Zeroville
““Mon dieu,” she says to the TV. For the first time, her French sounds like she means it.
“Positively the same dame!” says Vikar.
“This film!” Maria says with the first delight Vikar has heard from her. On TV, Barbara Stanwyck says to Henry Fonda, “Why, Hopsi, you belong in a cage,” and begins stroking the befuddled Fonda’s hair. Maria curls up behind Vikar and begins stroking his bald head. “Preston Sturges invented a kiss-proof lipstick,” she says.
“When?”
“Before he began writing plays and ci...nema, before he became a director. He invented things.”
“He invented lipstick?”
“Kiss-proof lipstick.”
“I don’t know what that is.”
“He should have made a film about that. Perhaps he did not see the humor in it.”
“The humor?”
“I heard a bizarre story,” she laughs, pointing at the TV, “about someone who went to see this because he had been told it was not a comedy. He sat through the entire film wondering why everyone was laughing.”
Vikar is silent.MoreLess
“Positively the same dame!” says Vikar.
“This film!” Maria says with the first delight Vikar has heard from her. On TV, Barbara Stanwyck says to Henry Fonda, “Why, Hopsi, you belong in a cage,” and begins stroking the befuddled Fonda’s hair. Maria curls up behind Vikar and begins stroking his bald head. “Preston Sturges invented a kiss-proof lipstick,” she says.
“When?”
“Before he began writing plays and ci...nema, before he became a director. He invented things.”
“He invented lipstick?”
“Kiss-proof lipstick.”
“I don’t know what that is.”
“He should have made a film about that. Perhaps he did not see the humor in it.”
“The humor?”
“I heard a bizarre story,” she laughs, pointing at the TV, “about someone who went to see this because he had been told it was not a comedy. He sat through the entire film wondering why everyone was laughing.”
Vikar is silent.MoreLess
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