After 40 years of marriage, you'd think Fiona and Grant had faced everything life was going to throw at them. But Fiona has started forgetting things - wandering away, losing her language skills and misplacing objects. After a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, the couple decide to check Fiona into a nursing home.But Grant's estrangement from his wife is only just beginning - as he realises Fiona has forgotten him and begins to dote on another patient...If you've ever had a relative with Alzheimers you'll know this territory well - the moment when you realise that the person you knew is slipping away while their life goes on. In some ways, this is an odd film for a 28 year-old director to choose as her first film - but Polley has produced a mature, heartbreakingly honest work about impossible love in the face of an inevitable loss.

Louis Ruinard (Rochefort) and Alice d'Alanville (Rampling) were the 'it' couple back in the seventies - flamboyant and glamorous. He was a famous director and she was his favourite actress, his muse. Their movies together met with huge success and their love affair captured a nation. Then came the public break-up, which dominated the tabloids. The love affair came to an abrupt end, without Louis understanding why. Alice returned to England, where she remarried and had a son.These days, Alice has established herself as a well-respected British stage star. Louis is a fading French cult film director. When he travels to London to make a film, the organisers of BAFTA decide to honour him with a Lifetime Achievement Award and they ask Alice to present the award. At first she wants nothing to do with him as her life has moved on. He is captivated by her all over again. What do you do with the great love of your life thirty years later when you no longer have anything in common? Can romance be rekindled?D((eacute))saccord parfait is a light romantic comedy about two proud and talented people who passed each other by. Neither of them ever completely got over it.