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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:07,740 --> 00:00:12,070 THE RED AND THE BLACK (PART ONE) 2 00:00:31,163 --> 00:00:33,103 Paul! Take my place. 3 00:00:39,905 --> 00:00:41,025 Let's go! 4 00:00:57,089 --> 00:00:58,559 Hello, Your Worship. 5 00:00:59,525 --> 00:01:00,885 Sorel, how are you? 6 00:01:10,136 --> 00:01:11,186 Jean! 7 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,840 He knows the New Testament by heart. 8 00:01:17,009 --> 00:01:19,029 In Latin, of course. 9 00:01:19,245 --> 00:01:22,035 Father Chélan tells everyone he's a little miracle. 10 00:01:22,214 --> 00:01:24,884 Is Valenod offering you more? 11 00:01:26,218 --> 00:01:30,208 Three years of study. For a boy who speaks Latin like an angel! 12 00:01:30,523 --> 00:01:32,223 Three hundred francs a year. 13 00:01:32,525 --> 00:01:35,685 I'll offer three hundred, plus clothes and keep. 14 00:01:37,530 --> 00:01:39,160 What about the seminary? 15 00:01:49,542 --> 00:01:50,982 Stop it! 16 00:01:53,979 --> 00:01:57,539 He's obviously a better scholar than he is a fighter. 17 00:01:59,251 --> 00:02:01,881 - I'll talk to him. - No, I will. 18 00:02:02,054 --> 00:02:04,894 Come with me. This way, please. 19 00:02:07,860 --> 00:02:09,230 He's not a Bonapartist? 20 00:02:09,595 --> 00:02:12,085 He's a theologian, Your Worship! 21 00:02:12,231 --> 00:02:16,171 All right, I'll offer three hundred and fifty francs. 22 00:02:16,502 --> 00:02:17,972 But I want a reply tonight. 23 00:02:18,137 --> 00:02:22,197 If it doesn't work out and he comes back here... 24 00:02:22,641 --> 00:02:24,111 can he keep the clothes? 25 00:02:24,243 --> 00:02:25,513 I'll consider it. 26 00:02:43,229 --> 00:02:45,529 Come in. What do you want? 27 00:02:47,933 --> 00:02:50,033 Is this Mr de Rênal's house? 28 00:02:51,203 --> 00:02:53,003 - He's here. - Who? 29 00:02:53,172 --> 00:02:56,542 The new tutor. I'll go and get him. 30 00:02:57,676 --> 00:02:58,696 Come in. 31 00:03:10,589 --> 00:03:11,589 Julien Sorel? 32 00:03:14,927 --> 00:03:15,927 Thank you, Elisa. 33 00:03:19,999 --> 00:03:23,899 - So you speak Latin very well? - Yes, madam. 34 00:03:25,838 --> 00:03:29,598 I must admit I find it hard to think of someone coming 35 00:03:29,909 --> 00:03:31,599 between my son and me. 36 00:03:31,944 --> 00:03:34,644 I was expecting someone more... 37 00:03:34,947 --> 00:03:36,507 You speak Latin fluently? 38 00:03:37,082 --> 00:03:39,072 As well as Father Chélan. 39 00:03:40,052 --> 00:03:42,022 He's kind enough to say better. 40 00:03:43,989 --> 00:03:45,119 It's surprising. 41 00:03:45,658 --> 00:03:47,518 - Why? - No reason. 42 00:03:47,693 --> 00:03:50,563 I'd imagined some old curate... 43 00:03:51,697 --> 00:03:55,687 No, not old but... They can be so severe. 44 00:03:57,102 --> 00:03:58,692 You won't beat my son? 45 00:03:59,171 --> 00:04:02,471 No, madam, of course not. 46 00:04:03,809 --> 00:04:06,839 Stanislas will soon be twelve. He'll be more of a pal for you. 47 00:04:07,947 --> 00:04:09,537 He's with my family now. 48 00:04:10,482 --> 00:04:12,042 He'll be here tomorrow. 49 00:04:12,918 --> 00:04:14,218 So he's arrived! 50 00:04:19,124 --> 00:04:21,824 Let's start as we mean to go on. 51 00:04:22,461 --> 00:04:25,621 Everyone, apart from us of course, will address you as sir. 52 00:04:25,931 --> 00:04:28,491 Everyone is well treated in this house, 53 00:04:28,834 --> 00:04:31,174 if we are pleased with them, of course. 54 00:04:31,503 --> 00:04:34,233 If we're pleased with you, you'll have no regrets. 55 00:04:35,207 --> 00:04:38,897 I know that your ambition is to enter the seminary. 56 00:04:39,211 --> 00:04:43,011 I might be able to contribute something. We'll see about that. 57 00:04:43,582 --> 00:04:45,912 But you must sever all previous ties. 58 00:04:47,186 --> 00:04:50,546 My son mustn't be exposed to people beneath his station. 59 00:04:51,023 --> 00:04:54,553 - Shall we show him the house? - Elisa will do that. 60 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,130 You'll go straight into town to get fitted out with a suit. 61 00:05:06,538 --> 00:05:08,868 We can't have you dressed like that. 62 00:05:09,174 --> 00:05:11,974 Get your hair cut at the same time. 63 00:05:12,911 --> 00:05:15,511 - Has anyone seen him? - Elisa. 64 00:05:16,615 --> 00:05:20,975 Make sure the suit is delivered tonight, before our son returns, 65 00:05:21,553 --> 00:05:24,853 so that you'll be presentable when we introduce you. 66 00:05:26,659 --> 00:05:30,489 Is Mr Sorel's room ready? So what are you waiting for? 67 00:05:41,173 --> 00:05:42,973 What do you think? 68 00:05:43,242 --> 00:05:44,572 He won't last a month. 69 00:05:45,177 --> 00:05:49,637 No, I'll never be able to put up with them! 70 00:05:53,919 --> 00:05:55,939 But you're used to it. 71 00:05:56,588 --> 00:05:59,178 You childhood wasn't exactly full of love. 72 00:06:00,025 --> 00:06:02,455 If only I could go straight to the seminary. 73 00:06:02,828 --> 00:06:06,088 Your vocation is commendable. But beware! 74 00:06:08,133 --> 00:06:11,433 The church... is a haven 75 00:06:12,204 --> 00:06:14,874 but not an escape. I've told you before. 76 00:06:15,641 --> 00:06:17,071 You still doubt me? 77 00:06:17,209 --> 00:06:18,939 Don't have any illusions. 78 00:06:20,646 --> 00:06:24,166 Being a priest requires certain characteristics: 79 00:06:25,050 --> 00:06:30,010 Tolerance, abnegation... a rejection of earthly pleasures. 80 00:06:31,156 --> 00:06:33,486 I've not much to reject. 81 00:06:34,526 --> 00:06:35,986 Did you burn everything? 82 00:06:36,895 --> 00:06:38,585 The books, the documents? 83 00:06:38,897 --> 00:06:40,827 Everything to do with Napoleon? 84 00:06:41,233 --> 00:06:42,863 Beware! 85 00:06:43,035 --> 00:06:46,865 Today's bourgeoisie won't hesitate to snoop in their servants' rooms. 86 00:06:47,673 --> 00:06:48,903 Yes, I know. 87 00:06:49,074 --> 00:06:52,874 Proud boy! You hate the rich and scorn the poor. 88 00:06:53,512 --> 00:06:56,882 You hate where you come from and detest where you're going. 89 00:06:57,249 --> 00:06:58,509 Where are you going? 90 00:06:58,851 --> 00:07:00,511 Do you even know? 91 00:07:05,124 --> 00:07:06,824 Verse 317: Non ficit... 92 00:07:07,393 --> 00:07:10,833 Tuti ominacioni justicia manifestacit. 93 00:07:13,132 --> 00:07:14,962 Verse 419... 94 00:07:15,834 --> 00:07:17,394 Deus Israel... 95 00:07:18,404 --> 00:07:22,844 Ipse dabit virtutem et fortitudinem plebisuae. 96 00:07:23,842 --> 00:07:26,612 He shall bestow strength and virtue on His people. 97 00:07:26,945 --> 00:07:29,465 I'll never be as good as you. 98 00:07:31,917 --> 00:07:36,217 If you study hard enough, one day you'll know as much as me. 99 00:07:36,622 --> 00:07:40,112 - What are you doing, Elisa? - Nothing. 100 00:07:46,064 --> 00:07:49,164 Napoleon tried to return us to the ways of the ancien régime. 101 00:07:49,501 --> 00:07:53,491 The kingdom for his sisters, jewels for his mother... 102 00:07:54,239 --> 00:07:57,229 And a coronation! For him! How ridiculous! 103 00:07:57,643 --> 00:08:02,083 But Charles X had a coronation, too. Didn't he? 104 00:08:03,449 --> 00:08:05,969 But he's a legitimate king, a Bourbon. 105 00:08:07,152 --> 00:08:08,452 Don't start again! 106 00:08:08,821 --> 00:08:12,591 Titles you can buy are worthless. Aren't they, Mr Valenod? 107 00:08:13,792 --> 00:08:14,792 That's true. 108 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:16,590 This is a world of parvenus. 109 00:08:16,895 --> 00:08:18,885 - Can I go and play? - Yes, my dear. 110 00:08:20,132 --> 00:08:22,032 Mr Sorel, you're not of our... 111 00:08:24,136 --> 00:08:26,896 of our age group. What do you think? 112 00:08:27,206 --> 00:08:28,996 About what, madam? 113 00:08:29,908 --> 00:08:31,598 About all that... Our society. 114 00:08:35,948 --> 00:08:39,978 I think that there are some noble parvenus, 115 00:08:40,152 --> 00:08:42,812 and that there are some people of low birth 116 00:08:44,122 --> 00:08:49,122 who are sometimes a lot more noble than certain aristocrats. 117 00:08:49,661 --> 00:08:52,601 How do you recognize a true aristocrat? 118 00:08:53,932 --> 00:08:57,492 By his education and his courtesy to his inferiors. 119 00:08:58,637 --> 00:08:59,867 Well said! 120 00:09:03,942 --> 00:09:05,002 And Bonaparte? 121 00:09:05,177 --> 00:09:06,767 What about him? 122 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,180 Bonaparte was a murderer. I abhor his memory! 123 00:09:43,916 --> 00:09:44,916 How's it going? 124 00:09:46,485 --> 00:09:48,575 - How did you get in? - Over the wall. 125 00:09:48,887 --> 00:09:53,147 - So how are they treating you? - You look thinner. 126 00:09:54,493 --> 00:09:56,023 Mama, mama! 127 00:09:58,230 --> 00:10:02,190 - Have you seen Julien? - I think he's in the house. 128 00:10:03,936 --> 00:10:06,226 I couldn't stop myself. I wrote you another. 129 00:10:06,605 --> 00:10:08,095 You mustn't! 130 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:12,610 But you said you liked my poem about the swallows. 131 00:10:12,945 --> 00:10:13,965 Stop, please! 132 00:10:14,146 --> 00:10:15,546 No more letters! 133 00:10:17,549 --> 00:10:18,679 Good Lord! 134 00:10:24,089 --> 00:10:27,529 Don't just stand there, go and get help! 135 00:10:30,562 --> 00:10:34,092 Julien! I don't believe it. 136 00:10:43,575 --> 00:10:45,905 Oh, God! You're opening your eyes! 137 00:10:46,578 --> 00:10:48,168 What happened? 138 00:10:55,287 --> 00:10:57,977 He's sleeping. I gave him a few drops of arnica. 139 00:10:58,523 --> 00:11:00,013 He needs a cold compress. 140 00:11:00,192 --> 00:11:02,662 He refused it, and just as well. 141 00:11:02,961 --> 00:11:05,931 My Benoît is so jealous. If I gave him a compress... 142 00:11:06,898 --> 00:11:08,088 What a fuss! 143 00:11:08,233 --> 00:11:11,673 The other day he said that since the new tutor arrived 144 00:11:11,970 --> 00:11:13,870 I don't talk to him any more. 145 00:11:14,006 --> 00:11:16,066 He's right, isn't he? 146 00:11:16,241 --> 00:11:20,611 Well, as I said to Father Chélan, he's only a carpenter's son. 147 00:11:21,013 --> 00:11:22,543 You spoke to Father Chélan? 148 00:11:22,848 --> 00:11:25,008 I have an inheritance coming to me. 149 00:11:25,183 --> 00:11:28,243 My aunt is leaving me her haberdashery in Besançon. 150 00:11:28,587 --> 00:11:29,587 We could marry. 151 00:11:29,888 --> 00:11:32,248 - He wants to be a priest. - That would be a shame. 152 00:11:33,058 --> 00:11:34,688 Have you spoken to him? 153 00:11:35,861 --> 00:11:39,061 - Louise, can I come in? - Not now, I'm with Elisa. 154 00:11:39,231 --> 00:11:41,561 - See you tomorrow. - OK, tomorrow. 155 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:43,220 Have you spoken to him? 156 00:11:43,568 --> 00:11:46,658 Almost... lots of times. He comes to the washroom often. 157 00:11:46,972 --> 00:11:51,242 He only has two shirts. He comes to hurry me up with the ironing. 158 00:11:53,011 --> 00:11:54,271 Only two shirts? 159 00:11:54,646 --> 00:11:58,636 I like it when he scolds me. I feel like we're already married. 160 00:11:59,284 --> 00:12:03,854 Do you think he'll have me? I loved him at first sight. 161 00:12:04,456 --> 00:12:06,516 - How old are you? - Eighteen. 162 00:12:07,025 --> 00:12:09,645 When I was your age everything was already arranged. 163 00:12:09,961 --> 00:12:13,021 - It's funny when you're rich... - It's easier, anyway. 164 00:12:14,866 --> 00:12:16,986 Yes, it's easier. 165 00:12:18,036 --> 00:12:19,966 Does "myrtle" have a y? 166 00:12:21,106 --> 00:12:23,536 Myrtle. M-Y... 167 00:12:27,512 --> 00:12:28,602 Right... 168 00:12:30,882 --> 00:12:33,612 Next, copy out the list of dangerous insects. 169 00:12:34,019 --> 00:12:35,509 Excuse me. 170 00:12:38,256 --> 00:12:41,186 Copy out that list, I'll be right back. 171 00:12:45,664 --> 00:12:48,134 He had a temperature this morning. How is he? 172 00:12:48,934 --> 00:12:51,204 - A cold, that's all. - I mollycoddle him. 173 00:12:52,204 --> 00:12:56,044 - You're sure he's fine? - Would you like to check? 174 00:12:58,110 --> 00:13:00,980 I'm very grateful for what you've done with him. 175 00:13:01,146 --> 00:13:03,506 Really, you've done wonders. 176 00:13:08,220 --> 00:13:12,210 I'm the only heir to my uncle, who spoils me with presents. 177 00:13:12,591 --> 00:13:14,121 Too many presents. 178 00:13:14,459 --> 00:13:19,229 I'd be so happy if you'd accept some money to buy clothes with. 179 00:13:22,601 --> 00:13:25,231 But I'd rather you didn't tell my husband. 180 00:13:26,905 --> 00:13:29,565 I'm poor, madam, but I'm not a valet. 181 00:13:33,245 --> 00:13:36,075 I would never conceal anything 182 00:13:36,248 --> 00:13:39,008 concerning our financial arrangements 183 00:13:39,184 --> 00:13:40,524 from Mr de Rênal. 184 00:13:40,952 --> 00:13:42,892 I've offended you. 185 00:13:44,956 --> 00:13:47,146 You must think me very low, madam. 186 00:14:07,012 --> 00:14:08,012 I humiliated him. 187 00:14:09,047 --> 00:14:11,517 This young man I respect and admire, 188 00:14:11,883 --> 00:14:13,583 I belittled him. 189 00:14:14,219 --> 00:14:16,849 If you'd seen how he looked at me, 190 00:14:17,522 --> 00:14:20,222 when I told him not to mention it to my husband! 191 00:14:21,893 --> 00:14:24,093 Why did you say that? 192 00:14:24,529 --> 00:14:28,859 It's not my habit to interfere in money matters. 193 00:14:31,169 --> 00:14:34,099 The shame! I don't know what to do. 194 00:14:34,239 --> 00:14:37,829 - Would you like some water? - With sugar, please. 195 00:14:39,211 --> 00:14:42,181 It's awful! I really offended him. 196 00:14:44,950 --> 00:14:48,550 You touched an open wound, that's all. 197 00:14:49,688 --> 00:14:51,178 A painful one. 198 00:14:53,925 --> 00:14:55,975 You're not to blame. 199 00:14:58,196 --> 00:15:00,486 He's a proud young fellow. 200 00:15:02,868 --> 00:15:04,858 He needs teaching a lesson or two. 201 00:15:09,975 --> 00:15:11,595 There's something else. 202 00:15:12,477 --> 00:15:15,937 Elisa spoke to you about it. To me, too. 203 00:15:18,516 --> 00:15:20,136 I got married at sixteen. 204 00:15:20,485 --> 00:15:23,975 My husband is a good man, we get on very well. 205 00:15:26,057 --> 00:15:28,577 But, listening to that young girl... 206 00:15:29,995 --> 00:15:32,085 She's charming, isn't she? 207 00:15:32,530 --> 00:15:35,120 So fresh, so full of life... 208 00:15:36,067 --> 00:15:39,967 Her eyes shone as she talked about her plans for the future. 209 00:15:40,972 --> 00:15:44,242 And I felt within myself a sense of injustice. 210 00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:47,481 Jealousy? 211 00:15:48,013 --> 00:15:50,143 No, God forbid! Not jealousy. 212 00:15:51,549 --> 00:15:55,609 But envy... bitterness... 213 00:15:56,621 --> 00:15:57,921 regret. 