Has anyone seen this movie?

Many years later, I came across this title and now I'm going to search it out on Netflix.
I was looking for a good synopsis or review first.

I own it on DVD and wouldn't claim to fully understand this movie, but most reviews I've found were missing something about it. Please excuse the spoiler tags for such an old movie, it still might be fun for first-time viewers to figure out its self-references.

It's basically about the pursuit of happiness from two perspectives. One of them is by a suicidal black poodle, supposed to oppose creation. Instead, he falls in love with its beauty, Maria Callas and Cora.
Or it's a Maria Callas biography, mixed with Christian existentialism and the crisis of a sexually frustrated middle-aged woman.
In a third plot line, hidden in plain sight (and outlined by Stanislas himself), a new incarnation forms during the movie. A chain of events, already set in motion by the white poodle before he was stuck in the freezer (trapped at the skydiving non-incident), renders his last plan useless by granting him his wish.
Could have been much easier for him, however, it's in his nature. He is the scorpion in his fairy tale, he has to sting.
Grim ending? No, black poodle always lags a step behind and still is subject to mercy.

You'll get to learn a lot about Maria Callas.
Sorry, I mean THE Callas.

The pacing is horrible and it manages to be boring at times, while still being crammed with unexplored details. At some points, it misses general direction and leaves the viewer alone with a handful of clues. Some parts purely exist as a celebration of Dadaism.

Critics didn't know where to put this movie, neither do I. Everything "poodle" about it is pretty charming. God and the devil, fighting it out in the fields of chaos theory because mass destruction has become a human domain is a funny premise. Taking Maria Callas into the mix is the kind of bold decisions I like in movies. Til Schweiger's acting is as stoic as the role needs him to be, but there's not much tension between him and Cora.