All language subtitles for Aviva.2020.1080p.WEBRip.x265-RARBG2_English

[bell rings]

[piano music]

- I wanna tell you about my
best friend in the world.

That's a Canon C300.

It's being operated by Arseni,
our first camera operator.

They concurrently are being shot

by Elvira Lind, our
B camera operator.

[camera stand clicking]

[indistinct chatter]

I'm an actress.

I mean, I'm acting right now.

Normally, I'm a dancer
and a choreographer.

I'm acting in this
because given all

the dancing that's
going to be happening,

we thought it'd be more viable
for the dancers to pull off

the acting required,
than vice versa.

I didn't write these words.

They were written by
what we as species

commonly refer to as a man.

And the part I'll be playing,
or playing a part of,

is also for purposes of
identification, a man.

My name is Eden.

That's me on the bed.

And that

is Aviva.

Who wasn't aware all these
cameras would be here

when we were introduced by
our common friend, Nissan.

Nissan is a man about town in
about a dozen different towns.

New York, London,
Berlin, Barcelona, Paris.

He speaks seven or
eight languages fluently

and each one of
them with whatever

loosh affected accent
is in that language.

He's flamboyant,
though straight.

And at heart, kind of a Yenta

who's always looking to
play match matchmaker.

He was living in Paris at
the time and was friends

with Aviva, who
was a native there.

- I'm a dancer, too.

Not exactly French, but
an accent is an accent.

[upbeat music]

- Nissan tried to set Aviva up

with some of his friends there.

For whatever reason,
nothing clicked.

Then he thought of me.

Living in New York,still reeling from a
devastating breakup

to which my suicidal response
had led me to understand

that I was dealing with a
deep and abiding depression,

I had been carrying
my entire life.

And there's nothing more
depressing or lonely

than being alone
in New York City.

Nissan told me about
this amazing creature

I had to meet right away.

I was reluctant at first,
but after some convincing,

I sent an email
off into the ether.

It went like this.

Hey there Aviva
across the ocean.

Eden here.

I'm a friend of Nissan's.

He told me I absolutely
must email you,

which I'm very happy to do.

I'm not sure what
to say, but Nissan,

I don't know what
you did to him,

but it must've been something.

He was so emphatic that he
almost got me to get on a plane

and come to Paris
for some event,

or I don't know
what, this weekend.

Unfortunately, I have to finish
this project I'm working on.

I'm on a deadline, so I
really can't do it right now.

However, one of these
days I'll be out there.

Do you ever leave Paris?

What are you up to anyway?

What do you do?

Who are you actually?

I'm a poor 76-year-old
Satmar Yeshiva student

with a dead wife
and 14 children.

The oldest of which is
already a grandfather.

I live in a shtetl in Krakow.

If you are interested in
pursuing a correspondence,

please email me back, E.

And Aviva responded,

- [Aviva] Dear E.

Sounds good.

I'm a 60 years old
virgin, blind as a bat

from a horrible
accident I had last year

while cleaning my cat's claws.

I have 61 cats, one for
every year of disappointment.

I have a voice of a
bird, one great boob..

Lost the other one to cancer,
and got two cats that year.

And an appetite for
new experiences.

Nissan kindly offered his
help in ending my curiosity.

And I guess you're his idea
of a perfect man for this job.

Unfortunately, with
every moment that passes,

my heart loses a little
bit of innocence,

so I cannot offer you the
love I had in me on Wednesday,

but I think I still be happy
to meet you, and your children.

And who knows, maybe
we'll fall in love

and learn that life
is full of surprises.

Waiting to hear
more about you, A.

♪ Oh

♪ Baby I am yours

♪ I said oh

♪ Baby I am yours

♪ Said oh

♪ Baby I am yours

♪ I said oh

♪ Baby I am yours

[upbeat music]

- We quickly recognized one
another as kindred spirits

and our desire to explore and
express our deepest selves.

At least in words.

And so, we created an
imaginary space together.

A space outside of time and
space, shared only by us.

Like two shipwrecked
survivors on a desert Island.

An old-fashioned
letter writing romance,

propelled into hyper-speed by
the actuality of the internet.

After few months
of correspondence,

we graduated to
phone conversations.

These were somewhat
more problematic,

as elements of our personalities
that had been hidden

under the disguise provided
by the written word,

were exposed by the demands
of spoken communication.

Aviva's assertiveness and
impatience took me aback,

and my pessimism and
need to denigrate myself,

and relationships in general,

forced their way through
my better judgment

and onto my tongue.

But for all that, our digital
romance ran hot and strong,

and Aviva decided
to pack a suitcase

and venture forth to
visit me for a week.

And see what it would be
like to connect in person.

- There you go, Eden.

There we go.

Good sweetie.

Aviva.

[speaking in a foreign language]

Hello, hi.

[speaking in a foreign language]

Yeah, baby.

Oh, that's it, yes, yes.

Come on, Eden.

Come on, you're a big boy.

You can do it, come on.

[urine dripping]

Come on.

Come on, give us
a little pee pee.

You can do it.

[baby laughing]

Aviva.

[speaking in foreign language]

[man laughing]

[speaking in a foreign language]

- [indistinct] Whoa.

- Well, it's just frustrating.

Yeah, I'd like to.

- Aviva.

[children laughing]

[dramatic music]

[pencil scribbling]

[speaking in a foreign language]

[woman moaning]

- Oh my God, Eden is so cute.

[woman moaning]

[speaking foreign language]

[soft music]

- [Woman] Aviva.

[speaking in a foreign language]

- Close the door Ian, come on.

[soft music]

[woman panting]

[speaking in a foreign language]

[women panting]

[phone ringing]

[toilet flushing]

- [Aviva] Hello?

- [Eden] Hey, it's Eden.

- [Aviva] I know.

- [Eden] Well, hello.

- [Aviva] You
sound so different.

- [Eden] Than what?

- [Aviva] Than I expected.

- [Eden] How so?

- [Aviva] You sound so American.

- [Eden] I am so American,
what did you expect?

- [Aviva] I don't know.

Do I sound different?

- [Eden] You sound pretty
much the way I expected.

- [Aviva] Is a good
moment to talk now?

- [Eden] Always a good
moment to talk to you.

- [Aviva] Yeah, the
time differences is...

can you meet my father?

- [Eden] I never get
along with fathers.

- [Aviva] You will love him.

He's the smartest and
funniest man I have ever.

I'm a romanticist.

- [Eden] Yeah, until now.

I think I'm a realist,

I mean at least so far
as I understand reality.

- [Aviva] Neither is a
philosophy, just an emotional...

I don't think it's always
smart to talk about everything,

especially love or past lovers.

- [Eden] Why is that off limits?

- [Aviva] It's just put it
to start new things new.

- [Eden] I'm tired of
talking, we need to meet.

- [Aviva] Yeah, so I'm coming.

I already bought the tickets.

- [Eden] You did?

- [Aviva] Yes, I did.

- [Eden] You're really coming?

- [Aviva] I'm coming.

I'm really coming.

