The 2003 French film "The Story of Marie and Julien" (original French title "Histoire de Marie et Julien") is about Julien, a middle-age Paris clockmaker, who meets and falls in love with Marie, a young woman of mystery. The story has some supernatural elements involving life after death. Early in the film Julien is at an outdoor cafe where he plays with some of the (then) new Euro coins which were introduced on January 1, 2002.

Julien is sitting alone in a bar.

He is remembering a young woman he met some time ago named Marie.
He mets her again.

They discover that both are finished with previous relationships and agree to see each other. Julien knows a woman known as "Madame X" to whom he sells something.

Madame X gives Julien some money. Julien lives in a large house with his large tuxedo cat. He also makes and repairs his clocks there.

One day Julien is seated at an outdoor cafe.

He is waiting for someone and while there plays with his change.

The coins are a bimetallic one euro coin and some smaller copper-aluminum euro cent coins.
The euro coins were introduced all over Europe on January 1, 2002.

Julien asks Marie to move in with him.

They get along but sometimes Marie acts strange and becomes physically cold.

Julien and Marie have some supernatural adventures involving Madame X's deceased sister and a belief that the sister and Marie both died and came back. Julien attempts suicide but is stopped by Marie.

He sees Marie sitting across from him and tells her "you're not my type."
Marie makes a reply:

Jerzy Radziwilowicz as Julien Muller
Emmanuelle Beart as Marie Delambre
Anne Brochet as Madame X
Director: Jacques Rivette
Writers: Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Jacques Rivette