Thirst Street

Synopsis: Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director(s): Nathan Silver

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Lola Bessis, Damien Bonnard, Esther Garrel

Production: Samuel Goldwyn Films

2 wins & 2 nominations.


IMDB:: 5.8
Metacritic:: 71
Rotten Tomatoes:: 75%

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: UNRATED
Year:: 2017
: 83 min
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[people chattering]
[plane engines roaring]
-[Narrator] Most passengers
barely noticed Gina
on her flights.
They didn't look up when she
gave the safety demonstration,
avoided eye contact when
she took their drink orders,
and ignored her
polite request to put
their tray tables in their
full and upright positions.
- Bye-bye, have a nice day.
Thank you.
-[Narrator] Leaving the plane,
they walked right by her,
moving on to their
next destination
without giving her
a second thought.
- Bye, thanks.
-[Narrator] But
Paul was different.
She met Paul on a
flight to Boston,
where he was traveling to
an academic conference.
He liked her warmth,
her sad smile.
On trips, she
missed him terribly.
She sent him notes from
every new place she visited,
and brought back gifts to
furnish the home they shared.
Gina thought it was
a grand romance,
the kind she always
dreamed about,
like something out
of an old musical.
But Paul was in another world.
Left alone in their empty home,
surrounded by memories of Gina,
he became increasingly
despondent and obsessed.
"Dear Gina," he wrote her,
"I know you don't
love me anymore.
"Maybe you never did.
"The gifts, the postcards,
they can't hide the truth.
"You're only traveling
to escape me.
"I don't blame you.
"I wish I could escape myself.
"Maybe now I finally can.
"Goodbye.
"Paul."
- Paul?
Paul?
I'm sorry I'm late.
Paul?
[screams]
[haunting music]
[sobs]
[mournful music]
-[Narrator] Gina returned to
her job almost immediately.
She didn't know where else
to go or what else to do.
Her coworkers,
Lorraine and Faye,
had become her only friends.
Gina would never say to them
that Paul had killed himself,
only that he'd passed on.
They tried to act as if
everything was normal,
but secretly feared
for her sanity.
[plane engines roaring]
[cars rumbling by]
-[Lorraine] All
right, see you later.
-[Gina] See you at 7:00.
-[Lorraine] Okay.
[door creaks]
- Paul?
Paul?
- Gina, you left the door open.
Why aren't you changed?
Come on, we're ready to go.
[laughs]
come on, let's go.
-[Narrator] On their layover,
they forced Gina out for
an evening on the town.
"A special surprise," they said.
What Gina didn't know
is that her friends
bribed the fortune teller
just moments before,
requesting she give
Gina a good reading.
-[Fortune Teller] So, I see
a new man in your future.
Have a card.
- Oh, that looks very bad.
- That's the devil.
You do what you want with it.
It's just dangerous,
but you can use it,
turn it as you want.
Another one, here.
The sun.
- Is this good?
- Yeah, the best
card in the world.
So, this one is love.
And this one is a start.
It's gonna be a new love.
Give me your hand.
The man has
something in his eye.
Something in his eye...
- What does that mean?
[people chattering]
-[Narrator] Though she
didn't like to talk about it,
or anything personal anymore,
Gina had been reading
her horoscope religiously every
morning since Paul's death,
and wanted to believe in fate,
that everything really
was meant to be.
Lorraine's guidebook
recommended the Green Inn,
an upscale venue for
authentic French cabaret.
and the club had become very
different in recent years.
[upbeat music]
- You want a Pinot grigio?
- Do you want a Pinot grigio?
[scattered clapping]
-[Jerome] So,
where are you from?
-[Faye] Uh, the US.
- And you are here for holiday?
-[Lorraine] We're on layover
for one of the airlines.
- Airline hostesses.
Flight attendant.
- Okay, you work in a plane.
- Mm-hmm.
- You know all the world?
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