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France, who live in a country

that has an amazing history,

right.

Amazing philosophers and

artists,

writers and even politicians,

you know,

human rights, the French new

wave

and cinema or French cuisine,

French baguette, wine and

cheese.

I feel like we live in a place

that

has a better past than future.

It's like we're born at

the wrong time, you know.

It's really frustrating.

- Poor thing.

- Come on, you can't

understand, you're an American.

- No, I do.

But, it's the same everywhere.

I mean, look at the United

States.

Everyone's saying the

American is presently dead.

- [Florent] Come on, you can do

whatever you want in America.

- [Alessia] No, America runs on

money

and oil and that's it.

- [Florent] I see, so

you're one of those then?

- [Alessia] One of what?

- [Florent] Anti-globalization.

Communists, vegan, lesbian

activist.

You have tattoos all over your

butt.

- Seriously though.

Americans don't care

about art or philosophy.

They don't know how to live.

They work 60 hour weeks

until finally they retire and

they never leave the country.

And, there's a category for

everything.

Like if I say occupy wallstreet

then

I'm a communist lesbian, like

you said.

Like, people are robots.

If you're Black or gay or Asian

or Jewish or rich or poor

than you should behave

like this or like that.

But, what if you don't

fit into their categories,

their tiny little boxes?

And, what if you don't want Sam

or Joe

at Starbucks to ask you a

thousand times,

"How are you doing today,

ma'am?"

'Cause you're pissed as f***.

You're having a shitty day.

In Texas, they're like, "oh

hey, come around over here,

"Cynthia can help you.

"Cynthia can you check her out,

please?

"Can you run her up?"

- I guess the grass is

always greener, huh?

- I love it.

Are the French immune to lung

cancer?

I see French people drinking all

the time.

- [Florent] Yeah.

- But, like only the

homeless people get drunk.

Starbucks coffee sucks.

(people talking)

Ew.

Sand.

- [Voiceover] Want some wine,

you want?

You want some wine?

- Please.

Thank you.

Cheers.

Cheers.

- [Florent] Can you

pass the bread, please?

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you

but Marion doesn't speak English

at all.

- Of course, I can speak

English.

- You're sounding fine to me.

- What did she say?

- [Florent] See, told you.

- So, where are we?

- In Deauville.

And, you know what.

This is the place where they

wrote (speaking French).

- [Florent] You know where the

Americans

landed during World War

II, like I told you before.

- Right here?

- No.

- [Florent] No, it's close to

here.

There's a memorial.

If you want, we can go, it's

pretty nice.

I can take you.

- [Alessia] Wow, I'd love to see

that.

- What are you doing?

What are you doing?

- [Florent] Yeah, she

does that all the time.

- No, no, wait, wait, stop,

stop, stop.

What are you doing?

No, please stop.

- Come on, you're beautiful.

- [Marion] No, I'm not beautiful

at all.

I will be very, very beautiful

with this.

- [Florent] Very beautiful,

- [Alessia] Yes.

Not sure.

- I love the lipstick.

Very glamorous.

- Let me get ready.

(laughing)

What?

- Get ready.

What?

- [Marion] God.

- Very glamorous.

- [Marion] Yeah?

- Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah, come on.

- Cheese.

Show me a picture.

I want to see one.

Just show me one.

- No.

- [Woman] I just want to see.

- [Alessia] No.

Why no, it's me, you have to.

You have to.

- [Alessia] No.

Show me just one.

- No, seriously.

- [Florent] Hey, where you

going?

- I'm just gonna go for a walk.

- [Florent] Should I come with

you?

- [Alessia] No, it's okay.

I'm just gonna walk around a

little bit.

- [Florent] Walk around?

- Yeah, like, take some

pictures.

You guys catch up.

I'll be back soon.

'Kay.

- Bye.

- Wow.

This all looks so delicious.

I can eat these?

- [Marion] Yeah.

- [Florent] Of course.

- So, did you also go

to the American school?

- Me? no.

Normal school.

Public school for normal people.

- [Alessia] So, how did you guys

meet?

- From long time.

- We went to preschool together.

- [Alessia] Really?

- [Florent] Yeah.

- I don't have any friends from

preschool.

So, tell me something about

Florent

that he would never tell me

himself.

- He's very nice.

He's very generous.

He loves his friends.

But, if you do something in his

back,

he just stops speaking with you

forever.

- Oh, really?

- And, he's also very romantic.

- That's not true.

I don't know why she's

saying this, that's not true.

- [Alessia] That's so sweet.

I don't know why she's saying

this.

- [Alessia] Okay, tell me more.

Tell me more.

- Oh, I have us a funny story

about him.

Okay.

- [Alessia] Yes, yes.

Just what I want.

- [Marion] We went to Iceland.

- Can't believe you're

gonna tell this story.

- [Alessia] Thanks.

- Especially to see whales.

But, it just had (speaking

French).

- What, what?

(speaking French)

- A total what?

- [Florent] Had a stiff neck.

- [Marion] Okay, because the

night before,

he was too drunk to go to his

bed

so he just slept on the floor

like this.

So, when we saw a whale,

he just couldn't see it.

So, it was so funny because in

four days

he never saw a single whale.

- You went all the way to

Ireland

and you didn't see a single

whale?

- Iceland, not Ireland.

- Same thing.

- I don't know why she's saying

all this.

She's crazy, seriously.

- 'Cause I love him very much.

So, now your turn.

Tell us something about you.

What are you doing here?

- Um.

Okay.

Well, um, I'm from Texas.

I'm 23 years old.

And, I just studied

random stuff in the US.

- What is random stuff?

- [Alessia] It's just you

make up your own major.

- Okay.

And?

- And.

And.

Oh, my mother just died.

- I'm sorry, I didn't know.

You never said anything.

- Yeah, it was her dream to come

to France

and she never did so, here I am.

- I'm sorry.

- Yeah, we weren't that close.

It's okay.

- Still, she's your mom.

- [Florent] Should we

drink something, maybe?

So, you like oysters or shrimps

better?

- The shrimp.

- [Alessia] So, what's

there to do in Deauville?

- Nothing.

- Resting.

- [Marion] I don't know.

When do you go back to US?

- I'm not sure.

Maybe I'll stay.

- [Marion] You don't

want to see your family?

- [Alessia] Not really.

This is good.

- Eat more, you're not eating

anything.

- [Alessia] Cheers.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

- Please stop staring like this?

- That waiter's really cute.

- I was thinking the same.

- We should invite him over

here.

- [Florent] Come on, he's

working.

- So.

- So, maybe I should go be the

waiter

and then he could come

and sit with you guys,

if that's what you want.

- And, he's very jealous, too.

- [Florent] That's not true.

(laughing)

- Come on, drink it up.

- What is this?

- Just let it be.

(coughing)

- This is so nice.

- What?

- Just do it.

- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

He wants us to leave.

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