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Subtitles by explosiveskull

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[birds chirping]

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[chirping continues]

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[birds continue chirping]

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[chirping continues]

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- [approaching footsteps]
- [woman] Gabrielle?

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- Gabrielle, wake up.
- [groans]

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No, let me sleep.

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Come on, Gabrielle.

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- What time is it?
- Seven o'clock.

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Willy's coming today.

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Well.

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[meows]

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[whistle blows]

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[chattering]

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[man] At least it was an entertainment.
It takes so long to get here.

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And how is Paris
these days, Willy?

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It's a hotbed.
It's electric.

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It's heaving with artists
and poets and writers,

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all seeking to say
something profound.

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Most of them are too young,
of course, or too crazed,

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but still, they generate
a certain life force.

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We were going in to see
a play, weren't we?

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- Yes, <i>La Tosca.</i>
- Ah.

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Yes. No, I...
I was at the opening.

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I wouldn't bother,
to be frank.

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I mean, Sarah Bernhardt does her best.
She always does.

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But it's melodramatic
in extremis.

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- Maybe I'll go, make up my own mind.
- Well, of course.

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But do remember, if a book bores
you, you can throw it away.

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If a painting is too garish,
then you can close your eyes.

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But bad theater,
it's like dentistry.

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You're compelled to stay in your
chair, having your skull drilled

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until the entire
grisly procedure is over.

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Good point, Willy.

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Painful business.

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Oh, I almost forgot.

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- A small gift.
- Thank you.

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You turn it upside down.

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- [chuckles]
- [man] Pretty.

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Good-bye.

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Sido, I'm going
for a walk.

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Change your dress first.

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- I'll stay on the path.
- Change it.

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Darling,
we're going to go in.

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[man] He's a good man.
He has a reputation, yes.

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But there comes a time in a
man's life to settle down.

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Have you finished the letter
to his father?

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I keep starting.

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But I can't seem
to finish it.

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A girl without a dowry, that just
doesn't happen in their circles.

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Hmm. They call it off.
The world won't end.

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Sido.
He clearly adores her.

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He's visited
four times this year.

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[Sido] I'm worried that
he won't understand her.

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- [man] Would anyone be good enough for you?
- Can I go now?

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Just take this with you and fill
it up with some blackberries.

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I'm going to make a tart tomorrow.
Don't be late back!

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I won't.

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- Where are you?
- [man] Over here.

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Your hair
is a phenomenon.

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In the village, they call me
"the girl with the hair."

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I'm sure they do.

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I should think you're quite
famous here in your village.

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How much time
do we have?

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About 40 minutes.

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But I have to
walk to the station.

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Gabrielle, I can't tell you
how happy I am.

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So am I.

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I adore you.

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[Colette's voice]
<i>Dear Willy,</i>

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<i>As I walked home by the river, the
light shining through the trees,</i>

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<i>my heart filled with
a kind of delicious pride.</i>

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<i>After all, you know all
those fine women of Paris,</i>

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<i>so I must have something.</i>

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<i>I want to wake up next to you,</i>

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<i>know that the day is ours,</i>

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<i>that life is ours
for the taking.</i>

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<i>We will be so entire
and so happy, my love.</i>

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- [bell chiming]
- Breathe in, ma'am.

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- [grunts]
- There we go.

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[footsteps on stairs]

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- [knocking]
- Ready yet?

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No, not yet.

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What do you think,
Matilde?

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It's pretty, ma'am.

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We should try to get there
before it ends.

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- Where's your new dress?
- Oh, I couldn't breathe in it. It felt ridiculous.

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But that cost me 267 francs.
Don't you like it?

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Well, I know you like it.

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We'll get it adjusted.

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- What is it?
- I think it's toothpaste.

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Let's have a look.

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There. Perfect.

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Let's go in.

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[laughing, chattering]

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Willy.

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[woman] It's monstrous.
I can't look at it.

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[man] Don't worry, my dear.
It's only temporary.

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There's Willy. Willy, Eiffel's tower.
Are you for or against?

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Oh, I'm for it, if a little
jealous of this giant erection

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in the heart of our capital
belonging to somebody else.

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- [laughing]
- How are you, Count?

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- I'm well, thank you.
- Ah. You rogue, Willy.

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I see you've brought us
an orphaned relative?

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- Hmm.
- A secret love child.

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Very good, very good.

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No, may I introduce to you my
wife, Gabrielle Sidonie Colette.

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- Pleased to meet you.
- Delighted.

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Well, astonished,
actually.

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You, my dear, have caught
the slipperiest of eels.

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Now, now, Arman.

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- How does one do that?
- I'm not sure.

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Where are you from,
you sweet thing?

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Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye.

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- It's in Burgundy.
- Ah.

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Is that where
you got your dress?

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- Have you relocated, Willy?
- Not yet, Count, not yet.

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Ignore him. How on earth
did you two meet?

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Our fathers served together
in the army.

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Willy married!
The wild days are done, eh?

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On the contrary, the wild
days have just begun.

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Ah! Willy.
Thank God you're back.

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- That short story.
- Veber, may I introduce to you my wife.

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- What?
- Gabrielle.

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Very pleased to meet you.

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It's due on Tuesday, and you've not
given me the slightest clue...

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Right. Just amuse yourself
for a moment, Gabrielle.

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It's simple.
It's an 800-word sketch.

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[chattering continues]

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You poor thing.

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You want the earth
and the grass, don't you?

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[laughter]

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[laughing] That's
gardenia, isn't it?

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Well, what is it? It's
calla lilies, isn't it?

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[singing high note]

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[thunder rumbling]

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[Willy] So, what did you
think of the salon?

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I liked the tortoise.

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- I thought he was as bored as I was.
- [laughs]

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I suspect you were more
intimidated than bored.

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No.

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I thought they were all...
shallow and pretentious.

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No. Come on.
You're reading them wrongly.

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It's not so much pretension
as exaggeration.

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The ideal is to be authentic
but larger than life.

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To present a personality
with a capital "P."

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You could do it too.
Country girl charm.

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Did that woman
have a capital "P"?

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- Which one?
- The one you were talking to in the red dress.

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Nicole D'Allier?

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Come on, that was...
that was just flirtation.

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- It meant nothing.
- Well, then, why do it?

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Because that's what one
does to pass the time,

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stave off boredom.

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Come on.
Forget about them.

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Have you heard the news?

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Willy is married.
Happily married.

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And he's going home with his beautiful
bride, who he loves very much.

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[chuckles]

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[knocking]

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- Good morning, Monsieur Veber.
- Morning, Matilde.

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- Hello, Veber.
- Gabrielle.

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- It's cold out there today.
- I wouldn't know. I'm under house arrest.

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[chuckles]
Schwob's already in there.

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Thank you.

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All the humor and vivacity descends
into a dreadful operatic swamp.

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It releases the very toxins
of man's soul,

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leaving the audience
nauseous and pale,

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like they've just eaten
a bad oyster.

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That's a bit extreme. I actually thought
the ending was rather touching.

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No middle ground. Don't soft-peddle it.
Just kill it.

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- Veber.
- Willy.

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Schwob.

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So add those embellishments and
file it with <i>The Echo</i> by 6:00.

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Will do.

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The factory's on fire.
We're on fire.

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I have this remarkable idea.
Or at least I think it could be.

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- All right, what is it?
- I'm going to launch a novel.

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- A novel?
- Yeah, we have stories by Willy.

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We have music reviews by Willy.
Now we have Willy's first novel.

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It'll have enough literature
for the highbrows

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and enough filth for the great
unwashed, or vice versa.

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And who's going to
write this novel?

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- You are.
- [liquid pouring]

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Are you writing
for him too?

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Mm-hmm.

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He's made you one
of his ghosts already?

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Just letters.

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You're fastidious.
Exacting.

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A lot of crossing out,
you mean.

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- Well, yes.
- [chuckles]

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Willy copies them out
so they're in his handwriting.

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No one has handwriting
like Monsieur Willy.

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We first meet her,
Monna.

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She's being held aloft on the
shoulders of her admirers.

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She's 18, she's gorgeous,
she's dangerous,

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she's from the streets, she devours
men, she never wears a corset.

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And then him,
our hero, Renaud,

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he's a writer,
he's a genius.

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He's captivated by her.

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She seduces him
in her shabby rooms.

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They have five entire days
of carnal ecstasy,

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after which she has
this incredible hold on him.

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She instinctively understands
his basest desires.

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And we wonder,
will he ever escape?

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Will he ever get back to his wholesome
friends and his burgeoning career?

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Or will he be dragged down
by her toxic embrace,

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forget about his writing, and just
wallow in the sexual quagmire?

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It's brilliant.

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It will be.

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[Willy] Come on, tell me. How
long do you think it will take?

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- [Veber] Two or three months.
- No, no, no, no.

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Weeks, Veber.
It has to be weeks.

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- Write for four hours at a time.
- All right, all right.

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Good-bye, Gabrielle.

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If I get stuck,
I'll come back to you.

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Yes, yes,
but write, and fast.

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Let's get some money
coming in.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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Oh, God. Chaos.

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Chaos! Working in these conditions.
It's utter chaos.

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You married a literary entrepreneur.
It's a phenomenal disaster.

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You've married a country girl
without a penny to her name.

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We're doomed, aren't we?

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It's perfect.

227
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But how about, um...

228
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Uh, the contract you sent me is eminently fair,
but for one tiny shortcoming... the money.

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Pump it up
before you prick it.

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- Get more of a pop that way.
- [farts]

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Willy!

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Intimacy in all its savage
abandon, my darling.

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I have meetings later. Let's
meet at La Mascotte at 9:00.

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00:16:03,935 --> 00:16:06,338
No. No, make it 10:00.

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[door closes]

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- He said, "Don't worry, I've got some cream for that."
- [laughing]

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Thank you, Madame D'Arsay.

238
00:17:23,281 --> 00:17:25,550
No, you're lying.

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[man chattering]

240
00:17:42,667 --> 00:17:46,568
That's 571, Lotte,
for one month.

241
00:17:46,570 --> 00:17:48,003
Well, do you want me
to look cheap?

242
00:17:48,005 --> 00:17:51,040
Yeah. But for that money I can get
laid five times a day by a prostitute.

243
00:17:51,042 --> 00:17:53,578
[laughing loudly]

244
00:17:55,780 --> 00:17:57,980
Oh, my dear.

245
00:17:57,982 --> 00:17:59,851
You've come to...
to fetch me?

246
00:18:02,053 --> 00:18:04,019
She's not
a disreputable woman.

247
00:18:04,021 --> 00:18:05,989
They've even written
a play about her.

248
00:18:05,991 --> 00:18:07,790
It was a shit play,
but nevertheless.

249
00:18:07,792 --> 00:18:10,626
- Who the hell wrote that letter?
- I don't care who wrote it.

250
00:18:10,628 --> 00:18:14,330
Look, Gabrielle, she's no rival to you.
I promise.

251
00:18:14,332 --> 00:18:15,798
Look, I'll never sleep
with her again.

252
00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,367
But you have to understand,
this is what men do.

253
00:18:18,369 --> 00:18:21,604
We're the weaker sex. We don't have your
strength. We're slave to our urges.

254
00:18:21,606 --> 00:18:23,940
- And here in the city, it's perfectly acceptable to...
- Nonsense!

255
00:18:23,942 --> 00:18:27,743
I don't accept it. You've been
lying to me all this time.

256
00:18:27,745 --> 00:18:30,079
I wait for you all day long
and I never ask you for anything

257
00:18:30,081 --> 00:18:31,647
because you say
we have no money.

258
00:18:31,649 --> 00:18:33,016
But it's true.
We have no money.

259
00:18:33,018 --> 00:18:34,416
Because you spend it all
on her!

260
00:18:34,418 --> 00:18:36,086
- I really don't.
- And then...

261
00:18:36,088 --> 00:18:40,522
And then, when you get into bed
and I touch you, and I kiss you,

262
00:18:40,524 --> 00:18:42,092
and you say
you're too tired...

263
00:18:42,094 --> 00:18:44,493
- No, no.
- I've been unattentive. I'm sorry.

264
00:18:44,495 --> 00:18:46,698
- I'll make amends.
- Don't you dare touch me.

265
00:18:48,633 --> 00:18:50,436
Gabrielle, I...

266
00:18:51,136 --> 00:18:52,969
I gave up my inheritance
for you!

267
00:18:52,971 --> 00:18:56,442
- My bloody freedom!
- Go to hell!

268
00:19:02,446 --> 00:19:05,318
Oh, no. Ants.

269
00:19:06,451 --> 00:19:08,852
Ah, there must be
some honeydew.

270
00:19:08,854 --> 00:19:10,586
It feels sticky.

271
00:19:10,588 --> 00:19:13,390
Hmm. The white flies
must have got to it.

272
00:19:13,392 --> 00:19:15,057
Sucked out all the juice.

273
00:19:15,059 --> 00:19:16,893
We need some ladybirds.

274
00:19:16,895 --> 00:19:18,795
Hmm. Or a spider.

275
00:19:18,797 --> 00:19:22,164
Got a big one
dangling in my room.

276
00:19:22,166 --> 00:19:24,936
I'll catch her and put
her to work out here.

277
00:19:30,742 --> 00:19:33,611
Did you ever feel like you
were playing a part, Sido?

278
00:19:35,012 --> 00:19:36,945
In what way?

279
00:19:36,947 --> 00:19:38,981
As a wife.

280
00:19:38,983 --> 00:19:40,919
Or a mother.

281
00:19:42,788 --> 00:19:44,857
Like you were just
going through with it.

282
00:19:47,626 --> 00:19:50,896
Sometimes, as a wife.
Never as a mother.

283
00:19:56,568 --> 00:19:58,503
Is he good to you,
Gabri?

284
00:20:00,806 --> 00:20:02,775
What is it, my love?

285
00:20:04,443 --> 00:20:08,580
It's just... nothing
is how I imagined it.

286
00:20:09,780 --> 00:20:11,384
Oh. Come here.

287
00:20:13,952 --> 00:20:16,786
My little kitten.

288
00:20:16,788 --> 00:20:19,923
No one can take away
who you are.

289
00:20:19,925 --> 00:20:22,057
No one.

290
00:20:22,059 --> 00:20:24,527
You're too strong
for that.

291
00:20:24,529 --> 00:20:26,565
You always have been.

292
00:20:28,066 --> 00:20:30,799
Just trust no one
but yourself.

293
00:20:30,801 --> 00:20:32,437
I know.

294
00:20:34,505 --> 00:20:36,541
So what's he done
to upset you?

295
00:20:39,077 --> 00:20:41,478
Nothing.

296
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,681
Nothing. It's just
new, that's all.

297
00:20:44,683 --> 00:20:46,751
I must get used to
marriage.

298
00:20:49,820 --> 00:20:52,690
Better to make marriage
get used to you.

299
00:21:04,135 --> 00:21:07,269
- Are you happy to be here?
- Yes.

300
00:21:07,271 --> 00:21:11,039
It makes the city
seem even more foul.

301
00:21:11,041 --> 00:21:13,542
Did you miss me at all?

302
00:21:13,544 --> 00:21:15,013
No, not really.

303
00:21:18,550 --> 00:21:22,021
Well, life is awful
without you.

304
00:21:24,088 --> 00:21:27,557
It's just dead. I... I don't
feel like myself at all.

