& Céline: I’m not complaining, I’m getting a lot of attention. But you never stop ogling girls, like...
Jesse: I don’t ogle girls. I don’t ogle girls. I make love to them with my eyes.
& Jesse: I’m 41 and I’ve loved only you.
Céline: You are so, so working on our little night already.
Jesse: Hell, yeah. I got a Trojan in my billfold, and a rocket in my pocket.
& Stefanos: I read both. The first one is That Time, second is This Time.
Jesse: First is This Time, second is That Time. We’ve got a joke in our family that This brought us back together... and That paid for our apartment.
& Stefanos: The second one is sexy. He misses the plane, they black out the windows... and they have sex for days and days and days like there’s no tomorrow, whoa. Did you guys actually do that?
& Stefanos: When you guys Skype, do you, you know...? Do you go a little crazy?
Ariadni: Oh, God, you’re being so vulgar.
Stefanos: I’m just being an amateur anthropologist... interested in virtual worlds on a theoretical level.
& Céline: Let me tell you right now, Anna, how to keep a man. You gotta let them win at all the silly little games they like. When I met Jesse, we were playing pinball. I was winning.
Jesse: The foundational lie to our relationship.
Céline: I let the ball go down the middle.
Jesse: She can’t beat me.
Céline: It builds their confidence. If I didn’t let him win at every game, we would never have sex. I mean, I’m sorry to say it, but he’s actually a closet macho.
& Natalia: Yes, he appears and he disappears, like a sunrise or sunset. Anything so ephemeral. Just like our life. We appear and we disappear. And we are so important to some... But we are just passing through.
& Céline: You’re the same guy. We always think we’re evolving, but we can’t change that much.
Jesse: Know how I think I’ve changed the most?.. When I was younger, I just wanted time to speed up.
Céline: Why?
Jesse: So I could be on my own... be freed from parents, school, all that shit. I just wanted to close my eyes and wake up and be an adult. Now I feel that happened, and I just want everything to slow down.
& Céline: I’ve always had this feeling no matter where I am in my life... that it’s either a memory or a dream.
Jesse: You’ve always thought that. Me too. Like, is this really my life? Like, is it happening right now?
& Jesse: Every year, I seem to get a bit more humbled and more overwhelmed... about things I’m never gonna know or understand.
& Céline: But not knowing is not so bad. I mean, the point is to be looking, searching, to stay hungry, right?
Jesse: I know. It’s true. I just wish it was a little easier.
& Céline: Oh, God.
Jesse: What?
Céline: No, nothing.
Jesse: What?
Céline: This is so weird.
Jesse: What do you mean?
Céline: Just this. Us, walking, having a conversation... about something else than scheduling, food, work.
Jesse: Yeah, how long’s it been since we just wandered around bullshitting?
Céline: Do you hear what I hear?
Jesse: The sea?
Céline: No.
Jesse: What? Oh, no small feet.
& Céline: Remember Luxembourg Gardens?
Jesse: Yeah. Used to kick your ass at ping-pong?
Céline: Congratulations. You beat a woman pregnant with twins.
Jesse: It’s better than losing to a pregnant woman with twins.
& Céline: Hey, can I ask you a question?
Jesse: Sure.
Céline: If we were meeting for the first time today on a train, would you find me attractive?
& Jesse: I can’t believe I’m 41.
Céline: Yeah, me neither. You’ve gotten so old. I never thought I’d sleep with anyone over 40. Actually, you’re the oldest guy I’ve ever slept with.
& Céline: How long were they married?
Jesse: Seventy-four years.
Céline: Fuck. How is that even possible?
Jesse: I know.
Céline: How old will we be if we are together 74 years?
& Céline: You didn’t answer the question.
Jesse: What question?
Céline: Well, will you be able to put up with me for another 56 more years?
Jesse: I am looking forward to it.
& Céline: I know everything about you.
Jesse: I don’t think you do.
Céline: No? Okay. Well, I know you better than I know anybody else on the planet.
Jesse: But maybe that’s not saying much.
Céline: Right now... this is great. I feel close to you.
Jesse: Yeah.
Céline: But sometimes... I feel like you’re breathing helium and I’m breathing oxygen.
& Céline: He was this friend of mine... that when he found out he had leukemia and was probably gonna die... the first thing that came to his mind was relief.
Jesse: Relief? At what?
Céline: Yeah. Before he found out he had nine months to live, he was worried about money. And now his thought was, “I have enough money to live nine months. I’ve made it.”
Jesse: Oh, okay.
Céline: I mean... He was finally able to enjoy everything about life, even being stuck in traffic. He would just enjoy looking at people, staring at their faces, just little things.
Jesse: And then what happened?
Céline: What do you mean?
Jesse: Well, like, is he still alive?
Céline: No, he died a long time ago.
& Céline: Oh, I miss the girls.
Jesse: I don’t.
Céline: This is such a nice view.
Jesse: The only view that I am interested in...
Céline: What? What?
Jesse: ...is right here.
