He tells her that they will continue to meet there, in the empty apartment, and she agrees. Paul rapes her, if rape is not too strong a word to describe an act so casually accepted by the girl. It is a big, empty apartment, with a lot of sunlight but curiously little cheer. The movie begins when Jeanne, who is about to be married, goes apartment-hunting and finds Paul in one of the apartments. The girl, Jeanne, is not a friend and is hardly even a companion it's just that because she happens to wander into his life, he uses her as an object of his grief. The events that take place in the everyday world are remote to Paul, whose attention is absorbed by the gradual breaking of his heart. Bertolucci begins with a story so simple (which is to say, so stripped of any clutter of plot) that there is little room in it for anything but the emotional crisis of his hero.
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