All right, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's...
it's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life.
- What?
So Listen. Here's the deal. This is what we should do.
You should get off the train with me here in Vienna,
and come check out the town.
- What?
Come on, it'll be fun.
What would we do?
Um, I don't know.
I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us.
Not you, or me.
But just in this little space in between.
If there's any kind of magic in this world
it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something.
I know it's almost impossible to succeed but...
Who cares? Really.
The answer must be in the attempt.
The first film was really just about trying to capture two people connecting.
The intangible thing between these two people.
It was a very minimalist design.
Nothing great happened in the movie other than this connection so...
I just remember wanting to make a film just about that.
I think he's crazy about you.
You gonna see him again?
We haven't talked about that yet.
I remember Julie once saying,
"This movie's boring. Call someone to write some jokes,
this is really boring Rick."
And Rick said, "I've been with you in Vienna
for six weeks and I haven't been bored for one second."
This is...
Gorgeous.
- Yeah...
This is beautiful.
So if you can be as interesting and whole as you are here in this room,
in front of the camera and somebody's bored in a two hour movie
then I don't like them.
I don't care if they don't like our movie.
Because that's somebody's that's...
That's not who I'm making this movie for.
So...
You have been on a journey.
You are...
An adventurer.
A seeker.
You need to resign yourself to the awkwardness of life.
Only, if you find peace within yourself,
you'll find true connection with others.
You think tonight's it, huh?
I mean that tonight's our only night?
Can I tell you secret?
- Yeah. - Come here.
- What? - Come here.
It's... the only way, no?
Well alright.
Let's do it. We'll just make tonight great.
Hi.
Hello.
- How are you? - I'm good, and you?
I'm great, I'm um...
Do you maybe want to... maybe get a cup of coffee?
Didn't he just say you had a plane to catch?
Yeah... But um... I have a little time.
- Okay.
Can you believe it was nine years ago that we were walking around Vienna.
- Nine years? That's impossible! - It was, I know!
It feels like it was two months ago to me, but it was summer '94.
Do I look any different?
Alright your trains gonna leave. Say goodbye.
Bye.
Goodbye.
I do?
I'd have to see you naked.
What!?
The great Sam Fuller. I remember him speaking and he said,
"Cinema's about: Don't talk about it, show it!"
You don't talk about a character experience.
You show them having that experience.
- Lets get on that boat. Come on.
- No! - Come on, it'll be fun!
- You don't have time!
But I never approach cinema like that.
I always thought people talking was so evocative and...
what they were describing, it has a double effect.
Not only does it conjure what they're talking about in the viewers mind
Because you're not showing it.
To me, it's more interesting because not only do you get the essence of them...
but also of what they're talking about.
I feel like if somebody were to touch me, I would dissolve into molecules.
Reality and love are almost contradictory for me. It's funny,
every single one of my exes are now married.
men go out with me, we break up and they they get married.
And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is.
Why didn't they ask me to marry them! I would've said no, but at least they could've asked!
But it's my fault. I know it's my fault because I never felt it was the right man.
Never!
But what does it mean, "the right man, the love of your life"
the concept is absurd, the idea that we can only be complete with another person...
it's evil! Right?
I want to try something. - What?
I want to see if you stay together or if you dissolve into molecules.
How am I doing?
Still here.
Good I like being here.
It's not about like what's happening, or what twist is happening there,
it's an emotional arc...
there is a first act, second act, third act but it's just on an emotional level.
Now that we've met again, we can change our memory of that December 16th.
It no longer has that sad ending of us never seeing eachother again.
You're right.
I guess a memory's never finished, as long as you're alive.
Baby...
You are gonna miss that plane.
I know.
All three of these movies are about a connection between two people,
And to really capture that on film he wanted our help in creating these people
who would connect.
So there could be something authentic about it,
something real about it.
Lots of directors ask you to be a part of their vision,
but almost nobody asks you to find the vision with them.
I've just been checking you out from across the cafe,
and I don't want to make you uncomfortable but
you are by far the best-looking woman in this place.
- I don't talk to strangers. - That's the thing, I'm not a stranger.
Summer '94?
Okay, you give me a word I take the word
and then, then I will write a poem with the word inside.
If you feel it adds something to your life in any way
then you can pay me whatever you feel like. - Milkshake!
Milkshake, oh good yeah, I was going to say rooster prick
but great, Milkshake.
You're mistaking me for someone else. - No.
We even fell in love.
Let's say that, you and I were together all the time,
You'd start to hate a lot of my mannerisms.
The way every time that we would have people over
I'd be insecure and I'd get a little too drunk.
Why am I finding myself so attracted this woman!
Or...
The way I tell the same stupid pseudo-intellectual story again...
and again...
He tells me that even though I have an offer for an amazing job
he wants me to throw it all away and move to Chicago
- Thats not what I said. - Yes!
- I said I missed him - So we could babysit every other weekend...
For his ex-wife!
You see, I've heard all those stories, so...
of course I'm sick of myself.
being with you uh it's made me feel like I was somebody else if we're a meeting
for the first time to down a drain would you find me attractive of course no but
really right now as I am would you stop talking to me would you ask me to get
off the train you think of it like this I jump ahead 10 20 years okay
and you're married and only your marriage doesn't have that same energy
that it used to I don't want to live a boring life where two people own each
other where two people are institutionalized in a box that others
created because there is a bunch of stifling bullshit you start to blame
your husband you start to think about all those guys you've met in your life
and what might have happened if you picked up with one right well I'm one of
those guys that's me what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you
and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything
I'm just the biggest losers he is totally unmotivated totally boring and
you made the right choice and you're really happy
you know what's going on here I don't think I love you anymore I just travel
away 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 we did okay
there's dear Celine I'm 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
why you are is only hope okay Jessie can you stop this stupid game
we're not in one of your stories okay did you hear what I said to you back in
the room did you hear me now whether you love me anymore I
figured you didn't mean it but if you did that
you know something you're just like the little girls and everybody else you want
to live inside some fairy tale that put up with plenty of your shit and if you
think I'm just some dog is gonna keep coming back then you're wrong but if you
want true love 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 I give up it's really a
mirror it's where you're at in your own life and you know if you're about to
break up with someone movie could be a reflection of that if
you've endured you know a relationship and it's still working for you it could
be an expression
good have fun
were you really just
sure okay
daydream delusion limousine eyelash Oh baby was a pretty face
drop it tear my wine glass look at those big eyes see what you mean to me sweet
cakes and milkshakes I'm a delusion aim I'm fed to separate I want you to know
what I think don't want you to guess anymore you have no idea where I came
from you have no idea where we're going watch them lad like branches in the
river flowing downstream car than the current I'll carry you you'll carry me
that's how it could be don't you know me don't you know me by now it sounds weird
to say but I mean it's kind of a dream come true to make something that is
intensely personal and that you love and do it only for yourself and then if
other people actually like it that almost never happens
it's unique most things that you work on or not and this is you know they may be
good they may be not going whatever but this one is unique will just be the most
rewarding thing for you to do these fields
being with each other yeah
you