305
00:21:27,559 --> 00:21:29,728
Everything just seems
utterly pointless.

306
00:21:31,128 --> 00:21:33,031
Can't even write
anymore.

307
00:21:36,233 --> 00:21:40,202
You mean more to me than all the
women of Paris put together.

308
00:21:40,204 --> 00:21:43,038
Have you sampled them all?

309
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,807
Please don't mock me.

310
00:21:44,809 --> 00:21:47,042
You're very happy
to mock everybody else.

311
00:21:47,044 --> 00:21:48,310
It's true,
but it's just...

312
00:21:48,312 --> 00:21:52,315
Look, it's just horseshit. Words
are deceptive little bastards.

313
00:21:52,317 --> 00:21:55,151
But if you trace mine
to their source,

314
00:21:55,153 --> 00:21:56,920
to my bruised
and aching heart...

315
00:21:56,922 --> 00:21:59,888
Well, I wouldn't credit that
as the organ of origin.

316
00:21:59,890 --> 00:22:01,290
[sighs]

317
00:22:01,292 --> 00:22:05,694
I can read you like the top
line of an optician's chart.

318
00:22:05,696 --> 00:22:08,000
That's brilliant.
Did you make that up?

319
00:22:10,868 --> 00:22:12,669
Just tell me what you
want, Gabrielle.

320
00:22:12,671 --> 00:22:14,073
I'll do anything.

321
00:22:15,773 --> 00:22:19,041
I know who you are, Willy.

322
00:22:19,043 --> 00:22:22,211
Maybe I knew it all along.
But I want you not to lie to me.

323
00:22:22,213 --> 00:22:24,582
I won't. Never again. I promise.

324
00:22:26,050 --> 00:22:28,151
I want to be part of things.

325
00:22:28,153 --> 00:22:30,752
I don't want to be treated
like some little wife at home.

326
00:22:30,754 --> 00:22:32,790
I want to know
what's going on.

327
00:22:35,327 --> 00:22:36,795
You will.

328
00:22:38,163 --> 00:22:40,096
You'll be part
of everything.

329
00:22:40,098 --> 00:22:41,700
Do you promise?

330
00:22:43,068 --> 00:22:44,569
Promise.

331
00:22:58,883 --> 00:23:01,617
When we get back to Paris,
I'll even buy you a dog.

332
00:23:01,619 --> 00:23:03,819
I would love that.

333
00:23:03,821 --> 00:23:06,288
Look, it's so beautiful.

334
00:23:06,290 --> 00:23:09,925
- Luce and I used to swim here after school.
- You did?

335
00:23:09,927 --> 00:23:11,827
She was your best friend,
wasn't she?

336
00:23:11,829 --> 00:23:14,631
Yes. We got up to
all kinds of trouble together.

337
00:23:14,633 --> 00:23:16,164
[chuckles]
What was she like?

338
00:23:16,166 --> 00:23:20,002
She was sweet, but she
was also very annoying.

339
00:23:20,004 --> 00:23:21,804
How? In what way?

340
00:23:21,806 --> 00:23:23,772
She was clumsy,
more than anything.

341
00:23:23,774 --> 00:23:26,108
One day in winter,
when the first snow started,

342
00:23:26,110 --> 00:23:29,278
I made a compact little snowball and
smuggled it into the classroom.

343
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,713
As Mademoiselle Terrain was
writing on the blackboard,

344
00:23:31,715 --> 00:23:34,817
I'd take a little nibble of the snow and
then I'd pass it along to the next person,

345
00:23:34,819 --> 00:23:35,951
who'd pass it along again.

346
00:23:35,953 --> 00:23:38,721
- Oh, it's freezing.
- Here, get in.

347
00:23:38,723 --> 00:23:41,126
I'm like a pot-bellied stove.

348
00:23:44,663 --> 00:23:46,695
It finally got to Luce,
who dropped it.

349
00:23:46,697 --> 00:23:48,263
So we both got detention.

350
00:23:48,265 --> 00:23:52,701
- She'd do anything to be close to me.
- I'll bet she would.

351
00:23:52,703 --> 00:23:55,007
You're so witty
and clever.

352
00:24:09,020 --> 00:24:11,022
[Willy moans]

353
00:24:14,224 --> 00:24:17,096
[Colette, Willy moaning]

354
00:24:25,069 --> 00:24:27,103
[Willy] Get out! Both of you!
This is harassment!

355
00:24:27,105 --> 00:24:29,137
[man] Willy, come on.
You're not being fair.

356
00:24:29,139 --> 00:24:31,708
[Veber] This is the third time I've
had to come here and ask you for it!

357
00:24:31,710 --> 00:24:34,309
- Then stop bloody coming here and asking.
- I am close to being evicted!

358
00:24:34,311 --> 00:24:37,212
You owe me 400 francs. You said you'd
get the advance from Ollendorff.

359
00:24:37,214 --> 00:24:40,916
- And I will, by Friday.
- You said exactly the same thing last week.

360
00:24:40,918 --> 00:24:43,051
A factory needs to pay
its workers, Willy.

361
00:24:43,053 --> 00:24:45,954
Well, then, why don't you go on strike?
Or get another job.

362
00:24:45,956 --> 00:24:48,290
Get some other bloody idiot
to hire you.

363
00:24:48,292 --> 00:24:49,925
I'll have your money
by Friday.

364
00:24:49,927 --> 00:24:53,895
- You'd better bloody have it.
- Such an ass.

365
00:24:53,897 --> 00:24:56,834
- Damn you!
- We'll be back on Friday.

366
00:25:00,938 --> 00:25:03,005
They'd never get a job
on their own.

367
00:25:03,007 --> 00:25:05,143
I lend them my name,
my reputation.

368
00:25:06,174 --> 00:25:08,076
I take all the risk,
and there's still no money.

369
00:25:08,078 --> 00:25:10,313
- We need more output.
- Well, you could get another writer.

370
00:25:10,315 --> 00:25:13,149
And pay them with what? We're not
even making a thousand this month.

371
00:25:13,151 --> 00:25:16,352
I've got 300 from <i>The Echo,</i>
425 from the latest vamp novel,

372
00:25:16,354 --> 00:25:18,354
and just 250
from the music reviews.

373
00:25:18,356 --> 00:25:20,957
- It doesn't even cover the outgoings.
- How can we spend so much money?

374
00:25:20,959 --> 00:25:23,092
The mortgage, Matilde,
restaurants...

375
00:25:23,094 --> 00:25:25,894
You always pick up the bill, Willy,
no matter how many people join us.

376
00:25:25,896 --> 00:25:27,963
- It's expected of me.
- And the races? And the casino?

377
00:25:27,965 --> 00:25:30,199
What do you want me to do? Live
like a monk? Or a peasant?

378
00:25:30,201 --> 00:25:33,236
No, I'm just saying
we could economize.

379
00:25:33,238 --> 00:25:34,840
You.

380
00:25:35,807 --> 00:25:37,240
- You could write.
- What?

381
00:25:37,242 --> 00:25:39,541
Those stories you told me
of Saint-Sauveur last year.

382
00:25:39,543 --> 00:25:42,246
- My school stories?
- Yes. That could be Willy's next novel.

383
00:25:43,947 --> 00:25:45,948
- Well, try it anyway, but try it now.
- [clapping]

384
00:25:45,950 --> 00:25:50,252
Start immediately. Aim for four hours
at a time. The wolves are at the door!

385
00:25:50,254 --> 00:25:52,090
[howls]

386
00:26:32,496 --> 00:26:35,330
[Colette's voice]
<i>My name is Claudine.</i>

387
00:26:35,332 --> 00:26:38,300
<i>I live in Montigny.</i>

388
00:26:38,302 --> 00:26:41,039
<i>I was born there in 1873.</i>

389
00:26:45,376 --> 00:26:48,146
<i>I shall probably not die there.</i>

390
00:26:56,253 --> 00:26:57,923
[barks]

391
00:27:02,026 --> 00:27:04,026
Why aren't you sleeping?

392
00:27:04,028 --> 00:27:06,298
- I've only just stopped writing.
- Really?

393
00:27:08,867 --> 00:27:10,301
[belches] Oh, dear.

394
00:27:11,869 --> 00:27:13,435
[sighs]

395
00:27:13,437 --> 00:27:16,471
- Did you manage four hours?
- Twice that, at least.

396
00:27:16,473 --> 00:27:18,076
You didn't.

397
00:27:19,309 --> 00:27:21,611
You must be a natural.

398
00:27:21,613 --> 00:27:25,013
I've changed a few things...
for the story.

399
00:27:25,015 --> 00:27:27,048
I think it might ruffle
a few feathers back home.

400
00:27:27,050 --> 00:27:29,352
Oh, don't worry
about the facts.

401
00:27:29,354 --> 00:27:31,621
You can change events,
add a character.

402
00:27:31,623 --> 00:27:34,257
Just adapt it
to the times.

403
00:27:34,259 --> 00:27:37,226
All people really want
is the feeling,

404
00:27:37,228 --> 00:27:39,996
the emotion, the great
sweep of narrative.

405
00:27:39,998 --> 00:27:42,265
So you mean I can write
whatever I want?

406
00:27:42,267 --> 00:27:44,099
Of course.

407
00:27:44,101 --> 00:27:46,469
No one will dispute it.

408
00:27:46,471 --> 00:27:48,537
And if they do,

409
00:27:48,539 --> 00:27:51,410
"It's the hand that holds the
pen that writes history."

410
00:27:56,114 --> 00:27:57,382
[groans]

411
00:28:01,118 --> 00:28:02,951
You're not in the mood?

412
00:28:02,953 --> 00:28:05,890
[sighs] I'm as weary
as a bear in winter.

413
00:28:06,957 --> 00:28:09,126
Save it for the book.

414
00:28:15,198 --> 00:28:17,032
[Colette's voice]
<i>These are the copses,</i>

415
00:28:17,034 --> 00:28:19,935
<i>where bushes spitefully
catch your face as you pass.</i>

416
00:28:19,937 --> 00:28:22,605
<i>Those are full of sun and
strawberries and lilies-of-the-valley</i>

417
00:28:22,607 --> 00:28:24,707
<i>and... snakes.</i>

418
00:28:24,709 --> 00:28:27,375
<i>I've shuddered there
with choking terror</i>

419
00:28:27,377 --> 00:28:31,547
<i>at the sight of those smooth, cold
bodies gliding in front of my feet.</i>

420
00:28:31,549 --> 00:28:34,016
<i>I feel so much alone there,</i>

421
00:28:34,018 --> 00:28:36,318
<i>my eyes lost far away
amongst the trees</i>

422
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,288
<i>in the green,
mysterious daylight</i>

423
00:28:39,290 --> 00:28:43,092
<i>that is at once deliciously
peaceful and a little unnerving</i>

424
00:28:43,094 --> 00:28:46,030
<i>because of the loneliness
and the vague darkness.</i>

425
00:29:21,566 --> 00:29:23,935
[clock chiming]

426
00:29:39,483 --> 00:29:41,118
[groans]

427
00:29:44,422 --> 00:29:46,223
Well, here we are.

428
00:29:47,325 --> 00:29:48,691
You did it.

429
00:29:48,693 --> 00:29:51,160
- I take my hat off to you.
- And?

430
00:29:51,162 --> 00:29:54,566
It's beautiful. I spent the
whole day in Saint-Sauveur.

431
00:29:56,099 --> 00:29:58,067
- You don't like it.
- I do like it.

432
00:29:58,069 --> 00:29:59,570
- Truth?
- Yes.

433
00:30:01,338 --> 00:30:03,471
Yes, they're...
they're really charming.

434
00:30:03,473 --> 00:30:06,041
Sorry, I need to...
I need to take a piss.

435
00:30:06,043 --> 00:30:08,044
What else?

436
00:30:08,046 --> 00:30:09,612
Nothing. It's a...

437
00:30:09,614 --> 00:30:11,482
It's a truly
wonderful depiction.

438
00:30:12,617 --> 00:30:14,182
And?

439
00:30:14,184 --> 00:30:17,118
- And...
- [urinating]

440
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,121
we won't be able
to get it published.

441
00:30:19,123 --> 00:30:21,257
That's the shame of it.

442
00:30:21,259 --> 00:30:23,028
What's wrong with it?

443
00:30:24,761 --> 00:30:26,365
Honestly?

444
00:30:30,835 --> 00:30:34,670
So I'll treat you like any other writer
I'm giving a report to, shall I?

445
00:30:34,672 --> 00:30:36,505
- Yes.
- Except that I love you.

446
00:30:36,507 --> 00:30:38,574
I adore you.
Should be clear about that.

447
00:30:38,576 --> 00:30:40,345
Just... Just say it.

448
00:30:43,481 --> 00:30:47,415
There's nothing driving it.
There's no plot.

449
00:30:47,417 --> 00:30:51,188
A novel by Willy grips you from
chapter one, whereas yours...

450
00:30:51,856 --> 00:30:53,556
There's
too many adjectives.

451
00:30:53,558 --> 00:30:55,590
And some of the characters
are interesting,

452
00:30:55,592 --> 00:30:59,528
but... it's too cloying.

453
00:30:59,530 --> 00:31:01,299
It's too feminine.

454
00:31:03,701 --> 00:31:06,568
- Well, that's a waste of bloody time.
- Not if you enjoyed it.

455
00:31:06,570 --> 00:31:08,406
I wrote it for you!

456
00:31:32,430 --> 00:31:41,202
[soprano]
<i>♪ Down by the salley gardens ♪</i>

457
00:31:41,204 --> 00:31:48,911
<i>♪ My love and I did meet ♪</i>

458
00:31:48,913 --> 00:31:58,220
<i>♪ She passed
The salley gardens ♪</i>

459
00:31:58,222 --> 00:32:06,929
<i>♪ With little snow-white feet ♪</i>

460
00:32:06,931 --> 00:32:15,671
<i>♪ She bid me take love easy ♪</i>

461
00:32:15,673 --> 00:32:24,646
<i>♪ As the leaves
Grow on the tree ♪</i>

462
00:32:24,648 --> 00:32:34,658
<i>♪ But I
Being young and foolish ♪</i>

463
00:32:35,492 --> 00:32:45,503
<i>♪ With her would not agree ♪</i>

464
00:32:45,869 --> 00:32:48,369
Wague's mesmerizing,
isn't he?

465
00:32:48,371 --> 00:32:51,472
He's the king of the cantomime.
Let's get a drink.

466
00:32:51,474 --> 00:32:53,642
- [chattering]
- Thank you, Geraud.

467
00:32:53,644 --> 00:32:55,480
- Cheers.
- Cheers.

468
00:32:57,214 --> 00:32:59,882
- How's it going with your book?
- It's gone.

469
00:32:59,884 --> 00:33:02,884
- I tried, but it wasn't any good.
- I can't believe it.

470
00:33:02,886 --> 00:33:05,688
Willy hated it.

471
00:33:05,690 --> 00:33:07,823
I don't care.

472
00:33:07,825 --> 00:33:10,761
- I don't need to leave my mark on the world.
- Hmm.

473
00:33:12,963 --> 00:33:16,365
- Have you always written, Schwob?
- I didn't really have a choice.

474
00:33:16,367 --> 00:33:18,601
It was simply there.

475
00:33:18,603 --> 00:33:22,238
- Does it make you happy?
- Oh, God, no.

