Round 4: Tossup 7

This film drew inspiration from Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton for an older woman’s wedding to a Dominican playboy. The piece “Never Cursed” plays as a man in this film has a vision of his mother while hallucinating in bed. At the end of this film, a woman narrates by the fire that “life is no great mystery” over shots of her pushing a baby carriage and dancing with her husband amid fallen balloons at a party. This film’s two leads fight over (*) asparagus prepared with butter, and meet when the man orders a massive breakfast. The protagonist knowingly eats a poisonous omelet at the climax of this film, in which a foreign waitress comes to live with him and his sister Cyril at the House of Woodcock. For 10 points, Vicky Krieps (“creeps”) and Daniel Day-Lewis star in what 2017 Paul Thomas (10[1])Anderson (10[1])film about (10[1])dressmaking? ■END■ (10[1])

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