 When Kate and Luc are first talking in their room at Cannes, the  song "Verlaine" is playing; its lyrics include the words "Les  sanglots longues des violons de lautomne blessent mon coeur dun  langueur monotone" ("The long sobs of the violins of autumn wound my  heart with a monotonous languor"). These words from a poem by  Verlaine had been used in 1944 to form the code phrases that alerted  the Resistance to the Allied invasion of France, as depicted in  _Longest Day, The (1962)_ (qv).