How to Write a Screenplay in a Café
“Whether or not I find the café I want, the screenplay is waiting.”
LOUISE is a waitress in a coffee shop. She is in her early thirties, but too old to be doing this. She is very pretty and meticulously groomed, even at the end of her shift. She is slamming dirty coffee cups from the counter into a bus tray underneath the counter. It is making a lot of RACKET, which she is oblivious to.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
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Evan Fleischer is a writer-at-large. In addition to Catapult, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, and numerous other publications.
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