214 00:15:59,024 --> 00:16:03,124 The idea of that young couple... But he wants to be a priest. 215 00:16:06,898 --> 00:16:11,798 God doesn't like to leave things too comfortable for too long. 216 00:16:13,204 --> 00:16:17,444 You'll find the strength to fight these feelings in prayer. 217 00:16:18,510 --> 00:16:20,500 Such feelings are part of life. 218 00:16:21,012 --> 00:16:23,542 They appear as youth disappears. 219 00:16:25,951 --> 00:16:29,911 You've spoken to God, now it's time to speak to your husband. 220 00:16:30,889 --> 00:16:34,849 You should sort out this little financial matter with him. 221 00:16:35,527 --> 00:16:40,157 A true marriage is based on honesty and trust. 222 00:16:41,232 --> 00:16:43,502 You let a servant refuse your offer! 223 00:16:43,868 --> 00:16:45,458 He's not a servant. 224 00:16:45,637 --> 00:16:49,157 Anyone who lives here and receives a salary is a servant. 225 00:16:50,542 --> 00:16:52,532 I'll talk to this peasant! 226 00:16:53,912 --> 00:16:58,252 I'll give him 100 francs in front of the other servants. 227 00:16:58,583 --> 00:17:00,023 But you're mad! 228 00:17:01,586 --> 00:17:03,106 Yes, it's a large sum. 229 00:17:03,488 --> 00:17:06,818 In front of the others? They'll all hate him. 230 00:17:07,125 --> 00:17:10,145 If you humiliate him, he'll go. And you know where. 231 00:17:10,528 --> 00:17:13,498 But we can't let such a slight go unpunished. 232 00:17:13,932 --> 00:17:15,872 His sort has to know his place. 233 00:17:16,034 --> 00:17:19,494 Well, give him the hundred francs, but in private. 234 00:17:20,205 --> 00:17:22,435 It was all my fault. 235 00:17:22,841 --> 00:17:25,501 It's not my place to deal with money matters. 236 00:17:27,212 --> 00:17:30,582 Women! Inefficient machines always in need of repair! 237 00:17:41,059 --> 00:17:43,619 Elisa, come with us. 238 00:17:49,567 --> 00:17:50,927 Stroll with us. 239 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,450 Sir says you should eat or you'll be too weak to travel. 240 00:18:12,624 --> 00:18:15,124 I'm not hungry. I've still got a temperature. 241 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,520 Pass me the orgeat syrup, please. 242 00:18:19,130 --> 00:18:20,790 Have you been crying? 243 00:18:21,633 --> 00:18:24,803 He said no. That's that! 244 00:18:26,071 --> 00:18:27,131 He said no? 245 00:18:27,605 --> 00:18:30,795 Someone's been bad-mouthing me, or he thinks I'm ugly, 246 00:18:30,975 --> 00:18:31,975 that's all. 247 00:18:32,811 --> 00:18:33,901 Absolutely not. 248 00:18:34,446 --> 00:18:38,136 There's some other reason. He wants to be a priest. 249 00:18:38,516 --> 00:18:40,976 I'd rather die than see him say mass. 250 00:18:42,020 --> 00:18:43,510 He actually said no? 251 00:18:43,922 --> 00:18:47,452 This morning. But perhaps if... you spoke to him. 252 00:18:47,625 --> 00:18:49,955 I've got nothing to lose. 253 00:18:51,162 --> 00:18:52,652 I shall speak to him. 254 00:18:52,964 --> 00:18:56,834 Thank you, madam, thank you! Oh, would you? 255 00:19:01,106 --> 00:19:02,106 Are you sure 256 00:19:02,474 --> 00:19:04,874 - you won't eat? - A bit of roast, maybe. 257 00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:07,037 With some rice. 258 00:19:27,899 --> 00:19:31,929 The walnut trees? You're not going to cut them down? 259 00:19:32,103 --> 00:19:34,973 Twelve walnut trees. They cost me! 260 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:38,110 Their shade stops the wheat growing. 261 00:19:38,476 --> 00:19:39,836 You can't think like that. 262 00:19:39,978 --> 00:19:43,848 Yes, I can! Each tree has to pay its way. 263 00:19:43,982 --> 00:19:45,072 Pay its way! 264 00:19:45,216 --> 00:19:48,146 That's all you think about. Julien... 265 00:19:48,553 --> 00:19:50,153 Elisa asked me to talk to you. 266 00:19:52,524 --> 00:19:54,084 I have nothing to say. 267 00:19:54,225 --> 00:19:55,615 Really? 268 00:19:55,927 --> 00:19:57,017 You and Elisa... 269 00:19:57,195 --> 00:19:58,885 She's a charming girl. 270 00:19:59,063 --> 00:20:01,093 And she's going to inherit, too. 271 00:20:01,232 --> 00:20:04,072 And she's from Bordeaux. If I were you... 272 00:20:04,235 --> 00:20:08,165 - That's not the point, dear. - Then what is the point? 273 00:20:09,874 --> 00:20:12,874 I'm not ready yet to make such a decision. 274 00:20:13,678 --> 00:20:14,868 Think about it. 275 00:20:20,018 --> 00:20:21,248 My wife is right. 276 00:20:21,619 --> 00:20:23,849 Your father's only a carpenter, 277 00:20:24,022 --> 00:20:26,222 and if she's going to have money... 278 00:20:26,558 --> 00:20:28,578 Stop it. You're embarrassing him. 279 00:20:29,894 --> 00:20:32,064 Julien, come with us! 280 00:20:35,567 --> 00:20:39,127 I just wanted to say that I'd contribute to the dowry, 281 00:20:39,270 --> 00:20:43,500 if the two of you would stay with us for a while. 282 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:46,935 Thank you very much, but I have other plans. 283 00:20:58,957 --> 00:21:00,517 What about the seminary? 284 00:21:00,825 --> 00:21:02,845 But you were talking about Elisa! 285 00:21:03,027 --> 00:21:06,827 Well, if he has a vocation, I won't say another word. 286 00:21:07,131 --> 00:21:08,191 Good. Not a word! 287 00:21:09,934 --> 00:21:11,634 Hurry up! I'm hungry. 288 00:21:22,213 --> 00:21:23,873 Stanislas! 289 00:21:27,852 --> 00:21:28,882 Look. 290 00:21:30,855 --> 00:21:32,685 Take these flowers to your mother. 291 00:21:45,937 --> 00:21:47,227 Thank you, darling. 292 00:22:13,197 --> 00:22:14,817 Happy, Elisa? 293 00:23:02,046 --> 00:23:03,136 Are you leaving? 294 00:23:03,514 --> 00:23:07,514 The council at Verrières. I shall be back Saturday. 295 00:23:07,819 --> 00:23:09,509 - See you Saturday. - Saturday! 296 00:23:15,993 --> 00:23:17,933 Another one! 297 00:23:19,831 --> 00:23:22,031 - Three... no, four! - Four. 298 00:23:31,042 --> 00:23:33,482 Stanislas, look who's here. 299 00:23:35,113 --> 00:23:37,883 Stanislas, put this on. 300 00:23:39,217 --> 00:23:40,477 You'll catch cold. 301 00:23:48,259 --> 00:23:50,089 I'll catch you! 302 00:23:53,197 --> 00:23:55,097 Where are the shoes from? 303 00:23:55,266 --> 00:23:57,926 Paris... My cousin thinks I dress too simply. 304 00:23:58,669 --> 00:24:01,139 First one back wins a bag of marbles! 305 00:24:03,474 --> 00:24:04,914 He'll wear me out! 306 00:24:10,982 --> 00:24:15,482 Stanislas worships him. He took to him straight away. 307 00:24:15,653 --> 00:24:18,213 But he's a secretive boy... 308 00:24:18,556 --> 00:24:20,486 - Stanislas? - No. Julien. 309 00:24:23,661 --> 00:24:25,031 Is your husband happy? 310 00:24:25,563 --> 00:24:28,033 You're letting your son grow up. 311 00:24:28,599 --> 00:24:30,859 Yourself, too. 312 00:24:31,169 --> 00:24:32,899 It was about time. 313 00:24:33,171 --> 00:24:37,541 That's true. Besides God, your husband and your son, 314 00:24:37,842 --> 00:24:41,072 you never had any other subjects of conversation. 315 00:24:56,494 --> 00:24:59,164 - Shall I clear the table? - Yes. 316 00:24:59,464 --> 00:25:00,904 Come on, Stanislas. 317 00:25:27,191 --> 00:25:29,891 It's time you were in bed. Goodnight. 318 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,940 When we were young girls... 319 00:25:45,576 --> 00:25:46,796 - Orange blossom tea? - Thanks. 320 00:25:47,144 --> 00:25:49,584 She always treated me like a baby. Still does. 321 00:25:49,881 --> 00:25:51,871 You make me sound like your grandmother! 322 00:25:52,016 --> 00:25:54,506 We're practically the same age. 323 00:25:55,219 --> 00:25:59,179 - Do you have any siblings? - Two brothers. 324 00:25:59,624 --> 00:26:01,184 Monsters! 325 00:26:01,959 --> 00:26:05,899 And your parents? I bet you take after your mother. 326 00:26:06,163 --> 00:26:07,993 I never knew my mother. 327 00:26:08,866 --> 00:26:09,956 My father... 328 00:26:11,969 --> 00:26:15,869 My father is a coarse, uncultured man. 329 00:26:17,808 --> 00:26:19,998 All he can talk about is money. 330 00:26:20,177 --> 00:26:21,837 He's not the only one! 331 00:26:25,049 --> 00:26:26,979 Our century is corrupted by money. 332 00:26:27,151 --> 00:26:30,851 Who are worse, those who have it or those who want it? 333 00:26:31,522 --> 00:26:34,222 - But let's talk about you. - I'd rather not. 334 00:26:37,161 --> 00:26:40,601 I'm sorry, I must seem rather touchy. 335 00:26:40,898 --> 00:26:45,528 I'm not really like that. It's because of my childhood. 336 00:26:46,170 --> 00:26:48,470 We had fun today, though. 337 00:26:49,607 --> 00:26:52,507 Thanks mostly to you. 338 00:26:53,110 --> 00:26:57,240 For the first time in my life I'm not surrounded by enemies. 339 00:26:59,984 --> 00:27:02,544 Oh, we had a few enemies at school! 340 00:27:02,853 --> 00:27:05,193 - Remember? - You had more than me. 341 00:27:22,206 --> 00:27:24,936 Do you remember Camille? 342 00:27:25,109 --> 00:27:27,199 She's been married twice! 343 00:27:29,614 --> 00:27:32,174 What a delightful evening! 344 00:27:35,486 --> 00:27:37,146 It's so quiet here. 345 00:27:41,225 --> 00:27:44,085 It's like one of Mozart's silences. 346 00:28:00,478 --> 00:28:04,108 No, gentlemen, round the back. 347 00:28:16,794 --> 00:28:18,134 Someone take my horse! 348 00:28:25,936 --> 00:28:28,626 - Very good straw this year. - Yes. 349 00:28:35,646 --> 00:28:38,046 What's going on? Are you alone? 350 00:28:39,083 --> 00:28:42,113 Where's Julien? Your mother? Mrs Derville? 351 00:28:42,653 --> 00:28:43,853 Still asleep. 352 00:28:43,988 --> 00:28:47,448 I heard them chatting until after two in the morning. 353 00:28:51,929 --> 00:28:54,189 Mr Sorel, do you know what time it is? 354 00:28:54,532 --> 00:28:56,022 I hope you slept well! 355 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,760 It's not the end of the world. We expected you later. 356 00:29:00,104 --> 00:29:03,074 I told you the straw would be delivered this morning! 357 00:29:03,407 --> 00:29:05,997 This house is going to the dogs! 358 00:29:06,177 --> 00:29:09,537 - Hello to you, too! - Mr Sorel, come with me! 359 00:29:12,416 --> 00:29:15,536 Under my mattress, a portrait! If it's found, I'm done for! 360 00:29:16,087 --> 00:29:18,417 If Benoît finds it, I'm done for. 361 00:29:28,466 --> 00:29:32,596 Sir, I want to leave. I would like my wages, please. 362 00:29:32,937 --> 00:29:36,567 Well, this is out of the blue! May I ask why? 363 00:29:37,441 --> 00:29:39,501 Never mind. Have you told my wife? 364 00:29:39,844 --> 00:29:40,944 She will understand. 365 00:29:41,112 --> 00:29:43,142 We'll talk about it at Verrières. 366 00:29:55,226 --> 00:29:58,216 - Julien, where are you? - Here, sir. 367 00:29:58,929 --> 00:30:01,989 - What's got into you, Julien? - I'm very tired. 368 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:05,560 I don't pay you to sleep late. That's what Sundays are for. 369 00:30:06,871 --> 00:30:08,861 I've never neglected your son. 370 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:11,939 He shouldn't have to wait for you. 371 00:30:12,109 --> 00:30:15,979 If you think he'd be better off with another tutor, I'll go. 372 00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:19,947 What's got into you all? Can't I even reprimand you? 373 00:30:20,117 --> 00:30:22,177 There are other places I could go, sir. 374 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,110 Go, then! 375 00:30:25,189 --> 00:30:27,889 What a mule-headed creature! Julien! 376 00:30:28,058 --> 00:30:29,918 I didn't mean it. 377 00:30:30,961 --> 00:30:32,661 Aren't you happy here? 378 00:30:32,963 --> 00:30:34,663 I'm really very tired. 379 00:30:34,965 --> 00:30:38,865 Well, take a day or two off and have a lie-in, then. 380 00:30:39,036 --> 00:30:42,006 When you come back perhaps you'll get up earlier. 381 00:30:44,141 --> 00:30:45,201 Louise! 382 00:30:45,576 --> 00:30:49,566 They kicked me out of bed to change my mattress! 383 00:30:51,582 --> 00:30:54,112 Mama, no classes today! Julien's going. 384 00:30:57,054 --> 00:30:58,284 Are you leaving? 385 00:30:59,490 --> 00:31:02,480 I've been given two days' leave. 386 00:31:31,555 --> 00:31:32,575 At ten o'clock, 387 00:31:33,090 --> 00:31:35,580 I grabbed hold of her hand! 388 00:31:35,893 --> 00:31:39,263 She pulled away, I grabbed it again and held on. 389 00:31:40,598 --> 00:31:41,958 And she left it there! 390 00:31:42,132 --> 00:31:44,692 I'd been thinking about it all day. 391 00:31:45,002 --> 00:31:49,632 I'd told myself that if I didn't hold her hand for ten seconds 392 00:31:49,940 --> 00:31:52,530 I'd have to shoot myself! 393 00:31:52,710 --> 00:31:56,080 What is this? A game? Your revenge on the husband? 394 00:31:57,581 --> 00:31:59,141 He's an odious creature! 395 00:32:02,486 --> 00:32:06,146 If you heard him and his friends talking about Napoleon... 396 00:32:06,924 --> 00:32:10,094 "The usurper", "the dwarf". 397 00:32:10,227 --> 00:32:13,987 I'd like to see the old fossils down on their knees! 398 00:32:14,164 --> 00:32:16,564 Flabby, rich old fools! 399 00:32:16,867 --> 00:32:18,557 I'd shout at them: 400 00:32:18,869 --> 00:32:22,129 "On your knees before the little lieutenant," 401 00:32:22,473 --> 00:32:26,143 "who conquered the world with nothing but his sword!" 402 00:32:27,511 --> 00:32:29,211 "On your knees, you old fools!" 403 00:32:30,681 --> 00:32:32,621 His sword and his women! 404 00:32:33,550 --> 00:32:36,920 So what are you going to do next? 405 00:32:37,187 --> 00:32:39,177 Hold her hand for twenty seconds? 406 00:32:39,556 --> 00:32:41,246 A hand is very nice, but... 407 00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:42,955 But what? 408 00:32:43,928 --> 00:32:45,688 Bonaparte, at your age, 409 00:32:45,996 --> 00:32:48,516 had got a lot further with Josephine. 410 00:32:50,034 --> 00:32:51,704 He was 23! 411 00:32:52,269 --> 00:32:54,999 All right, then. When he was 23. 412 00:32:55,873 --> 00:32:57,203 You're letting it show! 413 00:32:57,574 --> 00:33:00,204 I knew right away. Do you know why? 414 00:33:00,945 --> 00:33:04,635 You seem less carefree... but much happier. 415 00:33:05,115 --> 00:33:08,845 It's a shame it's your first time. That's why it shows. 416 00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:11,093 You never had your fun as a girl. 417 00:33:11,221 --> 00:33:13,211 You got married, that was that. 418 00:33:13,590 --> 00:33:15,890 And now it's happened. 419 00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:18,820 Not a second passes that you don't think of him, 420 00:33:18,996 --> 00:33:22,856 your heart leaps at the sound of his voice, 421 00:33:23,534 --> 00:33:26,594 and all the time you're terrified that it might stop. 422 00:33:27,171 --> 00:33:29,471 I'm terrified that it will go on. 423 00:33:30,975 --> 00:33:32,995 But watch out, he's impetuous. 424 00:33:37,548 --> 00:33:38,908 He's suffered. 425 00:33:39,984 --> 00:33:44,984 You've always been so naive. Adultery is a war! 426 00:33:45,622 --> 00:33:47,182 Not that word, please! 