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- Subtitles by explosiveskull
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- Gabrielle?
- 3
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- Gabrielle, wake up.
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- 00:01:28,300 --> 00:01:31,133
- No, let me sleep.
- 5
- 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,696
- Come on, Gabrielle.
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- 00:01:34,698 --> 00:01:37,030
- - What time is it?
- - Seven o'clock.
- 7
- 00:01:37,032 --> 00:01:38,633
- Willy's coming today.
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- 00:01:43,432 --> 00:01:45,065
- Well.
- 9
- 00:02:21,293 --> 00:02:24,025
- At least it was an entertainment.
- It takes so long to get here.
- 10
- 00:02:24,027 --> 00:02:26,256
- And how is Paris
- these days, Willy?
- 11
- 00:02:26,258 --> 00:02:29,123
- It's a hotbed.
- It's electric.
- 12
- 00:02:29,125 --> 00:02:32,290
- It's heaving with artists
- and poets and writers,
- 13
- 00:02:32,292 --> 00:02:34,722
- all seeking to say
- something profound.
- 14
- 00:02:34,724 --> 00:02:37,723
- Most of them are too young,
- of course, or too crazed,
- 15
- 00:02:37,725 --> 00:02:40,089
- but still, they generate
- a certain life force.
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- 00:02:40,091 --> 00:02:42,355
- We were going in to see
- a play, weren't we?
- 17
- 00:02:42,357 --> 00:02:45,722
- - Yes, La Tosca.
- - Ah.
- 18
- 00:02:45,724 --> 00:02:48,255
- Yes. No, I...
- I was at the opening.
- 19
- 00:02:48,257 --> 00:02:50,122
- I wouldn't bother,
- to be frank.
- 20
- 00:02:50,124 --> 00:02:52,855
- I mean, Sarah Bernhardt does her best.
- She always does.
- 21
- 00:02:52,857 --> 00:02:54,254
- But it's melodramatic
- in extremis.
- 22
- 00:02:54,256 --> 00:02:57,286
- - Maybe I'll go, make up my own mind.
- - Well, of course.
- 23
- 00:02:57,288 --> 00:03:00,020
- But do remember, if a book bores
- you, you can throw it away.
- 24
- 00:03:00,022 --> 00:03:02,952
- If a painting is too garish,
- then you can close your eyes.
- 25
- 00:03:02,954 --> 00:03:05,385
- But bad theater,
- it's like dentistry.
- 26
- 00:03:05,387 --> 00:03:08,985
- You're compelled to stay in your
- chair, having your skull drilled
- 27
- 00:03:08,987 --> 00:03:11,352
- until the entire
- grisly procedure is over.
- 28
- 00:03:11,354 --> 00:03:12,955
- Good point, Willy.
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- 00:03:13,753 --> 00:03:15,720
- Painful business.
- 30
- 00:03:16,687 --> 00:03:18,853
- Oh, I almost forgot.
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- 00:03:24,285 --> 00:03:26,719
- - A small gift.
- - Thank you.
- 32
- 00:03:32,652 --> 00:03:34,717
- You turn it upside down.
- 33
- 00:03:37,717 --> 00:03:41,650
- Pretty.
- 34
- 00:03:42,249 --> 00:03:43,916
- Good-bye.
- 35
- 00:03:48,716 --> 00:03:50,813
- Sido, I'm going
- for a walk.
- 36
- 00:03:50,815 --> 00:03:52,680
- Change your dress first.
- 37
- 00:03:52,682 --> 00:03:54,783
- - I'll stay on the path.
- - Change it.
- 38
- 00:03:55,848 --> 00:03:57,615
- Darling,
- we're going to go in.
- 39
- 00:04:01,914 --> 00:04:05,178
- He's a good man.
- He has a reputation, yes.
- 40
- 00:04:05,180 --> 00:04:07,378
- But there comes a time in a
- man's life to settle down.
- 41
- 00:04:07,380 --> 00:04:09,244
- Have you finished the letter
- to his father?
- 42
- 00:04:09,246 --> 00:04:11,243
- I keep starting.
- 43
- 00:04:11,245 --> 00:04:13,645
- But I can't seem
- to finish it.
- 44
- 00:04:13,647 --> 00:04:17,409
- A girl without a dowry, that just
- doesn't happen in their circles.
- 45
- 00:04:17,411 --> 00:04:20,709
- Hmm. They call it off.
- The world won't end.
- 46
- 00:04:20,711 --> 00:04:23,909
- Sido.
- He clearly adores her.
- 47
- 00:04:23,911 --> 00:04:26,109
- He's visited
- four times this year.
- 48
- 00:04:26,111 --> 00:04:28,041
- I'm worried that
- he won't understand her.
- 49
- 00:04:28,043 --> 00:04:30,241
- - Would anyone be good enough for you?
- - Can I go now?
- 50
- 00:04:30,243 --> 00:04:32,908
- Just take this with you and fill
- it up with some blackberries.
- 51
- 00:04:32,910 --> 00:04:34,875
- I'm going to make a tart tomorrow.
- Don't be late back!
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- 00:04:34,877 --> 00:04:35,711
- I won't.
- 53
- 00:05:08,905 --> 00:05:11,573
- - Where are you?
- - Over here.
- 54
- 00:05:19,171 --> 00:05:21,736
- Your hair
- is a phenomenon.
- 55
- 00:05:21,738 --> 00:05:24,635
- In the village, they call me
- "the girl with the hair."
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- 00:05:24,637 --> 00:05:26,168
- I'm sure they do.
- 57
- 00:05:26,170 --> 00:05:29,171
- I should think you're quite
- famous here in your village.
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- 00:05:30,670 --> 00:05:33,100
- How much time
- do we have?
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- 00:05:33,102 --> 00:05:35,233
- About 40 minutes.
- 60
- 00:05:35,235 --> 00:05:37,703
- But I have to
- walk to the station.
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- 00:05:45,401 --> 00:05:49,366
- Gabrielle, I can't tell you
- how happy I am.
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- 00:05:49,368 --> 00:05:51,299
- So am I.
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- I adore you.
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- 00:05:57,366 --> 00:05:58,697
- Dear Willy,
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- 00:05:58,699 --> 00:06:02,897
- As I walked home by the river, the
- light shining through the trees,
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- 00:06:02,899 --> 00:06:06,696
- my heart filled with
- a kind of delicious pride.
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- 00:06:06,697 --> 00:06:10,328
- After all, you know all
- those fine women of Paris,
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- 00:06:10,330 --> 00:06:12,598
- so I must have something.
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- 00:06:14,263 --> 00:06:17,362
- I want to wake up next to you,
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- 00:06:17,363 --> 00:06:20,261
- know that the day is ours,
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- 00:06:20,263 --> 00:06:23,995
- that life is ours
- for the taking.
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- 00:06:23,997 --> 00:06:27,630
- We will be so entire
- and so happy, my love.
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- Breathe in, ma'am.
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- 00:06:40,294 --> 00:06:42,628
- There we go.
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- 00:06:50,826 --> 00:06:52,957
- Ready yet?
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- 00:06:52,959 --> 00:06:54,594
- No, not yet.
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- 00:06:59,758 --> 00:07:01,657
- What do you think,
- Matilde?
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- 00:07:01,659 --> 00:07:03,688
- It's pretty, ma'am.
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- 00:07:03,690 --> 00:07:06,591
- We should try to get there
- before it ends.
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- 00:07:09,357 --> 00:07:13,055
- - Where's your new dress?
- - Oh, I couldn't breathe in it. It felt ridiculous.
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- 00:07:13,057 --> 00:07:16,220
- But that cost me 267 francs.
- Don't you like it?
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- 00:07:16,222 --> 00:07:18,355
- Well, I know you like it.
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- 00:07:18,357 --> 00:07:20,823
- We'll get it adjusted.
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- 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,620
- - What is it?
- - I think it's toothpaste.
- 85
- 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,121
- Let's have a look.
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- 00:07:44,087 --> 00:07:46,218
- There. Perfect.
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- 00:07:46,220 --> 00:07:47,920
- Let's go in.
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- 00:08:07,816 --> 00:08:09,083
- Willy.
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- 00:08:11,117 --> 00:08:13,180
- It's monstrous.
- I can't look at it.
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- 00:08:13,182 --> 00:08:15,281
- Don't worry, my dear.
- It's only temporary.
- 91
- 00:08:15,283 --> 00:08:19,346
- There's Willy. Willy, Eiffel's tower.
- Are you for or against?
- 92
- 00:08:19,348 --> 00:08:23,145
- Oh, I'm for it, if a little
- jealous of this giant erection
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- 00:08:23,147 --> 00:08:25,679
- in the heart of our capital
- belonging to somebody else.
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- 00:08:25,681 --> 00:08:27,079
- How are you, Count?
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- 00:08:27,081 --> 00:08:29,812
- - I'm well, thank you.
- - Ah. You rogue, Willy.
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- 00:08:29,814 --> 00:08:32,346
- I see you've brought us
- an orphaned relative?
- 97
- 00:08:32,348 --> 00:08:34,211
- - Hmm.
- - A secret love child.
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- 00:08:34,213 --> 00:08:35,477
- Very good, very good.
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- 00:08:35,479 --> 00:08:39,143
- No, may I introduce to you my
- wife, Gabrielle Sidonie Colette.
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- 00:08:39,145 --> 00:08:40,910
- - Pleased to meet you.
- - Delighted.
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- 00:08:40,912 --> 00:08:43,110
- Well, astonished,
- actually.
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- 00:08:43,112 --> 00:08:46,643
- You, my dear, have caught
- the slipperiest of eels.
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- 00:08:46,645 --> 00:08:47,910
- Now, now, Arman.
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- 00:08:47,912 --> 00:08:51,343
- - How does one do that?
- - I'm not sure.
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- 00:08:51,345 --> 00:08:53,342
- Where are you from,
- you sweet thing?
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- 00:08:53,344 --> 00:08:55,610
- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye.
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- 00:08:56,643 --> 00:08:57,875
- - It's in Burgundy.
- - Ah.
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- 00:08:57,877 --> 00:08:59,742
- Is that where
- you got your dress?
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- 00:08:59,744 --> 00:09:03,374
- - Have you relocated, Willy?
- - Not yet, Count, not yet.
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- 00:09:03,376 --> 00:09:05,808
- Ignore him. How on earth
- did you two meet?
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- 00:09:05,810 --> 00:09:08,074
- Our fathers served together
- in the army.
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- 00:09:08,076 --> 00:09:10,740
- Willy married!
- The wild days are done, eh?
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- 00:09:10,742 --> 00:09:13,239
- On the contrary, the wild
- days have just begun.
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- 00:09:13,241 --> 00:09:16,039
- Ah! Willy.
- Thank God you're back.
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- 00:09:16,041 --> 00:09:19,106
- - That short story.
- - Veber, may I introduce to you my wife.
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- 00:09:19,108 --> 00:09:20,772
- - What?
- - Gabrielle.
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- 00:09:20,774 --> 00:09:23,172
- Very pleased to meet you.
- 118
- 00:09:23,174 --> 00:09:26,037
- It's due on Tuesday, and you've not
- given me the slightest clue...
- 119
- 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:28,671
- Right. Just amuse yourself
- for a moment, Gabrielle.
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- 00:09:28,673 --> 00:09:31,170
- It's simple.
- It's an 800-word sketch.
- 121
- 00:09:51,936 --> 00:09:53,804
- You poor thing.
- 122
- 00:09:56,103 --> 00:09:59,004
- You want the earth
- and the grass, don't you?
- 123
- 00:10:42,630 --> 00:10:45,860
- That's
- gardenia, isn't it?
- 124
- 00:10:45,862 --> 00:10:48,928
- Well, what is it? It's
- calla lilies, isn't it?
- 125
- 00:11:00,361 --> 00:11:02,128
- So, what did you
- think of the salon?
- 126
- 00:11:03,695 --> 00:11:06,025
- I liked the tortoise.
- 127
- 00:11:06,027 --> 00:11:10,192
- I thought he was as bored as I was.
- 128
- 00:11:10,194 --> 00:11:12,757
- I suspect you were more
- intimidated than bored.
- 129
- 00:11:12,759 --> 00:11:14,625
- No.
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- 00:11:14,627 --> 00:11:17,857
- I thought they were all...
- shallow and pretentious.
- 131
- 00:11:17,859 --> 00:11:20,990
- No. Come on.
- You're reading them wrongly.
- 132
- 00:11:20,992 --> 00:11:25,791
- It's not so much pretension
- as exaggeration.
- 133
- 00:11:25,793 --> 00:11:29,656
- The ideal is to be authentic
- but larger than life.
- 134
- 00:11:29,658 --> 00:11:32,789
- To present a personality
- with a capital "P."
- 135
- 00:11:32,791 --> 00:11:36,255
- You could do it too.
- Country girl charm.
- 136
- 00:11:36,257 --> 00:11:38,156
- Did that woman
- have a capital "P"?
- 137
- 00:11:38,158 --> 00:11:41,691
- - Which one?
- - The one you were talking to in the red dress.
- 138
- 00:11:42,989 --> 00:11:45,653
- Nicole D'Allier?
- 139
- 00:11:45,655 --> 00:11:48,054
- Come on, that was...
- that was just flirtation.
- 140
- 00:11:48,056 --> 00:11:50,119
- - It meant nothing.
- - Well, then, why do it?
- 141
- 00:11:50,121 --> 00:11:52,219
- Because that's what one
- does to pass the time,
- 142
- 00:11:52,221 --> 00:11:54,719
- stave off boredom.
- 143
- 00:11:54,721 --> 00:11:57,218
- Come on.
- Forget about them.
- 144
- 00:11:57,220 --> 00:11:59,919
- Have you heard the news?
- 145
- 00:11:59,921 --> 00:12:03,085
- Willy is married.
- Happily married.
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- 00:12:03,087 --> 00:12:07,587
- And he's going home with his beautiful
- bride, who he loves very much.
- 147
- 00:12:22,885 --> 00:12:25,652
- - Good morning, Monsieur Veber.
- - Morning, Matilde.
- 148
- 00:12:26,850 --> 00:12:28,950
- - Hello, Veber.
- - Gabrielle.
- 149
- 00:12:28,951 --> 00:12:32,648
- - It's cold out there today.
- - I wouldn't know. I'm under house arrest.
- 150
- 00:12:32,650 --> 00:12:34,181
- Schwob's already in there.
- 151
- 00:12:34,183 --> 00:12:35,515
- Thank you.
- 152
- 00:12:35,517 --> 00:12:40,280
- All the humor and vivacity descends
- into a dreadful operatic swamp.
- 153
- 00:12:40,282 --> 00:12:43,013
- It releases the very toxins
- of man's soul,
- 154
- 00:12:43,015 --> 00:12:45,647
- leaving the audience
- nauseous and pale,
- 155
- 00:12:45,649 --> 00:12:47,079
- like they've just eaten
- a bad oyster.
- 156
- 00:12:47,081 --> 00:12:50,713
- That's a bit extreme. I actually thought
- the ending was rather touching.
- 157
- 00:12:50,715 --> 00:12:53,278
- No middle ground. Don't soft-peddle it.
- Just kill it.
- 158
- 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,345
- - Veber.
- - Willy.
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- 00:12:55,347 --> 00:12:57,111
- Schwob.
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- 00:12:57,113 --> 00:12:59,811
- So add those embellishments and
- file it with The Echo by 6:00.
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- 00:12:59,813 --> 00:13:01,611
- Will do.
- 162
- 00:13:01,613 --> 00:13:03,911
- The factory's on fire.
- We're on fire.
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- 00:13:03,913 --> 00:13:06,811
- I have this remarkable idea.
- Or at least I think it could be.
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- 00:13:06,813 --> 00:13:09,080
- - All right, what is it?
- - I'm going to launch a novel.
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- 00:13:10,313 --> 00:13:12,243
- - A novel?
- - Yeah, we have stories by Willy.
- 166
- 00:13:12,245 --> 00:13:15,110
- We have music reviews by Willy.
- Now we have Willy's first novel.
- 167
- 00:13:15,112 --> 00:13:17,208
- It'll have enough literature
- for the highbrows
- 168
- 00:13:17,210 --> 00:13:20,876
- and enough filth for the great
- unwashed, or vice versa.
- 169
- 00:13:20,878 --> 00:13:22,879
- And who's going to
- write this novel?
- 170
- 00:13:24,311 --> 00:13:26,777
- You are.
- 171
- 00:13:32,642 --> 00:13:34,340
- Are you writing
- for him too?
- 172
- 00:13:34,342 --> 00:13:36,341
- Mm-hmm.
- 173
- 00:13:36,343 --> 00:13:39,273
- He's made you one
- of his ghosts already?
- 174
- 00:13:39,275 --> 00:13:41,172
- Just letters.
- 175
- 00:13:41,174 --> 00:13:44,672
- You're fastidious.
- Exacting.
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- 00:13:44,674 --> 00:13:46,305
- A lot of crossing out,
- you mean.
- 177
- 00:13:46,307 --> 00:13:47,372
- Well, yes.
- 178
- 00:13:47,374 --> 00:13:50,905
- Willy copies them out
- so they're in his handwriting.
- 179
- 00:13:50,907 --> 00:13:53,172
- No one has handwriting
- like Monsieur Willy.
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- 00:13:53,174 --> 00:13:56,071
- We first meet her,
- Monna.
- 181
- 00:13:56,073 --> 00:13:58,836
- She's being held aloft on the
- shoulders of her admirers.
- 182
- 00:13:58,838 --> 00:14:02,104
- She's 18, she's gorgeous,
- she's dangerous,
- 183
- 00:14:02,106 --> 00:14:06,671
- she's from the streets, she devours
- men, she never wears a corset.
- 184
- 00:14:06,673 --> 00:14:09,769
- And then him,
- our hero, Renaud,
- 185
- 00:14:09,771 --> 00:14:13,569
- he's a writer,
- he's a genius.
