Until now, the Giulianis have declined to discuss the matter, calling it "a romantic secret".
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Resnais's cheerful artifice distills his characters' lifetimes of regret, frustration, and pain into an elegant envoi; in a minute-long monologue delivered by Sabine Azéma — Resnais's wife, now his widow — the director, famous for his manipulations of time, divulges the romantic secret at the core of his art.
"One of our other romantic little secrets is I've kept it all these years in my wallet".
The three of them spend their time exploring the forgotten spaces of their town, turning the housing bubble's cliché symbols of blight and decay abandoned swimming pools, unfinished mini-golf courses built to divert happy hordes that never came, dilapidated shacks nestled into the golden hills into skate jumps, romantic vistas, secret club houses.
If Van Vechten's attraction to men was an open secret, Hughes's romantic life was a secret secret; his biographer Arnold Rampersad is one of many historians who have looked for evidence and come away with nothing conclusive.
So there is a crime ring to uncover, romantic complications, family secrets and, as it turns out, big money at stake.
Is there not a secret romantic side to this fireball?
It's as if Reich were finally letting himself look back in time, perhaps even indulging a secret Romantic urge.