[soft music]

- Sweet Aviva across the ocean.

I'm so excited to finally
see you face to face,

though I admit to being
equally afraid of it.

It's all fun and games, until
I actually have to be there.

- Is this your usual place?

- I don't know.

- You don't know?

- If I say it is,
and you're asking

because you don't like
it, then I lose it points.

If you like it, and I say
it isn't, I lose points.

If you like, I can I
say yes, I gain points.

- You're overthinking this.

You know, I'm in town
only for a few days.

And I know that we've known
each other for a while,

well, from across
the ocean anyway,

but I think it's best
if we let the physical

take its own course.

Not to push things right away.

[soft music]

[both moaning]

Where are you?

Why won't you to look at me?

- I'm looking at you.

- You're not looking at me.

- I'm looking at you.

- At me, into my eyes.

- Your eyes?

- Can't you make an eye contact?

- Yeah.

Sure.

Can I blink?

- Forget it.

- What?

- I can't do it if you're
going to make fun of me.

- I'm looking into your eyes,

that's what you asked me to do.

- Not like that.

- Not like what?

There's only one way to look
right into someone's eyes.

- No, there's not.

You think I don't see
what you're doing?

- What am I doing?

- I don't know.

Taking a little look at me here,

my shoulder, my
neck, my foot, maybe.

Taking pictures of
things that turns you on,

fit into some
pre-programed sequence

of triggers you're
used to responding to.

Making a pornographic movie
in your head and playing it,

even when I'm right
here with you.

- Hey, take it easy, okay?

This is that moment
when I wonder

what really happened to
you when you were a child.

- You know, everything there
is to know about my childhood,

and it has nothing
to do with this.

- We really shouldn't
have written to each other

so much before
meeting in person.

- You regret getting
to know each other?

- I regret that all
those words made us think

we know each other
when we really don't.

- So, tell me I'm wrong.

- That's what I'm saying.

- No, look me in the
eyes and tell me.

- Jesus, with the eyes, already.

- [Female Eden] Something
I never told Aviva.

Once, when I was a child,
maybe four years old,

my mother took me
to play in the park.

And in those days, you
know, the park was perfect.

A golden realm, suspended
between innocence and knowledge.

A perfect place.

I met another kid
there about my age.

- Why are you going this way?

- [Female Eden] We both had
bikes, and we bonded instantly.

[children giggling]

We made a connection
stronger than anything

I normally experience
with someone I just met.

Our parents must have sensed
this, because my mother,

who was usually in a
rush, let us play together

for a long time.

[children chanting]

It was heaven.

But then, at some point,

I noticed something that
struck me as strange.

[soft music]

- Your shoes are red.

- Yeah.

- Pretty weird for a boy.

- I'm not a boy, I'm a girl.

- [Female Eden] I was
stunned, betrayed.

I felt like the
bedrock of reality

had shifted under my feet.

And that was that.

Paradise lost.

- When will you be back?

- [Female Eden] I don't
know, not too late.

- I don't understand
why I can't come.

- It's not that you
can't, it's just,

Aviva.

- I moved here three months ago.

when I flew back to Paris
after my first visit,

I wasn't sure about things.

But as soon as the space
between us opened up,

while our love put
back in and fill it up.

So, I closed my apartment and
moved to America, for love.

I feel the need to clarify
that, because you know,

my friends at home and
people here, they're like,

"If you make it work with
Eden for three years,

you'll get a green card."

And I'm like, "I
don't give a fuck

about the fucking green card.

I don't give a fuck about
this disgusting country.

I don't give a fuck about
becoming a fucking American.

I came here for
only one reason."

- Aviva.

You know all my friends and
they all think you're great.

I just need some time out
with the guys sometimes.

Know what I mean?

- No.

- [Female Eden] What
do you mean, no?

- I mean, what can you talk
about with your friends alone

that you can not talk
about with me there?

- You, for starters?

- What are you going
to say about me?

- It's not like I
have anything planned.

I just need some
perspective sometimes.

- Who's going to be there?

- I don't know.

Mason for sure,

[upbeat music]

Dave Mazzola, Aaron Bud,
Kieran, Tony Takata.

You know, Mason's usual gang.

- You just don't want me to come

because you're in
love with Mason.

- I'm not in love with Mason.

He's my best friend,
and sometimes,

I just need some
alone time with him.

Is that okay with you?

- Go, have fun.

Be gay with Mason
and your usual gang.

I'll stay home and
watch something on TV.

- [Man] Eden.
- [Man] He's on the loose.

- [Man] Where's Mason?

- [Man] Oh, fuck Mason.

- You think Eden was
hanging [indistinct].

[indistinct chatter]

- [Man] Super powers.

[indistinct chatter]

- Mason.

- What's up?

- How are we tonight?

[glasses clinking]

[acoustic music begins]

[all laughing]

[acoustic music continues]

♪ I love you like
chisel and stone ♪

♪ I love you like
needle and bone ♪

♪ I love you like a
god loves his son ♪

♪ And I love you like
my hand on a gun ♪

♪ I go bang bang bang
bang bang bang bang ♪

♪ I'm back back again

♪ Oh I love you

♪ Bang bang bang bang
bang bang sha-bang ♪

♪ I'm back back again

♪ Ooh

♪ I can't think of anything

♪ Anything but you

♪ Ooh

♪ That's how I love love
love love love love love ♪

[acoustic music]

[subway car rattling]

- Aviva.

I'm home.

[water splashing]

- Hey.

I was just about to go to sleep.

- Aviva I'm sorry.

You could have come,
it was just the guys.

- It's all right.

I'm sorry too, I know you need
to breath once in a while.

I actually got a lot done.

I made a lot of phone calls,

set up some things
for this week.

I've been sitting
on my ass too long,

waiting for things to happen.

- You've been adjusting.

- No, that's not it.

Eden, you never
really saw me at home.

I'm always making things
happen, almost too much.

Go, go, go all the time.

You know, my friends
wouldn't even recognize me.

Something happened
when I came here.

But enough is enough.

Now, I'm back.

[both moaning]

Hold me, like this, hard.

[both grunting]

I'm cumming.

[both panting]

[Eden chuckles]

- That was fast.

- Yeah.

That's how I am
normally, when I'm happy.

- It's amazing.

- Come on.

- What?

- I want you to finish, too.

Come on.

- Okay.

- What are you doing?

- [Eden] Can I get on top again?

- Why?

- I just don't finish like this.

- [Male Aviva] Like what?

- When I'm on the bottom.

- You don't?

You can't or you don't want to?

- I just won't, okay?

- How do you know?

- Because I know myself?

- You know yourself?

- Yeah.

- Oh, it doesn't seem so to me.

- You know, or someone
who just had a nice orgasm

in record time and expressed
the desire to return the favor,

you have an odd
way of showing it.

- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

- No, you're not.

- I'm sorry, come here.

- Forget it.

- Come on, I'm sorry.

- Look, it's not
gonna happen, okay?

Forget it.

- I had a perfect place once,
too, and not so long ago.