- 186
- 00:14:13,571 --> 00:14:14,936
- He's captivated by her.
- 187
- 00:14:14,938 --> 00:14:16,968
- She seduces him
- in her shabby rooms.
- 188
- 00:14:16,970 --> 00:14:20,134
- They have five entire days
- of carnal ecstasy,
- 189
- 00:14:20,136 --> 00:14:22,900
- after which she has
- this incredible hold on him.
- 190
- 00:14:22,902 --> 00:14:25,833
- She instinctively understands
- his basest desires.
- 191
- 00:14:25,835 --> 00:14:27,267
- And we wonder,
- will he ever escape?
- 192
- 00:14:27,269 --> 00:14:31,601
- Will he ever get back to his wholesome
- friends and his burgeoning career?
- 193
- 00:14:31,603 --> 00:14:35,000
- Or will he be dragged down
- by her toxic embrace,
- 194
- 00:14:35,002 --> 00:14:39,265
- forget about his writing, and just
- wallow in the sexual quagmire?
- 195
- 00:14:39,267 --> 00:14:40,968
- It's brilliant.
- 196
- 00:14:42,801 --> 00:14:44,002
- It will be.
- 197
- 00:14:47,033 --> 00:14:49,598
- Come on, tell me. How
- long do you think it will take?
- 198
- 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,165
- - Two or three months.
- - No, no, no, no.
- 199
- 00:14:51,167 --> 00:14:53,031
- Weeks, Veber.
- It has to be weeks.
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- 00:14:53,033 --> 00:14:55,697
- - Write for four hours at a time.
- - All right, all right.
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- 00:14:55,699 --> 00:14:57,563
- Good-bye, Gabrielle.
- 202
- 00:14:57,565 --> 00:14:59,229
- If I get stuck,
- I'll come back to you.
- 203
- 00:14:59,231 --> 00:15:01,196
- Yes, yes,
- but write, and fast.
- 204
- 00:15:01,198 --> 00:15:02,764
- Let's get some money
- coming in.
- 205
- 00:15:03,599 --> 00:15:05,596
- Yes, yes, yes.
- 206
- 00:15:05,598 --> 00:15:07,796
- Oh, God. Chaos.
- 207
- 00:15:07,798 --> 00:15:11,631
- Chaos! Working in these conditions.
- It's utter chaos.
- 208
- 00:15:13,130 --> 00:15:16,093
- You married a literary entrepreneur.
- It's a phenomenal disaster.
- 209
- 00:15:16,095 --> 00:15:19,061
- You've married a country girl
- without a penny to her name.
- 210
- 00:15:19,063 --> 00:15:20,964
- We're doomed, aren't we?
- 211
- 00:15:25,195 --> 00:15:27,594
- It's perfect.
- 212
- 00:15:27,596 --> 00:15:29,294
- But how about, um...
- 213
- 00:15:29,296 --> 00:15:35,326
- Uh, the contract you sent me is eminently fair,
- but for one tiny shortcoming... the money.
- 214
- 00:15:35,328 --> 00:15:37,325
- Pump it up
- before you prick it.
- 215
- 00:15:37,327 --> 00:15:39,292
- Get more of a pop that way.
- 216
- 00:15:39,294 --> 00:15:40,892
- Willy!
- 217
- 00:15:40,894 --> 00:15:44,258
- Intimacy in all its savage
- abandon, my darling.
- 218
- 00:15:44,260 --> 00:15:47,290
- I have meetings later. Let's
- meet at La Mascotte at 9:00.
- 219
- 00:15:47,292 --> 00:15:49,693
- No. No, make it 10:00.
- 220
- 00:15:56,157 --> 00:15:59,958
- He said, "Don't worry, I've got some cream for that."
- 221
- 00:16:46,052 --> 00:16:48,019
- Thank you, Madame D'Arsay.
- 222
- 00:17:06,549 --> 00:17:08,816
- No, you're lying.
- 223
- 00:17:25,913 --> 00:17:29,810
- That's 571, Lotte,
- for one month.
- 224
- 00:17:29,812 --> 00:17:31,243
- Well, do you want me
- to look cheap?
- 225
- 00:17:31,245 --> 00:17:34,277
- Yeah. But for that money I can get
- laid five times a day by a prostitute.
- 226
- 00:17:39,012 --> 00:17:41,209
- Oh, my dear.
- 227
- 00:17:41,211 --> 00:17:43,078
- You've come to...
- to fetch me?
- 228
- 00:17:45,278 --> 00:17:47,241
- She's not
- a disreputable woman.
- 229
- 00:17:47,243 --> 00:17:49,209
- They've even written
- a play about her.
- 230
- 00:17:49,211 --> 00:17:51,008
- It was a shit play,
- but nevertheless.
- 231
- 00:17:51,010 --> 00:17:53,841
- - Who the hell wrote that letter?
- - I don't care who wrote it.
- 232
- 00:17:53,843 --> 00:17:57,541
- Look, Gabrielle, she's no rival to you.
- I promise.
- 233
- 00:17:57,543 --> 00:17:59,007
- Look, I'll never sleep
- with her again.
- 234
- 00:17:59,009 --> 00:18:01,573
- But you have to understand,
- this is what men do.
- 235
- 00:18:01,575 --> 00:18:04,807
- We're the weaker sex. We don't have your
- strength. We're slave to our urges.
- 236
- 00:18:04,809 --> 00:18:07,140
- - And here in the city, it's perfectly acceptable to...
- - Nonsense!
- 237
- 00:18:07,142 --> 00:18:10,939
- I don't accept it. You've been
- lying to me all this time.
- 238
- 00:18:10,941 --> 00:18:13,272
- I wait for you all day long
- and I never ask you for anything
- 239
- 00:18:13,274 --> 00:18:14,838
- because you say
- we have no money.
- 240
- 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,206
- But it's true.
- We have no money.
- 241
- 00:18:16,208 --> 00:18:17,604
- Because you spend it all
- on her!
- 242
- 00:18:17,606 --> 00:18:19,272
- - I really don't.
- - And then...
- 243
- 00:18:19,274 --> 00:18:23,703
- And then, when you get into bed
- and I touch you, and I kiss you,
- 244
- 00:18:23,705 --> 00:18:25,272
- and you say
- you're too tired...
- 245
- 00:18:25,274 --> 00:18:27,670
- - No, no.
- - I've been unattentive. I'm sorry.
- 246
- 00:18:27,672 --> 00:18:29,872
- - I'll make amends.
- - Don't you dare touch me.
- 247
- 00:18:31,805 --> 00:18:33,606
- Gabrielle, I...
- 248
- 00:18:34,306 --> 00:18:36,136
- I gave up my inheritance
- for you!
- 249
- 00:18:36,138 --> 00:18:39,606
- - My bloody freedom!
- - Go to hell!
- 250
- 00:18:45,603 --> 00:18:48,472
- Oh, no. Ants.
- 251
- 00:18:49,603 --> 00:18:52,002
- Ah, there must be
- some honeydew.
- 252
- 00:18:52,004 --> 00:18:53,734
- It feels sticky.
- 253
- 00:18:53,736 --> 00:18:56,535
- Hmm. The white flies
- must have got to it.
- 254
- 00:18:56,537 --> 00:18:58,200
- Sucked out all the juice.
- 255
- 00:18:58,202 --> 00:19:00,034
- We need some ladybirds.
- 256
- 00:19:00,036 --> 00:19:01,933
- Hmm. Or a spider.
- 257
- 00:19:01,935 --> 00:19:05,299
- Got a big one
- dangling in my room.
- 258
- 00:19:05,301 --> 00:19:08,068
- I'll catch her and put
- her to work out here.
- 259
- 00:19:13,867 --> 00:19:16,733
- Did you ever feel like you
- were playing a part, Sido?
- 260
- 00:19:18,132 --> 00:19:20,063
- In what way?
- 261
- 00:19:20,065 --> 00:19:22,097
- As a wife.
- 262
- 00:19:22,099 --> 00:19:24,033
- Or a mother.
- 263
- 00:19:25,899 --> 00:19:27,966
- Like you were just
- going through with it.
- 264
- 00:19:30,732 --> 00:19:33,998
- Sometimes, as a wife.
- Never as a mother.
- 265
- 00:19:39,664 --> 00:19:41,597
- Is he good to you,
- Gabri?
- 266
- 00:19:43,897 --> 00:19:45,864
- What is it, my love?
- 267
- 00:19:47,530 --> 00:19:51,662
- It's just... nothing
- is how I imagined it.
- 268
- 00:19:52,861 --> 00:19:54,463
- Oh. Come here.
- 269
- 00:19:57,028 --> 00:19:59,859
- My little kitten.
- 270
- 00:19:59,861 --> 00:20:02,993
- No one can take away
- who you are.
- 271
- 00:20:02,995 --> 00:20:05,124
- No one.
- 272
- 00:20:05,126 --> 00:20:07,592
- You're too strong
- for that.
- 273
- 00:20:07,594 --> 00:20:09,627
- You always have been.
- 274
- 00:20:11,127 --> 00:20:13,857
- Just trust no one
- but yourself.
- 275
- 00:20:13,859 --> 00:20:15,493
- I know.
- 276
- 00:20:17,558 --> 00:20:19,592
- So what's he done
- to upset you?
- 277
- 00:20:22,125 --> 00:20:24,524
- Nothing.
- 278
- 00:20:24,526 --> 00:20:27,723
- Nothing. It's just
- new, that's all.
- 279
- 00:20:27,725 --> 00:20:29,791
- I must get used to
- marriage.
- 280
- 00:20:32,856 --> 00:20:35,723
- Better to make marriage
- get used to you.
- 281
- 00:20:47,155 --> 00:20:50,286
- - Are you happy to be here?
- - Yes.
- 282
- 00:20:50,288 --> 00:20:54,051
- It makes the city
- seem even more foul.
- 283
- 00:20:54,053 --> 00:20:56,551
- Did you miss me at all?
- 284
- 00:20:56,553 --> 00:20:58,021
- No, not really.
- 285
- 00:21:01,554 --> 00:21:05,021
- Well, life is awful
- without you.
- 286
- 00:21:07,086 --> 00:21:10,551
- It's just dead. I... I don't
- feel like myself at all.
- 287
- 00:21:10,553 --> 00:21:12,719
- Everything just seems
- utterly pointless.
- 288
- 00:21:14,118 --> 00:21:16,019
- Can't even write
- anymore.
- 289
- 00:21:19,217 --> 00:21:23,182
- You mean more to me than all the
- women of Paris put together.
- 290
- 00:21:23,184 --> 00:21:26,014
- Have you sampled them all?
- 291
- 00:21:26,016 --> 00:21:27,781
- Please don't mock me.
- 292
- 00:21:27,783 --> 00:21:30,014
- You're very happy
- to mock everybody else.
- 293
- 00:21:30,016 --> 00:21:31,280
- It's true,
- but it's just...
- 294
- 00:21:31,282 --> 00:21:35,281
- Look, it's just horseshit. Words
- are deceptive little bastards.
- 295
- 00:21:35,283 --> 00:21:38,114
- But if you trace mine
- to their source,
- 296
- 00:21:38,116 --> 00:21:39,881
- to my bruised
- and aching heart...
- 297
- 00:21:39,883 --> 00:21:42,845
- Well, I wouldn't credit that
- as the organ of origin.
- 298
- 00:21:44,248 --> 00:21:48,645
- I can read you like the top
- line of an optician's chart.
- 299
- 00:21:48,647 --> 00:21:50,948
- That's brilliant.
- Did you make that up?
- 300
- 00:21:53,813 --> 00:21:55,612
- Just tell me what you
- want, Gabrielle.
- 301
- 00:21:55,614 --> 00:21:57,014
- I'll do anything.
- 302
- 00:21:58,713 --> 00:22:01,977
- I know who you are, Willy.
- 303
- 00:22:01,979 --> 00:22:05,143
- Maybe I knew it all along.
- But I want you not to lie to me.
- 304
- 00:22:05,145 --> 00:22:07,512
- I won't. Never again. I promise.
- 305
- 00:22:08,978 --> 00:22:11,077
- I want to be part of things.
- 306
- 00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:13,675
- I don't want to be treated
- like some little wife at home.
- 307
- 00:22:13,677 --> 00:22:15,710
- I want to know
- what's going on.
- 308
- 00:22:18,245 --> 00:22:19,711
- You will.
- 309
- 00:22:21,077 --> 00:22:23,008
- You'll be part
- of everything.
- 310
- 00:22:23,010 --> 00:22:24,610
- Do you promise?
- 311
- 00:22:25,977 --> 00:22:27,476
- Promise.
- 312
- 00:22:41,774 --> 00:22:44,505
- When we get back to Paris,
- I'll even buy you a dog.
- 313
- 00:22:44,507 --> 00:22:46,705
- I would love that.
- 314
- 00:22:46,707 --> 00:22:49,171
- Look, it's so beautiful.
- 315
- 00:22:49,173 --> 00:22:52,804
- - Luce and I used to swim here after school.
- - You did?
- 316
- 00:22:52,806 --> 00:22:54,704
- She was your best friend,
- wasn't she?
- 317
- 00:22:54,706 --> 00:22:57,504
- Yes. We got up to
- all kinds of trouble together.
- 318
- 00:22:57,506 --> 00:22:59,036
- What was she like?
- 319
- 00:22:59,038 --> 00:23:02,869
- She was sweet, but she
- was also very annoying.
- 320
- 00:23:02,871 --> 00:23:04,669
- How? In what way?
- 321
- 00:23:04,671 --> 00:23:06,635
- She was clumsy,
- more than anything.
- 322
- 00:23:06,637 --> 00:23:08,969
- One day in winter,
- when the first snow started,
- 323
- 00:23:08,971 --> 00:23:12,135
- I made a compact little snowball and
- smuggled it into the classroom.
- 324
- 00:23:12,137 --> 00:23:14,567
- As Mademoiselle Terrain was
- writing on the blackboard,
- 325
- 00:23:14,569 --> 00:23:17,668
- I'd take a little nibble of the snow and
- then I'd pass it along to the next person,
- 326
- 00:23:17,670 --> 00:23:18,800
- who'd pass it along again.
- 327
- 00:23:18,802 --> 00:23:21,567
- - Oh, it's freezing.
- - Here, get in.
- 328
- 00:23:21,569 --> 00:23:23,970
- I'm like a pot-bellied stove.
- 329
- 00:23:27,503 --> 00:23:29,532
- It finally got to Luce,
- who dropped it.
- 330
- 00:23:29,534 --> 00:23:31,099
- So we both got detention.
- 331
- 00:23:31,101 --> 00:23:35,532
- - She'd do anything to be close to me.
- - I'll bet she would.
- 332
- 00:23:35,534 --> 00:23:37,835
- You're so witty
- and clever.
- 333
- 00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:09,895
- Get out! Both of you!
- This is harassment!
- 334
- 00:24:09,897 --> 00:24:11,927
- Willy, come on.
- You're not being fair.
- 335
- 00:24:11,929 --> 00:24:14,495
- This is the third time I've
- had to come here and ask you for it!
- 336
- 00:24:14,497 --> 00:24:17,093
- - Then stop bloody coming here and asking.
- - I am close to being evicted!
- 337
- 00:24:17,095 --> 00:24:19,993
- You owe me 400 francs. You said you'd
- get the advance from Ollendorff.
- 338
- 00:24:19,995 --> 00:24:23,692
- - And I will, by Friday.
- - You said exactly the same thing last week.
- 339
- 00:24:23,694 --> 00:24:25,825
- A factory needs to pay
- its workers, Willy.
- 340
- 00:24:25,827 --> 00:24:28,725
- Well, then, why don't you go on strike?
- Or get another job.
- 341
- 00:24:28,727 --> 00:24:31,058
- Get some other bloody idiot
- to hire you.
- 342
- 00:24:31,060 --> 00:24:32,691
- I'll have your money
- by Friday.
- 343
- 00:24:32,693 --> 00:24:36,657
- - You'd better bloody have it.
- - Such an ass.
- 344
- 00:24:36,659 --> 00:24:39,593
- - Damn you!
- - We'll be back on Friday.
- 345
- 00:24:43,692 --> 00:24:45,757
- They'd never get a job
- on their own.
- 346
- 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:47,892
- I lend them my name,
- my reputation.
- 347
- 00:24:48,922 --> 00:24:50,822
- I take all the risk,
- and there's still no money.
- 348
- 00:24:50,824 --> 00:24:53,056
- - We need more output.
- - Well, you could get another writer.
- 349
- 00:24:53,058 --> 00:24:55,889
- And pay them with what? We're not
- even making a thousand this month.
- 350
- 00:24:55,891 --> 00:24:59,089
- I've got 300 from The Echo,
- 425 from the latest vamp novel,
- 351
- 00:24:59,091 --> 00:25:01,088
- and just 250
- from the music reviews.
- 352
- 00:25:01,090 --> 00:25:03,688
- - It doesn't even cover the outgoings.
- - How can we spend so much money?
- 353
- 00:25:03,690 --> 00:25:05,821
- The mortgage, Matilde,
- restaurants...
- 354
- 00:25:05,823 --> 00:25:08,620
- You always pick up the bill, Willy,
- no matter how many people join us.
- 355
- 00:25:08,622 --> 00:25:10,687
- - It's expected of me.
- - And the races? And the casino?
- 356
- 00:25:10,689 --> 00:25:12,920
- What do you want me to do? Live
- like a monk? Or a peasant?
- 357
- 00:25:12,922 --> 00:25:15,954
- No, I'm just saying
- we could economize.
- 358
- 00:25:15,956 --> 00:25:17,556
- You.
- 359
- 00:25:18,522 --> 00:25:19,953
- - You could write.
- - What?
- 360
- 00:25:19,955 --> 00:25:22,252
- Those stories you told me
- of Saint-Sauveur last year.
- 361
- 00:25:22,254 --> 00:25:24,954
- - My school stories?
