[1]This weekend, I watched two films that made me happy to be single. Before Midnight [2] is the latest installment in a trilogy of films exploring the almost 20-year relationship between an American (Ethan Hawke) and a Frenchwomen (Julie Delpy) who had first met on a train in Vienna and fallen in love. They are now middle-aged with twin girls and a well-entrenched pattern of fighting. The film is amazing and excruciating in how intimately it takes us into the evolution of passion. Then on Sunday, plopped on the couch, I grimaced through Hope Springs [3] starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a couple married for over 30 years whose relationship is in crisis. I kept wondering what they ever saw in each other. At the end of the weekend, I smugly got into bed, alone.
Sculpture by Will Cotton [1]