It was a room, a white room.

Everything was white.

The walls, the bed.

The covering on the furniture,

The shades were white,
and the light that came in

through the windows was white.

The reason it was
perfect, though,

was that Phillipe was in it.

I met him in the [indistinct].

He was serving falafel at
this place called Shahabe.

People stood in
line for an hour.

He was so beautiful.

Black hair, black eyes.

He had just come from Morocco.

A Jew, like me.

I never thought he would be
interested in me, but he was.

It's true we didn't have
very much to talk about,

but we didn't need to talk.

[soft music]

He lived with his
family, and I lived

with a few girlfriends
in the 10th,

so I found us an
apartment of our own.

Just a room, really.

But it was ours, our white room.

[soft music]

I had been hurting myself,
cutting myself, for years,

and when he kissed me, the
scars in my flesh remained,

but the wounds in my heart
and soul were healed,

and I was filled with a
light more pure and white

than the lights filling
our perfect room.

We lived for each other, or
at least, I lived for him.

I stopped almost everything,

I hardly saw my
family, my friends.

I worked just enough
to help us get by.

I cooked, I cleaned, I made
sure our room was spotless.

I guess I lied when
I said my friends

wouldn't recognize
me here in New York.

They would recognize
me very well.

How I am when I'm trying to-

- Trying to what?

- Experience love.

- You feel like
you have to give up

who you are in order to love?

- In order to experience
love in return, yeah.

- You think no one will love
you if they know who you are?

- I don't know.

Do you love me?

- Aviva.

You okay?

- I should be asking you that.

- Me?

- You were angry.

- It's okay, everything
back to normal.

- Sorry, I should open a window.

- What are you thinking about?

- Nothing, everything, you know.

I was thinking about Phillipe.

- What about him?

- Actually, I was thinking
more about me with him,

why I'm always
the same when I'm,

- When you're what?

- In a relationship.

- Everything's a relationship.

- With men.

- Glad to know I
inspire generalized

Pavlovian reaction
to an entire gender.

- And you think you're
different with me

than you are with any
other woman you attract?

- You never said why you
and Philippe broke up.

- I told you.

- No, you said you
were heartbroken,

you moved back
with your parents,

that you couldn't get out
of bed for more than a year,

but she never said why
the relationship ended.

- It ended because
he became religious.

- You're joking.

- And he wanted
me to be the same.

And I tried, too.

I tried to learn all the
laws and lit the candles

on Shabbat, and cooked
only kosher food.

What?

- It's funny.

Did he grow peyos?

- Actually, he did.

- Was he sexy?

Did he look hot,
naked, with his peyos?

- Better than you
do without them.

I tried, but I couldn't.

I felt like a terrible
person, a sinner.

I didn't eat, I didn't sleep.

I was thin like
this, maybe 40 kilos.

Finally, my friends had
to make an intervention,

and they told me I was going
crazy, and I saw I was.

So I left him.

- [Eden] You left him?

- [Aviva] I packed my
suitcase when he was at work,

and went back to
my parents' house,

and I never saw our
white room again.

- [Eden] Your white room?

- [Aviva] My own perfect place.

Like the park you
never told me about.

You see, I lost paradise too.

[soft music]

- [Female Eden] And
now you're here.

- [Male Aviva] Now I'm here.

- [Female Eden] But?

- [Male Aviva] I'm
happy I'm here,

but I hate this apartment.

- [Female Eden] So?

We'll move.

- [Woman] This is a great space.

And it's in a
great neighborhood.

- Is it?

- The best.

Where are you from?

- Paris.

- Paris, what a beautiful city.

- Have you been there?

- No, but I plan on
visiting someday.

These windows have a rare
view for this part of town,

which I'm sure your
husband can tell you.

- Eden's not my husband,

we're together, but not married.

- [Woman] Not yet?

- [Aviva] Not yet.

You like this
neighborhood, baby?

- Sure.

- This apartment is
an absolute steal.

Now it's a little cozy,
but the light is fantastic.

Southern exposure, which
you're rarely get in a place

this cheap, especially
in the bedroom.

- Did you see the
bedrooms, baby?

- All the units in this
building are brand new.

Central heat and air,
all the appliances.

- It's a great size.

It doesn't have much character,

but Eden likes things
simple, right baby?

- Whatever.

[fridge door thudding]

- Eden?

I'm sick of the way you
were acting, you hear me?

- How am I acting?

- Like you wanna be
anywhere but here.

- I didn't like the place,

what am I supposed to do?

Jump up and down and
grin like a fool,

until we walk out of the door?

- You know what?

You stay home.

I'll do it alone.

I'll talk to the realtors,
I'll make the appointments,

I'll go see all the places

until I find something
amazing to show you.

Think that might work?

- Proud of yourself?

- You talking to me?

Well, I'm the only one
here, you talking to me?

Bitch, you ain't in gay Paris.

Go grab a crepe in your Suzette.

Get your ass up, because
it's about to get gritty.

I'm gonna remind you
in case you forget,

this boy came up
in New York City.

- Yeah, boy, you're
in our house now.

So watch me be with my
dawg, know what I'm sayin'?

- Mark Gold in the house.

Ran with this bad boy from when
we were six till we were 13.

We dropped out of each other's
lives, you know how it is.

But he's in my mind, and
these streets are his.

[bell ringing]

- Hey yo guys, you left
your shit in the lunchroom.

- Adam D.

[indistinct chatter]

- Adam D. the
world's nerdiest kid.

- And that's sayin' a lot.

Go bust a move, kid,
show 'em what you got.

[hip-hop music]

[all cheering]

I thought you moved somewhere
uptown, to the country.

- Man, you can take the
boy out of the city,

but you can't take the
city out of the boy.

- That's what I'm sayin'

- That's what he's
been sayin', yo.

- Shorty comes in my house.

- In your house, dawg?

- Starts throwin' her weight
around, like I'm her bitch.

- Man, she don't know who
she's fuckin' with, B.

- Been takin' the D
to Coney with my crew

since I was, like,
10 years old, dawg.

- Been mugged on every
corner on the Upper West Side

between Central Park
West and Riverside Drive.

- Stole candy and comic
books from every newsstand

in the hood since the day
I started whackin' off.

[police siren blaring]

- [Mark] And she gonna
tell you what to do?

- Man, show her how we do, dawg.

- Man, show her how we do.

- Let's go.

[hip-hop music]

- Oh, yeah, Mark, okay.

Get it Mark, get it, get it.

- Pass, my turn.

- Go, Adam.

[all cheering]

[police siren blaring]

- Coney Island, baby.

[hip-hop music]

♪ You know I got the step flow

♪ You know who have
the step flow ♪

♪ You know I got the step flow

♪ You know who's
got the step flow ♪

♪ You know I got the step flow

♪ You know who's
got the step flow ♪

♪ You know I got the step flow

♪ You know who's
got the step flow ♪

♪ You know I got the step flow

♪ Yeah, yeah, now

[hip-hop music]

♪ You know I got the step flow

♪ You know who's
got the step flow ♪

♪ You know I got the step flow

♪ You know who's
got the step flow ♪

♪ You know I got the step flow

♪ You know who's
got the step flow ♪

♪ You know I got the step flow

[fireworks exploding]

[siren sounding]

- [Aviva] You won't regret it.