476
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,606
I do it to prevent me
from going mad.

477
00:33:24,608 --> 00:33:30,314
But sometimes, occasionally,
it will transport me.

478
00:33:30,982 --> 00:33:32,981
- Hello, Schwob.
- Hello, Gaston.

479
00:33:32,983 --> 00:33:34,586
Good to see you.

480
00:33:35,886 --> 00:33:39,821
Jeanne,
may I present Colette?

481
00:33:39,823 --> 00:33:41,490
Madame.

482
00:33:41,492 --> 00:33:44,893
I think we've been introduced,
but I don't remember that name.

483
00:33:44,895 --> 00:33:47,395
It's new,
in a manner of speaking.

484
00:33:47,397 --> 00:33:51,666
Well, then I shall think of
this as our first meeting.

485
00:33:51,668 --> 00:33:56,372
[up-tempo song]

486
00:33:56,374 --> 00:34:00,276
It is so easy.
On. Off.

487
00:34:00,278 --> 00:34:02,377
No more sooty candles.

488
00:34:02,379 --> 00:34:04,880
Yes, maybe they'll put it
in my building one day.

489
00:34:04,882 --> 00:34:08,983
So much safer too, even if the
light is a little unkind.

490
00:34:08,985 --> 00:34:11,488
Nonsense.
Will you excuse me, Arman?

491
00:34:12,990 --> 00:34:15,260
[laughter]

492
00:34:34,912 --> 00:34:37,946
[Jeanne] Yes, so, I thought it
was much better than last time.

493
00:34:37,948 --> 00:34:41,917
[Gaston] Let me see your palm.
Oh, how interesting.

494
00:34:41,919 --> 00:34:44,687
You have a long life line.

495
00:34:44,689 --> 00:34:47,622
And a very strong
head line here.

496
00:34:47,624 --> 00:34:51,392
- And your... your love line splits into three.
- Oh.

497
00:34:51,394 --> 00:34:53,696
- What on earth could that mean?
- Who knows?

498
00:34:53,698 --> 00:34:55,997
- [laughing]
- So many intersecting lines.

499
00:34:55,999 --> 00:34:57,366
I have the hands
of a man. Look.

500
00:34:57,368 --> 00:34:59,000
- Ah.
- See?

501
00:34:59,002 --> 00:35:01,502
You've a touch
of Hermes, Colette.

502
00:35:01,504 --> 00:35:04,339
- There's something androgynous about you.
- [laughing]

503
00:35:04,341 --> 00:35:06,674
- Willy, you ogre, how are you?
- Gaston, Jeanne.

504
00:35:06,676 --> 00:35:09,011
We have been greatly enjoying
the company of Colette,

505
00:35:09,013 --> 00:35:11,546
now that she's no longer hiding
her light under a bushel.

506
00:35:11,548 --> 00:35:12,848
Quoting the good book,
Gaston?

507
00:35:12,850 --> 00:35:15,651
You may remember a little verse
about coveting other men's wives.

508
00:35:15,653 --> 00:35:19,455
And you may remember one about not trying
to remove a speck from your brother's eye

509
00:35:19,457 --> 00:35:21,457
with a log in your own.

510
00:35:21,459 --> 00:35:24,526
Touché, Gaston. Your wits
are improving... somewhat.

511
00:35:24,528 --> 00:35:25,863
Ah, we'd better go now,
darling.

512
00:35:27,464 --> 00:35:29,367
We should go now.

513
00:35:31,602 --> 00:35:34,435
- Bye.
- [Gaston] Good-bye.

514
00:35:34,437 --> 00:35:36,971
His first play
was absolute rubbish,

515
00:35:36,973 --> 00:35:40,575
but his mother runs a salon, so,
of course, it was a huge success

516
00:35:40,577 --> 00:35:43,946
and he was praised to the skies
for his brilliant writing

517
00:35:43,948 --> 00:35:46,448
and his sublime talent.

518
00:35:46,450 --> 00:35:48,683
Unctuous prick.
He was after you.

519
00:35:48,685 --> 00:35:50,819
He's not the type,
and they just got married.

520
00:35:50,821 --> 00:35:54,055
Yeah, well, they're no longer on
honeymoon, I assure you, my dear.

521
00:35:54,057 --> 00:35:56,794
- Your jealousy is misplaced.
- How so?

522
00:35:58,461 --> 00:36:00,364
It was the wife
I found interesting.

523
00:36:00,964 --> 00:36:01,897
Jeanne?

524
00:36:01,899 --> 00:36:02,867
Yes.

525
00:36:08,638 --> 00:36:10,709
What would you think
of that?

526
00:36:11,975 --> 00:36:13,611
Well, that's...

527
00:36:15,513 --> 00:36:17,078
that's a different case.

528
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,716
It is?

529
00:36:20,885 --> 00:36:22,486
Perhaps.

530
00:36:25,756 --> 00:36:27,492
[knocking]

531
00:36:29,859 --> 00:36:32,560
Good morning, ma'am. I need to speak
to the gentleman of the house.

532
00:36:32,562 --> 00:36:35,029
- What is it?
- Monsieur Henri Gauthier-Villars.

533
00:36:35,031 --> 00:36:36,832
Is he in?

534
00:36:36,834 --> 00:36:39,634
- You can speak to me about whatever it is.
- Sorry, ma'am.

535
00:36:39,636 --> 00:36:41,069
- Ah. Sir.
- What is it?

536
00:36:41,071 --> 00:36:45,642
I have a repossession order for two
armchairs, one armoire, one oak desk.

537
00:36:47,010 --> 00:36:49,713
- Let me see the court papers.
- Here you are.

538
00:36:50,781 --> 00:36:52,113
All in order?

539
00:36:52,115 --> 00:36:54,015
Come on.

540
00:36:54,017 --> 00:36:56,618
- Willy!
- It's just bits of wood.

541
00:36:56,620 --> 00:36:59,120
- The armoire's in the bedroom.
- With my clothes in it.

542
00:36:59,122 --> 00:37:01,525
You empty it out.
I'll see to the desk.

543
00:37:06,464 --> 00:37:08,533
[Colette] Oh, be careful.

544
00:37:32,256 --> 00:37:34,256
[man] You ready?

545
00:37:34,258 --> 00:37:36,627
Yes. Take it away.

546
00:37:51,742 --> 00:37:55,142
So here, it's, like, "It's
a lovely spring morning."

547
00:37:55,144 --> 00:37:56,845
You know,
liven it up a bit.

548
00:37:56,847 --> 00:37:59,580
How about, "Perhaps it's the season.
It's glorious.

549
00:37:59,582 --> 00:38:02,787
The sap is rising
almost indecently."

550
00:38:03,988 --> 00:38:06,120
And then, yeah, here,

551
00:38:06,122 --> 00:38:08,189
the scene with Luce.

552
00:38:08,191 --> 00:38:10,993
I've written, "She brushed
up against me suggestively,

553
00:38:10,995 --> 00:38:15,096
her blue eyes half closed
and her mouth half open."

554
00:38:15,098 --> 00:38:17,265
A little louche.

555
00:38:17,267 --> 00:38:20,736
Louche sells, trust me. We need
more spice, less literature.

556
00:38:20,738 --> 00:38:22,738
I know what men want.
So do the publishers.

557
00:38:22,740 --> 00:38:24,939
- Do you really think they'll take it?
- Yes.

558
00:38:24,941 --> 00:38:28,142
- Ollendorff will go nuts for it.
- As you did on first reading?

559
00:38:28,144 --> 00:38:31,515
Never mind about that. Come on. We've
got to work. Work, work, work.

560
00:38:46,863 --> 00:38:51,767
"Claudine is a girl from a small
village, yet she is all of us.

561
00:38:51,769 --> 00:38:55,571
Feisty, opinionated,
selfish, and sensual..."

562
00:38:55,573 --> 00:38:56,904
[crowd] Ooh!

563
00:38:56,906 --> 00:38:59,975
"She astounds us
with her moxie, her desires,

564
00:38:59,977 --> 00:39:01,176
and her crimes."

565
00:39:01,178 --> 00:39:03,845
Oh!

566
00:39:03,847 --> 00:39:08,649
"It took an extraordinary man to
define this modern young woman."

567
00:39:08,651 --> 00:39:11,787
Willy, your book
will change the world.

568
00:39:11,789 --> 00:39:14,658
- To Claudine!
- To Claudine!

569
00:39:15,191 --> 00:39:16,792
Claudine!

570
00:39:16,794 --> 00:39:19,328
All of Paris is saying
your husband is a genius.

571
00:39:19,330 --> 00:39:21,696
- And what do you say?
- He is.

572
00:39:21,698 --> 00:39:24,832
If that book
is anything to go by.

573
00:39:24,834 --> 00:39:26,602
Look at him.

574
00:39:26,604 --> 00:39:28,337
I haven't seen him that
happy in a long time.

575
00:39:28,339 --> 00:39:32,174
[cheering]

576
00:39:32,176 --> 00:39:36,877
Well, I have to say, Willy, we've never had
one fly off the shelves like this before.

577
00:39:36,879 --> 00:39:40,649
Quite a phenomenon.
Everyone's talking about it.

578
00:39:40,651 --> 00:39:42,216
And do you know
who's buying it?

579
00:39:42,218 --> 00:39:44,953
- Young women.
- Really?

580
00:39:44,955 --> 00:39:46,687
I thought that...

581
00:39:46,689 --> 00:39:48,156
That's interesting.

582
00:39:48,158 --> 00:39:50,859
We've also been having inquiries
about theatrical rights.

583
00:39:50,861 --> 00:39:53,395
- Any thoughts?
- Of course.

584
00:39:53,397 --> 00:39:55,363
The theater's
the next logical step.

585
00:39:55,365 --> 00:39:57,299
With as large a stage
as possible.

586
00:39:57,301 --> 00:39:59,968
It's the theater-going public
who will make you rich, Willy.

587
00:39:59,970 --> 00:40:02,370
Maybe even as rich as you one
day, my dear Ollendorff.

588
00:40:02,372 --> 00:40:05,040
[Willy]
What size of print run?

589
00:40:05,042 --> 00:40:07,008
[Ollendorff]
Perhaps 30,000 units.

590
00:40:07,010 --> 00:40:11,812
I'm waiting to see what sort of
advances the booksellers have got.

591
00:40:11,814 --> 00:40:13,814
What return
will that yield?

592
00:40:13,816 --> 00:40:16,283
About three francs per unit.

593
00:40:16,285 --> 00:40:18,956
So, yes, it's a tidy sum.

594
00:40:20,289 --> 00:40:22,125
Madame Willy.

595
00:40:23,693 --> 00:40:25,259
- An honor.
- Pleasure to meet you.

596
00:40:25,261 --> 00:40:28,263
Listen, <i>Claudine at School</i> is
heading for her third printing.

597
00:40:28,265 --> 00:40:29,997
Excellent.

598
00:40:29,999 --> 00:40:32,299
I believe Willy based Claudine
in part on your school days.

599
00:40:32,301 --> 00:40:35,671
Yes, I think I had a little
something to contribute.

600
00:40:35,673 --> 00:40:39,875
Well, I'm very glad your experiences
have borne such wonderful fruit.

601
00:40:39,877 --> 00:40:41,877
Very nice to meet you,
madame.

602
00:40:41,879 --> 00:40:44,312
- Gare de Lyon, please.
- Where are we going?

603
00:40:44,314 --> 00:40:46,149
You'll find out.

604
00:40:48,986 --> 00:40:49,953
Hup.

605
00:40:52,823 --> 00:40:55,026
Is something wrong?

606
00:40:56,093 --> 00:40:58,196
Well, wh-what
do you think is wrong?

607
00:40:59,430 --> 00:41:01,031
What?

608
00:41:02,999 --> 00:41:05,033
Finally
we have a success,

609
00:41:05,035 --> 00:41:07,968
and then you imply that I'm
not the true author of it.

610
00:41:07,970 --> 00:41:10,839
- No, I didn't.
- We're holding dynamite here.

611
00:41:10,841 --> 00:41:13,008
We've created something
really powerful,

612
00:41:13,010 --> 00:41:14,810
and if it goes off
at the wrong time,

613
00:41:14,812 --> 00:41:16,377
then it could blow
our bloody heads off.

614
00:41:16,379 --> 00:41:18,046
Ollendorff is
your publisher, Willy.

615
00:41:18,048 --> 00:41:19,814
Yeah, well, Schwob
also said something.

616
00:41:19,816 --> 00:41:22,786
- Schwob is part of the factory.
- People love to talk.

617
00:41:24,754 --> 00:41:28,122
They praise you to your face. Then the moment
you turn around there's knives in your back.

618
00:41:28,124 --> 00:41:30,191
I understand the mentality here.
You don't.

619
00:41:30,193 --> 00:41:33,794
Well, I understand it well enough to
write a book that's the toast of Paris.

620
00:41:33,796 --> 00:41:36,798
Oh, well, why don't you... Go and
just shout it on the streets then.

621
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,236
Tell everybody.
Roll up for the massacre.

622
00:41:43,807 --> 00:41:45,943
I'm sorry.
I'm... I'm sorry.

623
00:41:48,345 --> 00:41:49,946
I'm sorry.

624
00:41:51,214 --> 00:41:53,751
Perhaps I overreacted.

625
00:41:54,785 --> 00:41:57,187
Anyway, I...
I have a surprise for you.

626
00:41:59,122 --> 00:42:00,988
What is it?

627
00:42:00,990 --> 00:42:03,827
- Well, then it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?
- [chuckles]

628
00:42:05,528 --> 00:42:07,328
So what's that one?

629
00:42:07,330 --> 00:42:08,966
Lime.

630
00:42:11,267 --> 00:42:13,100
And that one?

631
00:42:13,102 --> 00:42:14,871
It's a Douglas fir.

632
00:42:17,807 --> 00:42:19,441
How about that one?

633
00:42:19,443 --> 00:42:22,280
Chestnut.
It's a weeping chestnut.

634
00:42:25,182 --> 00:42:27,448
I don't know why
you're so keen on nature.

635
00:42:27,450 --> 00:42:29,884
Animals are vile
to each other.

636
00:42:29,886 --> 00:42:32,921
Animals are honest at least.
They never lie.

637
00:42:32,923 --> 00:42:36,993
Yes, my dear. Well, that's
because they don't speak.

638
00:42:39,162 --> 00:42:41,229
Look at that.

639
00:42:41,231 --> 00:42:43,865
Mmm. It's beautiful.

640
00:42:43,867 --> 00:42:45,903
I wonder
who lives there.

641
00:42:47,069 --> 00:42:49,740
I'm thirsty. Let's see
if they'll stand us a drink.

642
00:42:50,540 --> 00:42:52,776
Willy,
they might shoot us.

643
00:42:59,816 --> 00:43:02,786
[bell ringing]

644
00:43:08,091 --> 00:43:10,591
Look, wait.
They might be upstairs.

645
00:43:10,593 --> 00:43:12,394
Or deaf.

646
00:43:12,396 --> 00:43:15,363
- Deafened by all this country silence!
- Shh.

647
00:43:15,365 --> 00:43:17,098
I thought
I heard something.

648
00:43:17,100 --> 00:43:17,866
Kiss me.

649
00:43:17,868 --> 00:43:20,838
- Willy, someone might come.
- Good.