427 00:33:47,558 --> 00:33:49,248 What word? "War"? 428 00:33:51,195 --> 00:33:53,185 Nothing has happened, nothing will. 429 00:33:53,864 --> 00:33:56,094 I've never been alone with him. 430 00:33:59,837 --> 00:34:02,567 What was in that box? A portrait? 431 00:34:06,844 --> 00:34:08,574 A woman, I suppose. 432 00:34:09,213 --> 00:34:11,843 He's probably with her now. 433 00:34:14,852 --> 00:34:18,582 It's all I can think of. Do you think he's with her? 434 00:34:19,456 --> 00:34:21,976 He'd have said where he was going otherwise. 435 00:34:22,860 --> 00:34:27,090 He hates his father and Father Chélan is away. 436 00:34:31,835 --> 00:34:34,065 Some woman he must have met... 437 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,100 but where? 438 00:34:38,942 --> 00:34:40,912 You think women are still the key? 439 00:34:41,545 --> 00:34:44,665 You can lose everything because of a woman. 440 00:34:54,191 --> 00:34:55,191 How are things? 441 00:35:01,065 --> 00:35:02,555 How's the business? 442 00:35:03,067 --> 00:35:06,897 I supply wood to all the top people in the area. 443 00:35:07,071 --> 00:35:09,471 It's starting to annoy your father. 444 00:35:10,541 --> 00:35:11,971 Have you seen him? 445 00:35:12,843 --> 00:35:15,113 He hates me since I left his sawmill. 446 00:35:18,148 --> 00:35:22,978 I need an accountant, Julien. We could be partners. 447 00:35:23,187 --> 00:35:26,517 No initial outlay and you'll earn 4,000 francs a year. 448 00:35:27,224 --> 00:35:29,194 No more odious Mr de Rênal! 449 00:35:29,893 --> 00:35:32,623 In eight years you'll have 200 gold Louis! 450 00:35:34,832 --> 00:35:37,202 You know I don't care about money. 451 00:35:39,169 --> 00:35:40,999 I want to make my name. 452 00:35:47,177 --> 00:35:49,477 I'm sure you'll win, my dear. 453 00:35:51,014 --> 00:35:53,184 So how was your trip? 454 00:35:53,550 --> 00:35:57,880 Interesting. A business proposition was made to me. 455 00:35:58,021 --> 00:36:00,891 Louise, come and help your son! 456 00:36:01,058 --> 00:36:02,548 You go. 457 00:36:15,005 --> 00:36:16,055 Were you far away? 458 00:36:34,925 --> 00:36:38,185 Whose portrait was it? I would like to know. 459 00:36:48,505 --> 00:36:49,505 I should leave. 460 00:36:50,607 --> 00:36:53,467 With her? The woman whose portrait it was? 461 00:36:57,548 --> 00:37:00,538 I'll never make it as a priest if I stay here. 462 00:37:12,429 --> 00:37:14,559 Has something happened? 463 00:37:14,865 --> 00:37:17,525 You seem... nervous. Am I right? 464 00:37:17,834 --> 00:37:22,174 Nervous? Not at all. I feel quite at ease with you. 465 00:37:22,506 --> 00:37:24,626 Really? And why is that? 466 00:37:26,143 --> 00:37:30,913 Perhaps because you alone never saw my peasant clothes. 467 00:37:42,226 --> 00:37:44,186 That was a bad move! 468 00:37:45,229 --> 00:37:48,669 In life be more careful, otherwise anything can happen. 469 00:37:50,234 --> 00:37:52,134 Do you understand, my son? 470 00:37:57,908 --> 00:37:59,598 I'll have a cup of verbena tea. 471 00:37:59,910 --> 00:38:01,900 What were you reading earlier? 472 00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:04,909 "The Princess of Cleves". Have you read it? 473 00:38:08,051 --> 00:38:09,851 Oh, you don't read novels, do you? 474 00:38:10,020 --> 00:38:13,510 Actually, I've just started "Dangerous Liaisons". 475 00:38:13,824 --> 00:38:17,624 Laclos? He's licentious and depraved! 476 00:38:18,195 --> 00:38:21,095 You didn't find that in your husband's library! 477 00:38:21,898 --> 00:38:24,198 How little we know those close to us! 478 00:38:24,868 --> 00:38:27,028 - And ourselves. - Mama! 479 00:38:27,204 --> 00:38:29,504 Papa won, but we'll play again. 480 00:38:29,806 --> 00:38:31,966 No, it's time you were in bed. 481 00:38:32,142 --> 00:38:34,472 Leave your door open tonight. 482 00:38:34,645 --> 00:38:37,135 - You're mad! - Is there any tea left? 483 00:38:40,984 --> 00:38:43,924 Stanislas, kiss your mother then go to bed. 484 00:40:50,580 --> 00:40:52,210 You have something to say? 485 00:41:00,190 --> 00:41:01,850 I love you. 486 00:41:02,959 --> 00:41:06,159 I love you. I love you passionately! 487 00:41:06,630 --> 00:41:09,900 I don't know what to do any more. You have to help me. 488 00:41:10,066 --> 00:41:11,086 Help me! 489 00:41:11,234 --> 00:41:14,034 Please, you mustn't! 490 00:41:16,973 --> 00:41:18,243 You're so young. 491 00:43:30,140 --> 00:43:32,970 If my husband heard, I'm done for. 492 00:43:35,979 --> 00:43:37,999 But I don't care! 493 00:43:39,182 --> 00:43:42,152 And you'd let him kill you without a care? 494 00:43:43,687 --> 00:43:45,587 No, not this morning. 495 00:43:46,690 --> 00:43:49,250 For the first time I really want to live. 496 00:44:04,975 --> 00:44:06,905 I feel invincible! 497 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,580 Do you still love me? 498 00:44:15,652 --> 00:44:17,022 Oh, yes. I love you. 499 00:44:27,564 --> 00:44:29,534 But what about the priesthood? 500 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:34,871 You can be the Pope, a cardinal, whatever! 501 00:44:35,171 --> 00:44:36,571 Like Richelieu. 502 00:44:37,607 --> 00:44:42,097 Are you going to tell me now whose portrait it was? 503 00:44:43,213 --> 00:44:45,513 No, I can't tell you. 504 00:44:46,216 --> 00:44:47,876 Then I'll wake up the... 505 00:44:48,652 --> 00:44:51,052 No! It was Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte. 506 00:44:52,989 --> 00:44:54,149 Bonaparte? 507 00:44:56,893 --> 00:44:59,193 I was so unhappy because of Bonaparte? 508 00:45:01,197 --> 00:45:03,827 But he's dead. 509 00:45:04,801 --> 00:45:08,931 My little Bonapartist, my love, 510 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,910 my rebel! 511 00:45:13,610 --> 00:45:16,140 What a wonderful rival, Bonaparte! 512 00:45:24,487 --> 00:45:26,577 I'm so bad at this! 513 00:45:31,895 --> 00:45:32,945 Where's Valenod? 514 00:45:33,129 --> 00:45:35,929 At the town hall. He won't be long. 515 00:45:41,237 --> 00:45:42,497 I'm sorry. 516 00:45:42,872 --> 00:45:46,172 - Do you love me? - I want you! 517 00:45:54,484 --> 00:45:55,484 Oh, bother! 518 00:45:55,652 --> 00:45:57,552 You're not subtle enough. 519 00:45:57,854 --> 00:45:59,454 - Neither are you. - Oh, please! 520 00:45:59,589 --> 00:46:03,529 You're making a fool of yourself. I'm your friend and I won't... 521 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,190 My friend? You're sick with jealousy! 522 00:46:06,596 --> 00:46:09,586 For fifteen years I've heard all about your affairs. 523 00:46:09,899 --> 00:46:12,799 A different man every week! Keep your advice! 524 00:46:21,144 --> 00:46:24,174 The King is coming! He'll be here Sunday! 525 00:46:25,515 --> 00:46:27,175 Valenod, at last! 526 00:46:27,517 --> 00:46:30,207 His Majesty is coming, it's just been announced. 527 00:46:30,587 --> 00:46:33,447 - He'll need a guard of honour. - No expense spared! 528 00:46:33,623 --> 00:46:36,823 How many horsemen, six, eight? 529 00:46:36,993 --> 00:46:39,933 - The boy seems very fond of you. - He's very affectionate. 530 00:46:40,230 --> 00:46:42,200 And you? 531 00:46:49,506 --> 00:46:50,996 We'll prepare a room... 532 00:46:51,174 --> 00:46:52,904 - For whom? - The King. 533 00:46:53,076 --> 00:46:54,536 Oh, no. What a chore! 534 00:46:55,478 --> 00:46:59,068 Going back to Verrières when it's so nice here! 535 00:47:00,483 --> 00:47:03,453 I can hear your confession if you like. 536 00:47:03,820 --> 00:47:05,620 Not now, it's going to rain. 537 00:47:06,489 --> 00:47:07,889 Who'll command the guard? 538 00:47:08,057 --> 00:47:11,487 I'm afraid it'll have to be you, my poor Moirod... 539 00:47:11,795 --> 00:47:13,785 Oh, no! Since I fell off my horse... 540 00:47:14,964 --> 00:47:18,134 You're right. I'm not cut out to be a chaperon. 541 00:47:18,468 --> 00:47:20,198 I'm sorry, I was hateful. 542 00:47:20,837 --> 00:47:24,797 Honesty is part of friendship. I accept yours, so accept mine. 543 00:47:24,974 --> 00:47:27,034 You're losing your head. 544 00:47:27,210 --> 00:47:29,580 An emergency, my house is flooded. 545 00:47:29,879 --> 00:47:32,039 - The river! - At this time of year? 546 00:47:32,615 --> 00:47:34,845 I don't believe it. You have a lover! 547 00:47:34,984 --> 00:47:37,824 Benoît can take me. You can send my bags. 548 00:47:37,987 --> 00:47:40,177 See you soon. I can see myself out. 549 00:47:51,534 --> 00:47:54,164 Open your eyes. He's young and you're rich. 550 00:47:54,504 --> 00:47:57,534 You'll end up being ridiculed like so many others. 551 00:48:08,084 --> 00:48:10,954 I'll see you wear something else for a change. 552 00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,610 A sky-blue tunic with silver epaulettes. 553 00:48:15,091 --> 00:48:17,461 You'll be the most handsome by far. 554 00:48:17,627 --> 00:48:20,027 You're forgetting I'm not noble enough... 555 00:48:20,430 --> 00:48:23,520 You annoy me with those old-fashioned ideas! 556 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,430 Moirod does as he's told 557 00:48:32,609 --> 00:48:35,539 and I can twist Valenod around my little finger. 558 00:48:37,213 --> 00:48:38,873 You smell so good. 559 00:48:43,653 --> 00:48:44,953 You know, Julien... 560 00:48:45,488 --> 00:48:48,508 I'll ask Vernod to let you ride one of his Norman horses... 561 00:48:51,060 --> 00:48:54,890 I'm not sure I want to parade... for the King. 562 00:48:55,565 --> 00:48:58,855 You won't be parading for him. You'll do it for me. 563 00:49:00,169 --> 00:49:04,159 I'll be watching. You'll put them all to shame. 564 00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,420 Long live the King! 565 00:50:51,014 --> 00:50:54,884 - Get off that horse this instant! - I can't. 566 00:50:55,051 --> 00:50:58,991 Go and get changed and meet me in the vestry! 567 00:51:10,133 --> 00:51:12,233 This has to stop! 568 00:51:13,102 --> 00:51:15,872 - I don't understand. - You're a laughing stock. 569 00:51:16,072 --> 00:51:18,012 You and your schemes! 570 00:51:18,174 --> 00:51:19,174 What schemes? 571 00:51:19,542 --> 00:51:23,002 A carpenter's son has no place among the town's noblemen. 572 00:51:23,579 --> 00:51:26,139 Are you scorning a carpenter's son, father? 573 00:51:26,649 --> 00:51:28,909 Julien's more noble than any of them! 574 00:51:29,085 --> 00:51:31,485 I'm just trying to protect him. 575 00:51:31,654 --> 00:51:35,094 If you don't stop this affair, God will! 576 00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,810 - Hurry up! - Aren't you saying mass? 577 00:51:59,982 --> 00:52:03,582 No, it's the bishop today. I, for one, know my place! 578 00:52:39,622 --> 00:52:42,222 Mama, I don't feel well... 579 00:52:46,496 --> 00:52:50,486 Three days he's had this fever! What's going to happen, doctor? 580 00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:52,230 The fever doesn't worry me. 581 00:52:52,568 --> 00:52:56,228 But he's not really conscious. It'll be a slow recovery. 582 00:52:56,572 --> 00:52:59,042 - And if he doesn't recover? - It'll be quick. 583 00:52:59,275 --> 00:53:01,175 Don't mention that to my wife. 584 00:53:16,859 --> 00:53:19,019 - Can I help? - No, thank you. 585 00:53:22,198 --> 00:53:25,528 God is punishing me, God is just. 586 00:53:26,202 --> 00:53:29,872 He's abandoning me, punishing me for my crimes. 587 00:53:30,173 --> 00:53:33,173 Talking nonsense doesn't help, Louise! 588 00:53:38,848 --> 00:53:41,938 Listen, you have to know the truth. 589 00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,040 I'm killing him! 590 00:53:48,491 --> 00:53:50,021 I who gave him life. 591 00:53:52,094 --> 00:53:53,694 I'm a murderess! 592 00:53:54,664 --> 00:53:56,104 I must abase myself, 593 00:53:56,532 --> 00:53:59,022 prostrate myself and ask for heaven's forgiveness. 594 00:53:59,835 --> 00:54:03,195 You'll wake him up. Come on, you need to rest. 595 00:54:03,573 --> 00:54:06,843 - You must listen to me! - Come on, leave him. 596 00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:23,219 Julien, could you watch Stanislas, please? 597 00:54:26,062 --> 00:54:27,862 Come for me if anything happens. 598 00:54:29,999 --> 00:54:32,519 Louise, come now. 599 00:54:32,868 --> 00:54:34,558 One more minute, please. 600 00:54:35,037 --> 00:54:37,667 I'll see that your room's ready. 601 00:54:45,848 --> 00:54:46,868 Go! 602 00:54:48,851 --> 00:54:50,651 Leave this house, please! 603 00:54:56,125 --> 00:54:58,025 I'll do whatever you ask... 604 00:55:00,129 --> 00:55:02,889 but on one condition: Be careful! 605 00:55:03,065 --> 00:55:07,965 Above all, you mustn't tell your husband about us. 606 00:55:08,137 --> 00:55:12,197 You'd never recover from the scandal. 607 00:55:12,541 --> 00:55:17,211 Good, I'd be despised and dragged in the gutter! 608 00:55:18,581 --> 00:55:20,481 But my son would live! 609 00:55:21,951 --> 00:55:22,951 Go! 610 00:56:01,557 --> 00:56:02,957 Let me stay. 611 00:56:07,129 --> 00:56:09,599 I shan't touch you or speak to you. 612 00:56:11,834 --> 00:56:14,064 I'll love you like a brother. 613 00:56:16,105 --> 00:56:18,795 I can't love you like my brother. 614 00:56:21,477 --> 00:56:22,497 I just can't! 615 00:56:29,518 --> 00:56:32,848 I don't know what to do any more. 616 00:56:37,059 --> 00:56:40,029 If something happened to him you'd hate me for ever. 617 00:56:41,530 --> 00:56:44,160 Why couldn't you be Stanislas' father? 618 00:56:45,601 --> 00:56:48,131 It would be no sin to love you like I do. 619 00:56:55,945 --> 00:56:58,635 Don't go, don't leave me. 620 00:57:00,116 --> 00:57:02,546 I can't stop loving you. 621 00:57:18,934 --> 00:57:20,904 - Are we disturbing you? - Not at all. 622 00:57:21,070 --> 00:57:24,800 We thought that as it's Sunday... How is Stanislas? 623 00:57:24,974 --> 00:57:27,504 He's out of danger. Come on in. 624 00:57:28,477 --> 00:57:29,567 Please, dear friend. 625 00:57:30,846 --> 00:57:33,036 Excuse my dress, I was napping. 626 00:57:33,215 --> 00:57:36,545 We've spent many a sleepless night just recently. 627 00:57:36,852 --> 00:57:40,812 Louise! Now where has she got to? 628 00:57:41,457 --> 00:57:42,517 Mama went out. 629 00:57:42,858 --> 00:57:44,988 The doctor told you to stay in bed! 630 00:57:45,494 --> 00:57:46,524 Come with me. 631 00:58:03,112 --> 00:58:05,602 "My life began the day I met you." 632 00:58:06,482 --> 00:58:07,972 Say it in Latin. 633 00:58:11,854 --> 00:58:14,524 "I'd give eternity for a day with you." 634 00:58:18,427 --> 00:58:20,087 Kiss me! 635 00:58:25,034 --> 00:58:26,194 How long was she here? 636 00:58:26,836 --> 00:58:29,856 Elisa? Two years, I think. A bit longer, perhaps. 637 00:58:30,206 --> 00:58:32,166 The servants aren't my domain. 638 00:58:32,508 --> 00:58:36,468 She's not the sort of girl to make up silly stories. 