It's by far the best place in
the entire city for the price.

- It's a done deal, Aviva,
signed, sealed, and delivered.

- You're sure
you'll be all right?

- I will be.

Things are just moving fast.

- I've been here for
nearly half a year.

- I'll be fine.

I just need things to
slow down for a bit.

- [Man] Marriage is
your only option,

I mean if you wanna stay

in the country,
legally of course.

- I thought it was only
if I have to fly out

and back until I
get my green card.

- New immigration
laws are in place.

If you want to stay here
legally and work here legally,

you need a special dispensation,

which takes months to file for

and it might take
years to go through

with no guarantee of success.

- I can't do that.

- [Man] I can only present
the options available to you.

- Six months ago,
before I moved here,

Eden sent me an email that said,

- [Woman] My sweet
Aviva across the ocean.

I can't believe this thing
we're having between us.

Are you really leaving
Paris to be with me?

I never, ever expected
something like this to happen.

Not the way it has.

Not with someone like you.

I feel like a leaf in the wind,

like my life is a strange dream.

I'm the same actor
that I've always been,

playing the same role, but
there's no script anymore.

The play doesn't have a
structure that I understand.

The way I fit into
the totality of it

is a complete mystery to me.

And I'm lost, I'm totally lost.

I'm so grateful to you
for feeling for me.

But I can't believe
that you're willing

to anchor yourself
to someone so lost

and blindly wandering
through the fog.

If there's anything that scares
me about our relationship,

is that I'm going
to have to adjust

to being a real person again,

if that makes any sense at all.

I'm trying not to allow
my fear to fuck up

the most incredible thing
in my life, which is you.

You're amazing.

You're wise and challenging,

and open to adjusting
and changing.

And you never fail to step up

when the situation calls for it.

I'm lucky to know you.

I want you in my life.

I'm on my knees, begging
you to be in my life.

You are life.

- [Aviva] That's
what he said then.

Now he's saying,

- I'm sorry.

- It's just papers Eden.

- [Eden] Yeah, it's papers,
it's marriage and commitment.

It's marriage, Aviva.

- It's marriage so that we can
see if we want to be married.

Are you saying that you
don't wanna be with me?

- No, that's not
what I'm saying.

- [Male Aviva] Then
what are you saying?

- Just that I'm not ready
to get married so fast.

- Are you ready to come to
Paris to live with me there?

- You know I can't do that.

- You know I didn't know you
were so fucking bourgeois

that you make such a big
deal out of marriage.

It's a legal exercise,
something that allows us

to be together so that
we can explore our love.

I can't believe you
would allow everything

to end over some bureaucratic
bullshit, you know?

Fuck it.

[Male Aviva sobbing]

[horn honking]

- Hey, baby.

You're right.

Baby.

Let's do it.

Stop crying.

It's just papers, you're right.

Let's do it.

- Thank you, I love you so much.

- I love you, too.

- Thank you.

- [Eden] Of course.

It's a beautiful
night in your city.

Wanna take a walk in it?

- Give me a moment
to recompose myself.

- Of course.

[soft music]

Dear God, thank you.

Thank you for bringing
Aviva into my life.

I know I've been so cut off,
and how hard it's been for me

to connect to the gift of this
life in the present moment.

Stop.

I've been cut off from
myself for so long

that I've forgotten what
it's like to make choices

based on a positive
connections with this life.

Stop.

Aviva is so strong
and alive and brave.

Please stop.

She's brave, and she's a
fighter, and I thank you

for this opportunity so that
I can move in the direction

that I wouldn't have been
able to if I was on my...

Just stop it.

Aviva is an example
of courage and spirit,

and I thank you for this
opportunity to learn from her.

Thank you for presenting
me with constant beauty,

when all I've done is cast
a pall of my own making

over the shimmering
beauty of creation.

Thank you for giving me a chance

so that I can have love and
connection and growth and joy,

even when my every
thought has been turned

against you in anger
and in gratitude.

Thank you for bringing
Aviva into my life.

Thank you for giving me a chance
to say yes rather than no.

Thank you for someone who
will actually fight for me,

someone who I can
fight for, yes.

Thank you for someone
who will fight for me.

Just stop it.

Thank you for someone who
will fight me for being...

Just stop it already.

Fucking shit, just stop it.

For one goddam second,
can you just sit still?

Put your fucking clothes on.

Please.

- [Aviva] You ready?

- Just go, you go.

[speaking in foreign language]

- [Aviva] Dear mom,
we decided to have

a real New York city wedding.

We bought rings on 47th street.

Then took the Metro
down to the City Hall.

Eden's friend, Mason,
was our first witness,

and Nissan flew from
Berlin to be our second,

because it was him who
introduced us, after all.

The judge was a
strange little woman,

who reminded me of Nana,

- I Eden.

- If Nana was insane.

- Take Aviva to be my wife.

- I, Eden, take a
Viva to be my wife,

- [Aviva] But she seemed
really happy for us.

She must do this 100 times
a week, so maybe it's just

my fantasy, but
when she married us,

I thought I saw
tears in her eyes.

- And I promise my love to you.

- With this ring, I thee wed.

- [Woman] I, Aviva, take
Eden to be my husband.

- I, Aviva, take Eden
to be my husband.

- [Woman] To have and to hold.

- To have and to hold.

- [Woman] In sickness
and in health.

- In sickness and in health.

- [Woman] For richer
and for poorer.

- For richer and for poorer.

- [Woman] And I
promise my love to you.

- [Aviva] And I
promise my love to you.

- [Woman] With this
ring, I thee wed.

- With this ring-

- [Woman] Just as two threads
woven in opposite directions

can form a beautiful tapestry,

so can your two
lives merged together

to form a beautiful marriage.

Love is the reason you are
here, but it will take trust

to know in your
hearts [indistinct].

And insomuch as you've promised
your love for each other,

by these vows, I now declare
you husband and wife.

You may kiss your bride.

- [Aviva] And that was that.

Afterward Mason organized
a party for our friends

at the restaurant he owns.

And we talked and
laughed all night.

It was beautiful.

