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An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual friendship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. As their morbid road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.
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00:03Il passaggio di alvore
00:04Once upon a time, there was a girl.
00:06And while she had a passion for the shining stars of bygone times,
00:10she was also drawn to the gutter.
00:12What does Elvis Presley taste like?
00:15Stalin, when he was young. I want to have his babies.
00:18I don't talk about my family.
00:19Your staff is still in a spare room. I need you to clear it out.
00:23BOOT!
00:24Once, there was a boy who came to Paris with a camera around his neck.
00:28He'd read all about the poets and revolutions
00:32The world's worst crimes are committed at a desk
00:35Must be fucking someone, right?
00:39I'll be Eva Brown
00:40This is Clarth from the actual bricks of the wall where they were shot
00:43She would climb into history and immerse herself in the horrors of humanity
00:47Would you prefer to shoot someone or be shot?
00:50I just don't feel like I connected with anyone back home, you know?
00:53What about here?
00:54We're going to go adventuring
00:55Volkswagen
01:03He wanted to see that world with his own eyes
01:07To photograph it, touch it
01:09But he hadn't understood
01:10You can't touch something if you're hiding behind a lens
01:15Don't put me on a pedestal, okay?
01:18In any case, I don't think touching things is enough
01:24Come on!
01:26The water is getting cold
01:27Grazie a tutti.
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