639 00:58:36,812 --> 00:58:38,842 - Not at all. - Why did she leave? 640 00:58:39,048 --> 00:58:41,848 A broken heart, I think. Because of Julien. 641 00:58:42,017 --> 00:58:43,507 Or so I heard. 642 00:58:43,853 --> 00:58:45,553 And if we employed her? 643 00:58:45,855 --> 00:58:48,845 I'd have no objection. She's an excellent maid. 644 00:58:49,024 --> 00:58:52,984 My wife can tell you more. We'll be back at Verrières soon. 645 00:58:53,162 --> 00:58:55,492 You can ask her then. 646 00:59:07,810 --> 00:59:09,510 Your wife must be tired. 647 00:59:09,812 --> 00:59:11,542 Give her my regards. 648 00:59:11,847 --> 00:59:15,107 Yes, she is quite exhausted. Bon voyage! 649 00:59:20,422 --> 00:59:22,122 No longer afraid? 650 00:59:22,591 --> 00:59:26,191 "Fear", "repentance"... What do those words mean? 651 00:59:39,842 --> 00:59:42,872 Falcoz, did you write this, you bounder! 652 00:59:43,045 --> 00:59:44,975 - Let go! - Did you or didn't you? 653 00:59:46,181 --> 00:59:48,881 It was you who wrote to the ministry: 654 00:59:49,051 --> 00:59:53,011 "Ruin all the little printers and create a monopoly." 655 00:59:53,889 --> 00:59:56,519 You tried to ruin me after 20 years of friendship! 656 00:59:56,859 --> 00:59:59,159 And now you accuse me of God knows what! 657 00:59:59,528 --> 01:00:01,118 Here, read this. 658 01:00:09,104 --> 01:00:11,204 I'm sorry, I lost my head. 659 01:00:12,641 --> 01:00:14,511 Leave us. Go on! 660 01:00:22,117 --> 01:00:23,137 Any truth in it? 661 01:00:23,485 --> 01:00:26,505 If I catch him with my wife I'll kill them both! 662 01:00:26,689 --> 01:00:29,889 "This peasant of a tutor is your wife's lover." 663 01:00:30,192 --> 01:00:32,852 Who is he? And why accuse me? 664 01:00:34,196 --> 01:00:37,186 - The carpenter's son. - Julien Sorel? 665 01:00:37,633 --> 01:00:39,933 If I kill him everyone will condone it. 666 01:00:40,102 --> 01:00:42,042 The law, my friends, a jury... 667 01:00:44,506 --> 01:00:48,196 A knife in his gut... I could stab him in the gut! 668 01:00:50,579 --> 01:00:54,909 What a scandal! It would even make the Paris newspapers. 669 01:00:56,285 --> 01:00:59,515 Someone of my birth, too... and with my success! 670 01:00:59,855 --> 01:01:01,815 My factories, my chateau... 671 01:01:03,592 --> 01:01:05,652 I've got plenty of enemies, though. 672 01:01:06,161 --> 01:01:09,601 I'd have to go abroad, change my name. 673 01:01:09,898 --> 01:01:14,098 Or I give him a good hiding and kick her out like a whore! 674 01:01:17,239 --> 01:01:18,829 It's Elisa. 675 01:01:23,646 --> 01:01:25,906 Mr Julien, I have something to tell you. 676 01:01:27,082 --> 01:01:30,522 Ask Mr Ducros to order Montaigne's essays for us. 677 01:01:32,221 --> 01:01:34,661 I've done something terrible. 678 01:01:34,957 --> 01:01:37,927 - I talked to Mr Valenod. - About what? 679 01:01:38,627 --> 01:01:42,557 I told him everything about what I know, what I saw. 680 01:01:43,198 --> 01:01:45,028 That she's your mistress. 681 01:01:45,567 --> 01:01:49,087 Who? Who's my mistress? 682 01:01:56,211 --> 01:01:58,581 That was an abominable thing to do! 683 01:02:00,215 --> 01:02:03,975 He sent an anonymous letter to Mr de Rênal. 684 01:02:04,153 --> 01:02:07,853 He cut the words out of a newspaper. I'm sorry. 685 01:02:08,557 --> 01:02:11,887 What if it's all lies? It must happen to lots of women. 686 01:02:13,128 --> 01:02:15,958 People are getting to me through her. 687 01:02:16,131 --> 01:02:17,861 And I fall for it! 688 01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:22,560 She's a wonderful woman, she's always been a perfect wife. 689 01:02:23,872 --> 01:02:25,102 Always! 690 01:02:26,608 --> 01:02:28,238 What can I do? 691 01:02:33,182 --> 01:02:34,652 What should I do? 692 01:02:35,951 --> 01:02:37,941 We saw Elisa this afternoon. 693 01:02:38,887 --> 01:02:39,887 How is she? 694 01:02:40,489 --> 01:02:43,619 - She's working for Mr Valenod. - That's right. 695 01:02:43,926 --> 01:02:47,186 They came here the other day, asking about her. 696 01:02:47,563 --> 01:02:49,593 I forgot to mention it. Sorry. 697 01:02:50,199 --> 01:02:52,959 I'm sure she's still very fond of you, Julien. 698 01:02:53,135 --> 01:02:55,095 And that it's not too late. 699 01:02:55,504 --> 01:02:57,904 She's pretty, too... quite delicate. 700 01:02:59,508 --> 01:03:02,908 - Yes, she's very pretty! - What do you mean by that? 701 01:03:04,513 --> 01:03:08,953 Nothing. She's a young girl... who's very ambitious. 702 01:03:09,618 --> 01:03:12,848 And so are you. It's not necessarily a failing. 703 01:03:13,922 --> 01:03:15,892 Ambition, shared by two people, 704 01:03:16,492 --> 01:03:18,222 is better than selfishness. 705 01:03:18,594 --> 01:03:19,654 Don't you think? 706 01:03:22,231 --> 01:03:23,461 Oh, yes. 707 01:03:46,255 --> 01:03:48,185 Are you sure he's asleep? 708 01:03:52,261 --> 01:03:53,851 Sit down. 709 01:03:58,267 --> 01:04:00,957 Go on, write. We'll confuse things. 710 01:04:03,505 --> 01:04:04,505 "Madam,." 711 01:04:08,210 --> 01:04:10,440 "I know your secret." 712 01:04:15,450 --> 01:04:17,180 "It is with the best of intentions" 713 01:04:19,621 --> 01:04:22,091 "that I advise you to end your affair" 714 01:04:23,926 --> 01:04:25,856 "with that little schemer..." 715 01:04:26,528 --> 01:04:29,858 Write it: "that little schemer..." 716 01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:35,000 "on whom you bestow such indecent favours." 717 01:04:39,975 --> 01:04:41,495 That part's true! 718 01:04:42,177 --> 01:04:43,237 Carry on. 719 01:04:46,248 --> 01:04:48,108 "Your husband knows." 720 01:04:49,885 --> 01:04:51,215 "We've seen to that." 721 01:04:55,023 --> 01:04:58,933 Cut the words out and stick them on this sheet of paper. 722 01:05:02,197 --> 01:05:03,887 Why are you looking at me? 723 01:05:04,166 --> 01:05:05,826 I don't know. 724 01:05:07,502 --> 01:05:10,802 One moment you're full of remorse, 725 01:05:10,973 --> 01:05:13,133 the next you're hatching plans... 726 01:05:19,147 --> 01:05:20,807 This way. Come on. 727 01:05:57,853 --> 01:05:59,253 Please, wait. 728 01:06:00,789 --> 01:06:02,189 I want you. 729 01:06:03,959 --> 01:06:05,819 No, not now. 730 01:06:05,994 --> 01:06:08,464 I'll read the letter to him 731 01:06:08,630 --> 01:06:12,190 and insist on your leaving. But not for too long... 732 01:06:13,602 --> 01:06:17,472 I'll change my mind, and you can come back. 733 01:06:19,841 --> 01:06:23,801 I want you, more than yesterday, more than ever. 734 01:06:29,618 --> 01:06:31,978 Madam! Mrs de Rênal! 735 01:06:33,455 --> 01:06:37,515 You'll have to find yourself a new confessor. 736 01:06:37,826 --> 01:06:40,086 - Why? - I'm going to retire. 737 01:06:40,495 --> 01:06:42,485 Already? What a shame! 738 01:06:43,031 --> 01:06:45,631 I'm sorry but we're expecting guests... 739 01:06:46,168 --> 01:06:48,068 As I shan't see you any more 740 01:06:48,236 --> 01:06:51,826 I wanted to ask you a favour before I go. 741 01:06:52,174 --> 01:06:55,544 Julien must go to the seminary as soon as possible. 742 01:06:55,844 --> 01:06:58,514 Julien is free to do whatever he wishes. 743 01:06:59,514 --> 01:07:03,114 Julien mustn't end up as just another tutor. 744 01:07:03,452 --> 01:07:07,082 He's too talented for that. A wonderful career awaits him... 745 01:07:07,622 --> 01:07:11,082 if his reputation as a lady's man doesn't spread any further. 746 01:07:11,493 --> 01:07:15,903 Your destiny is your own affair, but you're hurting him, madam. 747 01:07:16,131 --> 01:07:18,001 You must dismiss him. 748 01:07:18,166 --> 01:07:22,126 By keeping him close to you you are ruining his life. 749 01:07:23,905 --> 01:07:26,135 Louise, I was looking for you. 750 01:07:27,876 --> 01:07:30,166 No, don't go, father... 751 01:07:30,846 --> 01:07:33,206 - Dinner on Tuesday? - Tuesday, fine. 752 01:07:33,548 --> 01:07:35,538 Bring your protégé. 753 01:07:35,851 --> 01:07:38,841 He's so charming, like a faithful little dog! 754 01:07:40,055 --> 01:07:41,575 When you're done with him 755 01:07:41,890 --> 01:07:43,150 we'll take him. 756 01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:46,990 Tuesday, then. 757 01:07:47,963 --> 01:07:50,493 Yes, you like other people's cast-offs! 758 01:08:05,614 --> 01:08:07,814 Excuse me, I must speak to my husband. 759 01:08:09,117 --> 01:08:10,807 Excuse me, gentlemen. 760 01:08:12,020 --> 01:08:13,020 Read this. 761 01:08:14,489 --> 01:08:18,019 Someone handed it to me in town and then ran away. 762 01:08:18,193 --> 01:08:21,133 It's terrible. We have to dismiss that boy. 763 01:08:21,463 --> 01:08:24,433 Give him some money so he can go. Anywhere! 764 01:08:25,133 --> 01:08:26,933 He'll find a job. 765 01:08:27,102 --> 01:08:29,802 The Valenods and Mongirons are both after him. Let him go! 766 01:08:30,038 --> 01:08:31,198 Be quiet! 767 01:08:31,940 --> 01:08:34,100 Think about it for a moment. 768 01:08:34,576 --> 01:08:37,836 It's true you've been buying lots of new dresses recently. 769 01:08:39,815 --> 01:08:42,145 I've been calumnied and that's all you can say! 770 01:08:42,517 --> 01:08:45,537 Look, making a fuss about this would look very bad. 771 01:08:45,854 --> 01:08:47,854 Everyone would love that. 772 01:08:47,989 --> 01:08:49,219 We must act together. 773 01:08:50,625 --> 01:08:53,885 Together? Did you also receive an anonymous letter? 774 01:08:54,229 --> 01:08:56,659 Did you tell me? You don't trust me! 775 01:08:57,032 --> 01:08:58,662 It didn't seem important. 776 01:08:58,967 --> 01:09:02,797 But we have a dangerous individual under our own roof! 777 01:09:02,971 --> 01:09:05,461 For all his fine ways he has no tact. 778 01:09:05,807 --> 01:09:07,037 It's his fault. 779 01:09:07,175 --> 01:09:10,605 Refusing to marry Elisa because of her secret liaisons with... 780 01:09:12,547 --> 01:09:17,037 - With whom? - Valenod. Everyone knows. 781 01:09:19,154 --> 01:09:20,154 What? 782 01:09:20,489 --> 01:09:22,549 He wanted me, but the maid would do. 783 01:09:23,892 --> 01:09:25,592 Why didn't you tell me? 784 01:09:25,894 --> 01:09:28,194 Because he's your best friend. 785 01:09:28,897 --> 01:09:31,197 But I've never liked him, as you know. 786 01:09:31,566 --> 01:09:33,926 His letters are trite. And his poems... 787 01:09:34,102 --> 01:09:35,972 He's written to you! 788 01:09:36,571 --> 01:09:39,601 Dozens of letters, each one more inept than the last. 789 01:09:41,977 --> 01:09:44,837 - Calm down. - Give me the key, then. 790 01:09:45,013 --> 01:09:47,483 No. It's a matter of principle. 791 01:10:18,013 --> 01:10:20,003 The bastard! I'll kill him. 792 01:10:20,182 --> 01:10:21,512 Calm down and listen. 793 01:10:22,584 --> 01:10:24,024 You'll be an MP soon. 794 01:10:24,986 --> 01:10:29,856 The King even hinted there may be higher honours for you. 795 01:10:31,126 --> 01:10:34,246 If you confront Valenod, the whole area will know, 796 01:10:34,596 --> 01:10:35,886 and Paris, too, 797 01:10:36,131 --> 01:10:39,071 that you rub shoulders with a parvenu like him. 798 01:10:39,968 --> 01:10:42,898 Don't talk to Valenod, and dismiss Julien. 799 01:10:43,038 --> 01:10:45,128 If you don't, I will! 800 01:10:46,875 --> 01:10:50,105 But it has to be done right, so no one suspects anything. 801 01:10:50,278 --> 01:10:51,908 You said so yourself. 802 01:10:53,014 --> 01:10:55,184 So, to thank Julien for his hard work, 803 01:10:55,550 --> 01:10:59,110 you've decided to pay his fees at the seminary. 804 01:10:59,988 --> 01:11:01,178 All his fees? 805 01:11:01,523 --> 01:11:03,223 Do you want to shut them up? 806 01:11:04,526 --> 01:11:07,886 Lots of people envy you. And why is that? 807 01:11:08,897 --> 01:11:11,827 Because of your talents. You're a good mayor. 808 01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:14,940 You have several houses, tastefully furnished. 809 01:11:15,103 --> 01:11:18,133 My dowry was considerable and I'll inherit even more. 810 01:11:20,075 --> 01:11:22,595 You're the most important man in the area. 811 01:11:22,911 --> 01:11:24,851 What do you expect? 812 01:11:25,013 --> 01:11:26,243 People are jealous. 813 01:11:30,585 --> 01:11:32,205 You are so clever. 814 01:11:33,154 --> 01:11:37,184 You noticed my new dresses? So you do look at me! 815 01:11:39,261 --> 01:11:40,261 Of course. 816 01:11:45,567 --> 01:11:48,197 Your friends are waiting. 817 01:11:51,273 --> 01:11:52,573 Thank you. 818 01:13:24,799 --> 01:13:26,269 I didn't sleep a wink. 819 01:13:28,636 --> 01:13:30,866 Why didn't you let me in? 820 01:13:32,474 --> 01:13:36,884 He'll pay all your fees for two years, Julien. 821 01:13:37,011 --> 01:13:38,571 It's wonderful! 822 01:13:39,881 --> 01:13:44,221 You must go to the seminary. It will open doors for you. 823 01:13:44,919 --> 01:13:47,479 Why didn't you let me in? 824 01:13:48,189 --> 01:13:50,659 Maybe I should learn to know my place! 825 01:13:54,562 --> 01:13:56,092 It had to happen one day. 826 01:13:56,264 --> 01:13:59,604 You have no right to say that, Julien, no right! 827 01:14:03,171 --> 01:14:04,471 I love you. 828 01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:09,200 I believe in you, I want you to go far. 829 01:14:10,145 --> 01:14:12,605 Is that the only reason? 830 01:14:14,916 --> 01:14:16,846 I don't want to lose you. 831 01:14:17,018 --> 01:14:18,988 You don't understand. 832 01:14:19,621 --> 01:14:23,151 I'm doing this for you. I can't live without you. 833 01:14:24,526 --> 01:14:25,816 You'll forget me. 834 01:14:25,994 --> 01:14:30,664 I thought that you... had already forgotten me. 835 01:14:46,147 --> 01:14:48,167 I'll leave immediately. 836 01:15:21,516 --> 01:15:24,076 - What's your name? - Julien Sorel. 837 01:15:27,522 --> 01:15:29,112 You took your time. 838 01:15:30,925 --> 01:15:32,615 It's very late. 839 01:15:34,596 --> 01:15:38,556 Anyway, he's waited for you. 840 01:15:48,543 --> 01:15:49,543 Come! 841 01:15:50,645 --> 01:15:52,075 He's here. 842 01:15:54,649 --> 01:15:56,169 Come on in. 843 01:16:01,189 --> 01:16:03,889 I have a letter... of recommendation. 844 01:16:05,193 --> 01:16:06,633 Sit down. 845 01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:13,970 "This is to introduce Julien Sorel, 846 01:16:14,135 --> 01:16:16,125 "whom I baptised myself. 847 01:16:16,871 --> 01:16:19,001 "The son of a carpenter," 848 01:16:19,941 --> 01:16:22,571 "I think he will nevertheless work hard" 849 01:16:22,877 --> 01:16:24,867 "as a servant of God." 850 01:16:27,048 --> 01:16:31,538 "He has a good memory, is not lacking in intelligence," 851 01:16:32,153 --> 01:16:34,623 "and is a fine Latin scholar..." 852 01:16:39,027 --> 01:16:42,487 "Will his vocation be a sincere and lasting one? 853 01:16:43,231 --> 01:16:45,201 "Only God knows. 854 01:16:46,467 --> 01:16:49,597 "His fees will be paid by his former employer," 855 01:16:49,904 --> 01:16:52,844 "Mr de Rênal, the mayor of Verrières." 