[hands clapping]

[accordion music]

♪ La sha-la-la-la-la

♪ La la sha-la-la-la-la

♪ La-La-La-La sha-la-la-la-la

♪ Don't you think

♪ It's time you get over that

♪ Don't you think
you had enough ♪

♪ I mean I know
you had it rough ♪

♪ But that pansy-fancy
way of looking grim ♪

♪ All through the
day and night ♪

♪ Is something wrong my dear

♪ Have I said it way to clear

♪ Then let me
whisper in your ear ♪

♪ All these words
I know are wrong ♪

♪ But for the sake
of writing a song ♪

♪ Here is what I
guess you wanna hear ♪

♪ Somewhere up there

♪ The sky is blue for you

♪ Somewhere out there

♪ There's something new to do

♪ Somebody loves you

♪ Sha-La-La-La-La-La-La

♪ Somebody loves you

[accordion music]

♪ Tell me do you think you
have some exclusivity ♪

♪ On every shadow of regret

♪ That's lurking in proximity

♪ To what you think
your life should be ♪

♪ But if you close
your eyes you'll see ♪

♪ There's nothing for you here

♪ Still the only words
you wanna hear are ♪

♪ Somewhere up there

♪ The sky is blue for you

♪ Somewhere out there

♪ There's something new to do

♪ Somebody loves you

♪ Sha-La-La-La-La-La-La

♪ Somebody loves you

[jazz music]

♪ Somebody loves you

- Hey what's wrong?

- Nothing.

- Why aren't you dancing?

- Are you having a good time?

- I'm trying to.

- Then go and have fun and
stop worrying about me, okay?

- No I can't, when I see
you standing like this.

- Sure, you can.

- You know I can't.

- That's your choice.

If you wanna make my
experience your experience,

that's your responsibility.

- I don't understand why
you're doing this right now.

These are your friends,
they're here for you.

They're happy for you.

- You're doing fine without me.

In fact, you're doing a
lot better without me.

I'm just ruining your
night, I'm gonna go.

- No, you're acting
like a child.

- Hey, let's not fight, okay?

I'm sorry, I'm
ruining your time.

You're better off
without me here.

- I'll come with you.

- Are you crazy?

That'll be a disaster,
it'll break Aviva's heart.

Just stay here and
have fun, okay.

No one will notice a
goddam thing when I'm gone.

The whole party
will just liven up

and no one will even know why.

Somehow everything will
have just gotten better.

Hey.

I'll see you later.

[upbeat music]

- Hey.

You okay?

Hey.

- No, it's just seeing
everyone here for me, for us.

- I know.

I know, I know, I know.

I love you.

- I love you.

[crowd cheering]

[both panting]

I'm cumming.

- [Eden] Cum, cum.

[Male Aviva grunting]

- My love.

Sorry.

- No.

- I'm so fast.

- You're perfect,
you're perfect.

- Come here, come
here, come here.

- No.

- But I want you to.

- Come here, stop.
- I want you to be-

- Keep doing what you're doing.

- Are you sure?

[both moaning]

- I was thinking of trying
out a song at this juncture.

I know this isn't
really a musical.

I love musicals.

I love it when people
start to dance,

but I kind of hate it when
people break out into song.

I mean, I thought it'd
be fun to have the kids

bustin' the rap back there,
even if it's way outside

the style of everything
that we're doing here.

But I mean, fuck consistency
and tone, we did it.

I'm talking about
when some happy guy,

or some melancholy guy with
his hands in his pockets,

suddenly gets that
faraway look in his eye

and looks somewhere
right about camera,

or down to the shoes, and
it's like, it's coming to him.

This song that took
20 people months

to create, he's making
it up right now.

He'll look up, and, well
like I said, I hate it,

so I'm not gonna do it.

What I am gonna do is
talk about what I've been

avoiding talking about,
which is Isadora.

Neither Aviva or I have
been here in a while,

but it's our space
and ours alone.

I'm gonna talk about Isadora
in it, which is way fucked up,

but life is fucked up that way.

I'll meet Isadora at party

which I'm never gonna show here,
because there's some things

I don't feel I can
show correctly.

It's a birthday party
for Dave Nazzolla

that I attend solo
during the brief period

when Aviva and I
are back together.

Trying to work things out
after our first breakup,

none of which has come
to pass in linear time.

I'm solo because after
everything we will
have gone through,

Aviva is comfortable enough
to generously allow me

some alone time with my friends
without kicking up a fuss.

That's the impression
I'm under, anyways.

I'm a little drunk, a little
more forward than usual,

and Dave introduces
me to his friend,

this young woman named Isadora.

It's like, electricity
is an inadequate word.

When her eyes look into mine,
it's like I can see myself

reflected back at
me, only more open,

more curious, more
alive, more everything.

Recognition.

During this brief chat
that spans an eternity,

she mentioned she's going to
Berlin to study for a semester.

So I tell her to call
Nissan while she's there,

making up for all the times

that he's played
matchmaker to me.

I'm with Aviva, so I feel
proud for doing this.

I'm with Aviva, so I
feel sick for doing this.

Just as I expect, Nissan
falls are hard for her,

but she blows him
off after a week.

I mean, he's not for her.

I'm for her.

She calls or texts me every
few months, lets me know

that she's done with Berlin,
she's moved to Los Angeles.

I always respond cordially
without excess warmth, because

I know if I open this door,
there is no turning back.

None of this has
happened yet, but,

[phone ringing]

It will.

- [Zeke] Hey this is
Zeke, you found me.

Express yourself.

- [Aviva] Hey there, Zeke.

your manager passed
me your number.

My name is Aviva Le Grand.

I'm a video artist and
director from Paris.

I love your music,
especially your new song,

Love It or Leave It.

I think it's got magic.

I have an idea
for a video for it

that could be something
really special.

[soft music]

[rock music]

♪ Long are the days when
you're turning away ♪

♪ From a reason so strong

♪ Long is the way when
you're aching to say ♪

♪ But your teeth
bite your tongue ♪

♪ Loud is the wind in
your ears when you spin ♪

♪ As you look for the sun

♪ Loud are the skies as
you thunder your cries ♪

♪ When your prayers are sung

♪ Hard is the floor
as the waves ♪

- She's brilliant.

- Yeah.

- Why didn't you show
me your work before?

Why hide it?

- [Eden] I wasn't hiding it.

I wanted to focus this
thing on a relationship,

on who we are to
each other first.

- Or maybe you're just
intimidated by her.

I'm not.

I would be.

She's a genius.

- I'm not intimidated.

I'm inspired.

♪ My oh my it hurts sometimes

♪ Oh my oh my it
hurts sometimes ♪

♪ I think I'm
running out of time ♪

♪ Before I'm gonna
lose my mind ♪

♪ My oh my it hurts sometimes

- I finished my first record.

- I'm surprised
you found the time.

- Listen, man, I'd love for
it to be something for me too.

♪ Before I'm gonna
lose my mind ♪

- So ask her

- It's just, you know, I
don't want your feelings--

- I'm fine.

Just ask her.

If she wants to do
it, she'll do it.

[car engine roars]

- [Eden] So what
are you thinking?

- [Male Aviva] I dunno.

It could be strange.

- [Female Eden] Do you
like Mason's music?

- I do, I actually
think it's very special.

- Then you should do it.

[rock music]

- What do you
think of this edit?

- It's beautiful.

- [Male Aviva] Yeah,
but I think this

angle is better for him, no?

- The other one's
perfect, though.

Capture something grounded and
spiritual at the same time.

- Jesus Christ, take
it easy over there.

- [Female Eden] What
are you talking about?

- Just it's just
embarrassing, okay?

- What is?

- [Eden] You know what
I'm talking about.