- - Yes. That could be Willy's next novel.
- 362
- 00:25:26,653 --> 00:25:28,651
- Well, try it anyway, but try it now.
- 363
- 00:25:28,653 --> 00:25:32,951
- Start immediately. Aim for four hours
- at a time. The wolves are at the door!
- 364
- 00:26:15,147 --> 00:26:17,978
- My name is Claudine.
- 365
- 00:26:17,980 --> 00:26:20,945
- I live in Montigny.
- 366
- 00:26:20,947 --> 00:26:23,681
- I was born there in 1873.
- 367
- 00:26:28,013 --> 00:26:30,780
- I shall probably not die there.
- 368
- 00:26:44,644 --> 00:26:46,642
- Why aren't you sleeping?
- 369
- 00:26:46,644 --> 00:26:48,911
- - I've only just stopped writing.
- - Really?
- 370
- 00:26:51,477 --> 00:26:52,910
- Oh, dear.
- 371
- 00:26:56,042 --> 00:26:59,073
- - Did you manage four hours?
- - Twice that, at least.
- 372
- 00:26:59,075 --> 00:27:00,676
- You didn't.
- 373
- 00:27:01,908 --> 00:27:04,207
- You must be a natural.
- 374
- 00:27:04,209 --> 00:27:07,605
- I've changed a few things...
- for the story.
- 375
- 00:27:07,607 --> 00:27:09,638
- I think it might ruffle
- a few feathers back home.
- 376
- 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,939
- Oh, don't worry
- about the facts.
- 377
- 00:27:11,941 --> 00:27:14,206
- You can change events,
- add a character.
- 378
- 00:27:14,208 --> 00:27:16,839
- Just adapt it
- to the times.
- 379
- 00:27:16,841 --> 00:27:19,804
- All people really want
- is the feeling,
- 380
- 00:27:19,806 --> 00:27:22,571
- the emotion, the great
- sweep of narrative.
- 381
- 00:27:22,573 --> 00:27:24,838
- So you mean I can write
- whatever I want?
- 382
- 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,670
- Of course.
- 383
- 00:27:26,672 --> 00:27:29,037
- No one will dispute it.
- 384
- 00:27:29,039 --> 00:27:31,103
- And if they do,
- 385
- 00:27:31,105 --> 00:27:33,972
- "It's the hand that holds the
- pen that writes history."
- 386
- 00:27:43,670 --> 00:27:45,500
- You're not in the mood?
- 387
- 00:27:45,502 --> 00:27:48,436
- I'm as weary
- as a bear in winter.
- 388
- 00:27:49,502 --> 00:27:51,669
- Save it for the book.
- 389
- 00:27:57,734 --> 00:27:59,566
- These are the copses,
- 390
- 00:27:59,568 --> 00:28:02,465
- where bushes spitefully
- catch your face as you pass.
- 391
- 00:28:02,467 --> 00:28:05,132
- Those are full of sun and
- strawberries and lilies-of-the-valley
- 392
- 00:28:05,134 --> 00:28:07,232
- and... snakes.
- 393
- 00:28:07,234 --> 00:28:09,897
- I've shuddered there
- with choking terror
- 394
- 00:28:09,899 --> 00:28:14,064
- at the sight of those smooth, cold
- bodies gliding in front of my feet.
- 395
- 00:28:14,066 --> 00:28:16,531
- I feel so much alone there,
- 396
- 00:28:16,533 --> 00:28:18,830
- my eyes lost far away
- amongst the trees
- 397
- 00:28:18,832 --> 00:28:21,797
- in the green,
- mysterious daylight
- 398
- 00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:25,596
- that is at once deliciously
- peaceful and a little unnerving
- 399
- 00:28:25,598 --> 00:28:28,531
- because of the loneliness
- and the vague darkness.
- 400
- 00:29:26,857 --> 00:29:28,656
- Well, here we are.
- 401
- 00:29:29,757 --> 00:29:31,122
- You did it.
- 402
- 00:29:31,124 --> 00:29:33,588
- - I take my hat off to you.
- - And?
- 403
- 00:29:33,590 --> 00:29:36,990
- It's beautiful. I spent the
- whole day in Saint-Sauveur.
- 404
- 00:29:38,521 --> 00:29:40,487
- - You don't like it.
- - I do like it.
- 405
- 00:29:40,489 --> 00:29:41,988
- - Truth?
- - Yes.
- 406
- 00:29:43,754 --> 00:29:45,885
- Yes, they're...
- they're really charming.
- 407
- 00:29:45,887 --> 00:29:48,452
- Sorry, I need to...
- I need to take a piss.
- 408
- 00:29:48,454 --> 00:29:50,453
- What else?
- 409
- 00:29:50,455 --> 00:29:52,019
- Nothing. It's a...
- 410
- 00:29:52,021 --> 00:29:53,887
- It's a truly
- wonderful depiction.
- 411
- 00:29:55,021 --> 00:29:56,584
- And?
- 412
- 00:29:56,586 --> 00:29:59,517
- And...
- 413
- 00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:01,517
- we won't be able
- to get it published.
- 414
- 00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:03,651
- That's the shame of it.
- 415
- 00:30:03,653 --> 00:30:05,420
- What's wrong with it?
- 416
- 00:30:07,151 --> 00:30:08,753
- Honestly?
- 417
- 00:30:13,218 --> 00:30:17,049
- So I'll treat you like any other writer
- I'm giving a report to, shall I?
- 418
- 00:30:17,051 --> 00:30:18,882
- - Yes.
- - Except that I love you.
- 419
- 00:30:18,884 --> 00:30:20,949
- I adore you.
- Should be clear about that.
- 420
- 00:30:20,951 --> 00:30:22,718
- Just... Just say it.
- 421
- 00:30:25,850 --> 00:30:29,780
- There's nothing driving it.
- There's no plot.
- 422
- 00:30:29,782 --> 00:30:33,548
- A novel by Willy grips you from
- chapter one, whereas yours...
- 423
- 00:30:34,216 --> 00:30:35,914
- There's
- too many adjectives.
- 424
- 00:30:35,916 --> 00:30:37,945
- And some of the characters
- are interesting,
- 425
- 00:30:37,947 --> 00:30:41,879
- but... it's too cloying.
- 426
- 00:30:41,881 --> 00:30:43,648
- It's too feminine.
- 427
- 00:30:46,047 --> 00:30:48,911
- - Well, that's a waste of bloody time.
- - Not if you enjoyed it.
- 428
- 00:30:48,913 --> 00:30:50,747
- I wrote it for you!
- 429
- 00:31:14,744 --> 00:31:23,506
- ♪ Down by the salley gardens ♪
- 430
- 00:31:23,508 --> 00:31:31,207
- ♪ My love and I did meet ♪
- 431
- 00:31:31,209 --> 00:31:40,505
- ♪ She passed
- The salley gardens ♪
- 432
- 00:31:40,507 --> 00:31:49,204
- ♪ With little snow-white feet ♪
- 433
- 00:31:49,206 --> 00:31:57,937
- ♪ She bid me take love easy ♪
- 434
- 00:31:57,939 --> 00:32:06,901
- ♪ As the leaves
- Grow on the tree ♪
- 435
- 00:32:06,903 --> 00:32:16,902
- ♪ But I
- Being young and foolish ♪
- 436
- 00:32:17,735 --> 00:32:27,735
- ♪ With her would not agree ♪
- 437
- 00:32:28,101 --> 00:32:30,598
- Wague's mesmerizing,
- isn't he?
- 438
- 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,697
- He's the king of the cantomime.
- Let's get a drink.
- 439
- 00:32:33,699 --> 00:32:35,865
- Thank you, Geraud.
- 440
- 00:32:35,867 --> 00:32:37,701
- - Cheers.
- - Cheers.
- 441
- 00:32:39,433 --> 00:32:42,098
- - How's it going with your book?
- - It's gone.
- 442
- 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:45,096
- - I tried, but it wasn't any good.
- - I can't believe it.
- 443
- 00:32:45,098 --> 00:32:47,897
- Willy hated it.
- 444
- 00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:50,030
- I don't care.
- 445
- 00:32:50,032 --> 00:32:52,965
- - I don't need to leave my mark on the world.
- - Hmm.
- 446
- 00:32:55,164 --> 00:32:58,562
- - Have you always written, Schwob?
- - I didn't really have a choice.
- 447
- 00:32:58,564 --> 00:33:00,796
- It was simply there.
- 448
- 00:33:00,798 --> 00:33:04,429
- - Does it make you happy?
- - Oh, God, no.
- 449
- 00:33:04,431 --> 00:33:06,794
- I do it to prevent me
- from going mad.
- 450
- 00:33:06,796 --> 00:33:12,496
- But sometimes, occasionally,
- it will transport me.
- 451
- 00:33:13,163 --> 00:33:15,160
- - Hello, Schwob.
- - Hello, Gaston.
- 452
- 00:33:15,162 --> 00:33:16,763
- Good to see you.
- 453
- 00:33:18,061 --> 00:33:21,992
- Jeanne,
- may I present Colette?
- 454
- 00:33:21,994 --> 00:33:23,659
- Madame.
- 455
- 00:33:23,661 --> 00:33:27,058
- I think we've been introduced,
- but I don't remember that name.
- 456
- 00:33:27,060 --> 00:33:29,557
- It's new,
- in a manner of speaking.
- 457
- 00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:33,824
- Well, then I shall think of
- this as our first meeting.
- 458
- 00:33:38,526 --> 00:33:42,424
- It is so easy.
- On. Off.
- 459
- 00:33:42,426 --> 00:33:44,523
- No more sooty candles.
- 460
- 00:33:44,525 --> 00:33:47,023
- Yes, maybe they'll put it
- in my building one day.
- 461
- 00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:51,121
- So much safer too, even if the
- light is a little unkind.
- 462
- 00:33:51,123 --> 00:33:53,623
- Nonsense.
- Will you excuse me, Arman?
- 463
- 00:34:17,021 --> 00:34:20,052
- Yes, so, I thought it
- was much better than last time.
- 464
- 00:34:20,054 --> 00:34:24,018
- Let me see your palm.
- Oh, how interesting.
- 465
- 00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:26,785
- You have a long life line.
- 466
- 00:34:26,787 --> 00:34:29,717
- And a very strong
- head line here.
- 467
- 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,483
- - And your... your love line splits into three.
- - Oh.
- 468
- 00:34:33,485 --> 00:34:35,784
- - What on earth could that mean?
- - Who knows?
- 469
- 00:34:35,786 --> 00:34:38,082
- So many intersecting lines.
- 470
- 00:34:38,084 --> 00:34:39,450
- I have the hands
- of a man. Look.
- 471
- 00:34:39,452 --> 00:34:41,082
- - Ah.
- - See?
- 472
- 00:34:41,084 --> 00:34:43,581
- You've a touch
- of Hermes, Colette.
- 473
- 00:34:43,583 --> 00:34:46,415
- There's something androgynous about you.
- 474
- 00:34:46,417 --> 00:34:48,747
- - Willy, you ogre, how are you?
- - Gaston, Jeanne.
- 475
- 00:34:48,749 --> 00:34:51,082
- We have been greatly enjoying
- the company of Colette,
- 476
- 00:34:51,084 --> 00:34:53,614
- now that she's no longer hiding
- her light under a bushel.
- 477
- 00:34:53,616 --> 00:34:54,914
- Quoting the good book,
- Gaston?
- 478
- 00:34:54,916 --> 00:34:57,714
- You may remember a little verse
- about coveting other men's wives.
- 479
- 00:34:57,716 --> 00:35:01,514
- And you may remember one about not trying
- to remove a speck from your brother's eye
- 480
- 00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:03,514
- with a log in your own.
- 481
- 00:35:03,516 --> 00:35:06,579
- Touché, Gaston. Your wits
- are improving... somewhat.
- 482
- 00:35:06,581 --> 00:35:07,915
- Ah, we'd better go now,
- darling.
- 483
- 00:35:09,514 --> 00:35:11,415
- We should go now.
- 484
- 00:35:13,647 --> 00:35:16,477
- - Bye.
- - Good-bye.
- 485
- 00:35:16,479 --> 00:35:19,010
- His first play
- was absolute rubbish,
- 486
- 00:35:19,012 --> 00:35:22,610
- but his mother runs a salon, so,
- of course, it was a huge success
- 487
- 00:35:22,612 --> 00:35:25,977
- and he was praised to the skies
- for his brilliant writing
- 488
- 00:35:25,979 --> 00:35:28,477
- and his sublime talent.
- 489
- 00:35:28,479 --> 00:35:30,709
- Unctuous prick.
- He was after you.
- 490
- 00:35:30,711 --> 00:35:32,843
- He's not the type,
- and they just got married.
- 491
- 00:35:32,845 --> 00:35:36,075
- Yeah, well, they're no longer on
- honeymoon, I assure you, my dear.
- 492
- 00:35:36,077 --> 00:35:38,811
- - Your jealousy is misplaced.
- - How so?
- 493
- 00:35:40,476 --> 00:35:42,377
- It was the wife
- I found interesting.
- 494
- 00:35:42,976 --> 00:35:43,908
- Jeanne?
- 495
- 00:35:43,910 --> 00:35:44,877
- Yes.
- 496
- 00:35:50,642 --> 00:35:52,710
- What would you think
- of that?
- 497
- 00:35:53,975 --> 00:35:55,609
- Well, that's...
- 498
- 00:35:57,509 --> 00:35:59,072
- that's a different case.
- 499
- 00:35:59,074 --> 00:36:00,708
- It is?
- 500
- 00:36:02,875 --> 00:36:04,474
- Perhaps.
- 501
- 00:36:11,839 --> 00:36:14,537
- Good morning, ma'am. I need to speak
- to the gentleman of the house.
- 502
- 00:36:14,539 --> 00:36:17,003
- - What is it?
- - Monsieur Henri Gauthier-Villars.
- 503
- 00:36:17,005 --> 00:36:18,804
- Is he in?
- 504
- 00:36:18,806 --> 00:36:21,603
- - You can speak to me about whatever it is.
- - Sorry, ma'am.
- 505
- 00:36:21,605 --> 00:36:23,036
- - Ah. Sir.
- - What is it?
- 506
- 00:36:23,038 --> 00:36:27,604
- I have a repossession order for two
- armchairs, one armoire, one oak desk.
- 507
- 00:36:28,971 --> 00:36:31,671
- - Let me see the court papers.
- - Here you are.
- 508
- 00:36:32,737 --> 00:36:34,068
- All in order?
- 509
- 00:36:34,070 --> 00:36:35,968
- Come on.
- 510
- 00:36:35,970 --> 00:36:38,568
- - Willy!
- - It's just bits of wood.
- 511
- 00:36:38,570 --> 00:36:41,067
- - The armoire's in the bedroom.
- - With my clothes in it.
- 512
- 00:36:41,069 --> 00:36:43,469
- You empty it out.
- I'll see to the desk.
- 513
- 00:36:48,403 --> 00:36:50,469
- Oh, be careful.
- 514
- 00:37:14,166 --> 00:37:16,164
- You ready?
- 515
- 00:37:16,166 --> 00:37:18,532
- Yes. Take it away.
- 516
- 00:37:33,630 --> 00:37:37,026
- So here, it's, like, "It's
- a lovely spring morning."
- 517
- 00:37:37,028 --> 00:37:38,727
- You know,
- liven it up a bit.
- 518
- 00:37:38,729 --> 00:37:41,459
- How about, "Perhaps it's the season.
- It's glorious.
- 519
- 00:37:41,461 --> 00:37:44,662
- The sap is rising
- almost indecently."
- 520
- 00:37:45,862 --> 00:37:47,992
- And then, yeah, here,
- 521
- 00:37:47,994 --> 00:37:50,058
- the scene with Luce.
- 522
- 00:37:50,060 --> 00:37:52,859
- I've written, "She brushed
- up against me suggestively,
- 523
- 00:37:52,861 --> 00:37:56,958
- her blue eyes half closed
- and her mouth half open."
- 524
- 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,124
- A little louche.
- 525
- 00:37:59,126 --> 00:38:02,591
- Louche sells, trust me. We need
- more spice, less literature.
- 526
- 00:38:02,593 --> 00:38:04,591
- I know what men want.
- So do the publishers.
- 527
- 00:38:04,593 --> 00:38:06,790
- - Do you really think they'll take it?
- - Yes.
- 528
- 00:38:06,792 --> 00:38:09,989
- - Ollendorff will go nuts for it.
- - As you did on first reading?
- 529
- 00:38:09,991 --> 00:38:13,358
- Never mind about that. Come on. We've
- got to work. Work, work, work.
- 530
- 00:38:28,689 --> 00:38:33,587
- "Claudine is a girl from a small
- village, yet she is all of us.
- 531
- 00:38:33,589 --> 00:38:37,387
- Feisty, opinionated,
- selfish, and sensual..."
- 532
- 00:38:37,389 --> 00:38:38,719
- Ooh!
- 533
- 00:38:38,721 --> 00:38:41,786
- "She astounds us
- with her moxie, her desires,
- 534
- 00:38:41,788 --> 00:38:42,986
- and her crimes."
- 535
- 00:38:42,988 --> 00:38:45,652
- Oh!
- 536
- 00:38:45,654 --> 00:38:50,450
- "It took an extraordinary man to
- define this modern young woman."
- 537
- 00:38:50,452 --> 00:38:53,585
- Willy, your book
- will change the world.
- 538
- 00:38:53,587 --> 00:38:56,453
- - To Claudine!
- - To Claudine!
- 539
- 00:38:56,985 --> 00:38:58,584
- Claudine!
- 540
- 00:38:58,586 --> 00:39:01,117
- All of Paris is saying
- your husband is a genius.
- 541
- 00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:03,483
- - And what do you say?
- - He is.
- 542
- 00:39:03,485 --> 00:39:06,615
- If that book
- is anything to go by.
