in 40 years. Deville is very distinct in his directorial style--visuals, music and philosophy are used to talk about death (Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" vs Bartok), blue vs red, of children being born into the world crying and Proust's death in peace after hallucinating with fear about a fat woman near his bed. It is indeed a love story--what is life without love? Very interesting original writing by the director. For those who are students of cinema, the phone ringing sequence of the Michel Piccoli character of Pierre's attempted dream suicide is gnawingly similar to the phone ringing in the imagination of the Robert De Niro character in Sergio Leone's "Once upon a time in America" in the opium den. a film made 11 years after Deville's film was made. Was Leone influenced by Deville?