I love you. I’m not just saying that, I really do.
Her eyes fill up with tears again and she closes them. Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she’s aware of this now, while it’s happening. She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person.
Sally Rooney, Normal People.
Marianne told him this thing about her family. He didn’t know what to say. He started telling her that he loved her. It just happened, like drawing your hand back when you touch something hot. She was crying and everything, and he just said it without thinking. Was it true? He didn’t know enough to know that. At first he thought it must have been true, since he said it, and why would he lie? But then he remembered he does lie sometimes, without planning to or knowing why. It wasn’t the first time he’d had the urge to tell Marianne that he loved her, whether or not it was true, but it was the first time he’d given in and said it.
The fact that Taylor said — ‘Fuck the Patriarchy’ in All Too Well (10 minute version) which might have been taken from Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends, which is apparently one of Taylor’s favourite books and also the soon-to-be-released tv series with Joe Alwyn as the main character — is eating me alive, and I didn’t know where else to go with all this bromelianised knowledge!
Long story short, I was looking for a way to stream a 1970s French adaptation of Balzac’s Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. I thought MUBI might have it but that was a dead end. So then I tried the next search result: Madelen, a streaming service for vintage French tv, movie, plays, and documentaries!
So the bad news is it doesn’t have subtitles, but if you speak/understand French, the site’s got a crazy good selection: Arsène Lupin, Nicolas Le Floch (this one’s new, not sure why it’s here but I’m not complaining), Belle et Sebastien, Les Brigades du Tigre, etc.
It’s apparently run by the INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel). Gotta say, for 3 euros a month, it’s frankly a steal.
