Who's Abby in Paris?
Frances goes to Paris for the weekend to meet up with Abby. Who is she again? And why is Frances so keen to meet up with her?
Please jog my brain, I didn't get that. Thanks.
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I cant remember either, though the cast list has her listed (maybe just the voice)
Was she desperately looking for a new friend????
That's what I think. She was torn up about Sophie leaving for Japan. And to add insult to injury wasn't even told about it by Sophie herself but rather found out about it from a random person at a random dinner party. So, I think she just wanted to get away and hook up with another "friend" as a replacement. Kind of like the rebound person you date to get the taste of your ex out of your mouth. It never works and is a desperate attempt.
shareI don't think she was looking for a new friend, tho I agree that she was reeling from the news about Sophie AND from the fact that Sophie hadn't told her directly.
Frances was feeling so out-of-place at that dinner party that she impulsively grasped at what was essentially just a politely tendered invitation ("You can stay at our flat if you're ever in Paris") -- I think she was so sad that she, uncharacteristically, tried to find a way to fit it ("Oh, I travel to Paris, too! Just like a normal person!") and also impulsively was looking for something that would distract her from her pain (a new setting, albeit very briefly) and also was just basically acting impulsively *bc* she was in pain -- the actual act (going to Paris) was almost arbitrary.
The return message from Abby implies that they were good friends at college, but calling Abby was a kind of afterthought, a kind of reaching out once Frances was *in* Paris -- she didn't *go* to Paris to see this old friend. She would've gone to Paris even if she'd known no one there, because she was (as always) acting impulsively and being a bit blind to social reality (= the man who offered the apt. didn't really expect her to take him up on the offer). It was a lovely, if painful, compressed look at Frances's uniqueness (and gaffes) and at her pain.
"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."
The part where Frances goes to Paris for two days was where the movie began to fall apart for me and I became annoyed as a viewer. That was a completely stupid plot element. Who in the hell does something like that when they are totally broke?
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