650
00:43:26,142 --> 00:43:28,142
Put your hand
in my pocket.

651
00:43:28,144 --> 00:43:30,278
- There's something there for you.
- Willy.

652
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,783
- What?
- [scoffs]

653
00:43:34,618 --> 00:43:36,921
[clinking]

654
00:43:41,859 --> 00:43:43,294
Allow me.

655
00:44:00,943 --> 00:44:02,946
What do you think?

656
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,513
I don't know what I think.

657
00:44:06,515 --> 00:44:09,484
- Whose house is it?
- It's for you.

658
00:44:09,486 --> 00:44:11,919
My love. My heart.

659
00:44:11,921 --> 00:44:14,324
Lest Paris
should drive you mad.

660
00:44:15,524 --> 00:44:18,259
- What?
- It's yours.

661
00:44:18,261 --> 00:44:21,298
You're always talking about how
much you miss the countryside.

662
00:44:23,399 --> 00:44:26,000
I don't believe it.

663
00:44:26,002 --> 00:44:28,405
Somewhere for you
to write and be alone.

664
00:44:30,339 --> 00:44:31,975
So...

665
00:44:34,577 --> 00:44:36,544
where did you get
the money?

666
00:44:36,546 --> 00:44:39,948
I got an advance
from Ollendorff.

667
00:44:39,950 --> 00:44:42,950
- 25,000 francs.
- For what?

668
00:44:42,952 --> 00:44:44,986
For the next book.

669
00:44:44,988 --> 00:44:47,055
- <i>Claudine in Paris.</i>
- Willy, I-I...

670
00:44:47,057 --> 00:44:49,658
- I can't write another Claudine.
- Just write about us.

671
00:44:49,660 --> 00:44:52,459
Our lives. Our friends. Change
the names and make gossip.

672
00:44:52,461 --> 00:44:54,998
- No, Willy, it...
- Let's talk about the details later.

673
00:44:59,068 --> 00:45:01,137
So, do you like it?

674
00:45:02,539 --> 00:45:04,272
It's indescribable.

675
00:45:04,274 --> 00:45:05,573
No such word.

676
00:45:05,575 --> 00:45:09,045
A good writer should be able to
describe anything no matter what.

677
00:45:44,714 --> 00:45:46,316
Is this it?

678
00:45:48,051 --> 00:45:50,187
Your total output
for all these weeks?

679
00:45:52,022 --> 00:45:54,288
I've been doing the house.

680
00:45:54,290 --> 00:45:57,691
All the repairs,
the painting, the tiling.

681
00:45:57,693 --> 00:45:59,761
Planting the garden.

682
00:45:59,763 --> 00:46:02,330
Bugger the garden.
We have a deadline.

683
00:46:02,332 --> 00:46:05,403
Well, it's actually quite difficult
to write out here... alone.

684
00:46:06,769 --> 00:46:09,537
And I don't want to write
another Claudine.

685
00:46:09,539 --> 00:46:12,707
Are you out of your mind? Do you
realize how rare this moment is?

686
00:46:12,709 --> 00:46:15,212
When people
are begging for more?

687
00:46:18,015 --> 00:46:19,417
Here, come with me.

688
00:46:25,488 --> 00:46:29,457
What would the headmaster do if
Claudine had not done her homework?

689
00:46:29,459 --> 00:46:31,359
Willy, don't be silly.

690
00:46:31,361 --> 00:46:33,227
What would he do?

691
00:46:33,229 --> 00:46:36,631
Make her do lines. Put her over
his knee and tan her hide.

692
00:46:36,633 --> 00:46:38,234
Correct.

693
00:46:39,435 --> 00:46:41,539
I'll start tomorrow.

694
00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:44,542
Willy.

695
00:46:45,575 --> 00:46:48,243
- Write!
- Willy, let me out!

696
00:46:48,245 --> 00:46:51,111
You will do as I say.
I'll return in four hours.

697
00:46:51,113 --> 00:46:53,214
- I expect to see some pages.
- Willy!

698
00:46:53,216 --> 00:46:55,252
Willy, come on.
This isn't funny.

699
00:46:57,220 --> 00:47:00,654
Willy!
Willy, you bastard!

700
00:47:00,656 --> 00:47:04,459
You arrogant bastard!
Let me out!

701
00:47:04,461 --> 00:47:06,093
- Willy!
- [pounding]

702
00:47:06,095 --> 00:47:08,328
Open the door!

703
00:47:08,330 --> 00:47:09,533
Let me out!

704
00:48:35,318 --> 00:48:37,620
[woman]
Oh, thank you so much.

705
00:48:49,932 --> 00:48:52,135
Ho-ho! Ho-ho!

706
00:48:53,236 --> 00:48:54,638
[bicycle bell dings]

707
00:49:03,713 --> 00:49:05,680
[whispering] Colette
and Willy are here.

708
00:49:05,682 --> 00:49:07,318
So they are.

709
00:49:07,950 --> 00:49:09,651
Don't stare.

710
00:49:09,653 --> 00:49:10,919
- Sorry.
- Here?

711
00:49:10,921 --> 00:49:12,623
Yes. Perfect.

712
00:49:14,524 --> 00:49:15,659
Thank you.

713
00:49:17,961 --> 00:49:19,794
Mmm. It's delicious.

714
00:49:19,796 --> 00:49:21,462
Mmm.

715
00:49:21,464 --> 00:49:23,631
Tell me,

716
00:49:23,633 --> 00:49:26,267
how many people
in this park right now

717
00:49:26,269 --> 00:49:28,339
do you think are reading
<i>Claudine in Paris?</i>

718
00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:32,540
- I don't know.
- I'd say at least three-quarters.

719
00:49:32,542 --> 00:49:35,513
And the rest of them
will soon catch up.

720
00:49:38,781 --> 00:49:40,651
What comes here?

721
00:49:42,519 --> 00:49:44,618
Monsieur Willy.
Madame Colette.

722
00:49:44,620 --> 00:49:47,290
- I have a note for you.
- Thank you very much.

723
00:49:48,225 --> 00:49:49,924
Mrs. Raoul Duval.

724
00:49:49,926 --> 00:49:51,825
Oh, Georgie Raoul Duval?

725
00:49:51,827 --> 00:49:53,493
- Yes.
- Wonderful.

726
00:49:53,495 --> 00:49:56,663
Please thank your mistress
and say we accept the invitation

727
00:49:56,665 --> 00:49:58,665
and look forward
to her delightful company.

728
00:49:58,667 --> 00:50:00,303
- Thank you.
- I will.

729
00:50:02,504 --> 00:50:05,305
- Who is she?
- Ah, she's an American.

730
00:50:05,307 --> 00:50:10,477
She's a wayward debutante
from Louisiana

731
00:50:10,479 --> 00:50:15,350
who married a munitions
magnate three times her age.

732
00:50:15,352 --> 00:50:16,950
They sound dull.

733
00:50:16,952 --> 00:50:20,455
He is,
but she's anything but.

734
00:50:20,457 --> 00:50:22,991
We don't have to go
if you don't want to.

735
00:50:22,993 --> 00:50:24,993
No, let's go.

736
00:50:24,995 --> 00:50:28,296
[people laughing]

737
00:50:28,298 --> 00:50:30,564
That's so funny.
Did he really say that?

738
00:50:30,566 --> 00:50:33,368
Of course he did.
He's such a colossal snob.

739
00:50:33,370 --> 00:50:37,471
Then Madame de Caillavet happened to mention
that he was only a baron, not a marquise.

740
00:50:37,473 --> 00:50:39,506
"Forgive me, madam,"
he replied,

741
00:50:39,508 --> 00:50:42,343
"but I'm also the duke of
Anjou, the bishop of Coutances,

742
00:50:42,345 --> 00:50:45,613
the prince of Joinville,
of Orléans, and the Dunes.

743
00:50:45,615 --> 00:50:47,749
None of which is of the
slightest importance here."

744
00:50:47,751 --> 00:50:50,588
[laughing]

745
00:50:52,321 --> 00:50:54,258
Oh, look.

746
00:50:55,758 --> 00:50:56,626
There.

747
00:50:58,827 --> 00:51:00,263
That's better.

748
00:51:01,997 --> 00:51:06,401
[laughing]

749
00:51:06,403 --> 00:51:08,935
- Oh, is the evening over already?
- Thank you, monsieur.

750
00:51:08,937 --> 00:51:10,671
I can't bear it.

751
00:51:10,673 --> 00:51:13,006
Oh, Lily, tell the coachman
to go and ready the carriage.

752
00:51:13,008 --> 00:51:14,611
Of course.

753
00:51:15,544 --> 00:51:16,977
Well?

754
00:51:16,979 --> 00:51:20,682
I'm sorry, ma'am, but, Monsieur Willy,
may I have your autograph, please?

755
00:51:20,684 --> 00:51:22,383
Of course you can.

756
00:51:22,385 --> 00:51:24,521
Here, I'll even do
a picture for you.

757
00:51:26,356 --> 00:51:27,788
- There you are.
- Thank you so much.

758
00:51:27,790 --> 00:51:29,857
- And yours too, Madame Colette.
- Oh, come now.

759
00:51:29,859 --> 00:51:33,430
No, of course. Spirit
should always be rewarded.

760
00:51:36,031 --> 00:51:37,999
Thank you.

761
00:51:38,001 --> 00:51:40,403
- Good night, my dear.
- Good night.

762
00:51:43,006 --> 00:51:45,573
Well,

763
00:51:45,575 --> 00:51:50,547
I live at 74 Rue Goethe if you'd
like to stop by for a nightcap.

764
00:51:52,481 --> 00:51:55,482
I think I'd better retire
for the night.

765
00:51:55,484 --> 00:51:57,685
Oh. Are you sure now?

766
00:51:57,687 --> 00:52:00,754
- Willy?
- We'll play again soon, my dear.

767
00:52:00,756 --> 00:52:04,658
Yes, I hope so, before
my bore of a husband returns.

768
00:52:04,660 --> 00:52:05,993
[chuckling]

769
00:52:05,995 --> 00:52:08,629
Well, au revoir.

770
00:52:08,631 --> 00:52:10,434
Au revoir.

771
00:52:16,972 --> 00:52:18,705
You don't want to go?

772
00:52:18,707 --> 00:52:21,778
Well, the invitation
was clearly meant for you.

773
00:52:23,646 --> 00:52:26,649
- Should I?
- Yes, of course.

774
00:52:27,417 --> 00:52:29,082
You don't mind?

775
00:52:29,084 --> 00:52:32,854
Well, it would be hypocritical
of me if I did, wouldn't it?

776
00:52:32,856 --> 00:52:36,624
You can comfort yourself knowing
that I will be at home lying in bed,

777
00:52:36,626 --> 00:52:39,595
thinking of the two of you
in the fondest way possible.

778
00:53:07,823 --> 00:53:10,091
[soprano singing opera
on recording]

779
00:53:10,093 --> 00:53:12,396
Come on in.

780
00:53:16,533 --> 00:53:18,499
It's a nice place.

781
00:53:18,501 --> 00:53:20,970
Thank you. It's my
little pied-à-terre.

782
00:53:22,504 --> 00:53:25,006
Frederick's not so keen
on the art nouveau pieces,

783
00:53:25,008 --> 00:53:27,877
but I love nature...

784
00:53:29,011 --> 00:53:30,645
and women.

785
00:53:30,647 --> 00:53:34,115
[chuckles] I can see.

786
00:53:34,117 --> 00:53:38,653
I remember in <i>Claudine at School</i> when all
the girls go swimming together at night.

787
00:53:38,655 --> 00:53:41,154
Night is the best time
for a swim.

788
00:53:41,156 --> 00:53:44,892
When I was a girl, I was told that all
the lakes in Louisiana have alligators,

789
00:53:44,894 --> 00:53:50,698
so I never went for a midnight
swim, but I regret it.

790
00:53:50,700 --> 00:53:52,732
When you raise your eyelids,

791
00:53:52,734 --> 00:53:55,439
it's as if you are taking off
all my clothes.

792
00:53:56,939 --> 00:53:58,876
Don't look away.

793
00:53:59,943 --> 00:54:01,979
Look at me.

794
00:54:03,111 --> 00:54:04,814
Look at me looking at you.

795
00:54:14,756 --> 00:54:18,191
You have
the most beautiful teeth.

796
00:54:18,193 --> 00:54:20,029
Like an alligator.

797
00:54:32,908 --> 00:54:34,107
[door closes]

798
00:54:34,109 --> 00:54:35,711
[dog yelps]

799
00:54:36,778 --> 00:54:38,514
[yelping]

800
00:54:39,115 --> 00:54:40,982
Morning, my dear.

801
00:54:40,984 --> 00:54:43,651
Have you fed Toby Chien?

802
00:54:43,653 --> 00:54:46,823
Oh, I forgot.
I thought Matilde does that.

803
00:54:51,727 --> 00:54:53,928
So how was last night?

804
00:54:53,930 --> 00:54:55,196
Interesting.

805
00:54:55,198 --> 00:54:57,598
What happened?

806
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,799
What do you think
happened?

807
00:54:59,801 --> 00:55:03,136
Ah. Well, don't tell me.
I'll, uh...

808
00:55:03,138 --> 00:55:07,073
I'll wait to read about it, when Claudine
develops tender feelings towards a lady friend.

809
00:55:07,075 --> 00:55:09,810
- I'm not writing about it.
- You must. It's prime material.

810
00:55:09,812 --> 00:55:11,011
No.

811
00:55:11,013 --> 00:55:12,883
Will you see her again?

812
00:55:13,950 --> 00:55:15,618
Possibly.

813
00:55:21,124 --> 00:55:22,959
[knocking]

814
00:55:24,260 --> 00:55:26,662
One moment, my darlin'.

815
00:55:39,008 --> 00:55:41,308
- Oh.
- Wonderful. You're... You're here.

816
00:55:41,310 --> 00:55:43,877
I...
I was just passing by.

817
00:55:43,879 --> 00:55:44,981
Yes?

818
00:55:46,582 --> 00:55:48,017
Well, um...

819
00:55:51,220 --> 00:55:53,022
You'd better come in.

820
00:55:58,227 --> 00:55:59,930
[door closes]

821
00:56:04,267 --> 00:56:06,066
How's the writing going?

822
00:56:06,068 --> 00:56:08,102
It's slow and painful.

823
00:56:08,104 --> 00:56:10,971
- How was your meeting at the bank?
- It was good.

824
00:56:10,973 --> 00:56:12,676
Yeah, it was good.

825
00:56:43,171 --> 00:56:45,708
[both moaning]

826
00:56:50,379 --> 00:56:52,615
She's expecting you.

827
00:57:04,227 --> 00:57:05,995
Off to the bank.

828
00:57:08,430 --> 00:57:11,001
[moaning]

829
00:57:22,412 --> 00:57:24,747
[shouting] Georgie,
I know you're in there!

830
00:57:26,281 --> 00:57:27,984
Georgie, open up!

831
00:57:29,818 --> 00:57:31,819
Colette,
I was taking a nap.

832
00:57:31,821 --> 00:57:33,953
- Where is he?
- Who?

833
00:57:33,955 --> 00:57:35,992
Colette, what are
you talking about?