- [Female Eden]
Spell it out for me.

- Aviva was right, it's
pathetic how you are

about anything having
to do with Mason.

- He proposed the idea,
you could have said no.

- Right, like I was
gonna be the bad guy.

Great position to put me in.

- What position?

Aviva doing something
nice for your friend

after she moved her entire
life here to be with you?

Is that so bad?

- Nope.

I did it, see.

I'm nice, Mr. Nice guy.

- [Female Eden] No, you've
been an asshole ever since--

- Since what?

- You're gone even when you're
here, which is hardly ever.

you're always off to the
side, angry all the time.

- And when you do say
something it's mean.

- [Eden] Maybe
because you've acted

like a total jealous
bitch since the moment

you saw me with Mason.

- That's what you like to think,

but you're the one
who was being jealous.

- Me?

Maybe she is, I
don't give a fuck.

- I'm not jealous
of either of you.

You're the one who's
always telling people

where they can go, when
they shouldn't be there.

- It's true, you've been
jealous and controlling

since the day I got here.

- If you had any
sense of boundaries,

I wouldn't feel the
need to control you.

- Maybe you should figure
out your own boundaries

before you worry about how
other people handle theirs.

- You stay the fuck
out of this, okay?

No one asked you to be
here in the first place.

- [Male Aviva] You want me
to quote some of those emails

you sent me back to you?

- [Eden] I never wrote you
a single fucking email.

- No?

- Where do we think
all those emails

you fell so in love
with were from?

- I was reading
letters from her.

- You were reading letters
from me, you idiot.

She barely has the patience

to put a coherent
sentence together.

- Hey, you can go
fuck yourself, too.

I don't need your fucking help

if you're going to
help me like this.

You know, he didn't want
anything to do with you,

and I don't blame him.

- [Male Aviva] So now
you're on his side?

- I'm not on anybody's side.
- You are taking his side.

- No.

- You are always taking side,
and I'm fucking sick of it.

- Sick of it?

- Sick of it.

- We never even had a
fight about these before.

- Don't act stupid.

These fight, other fights,
there is another side available,

you'll take it, right?

- Hey, calm down.

- [Aviva] Don't fucking
tell me to come down.

- Chill out, okay?

- I talk how I fucking I
want to talk, all right?

Don't tell me what to do. I
don't even know who I am anymore

in this stupid fucking country.

Acting like some kind of
polite American all the time.

- This is you polite?

Jesus, I'd hate to see you
in your native habitat.

- Fuck you.

This is who I am now.

If you don't like it,

I can go home.

- [Eden] Come on,
don't say that.

- Do you even want me here?

- Of course I want you here.

- I'm not talking to you.

I'm talking to him.

Do you even want me here?

- Don't put your choices on me.

- Jesus.

- You're gonna fuck this up.

You're gonna fuck everything up.

You always do.

- Maybe if you didn't
keep getting me into shit

that I don't want to be in,

I wouldn't have to
fuck anything up.

- See, you don't
want to be in this.

- Come on, man.

Don't say things you won't
be able to take back.

- Aviva's here.

I'm here.

You're the one who needs to
decide what he wants to do.

This is the best thing
that's ever happened

to me in my life.

If you wanna take it
away from me, go ahead.

I can't stop you, I never could.

I'm doing something wrong.

- You're not doing
anything wrong.

- Yes I am.

[Female Eden sobbing]

- You brought us all together.

You're not doing anything wrong.

[metal creaking]

- I know I said earlier that
there's nothing more lonely

or more depressing than
being alone in New York city,

but that's not, empirically
speaking, correct.

There's nothing more lonely
than being alone in Los Angeles.

- It's a left, turn left.

- I got it.

[horn honking]

Dear Aviva.

- Dear?

Are you seriously
letting go of sweet?

- Is that really
what you want me

to be focusing on right now?

- I'll just write sweet.

- Dear Aviva.

Heard you were in
the desert somewhere.

I remember I promised
myself, or you,

that I would write to you at
least something once a day

for all the time we
would know each other.

I guess it took us breaking
up for me to honor it again.

You're an amazing person.

You always surprise me,

even though I'm so jaded
and often unengaged.

you told me I don't
know how to live.

It's true.

I don't know how to make the
most out of a simple day.

I don't know how to get
the most out of breakfast,

to enjoy a simple walk, to
get the most out of work

or creativity in anything
other than sporadic bursts.

I don't know how to move
through time and space

with a sense of accepting
that I'm the vessel

doing the moving.

Even as I understand
I'm doing myself and God

an injustice by
directing such negativity

toward a life that I
shouldn't be grateful for.

[acoustic music]

I imagine it's very confusing

being in a relationship
with someone like me.

I get angry sometimes when
I see how real you are,

how substantial, when
I'm in this stupid,

ugly place, floating
around like a ghost.

And then, I realize that
I'd rather be this way,

or I wanna be here
doing what I'm doing,

making one reality after
another and then abandoning it

so that others can
inhabit it without me.

I'm running.

I don't ever wanna get caught,
but I'm tired of running.

Sorry I've been
going on and on here,

but you wanted to know where
I'm at, so here you have it.

I admire you and I love you, E.

- Dear E, it's both painful
and moving to read your words.

Don't do that.

- What?

- That's stupid
bobbing to the music

in the car, sort of thing.

It's cutesy and ingratiating,
and I fucking hate it.

If you wanna dance,
pull over, stop the car,

get out and make a
proper fucking dance.

- Who's cut-off and mean now?

- I am, deal with it.

You want to hear the rest of it?

- Sure.

- It was so strange for me
to be alone in the city.

Hard to go meet people for
work and put myself out there.

[horns blaring]

So confusing meeting men
in the world in general,

with the knowledge
that we're separated.

[horn blaring]

So, I got myself out
of there and headed

into the desert in New Mexico.

Spent a lot of time
there by myself.

One day, I got kind
of lost, it was scary,

a story for another
day, and I met

these two people who
really saved my ass.

They're this couple who travel
to the most dangerous places

in the world and they
dance together there.

[Eden giggling]

They're not the only ones.

It's a thing.

Gave me an idea to
make a movie out of it.

I started filming them,
and I'm putting together

a teaser to raise money
for the rest of it.

I'm DJing for a
Zeke's club shows,

and she's gonna do
the music for it.

It's a trip.

I'm lonelier than
I've ever been,

sadder and happier than
I've ever been all at once.

I love you, and I
have no regrets,

but I don't wanna go through
something like this again.

I wanna be with somebody

who wants to be with me.

The way I am, not the
way he wants me to be.

I have so much love
and passion in me,

and I don't wanna
feel guilty about it.

Still, I miss us,
and I miss you, A.

Nicole just texted you.

- Nicole?

- Yeah, from high school.

- I know who she is.

I'm just surprised
to hear from her.

- Well, she's here.

- [Eden] You mean in LA?

- No, I mean in this car,
stashed in the trunk.

- I always liked her.

- [Female Eden] I have nothing
to talk with her about.

- I do.

