A young American woman from the Midwest is hired by a marketing firm in Paris to provide them with an American perspective on things.
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00:00Sorry, I thought this was my apartment.
00:09Oh, jeez. I did it again. I'm really so sorry.
00:14Emily, do you want to live in my apartment?
00:16I'm Emily. Emily Cooper, your new neighbor.
00:20American.
00:21Oui, from Chicago.
00:23Gabriel, French.
00:25How do you know about this place?
00:26I live right down there, and every time I pass by, it's packed.
00:28Ah, bon appétit.
00:30I promise I won't bang on your door again.
00:33No problem. Bang anytime.
00:36Nice to meet you, neighbor.
00:38Enchanté.
00:41Bonsoir.
00:44Gabriel.
00:45Emily.
00:46You're the chef here?
00:47Oui. Is there a problem?
00:50No. No. I love it. Everything is perfect.
00:56You haven't touched it.
01:00It's surprisingly tender.
01:02Tender.
01:03See? I knew you'd like it if you gave it a chance.
01:06Oh, hi. Hi, good morning.
01:09Can you please just tell her that the water cut off in my shower?
01:19She wants to know what you did.
01:21Nothing.
01:22No.
01:23What do you mean, no?
01:24Impossible.
01:25But why impossible?
01:26Because I don't have the right pieces. I have to buy a new one.
01:31No, wait, wait, wait.
01:33S'il vous plaît.
01:37Hi, can you come talk to my plumber? It's an emergency.
01:40Good morning, Gabriel. How are you today?
01:42Good morning, Gabriel. How are you today?
01:44Asleep, thank you for asking.
01:45I was having a very nice dream, and this American girl banged on my door and woke me up.
01:50He needs a part.
01:51But it's not ordinary, so it could take a few days or a few weeks, depending.
01:58Okay, what do I do until then?
02:01Use mine.
02:05Merci for the shower.
02:07La douche.
02:08What?
02:09The shower is la douche.
02:11Oh.
02:12Are you looking for my douche?
02:14I had a wonderful douche.
02:21I like Paris, but I'm not really sure Paris likes me.
02:24And maybe that's okay. I've spent my entire life wanting to be liked.
02:28Well, there's just one problem.
02:30What's that?
02:32I like you.
02:34Look, now that you're single, why don't you go find some of that French date?
02:39Actually, I'm on the hunt for one right now.
02:43Oh, no.
02:46The peanut butter.
02:47You know, you're in Paris now. I'm sure we can find you something better than peanut butter.
02:53I feel like I've never had an omelette before. This was amazing.
02:57You sure you don't want to go back to your peanut butter?
02:59No, you've ruined me forever.
03:05Well, I'm impressed.
03:07I've never been able to get a reservation here.
03:09Emily is amazing.
03:11Gabrielle, it's Emily.
03:12Who?
03:13Emily. Emily Cooper, your neighbor.
03:15Oh, Emily, hi.
03:16You booked the 8th of November. This is the 11th of August.
03:20Oh, my God. You reversed the dates.
03:23No, you reversed the dates.
03:24Yeah, I've got a massive favor, okay? I have a very important client.
03:27Oh, the lingerie.
03:28Yeah, yeah, and some others. Can you take six?
03:30Tonight?
03:31Yes, perfect.
03:32No, no, no, no.
03:33Okay, my job depends on it.
03:36That's your new friend, Gabrielle?
03:41Yes.
03:43We're going for drinks. You can join us if you want, but I think you have better things to do.
03:49He lives downstairs. I don't want to make it complicated.
03:53Oh, sometimes the best relationships are complicated.
03:56Did you forget something?
03:58I did.
04:01Yeah, no, the food's fabulous.
04:03I know, the chef is my boyfriend.
04:06Gabrielle?
04:08Yes?
04:10Oh, bonsoir.
04:12Hi.
04:13You're not working?
04:14I'm working from home.
04:16You didn't move to Paris to sit alone in your room.
04:19Oh, I...
04:20We're not taking no for an answer.
04:22I wouldn't have kissed you if I knew you had a girlfriend.
04:24It's okay, you didn't know.
04:26Well, why didn't you tell me?
04:27I didn't know you were going to kiss me.
04:30You did kiss me back.
04:34It is a normal reaction now.
04:36I guess.
04:39Clearly, it was just me, and I made it all up in my head.
04:43So, forget it.
