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The drink, a milky, purplish aperitif, ferociously fragrant, overtly medicinal,
ever so faintly anesthetizing and cooled to a glacial viscosity
in a miniature version of the type of vacuum-flask normally associated
with campsites and schoolrooms, cast a spell, which, during the subsequent
60-second interval, was to be mortally broken. On three overlapping dramatic timelines, the following events came to pass. (TICKING) One. Monsieur Nescaffier began
his mysterious ritual. I can neither comprehend nor describe
what occurs behind a kitchen door. I have always been content
to enjoy the issue of an artist's talent without unveiling
the secrets of the chisel or the turpentine. Two. (BEEPING)
ever so faintly anesthetizing and cooled to a glacial viscosity
in a miniature version of the type of vacuum-flask normally associated
with campsites and schoolrooms, cast a spell, which, during the subsequent
60-second interval, was to be mortally broken. On three overlapping dramatic timelines, the following events came to pass. (TICKING) One. Monsieur Nescaffier began
his mysterious ritual. I can neither comprehend nor describe
what occurs behind a kitchen door. I have always been content
to enjoy the issue of an artist's talent without unveiling
the secrets of the chisel or the turpentine. Two. (BEEPING)
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The drink, a milky, purplish aperitif,
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ferociously fragrant, overtly medicinal,
ever so faintly anesthetizing
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and cooled to a glacial viscosity
in a miniature version
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of the type of vacuum-flask
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normally associated
with campsites and schoolrooms,
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cast a spell,
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which, during the subsequent
60-second interval,
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was to be mortally broken.
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On three overlapping dramatic timelines,
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the following events came to pass.
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(TICKING)
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One.
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Monsieur Nescaffier began
his mysterious ritual.
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I can neither comprehend nor describe
what occurs behind a kitchen door.
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I have always been content
to enjoy the issue
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of an artist's talent without unveiling
the secrets of the chisel
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or the turpentine.
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Two.
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(BEEPING)
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Movie Summary
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".