& Céline: You know those magnet words that people make sentences with?.. Someone had put together, “Women explore for eternity... in the vast garden of sacrifice.”
& Jesse: Hank didn’t do anything, but he’s the one getting kicked in the teeth.
Céline: We all get dragged through our parents’ lives.
& Céline: You know what I love about men? They still believe in magic. Little fairies around who pick up their socks... little fairies unload the dishwasher, little fairies sunscreen the kids. Little fairies who make the Greek salad that you eat like a pig.
& Céline: You know what my secret fear is? With every man? Is that they all wanna turn me into a submissive housewife.
Jesse: Okay. No one could ever do that. All right? I promise. It would be easier to fit your head into a toaster... than to turn you into anything submissive.
& Céline: People expect women to have this instinct that kicks in... like a female baboon. But I had no idea how to do anything. I loved them so much and I was doing everything wrong. And you were away so often, calling me, and asking me how my day went... and I couldn’t even say it to you because I felt so ashamed... to be so clueless.
Jesse: I think you did great.
Céline: No, I didn’t.
Jesse: No, you did. Well, you did a good job faking it, then.
& Céline: The only upside of being over 35 is that you don’t get raped as much. I read it. It’s true.
& Jesse: And all of a sudden, I just saw it all. You know, all this petty jealously and selfishness, you know? And I remember thinking, “Okay, this is the natural human state.” You know, just always a little dissatisfied, perpetually discontented, you know? I mean, look at us. Here we are, we are in, you know, the Garden of Eden... and we can’t stop fighting.
Céline: I don’t think there’s one natural human state. The human state is multiple. If that’s what you see when you’re watching the girls play... that means you’re depressed.
& Céline: You know something? The way you write, people come up to me and think... I make love to some wildcat Henry Miller type. You like to have sex the exact same way every time. When you got it, you got it. Kissy, kissy. Tittie, tittie. Pussy.
Jesse: I’m a man of simple pleasures.
Céline: Yeah, very simple...
& Céline: I just wanna know. Okay? Be a man and admit the truth.
Jesse: .... I am giving you my whole life, okay? I got nothing larger to give. I’m not giving it to anybody else. If you’re looking for permission to disqualify me... I’m not gonna give it to you. Okay? I love you... and I am not in conflict about it. But if what you want is a laundry list... of things about you that piss me off, I could give it to you.
Céline: Yeah. I want to hear.
Jesse: Okay. Well... let’s start at number one, okay? Number one, you’re fucking nuts. All right? You are. Good luck finding somebody... to put up with your shit for more than, like, six months. Okay? But I accept the whole package, the crazy and the brilliant, all right? You’re not gonna change, I don’t want you to. It’s accepting you for being you.
& Céline: So you did fuck her. Thank you very much!
Jesse: Do I ask about the time you went to your old boyfriend after his mother died? No. Why? Because I know the way that your fucking French ass works...
Ω That’s it? Such a short distance between
& Céline: I don’t talk to strangers.
Jesse: That’s the thing, I’m not a stranger. No, no, no, we’ve met before. Summer ’94.
& Jesse: No, no, no. I’m only here as a messenger. I’ve just traveled all the way from the future. I was just with your 82-year-old self... who gave me a letter to read to you. So here I am.
& Jesse: “I am sending you this young man.” Yes, young. “And he will be your escort. God knows he has many problems and has struggled his whole life... connecting and being present even with those he loves the most. And for that he is deeply sorry. But you are his only hope. Céline, my advice to you is this. You’re entering the best years of your life. Looking back from where I sit now...”
& Jesse: Maybe I should skip over some of this.
Céline: Yeah, skip away. Please.
Jesse: Okay... All right. Boring stuff. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it’s like, blah, blah, blah, financial tips... horoscope stuff. Okay, here it is. “P.S. By the way, the best... By the way, the best sex of my life in the southern Peloponnese. Don’t miss it. My whole sexual being went to a new, ground-breaking level.”
Céline: Ground-breaking. Great. I don’t even know what that means.
& Jesse: All right, I put up with plenty of your shit. And if you think I’m just some dog who’s gonna keep coming back, you’re wrong. But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It’s not perfect, but it’s real. And if you can’t see it, then you’re blind, all right, and I give up.
& Céline: So, what about this time machine?
Jesse: What do you mean?
Céline: How does it work?
Jesse: Well, it’s complicated.
Céline: Am I gonna have to get naked to operate it? I mean...
Jesse: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s actually... It’s been a real issue, you know? I mean, I... Clothes, they don’t travel well through the whole space-time continuum. It’s...
& Céline: You mentioned the southern Peloponnese?
Jesse: Yeah, yeah, and we’re in the southern Peloponnese. Yeah, and do you think it could be tonight... that you’re still talking about in your 80’s?
Céline: Well... it must have been one hell of a night we’re about to have.
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Σ Perfect. They did it again. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. Tremendous. Dialogs in those "Before..." movies as 'the nectar of Céline's sex' ages like a fine wine.
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