L'appartement is a fanciful and romantic tale of love and obsession. A blend of Gallic romanticism and Hitchcockian style, this film is a delicious pastiche of five people’s passions and lives. The story circles around Max, on the verge of getting married, who suddenly overhears the voice of Lisa, his long-lost love, arguing emotionally on the phone outside the men’s room. He manages to track down her apartment, but in it he discovers another woman, who claims to be the Lisa he has overheard. She seduces him and manages to become the focus of his attention. However, the story line is only beginning to twist...

Switching between time, women, chic cafés and beautiful Parisian apartments, Mimouni’s film makes the most of its deliriously romantic setting whilst effortlessly unravelling an intricate and unpredictable plot which carefully ties its lovelorn characters up in knots as it races along to a heady conclusion.