834
00:57:39,761 --> 00:57:42,062
[Colette's voice] <i>Blue cigar
smoke hung in the air.</i>

835
00:57:42,064 --> 00:57:45,066
<i>I marched in and looked
straight in the face of Renaud.</i>

836
00:57:45,068 --> 00:57:47,868
<i>He recoiled, saying, "It was wicked of me.
I'm sorry."</i>

837
00:57:47,870 --> 00:57:49,904
<i>Rezi was there.
Of course she was there...</i>

838
00:57:49,906 --> 00:57:52,372
"Of course she was there,
hurriedly dressing herself.

839
00:57:52,374 --> 00:57:55,910
I shall always remember her
lily-white face decomposing,

840
00:57:55,912 --> 00:57:58,714
as if it were dying
right under my gaze."

841
00:58:02,118 --> 00:58:04,285
[sighs]
It's good.

842
00:58:04,287 --> 00:58:06,022
I know.

843
00:58:07,624 --> 00:58:11,357
I'd suggest you change the line where Renaud
says, "It was wicked of me to do it,"

844
00:58:11,359 --> 00:58:12,725
but I know you won't.

845
00:58:12,727 --> 00:58:16,196
And what do you think that Renaud
would say in those circumstances?

846
00:58:16,198 --> 00:58:19,200
I don't know. Something like, "Why,
my dear, we were waiting for you."

847
00:58:19,202 --> 00:58:23,069
- I don't think she'd believe him.
- Of course not.

848
00:58:23,071 --> 00:58:26,372
But don't you think
she's being hypocritical?

849
00:58:26,374 --> 00:58:28,942
I mean, it's acceptable for
Claudine to sleep with Rezi,

850
00:58:28,944 --> 00:58:30,910
but she doesn't want Renaud
to do the same.

851
00:58:30,912 --> 00:58:32,948
Not behind her back,
no.

852
00:58:34,484 --> 00:58:36,316
The betrayal came
when Renaud lied to her.

853
00:58:36,318 --> 00:58:39,088
Renaud, who swore he
would always be honest.

854
00:58:42,325 --> 00:58:45,426
Well, perhaps he wanted
to tell her, but he was...

855
00:58:45,428 --> 00:58:47,995
frightened
of her volcanic jealousy.

856
00:58:47,997 --> 00:58:50,734
Well, then, he was a
coward as well as a liar.

857
00:58:52,368 --> 00:58:54,368
You're very harsh on him.

858
00:58:54,370 --> 00:58:56,306
If not me,
who else?

859
00:58:58,975 --> 00:59:00,774
And Renaud
would never be jealous

860
00:59:00,776 --> 00:59:02,877
if, for example,

861
00:59:02,879 --> 00:59:05,848
Claudine went off with a
young man for a change.

862
00:59:09,352 --> 00:59:11,384
He would find that
unacceptable.

863
00:59:11,386 --> 00:59:13,254
Oh.
[chuckles]

864
00:59:13,256 --> 00:59:16,256
- Infidelity for Renaud is a matter of gender?
- Yes, it is.

865
00:59:16,258 --> 00:59:17,293
Huh.

866
00:59:18,794 --> 00:59:21,395
How long have you known?

867
00:59:21,397 --> 00:59:23,363
About a month.

868
00:59:23,365 --> 00:59:26,302
Well, I must say, I'm impressed by
the way you've handled yourself.

869
00:59:27,502 --> 00:59:29,904
A younger Claudine
would have thrown a fit.

870
00:59:29,906 --> 00:59:32,272
I'm planning on killing
Renaud off in the next one.

871
00:59:32,274 --> 00:59:34,575
What? No, you can't.
No, please, don't.

872
00:59:34,577 --> 00:59:37,781
The hand that holds
the pen writes history.

873
00:59:45,555 --> 00:59:47,354
My husband,

874
00:59:47,356 --> 00:59:50,223
he's just... pure rage.

875
00:59:50,225 --> 00:59:52,526
He wanted to challenge Willy
to a duel.

876
00:59:52,528 --> 00:59:54,294
What?

877
00:59:54,296 --> 00:59:57,333
I put him off. Hopefully
it won't come to that.

878
00:59:59,435 --> 01:00:01,271
You've read it, yes?

879
01:00:02,305 --> 01:00:03,504
I have.

880
01:00:03,506 --> 01:00:05,272
How worried should I be?

881
01:00:05,274 --> 01:00:07,308
It's not blatantly obvious
who is who.

882
01:00:07,310 --> 01:00:09,442
- The names have been changed.
- I don't believe you.

883
01:00:09,444 --> 01:00:13,048
Everyone's chattering about it, saying
it will be salacious in the extreme.

884
01:00:14,383 --> 01:00:17,884
I know that you have no time
for me since our separation,

885
01:00:17,886 --> 01:00:21,254
and I know
I behaved badly.

886
01:00:21,256 --> 01:00:22,925
But I'm begging you.

887
01:00:24,126 --> 01:00:27,328
Ask Willy to change it
before publication.

888
01:00:27,330 --> 01:00:29,296
Please, Colette.

889
01:00:29,298 --> 01:00:30,464
One woman to another.

890
01:00:30,466 --> 01:00:32,466
I can't.

891
01:00:32,468 --> 01:00:34,067
You'd let me suffer?

892
01:00:34,069 --> 01:00:36,937
It isn't just Willy,
Georgie.

893
01:00:36,939 --> 01:00:39,439
It... It's...
It's the book itself.

894
01:00:39,441 --> 01:00:41,310
Willy thinks
it's a work of art.

895
01:00:43,479 --> 01:00:45,080
[sighs]

896
01:00:49,185 --> 01:00:51,352
You had your chance
to be decent,

897
01:00:51,354 --> 01:00:54,488
but now it will be left to
my husband to settle it.

898
01:00:54,490 --> 01:00:59,325
Ollendorff has agreed to a lump sum for
the destruction of the entire print run.

899
01:00:59,327 --> 01:01:00,396
What?

900
01:01:01,497 --> 01:01:03,263
You can't do that.

901
01:01:03,265 --> 01:01:04,665
He's already accepted.

902
01:01:04,667 --> 01:01:06,966
That sly bastard.
You can't. You just can't.

903
01:01:06,968 --> 01:01:09,102
Well, we have,
and that's how it is.

904
01:01:09,104 --> 01:01:12,208
- You duplicitous bitch.
- I had a good teacher.

905
01:01:34,463 --> 01:01:37,196
And like
a true French heroine,

906
01:01:37,198 --> 01:01:39,399
our daughter Claudine
was burnt at the stake.

907
01:01:39,401 --> 01:01:42,136
- I said it would be a hot book.
- [chuckles]

908
01:01:42,138 --> 01:01:44,537
The thing is,
Ollendorff signed the deal,

909
01:01:44,539 --> 01:01:48,174
but he neglected to mention that
he does not own the copyright.

910
01:01:48,176 --> 01:01:50,243
- Because I do.
- Unbelievable.

911
01:01:50,245 --> 01:01:53,446
So it was simply a question of
trotting along to the next publisher,

912
01:01:53,448 --> 01:01:55,515
collecting
a second advance,

913
01:01:55,517 --> 01:01:57,551
and the printing presses are
hard at work as we speak.

914
01:01:57,553 --> 01:01:59,453
How do you two do it?

915
01:01:59,455 --> 01:02:03,424
- I think we got very lucky.
- Not at all. We are with the times.

916
01:02:03,426 --> 01:02:08,294
That cuckolded millionaire and his
voracious wife didn't stand a chance.

917
01:02:08,296 --> 01:02:11,098
We've got the wind under our
wings, and I have a little plan

918
01:02:11,100 --> 01:02:14,667
to turn Claudine into the most popular
girl in France, if not the entire world.

919
01:02:14,669 --> 01:02:17,307
She will literally be
a household name.

920
01:02:18,975 --> 01:02:21,709
My name is Claudine.
I live in Montigny.

921
01:02:21,711 --> 01:02:24,979
I was born there in 1884.

922
01:02:24,981 --> 01:02:27,314
- She's not bad.
- I shall probably not die there.

923
01:02:27,316 --> 01:02:30,383
- Montigny is a village, not a town.
- She's terrible.

924
01:02:30,385 --> 01:02:33,053
Its streets, thank
heaven, are not paved.

925
01:02:33,055 --> 01:02:36,059
Yes, you're right.
Th-Thank you very much.

926
01:02:41,196 --> 01:02:44,230
My name is Claudine.
I live in Montigny.

927
01:02:44,232 --> 01:02:46,533
I was born there
in 1884.

928
01:02:46,535 --> 01:02:48,736
I shall probably not
die there.

929
01:02:48,738 --> 01:02:51,071
Montigny is a village,
not a town.

930
01:02:51,073 --> 01:02:53,707
- Monsieur Willy. I am the real Claudine.
- [actress continues speaking]

931
01:02:53,709 --> 01:02:56,209
- And you are...?
- Me?

932
01:02:56,211 --> 01:02:58,745
- My name is Polaire.
- Polaire?

933
01:02:58,747 --> 01:03:01,615
Polaire.
Pride of Algiers.

934
01:03:01,617 --> 01:03:03,584
Look at her.

935
01:03:03,586 --> 01:03:05,218
I mean, look at her.
She's...

936
01:03:05,220 --> 01:03:07,187
She instinctively
knows the role.

937
01:03:07,189 --> 01:03:10,457
- She talks about the book as if it was a religion.
- Yes.

938
01:03:10,459 --> 01:03:12,995
She's a Sister of Perpetual Claudine.
[chuckles]

939
01:03:14,330 --> 01:03:15,395
It's strange.

940
01:03:15,397 --> 01:03:19,336
She's started copying my
gestures and mannerisms.

941
01:03:20,435 --> 01:03:23,203
- Really?
- Do you think I could act?

942
01:03:23,205 --> 01:03:25,506
You? No.
It'd be a criminal waste.

943
01:03:25,508 --> 01:03:26,774
Waste of what?

944
01:03:26,776 --> 01:03:30,343
This bobbed haircut. I've never
seen anything like it. Have you?

945
01:03:30,345 --> 01:03:32,982
I always imagined Claudine
with long hair.

946
01:03:34,216 --> 01:03:37,651
Well, that was 19th-century Claudine.
This is now.

947
01:03:37,653 --> 01:03:39,520
Look good on you,
actually.

948
01:03:39,522 --> 01:03:41,321
Very fetching.

949
01:03:41,323 --> 01:03:44,591
Just think of it. You and
Polaire, the Claudine twins.

950
01:03:44,593 --> 01:03:47,326
- What?
- Yeah. It'd be a publicity gold mine.

951
01:03:47,328 --> 01:03:50,265
- Paris would be all atwitter.
- No. Not in a thousand years.

952
01:03:53,836 --> 01:03:55,472
Evening.

953
01:04:19,294 --> 01:04:22,164
Colette.
You look ravishing.

954
01:04:22,664 --> 01:04:24,300
Thank you.

955
01:04:32,140 --> 01:04:34,510
[footsteps]

956
01:04:40,716 --> 01:04:43,252
My name is Claudine.

957
01:04:44,486 --> 01:04:46,620
I live in Montigny.

958
01:04:46,622 --> 01:04:50,093
I was born there
in 1884.

959
01:04:51,193 --> 01:04:54,194
I shall probably not
die there.

960
01:04:54,196 --> 01:04:57,663
Of all my novels, this was the one
that would translate to the theater.

961
01:04:57,665 --> 01:05:00,267
I have to give it to you, Willy.
It's a huge success.

962
01:05:00,269 --> 01:05:03,736
But now you're such a celebrity, you'll
become even more insufferable than ever.

963
01:05:03,738 --> 01:05:07,207
- [all laughing]
- That's the plan, Veber. That's the plan.

964
01:05:07,209 --> 01:05:09,343
[woman]
Oh, he is a tease.

965
01:05:09,345 --> 01:05:11,678
Can you believe
this crowd?

966
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:14,647
Look. Everyone's here. Look.
There's the marquise de Belbeuf.

967
01:05:14,649 --> 01:05:18,718
Or Missy, as she's known. She only
shows up for very special occasions.

968
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,687
A woman?

969
01:05:20,689 --> 01:05:23,256
Descended from Empress
Josephine on one side,

970
01:05:23,258 --> 01:05:25,625
the czar of Russia
on the other.

971
01:05:25,627 --> 01:05:28,761
That's how she gets away with
the trousers, even in public.

972
01:05:28,763 --> 01:05:30,466
Fascinating.

973
01:05:38,374 --> 01:05:39,772
[woman]
Stunning.

974
01:05:39,774 --> 01:05:41,841
Subtle as ever.

975
01:05:41,843 --> 01:05:44,313
[applause]

976
01:05:59,928 --> 01:06:02,296
Monsieur Willy.

977
01:06:02,298 --> 01:06:04,798
- How was it?
- You were magnificent.

978
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:06,265
You were perfection.

979
01:06:06,267 --> 01:06:08,604
- Thank you, Monsieur Willy.
- [guests gasp]

980
01:06:09,772 --> 01:06:10,937
Colette?

981
01:06:10,939 --> 01:06:14,510
You are her.
The living Claudine.

982
01:06:15,877 --> 01:06:18,212
Polaire,
alight here on my knee.

983
01:06:18,214 --> 01:06:20,714
Tetette, you too.

984
01:06:20,716 --> 01:06:22,352
- Willy...
- Come here.

985
01:06:25,754 --> 01:06:27,553
Behold
the Claudine trinity.

986
01:06:27,555 --> 01:06:30,957
The father, the mother
and the daughter.

987
01:06:30,959 --> 01:06:32,494
Look over here, please.

988
01:06:35,763 --> 01:06:37,564
[speaking rhythmically]
Claudine, she is a Midas minx,

989
01:06:37,566 --> 01:06:39,700
her smile mysterious
like a sphinx.

990
01:06:39,702 --> 01:06:41,567
She walks, she talks,
she even thinks.

991
01:06:41,569 --> 01:06:43,537
[with guests] Claudine,
Claudine, Claudine!

992
01:06:43,539 --> 01:06:45,504
[Willy, solo] Claudine's a
girl who knows no bounds,

993
01:06:45,506 --> 01:06:47,307
a fox that can't be
caught by hounds.

994
01:06:47,309 --> 01:06:49,609
Exploding star
that makes no sound!

995
01:06:49,611 --> 01:06:51,511
[all]
Claudine, Claudine, Claudine!

996
01:06:51,513 --> 01:06:53,580
- Who is this girl in my heart?
- Claudine!

997
01:06:53,582 --> 01:06:55,549
- Who has been right from the start?
- Claudine!

998
01:06:55,551 --> 01:06:57,850
- Who is a bit of a tart?
- Claudine, Claudine, Claudine!

999
01:06:57,852 --> 01:06:59,453
Claudine!

1000
01:06:59,455 --> 01:07:01,455
- Who is the girl I admire?
- Claudine!

1001
01:07:01,457 --> 01:07:02,888
- Who is the queen of desire?
- Claudine!

1002
01:07:02,890 --> 01:07:04,691
Who has set Paris
on fire?

1003
01:07:04,693 --> 01:07:06,826
Claudine, Claudine,
Claudine, Claudine!

1004
01:07:06,828 --> 01:07:08,828
- Who's wearing a schoolgirl's smock?
- Claudine!

1005
01:07:08,830 --> 01:07:10,631
- Who's causing a hell of a shock?
- Claudine!

