In The French Style Page #2

Synopsis: A young American girl studying art in Paris can't decide if she wants to stay or go back home. She meets a young French boy and they fall in love, but her wealthy father arrives in Paris to take her back to the U.S.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Year:
1963
105 min
165 Views


My advisers tell me that it

is on the point of collapse

and that I should tear it down and erect

a large ugly apartment house in its place.

That'd be too bad.

After seeing it tonight,

I'm inclined to agree with you.

Miss James,

I hope you won't think

that a simple landlord

is being presumptuous in telling you

that he likes your paintings very much.

Not at all.

In a small way, I am

something of a collector.

I have a friend who runs a gallery

and sometimes advises me.

Monsieur Patrini, of the Maeght Gallery.

I know the gallery.

Would it be too much to ask if I could take

two or three of your canvasses to show him?

I guess not.

Thank you.

Don't move, Guy.

Forgive me for having taken up

so much of your precious time.

Goodnight, Mademoiselle.

I can't stand people like that.

Fancy! Fancy!

He took your three worst paintings.

I think he took the three best ones.

CHRISTINA:
Renoir.

Matisse.

Picasso.

James.

You haven't said a word for 15 minutes.

Is anything the matter?

I have decided.

The time is ripe.

We have reached the inevitable moment.

What are you talking about?

I speak in an adult manner.

Tonight we become lovers.

I have borrowed the key of the

apartment of a friend of mine.

He has gone to visit his

family in Tours for the night.

It is just around the corner.

Please, don't say any more.

Why? Have I shocked you?

No.

But you must have known that

finally, one day, we would...

Well, yes.

But I don't know, it's so abrupt.

Abrupt?

But I have seen you nearly every

day for three months now.

What are you accustomed to?

I'm not accustomed to anything.

You know that.

Please, let's not talk about it anymore.

Not tonight.

But I have the apartment for tonight.

My friend may not go to

Tours for another year.

Don't look like that.

Maybe some other time.

I warn you,

next time it will have to be you

who will make the advances.

I will make the advances.

(NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE)

Guy. Finally!

I'm freezing to death out here.

Come on, let's go someplace warm.

Guy, I've got some good news for you.

The Baron bought two of my paintings.

Did he? Congratulations.

That's a pretty icy congratulation.

Is it? Mademoiselle, je vous flicite.

Do you prefer that?

No, I don't.

Look, Guy, I have to tell you something.

I can't go to the theater with you tonight.

What do you mean?

You've been saying you wanted

to see this play for a month.

I have the tickets. They cost 3200 Francs.

I know. I'm sorry, I just can't go.

Why not?

Well, the Baron left word with Mr.

Patrini in there.

He wants to talk to me about my paintings.

What's that got to do with our

going to the theater tonight?

He wants to talk to me at dinner.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two siblings after World War II. In 1976, a popular miniseries was made into a highly popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely. more…

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