856 01:16:53,141 --> 01:16:55,671 "I have done the Lord's work now for 40 years" 857 01:16:55,977 --> 01:17:00,537 "and am looking forward to a quiet retirement." 858 01:17:05,787 --> 01:17:07,117 Good old Chélan! 859 01:17:07,789 --> 01:17:11,619 God grant us his serenity! A sincere vocation? 860 01:17:14,896 --> 01:17:16,016 "Only God knows." 861 01:17:18,032 --> 01:17:21,562 If you hadn't been recommended by such a man, 862 01:17:22,537 --> 01:17:26,027 I'd warn you about this deceitful world, 863 01:17:26,207 --> 01:17:30,007 its vain conceits, and all of that... 864 01:17:31,145 --> 01:17:33,165 But I suppose he's already done that. 865 01:17:34,949 --> 01:17:38,939 Yes, and I give you my word of honour that... 866 01:17:39,187 --> 01:17:41,047 That means nothing here, 867 01:17:41,222 --> 01:17:44,212 that so-called honour that people in the world use 868 01:17:44,592 --> 01:17:47,862 to justify all their faults and crimes. 869 01:17:50,565 --> 01:17:51,615 The "ad sacram" bull? 870 01:17:53,935 --> 01:17:56,555 In the year 1656, 871 01:17:57,038 --> 01:18:00,498 Pope Alexander Vll issued the "ad sacram" bull, 872 01:18:00,808 --> 01:18:02,168 condemning the Jansenists, 873 01:18:02,543 --> 01:18:06,003 despite the intervention of Pascal who... 874 01:18:06,781 --> 01:18:07,811 Very good. 875 01:18:09,484 --> 01:18:13,444 What about faith? Do you have faith? 876 01:18:13,621 --> 01:18:17,491 That of the heart. Not that of reason. 877 01:18:18,893 --> 01:18:21,623 Pascal again. 878 01:18:22,597 --> 01:18:25,187 It's late. We'll talk again. 879 01:18:26,134 --> 01:18:29,504 You have cell number 103, Mr Sorel. 880 01:19:12,013 --> 01:19:15,413 Improve yourselves, of course. Study hard. 881 01:19:17,185 --> 01:19:19,115 That's why you're here. 882 01:19:19,821 --> 01:19:22,051 But above all, learn to submit 883 01:19:22,190 --> 01:19:24,420 to the Pope's beneficence. 884 01:19:24,992 --> 01:19:27,932 It is on him, and him alone, after God, 885 01:19:28,096 --> 01:19:29,886 that your future depends. 886 01:19:31,132 --> 01:19:32,622 The fact is 887 01:19:32,934 --> 01:19:35,804 that you will need the security of... 888 01:19:36,437 --> 01:19:38,027 Yes, Mr Sorel? 889 01:19:38,906 --> 01:19:42,636 Studying the sacred texts and the great theologians, 890 01:19:43,444 --> 01:19:46,904 striving to the best of our abilities 891 01:19:47,081 --> 01:19:48,981 to elevate our souls... 892 01:19:49,650 --> 01:19:52,080 You're telling us that all that is secondary? 893 01:19:52,220 --> 01:19:55,160 It's important, very important. 894 01:19:55,890 --> 01:19:57,150 But secondary. 895 01:19:57,525 --> 01:20:00,815 It's more important to study flattery 896 01:20:01,028 --> 01:20:03,188 and servility 897 01:20:03,598 --> 01:20:04,898 than St Augustine? 898 01:20:05,466 --> 01:20:07,456 All I'm saying, Mr Sorel, 899 01:20:08,503 --> 01:20:11,233 is that on a cold winter day 900 01:20:12,073 --> 01:20:15,173 when you trudge home to an empty larder, 901 01:20:15,943 --> 01:20:18,913 you may rue the time you chose to spend with St Augustine 902 01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:22,050 rather than in flattering the old curate you're replacing. 903 01:20:23,050 --> 01:20:24,110 End of lesson. 904 01:20:24,685 --> 01:20:26,205 Think about it. 905 01:20:54,248 --> 01:20:56,048 Pope? Why not? 906 01:20:56,217 --> 01:20:58,617 Sixtus the Fifth was a swineherd as a boy. 907 01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:02,010 Keep dreaming! Only Italians get to be pope. 908 01:21:02,156 --> 01:21:05,986 Bishop, then! The Bishop of Châlon's father was a cooper. 909 01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,090 Mine was a butcher. Just as good! 910 01:21:09,030 --> 01:21:12,520 I'd like a nice mountain parish. Chickens, eggs, cheese... 911 01:21:12,867 --> 01:21:14,627 Better than being in a city. 912 01:21:16,237 --> 01:21:19,537 What's wrong, Martin Luther? Don't you like sausages? 913 01:21:20,174 --> 01:21:22,644 Ah, he looks all unhappy! 914 01:21:23,044 --> 01:21:25,244 Did the lentils give you the wind? 915 01:21:26,047 --> 01:21:28,037 No, you haven't touched them! 916 01:21:33,020 --> 01:21:34,950 You're too different. 917 01:21:35,122 --> 01:21:37,992 You'll always be apart from them. 918 01:21:38,693 --> 01:21:40,893 I keep myself informed. 919 01:21:41,062 --> 01:21:44,232 I know you're top in theology, history and algebra. 920 01:21:45,633 --> 01:21:49,693 You live in your dreams or in your books. 921 01:21:50,004 --> 01:21:54,634 You despise your classmates and scorn your teachers. 922 01:22:00,147 --> 01:22:03,807 Pride... pride... 923 01:22:04,986 --> 01:22:08,006 I hoped I'd find someone here who could be my guide. 924 01:22:10,024 --> 01:22:12,154 But I've found no one at all. 925 01:22:12,627 --> 01:22:15,527 I would have done you more harm than good. 926 01:22:16,230 --> 01:22:20,860 I myself am in a rather difficult position. 927 01:22:21,035 --> 01:22:23,085 I'm suspected of Jansenism. 928 01:22:23,571 --> 01:22:27,101 I'm also the lawyer of a rich man in Paris: The Marquis de la Mole. 929 01:22:27,241 --> 01:22:29,231 That's held against me, too. 930 01:22:31,245 --> 01:22:35,605 After fifteen years in this post I might be forced to leave. 931 01:22:35,950 --> 01:22:37,110 Who will replace you? 932 01:22:38,019 --> 01:22:40,679 Father Frilair, a Jesuit. 933 01:22:41,222 --> 01:22:42,882 He hates me. 934 01:22:43,557 --> 01:22:47,017 If you'd been my protégé, he'd make you suffer. 935 01:22:48,996 --> 01:22:51,686 I can do something for you before I go. 936 01:22:52,266 --> 01:22:56,256 I can give you the position of reader in the refectory. 937 01:22:57,571 --> 01:22:58,631 Would you do that? 938 01:22:58,940 --> 01:23:02,600 You'll be able to eat alone, an hour before the others. 939 01:23:03,644 --> 01:23:06,614 Here's the key to the garden. You can go for walks. 940 01:23:10,818 --> 01:23:13,078 - Thank you, father. - Oh, come now. 941 01:23:14,889 --> 01:23:17,219 I've been watching you for a few months. 942 01:23:17,525 --> 01:23:21,615 I'm not supposed to have special feelings for individuals. 943 01:23:24,231 --> 01:23:29,231 But I've grown very fond of you, my child... 944 01:23:30,104 --> 01:23:31,234 in spite of myself. 945 01:23:33,507 --> 01:23:36,567 There's something in you which won't tolerate mediocrity. 946 01:23:37,912 --> 01:23:41,182 You'll have a difficult career. You'll be hated. 947 01:23:41,515 --> 01:23:43,915 You'll be slandered and envied. 948 01:23:44,485 --> 01:23:49,045 But stay true to your principles whatever happens. 949 01:23:51,659 --> 01:23:55,489 I saved some money when I was working as a tutor. 950 01:23:55,963 --> 01:23:58,523 If you need it, it's yours. 951 01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:01,530 That won't be necessary. Thank you. 952 01:24:02,903 --> 01:24:04,173 Now leave me. 953 01:24:08,943 --> 01:24:13,943 Father, I haven't been sent any letters here, have I? 954 01:24:14,982 --> 01:24:15,982 Not one. 955 01:24:22,957 --> 01:24:24,217 Not one. 956 01:24:25,092 --> 01:24:27,462 It's so good to see you. 957 01:24:28,229 --> 01:24:30,559 I've been coming every month for nine months. 958 01:24:30,865 --> 01:24:32,625 They never let me in. 959 01:24:32,933 --> 01:24:35,633 Today I slipped some money to him at the gate. 960 01:24:35,936 --> 01:24:38,596 I should have thought of it earlier. 961 01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,040 Look at you! Aren't you eating? 962 01:24:42,209 --> 01:24:46,539 Yes, I eat. And I go for walks in the garden. 963 01:24:46,914 --> 01:24:48,944 I'm allowed to eat alone. 964 01:24:49,116 --> 01:24:51,236 Those oafs hate me. And it's mutual. 965 01:24:51,619 --> 01:24:52,849 So I see. 966 01:24:55,089 --> 01:24:57,219 Verrières had nothing on this place! 967 01:24:58,059 --> 01:25:00,079 This is the home of hypocrisy. 968 01:25:02,096 --> 01:25:05,496 The religion here is the worship of money. 969 01:25:05,833 --> 01:25:07,493 It's their only religion! 970 01:25:08,536 --> 01:25:10,936 - Do you want some news? - You have some? 971 01:25:11,472 --> 01:25:13,132 She's become very pious. 972 01:25:13,641 --> 01:25:16,011 She only goes out to go to confession. 973 01:25:16,444 --> 01:25:19,114 And the new priest is very strict. 974 01:25:21,515 --> 01:25:24,135 - Have you seen her? - The other day, 975 01:25:24,518 --> 01:25:26,078 coming from mass. 976 01:25:29,457 --> 01:25:32,047 Tell me, how was she? 977 01:25:34,161 --> 01:25:35,861 She must have changed. 978 01:25:36,030 --> 01:25:37,660 I haven't had one letter! 979 01:25:38,065 --> 01:25:40,495 It was for your own good. 980 01:25:41,235 --> 01:25:42,235 Yes, I know. 981 01:25:44,105 --> 01:25:48,005 Look, I don't think I'll stay here much longer. 982 01:25:48,476 --> 01:25:50,876 My door is always open, you know that. 983 01:25:51,045 --> 01:25:52,835 The Father Superior... 984 01:25:53,013 --> 01:25:55,483 Father Pirard told me that... 985 01:25:55,649 --> 01:25:58,079 perhaps I could go to him in Paris. 986 01:26:04,558 --> 01:26:07,488 There, next to the chest. 987 01:26:12,133 --> 01:26:15,433 No, don't put it down. Stand it up, that's it. 988 01:26:16,470 --> 01:26:17,630 Good. 989 01:26:21,008 --> 01:26:22,498 A bit to the right. 990 01:26:24,578 --> 01:26:26,908 Above the chair. Yes, come in. 991 01:26:27,081 --> 01:26:28,571 Above the chair. 992 01:26:31,085 --> 01:26:33,135 That's it! Hang it there. 993 01:26:33,554 --> 01:26:35,024 Mr Sorel, I'll be brief. 994 01:26:35,156 --> 01:26:37,886 I know you've had special treatment, 995 01:26:38,058 --> 01:26:41,218 but I'm going to run things differently. 996 01:26:41,996 --> 01:26:44,226 Put them away. 997 01:26:44,565 --> 01:26:48,225 I won't tolerate privilege in this establishment. 998 01:26:48,602 --> 01:26:50,932 You will henceforth eat with your classmates. 999 01:26:51,238 --> 01:26:52,538 Yes, father. 1000 01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:56,610 Take this box, there are a few things... 1001 01:26:57,044 --> 01:26:58,884 The key to the garden. 1002 01:27:03,918 --> 01:27:06,178 There are a few things in this box 1003 01:27:06,554 --> 01:27:09,824 that Father Pirard left in the bottom of a cupboard. 1004 01:27:10,958 --> 01:27:13,118 Make sure they get to him. 1005 01:27:13,994 --> 01:27:16,904 You know where he is, I suppose? 1006 01:27:17,198 --> 01:27:19,188 With his friend the Marquis. 1007 01:27:19,567 --> 01:27:21,057 Yes, father, I know. 1008 01:27:21,802 --> 01:27:25,432 Very well. You may go. 1009 01:27:56,837 --> 01:27:59,237 Julien, my love, 1010 01:28:00,074 --> 01:28:02,134 I've found peace at last. 1011 01:28:02,910 --> 01:28:05,500 Heaven has chosen not to hate 1012 01:28:05,813 --> 01:28:07,183 my partner in sin, 1013 01:28:07,548 --> 01:28:10,418 who will always be most dear to me, 1014 01:28:11,085 --> 01:28:12,805 but the sin itself. 1015 01:28:13,787 --> 01:28:15,877 I have made my sacrifice 1016 01:28:16,523 --> 01:28:18,423 and shed many a tear. 1017 01:28:19,093 --> 01:28:22,093 A vengeful but just God 1018 01:28:22,429 --> 01:28:26,629 will never punish my son for my unforgivable sins. 1019 01:28:27,167 --> 01:28:31,037 Farewell, Julien. Please do not reply. 1020 01:28:32,206 --> 01:28:34,896 Or, if you must, 1021 01:28:36,010 --> 01:28:37,570 use words 1022 01:28:37,878 --> 01:28:41,908 that a woman returned to virtue can read without blushing. 1023 01:28:45,519 --> 01:28:46,519 Be quiet! 1024 01:28:47,021 --> 01:28:48,851 It's me, remember! 1025 01:28:49,023 --> 01:28:52,023 Be quiet, there's a good boy! 1026 01:29:13,814 --> 01:29:15,844 Louise, it's me. Let me in. 1027 01:29:21,989 --> 01:29:23,549 Let me in, please. 1028 01:29:33,133 --> 01:29:34,133 It's me. 1029 01:29:44,511 --> 01:29:46,001 Fourteen months! 1030 01:29:46,180 --> 01:29:47,880 Let go of me! Go away! 1031 01:29:49,950 --> 01:29:51,650 I'll call my husband. 1032 01:29:57,024 --> 01:30:01,154 Go on, then. Call him. 1033 01:30:02,563 --> 01:30:03,933 Call him. 1034 01:30:04,965 --> 01:30:08,055 If you've forgotten me I've got nothing to lose. 1035 01:30:08,502 --> 01:30:11,062 I pity you. Now go! 1036 01:30:12,039 --> 01:30:14,009 You can't do this. 1037 01:30:16,477 --> 01:30:18,667 You haven't seen me for a year. 1038 01:30:20,514 --> 01:30:21,954 Can we at least talk? 1039 01:30:22,883 --> 01:30:25,913 I no longer have the feelings I once had for you. 1040 01:30:28,489 --> 01:30:33,049 Look me in the eyes and tell me you no longer love me. 1041 01:30:36,163 --> 01:30:37,163 Say it! 1042 01:30:37,664 --> 01:30:40,964 I told you in my letters. You never replied. 1043 01:30:41,135 --> 01:30:44,065 I never got your letters until yesterday. 1044 01:30:49,643 --> 01:30:53,583 I've come to say goodbye. I'm going to Paris. 1045 01:30:54,715 --> 01:30:55,975 You're leaving? 1046 01:31:01,021 --> 01:31:02,821 Isn't that what you want? 1047 01:31:05,492 --> 01:31:07,222 You'll never see me again. 1048 01:31:13,033 --> 01:31:15,023 Let us talk, then, if you insist. 1049 01:31:17,037 --> 01:31:19,557 No, leave your hand there. 1050 01:31:28,615 --> 01:31:30,235 How is Stanislas? 1051 01:31:33,153 --> 01:31:35,023 He talks of you often. 1052 01:31:35,956 --> 01:31:38,546 He knew nothing. He was the only one! 1053 01:31:42,896 --> 01:31:44,916 Tell me about the seminary. 1054 01:31:46,900 --> 01:31:50,890 I've never stopped thinking about you, not for a minute. 1055 01:31:53,106 --> 01:31:56,076 I've learnt how to be mediocre, how to be a hypocrite... 1056 01:31:57,678 --> 01:31:59,478 I'm ready for Paris. 1057 01:31:59,980 --> 01:32:03,610 You'll do great things, you'll know real love... 1058 01:32:03,917 --> 01:32:06,937 Don't talk nonsense! 1059 01:32:07,988 --> 01:32:09,978 I know real love already. 1060 01:32:11,124 --> 01:32:15,064 It's you, it's you... 1061 01:32:16,497 --> 01:32:18,017 It's you. 1062 01:33:02,142 --> 01:33:05,202 It's the spare room. Tomorrow morning I'll... 1063 01:33:08,615 --> 01:33:10,975 Don't mention tomorrow. 1064 01:33:12,185 --> 01:33:13,575 Please! 1065 01:33:18,225 --> 01:33:20,055 I'll come back when I can. 1066 01:33:21,161 --> 01:33:23,191 Don't make any noise. 1067 01:33:28,535 --> 01:33:32,225 Get Stanislas to come under the window so I can see him. 1068 01:33:36,610 --> 01:33:37,870 I won't be long. 1069 01:34:05,505 --> 01:34:08,465 I said I had toothache and had my dinner brought up. 1070 01:34:17,651 --> 01:34:19,481 Another night together! 1071 01:34:24,925 --> 01:34:29,055 Tell me about the seminary and Father... Pirard, was it? 1072 01:34:30,530 --> 01:34:32,050 I told you yesterday. 1073 01:34:32,232 --> 01:34:36,032 I wasn't listening then. I was trying to get rid of you. 1074 01:34:38,171 --> 01:34:40,111 Well, he thinks I'm gifted. 1075 01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:42,210 You're intelligent, not gifted! 