This was no way to conduct a relationship.
Sometimes it's hard conducting a relationship that feels like it's at the heart of a global clash in civilisation.
Sometimes, so it goes, these actors are no longer with us, and on these occasions we sit in the dark and conduct a relationship with dead people, like a bunch of frustrated, would-be necrophiliacs.
The contrast with flippant, rootless Adam anxious to wheedle money out of his bride-to-be's father so they can afford to conduct a relationship which neither of them takes with the least seriousness is rather obvious.
Much has been made of the contrast, particularly in the light of the revelation that the Prince of Wales was conducting at the time, and continues to conduct, a relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, an old girl friend who had, for the usual complicated reasons, married someone else.
It's not just that they adopt a psychotherapy-infused, stylistically American way of conducting a relationship; it's that they opt to create an island of truth, and true love, in the midst of a world in which nothing is true except their two children, who don't know that their parents are Soviet spies.
A continuing thread in the festival is a '60s nostalgia, evidenced not only in this year's Godard retrospective, but also in new films like the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu's "When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism," which wryly compares the process of filmmaking to conducting a relationship, and Philippe Garrel's "Jealousy," starring the director's son, Louis Garrel.
Torres and Spurs defender Jan Vertonghen appeared to be conducting a relationship based on that between Villas-Boas and Mourinho during a spiteful second half.
This may not be the best mindset in which to conduct a relationship.
Conducting a relationship behind your phone is no way to live.