- 543
- 00:39:06,617 --> 00:39:08,383
- Look at him.
- 544
- 00:39:08,385 --> 00:39:10,116
- I haven't seen him that
- happy in a long time.
- 545
- 00:39:13,951 --> 00:39:18,647
- Well, I have to say, Willy, we've never had
- one fly off the shelves like this before.
- 546
- 00:39:18,649 --> 00:39:22,415
- Quite a phenomenon.
- Everyone's talking about it.
- 547
- 00:39:22,417 --> 00:39:23,980
- And do you know
- who's buying it?
- 548
- 00:39:23,982 --> 00:39:26,714
- - Young women.
- - Really?
- 549
- 00:39:26,716 --> 00:39:28,446
- I thought that...
- 550
- 00:39:28,448 --> 00:39:29,913
- That's interesting.
- 551
- 00:39:29,915 --> 00:39:32,613
- We've also been having inquiries
- about theatrical rights.
- 552
- 00:39:32,615 --> 00:39:35,146
- - Any thoughts?
- - Of course.
- 553
- 00:39:35,148 --> 00:39:37,112
- The theater's
- the next logical step.
- 554
- 00:39:37,114 --> 00:39:39,046
- With as large a stage
- as possible.
- 555
- 00:39:39,048 --> 00:39:41,712
- It's the theater-going public
- who will make you rich, Willy.
- 556
- 00:39:41,714 --> 00:39:44,111
- Maybe even as rich as you one
- day, my dear Ollendorff.
- 557
- 00:39:44,113 --> 00:39:46,778
- What size of print run?
- 558
- 00:39:46,780 --> 00:39:48,744
- Perhaps 30,000 units.
- 559
- 00:39:48,746 --> 00:39:53,542
- I'm waiting to see what sort of
- advances the booksellers have got.
- 560
- 00:39:53,544 --> 00:39:55,542
- What return
- will that yield?
- 561
- 00:39:55,544 --> 00:39:58,008
- About three francs per unit.
- 562
- 00:39:58,010 --> 00:40:00,678
- So, yes, it's a tidy sum.
- 563
- 00:40:02,010 --> 00:40:03,844
- Madame Willy.
- 564
- 00:40:05,410 --> 00:40:06,974
- - An honor.
- - Pleasure to meet you.
- 565
- 00:40:06,976 --> 00:40:09,975
- Listen, Claudine at School is
- heading for her third printing.
- 566
- 00:40:09,977 --> 00:40:11,707
- Excellent.
- 567
- 00:40:11,709 --> 00:40:14,006
- I believe Willy based Claudine
- in part on your school days.
- 568
- 00:40:14,008 --> 00:40:17,375
- Yes, I think I had a little
- something to contribute.
- 569
- 00:40:17,377 --> 00:40:21,574
- Well, I'm very glad your experiences
- have borne such wonderful fruit.
- 570
- 00:40:21,576 --> 00:40:23,574
- Very nice to meet you,
- madame.
- 571
- 00:40:23,576 --> 00:40:26,006
- - Gare de Lyon, please.
- - Where are we going?
- 572
- 00:40:26,008 --> 00:40:27,841
- You'll find out.
- 573
- 00:40:30,675 --> 00:40:31,641
- Hup.
- 574
- 00:40:34,507 --> 00:40:36,708
- Is something wrong?
- 575
- 00:40:37,774 --> 00:40:39,874
- Well, wh-what
- do you think is wrong?
- 576
- 00:40:41,107 --> 00:40:42,706
- What?
- 577
- 00:40:44,672 --> 00:40:46,704
- Finally
- we have a success,
- 578
- 00:40:46,706 --> 00:40:49,635
- and then you imply that I'm
- not the true author of it.
- 579
- 00:40:49,637 --> 00:40:52,503
- - No, I didn't.
- - We're holding dynamite here.
- 580
- 00:40:52,505 --> 00:40:54,670
- We've created something
- really powerful,
- 581
- 00:40:54,672 --> 00:40:56,470
- and if it goes off
- at the wrong time,
- 582
- 00:40:56,472 --> 00:40:58,035
- then it could blow
- our bloody heads off.
- 583
- 00:40:58,037 --> 00:40:59,702
- Ollendorff is
- your publisher, Willy.
- 584
- 00:40:59,704 --> 00:41:01,468
- Yeah, well, Schwob
- also said something.
- 585
- 00:41:01,470 --> 00:41:04,437
- - Schwob is part of the factory.
- - People love to talk.
- 586
- 00:41:06,403 --> 00:41:09,767
- They praise you to your face. Then the moment
- you turn around there's knives in your back.
- 587
- 00:41:09,769 --> 00:41:11,833
- I understand the mentality here.
- You don't.
- 588
- 00:41:11,835 --> 00:41:15,432
- Well, I understand it well enough to
- write a book that's the toast of Paris.
- 589
- 00:41:15,434 --> 00:41:18,433
- Oh, well, why don't you... Go and
- just shout it on the streets then.
- 590
- 00:41:18,435 --> 00:41:20,868
- Tell everybody.
- Roll up for the massacre.
- 591
- 00:41:25,434 --> 00:41:27,568
- I'm sorry.
- I'm... I'm sorry.
- 592
- 00:41:29,967 --> 00:41:31,566
- I'm sorry.
- 593
- 00:41:32,833 --> 00:41:35,367
- Perhaps I overreacted.
- 594
- 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,799
- Anyway, I...
- I have a surprise for you.
- 595
- 00:41:40,732 --> 00:41:42,596
- What is it?
- 596
- 00:41:42,598 --> 00:41:45,432
- Well, then it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?
- 597
- 00:41:47,131 --> 00:41:48,929
- So what's that one?
- 598
- 00:41:48,931 --> 00:41:50,565
- Lime.
- 599
- 00:41:52,863 --> 00:41:54,694
- And that one?
- 600
- 00:41:54,696 --> 00:41:56,463
- It's a Douglas fir.
- 601
- 00:41:59,396 --> 00:42:01,028
- How about that one?
- 602
- 00:42:01,030 --> 00:42:03,864
- Chestnut.
- It's a weeping chestnut.
- 603
- 00:42:06,763 --> 00:42:09,026
- I don't know why
- you're so keen on nature.
- 604
- 00:42:09,028 --> 00:42:11,459
- Animals are vile
- to each other.
- 605
- 00:42:11,461 --> 00:42:14,493
- Animals are honest at least.
- They never lie.
- 606
- 00:42:14,495 --> 00:42:18,560
- Yes, my dear. Well, that's
- because they don't speak.
- 607
- 00:42:20,727 --> 00:42:22,792
- Look at that.
- 608
- 00:42:22,794 --> 00:42:25,425
- Mmm. It's beautiful.
- 609
- 00:42:25,427 --> 00:42:27,460
- I wonder
- who lives there.
- 610
- 00:42:28,625 --> 00:42:31,293
- I'm thirsty. Let's see
- if they'll stand us a drink.
- 611
- 00:42:32,092 --> 00:42:34,326
- Willy,
- they might shoot us.
- 612
- 00:42:49,623 --> 00:42:52,121
- Look, wait.
- They might be upstairs.
- 613
- 00:42:52,123 --> 00:42:53,922
- Or deaf.
- 614
- 00:42:53,924 --> 00:42:56,887
- - Deafened by all this country silence!
- - Shh.
- 615
- 00:42:56,889 --> 00:42:58,620
- I thought
- I heard something.
- 616
- 00:42:58,622 --> 00:42:59,387
- Kiss me.
- 617
- 00:42:59,389 --> 00:43:02,356
- - Willy, someone might come.
- - Good.
- 618
- 00:43:07,654 --> 00:43:09,652
- Put your hand
- in my pocket.
- 619
- 00:43:09,654 --> 00:43:11,785
- - There's something there for you.
- - Willy.
- 620
- 00:43:11,787 --> 00:43:14,288
- What?
- 621
- 00:43:23,353 --> 00:43:24,787
- Allow me.
- 622
- 00:43:42,416 --> 00:43:44,417
- What do you think?
- 623
- 00:43:45,550 --> 00:43:47,980
- I don't know what I think.
- 624
- 00:43:47,982 --> 00:43:50,947
- - Whose house is it?
- - It's for you.
- 625
- 00:43:50,949 --> 00:43:53,380
- My love. My heart.
- 626
- 00:43:53,382 --> 00:43:55,782
- Lest Paris
- should drive you mad.
- 627
- 00:43:56,981 --> 00:43:59,713
- - What?
- - It's yours.
- 628
- 00:43:59,715 --> 00:44:02,748
- You're always talking about how
- much you miss the countryside.
- 629
- 00:44:04,847 --> 00:44:07,445
- I don't believe it.
- 630
- 00:44:07,447 --> 00:44:09,847
- Somewhere for you
- to write and be alone.
- 631
- 00:44:11,779 --> 00:44:13,413
- So...
- 632
- 00:44:16,012 --> 00:44:17,977
- where did you get
- the money?
- 633
- 00:44:17,979 --> 00:44:21,377
- I got an advance
- from Ollendorff.
- 634
- 00:44:21,379 --> 00:44:24,376
- - 25,000 francs.
- - For what?
- 635
- 00:44:24,378 --> 00:44:26,410
- For the next book.
- 636
- 00:44:26,412 --> 00:44:28,476
- - Claudine in Paris.
- - Willy, I-I...
- 637
- 00:44:28,478 --> 00:44:31,076
- - I can't write another Claudine.
- - Just write about us.
- 638
- 00:44:31,078 --> 00:44:33,874
- Our lives. Our friends. Change
- the names and make gossip.
- 639
- 00:44:33,876 --> 00:44:36,410
- - No, Willy, it...
- - Let's talk about the details later.
- 640
- 00:44:40,476 --> 00:44:42,542
- So, do you like it?
- 641
- 00:44:43,943 --> 00:44:45,674
- It's indescribable.
- 642
- 00:44:45,676 --> 00:44:46,973
- No such word.
- 643
- 00:44:46,975 --> 00:44:50,442
- A good writer should be able to
- describe anything no matter what.
- 644
- 00:45:26,070 --> 00:45:27,671
- Is this it?
- 645
- 00:45:29,404 --> 00:45:31,537
- Your total output
- for all these weeks?
- 646
- 00:45:33,370 --> 00:45:35,634
- I've been doing the house.
- 647
- 00:45:35,636 --> 00:45:39,033
- All the repairs,
- the painting, the tiling.
- 648
- 00:45:39,035 --> 00:45:41,101
- Planting the garden.
- 649
- 00:45:41,103 --> 00:45:43,667
- Bugger the garden.
- We have a deadline.
- 650
- 00:45:43,669 --> 00:45:46,736
- Well, it's actually quite difficult
- to write out here... alone.
- 651
- 00:45:48,101 --> 00:45:50,866
- And I don't want to write
- another Claudine.
- 652
- 00:45:50,868 --> 00:45:54,032
- Are you out of your mind? Do you
- realize how rare this moment is?
- 653
- 00:45:54,034 --> 00:45:56,534
- When people
- are begging for more?
- 654
- 00:45:59,334 --> 00:46:00,734
- Here, come with me.
- 655
- 00:46:06,799 --> 00:46:10,763
- What would the headmaster do if
- Claudine had not done her homework?
- 656
- 00:46:10,765 --> 00:46:12,663
- Willy, don't be silly.
- 657
- 00:46:12,665 --> 00:46:14,529
- What would he do?
- 658
- 00:46:14,531 --> 00:46:17,929
- Make her do lines. Put her over
- his knee and tan her hide.
- 659
- 00:46:17,931 --> 00:46:19,530
- Correct.
- 660
- 00:46:20,730 --> 00:46:22,832
- I'll start tomorrow.
- 661
- 00:46:24,531 --> 00:46:25,831
- Willy.
- 662
- 00:46:26,863 --> 00:46:29,528
- - Write!
- - Willy, let me out!
- 663
- 00:46:29,530 --> 00:46:32,393
- You will do as I say.
- I'll return in four hours.
- 664
- 00:46:32,395 --> 00:46:34,493
- - I expect to see some pages.
- - Willy!
- 665
- 00:46:34,495 --> 00:46:36,529
- Willy, come on.
- This isn't funny.
- 666
- 00:46:38,495 --> 00:46:41,925
- Willy!
- Willy, you bastard!
- 667
- 00:46:41,927 --> 00:46:45,726
- You arrogant bastard!
- Let me out!
- 668
- 00:46:45,728 --> 00:46:47,358
- Willy!
- 669
- 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,590
- Open the door!
- 670
- 00:46:49,592 --> 00:46:50,794
- Let me out!
- 671
- 00:48:16,483 --> 00:48:18,782
- Oh, thank you so much.
- 672
- 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,281
- Ho-ho! Ho-ho!
- 673
- 00:48:44,846 --> 00:48:46,811
- Colette
- and Willy are here.
- 674
- 00:48:46,813 --> 00:48:48,447
- So they are.
- 675
- 00:48:49,078 --> 00:48:50,777
- Don't stare.
- 676
- 00:48:50,779 --> 00:48:52,044
- - Sorry.
- - Here?
- 677
- 00:48:52,046 --> 00:48:53,746
- Yes. Perfect.
- 678
- 00:48:55,645 --> 00:48:56,778
- Thank you.
- 679
- 00:48:59,078 --> 00:49:00,909
- Mmm. It's delicious.
- 680
- 00:49:00,911 --> 00:49:02,575
- Mmm.
- 681
- 00:49:02,577 --> 00:49:04,741
- Tell me,
- 682
- 00:49:04,743 --> 00:49:07,374
- how many people
- in this park right now
- 683
- 00:49:07,376 --> 00:49:09,444
- do you think are reading
- Claudine in Paris?
- 684
- 00:49:11,343 --> 00:49:13,640
- - I don't know.
- - I'd say at least three-quarters.
- 685
- 00:49:13,642 --> 00:49:16,610
- And the rest of them
- will soon catch up.
- 686
- 00:49:19,874 --> 00:49:21,742
- What comes here?
- 687
- 00:49:23,608 --> 00:49:25,705
- Monsieur Willy.
- Madame Colette.
- 688
- 00:49:25,707 --> 00:49:28,374
- - I have a note for you.
- - Thank you very much.
- 689
- 00:49:29,308 --> 00:49:31,005
- Mrs. Raoul Duval.
- 690
- 00:49:31,007 --> 00:49:32,904
- Oh, Georgie Raoul Duval?
- 691
- 00:49:32,906 --> 00:49:34,570
- - Yes.
- - Wonderful.
- 692
- 00:49:34,572 --> 00:49:37,736
- Please thank your mistress
- and say we accept the invitation
- 693
- 00:49:37,738 --> 00:49:39,736
- and look forward
- to her delightful company.
- 694
- 00:49:39,738 --> 00:49:41,372
- - Thank you.
- - I will.
- 695
- 00:49:43,571 --> 00:49:46,369
- - Who is she?
- - Ah, she's an American.
- 696
- 00:49:46,371 --> 00:49:51,535
- She's a wayward debutante
- from Louisiana
- 697
- 00:49:51,537 --> 00:49:56,402
- who married a munitions
- magnate three times her age.
- 698
- 00:49:56,404 --> 00:49:58,001
- They sound dull.
- 699
- 00:49:58,003 --> 00:50:01,502
- He is,
- but she's anything but.
- 700
- 00:50:01,504 --> 00:50:04,035
- We don't have to go
- if you don't want to.
- 701
- 00:50:04,037 --> 00:50:06,035
- No, let's go.
- 702
- 00:50:09,336 --> 00:50:11,599
- That's so funny.
- Did he really say that?
- 703
- 00:50:11,601 --> 00:50:14,400
- Of course he did.
- He's such a colossal snob.
- 704
- 00:50:14,402 --> 00:50:18,498
- Then Madame de Caillavet happened to mention
- that he was only a baron, not a marquise.
- 705
- 00:50:18,500 --> 00:50:20,531
- "Forgive me, madam,"
- he replied,
- 706
- 00:50:20,533 --> 00:50:23,365
- "but I'm also the duke of
- Anjou, the bishop of Coutances,
- 707
- 00:50:23,367 --> 00:50:26,631
- the prince of Joinville,
- of Orléans, and the Dunes.
- 708
- 00:50:26,633 --> 00:50:28,765
- None of which is of the
- slightest importance here."
- 709
- 00:50:33,332 --> 00:50:35,267
- Oh, look.
- 710
- 00:50:36,765 --> 00:50:37,632
- There.
- 711
- 00:50:39,830 --> 00:50:41,265
- That's better.
- 712
- 00:50:47,398 --> 00:50:49,927
- - Oh, is the evening over already?
- - Thank you, monsieur.
- 713
- 00:50:49,929 --> 00:50:51,661
- I can't bear it.
- 714
- 00:50:51,663 --> 00:50:53,994
- Oh, Lily, tell the coachman
- to go and ready the carriage.
- 715
- 00:50:53,996 --> 00:50:55,597
- Of course.
- 716
- 00:50:56,529 --> 00:50:57,960
- Well?
- 717
- 00:50:57,962 --> 00:51:01,661
- I'm sorry, ma'am, but, Monsieur Willy,
- may I have your autograph, please?
- 718
- 00:51:01,663 --> 00:51:03,360
- Of course you can.
- 719
- 00:51:03,362 --> 00:51:05,496
- Here, I'll even do
- a picture for you.
- 720
- 00:51:07,329 --> 00:51:08,759
- - There you are.
- - Thank you so much.
- 721
- 00:51:08,761 --> 00:51:10,826
- - And yours too, Madame Colette.
- - Oh, come now.
- 722
- 00:51:10,828 --> 00:51:14,395
- No, of course. Spirit
- should always be rewarded.
- 723
- 00:51:16,993 --> 00:51:18,958
- Thank you.
- 724
- 00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,360
- - Good night, my dear.
- - Good night.
- 725
- 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,524
- Well,
- 726
- 00:51:26,526 --> 00:51:31,492
- I live at 74 Rue Goethe if you'd
- like to stop by for a nightcap.
