NECROPOLIS

NECROPOLIS

- Montreal
- The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne

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A Jewish diner. Christine and Arsene become closer over time. Arsene asks Christine what brings her to Bader, to which she responds. It is implied that Christine's father, a former diplomat Cedric, is a distant friend of Dr. Nam dating back to their days in 1970s Paris. When Christine asks the same question, Arsene tells her that he is just figuring out life as it goes, almost feeling directionless about it even as a junior. While they talk, Christine notices his hands tremble and shake at times. Arsene responds that it's nothing.

A neo-conservative Political circle meeting, in which ARSENE is present as a reluctant guest. Him and his company leave, only to be faced by CHRISTINE. Christine slaps him, saying that she had expected him better. Arsene responds that he is only there to accompany his friends, and no more, which angers Christine even further.

On another day, as Arsene starts smoking a cigarette right in front of a brutalist department building, Dr. Nam stops him for smoke right as the elderly is leaving. The next scene they are inside his office. Dr. Nam tells Arsene how he had known Christine's late father, a high-ranking diplomat from Pierre Trudeau and Mulroney governments. There Arsene finds out that Pierre Galgundec, for his financial incompetence and behaviours, had helped him secure asylum in Canada in 1979. When Arsene asks him if he misses his home, Dr. Nam says yes, but the fall of Iron Curtain, a tricky divorce, and most importantly the solace of life in Kingston had made him reconsider.

It starts raining heavily. CHRISTINE notices ARSENE's jeans briefly catching fire on the pier, but right as Christine reaches it, he falls to the lake. Christine dives to save him, and they barely make it to the shore. Back at his place, Arsene tells Christine that his life runs on a slow, but dying course, one in which he refuses to burden anybody. Unlike the previous scene, Christine understands. He goes out to the balcony for a smoke, while Christine waits. Christine quietly reads a blue notebook left on his desk. She reads several pages, Christine starts smiling and crying, while the rain is playing from background.

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Hearing the radio, Dr. Nam are talking with Christine's secretary, Jeanne-Marie Ounahoui, about Caïus Lebel-Loranger, charming, fashionable young leader considered by many to be the federalist, younger self of Christine. Dr. Nam tells him that for all their stylistic oppositions Caïus is a spiritual successor to Christine.

2017 - Priglashenie na kazn

* First three are quietly taken care of, taken down in three straight beheadings
* Fourth figure, who looks and presents himself differently, escapes death through his creative act at the gallows, which was reserved for him out of his nature
* Flashes of dead blue bodies show up, and it is there where he walks out and free














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Dancefloor sequence:

- They are drawn in the stop-motion but she stops
- It is implied Christine had read the novel

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- They watch a movie together, and reminisce. By this point we find out that Christine is widowed, with her husband having passed a year before.
- Christine tells Arsene that he needs to go to London, and gives him the plane ticket that leaves the following evening

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- Christine reads the final lines of the story, and gives a plain 'why'. Arsene answers that it's their story, but one that is told with the truth of heart.
- Alternating with Christine, who stumbles before dropping to her knees in the beach, Arsene passes in Ellen's arms as the camera zooms out

- Final scene features the beachside piano

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Y.C. CHANG (UNRELEASED PLAY ADAPTATION)


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THOMPSON GIRL, OR THE TOWER
- Each floor, each room of memories.
- Confrontation between friend and him. He asks his friend to pick up the cigarette packet, to which he turns. Only to hear a gunshot. He turns around, but sees nobody. All he hears is th