- We have no shared interests.

Nothing in common, nothing.

- Daredevil, that's my guy.

Smart and blind, just
tell how I like my men.

- I don't know.

I was strictly Kirby-stuff.

Cosmic stuff, worlds
beyond imagination,

shit that actually
opens your mind,

Thor, FF, The
Eternals, The New Gods.

- It was all straight-level,
someone I could identify with,

Like, if I looked into an
alley on the way to school,

I might just catch a
glimpse in the shadows.

Punisher, Daredevil, Spider-Man.

- Spider-Man is street level?

- Compared to The New Gods, yes.

- Look, I like those
guys well enough,

it's fine if I couldn't get
my hands on anything else,

but where's the
imagination, the aspiration?

- Sometimes putting your fist
through some jerk's face,

is all the aspiration you need.

- Good to know.

- [Man] Can I refresh
everybody's drink?

- You've already had three.

- One more and I'll be at
maximum suggestibility.

- She'll have another one.

- [Nicole] What about you?

- [Female Eden] I still
have work to do tonight.

- [Nicole] Really?

[Nicole and Eden panting]

- Are you okay?

- I'm great.

- I want you to, you know.

- You don't have to do
anything, I'm great.

- I want you to be happy.

- I'm happy.

- I mean, really happy.

- I'm really happy.

- Jesus.

[upbeat music]

Come on, move over.

- Where are you going?

♪ I almost lost my mind

♪ That's why I had to do it

♪ The way you're
moving your side ♪

♪ You know I had to do it

[Nicole moaning]

Do it hard.

You can do it harder.

- She said do it harder.

- Yes, yes, yes.

Oh, my God, yes.

[Nicole moaning]

- Oh, my gosh.

Unbelievable.

- I'm gonna go make
me some coffee.

You guys want anything?

- No, thank you.

I'm good.

- Milk, two sugars.

[rock music]

♪ What I say when I
say that I miss you ♪

♪ Is that I will
always love me more ♪

♪ What I need when I
bleed just to drown you ♪

♪ Is that some day
you'll become ashore ♪

♪ It's my wave that will
crave and will pull you ♪

♪ And another that
will push you back ♪

♪ We will be just a sea
they can sail through ♪

♪ They can split us
but we never crack ♪

[rock music]

♪ On occasions our
sea will swallow ♪

♪ 630 shades of sad

♪ And occasionally,
we'll be just shallow ♪

♪ And all of them will
see the things we had ♪

[rock music]

[all moaning]

♪ 20,000 different
leagues of sorrow ♪

♪ That'll stop us while
we let them drown ♪

♪ And the moon will
lift our holy bodies ♪

♪ And we'll live as one

[phone ringing]

- Can you get it?

- Mm-hmm.

[phone ringing]

Hey.

- [Female Eden] Hey.

How are you?

- Good, I'm good.

- Are you?

- Yeah.

Better than I've been
in a while, actually.

- [Female Eden] How
are the shows going?

- They're going.

I'm signing with Rim Shot.

- [Eden] That's a great agency.

- Yeah.

They just got me the rest of
the budget to make my feature.

- Jesus.

- [Female Aviva] Yeah.

- That's amazing.

Everyone I know is
talking about your work.

You know, I'm here in town.

- [Male Aviva] You're here?

- [Female Eden] Yeah, it
was a last minute thing.

I was going to tell you, but
I wasn't sure I should call.

- Why wouldn't you call?

- I don't know.

I'm editing this thing,
I have to screen it here

in a few days.

I was hoping you
could check it out,

maybe do a few things to it?

But-

- [Aviva] I'll be there.

- If it's not a
good time for you,

- [Aviva] No, I'll be
there, I'll be there.

[footsteps thudding]

- This is not a workplace.

- It's our space.

- It was.

- I miss you.

- I missed you, too.

- We should get back together.

What?

- Your timing is just...

After so many sleepless nights,
so many broken-hearted days,

finally I get myself to
a place where I can...

And now?

I'm sorry.

- It's exactly what we needed.

To get to a better place
that we couldn't get to

when we were still together,
because of all the pressure,

of long distance, of
constantly being rushed.

We can restart this
the right way now.

- I don't think this
is the right time.

- Please?

Please, come back.

I love you.

I don't wanna let you go.

Please, come back.

- I love you, too.

I'm here.

Let's do what we came
here to do, okay?

- Is it just the three of us?

- She'll be back soon.

- Hey, come on.

- You do what you have to do.

I'm gonna to sit here and wait
for her for a minute, okay?

[soft music]

- He waited.

He had done what I
had asked him to do.

I have to give him that.

And he waited.

He waited for a lot
more than a minute.

There was no reason to be
in Los Angeles anymore,

so it was back to the
New York apartment,

our old white room.

Only it wasn't so white anymore.

Aviva had decorated
the hell out of it

in the time we were apart.

New furniture,
everywhere, posters

and even paintings on the walls.

Bizarre tchotchkes
on every shelf.

I hardly recognized it anymore.

[soft music]

But I was happy.

I mean, really happy, maybe
for the first time in my life.

And he waited.

But she had found something
he had never given her,

something that in
her heart of hearts,

she didn't believe he ever
would or could give her.

[upbeat music]

And once having found it,
she was not about to easily

let it go, no matter how
good everything else was.

And it was good.

As good as good can be.

[indistinct chatter]

[soft music]

And maybe she would've
come back, eventually.

Maybe she did come back.

[door thudding]

I don't really know.

Because by then,

there was no one home.

- You can do it harder.

You can do it much harder.

- How much harder?

- As hard as you want to.

- We need a safe word.

- I don't need a safe word.

- Maybe I need a safe word?

- We don't have to do
it if you don't want to.

- Do you want me to do it?

- I want you to want to do it.

[Nicole panting]

Come on.

[Nicole giggling]

[both moaning]

[Eden shouting]

- Did you?

- It was great.

- Yeah, but you didn't.

- There's always next time.

[indistinct chatter]

- Hey.

Give me two seconds, okay?

Hey, can I talk to
you for a minute?

It can't wait, okay?

One camera please.

I just need a minute, okay?

I can't do this by myself.

- No one said you had to.

- I don't wanna have
to rely on you anymore.

I have to be able to
do this on my own.

- Do you have any idea how
fucked up and wrong you are?

Do you?

- You don't know how it
feels to have never been able

to make one woman happy for
one single moment in your life.

- I like your jokes.

- Fuck you.

I'm only pretending to laugh
to kill time until you show up.

I've never even given
woman an orgasm,

not one single
orgasm, not one, ever.

- I'm over this.

Over your fear, over your anger.

Go find someone who
doesn't know any better

and take the credit for it.

- I can't, and I don't want to.

I want to be with someone who
I want for once in my life.

Not who you want, who I want,
and who wants me, not you, me.

- How the fuck is anyone
supposed to want you

when you hate you
so goddam much?

- I don't hate me, I hate you.

I've always hated
you, ever since.

Every single problem,
every issue I was having

with Aviva was a problem
I was having with you.

