The weather will be fine she says, but like life itself, the weather ends up being completely unpredictable. I didn't tell you. By telephone it may be easier. It was really great. We'd never made love so well, so long.
Telephones allow the characters to interact with one another without any emotional involvement.
Though it avoids them from feeling pain, it also leads to shallow relationships. Valentine's relationship with the suspicious and dominating Michel. Auguste's doomed relationship with his girlfriend. Joseph's fascination with eavesdropping on his neighbours' phone conversations. They allow relationships to exist and transcend distances, yet the relationships that result are not sustainable.