Combeferre chuckles. "I have found that people here have a very different sense of time." Not that fifty years, or a hundred, didn't seem distant, but people around him sometimes spoke of the relatively recent past as though it were a different world altogether. "I think one of my students has mentioned this one," he says after a thoughtful pause, tapping his finger against the box labeled Casablanca. Admittedly, the description on the back has also piqued his interest - something about the French Resistance, and the twentieth century war he has seen numerous references to in his reading. "Shall we give it a try?"