1076 01:34:43,477 --> 01:34:46,877 Louise, open up! We might have burglars! 1077 01:34:48,482 --> 01:34:51,212 He'll kill you! I can die in your arms. 1078 01:34:51,551 --> 01:34:54,251 Benoît found a horse. Someone must be in the house. 1079 01:34:54,621 --> 01:34:56,181 I'll go out the window. 1080 01:34:56,556 --> 01:34:58,846 - You'll be hurt. - No. 1081 01:34:59,259 --> 01:35:01,629 - Don't go. - Louise, open up! 1082 01:35:08,001 --> 01:35:11,491 Never admit. Think of Stanislas. I love you. - Louise! 1083 01:35:13,006 --> 01:35:14,126 Louise! 1084 01:35:18,145 --> 01:35:20,005 - What is it? - Burglars. 1085 01:35:20,147 --> 01:35:22,047 I'll check your windows. 1086 01:38:07,250 --> 01:38:11,280 THE RED AND THE BLACK (PART TWO) 1087 01:39:08,478 --> 01:39:12,178 So... where's the little genius? 1088 01:39:12,815 --> 01:39:15,545 This is the young Julien Sorel. 1089 01:39:22,592 --> 01:39:23,922 Well, come on in. 1090 01:39:36,873 --> 01:39:38,703 A Latin scholar! 1091 01:39:38,875 --> 01:39:41,805 But are you any good at spelling? 1092 01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:44,909 Well, answer. 1093 01:39:46,215 --> 01:39:47,835 I've read a lot. 1094 01:39:48,417 --> 01:39:49,707 Here you'll be writing. 1095 01:39:51,888 --> 01:39:53,748 I'm behind with my work. 1096 01:39:53,923 --> 01:39:58,553 Over the last two years I've had seven secretaries. All imbeciles! 1097 01:40:00,129 --> 01:40:01,129 Three sugars. 1098 01:40:04,567 --> 01:40:06,657 Apparently you're quick and bright. 1099 01:40:10,473 --> 01:40:15,433 Nothing that I say or that you might overhear 1100 01:40:15,745 --> 01:40:17,735 must ever leave this room. 1101 01:40:19,615 --> 01:40:21,205 It's a trial period. 1102 01:40:21,551 --> 01:40:25,251 If, in a few months, the Marquis decides he doesn't need you... 1103 01:40:25,588 --> 01:40:27,578 I'll go back to the seminary. 1104 01:40:27,924 --> 01:40:30,224 Talking of which, Your Lordship, 1105 01:40:30,526 --> 01:40:33,546 Julien must continue to have theology lessons every day. 1106 01:40:34,664 --> 01:40:36,664 As long as he does his work. 1107 01:40:38,668 --> 01:40:41,158 But as for the black suit... 1108 01:40:43,873 --> 01:40:45,863 - Is it necessary? - Yes. 1109 01:40:48,144 --> 01:40:50,814 Well, how about a different sort of black? 1110 01:40:51,614 --> 01:40:54,714 Something a bit less... mournful. 1111 01:40:55,785 --> 01:40:57,545 An ecclesiastical black! 1112 01:40:57,687 --> 01:41:00,117 Julien isn't a priest. Not yet. 1113 01:41:00,523 --> 01:41:02,723 Not yet. That's fine, then! 1114 01:41:07,163 --> 01:41:09,933 Go and order some suits from my tailor. 1115 01:41:10,399 --> 01:41:13,889 Black, if they must be. And some shirts, of course. 1116 01:41:14,203 --> 01:41:15,863 How many shirts? Two, three? 1117 01:41:16,205 --> 01:41:18,635 Two dozen... to be going on with. 1118 01:41:19,442 --> 01:41:22,842 Go to my bootmaker, too. Here are the addresses. 1119 01:41:24,513 --> 01:41:28,573 Arsène. Henceforth you will see to the needs of Mr... 1120 01:41:28,951 --> 01:41:30,711 Sorel, is that right? 1121 01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:32,550 Very well, Your Lordship. 1122 01:41:33,456 --> 01:41:36,786 I'll get you that rectorship near Lisieux, I promise. 1123 01:41:37,126 --> 01:41:40,426 It's near my château at Plantargis. 1124 01:41:40,596 --> 01:41:42,686 A wonderful place! Will that do you? 1125 01:41:43,165 --> 01:41:45,855 But I still want you to be my barrister. 1126 01:42:03,686 --> 01:42:04,686 Father. 1127 01:42:06,188 --> 01:42:07,748 His bearing... 1128 01:42:08,190 --> 01:42:11,420 A few dance lessons, perhaps, as he's not yet a priest? 1129 01:42:12,495 --> 01:42:13,655 Out of the question! 1130 01:42:18,668 --> 01:42:20,598 Such generosity! 1131 01:42:21,203 --> 01:42:24,233 Mr de Rênal would have died rather than serve me tea. 1132 01:42:24,573 --> 01:42:27,913 He's one of the most noble lords in the kingdom. 1133 01:42:28,644 --> 01:42:31,414 He's generous, but capricious. 1134 01:42:31,747 --> 01:42:34,677 Your father is a carpenter. His ancestors went on crusades. 1135 01:42:34,850 --> 01:42:37,820 And that's the only superiority he recognizes. 1136 01:42:38,621 --> 01:42:41,561 Money comes second, here in the capital. 1137 01:42:42,191 --> 01:42:45,521 Talking of which, you'll get a hundred Louis a year to start. 1138 01:42:46,395 --> 01:42:48,655 Fine... since it comes second. 1139 01:42:57,873 --> 01:43:01,833 Earn their respect... or they'll persecute you. 1140 01:43:09,819 --> 01:43:11,509 I want to thank you. 1141 01:43:11,687 --> 01:43:14,617 You're like a father to me, a real father. 1142 01:43:16,392 --> 01:43:18,222 My father always hated me. 1143 01:43:18,561 --> 01:43:21,721 I thought I was cursed. Then chance brought me to you. 1144 01:43:22,198 --> 01:43:23,888 You helped me, too. 1145 01:43:24,934 --> 01:43:27,704 Take us to Staub's, the Marquis' tailor. 1146 01:43:28,504 --> 01:43:31,204 When I lost my post I was very lonely. 1147 01:43:31,540 --> 01:43:34,130 Everyone turned their back on me. 1148 01:43:34,610 --> 01:43:37,700 But you... you offered me your savings. 1149 01:43:38,147 --> 01:43:42,477 And it wasn't chance, my son, it was providence! 1150 01:43:47,089 --> 01:43:48,649 Good evening, everyone. 1151 01:43:52,361 --> 01:43:54,661 Mathilde is very late this evening. 1152 01:43:55,197 --> 01:43:56,787 It's April 30th. 1153 01:43:57,133 --> 01:44:01,633 You're right! Philippe hadn't better propose tonight. 1154 01:44:02,705 --> 01:44:04,665 Mr Julien de Sorel. 1155 01:44:12,782 --> 01:44:15,182 We're going to dine with a servant! 1156 01:44:15,551 --> 01:44:17,491 Didn't Arsène tell you? 1157 01:44:18,387 --> 01:44:20,447 After six o'clock, one dresses. 1158 01:44:23,559 --> 01:44:26,389 - One dresses? - Yes, with stockings. 1159 01:44:27,830 --> 01:44:29,700 - I'll go and change. - No. 1160 01:44:29,899 --> 01:44:32,559 You'll be all right for tonight. 1161 01:44:33,836 --> 01:44:38,636 Allow me to introduce Julien Sorel. Not "de" Sorel. 1162 01:44:40,509 --> 01:44:42,879 He's my new secretary. 1163 01:44:43,512 --> 01:44:47,472 Baron Coulis, the Baroness, Viscount Sinclair, Lord Suffolk. 1164 01:44:47,817 --> 01:44:50,677 We were all in London during the dark years. 1165 01:44:50,853 --> 01:44:54,523 You're always so dramatic! I prefer to say "the migration". 1166 01:44:56,158 --> 01:44:58,488 - Norbert. - Yes, father. 1167 01:44:59,662 --> 01:45:01,692 - Look after him. - Very well. 1168 01:45:07,403 --> 01:45:08,603 Where's Mathilde got to? 1169 01:45:08,771 --> 01:45:11,171 Madame la Maréchale de Fervaques. 1170 01:45:12,141 --> 01:45:15,371 From the provinces, how refreshing! 1171 01:45:16,745 --> 01:45:19,175 Angélique de la Sainte-Hérédité 1172 01:45:19,482 --> 01:45:21,542 and her fiancé, the Marquis de Rouvray. 1173 01:45:21,684 --> 01:45:23,744 The Duke de Croisenois, Mathilde's fiancé. 1174 01:45:23,919 --> 01:45:26,909 Be quiet, Angélique! It's not official yet. 1175 01:45:28,858 --> 01:45:30,518 Mathilde is your sister? 1176 01:45:30,893 --> 01:45:33,593 Norbert, explain to our friend 1177 01:45:33,863 --> 01:45:37,733 about April 30th, otherwise he won't understand. 1178 01:45:38,067 --> 01:45:41,697 - Supper is served. - I haven't had my champagne yet! 1179 01:45:42,838 --> 01:45:45,808 Papa, you're not mad, are you? I'm only a little late. 1180 01:45:46,142 --> 01:45:49,082 How pretty you are, despite the black dress. 1181 01:45:49,478 --> 01:45:51,838 - And you, Mr Sorel? - In mourning, too? 1182 01:45:52,615 --> 01:45:56,065 Talleyrand will betray Charles X, too. It's a habit with him. 1183 01:45:56,385 --> 01:45:58,615 Who has never betrayed anyone? 1184 01:45:58,787 --> 01:46:02,117 You, Philippe? Talleyrand is the greatest man of the century. 1185 01:46:02,424 --> 01:46:04,524 - He's always changing his mind. - Good. 1186 01:46:04,693 --> 01:46:07,463 Only fools are slaves to their opinions. 1187 01:46:07,630 --> 01:46:08,820 Good evening, Mathilde. 1188 01:46:09,165 --> 01:46:12,615 Let me introduce you to Mr Julien Sorel. 1189 01:46:16,405 --> 01:46:18,525 Are we going to eat? I'm starving! 1190 01:46:22,578 --> 01:46:26,538 I'm not paid by the Marquis to waste my time at his soirées! 1191 01:46:28,684 --> 01:46:29,914 He means well, 1192 01:46:30,386 --> 01:46:32,906 but I'd be happier in a humble little inn. 1193 01:46:34,089 --> 01:46:37,549 People in Paris would kill for an invitation here. 1194 01:46:37,793 --> 01:46:39,823 They're a powerful family. 1195 01:46:40,162 --> 01:46:43,102 Their friends respect them, and respect isn't fun. 1196 01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:47,770 You should see how his daughter looks at them. 1197 01:46:49,805 --> 01:46:52,565 She's pretentious, but she's no fool. 1198 01:46:53,842 --> 01:46:56,682 Which is more than can be said for her fiancé. 1199 01:46:56,845 --> 01:46:58,605 He's a complete buffoon! 1200 01:46:58,781 --> 01:46:59,781 Calm down. 1201 01:47:00,115 --> 01:47:03,345 - So you're going to Normandy? - This evening. 1202 01:47:04,520 --> 01:47:09,390 If only you could fix it... these dinners, these soirées... 1203 01:47:09,558 --> 01:47:11,188 Don't count on me. 1204 01:47:13,596 --> 01:47:14,596 I'd be happier 1205 01:47:14,763 --> 01:47:16,823 in my room with Napoleon's memoirs. 1206 01:47:17,199 --> 01:47:19,859 I've found a fine edition here. 1207 01:47:20,769 --> 01:47:25,099 Christ's teachings would be better for your reputation. 1208 01:47:28,377 --> 01:47:29,867 I'll be back in a few months. 1209 01:47:30,212 --> 01:47:31,742 I'll be lonely. 1210 01:48:17,893 --> 01:48:19,263 Can I help you? 1211 01:48:22,631 --> 01:48:25,691 You don't have to. You're not paid for that! 1212 01:48:26,235 --> 01:48:31,225 But I'm paid to be polite to you. And I have to live off my salary. 1213 01:48:33,676 --> 01:48:37,106 I'm looking for Beaumarchais and Walter Scott. 1214 01:48:38,847 --> 01:48:41,577 I'm still finding my way around... 1215 01:48:44,553 --> 01:48:48,463 And Napoleon's memoirs. Are they here... or in your room? 1216 01:48:50,926 --> 01:48:52,586 Walter Scott. 1217 01:48:52,761 --> 01:48:55,201 I think I saw him this morning. 1218 01:48:57,533 --> 01:49:00,563 I believe, mademoiselle, that France's finest years 1219 01:49:00,703 --> 01:49:03,193 were those during which the Emperor reigned. 1220 01:49:03,505 --> 01:49:04,795 "Reigned" is right. 1221 01:49:05,140 --> 01:49:07,730 He gave back to France all the pomp 1222 01:49:07,910 --> 01:49:10,240 that the Revolution did away with. 1223 01:49:11,547 --> 01:49:13,477 That's not all he did! 1224 01:49:15,184 --> 01:49:17,784 No, he killed thousands of soldiers, too. 1225 01:49:17,953 --> 01:49:20,623 He was on the battlefields with them! 1226 01:49:20,923 --> 01:49:23,923 That's riskier than cowering in the better parts of town, 1227 01:49:24,259 --> 01:49:26,959 trembling lest the Revolution starts again! 1228 01:49:27,529 --> 01:49:29,659 Walter Scott, "lvanhoe". There! 1229 01:49:30,833 --> 01:49:33,463 At dinner we can't discuss God, the King 1230 01:49:33,635 --> 01:49:36,725 or the Revolution. Especially not to condone it! 1231 01:49:37,139 --> 01:49:39,399 So all that's left is the weather. 1232 01:49:39,575 --> 01:49:41,475 It bores me stiff, too. 1233 01:49:41,844 --> 01:49:44,114 So feel free to tell me your ideas. 1234 01:49:44,413 --> 01:49:47,683 If you tell your father about this, I will have to leave. 1235 01:50:16,712 --> 01:50:19,512 - Papa, I must talk to you. - Yes, my dear. 1236 01:50:53,382 --> 01:50:56,512 I'm furious, absolutely furious! 1237 01:50:58,787 --> 01:51:01,877 I'm disappointed, exasperated! 1238 01:51:02,591 --> 01:51:03,851 Sit down. 1239 01:51:05,861 --> 01:51:07,191 Write! 1240 01:51:08,163 --> 01:51:09,393 "Sir..." 1241 01:51:11,567 --> 01:51:14,427 No. "My Dear Friend..." 1242 01:51:16,638 --> 01:51:20,768 "To my great regret, the arrangement we had agreed on" 1243 01:51:21,543 --> 01:51:23,413 "will have to be cancelled..." 1244 01:51:25,914 --> 01:51:27,884 What are you waiting for? 1245 01:51:31,487 --> 01:51:35,857 - Is it to Father Pirard? - Father Pirard? No, why? 1246 01:51:42,364 --> 01:51:43,364 I don't know. 1247 01:51:43,665 --> 01:51:46,755 It's to the Duke de Croisenois, 1248 01:51:47,202 --> 01:51:49,402 180 Rue Saint-Honoré. 1249 01:51:50,873 --> 01:51:53,103 "My Dear Friend, the arrangement..." 1250 01:51:53,842 --> 01:51:57,112 No, that won't do. Damnation! I do just what she asks! 1251 01:51:58,146 --> 01:52:01,906 "My Dear Friend, I am happy that our families are to be united." 1252 01:52:02,618 --> 01:52:07,108 Full stop. "However..." 1253 01:52:09,925 --> 01:52:10,925 However? 1254 01:52:12,561 --> 01:52:15,721 Damnation! I'm so indulgent with that girl. 1255 01:52:18,467 --> 01:52:21,437 "However, it seems wise 1256 01:52:22,237 --> 01:52:26,867 "to put off the engagement for a few more months. 1257 01:52:27,709 --> 01:52:30,439 "Mathilde is leaving today 1258 01:52:30,846 --> 01:52:35,366 "to spend the summer at our home in Uzès." 1259 01:52:36,451 --> 01:52:39,581 "This delay, a minor inconvenience," 1260 01:52:40,088 --> 01:52:42,558 "will give us the time" 1261 01:52:42,724 --> 01:52:47,494 "to sort out the details of my daughter's dowry..." 1262 01:52:50,499 --> 01:52:53,629 Do you think you should say, "a minor inconvenience"? 1263 01:52:54,202 --> 01:52:57,432 - Am I overdoing it? - The delay is inconvenient. 1264 01:52:57,739 --> 01:52:59,429 You know it. He'll know it. 1265 01:52:59,608 --> 01:53:04,198 By calling it "minor", you're stressing that it isn't! 1266 01:53:04,780 --> 01:53:09,650 OK. Finish it in the usual way. I'll read it later. 1267 01:53:09,885 --> 01:53:12,545 It's almost three o'clock. 1268 01:53:12,688 --> 01:53:13,918 Your theology class. 1269 01:53:14,423 --> 01:53:17,223 I don't want to be told off by Father Pirard. 1270 01:53:36,144 --> 01:53:38,174 - Is Julien Sorel here? - No. 1271 01:53:38,480 --> 01:53:40,570 Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 1272 01:53:40,749 --> 01:53:44,579 He'll be at his dance lesson today, the Rue de Condé. 1273 01:53:44,753 --> 01:53:46,553 You can't miss it. 1274 01:53:55,197 --> 01:53:57,387 Progress? Not in theology! 1275 01:53:57,566 --> 01:53:59,726 Nobody's seen you for six months. 1276 01:53:59,901 --> 01:54:03,561 I've been travelling around France to the Marquis' properties. 1277 01:54:03,739 --> 01:54:07,469 I check things are in good order, do the stocktaking... 1278 01:54:07,643 --> 01:54:10,583 He might send me to England soon. 1279 01:54:10,746 --> 01:54:13,606 Why not have English lessons, then? 1280 01:54:14,116 --> 01:54:15,666 Dancing, fencing, riding... 1281 01:54:15,851 --> 01:54:19,841 You'll go back to the seminary a proper little gentleman. 1282 01:54:20,389 --> 01:54:21,409 Or a dandy! 