04:46It wasn't just you.
04:51I felt it too.
04:53We will just go back to being neighbors who have never kissed.
04:56It's all we ever were.
05:05Ask Camille.
05:06She's liked every one of your posts.
05:08Oh, I know.
05:09She's like the nicest, coolest French person I know.
05:15I thought that was Gabrielle.
05:18Hey.
05:19Hello.
05:20Hey, Emily.
05:21Mwah.
05:22Mwah.
05:23Why are you after so dressed up?
05:24Oh, I have to get to the ballet.
05:26Oh, with Thomas, I presume?
05:29Yes.
05:31I'm sorry, but I think he's a snob.
05:33I just think you're wasting your time on a guy who doesn't deserve you.
05:38Gabrielle's boss has finally agreed to sell him the restaurant.
05:41Oh, my God.
05:42That's cute.
05:43Yeah.
05:44Except that's not what's happening, Camille.
05:47I can't afford it.
05:48The down payment alone is completely out of my reach.
05:50Yeah, but my parents are happy to loan him the money, so it can work, actually.
05:55If I take money from them, they own me.
05:57I don't want to be owned by anyone.
06:00Even if it means putting my dreams on hold for a while.
06:03You don't come to Paris to be good.
06:12I just wanted to make sure you got home.
06:14Um, I'm sorry.
06:18I'm not somebody who can share a crepe.
06:21Emily.
06:22I don't think we should see each other anymore.
06:25It's not good for any of us.
06:27I can get myself home.
06:30Good night, Gabrielle.
06:33She knows, right?
06:35Knows what, though?
06:36I mean, what did you really do?
06:38I've now kissed him twice.
06:39First one doesn't count.
06:40Well, the second one, more than made up for it.
06:42So don't do it again?
06:43It's not that easy.
06:45You've been avoiding me for a week, and now this.
06:47It's just a farmer's market.
06:49You think we're going to keep our hands off each other for an hour?
06:52I think I like the odds better when my hands are somewhere else.
06:54I think you're overreacting.
06:55We can be friends.
06:56I feel like we've made it pretty clear that we can't just be friends.
06:58But we live on top of each other.
07:00You're proving my point.
07:01So what, we just stop speaking?
07:02What do we tell Camille?
07:03We don't tell Camille anything.
07:05We just have to be friendly.
07:06But not friends.
07:07Yes.
07:09Gabrielle found a restaurant he can afford.
07:11Isn't that good news?
07:12The restaurant isn't in Paris, Emily.
07:14It's in Normandy.
07:15Where he's from.
07:16What?
07:17He's moving to Normandy?
07:19Yes.
07:20So were you ever going to tell me?
07:21Or just leave me a note?
07:23Hey, going to Normandy.
07:24Have a nice life.
07:26The deal came together quickly.
07:27And also, if you're not doing anything tomorrow night, it's my last night at the restaurant.
07:32Tomorrow?
07:34Why so soon?
07:36You know, I wait to start my new life.
07:39And you and Camille?
07:42Well, she's not coming to Normandy, and I'm not staying in Paris, so we will just go our own ways.
07:49In America, that's called a breakup.
07:51Yeah.
07:52We call it that here, too.
07:54Gabrielle!
07:57Emily?
08:00I...
08:01I just...
08:02I didn't want that to be the last time that we saw each other, and I'm...
08:05I'm gonna miss you so much.
08:07And I...
08:15I've thought about this so many times.
08:19I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about it, too.
08:23And...
08:24It was incredible.
08:27But you're leaving.
08:30Hey.
08:31Oh!
08:32I...
08:33I thought you were leaving this morning.
08:35We never really had a chance.
08:38But at least now we have this one perfect thing.
08:42Antoine wants to bag me the restaurant.
08:46In... in Paris?
08:48Of course.
08:50So you're staying in Paris?
08:52Yes.
09:05Gabrielle, I'm meeting with Camille at Savoir today.
09:08Oh.
09:09What have you told her?
09:10Only that I'm staying in Paris, thanks to Antoine's investment.
09:14When I went to go say goodbye to Gabrielle,
09:16it somehow turned into the most incredible night of sex that I've ever had in my entire life.
09:22Emily!
09:23Get it, girl!
09:24No!
09:25I thought that I was never gonna see him again.
09:27It's like I came to Paris and suddenly I'm Pam Spicer.