1006
01:07:10,633 --> 01:07:12,198
Who's working
all round the clock?

1007
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:16,736
Claudine, Claudine, Claudine, Claudine,
Claudine, Claudine, Claudine, Claudine!

1008
01:07:16,738 --> 01:07:18,337
And when...

1009
01:07:18,339 --> 01:07:19,872
in a dream...

1010
01:07:19,874 --> 01:07:23,343
I find myself
next to Claudine

1011
01:07:23,345 --> 01:07:25,511
and her magical eyes,

1012
01:07:25,513 --> 01:07:27,482
forgetting
all other music...

1013
01:07:28,417 --> 01:07:29,982
but the laughter
of her voice.

1014
01:07:29,984 --> 01:07:31,517
Claudine!

1015
01:07:31,519 --> 01:07:34,854
- [guests shout] Claudine!
- [applause, cheering]

1016
01:07:34,856 --> 01:07:36,559
Bravo.

1017
01:07:40,796 --> 01:07:43,330
Hello, Toby Chien.
Hello.

1018
01:07:43,332 --> 01:07:44,830
- Hello.
- [panting]

1019
01:07:44,832 --> 01:07:46,033
[chuckles]

1020
01:07:46,035 --> 01:07:47,868
[sighs]
I'm exhausted.

1021
01:07:47,870 --> 01:07:49,836
Oh, me too.

1022
01:07:49,838 --> 01:07:51,640
More steps
every time.

1023
01:07:52,374 --> 01:07:54,441
But what a night.

1024
01:07:54,443 --> 01:07:57,613
We have Paris in the
palm of our hands.

1025
01:08:00,381 --> 01:08:02,751
- Willy.
- Yes, my dear?

1026
01:08:04,952 --> 01:08:06,855
I wondered
if tonight we might...

1027
01:08:08,457 --> 01:08:10,393
It would help me.

1028
01:08:39,821 --> 01:08:40,757
Mmm.

1029
01:08:41,890 --> 01:08:43,660
My love.

1030
01:08:45,526 --> 01:08:47,864
[moans]
My Claudine.

1031
01:09:45,820 --> 01:09:47,522
[laughing]

1032
01:09:49,024 --> 01:09:51,491
[dog barking,
panting]

1033
01:09:51,493 --> 01:09:53,396
Congratulations,
by the way.

1034
01:09:54,495 --> 01:09:57,130
It seems Claudines
are everywhere these days.

1035
01:09:57,132 --> 01:10:01,033
Yes. There's even been a Claudine
murderess in Marseilles.

1036
01:10:01,035 --> 01:10:03,769
She slit
her husband's throat.

1037
01:10:03,771 --> 01:10:05,037
Good for her.

1038
01:10:05,039 --> 01:10:07,040
- [chuckles]
- [laughs]

1039
01:10:07,042 --> 01:10:11,710
But seriously, you've
done something important.

1040
01:10:11,712 --> 01:10:14,046
You've invented
a type.

1041
01:10:14,048 --> 01:10:15,752
Willy has, you mean.

1042
01:10:16,552 --> 01:10:18,952
I mean you have.

1043
01:10:18,954 --> 01:10:23,393
All those young girls between girlhood and
womanhood, you've given them a voice.

1044
01:10:24,193 --> 01:10:25,895
You should
own up to it.

1045
01:10:26,962 --> 01:10:28,661
Somebody told you?

1046
01:10:28,663 --> 01:10:30,596
I didn't need
to be told.

1047
01:10:30,598 --> 01:10:32,534
Meeting you is enough.

1048
01:10:34,136 --> 01:10:35,738
It's true.

1049
01:10:37,138 --> 01:10:38,673
I wrote them.

1050
01:10:40,476 --> 01:10:41,677
It's just...

1051
01:10:42,244 --> 01:10:43,880
I know.

1052
01:10:47,583 --> 01:10:51,785
[Colette's voice] <i>I hope the path we
walked today was merely the beginning.</i>

1053
01:10:51,787 --> 01:10:56,822
<i>I see your face, Missy...
strong, vulnerable.</i>

1054
01:10:56,824 --> 01:10:58,894
<i>I've never met
anyone like you.</i>

1055
01:11:00,095 --> 01:11:02,127
<i>Polite yet direct.</i>

1056
01:11:02,129 --> 01:11:03,833
<i>Reserved yet brave.</i>

1057
01:11:04,632 --> 01:11:07,769
<i>A true gentle man.</i>

1058
01:11:08,770 --> 01:11:12,008
- [recording: woman singing]
- [typing]

1059
01:11:14,243 --> 01:11:16,044
[phone rings]

1060
01:11:17,678 --> 01:11:19,645
Willy Gauthier-Villars'
residence.

1061
01:11:19,647 --> 01:11:22,148
[singing continues]

1062
01:11:22,150 --> 01:11:24,050
He's busy at the moment.

1063
01:11:24,052 --> 01:11:26,185
- Can I take a message?
- It's the Soumaintrain.

1064
01:11:26,187 --> 01:11:28,121
Reminds me
of Saint-Sauveur.

1065
01:11:28,123 --> 01:11:30,156
Mmm. Oh, yes.

1066
01:11:30,158 --> 01:11:32,559
- It's delicious.
- [chuckles]

1067
01:11:32,561 --> 01:11:34,664
- When do you go on tour?
- Mmm.

1068
01:11:35,530 --> 01:11:36,862
A few weeks.

1069
01:11:36,864 --> 01:11:39,265
Some real fleapits too.
It'll be hell.

1070
01:11:39,267 --> 01:11:41,902
- Why do you do it?
- [man] He might have some time on Thursday.

1071
01:11:41,904 --> 01:11:46,139
I'm addicted. I love every
single dive and wastrel.

1072
01:11:46,141 --> 01:11:47,807
You should
come with us.

1073
01:11:47,809 --> 01:11:50,242
- Can't do cantomime.
- This isn't cantomime.

1074
01:11:50,244 --> 01:11:52,144
This is a new kind
of pantomime.

1075
01:11:52,146 --> 01:11:55,014
- [man] I'll put you down for a half an hour.
- Pure action.

1076
01:11:55,016 --> 01:11:57,751
The right gesture
is worth a thousand words.

1077
01:11:57,753 --> 01:12:00,490
- [man] And how do you spell that?
- [doorbell ringing]

1078
01:12:01,556 --> 01:12:03,188
Excuse me.

1079
01:12:03,190 --> 01:12:05,694
[recording:
woman speaking French]

1080
01:12:08,730 --> 01:12:10,863
- Yes?
- Is Monsieur Willy at home?

1081
01:12:10,865 --> 01:12:13,069
I was hoping
he could sign my book.

1082
01:12:18,707 --> 01:12:20,575
Héon? Another one.

1083
01:12:22,677 --> 01:12:24,911
This way,
please.

1084
01:12:24,913 --> 01:12:26,979
[Colette] Tell me
more about pantomime.

1085
01:12:26,981 --> 01:12:30,584
Oh, well, it's something I've been
talking about with Christian.

1086
01:12:30,586 --> 01:12:33,586
Just an idea right now. We're
thinking of calling it <i>Flesh.</i>

1087
01:12:33,588 --> 01:12:35,024
Go on in.

1088
01:12:38,627 --> 01:12:40,926
- Monsieur Willy.
- I am he.

1089
01:12:40,928 --> 01:12:42,996
Hello.

1090
01:12:42,998 --> 01:12:46,535
Could you sign this?
It's my favorite book.

1091
01:12:47,235 --> 01:12:49,572
Hmm. Thank you.

1092
01:12:50,672 --> 01:12:52,237
To whom
should I inscribe it?

1093
01:12:52,239 --> 01:12:53,943
My name is Meg.

1094
01:12:56,078 --> 01:12:57,812
I am the real Claudine.

1095
01:13:02,717 --> 01:13:05,151
- How old are you?
- I'm older than I look.

1096
01:13:05,153 --> 01:13:06,155
I'm 23.

1097
01:13:08,289 --> 01:13:10,626
Well, I'm younger
than I look. I'm 46.

1098
01:13:11,392 --> 01:13:13,693
I don't mind.

1099
01:13:13,695 --> 01:13:14,931
[car horn honks]

1100
01:13:16,230 --> 01:13:18,665
- Whoa!
- [laughs]

1101
01:13:18,667 --> 01:13:20,136
- Right ahead!
- There it is!

1102
01:13:25,841 --> 01:13:28,241
- Come here, Toby.
- Toby, bring the ball.

1103
01:13:28,243 --> 01:13:29,946
- [barking]
- [laughs]

1104
01:13:36,418 --> 01:13:39,385
Can you bring it back? Go, Toby!

1105
01:13:39,387 --> 01:13:40,957
[Toby barking]

1106
01:13:43,425 --> 01:13:45,160
Meg's very sweet,
isn't she?

1107
01:13:47,361 --> 01:13:49,632
A little overeager,
but there you are.

1108
01:13:50,399 --> 01:13:52,668
Reminds me of you
ten years ago.

1109
01:13:53,435 --> 01:13:56,736
Nothing like.
But she is very sweet.

1110
01:13:56,738 --> 01:13:58,804
- Come on, come on!
- Come on, come on!

1111
01:13:58,806 --> 01:14:01,006
What do you think
of Missy?

1112
01:14:01,008 --> 01:14:02,841
- [Meg] Toby, come!
- She's very pleasant.

1113
01:14:02,843 --> 01:14:05,013
But she perplexes me.
I'm...

1114
01:14:07,214 --> 01:14:12,452
Words are either masculine or feminine, but
there's no... there's no word for Missy.

1115
01:14:12,454 --> 01:14:15,091
Oh, I could think of
one or two.

1116
01:14:17,059 --> 01:14:19,628
Well, you do seem content,
for once.

1117
01:14:22,297 --> 01:14:24,767
Isn't there
something missing?

1118
01:14:27,269 --> 01:14:28,771
What do you mean?

1119
01:14:29,471 --> 01:14:32,775
[gasping]

1120
01:14:46,721 --> 01:14:50,059
[moaning]

1121
01:15:00,869 --> 01:15:03,402
- [knocking]
- [Meg] Are you ready, Willy?

1122
01:15:03,404 --> 01:15:05,807
Yes, I'm ready.

1123
01:15:08,843 --> 01:15:11,079
My name is Claudine.

1124
01:15:11,846 --> 01:15:14,246
I live in Montigny.

1125
01:15:14,248 --> 01:15:16,215
I was born there
in 1884.

1126
01:15:16,217 --> 01:15:17,916
That's right.

1127
01:15:17,918 --> 01:15:20,823
I shall probably not
die there.

1128
01:15:22,891 --> 01:15:24,226
- Forty-seven.
- [grunting]

1129
01:15:25,761 --> 01:15:27,062
Forty-eight.

1130
01:15:28,497 --> 01:15:30,330
Forty-nine.

1131
01:15:30,332 --> 01:15:31,898
Come on.

1132
01:15:31,900 --> 01:15:33,532
- [exclaims]
- Fifty.

1133
01:15:33,534 --> 01:15:36,738
- Well done.
- [laughs, exhales]

1134
01:15:38,774 --> 01:15:41,774
- [chuckles]
- You were married once, weren't you?

1135
01:15:41,776 --> 01:15:44,243
Yes.
It was awful.

1136
01:15:44,245 --> 01:15:47,846
We don't talk anymore, except
through the auspices of lawyers.

1137
01:15:47,848 --> 01:15:49,983
He's embarrassed by me.

1138
01:15:49,985 --> 01:15:54,086
If he was married to me,
what does that say about him?

1139
01:15:54,088 --> 01:15:56,859
It must have been
very hard for you.

1140
01:15:58,025 --> 01:15:59,992
- Putting on trousers, I mean.
- No.

1141
01:15:59,994 --> 01:16:02,394
It was entirely natural.

1142
01:16:02,396 --> 01:16:04,296
I was
a rather awkward child,

1143
01:16:04,298 --> 01:16:08,100
if you can imagine me
in pigtails and a dress.

1144
01:16:08,102 --> 01:16:10,236
I never felt like I belonged,

1145
01:16:10,238 --> 01:16:15,274
and then one day I tried on my brother's
school uniform, and that was it.

1146
01:16:15,276 --> 01:16:17,443
I knew I was home
for the first time.

1147
01:16:17,445 --> 01:16:20,145
I've come a long way
since then.

1148
01:16:20,147 --> 01:16:24,017
Of course, it's far easier for
me than for a woman of no means,

1149
01:16:24,019 --> 01:16:27,021
but I wanted to show
that it can be done.

1150
01:16:27,888 --> 01:16:30,055
What about you?

1151
01:16:30,057 --> 01:16:33,559
- What about me?
- Well, I dress as a man.

1152
01:16:33,561 --> 01:16:36,297
Willy dresses you
as a schoolgirl.

1153
01:16:37,364 --> 01:16:39,033
Thank you.

1154
01:16:40,534 --> 01:16:43,603
I do know what's going on, you know.
I'm in on the joke.

1155
01:16:43,605 --> 01:16:46,142
I don't doubt it
for a second, but...

1156
01:16:47,441 --> 01:16:49,177
but are you happy?

1157
01:16:50,311 --> 01:16:51,913
Is anyone happy?

1158
01:16:53,047 --> 01:16:55,184
Willy is demanding, yes,
but...

1159
01:16:56,217 --> 01:16:58,885
he also gives me
a lot of freedom.

1160
01:16:58,887 --> 01:17:01,453
It is a long leash
he keeps you on,

1161
01:17:01,455 --> 01:17:03,825
but it's a leash
nevertheless.

1162
01:17:05,060 --> 01:17:07,129
And perhaps
you enjoy that.

1163
01:17:08,930 --> 01:17:11,130
- Do you think that's terribly wrong?
- [chuckles] No.

1164
01:17:11,132 --> 01:17:13,169
It's entirely
your business, but...

1165
01:17:14,235 --> 01:17:15,403
Never mind.

1166
01:17:17,239 --> 01:17:18,374
But what?

1167
01:17:20,574 --> 01:17:24,078
I wonder if there
will come a time...

1168
01:17:24,613 --> 01:17:26,478
when you must decide,

1169
01:17:26,480 --> 01:17:29,284
are you Claudine
or are you Colette?

1170
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:34,355
[door opens]

1171
01:17:39,561 --> 01:17:41,897
- Hello, Héon.
- Hello, Colette.

1172
01:17:43,030 --> 01:17:45,331
What kind of a mood
is he in?

1173
01:17:45,333 --> 01:17:47,303
The usual, but worse.

1174
01:17:49,370 --> 01:17:50,937
[typing]

1175
01:17:50,939 --> 01:17:53,939
- Hello there.
- Oh, my word.

1176
01:17:53,941 --> 01:17:56,475
- What are you wearing?
- They're Missy's.

1177
01:17:56,477 --> 01:17:59,414
My dear, I'm surprised you
weren't arrested or beaten up.

1178
01:18:02,650 --> 01:18:05,184
You know
the new Claudine book?

1179
01:18:05,186 --> 01:18:06,419
Yes.

1180
01:18:06,421 --> 01:18:09,425
Why don't we publish it
under both our names?

1181
01:18:10,958 --> 01:18:13,326
[stammers]
That's out of the question.

1182
01:18:13,328 --> 01:18:15,560
Ollendorff
would never agree to it.