I don't have a
problem with Aviva.

It's you.

- So, are you gonna get
back on your little bike

and ride away, or are you
gonna do something about it?

- [Male Aviva] Some socks.

- [Eden] Thermal stuff is good.

- [Female Aviva] I
have thermal stuff.

I know how to pack.

- [Female Eden] Did
you order a taxi?

- I thought you were.

I'll order, I got it, I got it.

Give me that.

- Make sure you're with someone

who really knows
what they're doing.

- I'll be fine.

- Right.

You're about to go follow
a couple of lunatics

up the side of a
mountain in Alaska.

- Look, I'm making a
movie about couples

who inspire each other
to go to the edge.

- Doesn't mean you have
to go there with them.

- People are opening
up their lives to me.

If they're going there,
I gotta go there, too.

- You gonna back me up here,

or are you just gonna sit
there staring at the door?

- [Eden] I'm not
staring at the door.

I'm making flight plans.

[classical music]

- Flight plans?

- I'm going to LA for a week.

- This is news.

- [Eden] It's a
last minute meeting.

- Before I go to Alaska?

- Next morning.

[horns honking]

- Door closes,
down three flights.

Picks up bag, goes
outside, look for a taxi.

Taxi, taxi, taxi.

Picks up bag.

To the airport please.

It's hot.

Gets money out, pays.

Kicks the door
open, gets the bag.

Passport.

Security.

Computer.

Shoes.

Computer, bag, on the plane.

Looks for the seat.

32B.

Seat belt.

Looks out the window.

Time for takeoff.

Cruising altitude is 30
thousand-hundred feet.

Drink please.

[mouth clicking]

[Eden giggling]

Another drink.

Time for landing.

Welcome to LA, where the
weather is perfect all the time.

Catches the car keys.

Where is it?

Oh, wow.

Picks up the phone.

[indistinct]

Hey.

Isadora?

It's Eden.

Wow.

What a surprise.

Yeah.

I'm even more of a
surprised, I'm in LA.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Any chance you're around?

I'm around.

Well, can I see you?

You can see me.

When?

How about, now?

Okay, what's your address?

I'll text you it.

It's a five-story walk-up.

Think you can make it up?

- I can make it up.

What is this feeling?

This feeling that
I've never had before.

This feeling.

Even before it happens, he knows
that there's no going back.

Either this is gonna be complete
bullshit, or this is it.

Bing.

[indistinct chatter]

- You found the edge, huh?

- I guess I went over it.

- I guess so.

- I hope I didn't fuck up
your business trip too much.

- Don't be stupid.

What's the damage?

- I fractured three
vertebrates in my spine.

The doctor said that I might
be all right, eventually.

But it's going to take a
lot of time and patience.

[monitors beep]

Can we go home now?

[soft music]

- What unbelievable timing,
he thinks to himself.

A joke, a test too monstrous

even for a cruel and
capricious god to invent.

Leaving Aviva now
would be unforgivable.

He's gonna be like a
character in a Russian novel.

It was said in his later
days he could be seen

walking arm-in-arm
with his frail wife.

In the park of a Sunday,
taking in the air,

a faraway look in
his hollow eyes.

Like two ghosts without
purpose or destination.

They've wandered through
the land of the living.

- [Eden] Please.

[soft music]

We can't do this anymore.

- I know.

Did you meet someone?

- [Eden] Yes.

- In Los Angeles?

- [Eden] Yes.

- Will you stay
with me long enough

to help me go through

with some of the
doctor's appointments?

So I can figure out what's what?

- He stays for six weeks
before he takes off.

As for his thing with Isadora,

I ended in five.

Payback's a bitch.

He'll never forgive me for it.

Fuck him.

What's he ever
really done for me?

Other than a few brief misfires.

He and I are in a relationship
now, only with each other.

Not much of her relationship.

more like a detente, a cold war.

No major blowups without
any outside forces

to instigate discord or strife.

But a lot of lonely
nights and internet porn,

which, weirdly enough, I think
I'm more into than he is.

As for Aviva.

[rock music]

- She finished her movie
after a slow and painful year

of rehab, achieved with
an iron will and encourage

and an immense
tolerance for suffering.

[water splashing]

I've seen it 100 times.

And Aviva's capacity for
acceptance and forgiveness

is as vast as the
ocean she wants crossed

in order to share
her life with me.

And not a day will pass
without a message or a call

between us, and we will work
together and play together

and grow closer
than ever before.

[rock music]

And one day.

- Where is she?

My girlfriend's
out there tonight.

Where?

There she is.

[speaking foreign language]

What?

Don't nothin' rhyme
with soir, baby.

I don't know what
to call you now.

My girl is French, crazy too.

Got me dancing under
the active volcanoes

and on top of
bridges, and whatnot.

It's charming as hell,
though, got my heart like,

She's complicated.

Not only is she
French, she's Jewish.

Got an attitude and she
feels guilty about it.

[all laugh]

And I feel guilty, too,
I drive a Germany car.

The Jewish and
German people have

a history I don't
fully understand.

All I know is that
when she's in the car,

I can't turn the heat
on without hearing shit

about her grandmother.

She gives me this look like.

And I'm like, sorry, I
didn't kill your family,

I'm just enjoying the
precision and cold-blooded

technical efficiency
of those who did.

Is that so wrong?

[audience laughing]

Anyway, I flew into Paris.

- When she laughs
at a guy's jokes,

she's not pretending.

- Oh, he's amazing, right?

- He loves you.

- He does.

- Then he's the best.

[audience laughing]

- Such a great show.

- Hey man, nice to see you.

[indistinct chatter]

- We need to talk outside.

Excuse me.

I'm going to have a baby.

- When?

- Seven months.

- Everything's gonna change.

- Everything is always changing.

[soft piano music]

- Hello.

Hello.

[Female Eden giggling]

[indistinct chatter]

[soft music]

[indistinct chatter]

- Come on, let's go.

[indistinct chatter]

- You're my best
friend in the world.

[birds chirping]

[soft music]

[indistinct chatter]

[slow music]

♪ Tears are clouding
up a sunny day ♪

♪ And I wish it'd turn out

♪ Any other way

♪ But I don't think
that you'd care ♪

♪ If I stepped
out of your hair ♪

♪ And you'd find me anywhere

♪ But here

♪ I wish it wasn't so

♪ I'll say it again

♪ I wish it wasn't so

♪ But I don't think
that you'd mind ♪

♪ If I left this room behind

♪ And I'd step outside to find

♪ Some other place

♪ Let's say that it's okay

♪ And just leave it

♪ At that

♪ Things are different

♪ Than they seem

♪ Everybody's looking
from the outside ♪

♪ But we're both stuck within

♪ And I wish that
you would say ♪

♪ That you wanted me to stay

♪ And we'll find
some other way ♪

♪ But this

♪ Let's say that it's okay

♪ And just leave it at that

♪ La la la la la la

♪ Maybe I could wait

♪ But I think that
it's too late, ♪

♪ So let's just call it fate

♪ From here

[soft music]