“Life has its tricks. Its oddities.”

– Jackie Demaistre

Shopping for food*

“I thought you'd be hungry, maybe.”

Schneider and Ronet's characters go get their groceries in a tiny, surprisingly well-stocked-with-Asian-food-items French corner shop, ánd manage to find all the ingredients needed. One rookie mistake: Uncle Ben's. Of all the rice in the world…

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative.

“Left early. Please come with the money… or, you keep the Rolls. All my love,

Tommy”

“What year is it now? I forgot.”

– Jamie

Siblings as main characters for Siblings Day (USA/Canada)

– “Nous sommes deux sœurs jumelles, nées sous le signe des gémeaux   – Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do   – Aimant la ritournelle, les calembours et les bons mots   – Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do”

– Delphine & Solange

Student activism to commemorate the March 19 1968 Howard University Protest

“One must confront vague ideas with clear images”

– slogan on a wall

Five Maoist students theorise, then practice a radical overthrow via terrorism.

 

Loosely based on Dostoyevsky's Бѣсы [The Possessed] (1871–72).

Good, or bad, fortune on the day Wheel of Fortune premiered in 1975.

– How much did you win?

– 500,000 in less than an hour. It's immoral, but no more than anything else. No more than poverty or ugliness.

– Do you play? – Try me.

“We'll go back to Nice tomorrow. The Bay of Angels brings us luck.”

– Jean Fournier