Reportedly Schroeter’s own favorite among his own films, Flocons d’or is the apotheosis of his earliest, most experimental phase. It occupies a place at the heart of Schroeter’s oeuvre as the sprawling work that contains all the elements that appear separately in the individual films.  He weaves together four stories about erotic obsession into an avant-garde epic, adding Bulle Ogier – to whom the film is dedicated – to his growing ensemble of actors. Each story utilizes a different visual and narrative style: nostalgic period piece, poetic realism, Deren-esque “trance film” and lower-depths melodrama. Framed by opening and closing sections that quote from Bizet’s Carmen, the stories suggest that all erotic obsession leads to death. Thus the film illustrates the darkening of Schroeter’s work in the 1970s. Eros and Thanatos are inseparably linked in his films, but here Thanatos begins to gain the upper hand.