Elle a Passe Tant d'Heures Sous les Sunlights , Philippe Garrel (1984)

Too many hours under the sun, artificial or not, might have warped this experimental work by Philippe Garrel. A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child. Soon director Garrel himself is in front of the camera, as the story turns into a film within a film, and other directors are brought in to salvage it: Chantal Ackerman and Jacques Doillon.