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Disclaimer Recap: Tossing the Grenades
Stephen dismantles Catherine’s life, blowing it up one relationship at a time.
Step one: shore up her relationship with Robert by cooking him a supper of sole meunière — a meal that makes him think of Paris, of her, of simpler times. Because director Alfonso Cuarón has no respect for time’s relentless march forward, he introduces a flashback within the present-day story line that falls halfway between Jonathan’s sun-kissed Italian holiday and Stephen’s gray attempt to get his groove back. To demonstrate how close Catherine’s and Stephen’s timelines are to converging, we see the ever-grieving, definitely alive father head to the John Lewis department store to pass Nick a published copy of The Perfect Stranger.
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