09:33Okay, you're not supposed to be in Paris.
09:35And I can't do this to Camille.
09:37You didn't do anything to Camille.
09:40I can't believe the girl I stayed in Paris for doesn't want to be with me.
09:43Stop saying that you stayed for me.
09:46Tell me that night wasn't amazing.
09:49You said that you were leaving.
09:50Tell me you didn't feel everything that I felt.
09:53I can't do this to Camille.
09:55I'm still in love with Gabrielle, Emily.
09:58And I'm afraid I've lost him.
10:00You haven't, Camille.
10:03I don't want to hurt Camille either.
10:05But I can stop thinking about you.
10:08How about us?
10:10And I can't stop thinking about you.
10:12Okay, but I have to.
10:14I have to stop thinking about you, which isn't easy
10:16because I don't think that I've ever felt things like that with anyone.
10:20It's really complicated.
10:23Well, let me make simple then.
10:25How are you in love with him?
10:29Uh-oh, chef on your left, chef on your left.
10:32Bonjour.
10:33Hi.
10:35Actually, it's my birthday tomorrow
10:38and we're planning a little dinner party.
10:40You have to be there.
10:41Perfect. I will bake you a cake.
10:43That will be my gift.
10:44That would be really nice.
10:49That came out of nowhere.
10:50I know.
10:52Why wasn't Mathieu there?
10:54Because he overheard our conversation
10:55and didn't want to go on vacation with me anymore,
10:57which was the right move.
10:59Because you don't have feelings for him.
11:00Because Mathieu was a client
11:02and I shouldn't have been going to Saint-Tropez with him anyway.
11:05Coup de foudre.
11:07Like a summer storm.
11:11We get those in the Midwest all the time.
11:14It also means
11:17love at first sight.
11:21She pretended to be my friend
11:23while she had an affair with my boyfriend.
11:26And to my boyfriend who fucked my fake friend.
11:30Cheers!
11:36Wait, this is just such a huge mess.
11:38I know.
11:40And I'm sorry.
11:41I really am.
11:46I'm not sure we should be spending time together.
11:49And plus, you seem pretty busy.
11:51Please, I need a break from not making any decisions.
11:56You've seen where I work now.
11:58I'll see where you work.
12:00Can't wait.
12:02Bye.
12:04I'm not a leek, Gabrielle.
12:06I'm a girl from Chicago, okay?
12:08I can't just magically transform
12:09into someone who can sleep with a friend's boyfriend
12:11and not care.
12:12Okay, sorry.
12:14I'm sorry.
12:15I just wish there was something I could do.
12:17Oh, hi.
12:20So this is where you work.
12:21You're early.
12:23I was a bit nervous I'd be late.
12:24This is a big deal for me.
12:26There is.
12:28What?
12:30You could tell her that what happened between us
12:31didn't mean anything.
12:34I'm not sure I can do that.
12:35I'd be lying to her.
12:39Gabrielle, I'm going to have to come to the restaurant
12:41and get some behind-the-scenes footage of you at work.
12:44Of course.
12:46You're welcome anytime.
12:50So...
12:52Did you get everything you want?
12:58Let's make a pact.
12:59Neither of us will ever be with Gabrielle.
13:01A pact?
13:02You don't have to worry about me and Gabrielle.
13:04So you agree, then?
13:06Yeah, of course.
13:10You made a pact?
13:12Like an actual pact.
13:13I thought only countries at war,
13:14like middle school girls, did that formally.
13:17What's wrong?
13:21Oh.
13:22You okay?
13:24Are you telling him about this?
13:26No, and I never will.
13:29Hey.
13:30What are you doing?
13:32Ripping off a band-aid.
13:37What's wrong?
13:39I'm only in Paris for a year.
13:41It's always been the deal.
13:42And I don't want us to start something
13:46that we can't continue.
13:47This you and me, it's a fantasy.
13:50It's a...
13:51A Paris fantasy.
13:52Hey, hey, hey.
13:53Hey, hey, hey.
13:55It's not a fantasy to me.
13:56And I'm not going to fall in love with you
13:59when we have an expiration date.
14:06It's just gonna hurt us both.
14:11So when you said we couldn't be together,
14:13it wasn't because you had an expiration date.
14:16You were seeing someone.
14:18He's the reason.
14:19Yeah, I guess.
14:21He's the reason.
14:24I want you to be happy, Emily.