- 727
- 00:51:33,424 --> 00:51:36,422
- I think I'd better retire
- for the night.
- 728
- 00:51:36,424 --> 00:51:38,622
- Oh. Are you sure now?
- 729
- 00:51:38,624 --> 00:51:41,688
- - Willy?
- - We'll play again soon, my dear.
- 730
- 00:51:41,690 --> 00:51:45,588
- Yes, I hope so, before
- my bore of a husband returns.
- 731
- 00:51:46,923 --> 00:51:49,554
- Well, au revoir.
- 732
- 00:51:49,556 --> 00:51:51,357
- Au revoir.
- 733
- 00:51:57,888 --> 00:51:59,619
- You don't want to go?
- 734
- 00:51:59,621 --> 00:52:02,688
- Well, the invitation
- was clearly meant for you.
- 735
- 00:52:04,554 --> 00:52:07,554
- - Should I?
- - Yes, of course.
- 736
- 00:52:08,321 --> 00:52:09,984
- You don't mind?
- 737
- 00:52:09,986 --> 00:52:13,752
- Well, it would be hypocritical
- of me if I did, wouldn't it?
- 738
- 00:52:13,754 --> 00:52:17,518
- You can comfort yourself knowing
- that I will be at home lying in bed,
- 739
- 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,485
- thinking of the two of you
- in the fondest way possible.
- 740
- 00:52:50,949 --> 00:52:53,249
- Come on in.
- 741
- 00:52:57,382 --> 00:52:59,346
- It's a nice place.
- 742
- 00:52:59,348 --> 00:53:01,814
- Thank you. It's my
- little pied-à-terre.
- 743
- 00:53:03,346 --> 00:53:05,845
- Frederick's not so keen
- on the art nouveau pieces,
- 744
- 00:53:05,847 --> 00:53:08,713
- but I love nature...
- 745
- 00:53:09,846 --> 00:53:11,478
- and women.
- 746
- 00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,944
- I can see.
- 747
- 00:53:14,946 --> 00:53:19,477
- I remember in Claudine at School when all
- the girls go swimming together at night.
- 748
- 00:53:19,479 --> 00:53:21,975
- Night is the best time
- for a swim.
- 749
- 00:53:21,977 --> 00:53:25,709
- When I was a girl, I was told that all
- the lakes in Louisiana have alligators,
- 750
- 00:53:25,711 --> 00:53:31,508
- so I never went for a midnight
- swim, but I regret it.
- 751
- 00:53:31,510 --> 00:53:33,540
- When you raise your eyelids,
- 752
- 00:53:33,542 --> 00:53:36,244
- it's as if you are taking off
- all my clothes.
- 753
- 00:53:37,742 --> 00:53:39,677
- Don't look away.
- 754
- 00:53:40,743 --> 00:53:42,777
- Look at me.
- 755
- 00:53:43,907 --> 00:53:45,609
- Look at me looking at you.
- 756
- 00:53:55,539 --> 00:53:58,970
- You have
- the most beautiful teeth.
- 757
- 00:53:58,972 --> 00:54:00,806
- Like an alligator.
- 758
- 00:54:19,871 --> 00:54:21,736
- Morning, my dear.
- 759
- 00:54:21,738 --> 00:54:24,402
- Have you fed Toby Chien?
- 760
- 00:54:24,404 --> 00:54:27,570
- Oh, I forgot.
- I thought Matilde does that.
- 761
- 00:54:32,469 --> 00:54:34,667
- So how was last night?
- 762
- 00:54:34,669 --> 00:54:35,934
- Interesting.
- 763
- 00:54:35,936 --> 00:54:38,333
- What happened?
- 764
- 00:54:38,335 --> 00:54:40,532
- What do you think
- happened?
- 765
- 00:54:40,534 --> 00:54:43,865
- Ah. Well, don't tell me.
- I'll, uh...
- 766
- 00:54:43,867 --> 00:54:47,798
- I'll wait to read about it, when Claudine
- develops tender feelings towards a lady friend.
- 767
- 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,531
- - I'm not writing about it.
- - You must. It's prime material.
- 768
- 00:54:50,533 --> 00:54:51,731
- No.
- 769
- 00:54:51,733 --> 00:54:53,601
- Will you see her again?
- 770
- 00:54:54,667 --> 00:54:56,333
- Possibly.
- 771
- 00:55:04,965 --> 00:55:07,365
- One moment, my darlin'.
- 772
- 00:55:19,697 --> 00:55:21,994
- - Oh.
- - Wonderful. You're... You're here.
- 773
- 00:55:21,996 --> 00:55:24,560
- I...
- I was just passing by.
- 774
- 00:55:24,562 --> 00:55:25,663
- Yes?
- 775
- 00:55:27,262 --> 00:55:28,696
- Well, um...
- 776
- 00:55:31,895 --> 00:55:33,695
- You'd better come in.
- 777
- 00:55:44,927 --> 00:55:46,724
- How's the writing going?
- 778
- 00:55:46,726 --> 00:55:48,758
- It's slow and painful.
- 779
- 00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,624
- - How was your meeting at the bank?
- - It was good.
- 780
- 00:55:51,626 --> 00:55:53,327
- Yeah, it was good.
- 781
- 00:56:30,987 --> 00:56:33,221
- She's expecting you.
- 782
- 00:56:44,820 --> 00:56:46,586
- Off to the bank.
- 783
- 00:57:02,984 --> 00:57:05,317
- Georgie,
- I know you're in there!
- 784
- 00:57:06,849 --> 00:57:08,550
- Georgie, open up!
- 785
- 00:57:10,382 --> 00:57:12,381
- Colette,
- I was taking a nap.
- 786
- 00:57:12,383 --> 00:57:14,513
- - Where is he?
- - Who?
- 787
- 00:57:14,515 --> 00:57:16,549
- Colette, what are
- you talking about?
- 788
- 00:57:20,314 --> 00:57:22,612
- Blue cigar
- smoke hung in the air.
- 789
- 00:57:22,614 --> 00:57:25,613
- I marched in and looked
- straight in the face of Renaud.
- 790
- 00:57:25,615 --> 00:57:28,412
- He recoiled, saying, "It was wicked of me.
- I'm sorry."
- 791
- 00:57:28,414 --> 00:57:30,446
- Rezi was there.
- Of course she was there...
- 792
- 00:57:30,448 --> 00:57:32,911
- "Of course she was there,
- hurriedly dressing herself.
- 793
- 00:57:32,913 --> 00:57:36,445
- I shall always remember her
- lily-white face decomposing,
- 794
- 00:57:36,447 --> 00:57:39,246
- as if it were dying
- right under my gaze."
- 795
- 00:57:42,646 --> 00:57:44,810
- It's good.
- 796
- 00:57:44,812 --> 00:57:46,545
- I know.
- 797
- 00:57:48,146 --> 00:57:51,874
- I'd suggest you change the line where Renaud
- says, "It was wicked of me to do it,"
- 798
- 00:57:51,876 --> 00:57:53,241
- but I know you won't.
- 799
- 00:57:53,243 --> 00:57:56,708
- And what do you think that Renaud
- would say in those circumstances?
- 800
- 00:57:56,710 --> 00:57:59,709
- I don't know. Something like, "Why,
- my dear, we were waiting for you."
- 801
- 00:57:59,711 --> 00:58:03,573
- - I don't think she'd believe him.
- - Of course not.
- 802
- 00:58:03,575 --> 00:58:06,873
- But don't you think
- she's being hypocritical?
- 803
- 00:58:06,875 --> 00:58:09,440
- I mean, it's acceptable for
- Claudine to sleep with Rezi,
- 804
- 00:58:09,442 --> 00:58:11,406
- but she doesn't want Renaud
- to do the same.
- 805
- 00:58:11,408 --> 00:58:13,441
- Not behind her back,
- no.
- 806
- 00:58:14,975 --> 00:58:16,805
- The betrayal came
- when Renaud lied to her.
- 807
- 00:58:16,807 --> 00:58:19,574
- Renaud, who swore he
- would always be honest.
- 808
- 00:58:22,808 --> 00:58:25,905
- Well, perhaps he wanted
- to tell her, but he was...
- 809
- 00:58:25,907 --> 00:58:28,471
- frightened
- of her volcanic jealousy.
- 810
- 00:58:28,473 --> 00:58:31,207
- Well, then, he was a
- coward as well as a liar.
- 811
- 00:58:32,839 --> 00:58:34,837
- You're very harsh on him.
- 812
- 00:58:34,839 --> 00:58:36,773
- If not me,
- who else?
- 813
- 00:58:39,439 --> 00:58:41,236
- And Renaud
- would never be jealous
- 814
- 00:58:41,238 --> 00:58:43,337
- if, for example,
- 815
- 00:58:43,339 --> 00:58:46,304
- Claudine went off with a
- young man for a change.
- 816
- 00:58:49,804 --> 00:58:51,834
- He would find that
- unacceptable.
- 817
- 00:58:51,836 --> 00:58:53,702
- Oh.
- 818
- 00:58:53,704 --> 00:58:56,701
- - Infidelity for Renaud is a matter of gender?
- - Yes, it is.
- 819
- 00:58:56,703 --> 00:58:57,736
- Huh.
- 820
- 00:58:59,236 --> 00:59:01,834
- How long have you known?
- 821
- 00:59:01,836 --> 00:59:03,800
- About a month.
- 822
- 00:59:03,802 --> 00:59:06,735
- Well, I must say, I'm impressed by
- the way you've handled yourself.
- 823
- 00:59:07,934 --> 00:59:10,333
- A younger Claudine
- would have thrown a fit.
- 824
- 00:59:10,335 --> 00:59:12,699
- I'm planning on killing
- Renaud off in the next one.
- 825
- 00:59:12,701 --> 00:59:14,999
- What? No, you can't.
- No, please, don't.
- 826
- 00:59:15,001 --> 00:59:18,201
- The hand that holds
- the pen writes history.
- 827
- 00:59:25,967 --> 00:59:27,764
- My husband,
- 828
- 00:59:27,766 --> 00:59:30,629
- he's just... pure rage.
- 829
- 00:59:30,631 --> 00:59:32,930
- He wanted to challenge Willy
- to a duel.
- 830
- 00:59:32,932 --> 00:59:34,696
- What?
- 831
- 00:59:34,698 --> 00:59:37,731
- I put him off. Hopefully
- it won't come to that.
- 832
- 00:59:39,831 --> 00:59:41,665
- You've read it, yes?
- 833
- 00:59:42,698 --> 00:59:43,895
- I have.
- 834
- 00:59:43,897 --> 00:59:45,661
- How worried should I be?
- 835
- 00:59:45,663 --> 00:59:47,695
- It's not blatantly obvious
- who is who.
- 836
- 00:59:47,697 --> 00:59:49,827
- - The names have been changed.
- - I don't believe you.
- 837
- 00:59:49,829 --> 00:59:53,429
- Everyone's chattering about it, saying
- it will be salacious in the extreme.
- 838
- 00:59:54,762 --> 00:59:58,259
- I know that you have no time
- for me since our separation,
- 839
- 00:59:58,261 --> 01:00:01,626
- and I know
- I behaved badly.
- 840
- 01:00:01,628 --> 01:00:03,295
- But I'm begging you.
- 841
- 01:00:04,494 --> 01:00:07,693
- Ask Willy to change it
- before publication.
- 842
- 01:00:07,695 --> 01:00:09,658
- Please, Colette.
- 843
- 01:00:09,660 --> 01:00:10,825
- One woman to another.
- 844
- 01:00:10,827 --> 01:00:12,825
- I can't.
- 845
- 01:00:12,827 --> 01:00:14,424
- You'd let me suffer?
- 846
- 01:00:14,426 --> 01:00:17,291
- It isn't just Willy,
- Georgie.
- 847
- 01:00:17,293 --> 01:00:19,790
- It... It's...
- It's the book itself.
- 848
- 01:00:19,792 --> 01:00:21,659
- Willy thinks
- it's a work of art.
- 849
- 01:00:29,525 --> 01:00:31,690
- You had your chance
- to be decent,
- 850
- 01:00:31,692 --> 01:00:34,822
- but now it will be left to
- my husband to settle it.
- 851
- 01:00:34,824 --> 01:00:39,654
- Ollendorff has agreed to a lump sum for
- the destruction of the entire print run.
- 852
- 01:00:39,656 --> 01:00:40,724
- What?
- 853
- 01:00:41,823 --> 01:00:43,587
- You can't do that.
- 854
- 01:00:43,589 --> 01:00:44,988
- He's already accepted.
- 855
- 01:00:44,990 --> 01:00:47,286
- That sly bastard.
- You can't. You just can't.
- 856
- 01:00:47,288 --> 01:00:49,420
- Well, we have,
- and that's how it is.
- 857
- 01:00:49,422 --> 01:00:52,522
- - You duplicitous bitch.
- - I had a good teacher.
- 858
- 01:01:14,752 --> 01:01:17,482
- And like
- a true French heroine,
- 859
- 01:01:17,484 --> 01:01:19,683
- our daughter Claudine
- was burnt at the stake.
- 860
- 01:01:19,685 --> 01:01:22,417
- I said it would be a hot book.
- 861
- 01:01:22,419 --> 01:01:24,815
- The thing is,
- Ollendorff signed the deal,
- 862
- 01:01:24,817 --> 01:01:28,448
- but he neglected to mention that
- he does not own the copyright.
- 863
- 01:01:28,450 --> 01:01:30,515
- - Because I do.
- - Unbelievable.
- 864
- 01:01:30,517 --> 01:01:33,714
- So it was simply a question of
- trotting along to the next publisher,
- 865
- 01:01:33,716 --> 01:01:35,781
- collecting
- a second advance,
- 866
- 01:01:35,783 --> 01:01:37,814
- and the printing presses are
- hard at work as we speak.
- 867
- 01:01:37,816 --> 01:01:39,714
- How do you two do it?
- 868
- 01:01:39,716 --> 01:01:43,681
- - I think we got very lucky.
- - Not at all. We are with the times.
- 869
- 01:01:43,683 --> 01:01:48,545
- That cuckolded millionaire and his
- voracious wife didn't stand a chance.
- 870
- 01:01:48,547 --> 01:01:51,346
- We've got the wind under our
- wings, and I have a little plan
- 871
- 01:01:51,348 --> 01:01:54,911
- to turn Claudine into the most popular
- girl in France, if not the entire world.
- 872
- 01:01:54,913 --> 01:01:57,548
- She will literally be
- a household name.
- 873
- 01:01:59,214 --> 01:02:01,945
- My name is Claudine.
- I live in Montigny.
- 874
- 01:02:01,947 --> 01:02:05,211
- I was born there in 1884.
- 875
- 01:02:05,213 --> 01:02:07,544
- - She's not bad.
- - I shall probably not die there.
- 876
- 01:02:07,546 --> 01:02:10,609
- - Montigny is a village, not a town.
- - She's terrible.
- 877
- 01:02:10,611 --> 01:02:13,276
- Its streets, thank
- heaven, are not paved.
- 878
- 01:02:13,278 --> 01:02:16,279
- Yes, you're right.
- Th-Thank you very much.
- 879
- 01:02:21,410 --> 01:02:24,441
- My name is Claudine.
- I live in Montigny.
- 880
- 01:02:24,443 --> 01:02:26,741
- I was born there
- in 1884.
- 881
- 01:02:26,743 --> 01:02:28,942
- I shall probably not
- die there.
- 882
- 01:02:28,944 --> 01:02:31,274
- Montigny is a village,
- not a town.
- 883
- 01:02:31,276 --> 01:02:33,907
- Monsieur Willy. I am the real Claudine.
- 884
- 01:02:33,909 --> 01:02:36,406
- - And you are...?
- - Me?
- 885
- 01:02:36,408 --> 01:02:38,940
- - My name is Polaire.
- - Polaire?
- 886
- 01:02:38,942 --> 01:02:41,806
- Polaire.
- Pride of Algiers.
- 887
- 01:02:41,808 --> 01:02:43,773
- Look at her.
- 888
- 01:02:43,775 --> 01:02:45,405
- I mean, look at her.
- She's...
- 889
- 01:02:45,407 --> 01:02:47,372
- She instinctively
- knows the role.
- 890
- 01:02:47,374 --> 01:02:50,638
- - She talks about the book as if it was a religion.
- - Yes.
- 891
- 01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,174
- She's a Sister of Perpetual Claudine.
- 892
- 01:02:54,507 --> 01:02:55,571
- It's strange.
- 893
- 01:02:55,573 --> 01:02:59,507
- She's started copying my
- gestures and mannerisms.
- 894
- 01:03:00,605 --> 01:03:03,370
- - Really?
- - Do you think I could act?
- 895
- 01:03:03,372 --> 01:03:05,670
- You? No.
- It'd be a criminal waste.
- 896
- 01:03:05,672 --> 01:03:06,937
- Waste of what?
- 897
- 01:03:06,939 --> 01:03:10,502
- This bobbed haircut. I've never
- seen anything like it. Have you?
- 898
- 01:03:10,504 --> 01:03:13,138
- I always imagined Claudine
- with long hair.
- 899
- 01:03:14,371 --> 01:03:17,802
- Well, that was 19th-century Claudine.
- This is now.
- 900
- 01:03:17,804 --> 01:03:19,669
- Look good on you,
- actually.
- 901
- 01:03:19,671 --> 01:03:21,468
- Very fetching.
- 902
- 01:03:21,470 --> 01:03:24,734
- Just think of it. You and
- Polaire, the Claudine twins.
- 903
- 01:03:24,736 --> 01:03:27,466
- - What?
- - Yeah. It'd be a publicity gold mine.
- 904
- 01:03:27,468 --> 01:03:30,402
- - Paris would be all atwitter.
- - No. Not in a thousand years.
- 905
- 01:03:33,969 --> 01:03:35,603
- Evening.