1183
01:18:15,562 --> 01:18:17,129
Ollendorff or you?

1184
01:18:17,131 --> 01:18:22,001
Tetette, do you really want to kill the
goose that's laying the golden Claudines?

1185
01:18:22,003 --> 01:18:24,036
There's very little risk,
surely.

1186
01:18:24,038 --> 01:18:25,938
Claudine's established.

1187
01:18:25,940 --> 01:18:29,274
And... most people know.
Or they suspect.

1188
01:18:29,276 --> 01:18:30,475
Nobody knows.

1189
01:18:30,477 --> 01:18:33,578
Unless you've been crowing about
it to your lady man friend.

1190
01:18:33,580 --> 01:18:35,548
- Don't insult Missy.
- Oh, dear.

1191
01:18:35,550 --> 01:18:38,084
She's stripping you of your sense of
humor as well as your common sense.

1192
01:18:38,086 --> 01:18:40,420
- That's not fair, Willy.
- Look, we can't risk it.

1193
01:18:40,422 --> 01:18:43,156
Especially not with our present finances.
We're completely broke.

1194
01:18:43,158 --> 01:18:46,591
We're always broke, and yet you gamble
and fill this place with your antiques.

1195
01:18:46,593 --> 01:18:49,094
I bought those from bankrupts
from a debtors' auction.

1196
01:18:49,096 --> 01:18:51,563
The car. The racehorse
that went lame.

1197
01:18:51,565 --> 01:18:55,268
And you, with your funny clothes and your
hats and the exorbitant mortgage on...

1198
01:18:55,270 --> 01:18:58,304
- I need my name on the book.
- No. Willy is a brand.

1199
01:18:58,306 --> 01:19:02,041
- And, in any case, women writers don't sell.
- You bastard.

1200
01:19:02,043 --> 01:19:05,178
You fat, smug, lazy,
selfish bastard.

1201
01:19:05,180 --> 01:19:09,581
This is utter nonsense. If you felt so strongly,
you should never have agreed to it all.

1202
01:19:09,583 --> 01:19:11,117
Goddamn you, Willy.

1203
01:19:11,119 --> 01:19:14,290
Without the progenitor,
there would be no Claudine.

1204
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:56,094
[classical music playing]

1205
01:19:56,096 --> 01:19:57,332
[Wague]
And prepare.

1206
01:20:02,803 --> 01:20:04,770
- Breathe.
- [piano continues playing]

1207
01:20:04,772 --> 01:20:06,738
Remember
how the cat breathes.

1208
01:20:06,740 --> 01:20:08,243
[inhales]

1209
01:20:12,079 --> 01:20:13,247
[mouths words]

1210
01:20:20,788 --> 01:20:23,124
- [piano continues playing]
- More animal.

1211
01:20:27,428 --> 01:20:29,597
[chattering]

1212
01:20:35,537 --> 01:20:37,670
- Ready?
- Yes.

1213
01:20:37,672 --> 01:20:39,408
Let's get to work.

1214
01:20:56,623 --> 01:20:58,493
And... [grunts]

1215
01:21:00,695 --> 01:21:03,032
And... [grunts]

1216
01:21:07,368 --> 01:21:09,501
Are you going to write
today?

1217
01:21:09,503 --> 01:21:11,105
No.

1218
01:21:13,373 --> 01:21:15,410
Rehearsing with Wague
later.

1219
01:21:16,878 --> 01:21:19,181
Well, don't you think
you ought to?

1220
01:21:21,482 --> 01:21:23,849
I should start
locking you up again.

1221
01:21:23,851 --> 01:21:26,087
I would scream
the house down.

1222
01:21:28,589 --> 01:21:31,092
Look, it's a charming
hobby, Tetette, but...

1223
01:21:31,860 --> 01:21:34,426
you're not exactly
Sarah Bernhardt.

1224
01:21:34,428 --> 01:21:35,995
So if you can't pull
it off as high art,

1225
01:21:35,997 --> 01:21:39,564
you're gonna end up doing the bloody music
halls, and that would be scandalous.

1226
01:21:39,566 --> 01:21:43,071
Since when have you considered
scandal to be a bad thing?

1227
01:21:46,708 --> 01:21:48,243
That's true.

1228
01:21:49,878 --> 01:21:51,277
What does Missy think?

1229
01:21:51,279 --> 01:21:56,282
He's all for it. He comes along with
me to Wague's studio all the time.

1230
01:21:56,284 --> 01:21:58,617
God, how depressing.

1231
01:21:58,619 --> 01:22:02,287
Does she have absolutely no
life of her own whatsoever?

1232
01:22:02,289 --> 01:22:05,359
<i>He</i> does the movements with me.
He's rather good.

1233
01:22:07,162 --> 01:22:10,429
Do you know, Wague thinks that I'll be
ready to go on the stage in a few weeks.

1234
01:22:10,431 --> 01:22:12,932
What do you think, Matilde?

1235
01:22:12,934 --> 01:22:16,402
I have to agree with Monsieur Willy, ma'am.
It's not very ladylike.

1236
01:22:16,404 --> 01:22:18,574
Thought you were on my side.

1237
01:22:20,775 --> 01:22:25,513
So you and the marquise prance around the
studio as potty, mimetic lovers, do you?

1238
01:22:26,814 --> 01:22:29,182
Does Missy share your
ambition to go on the stage?

1239
01:22:29,184 --> 01:22:31,386
No. He's far too shy.

1240
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:36,288
I've had an idea. It'll be
called <i>The Dream of Egypt.</i>

1241
01:22:36,290 --> 01:22:38,456
Paris will never have
seen anything like it.

1242
01:22:38,458 --> 01:22:44,132
A scandalous sensation starring Madame
Colette Willy and the Marquise de Belbeuf.

1243
01:22:45,533 --> 01:22:47,532
In a common-or-garden
music hall.

1244
01:22:47,534 --> 01:22:50,271
Can you imagine? It'll be
a full house every night.

1245
01:22:51,306 --> 01:22:53,238
We do perfectly well
with the cancan.

1246
01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:55,640
I've seen it half empty
on a weeknight.

1247
01:22:55,642 --> 01:22:58,376
- You can vouch for the marquise?
- It's in the bag.

1248
01:22:58,378 --> 01:23:01,214
We can even use the Belbeuf
family crest on the poster.

1249
01:23:01,216 --> 01:23:04,817
- The press will go wild.
- Maybe so, Willy.

1250
01:23:04,819 --> 01:23:07,786
- Do you have backers?
- Only need one.

1251
01:23:07,788 --> 01:23:09,223
Myself.

1252
01:23:09,923 --> 01:23:12,291
You're that confident?

1253
01:23:12,293 --> 01:23:14,563
- That's a lot of capital.
- Yes.

1254
01:23:15,829 --> 01:23:17,231
Yes, I am.

1255
01:23:21,970 --> 01:23:24,370
Meg.

1256
01:23:24,372 --> 01:23:25,774
You look
beautiful.

1257
01:23:28,309 --> 01:23:30,475
All of our friends
are here.

1258
01:23:30,477 --> 01:23:31,943
Yes.

1259
01:23:31,945 --> 01:23:36,318
Some of Missy's former husband's
friends are here too.

1260
01:23:38,919 --> 01:23:40,719
Here.

1261
01:23:40,721 --> 01:23:42,323
Thank you.

1262
01:23:43,690 --> 01:23:47,359
[orchestra playing]

1263
01:23:47,361 --> 01:23:50,231
[applause, cheering]

1264
01:23:51,899 --> 01:23:54,336
- [man] Bravo!
- [man 2] Boo!

1265
01:24:15,455 --> 01:24:18,627
[audience gasping,
clamoring]

1266
01:24:47,922 --> 01:24:51,526
[orchestra continues playing]

1267
01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:41,310
- [booing, jeering]
- This is a disgrace!

1268
01:25:46,713 --> 01:25:48,714
Bravo!

1269
01:25:48,716 --> 01:25:51,015
Well done, Colette!
Well done!

1270
01:25:51,017 --> 01:25:54,789
[booing, jeering continue]

1271
01:25:56,123 --> 01:25:58,523
Degenerate! Degenerate!

1272
01:25:58,525 --> 01:26:01,559
What the hell do you think you're playing
at, you uncultured sack of shit?

1273
01:26:01,561 --> 01:26:03,597
You're one of them,
aren't you?

1274
01:26:05,432 --> 01:26:07,836
[all shouting]

1275
01:26:15,877 --> 01:26:17,678
[Meg screams]

1276
01:26:19,614 --> 01:26:22,447
Madame Colette, what are your
impressions after tonight?

1277
01:26:22,449 --> 01:26:25,017
My "impressions"?
I'm disgusted.

1278
01:26:25,019 --> 01:26:27,085
The people who threw things
tonight are cowards,

1279
01:26:27,087 --> 01:26:30,054
and the only reason I didn't get a footstool
in the face is because I dodged it.

1280
01:26:30,056 --> 01:26:31,624
Let it go, Colette.

1281
01:26:31,626 --> 01:26:33,759
There were some gentlemen
who came for a fight.

1282
01:26:33,761 --> 01:26:35,728
We must ignore them
and go on.

1283
01:26:35,730 --> 01:26:37,162
So you intend
to continue?

1284
01:26:37,164 --> 01:26:38,697
- Yes!
- No!

1285
01:26:38,699 --> 01:26:40,433
Those people don't
frighten me at all.

1286
01:26:40,435 --> 01:26:41,966
Look.
Am I trembling?

1287
01:26:41,968 --> 01:26:45,504
I will continue to pursue
this because I want to,

1288
01:26:45,506 --> 01:26:47,505
and if Paris won't have
me, then so be it.

1289
01:26:47,507 --> 01:26:49,543
I'll go elsewhere
to make a living.

1290
01:27:19,841 --> 01:27:22,878
[priest speaking French,
faint]

1291
01:27:26,780 --> 01:27:30,049
[priest continues speaking,
faint]

1292
01:27:30,051 --> 01:27:31,686
[car door closes]

1293
01:27:40,261 --> 01:27:42,497
- [priest] Amen.
- [all] Amen.

1294
01:27:43,964 --> 01:27:47,700
Your father was an old soldier.
A good, solid man.

1295
01:27:47,702 --> 01:27:48,970
He was.

1296
01:27:50,805 --> 01:27:51,905
Was.

1297
01:27:55,775 --> 01:27:57,011
I, um...

1298
01:27:59,547 --> 01:28:02,081
I saw our creditors
yesterday.

1299
01:28:02,083 --> 01:28:05,149
It's horrific. We lost
everything at the Moulin Rouge.

1300
01:28:05,151 --> 01:28:07,021
- Not today, Willy.
- Colette.

1301
01:28:09,824 --> 01:28:11,956
We need to sell
the country house.

1302
01:28:11,958 --> 01:28:13,192
- No.
- We have no choice.

1303
01:28:13,194 --> 01:28:15,094
No.

1304
01:28:15,096 --> 01:28:16,728
No, Willy.
You can't do that.

1305
01:28:16,730 --> 01:28:18,764
Well, morally, yes,
I need your permission.

1306
01:28:18,766 --> 01:28:23,538
But... [clears throat] legally,
well, the house is in my name.

1307
01:28:24,571 --> 01:28:26,740
What do you think?

1308
01:28:28,609 --> 01:28:31,277
[Sido] You need to divorce
him, Gabri, and soon.

1309
01:28:31,279 --> 01:28:32,444
[Colette]
Sido, please.

1310
01:28:32,446 --> 01:28:36,881
You ask for a full audit of his accounts.
Willy is a mess.

1311
01:28:36,883 --> 01:28:39,952
A drinker. A gambler. He's
a broken man, Gabrielle.

1312
01:28:39,954 --> 01:28:41,490
Don't say that.

1313
01:28:43,958 --> 01:28:45,961
He'll hold you back.

1314
01:28:47,328 --> 01:28:50,966
Gabri, you have to
use your own gifts.

1315
01:28:52,132 --> 01:28:53,965
You know, just...

1316
01:28:53,967 --> 01:28:56,935
write something new
under your own name.

1317
01:28:56,937 --> 01:28:58,105
Writing's a nightmare.

1318
01:28:59,839 --> 01:29:02,840
All the hours I spent with
him breathing down my neck.

1319
01:29:02,842 --> 01:29:05,077
The turn of the key in the lock.
The ache in my fingers.

1320
01:29:05,079 --> 01:29:06,911
- I'm done with it.
- Oh, no, Gabrielle, just...

1321
01:29:06,913 --> 01:29:10,950
I'm going on tour, Sido, with
Wague, for the next six months.

1322
01:29:10,952 --> 01:29:13,719
The contracts are being drawn up now.
We're doing a new piece.

1323
01:29:13,721 --> 01:29:15,920
- Get out of it. You have to.
- I'm going to do it.

1324
01:29:15,922 --> 01:29:18,092
What did I miss?

1325
01:29:21,262 --> 01:29:23,031
Women. Knives.

1326
01:29:24,097 --> 01:29:25,667
All very Greek.

1327
01:29:32,239 --> 01:29:34,005
[conductor]
Montmarault!

1328
01:29:34,007 --> 01:29:35,743
[dog barks]

1329
01:30:19,854 --> 01:30:22,987
- [audience gasps]
- [man] Bravo!

1330
01:30:22,989 --> 01:30:24,858
- Bravo!
- Bravo!

1331
01:30:30,730 --> 01:30:32,967
- [applause continues]
- Bravo!

1332
01:30:40,373 --> 01:30:41,876
Tell me something.

1333
01:30:43,110 --> 01:30:45,844
The sole rights to the
Claudines, Ollendorff.

1334
01:30:45,846 --> 01:30:47,882
What would you give me
for them?

1335
01:30:48,716 --> 01:30:51,653
Are you serious?
All of them?

1336
01:30:52,419 --> 01:30:53,919
Yes.

1337
01:30:53,921 --> 01:30:55,957
The sole rights
in perpetuity?

1338
01:30:56,690 --> 01:30:58,959
Make me an offer.

1339
01:31:11,705 --> 01:31:15,374
We had a cancellation in Limoges next
week, so I've got four days off.

1340
01:31:15,376 --> 01:31:17,276
Will you be coming
back to Paris?

1341
01:31:17,278 --> 01:31:18,977
No.

1342
01:31:18,979 --> 01:31:21,783
I have to pack up the house
at Besançon.

1343
01:31:22,482 --> 01:31:24,148
[spits]

1344
01:31:24,150 --> 01:31:26,952
- Will he be there?
- Missy. I've had a long day.

1345
01:31:26,954 --> 01:31:29,455
- Can we just...?
- Of course.

1346
01:31:29,457 --> 01:31:31,226
I'm sorry.

1347
01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:37,362
You know...
[sighs]

1348
01:31:37,364 --> 01:31:40,099
you don't have to worry
about Willy.

1349
01:31:40,101 --> 01:31:43,705
You don't even need to earn your own
money or stay in places like this.

1350
01:31:44,504 --> 01:31:46,404
I could arrange
everything.

1351
01:31:46,406 --> 01:31:48,743
Too much of my life
has been arranged.

1352
01:31:49,810 --> 01:31:52,946
And I like
earning my own money.

1353
01:31:54,781 --> 01:31:56,950
I love you.
That's all.

1354
01:31:58,452 --> 01:32:00,919
Thank you.

