Wouldn't a more straightforward way to highlight how ridiculous that convention is to have the woman just stare at him after he requests a kiss until he sheepishly leaves, and then have a final scene of him masturbating to some porn?
Because right now it doesn't sound very ironic.

I just watched Shoah I'll have to disagree with you.

Of those I've seen, the earlier silent ones were more melodramatic, Woman Of Tokyo is pretty much a cliché melodrama, A Story Of Floating Weeds does include some shouting (well…), and I'd have An Inn In Tokyo crossing the line to melodrama as well.
But I do think that his best movies gain from not getting in that…

I don't know about your mom, but retirement homes are often hotbeds for STIs, plenty of old people with nothing to do who can't get pregnant anyway, so maybe you should have "the talk" with her.

It's probably pointless and there is a high chance he'll think you're a bit weird or desperate, on the other hand, I'm guessing he doesn't know who you are and there are zero chance you would otherwise get to interact or that he knows anyone you know so you have nothing to lose and it may still work.
I did once or…

I'll have you know custard and meatloaf is a South African delicacy: http://www.daringgourmet.co…

You have nothing to gain by not making your intentions clear. It's established that it is someone who enjoys your company, if you are coming on as strong as you think you are she probably noticed, either she is interested and you should do something or she's not and you should pierce that boil anyway in order to put…

Ok thanks. Not YA, but maybe some Nick Hornby books? High Fidelity and About A Boy in particular (I didn't like the next ones as much).

Ooh, a youngster. I have a question for you, I'd assume that at 16 you are old enough to handle anything an "adult" book would throw at you, why are you specifically looking for YA?
(honestly just curious)

It's obviously no longer the case, but it used to be preferred by studios that movies not be longer than 140 minutes as after that they lose one screening a day in most theatres.

You're implying it, but let's frankly mention money, a genre book will on average not sell as much and won't first be published as a hardback (and those get you more royalties and reviews). Or at least that was the case then.

I blame you too.

Is overt ok?

Not much to do with your main point, but Cannes has nothing to do with European cinema, it celebrates cinema as an art form wherever it comes from (and actually their first ever grand prize winner was an American movie), it has nothing to do with PR or European cinema, if only because at the time Europe as it is…

American literature (at least in France) is usually highly regarded, Faulkner and Hemingway have always been huge, you'd probably find more than a few people to argue Roth is the best writer alive (I don't think it was a coincidence he announced he was retiring in a French magazine), Bret Easton Ellis was a major…

If I'm not mistaken, little by Zweig was available in English before the movie was released, but I was amused when during the promotion he was referred as an obscure and forgotten writer, as he really was one most high schoolers would know (in particular his novella/short story The Chess Player was very popular) For…

It's a bit shorter than that. Otherwise, yeah, pretty much. It is good though.

I liked a lot of what I read in school so that was helpful, and while my parents didn't/don't read much (the only things my father recommended to me was fantasy, I read and liked a few at the time though it was more late teens early twenties, and I'm more likely to recommend something to my mother than the other way…

What I meant is that some "adult" books or even classics can be appropriate from 10-12-14 without an upper limit, which I would understand a YA book to intrinsically have.

Yes, genre was definitely what we read instead of YA (horror for me, I remember a friend being really into sci-fi), but the transition to "adult" literature was from 14 on, which I assume to be YA target age. There are books I wouldn't have liked then that I do now, but there are enough adult books that can appeal to…