- 906
- 01:03:59,398 --> 01:04:02,265
- Colette.
- You look ravishing.
- 907
- 01:04:02,764 --> 01:04:04,398
- Thank you.
- 908
- 01:04:20,796 --> 01:04:23,329
- My name is Claudine.
- 909
- 01:04:24,562 --> 01:04:26,693
- I live in Montigny.
- 910
- 01:04:26,695 --> 01:04:30,162
- I was born there
- in 1884.
- 911
- 01:04:31,261 --> 01:04:34,259
- I shall probably not
- die there.
- 912
- 01:04:34,261 --> 01:04:37,724
- Of all my novels, this was the one
- that would translate to the theater.
- 913
- 01:04:37,726 --> 01:04:40,325
- I have to give it to you, Willy.
- It's a huge success.
- 914
- 01:04:40,327 --> 01:04:43,790
- But now you're such a celebrity, you'll
- become even more insufferable than ever.
- 915
- 01:04:43,792 --> 01:04:47,257
- That's the plan, Veber. That's the plan.
- 916
- 01:04:47,259 --> 01:04:49,391
- Oh, he is a tease.
- 917
- 01:04:49,393 --> 01:04:51,723
- Can you believe
- this crowd?
- 918
- 01:04:51,725 --> 01:04:54,689
- Look. Everyone's here. Look.
- There's the marquise de Belbeuf.
- 919
- 01:04:54,691 --> 01:04:58,755
- Or Missy, as she's known. She only
- shows up for very special occasions.
- 920
- 01:04:58,757 --> 01:05:00,722
- A woman?
- 921
- 01:05:00,724 --> 01:05:03,288
- Descended from Empress
- Josephine on one side,
- 922
- 01:05:03,290 --> 01:05:05,655
- the czar of Russia
- on the other.
- 923
- 01:05:05,657 --> 01:05:08,787
- That's how she gets away with
- the trousers, even in public.
- 924
- 01:05:08,789 --> 01:05:10,490
- Fascinating.
- 925
- 01:05:18,389 --> 01:05:19,786
- Stunning.
- 926
- 01:05:19,788 --> 01:05:21,852
- Subtle as ever.
- 927
- 01:05:39,919 --> 01:05:42,284
- Monsieur Willy.
- 928
- 01:05:42,286 --> 01:05:44,784
- - How was it?
- - You were magnificent.
- 929
- 01:05:44,785 --> 01:05:46,249
- You were perfection.
- 930
- 01:05:46,251 --> 01:05:48,585
- Thank you, Monsieur Willy.
- 931
- 01:05:49,752 --> 01:05:50,916
- Colette?
- 932
- 01:05:50,918 --> 01:05:54,485
- You are her.
- The living Claudine.
- 933
- 01:05:55,850 --> 01:05:58,182
- Polaire,
- alight here on my knee.
- 934
- 01:05:58,184 --> 01:06:00,682
- Tetette, you too.
- 935
- 01:06:00,684 --> 01:06:02,318
- - Willy...
- - Come here.
- 936
- 01:06:05,716 --> 01:06:07,513
- Behold
- the Claudine trinity.
- 937
- 01:06:07,515 --> 01:06:10,913
- The father, the mother
- and the daughter.
- 938
- 01:06:10,915 --> 01:06:12,448
- Look over here, please.
- 939
- 01:06:15,714 --> 01:06:17,513
- Claudine, she is a Midas minx,
- 940
- 01:06:17,515 --> 01:06:19,646
- her smile mysterious
- like a sphinx.
- 941
- 01:06:19,648 --> 01:06:21,511
- She walks, she talks,
- she even thinks.
- 942
- 01:06:21,513 --> 01:06:23,479
- Claudine,
- Claudine, Claudine!
- 943
- 01:06:23,481 --> 01:06:25,444
- Claudine's a
- girl who knows no bounds,
- 944
- 01:06:25,446 --> 01:06:27,245
- a fox that can't be
- caught by hounds.
- 945
- 01:06:27,247 --> 01:06:29,544
- Exploding star
- that makes no sound!
- 946
- 01:06:29,546 --> 01:06:31,444
- Claudine, Claudine, Claudine!
- 947
- 01:06:31,446 --> 01:06:33,511
- - Who is this girl in my heart?
- - Claudine!
- 948
- 01:06:33,513 --> 01:06:35,477
- - Who has been right from the start?
- - Claudine!
- 949
- 01:06:35,479 --> 01:06:37,776
- - Who is a bit of a tart?
- - Claudine, Claudine, Claudine!
- 950
- 01:06:37,778 --> 01:06:39,377
- Claudine!
- 951
- 01:06:39,379 --> 01:06:41,377
- - Who is the girl I admire?
- - Claudine!
- 952
- 01:06:41,379 --> 01:06:42,808
- - Who is the queen of desire?
- - Claudine!
- 953
- 01:06:42,810 --> 01:06:44,609
- Who has set Paris
- on fire?
- 954
- 01:06:44,611 --> 01:06:46,742
- Claudine, Claudine,
- Claudine, Claudine!
- 955
- 01:06:46,744 --> 01:06:48,742
- - Who's wearing a schoolgirl's smock?
- - Claudine!
- 956
- 01:06:48,744 --> 01:06:50,543
- - Who's causing a hell of a shock?
- - Claudine!
- 957
- 01:06:50,545 --> 01:06:52,108
- Who's working
- all round the clock?
- 958
- 01:06:52,110 --> 01:06:56,641
- Claudine, Claudine, Claudine, Claudine,
- Claudine, Claudine, Claudine, Claudine!
- 959
- 01:06:56,643 --> 01:06:58,240
- And when...
- 960
- 01:06:58,242 --> 01:06:59,773
- in a dream...
- 961
- 01:06:59,775 --> 01:07:03,240
- I find myself
- next to Claudine
- 962
- 01:07:03,242 --> 01:07:05,406
- and her magical eyes,
- 963
- 01:07:05,408 --> 01:07:07,375
- forgetting
- all other music...
- 964
- 01:07:08,309 --> 01:07:09,872
- but the laughter
- of her voice.
- 965
- 01:07:09,874 --> 01:07:11,405
- Claudine!
- 966
- 01:07:11,407 --> 01:07:14,738
- Claudine!
- 967
- 01:07:14,740 --> 01:07:16,441
- Bravo.
- 968
- 01:07:20,674 --> 01:07:23,205
- Hello, Toby Chien.
- Hello.
- 969
- 01:07:23,207 --> 01:07:24,703
- Hello.
- 970
- 01:07:25,907 --> 01:07:27,738
- I'm exhausted.
- 971
- 01:07:27,740 --> 01:07:29,703
- Oh, me too.
- 972
- 01:07:29,705 --> 01:07:31,505
- More steps
- every time.
- 973
- 01:07:32,239 --> 01:07:34,303
- But what a night.
- 974
- 01:07:34,305 --> 01:07:37,472
- We have Paris in the
- palm of our hands.
- 975
- 01:07:40,237 --> 01:07:42,604
- - Willy.
- - Yes, my dear?
- 976
- 01:07:44,802 --> 01:07:46,703
- I wondered
- if tonight we might...
- 977
- 01:07:48,304 --> 01:07:50,237
- It would help me.
- 978
- 01:08:19,632 --> 01:08:20,567
- Mmm.
- 979
- 01:08:21,699 --> 01:08:23,467
- My love.
- 980
- 01:08:25,331 --> 01:08:27,666
- My Claudine.
- 981
- 01:09:31,224 --> 01:09:33,125
- Congratulations,
- by the way.
- 982
- 01:09:34,222 --> 01:09:36,854
- It seems Claudines
- are everywhere these days.
- 983
- 01:09:36,856 --> 01:09:40,753
- Yes. There's even been a Claudine
- murderess in Marseilles.
- 984
- 01:09:40,755 --> 01:09:43,486
- She slit
- her husband's throat.
- 985
- 01:09:43,488 --> 01:09:44,753
- Good for her.
- 986
- 01:09:46,755 --> 01:09:51,418
- But seriously, you've
- done something important.
- 987
- 01:09:51,420 --> 01:09:53,751
- You've invented
- a type.
- 988
- 01:09:53,753 --> 01:09:55,456
- Willy has, you mean.
- 989
- 01:09:56,255 --> 01:09:58,652
- I mean you have.
- 990
- 01:09:58,654 --> 01:10:03,088
- All those young girls between girlhood and
- womanhood, you've given them a voice.
- 991
- 01:10:03,887 --> 01:10:05,587
- You should
- own up to it.
- 992
- 01:10:06,653 --> 01:10:08,350
- Somebody told you?
- 993
- 01:10:08,352 --> 01:10:10,283
- I didn't need
- to be told.
- 994
- 01:10:10,285 --> 01:10:12,219
- Meeting you is enough.
- 995
- 01:10:13,819 --> 01:10:15,419
- It's true.
- 996
- 01:10:16,817 --> 01:10:18,351
- I wrote them.
- 997
- 01:10:20,152 --> 01:10:21,351
- It's just...
- 998
- 01:10:21,918 --> 01:10:23,552
- I know.
- 999
- 01:10:27,251 --> 01:10:31,448
- I hope the path we
- walked today was merely the beginning.
- 1000
- 01:10:31,450 --> 01:10:36,479
- I see your face, Missy...
- strong, vulnerable.
- 1001
- 01:10:36,481 --> 01:10:38,549
- I've never met
- anyone like you.
- 1002
- 01:10:39,749 --> 01:10:41,778
- Polite yet direct.
- 1003
- 01:10:41,780 --> 01:10:43,482
- Reserved yet brave.
- 1004
- 01:10:44,281 --> 01:10:47,414
- A true gentle man.
- 1005
- 01:10:57,312 --> 01:10:59,277
- Willy Gauthier-Villars'
- residence.
- 1006
- 01:11:01,779 --> 01:11:03,677
- He's busy at the moment.
- 1007
- 01:11:03,679 --> 01:11:05,809
- - Can I take a message?
- - It's the Soumaintrain.
- 1008
- 01:11:05,811 --> 01:11:07,743
- Reminds me
- of Saint-Sauveur.
- 1009
- 01:11:07,745 --> 01:11:09,776
- Mmm. Oh, yes.
- 1010
- 01:11:09,778 --> 01:11:12,176
- It's delicious.
- 1011
- 01:11:12,178 --> 01:11:14,279
- - When do you go on tour?
- - Mmm.
- 1012
- 01:11:15,144 --> 01:11:16,474
- A few weeks.
- 1013
- 01:11:16,476 --> 01:11:18,875
- Some real fleapits too.
- It'll be hell.
- 1014
- 01:11:18,877 --> 01:11:21,509
- - Why do you do it?
- - He might have some time on Thursday.
- 1015
- 01:11:21,511 --> 01:11:25,741
- I'm addicted. I love every
- single dive and wastrel.
- 1016
- 01:11:25,743 --> 01:11:27,407
- You should
- come with us.
- 1017
- 01:11:27,409 --> 01:11:29,839
- - Can't do cantomime.
- - This isn't cantomime.
- 1018
- 01:11:29,841 --> 01:11:31,739
- This is a new kind
- of pantomime.
- 1019
- 01:11:31,741 --> 01:11:34,606
- - I'll put you down for a half an hour.
- - Pure action.
- 1020
- 01:11:34,608 --> 01:11:37,340
- The right gesture
- is worth a thousand words.
- 1021
- 01:11:37,342 --> 01:11:40,076
- And how do you spell that?
- 1022
- 01:11:41,141 --> 01:11:42,771
- Excuse me.
- 1023
- 01:11:48,307 --> 01:11:50,437
- - Yes?
- - Is Monsieur Willy at home?
- 1024
- 01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:52,641
- I was hoping
- he could sign my book.
- 1025
- 01:11:58,272 --> 01:12:00,138
- Héon? Another one.
- 1026
- 01:12:02,238 --> 01:12:04,469
- This way,
- please.
- 1027
- 01:12:04,471 --> 01:12:06,535
- Tell me
- more about pantomime.
- 1028
- 01:12:06,537 --> 01:12:10,136
- Oh, well, it's something I've been
- talking about with Christian.
- 1029
- 01:12:10,138 --> 01:12:13,135
- Just an idea right now. We're
- thinking of calling it Flesh.
- 1030
- 01:12:13,137 --> 01:12:14,571
- Go on in.
- 1031
- 01:12:18,170 --> 01:12:20,466
- - Monsieur Willy.
- - I am he.
- 1032
- 01:12:20,468 --> 01:12:22,534
- Hello.
- 1033
- 01:12:22,536 --> 01:12:26,069
- Could you sign this?
- It's my favorite book.
- 1034
- 01:12:26,768 --> 01:12:29,103
- Hmm. Thank you.
- 1035
- 01:12:30,201 --> 01:12:31,765
- To whom
- should I inscribe it?
- 1036
- 01:12:31,767 --> 01:12:33,469
- My name is Meg.
- 1037
- 01:12:35,601 --> 01:12:37,333
- I am the real Claudine.
- 1038
- 01:12:42,233 --> 01:12:44,664
- - How old are you?
- - I'm older than I look.
- 1039
- 01:12:44,666 --> 01:12:45,667
- I'm 23.
- 1040
- 01:12:47,799 --> 01:12:50,133
- Well, I'm younger
- than I look. I'm 46.
- 1041
- 01:12:50,898 --> 01:12:53,197
- I don't mind.
- 1042
- 01:12:55,731 --> 01:12:58,163
- Whoa!
- 1043
- 01:12:58,165 --> 01:12:59,632
- - Right ahead!
- - There it is!
- 1044
- 01:13:05,331 --> 01:13:07,728
- - Come here, Toby.
- - Toby, bring the ball.
- 1045
- 01:13:15,896 --> 01:13:18,860
- Can you bring it back? Go, Toby!
- 1046
- 01:13:22,895 --> 01:13:24,628
- Meg's very sweet,
- isn't she?
- 1047
- 01:13:26,827 --> 01:13:29,095
- A little overeager,
- but there you are.
- 1048
- 01:13:29,861 --> 01:13:32,128
- Reminds me of you
- ten years ago.
- 1049
- 01:13:32,894 --> 01:13:36,191
- Nothing like.
- But she is very sweet.
- 1050
- 01:13:36,193 --> 01:13:38,257
- - Come on, come on!
- - Come on, come on!
- 1051
- 01:13:38,259 --> 01:13:40,456
- What do you think
- of Missy?
- 1052
- 01:13:40,458 --> 01:13:42,289
- - Toby, come!
- - She's very pleasant.
- 1053
- 01:13:42,291 --> 01:13:44,459
- But she perplexes me.
- I'm...
- 1054
- 01:13:46,657 --> 01:13:51,890
- Words are either masculine or feminine, but
- there's no... there's no word for Missy.
- 1055
- 01:13:51,892 --> 01:13:54,526
- Oh, I could think of
- one or two.
- 1056
- 01:13:56,491 --> 01:13:59,057
- Well, you do seem content,
- for once.
- 1057
- 01:14:01,723 --> 01:14:04,191
- Isn't there
- something missing?
- 1058
- 01:14:06,690 --> 01:14:08,190
- What do you mean?
- 1059
- 01:14:40,252 --> 01:14:42,782
- Are you ready, Willy?
- 1060
- 01:14:42,784 --> 01:14:45,185
- Yes, I'm ready.
- 1061
- 01:14:48,217 --> 01:14:50,451
- My name is Claudine.
- 1062
- 01:14:51,217 --> 01:14:53,614
- I live in Montigny.
- 1063
- 01:14:53,616 --> 01:14:55,581
- I was born there
- in 1884.
- 1064
- 01:14:55,583 --> 01:14:57,280
- That's right.
- 1065
- 01:14:57,282 --> 01:15:00,184
- I shall probably not
- die there.
- 1066
- 01:15:02,249 --> 01:15:03,583
- Forty-seven.
- 1067
- 01:15:05,116 --> 01:15:06,416
- Forty-eight.
- 1068
- 01:15:07,849 --> 01:15:09,680
- Forty-nine.
- 1069
- 01:15:09,682 --> 01:15:11,246
- Come on.
- 1070
- 01:15:11,248 --> 01:15:12,878
- Fifty.
- 1071
- 01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:16,081
- Well done.
- 1072
- 01:15:18,115 --> 01:15:21,111
- You were married once, weren't you?
- 1073
- 01:15:21,113 --> 01:15:23,577
- Yes.
- It was awful.
- 1074
- 01:15:23,579 --> 01:15:27,176
- We don't talk anymore, except
- through the auspices of lawyers.
- 1075
- 01:15:27,178 --> 01:15:29,311
- He's embarrassed by me.
- 1076
- 01:15:29,313 --> 01:15:33,409
- If he was married to me,
- what does that say about him?
- 1077
- 01:15:33,411 --> 01:15:36,179
- It must have been
- very hard for you.
- 1078
- 01:15:37,344 --> 01:15:39,309
- - Putting on trousers, I mean.
- - No.
- 1079
- 01:15:39,311 --> 01:15:41,708
- It was entirely natural.
- 1080
- 01:15:41,710 --> 01:15:43,608
- I was
- a rather awkward child,
- 1081
- 01:15:43,610 --> 01:15:47,408
- if you can imagine me
- in pigtails and a dress.
- 1082
- 01:15:47,410 --> 01:15:49,541
- I never felt like I belonged,
- 1083
- 01:15:49,543 --> 01:15:54,574
- and then one day I tried on my brother's
- school uniform, and that was it.
- 1084
- 01:15:54,576 --> 01:15:56,740
- I knew I was home
- for the first time.
- 1085
- 01:15:56,742 --> 01:15:59,439
- I've come a long way
- since then.
- 1086
- 01:15:59,441 --> 01:16:03,307
- Of course, it's far easier for
- me than for a woman of no means,
- 1087
- 01:16:03,309 --> 01:16:06,307
- but I wanted to show
- that it can be done.
