 The music is composed by Adrian Utley of the British group Portishead.Hailed by "Cahiers du Cinema" as one of the ten best films of the year, it premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in 2000 and was released in France the same year by MK2 and in the United States by Strand Releasing in 2001.In Athens, an expatriate American businessman struggles to find coherence in his radical "pursuit of happiness".