00:00Every cliché about this city is true.
00:13As different as I pretend to be, I'm just like all the other hopeless romantics and
00:18poets that escape to Paris for love, lust, and cheese.
00:22Ossie Davis once said, if I had to choose between heaven and Paris, Paris would win every
00:32time.
00:34I don't know why, but for me, Paris seems like the best place to outrun a broken heart.
00:47There is something about Paris, the way it makes you feel, the way it makes you behave.
00:52I guess it kind of gets under your skin.
00:55Michelle, what are you doing?
00:59What makes you think it's okay to drink in here?
01:02Who made up the rule that you can't drink while you're telling all of your business to a fucking
01:06shrink?
01:07Look, if you need me to be clear, trust me.
01:10This makes me clear.
01:15So why did you decide to have an affair?
01:20Because I was going crazy.
01:22First, I could keep up with all of the gallery parties, but then I just got so sick of all
01:29of the phony art heads and the pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
01:35I stopped going.
01:37But he had to keep going because it was work.
01:41Then everything changed.
01:42He started acting like that character Flann from Six Degrees of Separation.
01:49Selling the art like pieces of meat.
01:51Hmm.
01:53Painter losing a painting.
01:55Yep.
01:58He even stopped painting.
02:00He forgot why he even got in the art business in the first place.
02:03And then, he sold her the Basquiat and she fucked him.
02:10So I figured an eye for an eye.
02:15Isn't that in your Bible?
02:16I'm a plush, Talia, I see you play.
02:28I'm a plush, Talia, I see you play.
02:32I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.
02:49Another beautiful American woman in Paris who brings you to the city.
02:56I'm here because Paris loves me.
02:59And because they pronounce Michelle better than anywhere else in the world.
03:05And to have an affair.
03:08How does your husband feel about that?
03:11I didn't ask him.
03:13Does he know you're here?
03:16I don't care.
03:17You plan to go back to him?
03:19No.
03:21Well then technically, you won't be having an affair.
03:25You do realize that, don't you?
03:28You ask a lot of fucking questions.
03:49Who's the biggest sinner?
03:56The one who cheats?
03:58Or the one who pushes the other to cheat?
04:00Let's see.
04:13Let's see.
04:18Come.
04:20Dance with me.
04:21What?
04:22That wasn't a question.
04:23And I'll be right.
04:24I'll be right.
04:41Hold on, hold on, hold on.
05:05Take your time.
05:07I want to see you dance for me first.
05:10You heard me.
05:14I want to see you dance for me.
05:17Let me get a drink first.
05:40So did you like him telling you what to do?
05:55I want to be dominated.
05:59I want his will, his pleasure, his sexuality.
06:06I want his command.
06:08And don't get me wrong, I don't mind holding my own intellectually and artistically.
06:14But as a woman, oh my God.
06:18As a woman, I want to be dominated.
06:21Well the man that offers this sort of command, did you ever feel as though you were in danger?
06:28Well the argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
06:35Right?
06:37Come in.
06:38You're late.
06:39Late?
06:40I'm right on time.
06:41You're forgiven.
06:42I got this for you.
06:43Oh, it's beautiful.
06:44Yeah.
06:45I want you to wear it tonight.
06:46I'm already dressed and you're late.
06:47I'll wear it next time.
06:48You smell delicious.
06:50Can I wear this dress tonight?
06:51What?
06:52It's ripped.
06:53No.
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07:46That's the nicest thing anybody's said to me all day.
08:01You know, I must say, I'm a little bit surprised you agreed to have an affair with me.
08:08That's your cue to ask why I'm surprised.
08:12Oh, I'm sorry.
08:14Why are you surprised I agreed to have an affair with you?
08:18Because most of the women, they come from the United States to have a z-sex with Olivier Martinez or someone like this.
08:26How do you know I didn't have z-sex with him right before I met you at the bar?
08:33Let's go sightseeing.
08:35In Paris? Who would do such a thing?
08:38I want to see the Eiffel Tower. Come on.
08:40They have that here?
08:44Oh, how many steps to the top of the Sacré-Cœur?
08:56Oh, man. Thousands.
09:00You know, Sacré-Cœur means sacred heart.
09:03Why are you wearing your wedding ring?
09:06Because I love my wife.
09:08Does she know that?
09:10She used to.
09:16This is starting to sound like far more than just sex.
09:20Did you feel as though you were being reckless?
09:22I spent my entire life pleasing everybody else.
09:26For once, I wanted to be irresponsible.
09:30I wanted to be scared but go for it anyway.
09:34And all of the reckless people in my life seemed to be the happiest.
09:40And wasn't it you that told me to live more in the moment?
09:46I might have.
09:48Monsieur Alexander, tell me a secret.
09:54A secret?
09:55Mm-hmm.
09:56Something nobody knows.
09:58Okay.
10:02I got it.
10:04When I was a kid.
10:08Mm-hmm.
10:10I wanted to be a magician.
10:12A magician?
10:14Yeah.
10:16A magician.
10:18And then I realized that magic isn't really real.
10:28Some magic is real.
10:31How did you do that?
10:33Are you starting to fool for this guy?
10:48Yeah.
10:53Let me tell you something.
10:57Look at me.
11:00Why won't you look at me?
11:04I can't.
11:05I can't do this.
11:06You can't what?
11:07I just can't do this.
11:10I gotta go.
11:13I can't be here.
11:14Nichelle.
11:15Nichelle.
11:18Nichelle.
11:27They say kissing is one of the most intimate things in the world, but they're wrong.
11:31You can kiss a stranger in a dark bar and feel nothing, but staring deep into someone's eyes straight through to their soul?
11:39That's beyond intimate.
11:41Being loved by somebody is supposed to make you strong.
11:44Falling in love with him was making me weak.
11:48I tried hating him, but hate is actually more work than love.
11:52Sex is easy.
11:54Love is hard.
11:55It was hard.
11:56It was hard.
12:14Nichelle!
12:16Tell me a secret.
12:17I love my husband.
12:18Does he know that?
12:19He used to.
12:24Will you go back to him?
12:25Michelle.
12:26Why didn't you tell me it was him?
12:27I'm telling you now.
12:28I'm telling you now.
12:29Yes.
12:30I'm telling you now.
12:31Yes.
12:32I'm telling you now.
12:33Yes.
12:35In The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessert wrote, there is never a time for you.
12:37I love my husband.
12:38I love my husband.
12:39Does he know that?
12:40He used to.
12:41Will you go back to him?
12:43I love my husband.
12:44I love my husband.
12:45I love my husband.
12:46What do you know?
12:47Would you go back to him?
12:49Michelle, why didn't you tell me it was him?
12:52I'm telling you now.
12:54Yes.
13:00In The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessert wrote, there is never a time or place for true
13:05love.
13:06It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single, flashing, throbbing moment.
13:11What's my truth?
13:13I think marriage is like a snowflake.
13:16Each one is different.
13:18And love?
13:19Love is hard and complex and full of complications.
13:24Love is what makes us all so incredibly human.
13:27It's so worth the fight.
13:36It's so worth the fight.
14:06It's so worth the fight.
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