- 1088
- 01:16:07,173 --> 01:16:09,338
- What about you?
- 1089
- 01:16:09,340 --> 01:16:12,838
- - What about me?
- - Well, I dress as a man.
- 1090
- 01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:15,573
- Willy dresses you
- as a schoolgirl.
- 1091
- 01:16:16,639 --> 01:16:18,306
- Thank you.
- 1092
- 01:16:19,805 --> 01:16:22,871
- I do know what's going on, you know.
- I'm in on the joke.
- 1093
- 01:16:22,873 --> 01:16:25,407
- I don't doubt it
- for a second, but...
- 1094
- 01:16:26,704 --> 01:16:28,438
- but are you happy?
- 1095
- 01:16:29,571 --> 01:16:31,171
- Is anyone happy?
- 1096
- 01:16:32,304 --> 01:16:34,439
- Willy is demanding, yes,
- but...
- 1097
- 01:16:35,471 --> 01:16:38,136
- he also gives me
- a lot of freedom.
- 1098
- 01:16:38,138 --> 01:16:40,701
- It is a long leash
- he keeps you on,
- 1099
- 01:16:40,703 --> 01:16:43,070
- but it's a leash
- nevertheless.
- 1100
- 01:16:44,304 --> 01:16:46,370
- And perhaps
- you enjoy that.
- 1101
- 01:16:48,169 --> 01:16:50,367
- - Do you think that's terribly wrong?
- - No.
- 1102
- 01:16:50,369 --> 01:16:52,403
- It's entirely
- your business, but...
- 1103
- 01:16:53,468 --> 01:16:54,635
- Never mind.
- 1104
- 01:16:56,469 --> 01:16:57,603
- But what?
- 1105
- 01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:03,300
- I wonder if there
- will come a time...
- 1106
- 01:17:03,835 --> 01:17:05,698
- when you must decide,
- 1107
- 01:17:05,700 --> 01:17:08,500
- are you Claudine
- or are you Colette?
- 1108
- 01:17:18,766 --> 01:17:21,099
- - Hello, Héon.
- - Hello, Colette.
- 1109
- 01:17:22,231 --> 01:17:24,529
- What kind of a mood
- is he in?
- 1110
- 01:17:24,531 --> 01:17:26,499
- The usual, but worse.
- 1111
- 01:17:30,131 --> 01:17:33,128
- - Hello there.
- - Oh, my word.
- 1112
- 01:17:33,130 --> 01:17:35,661
- - What are you wearing?
- - They're Missy's.
- 1113
- 01:17:35,663 --> 01:17:38,597
- My dear, I'm surprised you
- weren't arrested or beaten up.
- 1114
- 01:17:41,829 --> 01:17:44,360
- You know
- the new Claudine book?
- 1115
- 01:17:44,362 --> 01:17:45,594
- Yes.
- 1116
- 01:17:45,596 --> 01:17:48,596
- Why don't we publish it
- under both our names?
- 1117
- 01:17:50,128 --> 01:17:52,493
- That's out of the question.
- 1118
- 01:17:52,495 --> 01:17:54,724
- Ollendorff
- would never agree to it.
- 1119
- 01:17:54,726 --> 01:17:56,292
- Ollendorff or you?
- 1120
- 01:17:56,294 --> 01:18:01,158
- Tetette, do you really want to kill the
- goose that's laying the golden Claudines?
- 1121
- 01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:03,191
- There's very little risk,
- surely.
- 1122
- 01:18:03,193 --> 01:18:05,091
- Claudine's established.
- 1123
- 01:18:05,093 --> 01:18:08,423
- And... most people know.
- Or they suspect.
- 1124
- 01:18:08,425 --> 01:18:09,623
- Nobody knows.
- 1125
- 01:18:09,625 --> 01:18:12,722
- Unless you've been crowing about
- it to your lady man friend.
- 1126
- 01:18:12,724 --> 01:18:14,690
- - Don't insult Missy.
- - Oh, dear.
- 1127
- 01:18:14,692 --> 01:18:17,223
- She's stripping you of your sense of
- humor as well as your common sense.
- 1128
- 01:18:17,225 --> 01:18:19,556
- - That's not fair, Willy.
- - Look, we can't risk it.
- 1129
- 01:18:19,558 --> 01:18:22,289
- Especially not with our present finances.
- We're completely broke.
- 1130
- 01:18:22,291 --> 01:18:25,721
- We're always broke, and yet you gamble
- and fill this place with your antiques.
- 1131
- 01:18:25,723 --> 01:18:28,221
- I bought those from bankrupts
- from a debtors' auction.
- 1132
- 01:18:28,223 --> 01:18:30,687
- The car. The racehorse
- that went lame.
- 1133
- 01:18:30,689 --> 01:18:34,388
- And you, with your funny clothes and your
- hats and the exorbitant mortgage on...
- 1134
- 01:18:34,390 --> 01:18:37,420
- - I need my name on the book.
- - No. Willy is a brand.
- 1135
- 01:18:37,422 --> 01:18:41,153
- - And, in any case, women writers don't sell.
- - You bastard.
- 1136
- 01:18:41,155 --> 01:18:44,287
- You fat, smug, lazy,
- selfish bastard.
- 1137
- 01:18:44,289 --> 01:18:48,685
- This is utter nonsense. If you felt so strongly,
- you should never have agreed to it all.
- 1138
- 01:18:48,687 --> 01:18:50,219
- Goddamn you, Willy.
- 1139
- 01:18:50,221 --> 01:18:53,388
- Without the progenitor,
- there would be no Claudine.
- 1140
- 01:19:35,147 --> 01:19:36,382
- And prepare.
- 1141
- 01:19:41,847 --> 01:19:43,812
- Breathe.
- 1142
- 01:19:43,814 --> 01:19:45,777
- Remember
- how the cat breathes.
- 1143
- 01:19:59,812 --> 01:20:02,145
- More animal.
- 1144
- 01:20:14,544 --> 01:20:16,675
- - Ready?
- - Yes.
- 1145
- 01:20:16,677 --> 01:20:18,411
- Let's get to work.
- 1146
- 01:20:35,606 --> 01:20:37,474
- And...
- 1147
- 01:20:39,674 --> 01:20:42,008
- And...
- 1148
- 01:20:46,339 --> 01:20:48,470
- Are you going to write
- today?
- 1149
- 01:20:48,472 --> 01:20:50,072
- No.
- 1150
- 01:20:52,338 --> 01:20:54,372
- Rehearsing with Wague
- later.
- 1151
- 01:20:55,839 --> 01:20:58,139
- Well, don't you think
- you ought to?
- 1152
- 01:21:00,437 --> 01:21:02,802
- I should start
- locking you up again.
- 1153
- 01:21:02,804 --> 01:21:05,037
- I would scream
- the house down.
- 1154
- 01:21:07,536 --> 01:21:10,037
- Look, it's a charming
- hobby, Tetette, but...
- 1155
- 01:21:10,804 --> 01:21:13,367
- you're not exactly
- Sarah Bernhardt.
- 1156
- 01:21:13,369 --> 01:21:14,934
- So if you can't pull
- it off as high art,
- 1157
- 01:21:14,936 --> 01:21:18,499
- you're gonna end up doing the bloody music
- halls, and that would be scandalous.
- 1158
- 01:21:18,501 --> 01:21:22,002
- Since when have you considered
- scandal to be a bad thing?
- 1159
- 01:21:25,635 --> 01:21:27,168
- That's true.
- 1160
- 01:21:28,802 --> 01:21:30,199
- What does Missy think?
- 1161
- 01:21:30,201 --> 01:21:35,198
- He's all for it. He comes along with
- me to Wague's studio all the time.
- 1162
- 01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:37,531
- God, how depressing.
- 1163
- 01:21:37,533 --> 01:21:41,197
- Does she have absolutely no
- life of her own whatsoever?
- 1164
- 01:21:41,199 --> 01:21:44,265
- He does the movements with me.
- He's rather good.
- 1165
- 01:21:46,066 --> 01:21:49,329
- Do you know, Wague thinks that I'll be
- ready to go on the stage in a few weeks.
- 1166
- 01:21:49,331 --> 01:21:51,830
- What do you think, Matilde?
- 1167
- 01:21:51,832 --> 01:21:55,296
- I have to agree with Monsieur Willy, ma'am.
- It's not very ladylike.
- 1168
- 01:21:55,298 --> 01:21:57,465
- Thought you were on my side.
- 1169
- 01:21:59,664 --> 01:22:04,397
- So you and the marquise prance around the
- studio as potty, mimetic lovers, do you?
- 1170
- 01:22:05,696 --> 01:22:08,061
- Does Missy share your
- ambition to go on the stage?
- 1171
- 01:22:08,063 --> 01:22:10,263
- No. He's far too shy.
- 1172
- 01:22:11,595 --> 01:22:15,159
- I've had an idea. It'll be
- called The Dream of Egypt.
- 1173
- 01:22:15,161 --> 01:22:17,325
- Paris will never have
- seen anything like it.
- 1174
- 01:22:17,327 --> 01:22:22,995
- A scandalous sensation starring Madame
- Colette Willy and the Marquise de Belbeuf.
- 1175
- 01:22:24,394 --> 01:22:26,391
- In a common-or-garden
- music hall.
- 1176
- 01:22:26,393 --> 01:22:29,127
- Can you imagine? It'll be
- a full house every night.
- 1177
- 01:22:30,161 --> 01:22:32,090
- We do perfectly well
- with the cancan.
- 1178
- 01:22:32,092 --> 01:22:34,490
- I've seen it half empty
- on a weeknight.
- 1179
- 01:22:34,492 --> 01:22:37,223
- - You can vouch for the marquise?
- - It's in the bag.
- 1180
- 01:22:37,225 --> 01:22:40,057
- We can even use the Belbeuf
- family crest on the poster.
- 1181
- 01:22:40,059 --> 01:22:43,656
- - The press will go wild.
- - Maybe so, Willy.
- 1182
- 01:22:43,658 --> 01:22:46,622
- - Do you have backers?
- - Only need one.
- 1183
- 01:22:46,624 --> 01:22:48,057
- Myself.
- 1184
- 01:22:48,757 --> 01:22:51,122
- You're that confident?
- 1185
- 01:22:51,124 --> 01:22:53,391
- - That's a lot of capital.
- - Yes.
- 1186
- 01:22:54,656 --> 01:22:56,056
- Yes, I am.
- 1187
- 01:23:00,790 --> 01:23:03,187
- Meg.
- 1188
- 01:23:03,189 --> 01:23:04,590
- You look
- beautiful.
- 1189
- 01:23:07,122 --> 01:23:09,286
- All of our friends
- are here.
- 1190
- 01:23:09,288 --> 01:23:10,752
- Yes.
- 1191
- 01:23:10,754 --> 01:23:15,122
- Some of Missy's former husband's
- friends are here too.
- 1192
- 01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:19,518
- Here.
- 1193
- 01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:21,120
- Thank you.
- 1194
- 01:23:30,685 --> 01:23:33,120
- - Bravo!
- - Boo!
- 1195
- 01:25:17,106 --> 01:25:19,974
- This is a disgrace!
- 1196
- 01:25:25,370 --> 01:25:27,369
- Bravo!
- 1197
- 01:25:27,371 --> 01:25:29,668
- Well done, Colette!
- Well done!
- 1198
- 01:25:34,770 --> 01:25:37,167
- Degenerate! Degenerate!
- 1199
- 01:25:37,169 --> 01:25:40,200
- What the hell do you think you're playing
- at, you uncultured sack of shit?
- 1200
- 01:25:40,202 --> 01:25:42,235
- You're one of them,
- aren't you?
- 1201
- 01:25:58,234 --> 01:26:01,064
- Madame Colette, what are your
- impressions after tonight?
- 1202
- 01:26:01,066 --> 01:26:03,631
- My "impressions"?
- I'm disgusted.
- 1203
- 01:26:03,633 --> 01:26:05,697
- The people who threw things
- tonight are cowards,
- 1204
- 01:26:05,699 --> 01:26:08,663
- and the only reason I didn't get a footstool
- in the face is because I dodged it.
- 1205
- 01:26:08,665 --> 01:26:10,231
- Let it go, Colette.
- 1206
- 01:26:10,233 --> 01:26:12,364
- There were some gentlemen
- who came for a fight.
- 1207
- 01:26:12,366 --> 01:26:14,330
- We must ignore them
- and go on.
- 1208
- 01:26:14,332 --> 01:26:15,763
- So you intend
- to continue?
- 1209
- 01:26:15,765 --> 01:26:17,296
- - Yes!
- - No!
- 1210
- 01:26:17,298 --> 01:26:19,030
- Those people don't
- frighten me at all.
- 1211
- 01:26:19,032 --> 01:26:20,561
- Look.
- Am I trembling?
- 1212
- 01:26:20,563 --> 01:26:24,095
- I will continue to pursue
- this because I want to,
- 1213
- 01:26:24,097 --> 01:26:26,094
- and if Paris won't have
- me, then so be it.
- 1214
- 01:26:26,096 --> 01:26:28,130
- I'll go elsewhere
- to make a living.
- 1215
- 01:27:18,791 --> 01:27:21,024
- - Amen.
- - Amen.
- 1216
- 01:27:22,490 --> 01:27:26,222
- Your father was an old soldier.
- A good, solid man.
- 1217
- 01:27:26,224 --> 01:27:27,490
- He was.
- 1218
- 01:27:29,323 --> 01:27:30,422
- Was.
- 1219
- 01:27:34,287 --> 01:27:35,522
- I, um...
- 1220
- 01:27:38,055 --> 01:27:40,586
- I saw our creditors
- yesterday.
- 1221
- 01:27:40,588 --> 01:27:43,651
- It's horrific. We lost
- everything at the Moulin Rouge.
- 1222
- 01:27:43,653 --> 01:27:45,521
- - Not today, Willy.
- - Colette.
- 1223
- 01:27:48,321 --> 01:27:50,450
- We need to sell
- the country house.
- 1224
- 01:27:50,452 --> 01:27:51,685
- - No.
- - We have no choice.
- 1225
- 01:27:51,687 --> 01:27:53,585
- No.
- 1226
- 01:27:53,587 --> 01:27:55,217
- No, Willy.
- You can't do that.
- 1227
- 01:27:55,219 --> 01:27:57,251
- Well, morally, yes,
- I need your permission.
- 1228
- 01:27:57,253 --> 01:28:02,019
- But... legally,
- well, the house is in my name.
- 1229
- 01:28:03,051 --> 01:28:05,218
- What do you think?
- 1230
- 01:28:07,085 --> 01:28:09,750
- You need to divorce
- him, Gabri, and soon.
- 1231
- 01:28:09,752 --> 01:28:10,915
- Sido, please.
- 1232
- 01:28:10,917 --> 01:28:15,347
- You ask for a full audit of his accounts.
- Willy is a mess.
- 1233
- 01:28:15,349 --> 01:28:18,415
- A drinker. A gambler. He's
- a broken man, Gabrielle.
- 1234
- 01:28:18,417 --> 01:28:19,951
- Don't say that.
- 1235
- 01:28:22,416 --> 01:28:24,417
- He'll hold you back.
- 1236
- 01:28:25,783 --> 01:28:29,416
- Gabri, you have to
- use your own gifts.
- 1237
- 01:28:30,581 --> 01:28:32,412
- You know, just...
- 1238
- 01:28:32,414 --> 01:28:35,379
- write something new
- under your own name.
- 1239
- 01:28:35,381 --> 01:28:36,547
- Writing's a nightmare.
- 1240
- 01:28:38,279 --> 01:28:41,277
- All the hours I spent with
- him breathing down my neck.
- 1241
- 01:28:41,279 --> 01:28:43,512
- The turn of the key in the lock.
- The ache in my fingers.
- 1242
- 01:28:43,514 --> 01:28:45,344
- - I'm done with it.
- - Oh, no, Gabrielle, just...
- 1243
- 01:28:45,346 --> 01:28:49,378
- I'm going on tour, Sido, with
- Wague, for the next six months.
- 1244
- 01:28:49,380 --> 01:28:52,144
- The contracts are being drawn up now.
- We're doing a new piece.
- 1245
- 01:28:52,146 --> 01:28:54,342
- - Get out of it. You have to.
- - I'm going to do it.
- 1246
- 01:28:54,344 --> 01:28:56,512
- What did I miss?
- 1247
- 01:28:59,678 --> 01:29:01,445
- Women. Knives.
- 1248
- 01:29:02,510 --> 01:29:04,078
- All very Greek.
- 1249
- 01:29:10,643 --> 01:29:12,407
- Montmarault!
- 1250
- 01:29:58,205 --> 01:30:01,334
- Bravo!
- 1251
- 01:30:01,336 --> 01:30:03,203
- - Bravo!
- - Bravo!
- 1252
- 01:30:09,068 --> 01:30:11,303
- Bravo!
- 1253
- 01:30:18,700 --> 01:30:20,202
- Tell me something.
- 1254
- 01:30:21,434 --> 01:30:24,165
- The sole rights to the
- Claudines, Ollendorff.
- 1255
- 01:30:24,167 --> 01:30:26,201
- What would you give me
- for them?
- 1256
- 01:30:27,034 --> 01:30:29,968
- Are you serious?
- All of them?
- 1257
- 01:30:30,733 --> 01:30:32,231
- Yes.
- 1258
- 01:30:32,233 --> 01:30:34,267
- The sole rights
- in perpetuity?
- 1259
- 01:30:34,999 --> 01:30:37,266
- Make me an offer.
- 1260
- 01:30:49,997 --> 01:30:53,662
- We had a cancellation in Limoges next
- week, so I've got four days off.
- 1261
- 01:30:53,664 --> 01:30:55,562
- Will you be coming
- back to Paris?
- 1262
- 01:30:55,564 --> 01:30:57,261
- No.
- 1263
- 01:30:57,263 --> 01:31:00,064
- I have to pack up the house
- at Besançon.
