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[email protected] 2 “All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. […] What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself – a troupe of players that I have internalized, a permanent company of actors […] that forms my repertoire. But I certainly have no self independent of my imposturing, artistic efforts to have one. Nor would I want one. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.” Philip Roth, The Counterlife, 1986 4 5 SYNOPSIS London — 1987. Philip is a famous American writer living in exile in London. His mistress comes regularly to see him in his office, a refuge for the two lovers. They make love here, they argue, they reconcile and talk for hours — about the women who mark out his life, about sex, antisemitism, literature, and remaining true to oneself… 6 7 Interview with ARNAUD DESPLECHIN Your film is set in the 1980s, in England, and shot in French.