American car (a Ford Galaxie convertible . Las Vegas is mentioned again near the climax , this time as the name of a bar frequented by Marianne 's boyfriend Fred (whom she tells Ferdinand is her brother Godard thus deems this quintessentially American city synonymous with organized crime (as it arguably then was . After they spend days camping by the beach and living a life Ferdinand finds idyllic and intellectually rich , Marianne becomes surly and restless , pleading with him , ``We 've played...











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