14:26I just don't want to have to see it.
14:29Sitting on the sidelines,
14:30watching you fall for someone.
14:32This was an accident.
14:33Yeah, but you like him.
14:37I can tell.
14:39Was there something going on between you and Gabriel?
14:41We had a moment.
14:44But it was nothing.
14:46Okay?
14:49Honestly,
14:51Emily's amazing.
14:52Emily's amazing.
14:54There was a time when
14:55we might have gotten together, but
14:58I was with someone and I wasn't
15:00upfront with her about it.
15:03If you had been honest...
15:04It doesn't matter.
15:06It's over. We're just friends.
15:12Wow.
15:13Girl, are you still in love with Gabriel?
15:15He's not an option, okay?
15:16I made a promise.
15:17You are not making a major life decision
15:20based on a manipulative pinky swear.
15:25Emily, hey.
15:28Okay, you need to decide what you want
15:31and not what's going to make everyone else happy.
15:34I just need to tell you that the reason
15:36I said I couldn't be with you, okay,
15:38wasn't Alfie.
15:40Gabriel, I'm...
15:46Emily.
15:51Gabriel asked me to move in.
15:54Neighbors!
15:56Well, I guess I'll just see you around then.
16:12About the other day...
16:15There's so much more I wish I could tell you.
16:17Emily, we can keep doing this.
16:19I'm with Camille and you're with Alfie.
16:22You're not staying in Paris?
16:25Well, we're still sorting all that out.
16:28But it won't affect our relationship.
16:32As your marketing agency.
16:35I like him.
16:36And I like him for you.
16:39Emily, this is a surprise.
16:40Hi.
16:41Hey.
16:48Okay, I was up on the roof
16:49and I saw Camille and Sofia making out.
16:52Sexy.
16:53Why am I never around when anything good happens?
16:55No, it's not good, okay?
16:56It's terrible.
16:57She's having an affair and Gabriel has no idea.
16:59I mean, what am I supposed to do?
17:03See, I would love to open a restaurant like this one day.
17:06Serve all the Norman dishes I grew up with.
17:08Maybe the pressure's not worth it.
17:11It's definitely worth it.
17:14It's my dream.
17:17Wanna come see a movie tonight?
17:18Oh, no, he can't. He's busy working.
17:21Actually, the restaurant's closed and Camille's away,
17:23so I'm on my own tonight.
17:26I never knew that movie was such a turn-on for people.
17:29Everyone likes watching a story about two people
17:31trying to fight off their natural attraction to each other.
17:38Um, goodnight.
17:39Night.
17:50She knew I fell in love with you the minute I saw you.
17:54Standing at my door.
17:56How could I not?
18:04You changed my life.
18:05I felt a lifetime of feelings in that one night.
18:09I am with Alfie.
18:11And you are with Camille.
18:13That's the problem.
18:16I love you both.
18:23Hi.
18:24Hi.
18:25You look happy.
18:27I am happy.
18:28Is Camille back?
18:29She came back yesterday.
18:31I'm so sorry for calling you so drunk.
18:33I'm so sorry for calling you so drunk the other night.
18:35I probably said a few things I can't even remember.
18:42I'm just glad that you two are working things out.
18:45Nothing, just something with Camille and I.
18:47Oh, no, I thought you said you'd work things out.
18:49Uh, we are.
18:50Um, I'm planning to propose.
18:55Wow.
18:56Just so fast.
18:58Um, congratulations.
19:00I'm so happy for you.
19:02I haven't proposed yet, Ben.
19:03Camille doesn't know.
19:06You know what?
19:07Maybe this isn't so romantic after all.
19:09Why not?
19:11Relationships are complicated.
19:13Intense passion makes people do crazy things.
19:22For being a friend.
19:23You're welcome.
19:24Friend.
19:27Was that Sofia?
19:29Why would you think that?
19:31Because I saw the two of you kissing on the roof at Alfie's party.
19:34And then you went to Greece to be with her.
19:36And she followed you to Paris.
19:38You need to tell Gabriel, okay?
19:40He deserves to know.
19:42It was just a fling.
19:44It was nothing.
19:45And now it's over.
19:47Just like you and Gabriel, right?
19:50You did this for me.
19:52And I'll never forget it.
20:02The only reason we're together
20:06is because I knew you were in love with Emily.
20:09What?
