Paris, I Love You (2006)

Margo Martindale: Carol (segment "14e Arrondissement")

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• Carol : Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I'd never known before or had always been waiting for, but I didn't know what. Maybe it was something I'd forgotten or something I've been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris. And I felt Paris fall in love with me.

• Carol : Sometimes I think it would be nice to have someone, with whom to share this life.

• Carol : And then something happened, something that is hard to describe.

  [looks around at people around her in the park] 

  Carol : Sitting there in a foreign country, far from my job and all the people I knew, a feeling came over me. As if I recalled something, smething that I had never known and for which I had been waiting.

  Carol : But I didn't know what it was. Maybe it was something I had forgotten. Or something I had missed my whole life. I can only tell you that at the same time I felt joy and sadness.

  Carol : But not a great sadness. Because I felt alive. Yes. Alive.

  Carol : That was the moment I fell in love with Paris and the moment that I felt that Paris had fallen in love with me.

• Carol : They say a lot of things about Paris. They say it's a place where artists find inspiration. They say it's a place where people come to discover something new about their lives. They say it's a place where you can find love.

  Carol : Of course, at my age, I didn't expect any of that.