Original sentence: Clocking in at over 3½ hours, the movie focuses less on plot than on the confused and ambivalent life style of these three lost souls in post May '68 Paris.In the second half of the film, this leads to an grwoign estrangement between her and Alexandre.This marathon drama focuses on three twenty-something Parisians in an unconventional love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is an unemployed, dandyish narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend Marie (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish nurse Veronika (Françoise Lebrun) whom he picked up at a café.With her, he begins a desultory affair that is the greater concern of the film's running time
Edited sentence: Clocking in at over 3½ hours, the movie focuses less on plot or narrative than on the confused and ambivalent life style of these three lost souls in post-May '68 Paris.In the second half of the film, this leads to a growing estrangement between her and Alexandre.This marathon drama focuses on three twenty-something Parisians in an unconventional love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is an unemployed, dandyish narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend Marie (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish nurse Veronika (Françoise Lebrun) whom he picked up at a café after an unsuccessful reconciliation with a former love, Gilberte.With Veronika, he begins a desultory affair that is the greater concern of the film's running time