20:10So,
20:13I made a pact with her
20:15that I would never date you.
20:18So you wouldn't see her again.
20:21You really made a pact with Camille not to be with me?
20:25I thought I was doing the right thing.
20:28That's true.
20:30That's true.
20:34You and Emily have been in love with each other since the moment you met.
20:42I can only notice.
20:46The way she looks at you.
20:48The way you look at her.
20:50Anyone can see it.
20:52And the rest of it?
20:54Your feelings for me?
20:56They've always been there.
20:59It's been hard for me, too.
21:04She came back to tell me that
21:07she's pregnant.
21:09Oh, my God.
21:18I'm sorry. It's all my fault.
21:20I shouldn't have rushed into marrying her.
21:22I thought I was doing the right thing.
21:25There is nothing wrong with doing the right thing.
21:27I think you lied right to my face.
21:30I never lied to you.
21:32I think we're both guilty of doing that sometimes.
21:34You don't have feelings for her.
21:36How I feel about her
21:38is not important.
21:42I won't get in the way.
21:44Okay, this really isn't easy to say,
21:46but I think Camille might be in Greece with Sofia.
21:50I walked in on the two of them kissing at Alfie's housewarming party
21:53and then Camille spent time with her in Greece.
21:56And you knew about this?
21:58No, I didn't know anything for sure.
22:00And a part of me thought that maybe you knew about Sofia
22:02and you were okay with it.
22:03I was going to marry Camille.
22:04You really think I knew she was with someone else?
22:06I was in my own relationship, okay?
22:08I didn't think it was my job to step into yours.
22:10First, this stupid pact.
22:11And now this.
22:12I'm so sick of these secrets.
22:13So am I!
22:17And for the record,
22:18the pact wasn't my idea.
22:27I guess I've just been so focused on Gabrielle and Alfie
22:29that I forgot what it feels like to be single.
22:33Where are you off to?
22:34Oh, the launch party for Antoine's new perfume, Heartbreak.
22:38Oh, there was two nights.
22:39They invited me,
22:40but there's just no way I can leave the restaurant.
22:44And now that I'm not with either of them, I'm...
22:46You're not with Alfie?
22:49And so you kiss it at Roland Garros.
22:52You think I'm complicated?
22:54I just think you have a lot of responsibilities.
22:57Yeah, but this shouldn't be getting in the way of us.
23:00Us?
23:02My feelings for you haven't changed.
23:05Have yours?
23:07I think the only way that this us could work is
23:13if we were two different people.
23:15How did you get away from the restaurant?
23:17The restaurant?
23:18What restaurant?
23:19You must be thinking of someone else.
23:21Someone far more complicated than me.
23:29I really thought that I could move on from them,
23:31but they both mean so much to me for different reasons, and...
23:33And now you actually have to choose?
23:36Sometimes I wish there was nobody else.
23:39Just us.
23:41It just feels like a fantasy.
23:43It's too good to be true.
23:46Why can't it be?
23:48Because tomorrow we're not Anna and David.
23:51We're back to reality.
23:56I'm sorry.
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24:08I'm sorry.
24:09I'm sorry.
24:14I'm so sorry I haven't told you we're coming.
24:16I know we haven't gotten much in on time lately.
24:23I wish we had a place for a menage a deux.
24:25I know.
24:26Just couldn't wait another night to be with you.
24:28You did all of this?
24:31It's amazing.
24:39I just want to be with you.
24:41Anywhere and everywhere.
24:43She's having his baby.
24:47Did you really think that she was going to move away from him?
24:51Emily Jane Cooper, you are not sex on the roof girl.
24:54You're sex on the bed.
24:55With the lights off and the towel down.
24:58Can we go out tonight?
25:00I'd like to take you to my favorite late night spot.
25:03It better not be the roof again.
25:05No.
25:06Oh, Bouillon Chatier, huh?
25:08Yeah.
25:09I didn't pick this as your kind of spot.
25:12There are rumors going around.
25:15But what's most important for me is a high quality restaurant
25:20that people want to come back to time after time.
25:24Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
25:28I just want to freeze this moment.
25:31Standing here.
25:33With you.
25:36I love you, Emily.
25:39I hope you know that.
25:44I do now.
25:51I love you too, Gabrielle.
25:53I love you too.
26:05Honestly, I have everything I need.
26:08I have a great restaurant.
26:10A smart, beautiful girlfriend.
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