- 1264
- 01:31:02,428 --> 01:31:05,227
- - Will he be there?
- - Missy. I've had a long day.
- 1265
- 01:31:05,229 --> 01:31:07,727
- - Can we just...?
- - Of course.
- 1266
- 01:31:07,729 --> 01:31:09,496
- I'm sorry.
- 1267
- 01:31:12,627 --> 01:31:15,625
- You know...
- 1268
- 01:31:15,627 --> 01:31:18,359
- you don't have to worry
- about Willy.
- 1269
- 01:31:18,361 --> 01:31:21,961
- You don't even need to earn your own
- money or stay in places like this.
- 1270
- 01:31:22,759 --> 01:31:24,657
- I could arrange
- everything.
- 1271
- 01:31:24,659 --> 01:31:26,994
- Too much of my life
- has been arranged.
- 1272
- 01:31:28,059 --> 01:31:31,192
- And I like
- earning my own money.
- 1273
- 01:31:33,025 --> 01:31:35,191
- I love you.
- That's all.
- 1274
- 01:31:36,692 --> 01:31:39,156
- Thank you.
- 1275
- 01:31:39,158 --> 01:31:42,192
- That's not the traditional
- response, but I'll take it.
- 1276
- 01:31:43,324 --> 01:31:44,425
- For now.
- 1277
- 01:31:49,023 --> 01:31:52,554
- You know, I've been thinking about
- this new craze for moving pictures.
- 1278
- 01:31:52,556 --> 01:31:55,554
- Do you think we could adapt
- Claudine for a cine-play?
- 1279
- 01:31:55,556 --> 01:31:58,319
- God, do you never stop?
- 1280
- 01:31:58,321 --> 01:32:01,587
- We could write a completely fresh story.
- Claudine by the Sea.
- 1281
- 01:32:01,589 --> 01:32:03,522
- No. Adapt one
- of the old ones.
- 1282
- 01:32:05,754 --> 01:32:07,389
- Perhaps.
- 1283
- 01:32:13,321 --> 01:32:15,186
- Catch.
- 1284
- 01:32:16,319 --> 01:32:17,521
- Oh, yes.
- 1285
- 01:32:18,587 --> 01:32:20,121
- How sad.
- 1286
- 01:32:27,752 --> 01:32:29,716
- I've missed you.
- 1287
- 01:32:29,718 --> 01:32:32,184
- - No, you haven't.
- - Of course I have.
- 1288
- 01:32:34,451 --> 01:32:38,614
- Your ambiguous smile, your lightning
- intelligence, your capricious joys.
- 1289
- 01:32:38,616 --> 01:32:41,285
- Even your brief
- but violent furies.
- 1290
- 01:32:42,183 --> 01:32:43,983
- How's the book going
- with Meg?
- 1291
- 01:32:45,350 --> 01:32:46,950
- Terribly.
- 1292
- 01:32:48,049 --> 01:32:50,116
- All spice
- and no literature.
- 1293
- 01:32:51,716 --> 01:32:54,050
- She's not you.
- She never will be.
- 1294
- 01:32:55,582 --> 01:32:57,182
- What are we doing, Willy?
- 1295
- 01:32:59,082 --> 01:33:00,382
- Are we finished?
- 1296
- 01:33:01,048 --> 01:33:03,181
- I don't know.
- 1297
- 01:33:05,313 --> 01:33:06,578
- You can't.
- 1298
- 01:33:06,580 --> 01:33:08,381
- - Why can't I?
- - Because I love you.
- 1299
- 01:33:10,114 --> 01:33:12,712
- Because you're the only
- woman I could ever love.
- 1300
- 01:33:12,714 --> 01:33:15,643
- And because you're at your most
- brilliant when you're with me.
- 1301
- 01:33:15,645 --> 01:33:17,377
- Am I?
- 1302
- 01:33:17,379 --> 01:33:19,010
- Yes.
- 1303
- 01:33:19,012 --> 01:33:20,446
- You know you are.
- 1304
- 01:33:24,144 --> 01:33:26,278
- You still need
- your headmaster.
- 1305
- 01:33:35,711 --> 01:33:38,177
- Come in.
- 1306
- 01:33:41,709 --> 01:33:43,376
- May I get in with you,
- Gabri?
- 1307
- 01:33:44,710 --> 01:33:46,674
- Yes.
- 1308
- 01:33:46,676 --> 01:33:48,374
- Get in.
- 1309
- 01:33:48,376 --> 01:33:49,476
- Can't sleep.
- 1310
- 01:33:50,742 --> 01:33:52,707
- Too quiet.
- 1311
- 01:33:52,709 --> 01:33:54,042
- Listen.
- 1312
- 01:33:55,007 --> 01:33:57,174
- Silence. It's
- terrifying, isn't it?
- 1313
- 01:33:58,040 --> 01:34:01,037
- No. I love it.
- 1314
- 01:34:01,039 --> 01:34:03,274
- Of course you do,
- country girl.
- 1315
- 01:34:13,106 --> 01:34:14,970
- Is everything
- all right?
- 1316
- 01:34:14,972 --> 01:34:17,537
- There's something
- weighing on my mind.
- 1317
- 01:34:17,539 --> 01:34:18,972
- What?
- 1318
- 01:34:22,604 --> 01:34:25,368
- I don't sleep with Meg
- anymore.
- 1319
- 01:34:25,370 --> 01:34:27,037
- I mean, we sleep, but...
- 1320
- 01:34:28,203 --> 01:34:29,272
- I can't...
- 1321
- 01:34:30,070 --> 01:34:32,037
- Doesn't matter.
- 1322
- 01:34:34,502 --> 01:34:36,036
- It does.
- 1323
- 01:34:38,569 --> 01:34:40,370
- Matters very much.
- 1324
- 01:34:49,435 --> 01:34:51,231
- Bravo!
- 1325
- 01:34:51,233 --> 01:34:52,731
- Bravo!
- 1326
- 01:34:55,434 --> 01:34:58,434
- - Colette, how was yours tonight?
- - Not bad.
- 1327
- 01:34:59,599 --> 01:35:01,563
- - And are you going out after?
- - Maybe.
- 1328
- 01:35:01,565 --> 01:35:03,031
- Madame Willy.
- 1329
- 01:35:03,033 --> 01:35:06,033
- - Ooh-la-la.
- - Monsieur Ollendorff. Hello.
- 1330
- 01:35:07,232 --> 01:35:09,662
- I'm here in Lille
- on some family business,
- 1331
- 01:35:09,664 --> 01:35:12,663
- and I was delighted when I found
- out you were here with the play.
- 1332
- 01:35:12,665 --> 01:35:15,995
- - Oh. Well, it's very kind of you to come and see it.
- - Quite a spectacle.
- 1333
- 01:35:15,997 --> 01:35:21,062
- I was thinking if you were free, I'd like
- to take you and the marquise to dinner.
- 1334
- 01:35:21,064 --> 01:35:23,562
- Thank you. I'm always
- up for a free feed.
- 1335
- 01:35:23,564 --> 01:35:25,995
- Especially
- in such august company.
- 1336
- 01:35:25,997 --> 01:35:29,027
- Mmm, it's the very least
- I can do for you, Colette,
- 1337
- 01:35:29,029 --> 01:35:30,960
- after all the money
- you've made for me.
- 1338
- 01:35:30,962 --> 01:35:33,126
- And will continue to make.
- 1339
- 01:35:33,128 --> 01:35:36,092
- I wish I'd been able to give
- Willy a better settlement.
- 1340
- 01:35:36,094 --> 01:35:39,293
- But one can only pay
- what one can afford.
- 1341
- 01:35:39,295 --> 01:35:41,159
- I'm not quite sure
- I understand.
- 1342
- 01:35:41,161 --> 01:35:44,495
- For the Claudines.
- The rights to the Claudines.
- 1343
- 01:35:47,626 --> 01:35:49,326
- Willy sold you
- the Claudines?
- 1344
- 01:35:49,328 --> 01:35:51,060
- Yes. All of them.
- 1345
- 01:35:52,125 --> 01:35:54,157
- - He sold you the Claudines?
- - Absolutely.
- 1346
- 01:35:54,159 --> 01:35:56,158
- I'm sorry.
- I thought he...
- 1347
- 01:35:56,160 --> 01:35:58,160
- How much did he get
- for them?
- 1348
- 01:36:17,524 --> 01:36:21,087
- I am most insulted by
- the implication of your letter.
- 1349
- 01:36:21,089 --> 01:36:23,721
- We have transacted business
- for five years...
- 1350
- 01:36:23,723 --> 01:36:25,156
- Tetette.
- 1351
- 01:36:26,689 --> 01:36:28,922
- I need to speak to you
- alone.
- 1352
- 01:36:31,988 --> 01:36:34,553
- I'll see you later.
- 1353
- 01:36:34,555 --> 01:36:36,356
- Willy. Colette.
- 1354
- 01:36:38,188 --> 01:36:41,184
- - What is it?
- - Five thousand francs.
- 1355
- 01:36:41,186 --> 01:36:44,152
- Don't be melodramatic. I was
- trying to keep the house for you.
- 1356
- 01:36:44,154 --> 01:36:46,551
- - I gave you the house.
- - We still owed the bank.
- 1357
- 01:36:46,553 --> 01:36:50,418
- You could have sold Veber's
- novels, some of your other trash.
- 1358
- 01:36:50,420 --> 01:36:53,283
- You just did it to stick the knife in me.
- Didn't you?
- 1359
- 01:36:53,285 --> 01:36:55,350
- Didn't you?
- 1360
- 01:36:55,352 --> 01:36:58,282
- I wouldn't have got anything for
- Veber's, or Schwob's, or anyone else's.
- 1361
- 01:36:58,284 --> 01:37:01,050
- - Now, please, calm down.
- - Why? Why should I calm down?
- 1362
- 01:37:01,052 --> 01:37:05,281
- Oh, you hurt and you hurt
- and you hurt,
- 1363
- 01:37:05,283 --> 01:37:08,349
- and you think that by saying
- "I'm a man, that's what men do,"
- 1364
- 01:37:08,351 --> 01:37:11,115
- you clear it all away.
- 1365
- 01:37:11,117 --> 01:37:15,047
- What you did was not just
- hateful, it was stupid.
- 1366
- 01:37:15,049 --> 01:37:17,180
- Now we'll have no say
- over our books,
- 1367
- 01:37:17,182 --> 01:37:19,212
- and we'll never make
- another penny from them.
- 1368
- 01:37:19,214 --> 01:37:21,246
- - We can write some more.
- - No, never. Never again. Never!
- 1369
- 01:37:21,248 --> 01:37:24,147
- You're overreacting. This was
- purely a business decision.
- 1370
- 01:37:24,149 --> 01:37:26,280
- Isn't that what our whole
- marriage has been?
- 1371
- 01:37:26,282 --> 01:37:28,278
- Wasn't I the best
- investment you ever made?
- 1372
- 01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:30,478
- No dowry, but my God, she
- can write for her keep!
- 1373
- 01:37:30,480 --> 01:37:33,012
- If you were an investment, you
- were a highly speculative one.
- 1374
- 01:37:33,014 --> 01:37:35,444
- I paid you back
- a thousand times.
- 1375
- 01:37:35,446 --> 01:37:37,945
- Please, just stop it! Just
- stop talking about money!
- 1376
- 01:37:37,947 --> 01:37:40,611
- You were my ideal,
- my love, my obsession.
- 1377
- 01:37:40,613 --> 01:37:42,914
- You killed our child,
- Willy.
- 1378
- 01:37:44,413 --> 01:37:45,946
- Those books...
- 1379
- 01:37:47,379 --> 01:37:49,080
- they were all we had.
- 1380
- 01:37:50,312 --> 01:37:53,145
- And now they're gone and
- there's no chance of repair.
- 1381
- 01:37:55,378 --> 01:37:57,676
- - My darling, Claudine was only...
- - Don't.
- 1382
- 01:37:57,678 --> 01:38:02,044
- Don't tell me
- what Claudine was.
- 1383
- 01:38:03,410 --> 01:38:05,477
- I am the real Claudine.
- 1384
- 01:38:07,575 --> 01:38:11,474
- Everything I thought and
- felt went into those books.
- 1385
- 01:38:11,476 --> 01:38:13,010
- They were me.
- 1386
- 01:38:14,009 --> 01:38:18,339
- My childhood,
- my memories, my opinions.
- 1387
- 01:38:18,341 --> 01:38:20,439
- Everything.
- 1388
- 01:38:20,441 --> 01:38:23,672
- And when I think of
- the hours I spent alone,
- 1389
- 01:38:23,674 --> 01:38:27,005
- slaving away for you,
- 1390
- 01:38:27,007 --> 01:38:29,637
- churning out scenes
- just to try and please you,
- 1391
- 01:38:29,639 --> 01:38:32,340
- I am so ashamed of myself
- for that.
- 1392
- 01:38:34,106 --> 01:38:37,207
- And yet I knew
- and you knew...
- 1393
- 01:38:38,206 --> 01:38:40,240
- that I was bound
- to do it.
- 1394
- 01:38:43,004 --> 01:38:45,005
- You found me
- when I knew nothing.
- 1395
- 01:38:46,272 --> 01:38:50,468
- You molded me to your own
- designs, to your desires.
- 1396
- 01:38:50,470 --> 01:38:53,437
- And you thought that
- I could never break free.
- 1397
- 01:38:54,637 --> 01:38:56,137
- Well, you're wrong.
- 1398
- 01:38:57,370 --> 01:39:00,137
- Claudine is dead now. She's gone.
- You betrayed her.
- 1399
- 01:39:01,269 --> 01:39:02,336
- And I...
- 1400
- 01:39:04,536 --> 01:39:06,336
- I have outgrown her.
- 1401
- 01:39:08,668 --> 01:39:10,436
- Please.
- 1402
- 01:39:12,402 --> 01:39:14,266
- Please, I...
- 1403
- 01:39:14,268 --> 01:39:16,265
- I was so s...
- 1404
- 01:39:16,267 --> 01:39:18,434
- I was stupid. I...
- 1405
- 01:39:19,433 --> 01:39:21,399
- I panicked. I...
- 1406
- 01:39:21,401 --> 01:39:24,232
- - Please forgive me.
- - Good-bye, Willy.
- 1407
- 01:39:24,234 --> 01:39:26,530
- No, Gabrielle.
- Gabrielle, please, no.
- 1408
- 01:39:26,532 --> 01:39:27,900
- Gabrielle!
- 1409
- 01:39:28,632 --> 01:39:30,334
- My love, stop.
- 1410
- 01:39:33,499 --> 01:39:35,199
- I forbid you!
- 1411
- 01:39:41,932 --> 01:39:43,432
- That was my note.
- 1412
- 01:39:44,996 --> 01:39:47,661
- That's mine.
- And that's mine.
- 1413
- 01:39:47,663 --> 01:39:49,430
- That's mine.
- 1414
- 01:39:52,462 --> 01:39:54,263
- It was a collaboration.
- 1415
- 01:39:56,363 --> 01:39:58,264
- She really has a nerve.
- 1416
- 01:39:58,995 --> 01:40:00,995
- And these prove it.
- 1417
- 01:40:04,627 --> 01:40:06,428
- Would you do me a favor,
- Héon?
- 1418
- 01:40:08,161 --> 01:40:10,329
- Will you destroy these,
- please?
- 1419
- 01:40:11,961 --> 01:40:13,691
- - Are you sure?
- - Definitely.
- 1420
- 01:40:13,693 --> 01:40:15,625
- Burn them.
- 1421
- 01:40:15,627 --> 01:40:17,194
- Incinerate them.
- 1422
- 01:40:18,326 --> 01:40:19,394
- All right, Willy.
- 1423
- 01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:23,360
- I'm going out.
- 1424
- 01:41:35,250 --> 01:41:36,451
- Shit.
- 1425
- 01:42:07,047 --> 01:42:09,447
- - Thirty minutes to curtain up.
- - Thanks, Wague.
- 1426
- 01:42:43,309 --> 01:42:46,406
- After two years
- of music hall and theater,
- 1427
- 01:42:46,408 --> 01:42:48,573
- I'm still the same,
- 1428
- 01:42:48,575 --> 01:42:50,606
- face to face
- with that painted mentor
- 1429
- 01:42:50,608 --> 01:42:54,139
- who gazes at me from the other
- side of the looking glass
- 1430
- 01:42:54,141 --> 01:42:58,208
- with deep-set eyes under lids
- smeared with purplish greasepaint.
- 1431
- 01:42:59,207 --> 01:43:02,304
- I know she is
- going to speak to me.
- 1432
- 01:43:02,306 --> 01:43:07,236
- She is going to say, "Is that you
- there all alone under that ceiling,
- 1433
- 01:43:07,238 --> 01:43:10,239
- booming and vibrating
- under the feet of the dancers?
- 1434
- 01:43:11,505 --> 01:43:14,971
- Why are you there all alone?
- And why not somewhere else?"
- 1435
- 01:43:16,603 --> 01:43:20,103
- Yes, this is
- the dangerous, lucid hour.
- 1436
- 01:43:22,970 --> 01:43:25,968
- Now, whenever I despair,
- 1437
- 01:43:25,970 --> 01:43:28,501
- I no longer expect my end,
- 1438
- 01:43:28,503 --> 01:43:30,600
- but some bit of luck,
- 1439
- 01:43:30,602 --> 01:43:33,368
- some commonplace
- little miracle which,
- 1440
- 01:43:33,370 --> 01:43:35,566
- like a glittering link,
- 1441
- 01:43:35,568 --> 01:43:39,066
- will mend again
- the necklace of my days.
- 1442
- 01:43:39,068 --> 01:43:41,432
- Colette!
- Colette! Colette! Colette!
- 1443
- 01:43:41,434 --> 01:43:46,202
- Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette!
- Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette!
- 1444
- 01:44:54,790 --> 01:44:59,784
- Subtitles by explosiveskull
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