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Finn Cole as Aidan Matthews
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Timothée Chalamet as Lennox Waterson.
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"I knew we could never be, but I wanted this one night more than anything."
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The year was 1997 and in the corner of a little town in Paris, was a slice of French Heaven. The real name of the French Heaven was the Lapin Agile, and it was a small cabaret that, had it not been for Flynn's cousin, we'd never have known about. And I think about that allot. If we'd never have gone, the night would never have turned out as it did, and that is a sad thought to think. More so than sad, it's surprising. Because when I arrived at the Lapin Agile, I had an entirely different expectation. I imagined my fresh out of high school eighteen-year-old self to be intrigued by the unknown, to be wowed by French woman as I got drunk on alcohol I couldn't pronounce. And while I definitely got drunk, it wasn't the French woman who wowed me.
Vintage aesthetics. Singing, dancing, acts. Culture and history I had never experienced before. New people, different atmospheres. And fate. Yes. That's exactly what it was. Above all, for a single night, it was fate.
The story starts out as you'd expect it would. A naïve Aidan Matthews walks into the cabaret, thinking he knows himself, thinking he knows what he wants, thinking he knows what he wants this night to hold for him. And the moment he walks into the cabaret, he is instantly taken aback, because no Australian architecture could ever - not even in the slightest – live up to the beauty that surrounded him then. Though small and old, the building had more character than everyone I had ever met put together. Posters of past and present entertainers lined it's chipped and exposed walls. Wooden tables with the initials of guests carved into its surface surrounded the stage, a bar not too far away. Wooden ceilings had dim lights hanging, and a rabbit was painted just above the stage. Naïve Aidan Matthews almost had his breath taken away.
