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Zoë is a 12-year-old schoolgirl who lives in a luxury hotel. He persuades her to become his assistant and potentially his lover, beginning the cycle anew. At the art exhibit, Lionel meets another attractive young woman, a struggling painter. Lionel realizes that he needs the emotional turmoil of his destructive relationships in order to fuel his art.

Paintings around the studio show visual metaphors from relations past: stormy skies, burning bridges, and tormented clowns. Lionel pours his anxiety and repressed passion into his work. Paulette wants to give up and go home to her parents but Lionel persuades her to stay because New York is where a painter needs to be.

Lionel and Paulette, it becomes clear, have been using each other: Lionel using her sexually, Paulette using him as a means of entry into the higher spheres of the New York social and art scene. These deliberate provocations on Paulette's part make Lionel insanely jealous-and fuel his creativity. Paulette dates other people, including a performance artist and a painter. Lionel is still infatuated with her, but Paulette wants only his tutelage, which makes things difficult since they live in the same studio-loft. Paulette is Lionel's assistant and former lover. Lionel Dobie is an acclaimed abstract artist who finds himself unable to paint during the days before a scheduled gallery exhibition of his new work. The film was screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

In foreign theatrical releases, the order of the three films was altered, Coppola's being first, followed by Allen's, and finishing with Scorsese's. The last is Oedipus Wrecks, directed, written by and starring Woody Allen. The second is Life Without Zoë, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola with his daughter, Sofia Coppola. The first is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Richard Price and starring Nick Nolte. New York Stories is a 1989 American anthology film consisting of three segments with the central theme being New York City.

New York Mysteries: The Outbreak instaling