Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2007 (#07, tied with "Honor de cavalleria" and "Avant que j'oublie")
Dedicated in opening credits as follows: "à Pierre Zucca (1943-1995). In memoriam."
Pierre Zucca was a still photographer on the sets of films directed by Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut. He originally developed the project, working from a fragment of the novel, intending to create more fantastical and supernatural elements that Rohmer eventually eschewed, such as a literal fountain of love that allowed Astra to see visions of Celadon. He struggled for years locating funding for the project, but it remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1995. Rohmer first picked up the adaptation in 1999, though it wouldn't come to completion until 2007.