1283 01:54:21,657 --> 01:54:24,217 And where does God come into all this? 1284 01:54:25,460 --> 01:54:28,760 Look where you're going, madam! 1285 01:54:30,799 --> 01:54:33,629 Sir, kindly pick up that umbrella. 1286 01:54:34,503 --> 01:54:37,733 Pick it up yourself, or ask God to do it for you. 1287 01:54:39,708 --> 01:54:43,108 I shall have satisfaction, sir! Your address! 1288 01:54:43,845 --> 01:54:45,505 I don't fight priests. 1289 01:54:45,647 --> 01:54:48,737 I fight whoever offends the Church. 1290 01:54:49,418 --> 01:54:51,108 Your address! 1291 01:54:51,553 --> 01:54:53,153 Here's my address. 1292 01:54:53,522 --> 01:54:55,492 - Blasted priest! - Julien. 1293 01:55:05,534 --> 01:55:07,204 In Paris you have to fight. 1294 01:55:12,874 --> 01:55:14,364 Is this your card... 1295 01:55:14,843 --> 01:55:16,573 Mr Sorel? 1296 01:55:18,680 --> 01:55:22,550 - Is this yours? - Absolutely. 1297 01:55:23,185 --> 01:55:25,805 - Do I know you? - Isn't it him? 1298 01:55:27,789 --> 01:55:29,119 No, it isn't him. 1299 01:55:29,491 --> 01:55:30,551 I don't understand. 1300 01:55:30,726 --> 01:55:34,316 - I came to duel, sir. - What an excellent idea! 1301 01:55:34,696 --> 01:55:36,686 Later, Richard. But... 1302 01:55:37,532 --> 01:55:38,592 Why? 1303 01:55:41,369 --> 01:55:42,389 The coward! 1304 01:55:45,807 --> 01:55:47,367 He pretended to be you. 1305 01:55:54,516 --> 01:55:55,706 Come now! 1306 01:55:56,685 --> 01:55:58,775 Somebody pull them apart. 1307 01:55:59,521 --> 01:56:01,751 Is he always like this? 1308 01:56:04,126 --> 01:56:05,886 Another coachman, quick! 1309 01:56:06,528 --> 01:56:08,188 You, take his place. 1310 01:56:08,497 --> 01:56:10,897 Well, we'd better go for that duel. 1311 01:56:11,366 --> 01:56:12,416 Clear off! 1312 01:56:12,634 --> 01:56:16,474 Get in, then. You're his second, aren't you? 1313 01:56:16,638 --> 01:56:20,128 - Will you duel in those clothes? - Why not? Hurry up! 1314 01:56:20,442 --> 01:56:22,912 He's wearing enough black for both of us. 1315 01:56:23,378 --> 01:56:25,738 Stop at Beauvoisis' place. 1316 01:56:25,914 --> 01:56:28,544 I'll need a second, too. 1317 01:56:29,751 --> 01:56:32,551 A duel, eh? I love duelling. 1318 01:56:35,824 --> 01:56:37,424 France is no fun any more. 1319 01:56:37,659 --> 01:56:41,529 No more passion. Even cruelty has lost its sense of humour. 1320 01:56:42,164 --> 01:56:43,634 What a waste! 1321 01:56:45,433 --> 01:56:46,803 We can still call it off. 1322 01:56:53,809 --> 01:56:54,809 Gentlemen! 1323 01:56:55,377 --> 01:56:56,467 When you're ready... 1324 01:57:09,524 --> 01:57:13,554 I aimed for the elbow. I hope I didn't hurt you. 1325 01:57:26,808 --> 01:57:28,208 See you soon, I hope. 1326 01:57:28,543 --> 01:57:30,643 I had a wonderful time, too. 1327 01:57:33,682 --> 01:57:36,652 I shall see you Thursday, then, at the opera. 1328 01:57:36,818 --> 01:57:39,548 My regards to the Marquis. A relative? 1329 01:57:39,788 --> 01:57:42,848 No. I'm his secretary. 1330 01:57:43,825 --> 01:57:45,815 There's always a first time. 1331 01:57:46,494 --> 01:57:49,124 I just duelled with a servant! 1332 01:57:52,167 --> 01:57:53,567 Hurry up! 1333 01:58:00,408 --> 01:58:03,898 I hear you're the bastard child of a friend of mine, 1334 01:58:04,579 --> 01:58:08,639 a Spanish aristocrat who was a prisoner of war. 1335 01:58:09,684 --> 01:58:11,454 I assure you, sir... 1336 01:58:12,187 --> 01:58:15,587 That's better, there. Oh, the pain I'm in! 1337 01:58:17,726 --> 01:58:19,716 I've never lied about my origins. 1338 01:58:19,895 --> 01:58:23,755 It was Altamira. He couldn't admit to duelling with a servant. 1339 01:58:24,266 --> 01:58:26,256 Julien, the towel, please. 1340 01:58:29,671 --> 01:58:32,571 And help me. Oh, how I suffer! 1341 01:58:34,609 --> 01:58:37,439 A carpenter's son, too! 1342 01:58:38,546 --> 01:58:42,636 Don't let on that it's not true. It's a lovely story. 1343 01:58:42,817 --> 01:58:46,447 If you're asked about your father, act like you're embarrassed. 1344 01:58:46,621 --> 01:58:50,561 Pretend to hesitate in a mysterious sort of way. 1345 01:58:50,692 --> 01:58:54,222 You'd rather not talk about it, that sort of thing. 1346 01:58:54,596 --> 01:58:56,186 My robe, please. 1347 01:58:58,733 --> 01:59:00,633 The doctor said to stay in bed. 1348 01:59:00,802 --> 01:59:03,642 Leave me alone, I want to get dressed. 1349 01:59:04,873 --> 01:59:06,573 Julien can help me. 1350 01:59:08,476 --> 01:59:09,476 Off you go! 1351 01:59:11,413 --> 01:59:13,903 - Did you do the tax reports? - Yes, Sir. 1352 01:59:14,616 --> 01:59:16,876 And the balance sheets for the Picardy rents? 1353 01:59:17,252 --> 01:59:18,582 On your desk. 1354 01:59:18,720 --> 01:59:22,160 My stockings... if you would be so kind. 1355 01:59:25,560 --> 01:59:28,500 But gently does it. Oh, my poor toes! 1356 01:59:30,632 --> 01:59:33,502 Did Altamira tell you anything about his history? 1357 01:59:34,202 --> 01:59:35,902 He was sentenced to death. 1358 01:59:36,738 --> 01:59:39,398 - By the King. - Yes, in his country. 1359 01:59:39,574 --> 01:59:41,844 One of the noblest families in Naples! 1360 01:59:42,844 --> 01:59:45,754 But sentenced to death all the same. 1361 01:59:45,914 --> 01:59:47,614 He's a real character. 1362 01:59:47,782 --> 01:59:50,912 Even my daughter, who hates everyone, is intrigued by him. 1363 01:59:51,753 --> 01:59:54,723 I'll give you a year's subscription to the opera. 1364 01:59:55,490 --> 01:59:57,550 Well, you're a relative now! 1365 01:59:58,560 --> 02:00:01,790 And invite Altamira to the ball. Mathilde will be delighted. 1366 02:00:03,198 --> 02:00:05,388 - Is she coming back? - I'll tell her to. 1367 02:00:05,567 --> 02:00:08,587 Although she'll do what she wants... as usual. 1368 02:00:41,102 --> 02:00:43,662 Everyone's talking about your new secretary. 1369 02:00:43,838 --> 02:00:45,098 What are they saying? 1370 02:00:45,407 --> 02:00:47,497 That you're very fond of him. 1371 02:00:48,877 --> 02:00:51,847 Another ball! Every year it's the same. 1372 02:00:56,618 --> 02:00:57,778 Not for me. 1373 02:00:58,119 --> 02:01:01,209 Last year my mother spent the whole evening nagging me. 1374 02:01:02,157 --> 02:01:04,717 And I wasn't the Marchioness de Rouvray last year. 1375 02:01:04,893 --> 02:01:07,893 So this year it's your husband who nags you! 1376 02:01:08,496 --> 02:01:10,786 I have my own coach, my own house... 1377 02:01:11,132 --> 02:01:13,232 Mathilde, Philippe's looking for you. 1378 02:01:13,535 --> 02:01:15,525 I decide when I leave. 1379 02:01:15,703 --> 02:01:17,503 But not with whom. 1380 02:01:22,210 --> 02:01:25,700 But I'd be just as bored if I was married to Croisenois. 1381 02:01:27,515 --> 02:01:28,565 Look. 1382 02:01:31,753 --> 02:01:35,383 I bet you he'll start enthusing about the delights of the South, 1383 02:01:35,557 --> 02:01:37,887 the benefits of olive oil and all that. 1384 02:01:38,359 --> 02:01:41,119 Mathilde, you're positively glowing! 1385 02:01:41,629 --> 02:01:44,689 It's the colour of Provence, the hue of wild thyme 1386 02:01:44,866 --> 02:01:46,386 and marjoram... 1387 02:01:46,568 --> 02:01:48,428 I love this waltz! 1388 02:02:03,118 --> 02:02:04,708 Looking for someone? 1389 02:02:05,854 --> 02:02:09,554 You never know. There might be someone here I don't know. 1390 02:02:09,724 --> 02:02:13,494 Someone different, someone a little out of the ordinary... 1391 02:02:17,432 --> 02:02:19,202 You're in luck. 1392 02:02:19,501 --> 02:02:21,591 Someone who was sentenced to death! 1393 02:02:36,384 --> 02:02:37,514 Poor Altamira! 1394 02:02:38,153 --> 02:02:39,623 "America will save us." 1395 02:02:39,787 --> 02:02:43,477 "They'll give back to Europe the freedom La Fayette gave them." 1396 02:02:43,858 --> 02:02:45,448 He's mad! 1397 02:02:55,470 --> 02:02:56,800 Mathilde! 1398 02:02:58,106 --> 02:02:59,106 What? 1399 02:02:59,841 --> 02:03:01,431 What's the matter? 1400 02:03:02,377 --> 02:03:05,207 There's no worse fate than living a boring life. 1401 02:03:05,680 --> 02:03:09,410 - Being sentenced to death is fun? - It's something you can't buy! 1402 02:03:12,820 --> 02:03:15,790 - What are you doing? - Looking for someone interesting. 1403 02:03:16,124 --> 02:03:18,894 - Like who? - You! There's no one else. 1404 02:03:20,895 --> 02:03:22,655 You light up the ball! 1405 02:03:22,830 --> 02:03:25,630 You're beautiful, the world is your oyster! 1406 02:03:25,800 --> 02:03:29,170 But I'm only twenty. You want me to get rid of me? 1407 02:03:30,238 --> 02:03:33,798 What's wrong with Philippe? He's improved, hasn't he? 1408 02:03:34,409 --> 02:03:36,809 You mean he's become even more boring? 1409 02:03:54,395 --> 02:03:57,355 You French have no sense of frivolity. 1410 02:03:58,866 --> 02:04:01,656 The lights have all gone out. 1411 02:04:01,869 --> 02:04:04,529 Money has taken over from ideas. 1412 02:04:04,772 --> 02:04:06,672 What would Danton be today? 1413 02:04:07,508 --> 02:04:09,908 - A thief? - No, he'd have sold himself. 1414 02:04:10,378 --> 02:04:14,748 And don't talk to me about Napoleon. What a thief! 1415 02:04:15,216 --> 02:04:17,836 Better a thief than sold for money? 1416 02:04:18,753 --> 02:04:19,853 So you're friends? 1417 02:04:20,455 --> 02:04:25,385 We have a lot in common. It's usual with people like us... 1418 02:04:25,627 --> 02:04:27,387 exiles! 1419 02:04:27,729 --> 02:04:31,429 Excuse me, I have a bone to pick with that bounder over there. 1420 02:04:33,668 --> 02:04:37,328 They're saying it's the best ball of the season. 1421 02:04:38,740 --> 02:04:41,680 It's difficult for me to judge. It's my first ball. 1422 02:04:42,477 --> 02:04:45,407 But it certainly seems magnificent. 1423 02:04:45,847 --> 02:04:48,507 Rousseau said, "Such follies astound me, but don't enchant me." 1424 02:04:54,889 --> 02:04:58,379 I suppose you're not paid to discuss Rousseau. 1425 02:05:01,696 --> 02:05:03,186 What is it? 1426 02:05:04,532 --> 02:05:07,192 Nothing. I was looking at your eyes. 1427 02:05:07,835 --> 02:05:11,095 They... they really are very beautiful. 1428 02:05:12,440 --> 02:05:16,570 I need a herbal tea to slow my heart down after that dance. 1429 02:05:16,744 --> 02:05:19,874 I'll get the same effect from dancing with my fiancé. 1430 02:05:21,149 --> 02:05:24,209 Julien, will you tell me the truth one day? 1431 02:05:24,752 --> 02:05:25,912 Who was you father? 1432 02:05:26,387 --> 02:05:28,877 We're friends, aren't we? You can tell me. 1433 02:05:29,223 --> 02:05:32,853 Julien Sorel! How about that? 1434 02:05:33,127 --> 02:05:35,117 But I was looking for you. 1435 02:05:35,430 --> 02:05:38,760 Mr Valenod, Madame la Maréchale de Fervaques. 1436 02:05:39,167 --> 02:05:40,727 Baron Valenod. 1437 02:05:42,704 --> 02:05:46,574 Where did the "son of a carpenter" idea come from? 1438 02:05:52,480 --> 02:05:53,710 You've just arrived? 1439 02:05:54,349 --> 02:05:58,409 This morning. I came to thank the minister for my barony. 1440 02:05:59,520 --> 02:06:02,420 I've replaced Mr de Rênal as mayor. 1441 02:06:03,858 --> 02:06:06,728 And... is everyone well? 1442 02:06:07,628 --> 02:06:08,888 Little Stanislas? 1443 02:06:15,103 --> 02:06:18,203 So, the Marquis has quite taken to you, it seems. 1444 02:06:18,673 --> 02:06:20,663 You're a dark horse! 1445 02:06:22,176 --> 02:06:25,606 Apparently you never knew this Spanish duke? 1446 02:06:25,780 --> 02:06:28,480 Spanish duke? Oh, no. Never. 1447 02:06:28,850 --> 02:06:33,620 I'm being indiscreet. But it was the Marquis who told me. 1448 02:06:36,357 --> 02:06:39,157 But I had a feeling all along 1449 02:06:39,827 --> 02:06:42,417 that there was something about you... 1450 02:06:42,597 --> 02:06:45,727 Well, if you're ever in Verrières... 1451 02:06:47,568 --> 02:06:49,758 Shall I take her a message? 1452 02:06:51,172 --> 02:06:54,632 - Take whom a message? - As you wish. 1453 02:07:21,202 --> 02:07:24,192 - Shall we go into town? - I'd love to. 1454 02:07:25,373 --> 02:07:26,433 Let's go. 1455 02:07:55,837 --> 02:07:59,467 - Is this row 23? - No, keep going straight on. 1456 02:07:59,640 --> 02:08:01,570 - That way? - Yes. 1457 02:09:21,789 --> 02:09:23,879 Is there someone here you loved? 1458 02:09:24,792 --> 02:09:28,232 Yes, someone. And you? 1459 02:09:28,529 --> 02:09:30,859 I just like to come here, walk around, 1460 02:09:31,198 --> 02:09:35,688 look at the names and dates... You imagine all sorts of stories. 1461 02:09:36,571 --> 02:09:38,561 I don't care what people think of me. 1462 02:09:43,544 --> 02:09:45,744 Do you know why I wear mourning on April 30th? 1463 02:09:48,449 --> 02:09:49,849 It's through love. 1464 02:09:50,217 --> 02:09:52,847 Love for a sort of love that's vanished. 1465 02:09:55,556 --> 02:09:58,616 La Mole, my ancestor, and Margot, Queen of Navarre, 1466 02:09:58,793 --> 02:10:00,693 defied all the conventions. 1467 02:10:00,861 --> 02:10:02,691 He lost everything. 1468 02:10:03,698 --> 02:10:06,718 Since she had nothing to sacrifice but her reputation, 1469 02:10:06,901 --> 02:10:10,201 she loved him openly. They ended up killing him. 1470 02:10:10,705 --> 02:10:12,195 He was twenty. 1471 02:10:13,641 --> 02:10:18,241 The moment he met her he knew she'd be his only love, 1472 02:10:18,713 --> 02:10:20,443 and that he would die. 1473 02:10:24,552 --> 02:10:26,712 Margot had always been told 1474 02:10:27,188 --> 02:10:28,878 that she'd live a happy life 1475 02:10:29,256 --> 02:10:32,246 by virtue of her birth, but also because of her beauty. 1476 02:10:32,560 --> 02:10:34,530 But she lived in a golden cage. 1477 02:10:35,730 --> 02:10:39,560 That's why kings go mad or die of boredom. 1478 02:10:42,103 --> 02:10:45,663 After his execution she went and kissed his dead lips. 1479 02:10:45,840 --> 02:10:49,540 She wrapped up his head, all bloody, and took it away. 1480 02:10:49,710 --> 02:10:51,700 She buried it in a secret place 1481 02:10:51,879 --> 02:10:55,409 and went back there every 30th April. 1482 02:10:56,851 --> 02:10:58,791 I don't want them forgotten. 1483 02:10:59,120 --> 02:11:02,780 I admire that sort of dangerous and impetuous love. 1484 02:11:03,424 --> 02:11:05,724 Without that, what's the point of living? 1485 02:11:08,863 --> 02:11:11,393 Is it a woman you came to see? 1486 02:11:12,867 --> 02:11:15,457 I can keep a secret, you know. 1487 02:11:17,471 --> 02:11:18,471 Not a woman. 1488 02:11:20,641 --> 02:11:23,131 The tomb of Field-Marshal Ney. 1489 02:11:24,512 --> 02:11:27,572 For you he was a traitor, but not for me. 1490 02:11:28,249 --> 02:11:29,769 No, he was no traitor. 1491 02:11:30,484 --> 02:11:32,714 He died for an idea, not a medal! 1492 02:11:35,723 --> 02:11:37,693 I'd have died with him, for hope! 1493 02:11:38,626 --> 02:11:40,176 Of a better world? 1494 02:11:41,495 --> 02:11:42,685 You're cynical. 1495 02:11:43,531 --> 02:11:45,521 You're too sensitive. 