Bitter Moon Page #3

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It's the best place

for a dancer.

- Not for a writer?

- No, not this one.

- I love Paris too much.

- Is that what you write about?

Paris?

Paris and people.

Would you let me

read something of yours?

Would you dance for me

sometime?

If you like.

- Promise?

- Promise.

( laughing )

No.

( birds chirping )

I looked all over

for you, you know?

Did you ever think

you'd see me again?

Yes.

Really?

Really.

Really?

Yeah.

You kept it?

My feet are cold.

( exhaling )

Oh, you have a fireplace.

- Does it work?

- It sure does.

Why don't you

relax for a second?

I'll make coffee.

Would you like a hot chocolate?

Oh, yes, please,

chocolate.

- Could we make a fire?

- Why not?

You make the fire,

I'll make the coffee.

And the chocolate.

( whirring )

( beeps )

( doves cooing )

Mmm.

Oscar:

Nothing ever surpassed

the rapture

of that first awakening.

I might have been Adam

with the taste of apple

fresh in my mouth.

I was looking

at all the beauty in the world

embodied

in a single female form,

and I knew

with sudden blinding certainty

this was it.

We didn't leave the apartment

for three whole days

after that.

We were inseparable by day

and insatiable by night.

We just lived on love

and stale croissants.

She chucked her job.

I couldn't bear

to part with her.

"I'd been granted

a glimpse of heaven

and dumped on the sidewalk

of rue d'Assas.

The gates of paradise

had opened

only to slam in my face."

But they opened again, no?

They sure did, baby.

Pretty wide at that.

Go on, don't stop.

Well, that's all there is.

What a pity.

I could listen to you forever.

( snapping )

( carnival music playing )

Bravo!

( speaks French )

Oh!

( man speaks French )

( both laughing )

I love you.

What?

You heard me!

You love me?

( camera snapping )

( slow music playing )

♪ Well, I guess

it would be nice ♪

♪ If I could

touch your body ♪

♪ I know not everybody

♪ Has got a body like you

♪ But I've got

to think twice ♪

♪ Before I give

my heart away ♪

♪ And I know

all the games you play ♪

♪ Because I play them too

♪ Oh, but I

♪ Need some time off

♪ From that emotion

♪ Time to pick my heart

up off the floor ♪

♪ Oh, and when that love

comes down ♪

♪ Without devotion

♪ Well, it takes

a strong man, baby ♪

♪ But I'm showing you

the door ♪

♪ 'Cause I gotta have faith

♪ I gotta have faith

♪ Because I gotta have

faith, faith, faith ♪

♪ I got to have faith,

faith, faith ♪

♪ Baby

♪ I know you're

asking me to stay ♪

♪ Say please, please, please,

don't go away ♪

♪ You say I'm giving you

the blues ♪

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