Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.
In movies there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet difficult undertaking requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.