1355
01:32:00,921 --> 01:32:03,958
That's not the traditional
response, but I'll take it.

1356
01:32:05,092 --> 01:32:06,194
For now.

1357
01:32:10,797 --> 01:32:14,332
You know, I've been thinking about
this new craze for moving pictures.

1358
01:32:14,334 --> 01:32:17,335
Do you think we could adapt
Claudine for a cine-play?

1359
01:32:17,337 --> 01:32:20,104
God, do you never stop?

1360
01:32:20,106 --> 01:32:23,375
We could write a completely fresh story.
<i>Claudine by the Sea.</i>

1361
01:32:23,377 --> 01:32:25,312
No. Adapt one
of the old ones.

1362
01:32:27,547 --> 01:32:29,184
Perhaps.

1363
01:32:35,122 --> 01:32:36,990
Catch.

1364
01:32:38,124 --> 01:32:39,327
Oh, yes.

1365
01:32:40,394 --> 01:32:41,930
How sad.

1366
01:32:49,570 --> 01:32:51,536
I've missed you.

1367
01:32:51,538 --> 01:32:54,007
- No, you haven't.
- Of course I have.

1368
01:32:56,276 --> 01:33:00,444
Your ambiguous smile, your lightning
intelligence, your capricious joys.

1369
01:33:00,446 --> 01:33:03,118
Even your brief
but violent furies.

1370
01:33:04,017 --> 01:33:05,819
How's the book going
with Meg?

1371
01:33:07,187 --> 01:33:08,789
Terribly.

1372
01:33:09,890 --> 01:33:11,959
All spice
and no literature.

1373
01:33:13,561 --> 01:33:15,897
She's not you.
She never will be.

1374
01:33:17,431 --> 01:33:19,033
What are we doing, Willy?

1375
01:33:20,935 --> 01:33:22,236
Are we finished?

1376
01:33:22,903 --> 01:33:25,039
I don't know.

1377
01:33:27,173 --> 01:33:28,439
You can't.

1378
01:33:28,441 --> 01:33:30,244
- Why can't I?
- Because I love you.

1379
01:33:31,979 --> 01:33:34,580
Because you're the only
woman I could ever love.

1380
01:33:34,582 --> 01:33:37,515
And because you're at your most
brilliant when you're with me.

1381
01:33:37,517 --> 01:33:39,251
Am I?

1382
01:33:39,253 --> 01:33:40,885
Yes.

1383
01:33:40,887 --> 01:33:42,323
You know you are.

1384
01:33:46,025 --> 01:33:48,162
You still need
your headmaster.

1385
01:33:54,901 --> 01:33:57,603
[knocking]

1386
01:33:57,605 --> 01:34:00,074
- Come in.
- [door opens]

1387
01:34:03,610 --> 01:34:05,279
May I get in with you,
Gabri?

1388
01:34:06,614 --> 01:34:08,580
Yes.

1389
01:34:08,582 --> 01:34:10,282
Get in.

1390
01:34:10,284 --> 01:34:11,386
Can't sleep.

1391
01:34:12,653 --> 01:34:14,620
Too quiet.

1392
01:34:14,622 --> 01:34:15,957
Listen.

1393
01:34:16,923 --> 01:34:19,092
Silence. It's
terrifying, isn't it?

1394
01:34:19,959 --> 01:34:22,960
No. I love it.

1395
01:34:22,962 --> 01:34:25,199
Of course you do,
country girl.

1396
01:34:30,671 --> 01:34:32,173
[groans]

1397
01:34:35,042 --> 01:34:36,908
Is everything
all right?

1398
01:34:36,910 --> 01:34:39,478
There's something
weighing on my mind.

1399
01:34:39,480 --> 01:34:40,915
What?

1400
01:34:44,551 --> 01:34:47,318
I don't sleep with Meg
anymore.

1401
01:34:47,320 --> 01:34:48,989
I mean, we sleep, but...

1402
01:34:50,156 --> 01:34:51,226
I can't...

1403
01:34:52,025 --> 01:34:53,994
Doesn't matter.

1404
01:34:56,462 --> 01:34:57,998
It does.

1405
01:35:00,534 --> 01:35:02,337
Matters very much.

1406
01:35:04,404 --> 01:35:06,340
[applause]

1407
01:35:11,412 --> 01:35:13,210
Bravo!

1408
01:35:13,212 --> 01:35:14,712
Bravo!

1409
01:35:14,714 --> 01:35:17,416
[chattering]

1410
01:35:17,418 --> 01:35:20,421
- Colette, how was yours tonight?
- Not bad.

1411
01:35:21,587 --> 01:35:23,554
- And are you going out after?
- Maybe.

1412
01:35:23,556 --> 01:35:25,023
Madame Willy.

1413
01:35:25,025 --> 01:35:28,029
- Ooh-la-la.
- Monsieur Ollendorff. Hello.

1414
01:35:29,229 --> 01:35:31,662
I'm here in Lille
on some family business,

1415
01:35:31,664 --> 01:35:34,666
and I was delighted when I found
out you were here with the play.

1416
01:35:34,668 --> 01:35:38,002
- Oh. Well, it's very kind of you to come and see it.
- Quite a spectacle.

1417
01:35:38,004 --> 01:35:43,075
I was thinking if you were free, I'd like
to take you and the marquise to dinner.

1418
01:35:43,077 --> 01:35:45,577
Thank you. I'm always
up for a free feed.

1419
01:35:45,579 --> 01:35:48,013
Especially
in such august company.

1420
01:35:48,015 --> 01:35:51,049
Mmm, it's the very least
I can do for you, Colette,

1421
01:35:51,051 --> 01:35:52,984
after all the money
you've made for me.

1422
01:35:52,986 --> 01:35:55,152
And will continue to make.

1423
01:35:55,154 --> 01:35:58,122
I wish I'd been able to give
Willy a better settlement.

1424
01:35:58,124 --> 01:36:01,326
But one can only pay
what one can afford.

1425
01:36:01,328 --> 01:36:03,194
I'm not quite sure
I understand.

1426
01:36:03,196 --> 01:36:06,534
For the Claudines.
The rights to the Claudines.

1427
01:36:09,669 --> 01:36:11,370
Willy sold you
the Claudines?

1428
01:36:11,372 --> 01:36:13,106
Yes. All of them.

1429
01:36:14,173 --> 01:36:16,207
- He sold you the Claudines?
- Absolutely.

1430
01:36:16,209 --> 01:36:18,210
I'm sorry.
I thought he...

1431
01:36:18,212 --> 01:36:20,214
How much did he get
for them?

1432
01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:43,167
[Willy] I am most insulted by
the implication of your letter.

1433
01:36:43,169 --> 01:36:45,804
We have transacted business
for five years...

1434
01:36:45,806 --> 01:36:47,241
Tetette.

1435
01:36:48,775 --> 01:36:51,011
I need to speak to you
alone.

1436
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:56,648
I'll see you later.

1437
01:36:56,650 --> 01:36:58,453
Willy. Colette.

1438
01:37:00,287 --> 01:37:03,287
- What is it?
- Five thousand francs.

1439
01:37:03,289 --> 01:37:06,258
Don't be melodramatic. I was
trying to keep the house for you.

1440
01:37:06,260 --> 01:37:08,660
- I gave you the house.
- We still owed the bank.

1441
01:37:08,662 --> 01:37:12,531
You could have sold Veber's
novels, some of your other trash.

1442
01:37:12,533 --> 01:37:15,399
You just did it to stick the knife in me.
Didn't you?

1443
01:37:15,401 --> 01:37:17,469
Didn't you?

1444
01:37:17,471 --> 01:37:20,404
I wouldn't have got anything for
Veber's, or Schwob's, or anyone else's.

1445
01:37:20,406 --> 01:37:23,175
- Now, please, calm down.
- Why? Why should I calm down?

1446
01:37:23,177 --> 01:37:27,411
Oh, you hurt and you hurt
and you hurt,

1447
01:37:27,413 --> 01:37:30,482
and you think that by saying
"I'm a man, that's what men do,"

1448
01:37:30,484 --> 01:37:33,251
you clear it all away.

1449
01:37:33,253 --> 01:37:37,188
What you did was not just
hateful, it was stupid.

1450
01:37:37,190 --> 01:37:39,323
Now we'll have no say
over our books,

1451
01:37:39,325 --> 01:37:41,358
and we'll never make
another penny from them.

1452
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:43,394
- We can write some more.
- No, never. Never again. Never!

1453
01:37:43,396 --> 01:37:46,298
You're overreacting. This was
purely a business decision.

1454
01:37:46,300 --> 01:37:48,433
Isn't that what our whole
marriage has been?

1455
01:37:48,435 --> 01:37:50,434
Wasn't I the best
investment you ever made?

1456
01:37:50,436 --> 01:37:52,636
No dowry, but my God, she
can write for her keep!

1457
01:37:52,638 --> 01:37:55,173
If you were an investment, you
were a highly speculative one.

1458
01:37:55,175 --> 01:37:57,608
I paid you back
a thousand times.

1459
01:37:57,610 --> 01:38:00,112
Please, just stop it! Just
stop talking about money!

1460
01:38:00,114 --> 01:38:02,781
You were my ideal,
my love, my obsession.

1461
01:38:02,783 --> 01:38:05,086
You killed our child,
Willy.

1462
01:38:06,587 --> 01:38:08,122
Those books...

1463
01:38:09,556 --> 01:38:11,259
they were all we had.

1464
01:38:12,493 --> 01:38:15,329
And now they're gone and
there's no chance of repair.

1465
01:38:17,564 --> 01:38:19,865
- My darling, Claudine was only...
- Don't.

1466
01:38:19,867 --> 01:38:24,238
Don't tell me
what Claudine was.

1467
01:38:25,605 --> 01:38:27,675
I am the real Claudine.

1468
01:38:29,775 --> 01:38:33,678
Everything I thought and
felt went into those books.

1469
01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:35,216
They were me.

1470
01:38:36,216 --> 01:38:40,551
My childhood,
my memories, my opinions.

1471
01:38:40,553 --> 01:38:42,653
Everything.

1472
01:38:42,655 --> 01:38:45,890
And when I think of
the hours I spent alone,

1473
01:38:45,892 --> 01:38:49,227
slaving away for you,

1474
01:38:49,229 --> 01:38:51,862
churning out scenes
just to try and please you,

1475
01:38:51,864 --> 01:38:54,568
I am so ashamed of myself
for that.

1476
01:38:56,336 --> 01:38:59,440
And yet I knew
and you knew...

1477
01:39:00,440 --> 01:39:02,477
that I was bound
to do it.

1478
01:39:05,244 --> 01:39:07,247
You found me
when I knew nothing.

1479
01:39:08,515 --> 01:39:12,716
You molded me to your own
designs, to your desires.

1480
01:39:12,718 --> 01:39:15,689
And you thought that
I could never break free.

1481
01:39:16,890 --> 01:39:18,392
Well, you're wrong.

1482
01:39:19,626 --> 01:39:22,396
Claudine is dead now. She's gone.
You betrayed her.

1483
01:39:23,529 --> 01:39:24,598
And I...

1484
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:28,602
I have outgrown her.

1485
01:39:30,937 --> 01:39:32,707
[sighs]
Please.

1486
01:39:34,675 --> 01:39:36,541
Please, I...

1487
01:39:36,543 --> 01:39:38,542
I was so s...

1488
01:39:38,544 --> 01:39:40,714
I was stupid. I...

1489
01:39:41,714 --> 01:39:43,682
I panicked. I...

1490
01:39:43,684 --> 01:39:46,518
- Please forgive me.
- Good-bye, Willy.

1491
01:39:46,520 --> 01:39:48,819
No, Gabrielle.
Gabrielle, please, no.

1492
01:39:48,821 --> 01:39:50,190
Gabrielle!

1493
01:39:50,923 --> 01:39:52,627
My love, stop.

1494
01:39:55,796 --> 01:39:57,498
I forbid you!

1495
01:40:04,238 --> 01:40:05,740
That was my note.

1496
01:40:07,306 --> 01:40:09,974
That's mine.
And that's mine.

1497
01:40:09,976 --> 01:40:11,745
That's mine.

1498
01:40:14,780 --> 01:40:16,583
It was a collaboration.

1499
01:40:18,685 --> 01:40:20,588
She really has a nerve.

1500
01:40:21,320 --> 01:40:23,323
And these prove it.

1501
01:40:26,959 --> 01:40:28,762
Would you do me a favor,
Héon?

1502
01:40:30,497 --> 01:40:32,667
Will you destroy these,
please?

1503
01:40:34,301 --> 01:40:36,033
- Are you sure?
- Definitely.

1504
01:40:36,035 --> 01:40:37,969
Burn them.

1505
01:40:37,971 --> 01:40:39,540
Incinerate them.

1506
01:40:40,673 --> 01:40:41,742
All right, Willy.

1507
01:40:44,311 --> 01:40:45,713
I'm going out.

1508
01:40:53,352 --> 01:40:54,588
[door closes]

1509
01:41:41,601 --> 01:41:43,337
[mouths words]

1510
01:41:55,981 --> 01:41:57,682
[fabric tears]

1511
01:41:57,684 --> 01:41:58,886
Shit.

1512
01:42:25,945 --> 01:42:27,515
[knocking]

1513
01:42:29,516 --> 01:42:31,919
- Thirty minutes to curtain up.
- Thanks, Wague. [kisses]

1514
01:43:05,819 --> 01:43:08,920
[Colette's voice] <i>After two years
of music hall and theater,</i>

1515
01:43:08,922 --> 01:43:11,089
<i>I'm still the same,</i>

1516
01:43:11,091 --> 01:43:13,124
<i>face to face
with that painted mentor</i>

1517
01:43:13,126 --> 01:43:16,661
<i>who gazes at me from the other
side of the looking glass</i>

1518
01:43:16,663 --> 01:43:20,735
<i>with deep-set eyes under lids
smeared with purplish greasepaint.</i>

1519
01:43:21,735 --> 01:43:24,835
<i>I know she is
going to speak to me.</i>

1520
01:43:24,837 --> 01:43:29,773
<i>She is going to say, "Is that you
there all alone under that ceiling,</i>

1521
01:43:29,775 --> 01:43:32,779
<i>booming and vibrating
under the feet of the dancers?</i>

1522
01:43:34,047 --> 01:43:37,517
<i>Why are you there all alone?
And why not somewhere else?"</i>

1523
01:43:39,151 --> 01:43:42,655
<i>Yes, this is
the dangerous, lucid hour.</i>

1524
01:43:45,525 --> 01:43:48,526
<i>Now, whenever I despair,</i>

1525
01:43:48,528 --> 01:43:51,062
<i>I no longer expect my end,</i>

1526
01:43:51,064 --> 01:43:53,163
<i>but some bit of luck,</i>

1527
01:43:53,165 --> 01:43:55,934
<i>some commonplace
little miracle which,</i>

1528
01:43:55,936 --> 01:43:58,135
<i>like a glittering link,</i>

1529
01:43:58,137 --> 01:44:01,639
<i>will mend again
the necklace of my days.</i>

1530
01:44:01,641 --> 01:44:04,008
[audience chanting] Colette!
Colette! Colette! Colette!

1531
01:44:04,010 --> 01:44:08,783
Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette!
Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette!

1532
01:45:17,448 --> 01:45:22,448
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