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.
04:23What?
04:47What?
04:47Hold on, hold on, hold on, take your time, I want to see you dance for me first, you
05:10heard me, I want to see you dance for me.
05:17I want to see you dance for me, I want to see you dance for me, I want to see you dance
05:47for me, I want to see you dance for me, I want to see you dance for me.
05:52So, did you like him telling you what to do?
05:55I want to be dominated.
05:58I want his will, his pleasure, his sexuality.
06:05I want his command.
06:07And don't get me wrong, I don't mind holding my own intellectually and artistically.
06:13But as a woman, oh my god, as a woman, I want to be dominated.
06:20Well 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, right?
06:35Come in.
06:36You're late.
06:37Late?
06:38I'm right on time.
06:39You're forgiven.
06:40I got this for you.
06:41Oh, it's beautiful.
06:42Yeah.
06:43I want you to wear it tonight.
06:44I'm already dressed and late.
06:45I'll wear it next time.
06:46Yeah.
06:47You smell delicious.
06:49Can I wear this dress tonight?
06:50What?
06:51It's ripped.
06:55Oh, it's gone.
06:56Oh, I got this for you.
06:57Oh, that's beautiful.
06:58Yeah.
06:59I want you to wear it tonight.
07:00I'm already dressed and late.
07:02I'll wear it next time.
07:03You smell delicious.
07:07Can I wear this dress tonight?
07:08What?
07:09It's ripped.
07:11Oh, no.
07:13Oh.
07:14Oh, no.
07:15No!
07:16No!
07:17No!
07:18No!
07:19No!
07:20No!
07:21No!
07:22No!
07:23No!
07:24No!
07:25No!
07:26No!
07:27No!
07:28No!
07:29No!
07:30No!
07:31No!
07:32When Anaïs Nen told her cousin about the affair she was having with the famed writer Henry
07:37Miller, her cousin warned her, be careful Anaïs, abnormal pleasures kill the taste of
07:44one who wants.
07:53Bonjour mademoiselle.
07:55Bonjour.
07:56For vous Irish coffee.
07:58That's the nicest thing anybody said to me all day.
08:04You know I must say, I'm a little bit surprised you agreed to have an affair with me.
08:10That's your cue to ask why I'm surprised.
08:13I'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
08:23Martinez or someone like this.
08:25How do you know I didn't have z-sex with him right before I met you at the bar?
08:32Let's go sightseeing.
08:34In Paris?
08:35Who would do such a thing?
08:36I want to see the Eiffel Tower.
08:37Come on.
08:38They have that here?
08:39How many steps to the top of the Sacré-Cœur?
08:40Oh man.
08:41Thousands.
08:42You know Sacré-Cœur means sacred heart.
08:46Why are you wearing your wedding ring?
08:47Because I love my wife.
08:48Does she know that?
08:49She used to.
08:51So this is starting to sound like far more than just sex.
08:53Did you feel as though you were being reckless?
08:54How many steps to the top of the Sacré-Cœur?
08:55Oh man.
08:56Thousands.
08:57You know Sacré-Cœur means sacred heart.
08:58Why are you wearing your wedding ring?
08:59Because I love my wife.
09:00Does she know that?
09:01She used to.
09:02This is starting to sound like far more than just sex.
09:06Did you feel as though you were being reckless?
09:07Does she know that?
09:09She used to.
09:15This is starting to sound like far more than just sex.
09:19Did 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 seem to be the happiest.
09:41And wasn't it you that told me to live more in the moment?
09:46I'm honored.
09:49Monsieur Alexander, tell me a secret.
09:54A secret?
09:55Mm-hmm.
09:57Something nobody knows.
09:59Okay.
10:02I got it.
10:05When I was a kid...
10:08Mm-hmm.
10:10I wanted to be a magician.
10:12A magician?
10:14Yeah.
10:15A magician.
10:17And then I realized that magic isn't really real.
10:24Some magic is real.
10:27How did you do that?
10:30Are you starting to fool for this guy?
10:34Let me tell you something.
10:35Mm-hmm.
10:36Look at me.
10:37Mm-hmm.
10:38Why won't you look at me?
10:39I can't.
10:40I can't.
10:41I can't do this.
10:42You can't what?
10:43I just can't do this.
10:44I gotta go.
10:45I can't.
10:46I can't.
10:47I can't do this.
10:48You can't what?
10:49I just can't do this.
10:50I gotta go.
10:51I can't be here.
10:52Michelle.
10:53Michelle!
10:54Look at me.
10:56Why won't you look at me?
11:02I can't. I can't do this.
11:04You can't what?
11:06I just can't do this.
11:08I gotta go.
11:10I can't be here.
11:12Nichelle.
11:16Nichelle!
11:24They say kissing is one of the most intimate things in the world, but they're wrong.
11:30You can kiss a stranger in a dark bar and feel nothing, but...
11:34Staring deep into someone's eyes straight through to their soul?
11:38That's beyond intimate.
11:40Being loved by somebody is supposed to make you strong.
11:44Falling in love with him was making me weak.
11:46I tried hating him, but hate is actually more work than love.
11:50Sex is easy.
11:52Love is hard.
12:14Nichelle!
12:22Tell me a secret.
12:26I love my husband.
12:28Does he know that?
12:30He used to.
12:32Will you go back to him?
12:34Michelle...
12:36Why didn't you tell me it was him?
12:38I'm telling you.
12:40I'm telling you.
12:42I'm telling you.
12:44I'm telling you.
12:46I'm telling you.
12:48I'm telling you.
12:50I'm telling you now.
12:52Yes.
12:54In The Truth About Forever, Sarah Destin wrote,
12:56There is never a time or place for true love.
12:58It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing throbbing moment.
13:02What's my truth?
13:04I think marriage is like a snowflake.
13:06Each one is different.
13:08And love?
13:10Love is hard and complex and full of complications.
13:12Love is what makes us all so incredibly human.
13:14It's so worth the fight.
13:16It's so worth the fight.
13:28Love is hard for us.
13:30Bye.
13:31See you soon.
13:32Bye bye.
13:34Bye bye.
13:35Bye bye.
13:36Bye bye.
13:38Bye bye.
13:40Bye bye.
13:42Bye bye.
13:54Bye bye.
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