In the scene where Zamir runs down a street at night to the music of David Bowie's "Modern Love" is a parody of a scene in Leos Carax's Bad Blood.
La Samaritaine featured in the 1991 film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf and part of the 2012 film Holy Motors is set in an around the shell of the building; both directed by Leos Carax.
That film, released in 1999, was an adaptation of Herman Melville's tale of incest, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities.
The book was the source for the French film, Pola X (Pierre ou les ambiguïtés, 1999), directed by Leos Carax.
Golubeva also has an adult son by her first husband, who lives in Russia, and a 6-year-old daughter she was raising with Leos Carax in Paris.