People who've thrown away precious chunks of their lives on more recent films like, oh, Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche New York" or Nicolas Winding Refn's "The Neon Demon," are probably still ruing the time they wasted on those sorts of pictures.
At first, he does tend to her calls—sharing a conversation in one beautifully composed shot of many, while bathed in a soft red light that straddles only a portion of the frame’s center (courtesy of New Order, Holy Motors and Zombi Child DP Yves Cape).