Guillaume, 29, is also the star of Leos Carax's grand, dreamlike adaptation of Herman Melville's 1852 novel "Pierre, or the Ambiguities."

When Mary Zimmerman's dreamlike adaptation of Ovid's tales opened in the fall, it was less than a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the show's ritualistic portrayal of love, death and transformation somehow seemed to flow directly from the collective unconscious of a stunned city.

Tracy was 58 but he seems convincingly elderly and frail in John Sturges's dreamlike adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's fish-versus-fisherman novel about determination, expectations and strength.