My idea of Paris is visualized in this movie. In fact this movie visualized alot of things I read reagarding Paris, not at night, but Paris of the daytime.
The movie itself is a different experience because of the story, it's is a sequel of another movie made 9 years earlier, about 2 main charcters in collage meet for one night in Vienna, and after 9 years they meet by a hopeful accident in Paris, and spend the day walking and talking around this beautiful city. The dialouge and acting is something that made me believe for a moment that they were talking about their real selves.
It is the kind of a simple yet complex little movie with a great feelings behind it. I recomend it for anyone in their early 30s .
Journalist #1: Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?
Jesse: Uh, well, I mean... isn't everything autobiographical?
Jesse: [about his marriage] I feel like I'm running a small nursery with someone I used to date.
Jesse: I'm designed to feel slightly dissatisfied!
Jesse: Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.
Jesse: Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.
Jesse: You want to know why I wrote that stupid book?
Celine: Why?
Jesse: So that you might come to a reading in Paris and I could walk up to you and ask, "Where the fuck were you?"
Celine: [laughing] No - you thought I'd be here today?
Jesse: I'm serious. I think I wrote it, in a way, to try to find you.
Celine: Okay, that's - I know that's not true, but that's sweet of you to say.
Jesse: I think it is true.
Jesse: What do you think were the chances of us ever meeting again?
Celine: After that December, I'd say almost zero. But we're not real anyway, right? We're just, uh, characters in that old lady's dream. She's on her deathbed, fantasizing about her youth. So of course we had to meet again.
Jesse: Oh, God, why weren't you there, in Vienna?
Celine: I told you why.
Jesse: Well, I know why, I just - I wish you would have been. Our lives might have been so much different.
Celine: You think so?
Jesse: I actually do.
Celine: Maybe not. Maybe, we would have hated each other eventually.
Jesse: Oh what, like we hate each other now?
Celine: You know, maybe we're - we're only good at brief encounters, walking around in European cities in warm climate.
Jesse: Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we do that?
Celine: Because we were young and stupid.
Jesse: Do you think we still are?
Celine: I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.
Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.
Celine: So what's it like to be married? You haven't talked much about that.
Jesse: I haven't? How weird.
Celine: I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.
Celine: I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32
Celine: You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.
Celine: The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?
Celine: Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
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