1496 02:11:46,500 --> 02:11:48,760 No, I'm not sensitive. I'm jealous. 1497 02:11:49,103 --> 02:11:53,543 You have a freedom with words and ideas that I could never have. 1498 02:11:56,544 --> 02:11:57,544 Why? 1499 02:11:57,745 --> 02:11:59,675 Because I'm poor. 1500 02:12:00,915 --> 02:12:05,605 Because not even thoughts are free when your pockets are empty! 1501 02:12:07,555 --> 02:12:11,215 I'm sorry. I don't usually get carried away like this. 1502 02:12:13,160 --> 02:12:16,220 It takes pride to talk about it to someone as rich as me. 1503 02:12:17,565 --> 02:12:18,685 Do you despise money? 1504 02:12:19,700 --> 02:12:23,190 No, I just despise what it does to people. 1505 02:12:24,839 --> 02:12:26,239 You must be unhappy. 1506 02:12:28,542 --> 02:12:29,702 Aren't you? 1507 02:12:35,649 --> 02:12:37,449 Then she tripped... 1508 02:12:38,652 --> 02:12:40,522 grabbed hold of me... 1509 02:12:42,523 --> 02:12:45,793 She grabbed hold of me so as not to fall! 1510 02:12:46,794 --> 02:12:49,194 - Show me. - Like this! 1511 02:12:49,663 --> 02:12:53,833 As strong as that? Skin touching skin? 1512 02:12:55,136 --> 02:12:57,696 Yes, of course. My skin touched hers. 1513 02:13:00,174 --> 02:13:03,374 And then, something quite extraordinary happened, 1514 02:13:03,544 --> 02:13:05,574 something I'd given up hoping for: 1515 02:13:05,813 --> 02:13:07,613 My boredom vanished. 1516 02:13:08,682 --> 02:13:12,122 He'd been talking about the humiliation of being poor... 1517 02:13:12,586 --> 02:13:14,546 Well, he is only a servant! 1518 02:13:14,889 --> 02:13:16,749 I really felt for him. 1519 02:13:17,558 --> 02:13:20,388 And I thought: Do I love him? 1520 02:13:20,594 --> 02:13:24,434 Could I be lucky enough to love? He's poor, but so strong! 1521 02:13:26,467 --> 02:13:29,797 What if he loves another? He never seems to find me pretty. 1522 02:13:30,237 --> 02:13:33,827 And for the first time I thought she was beautiful. 1523 02:13:34,675 --> 02:13:36,465 Very beautiful! 1524 02:13:38,546 --> 02:13:41,516 And she started talking about all sorts of things... 1525 02:13:41,649 --> 02:13:45,709 Be careful! You don't want to be her confessor. 1526 02:13:46,353 --> 02:13:49,453 We came back together in the carriage. 1527 02:13:49,824 --> 02:13:53,094 And I wanted her to tell me about her fiancé. 1528 02:13:53,394 --> 02:13:54,424 He writes to me, 1529 02:13:54,795 --> 02:13:58,085 dozens of letters, all of them the same. 1530 02:13:58,666 --> 02:14:01,526 Melancholic, supposedly full of passion, 1531 02:14:01,769 --> 02:14:03,199 but so restrained. 1532 02:14:03,537 --> 02:14:04,657 I made a mistake here. 1533 02:14:05,206 --> 02:14:08,866 I said, "So he doesn't understand at all?" 1534 02:14:09,743 --> 02:14:12,843 She said, "Understand what?" 1535 02:14:14,815 --> 02:14:17,405 I said, "That you hate restraint." 1536 02:14:17,585 --> 02:14:20,545 I hated him for seeing through me like that. 1537 02:14:20,754 --> 02:14:22,524 Then he said, 1538 02:14:22,690 --> 02:14:26,890 "You don't hate him, just the future husband in him." 1539 02:14:27,761 --> 02:14:30,731 Who does he think he is, this carpenter's son? 1540 02:14:32,566 --> 02:14:35,656 Later, in the library, I was absolutely odious to him. 1541 02:14:36,570 --> 02:14:39,470 Now she's a friend one day, an enemy the next. 1542 02:14:39,640 --> 02:14:42,800 Sometimes she's icy and haughty. 1543 02:14:43,177 --> 02:14:48,107 Then suddenly she turns to me and smiles so sweetly... 1544 02:14:48,682 --> 02:14:51,652 She looks at me like... 1545 02:14:52,086 --> 02:14:55,776 She looks at you like she loves you? 1546 02:14:56,690 --> 02:15:01,150 No, I already know the look of a woman in love. 1547 02:15:02,897 --> 02:15:07,487 But why me? Why me? 1548 02:15:08,535 --> 02:15:10,465 Philippe de Croisenois has everything. 1549 02:15:10,671 --> 02:15:14,511 A name, land, a title, a family... 1550 02:15:17,611 --> 02:15:19,771 But I quite like hopeless causes. 1551 02:15:21,382 --> 02:15:23,212 Good morning, Mademoiselle. 1552 02:15:23,918 --> 02:15:26,848 If she acts moody I disappear for a day or two, 1553 02:15:28,155 --> 02:15:30,555 or just completely ignore her. 1554 02:15:32,559 --> 02:15:36,359 And when I ignore her she comes looking for me herself. 1555 02:15:37,164 --> 02:15:39,534 That's just strategy. 1556 02:15:39,800 --> 02:15:42,130 You want her to choose you 1557 02:15:42,436 --> 02:15:45,736 instead of some descendant of a crusader like Croisenois. 1558 02:15:46,073 --> 02:15:47,873 Am I right? 1559 02:15:49,143 --> 02:15:52,413 Yes, let her choose me... then I'll decide if I love her. 1560 02:16:05,492 --> 02:16:06,552 He's there. 1561 02:17:19,900 --> 02:17:22,630 Take it. You never know. 1562 02:17:25,639 --> 02:17:27,569 There'll be no wedding! 1563 02:17:29,209 --> 02:17:33,199 I'll tell Mathilde I'm leaving. We'll see what happens then. 1564 02:17:33,547 --> 02:17:35,537 Hardly any paintings left. 1565 02:17:35,682 --> 02:17:38,412 It's these new economic measures. 1566 02:17:38,585 --> 02:17:42,415 Well, the King will soon put things right. 1567 02:17:42,589 --> 02:17:44,889 We'll make sure of it, old friend. 1568 02:17:53,834 --> 02:17:56,774 Don't go! I couldn't bear it. 1569 02:18:25,432 --> 02:18:29,492 "I must see you tonight. I'll leave a ladder by the window." 1570 02:18:29,670 --> 02:18:32,540 "Climb up. Never mind the full moon." 1571 02:18:32,706 --> 02:18:34,536 You filthy peasant! 1572 02:18:34,675 --> 02:18:38,125 You're not my rival, not my equal, not even my inferior! 1573 02:18:38,445 --> 02:18:41,535 You're nothing but an insect, an unfrocked priest! 1574 02:18:42,683 --> 02:18:46,143 You fell for her trap so pathetic you are, 1575 02:18:46,453 --> 02:18:47,823 and always will be! 1576 02:18:48,155 --> 02:18:51,675 - Her famous Queen Margot speech! - "Love is dangerous!" Indeed! 1577 02:18:51,859 --> 02:18:55,229 The prettiest, richest girl in Paris! And you fell for it! 1578 02:20:04,831 --> 02:20:05,831 Here I am. 1579 02:20:06,233 --> 02:20:10,143 I saw you hesitating... I thought you'd never make your mind up. 1580 02:20:10,871 --> 02:20:12,131 The ladder! 1581 02:20:13,207 --> 02:20:15,227 Stop it! What are you doing? 1582 02:20:19,646 --> 02:20:21,196 I prepared a rope. 1583 02:20:24,151 --> 02:20:25,811 You're used to this. 1584 02:20:27,821 --> 02:20:29,191 What do you mean? 1585 02:20:31,592 --> 02:20:33,752 With Croisenois and who else? 1586 02:20:35,662 --> 02:20:37,532 You're the first. 1587 02:20:47,841 --> 02:20:49,741 Are you that scared? 1588 02:20:50,844 --> 02:20:53,874 It's not cowardly to be scared. There are plenty of brave fools. 1589 02:20:57,784 --> 02:21:00,414 I've decided to love you because you're different, 1590 02:21:00,587 --> 02:21:03,847 because this is unexpected, because I don't know you... 1591 02:21:05,759 --> 02:21:08,189 You've decided to love me? 1592 02:21:11,198 --> 02:21:13,718 The only person you love is yourself! 1593 02:21:13,900 --> 02:21:18,170 Wait! I want to be yours... I am yours! 1594 02:21:18,672 --> 02:21:19,672 Come. 1595 02:21:34,621 --> 02:21:37,111 I'll never be yours! Never! 1596 02:21:37,424 --> 02:21:39,364 I'll never be yours! Wake up! 1597 02:21:39,693 --> 02:21:40,693 Get out of here! 1598 02:21:42,529 --> 02:21:43,529 I hate you! 1599 02:21:43,830 --> 02:21:45,420 You have no hold on me. 1600 02:21:45,666 --> 02:21:47,526 And you never will have! 1601 02:21:51,104 --> 02:21:54,704 I'm so ashamed. I gave myself to the first man to come along. 1602 02:21:55,142 --> 02:21:56,142 Go! 1603 02:21:58,779 --> 02:21:59,839 Go! 1604 02:22:03,517 --> 02:22:04,537 Go! 1605 02:22:07,587 --> 02:22:10,177 "As nothing now stands in our way," 1606 02:22:10,490 --> 02:22:13,580 "let us decide on a date for our children's wedding." 1607 02:22:15,228 --> 02:22:18,888 "I suggest... I suggest..." 1608 02:22:19,666 --> 02:22:23,856 "that you see my solicitor, Mr Champetier de Ribes..." 1609 02:22:26,873 --> 02:22:27,873 Champetier... 1610 02:22:30,677 --> 02:22:31,697 Are you all right? 1611 02:22:32,913 --> 02:22:34,383 Excuse me. 1612 02:22:34,548 --> 02:22:38,638 The trip to London you mentioned... when will I go? 1613 02:22:39,753 --> 02:22:43,193 I don't know... Next month, perhaps. Why? 1614 02:22:43,790 --> 02:22:46,350 I thought that if I left earlier 1615 02:22:46,526 --> 02:22:49,546 it would give me the chance to learn a little English 1616 02:22:49,730 --> 02:22:52,160 and something about their customs. 1617 02:22:54,801 --> 02:22:57,861 My dear friend! I was just saying to Julien 1618 02:22:58,205 --> 02:23:01,825 how I just can't do without him. I just can't! 1619 02:23:03,443 --> 02:23:05,473 This wedding is a real headache. 1620 02:23:05,645 --> 02:23:09,595 The Duke de Croisenois is being a real miser about the dowry. 1621 02:23:09,783 --> 02:23:13,383 I've already offered my lands at Villequier, 30,000 francs... 1622 02:23:19,192 --> 02:23:21,792 - We just can't agree. - Please excuse me. 1623 02:23:22,129 --> 02:23:26,159 I'll just have to give in. What would you do? 1624 02:23:29,469 --> 02:23:31,729 Mademoiselle! I'd like a word. 1625 02:23:32,506 --> 02:23:34,626 - Later. - No, now! 1626 02:23:34,808 --> 02:23:37,168 Thank you. In the library. 1627 02:23:39,713 --> 02:23:41,413 Go on, I'll catch you up. 1628 02:23:47,120 --> 02:23:50,850 So you expect me to be your lover just when it pleases you! 1629 02:23:51,458 --> 02:23:52,718 It doesn't please me! 1630 02:23:54,594 --> 02:23:56,894 You dare to call out to me in public! 1631 02:23:57,364 --> 02:24:00,664 You want to shout about us from the rooftops? Go on, then! 1632 02:24:01,468 --> 02:24:03,158 You're the one shouting! 1633 02:24:03,537 --> 02:24:06,197 So what? This is my home! 1634 02:24:07,841 --> 02:24:10,871 Anyway, I've changed my mind. I was wrong. 1635 02:24:11,812 --> 02:24:13,682 You don't interest me, 1636 02:24:13,847 --> 02:24:16,537 whatever illusions you might have had. 1637 02:24:16,716 --> 02:24:18,836 - Shut up! - I saw how you looked at me. 1638 02:24:19,219 --> 02:24:22,209 You might have been the first, but you won't be the last. 1639 02:24:22,556 --> 02:24:24,676 - Shut up! - You peasant! You bastard! 1640 02:24:29,463 --> 02:24:30,933 Go on, then, kill me! 1641 02:24:43,443 --> 02:24:44,503 You wanted to kill me. 1642 02:24:45,345 --> 02:24:49,705 My feelings for you in pieces... just like that vase. 1643 02:24:58,091 --> 02:24:59,581 He wanted to kill me! 1644 02:25:20,480 --> 02:25:21,670 Julien! 1645 02:25:26,219 --> 02:25:29,879 Julien, let me in, let me in! 1646 02:25:31,691 --> 02:25:34,791 Julien, forgive me. 1647 02:25:37,731 --> 02:25:42,431 I'm sorry. Please let me in. 1648 02:26:08,428 --> 02:26:09,428 Mathilde. 1649 02:26:10,764 --> 02:26:11,894 You were here! 1650 02:26:18,638 --> 02:26:22,198 I'm going mad, Mathilde. I'm afraid of what I might do. 1651 02:26:24,544 --> 02:26:27,174 I shan't resist any more, I promise. 1652 02:26:27,547 --> 02:26:30,807 You wanted to kill me, to risk everything for me. 1653 02:26:35,722 --> 02:26:36,722 What... 1654 02:26:39,559 --> 02:26:41,819 This is a pledge of my eternal devotion. 1655 02:26:42,162 --> 02:26:43,692 So you love me? 1656 02:26:50,704 --> 02:26:53,434 - You love me? - Yes, I love you. 1657 02:27:09,689 --> 02:27:11,779 I trust you implicitly. 1658 02:27:13,526 --> 02:27:18,116 This message must be absolutely confidential. 1659 02:27:19,766 --> 02:27:23,426 Once you've delivered it, go to Lord Suffolk's 1660 02:27:23,670 --> 02:27:25,660 and await my instructions. 1661 02:27:29,676 --> 02:27:31,836 How are you feeling? 1662 02:27:33,413 --> 02:27:35,853 - The doctor? - He said I should get out. 1663 02:27:36,182 --> 02:27:37,212 He's right. 1664 02:27:37,517 --> 02:27:40,377 The door locked, the shutters closed! 1665 02:27:40,553 --> 02:27:43,553 How can you stay locked up like that for a week? 1666 02:27:45,859 --> 02:27:47,589 You can sit down. 1667 02:27:48,628 --> 02:27:51,528 He says I should have fun now I'm better. 1668 02:27:52,866 --> 02:27:54,386 You're leaving, Mr Sorel? 1669 02:27:54,634 --> 02:27:59,164 Later today. I'm glad to be able to say goodbye before I go. 1670 02:27:59,939 --> 02:28:03,769 Your father has been very worried about you, as has everyone. 1671 02:28:05,679 --> 02:28:08,239 He knows me. Don't you, father? 1672 02:28:08,548 --> 02:28:11,778 Some days I'm sick of everything, and other days I'm fine. 1673 02:28:11,951 --> 02:28:12,951 Like today! 1674 02:28:15,255 --> 02:28:18,845 That looks delicious, but I'm not hungry. Bon voyage, Mr Sorel. 1675 02:28:25,598 --> 02:28:26,658 Right. 1676 02:28:27,834 --> 02:28:29,604 Right! Well... 1677 02:28:30,170 --> 02:28:33,160 Repeat the message you have to give to Lord Grey. 1678 02:28:34,774 --> 02:28:37,214 Arsène, you may go. 1679 02:28:41,414 --> 02:28:43,474 You haven't forgotten it, have you? 1680 02:28:44,884 --> 02:28:48,884 "The Marquis has entrusted me to transmit directly to you" 1681 02:28:49,222 --> 02:28:52,192 "a message that must remain a secret between you." 1682 02:28:53,860 --> 02:28:56,560 "Nothing can now prevent the coming disaster." 1683 02:28:56,730 --> 02:28:58,890 "King Charles X is threatened." 1684 02:28:59,399 --> 02:29:02,229 "The legitimate succession itself is threatened." 1685 02:29:03,536 --> 02:29:05,696 "A new revolution is upon us." 1686 02:29:15,548 --> 02:29:19,448 Do you love her or not? If you do, go back to Paris. 1687 02:29:19,619 --> 02:29:22,249 I don't know. I really don't know. 1688 02:29:23,690 --> 02:29:26,630 She's... she's impossible to understand. 1689 02:29:30,230 --> 02:29:31,230 You don't know? 1690 02:29:31,531 --> 02:29:33,731 No. And I keep thinking of someone else. 1691 02:29:33,900 --> 02:29:34,900 Who? 1692 02:29:36,636 --> 02:29:40,366 A pure, selfless woman. A woman I once loved. 1693 02:29:41,441 --> 02:29:44,571 - What do you think? - Nice... wonderful! 1694 02:29:44,744 --> 02:29:46,584 Different from Mathilde, eh? 1695 02:29:46,846 --> 02:29:49,366 But I can't stop thinking about Mathilde. 1696 02:29:51,451 --> 02:29:54,221 It drives me mad thinking she'll marry that idiot. 1697 02:29:54,754 --> 02:29:58,594 That's a proper answer at last! Here, I've got a present for you. 1698 02:30:00,460 --> 02:30:02,830 Fifty-six love letters, 1699 02:30:03,196 --> 02:30:05,556 tracing the full course of love: 1700 02:30:05,732 --> 02:30:08,572 The blossoming of feelings, jealousy, threats, 1701 02:30:08,735 --> 02:30:10,695 indifference and rekindled fire. 1702 02:30:10,870 --> 02:30:12,570 They're all in order. 1703 02:30:16,476 --> 02:30:18,436 If you write two a day... 1704 02:30:18,611 --> 02:30:22,171 What? I'd rather die than write a single word to her! 1705 02:30:22,482 --> 02:30:24,472 - To whom? - Well, to Mathilde. 1706 02:30:24,651 --> 02:30:25,851 Who mentioned Mathilde? 1707 02:30:26,186 --> 02:30:29,676 And you won't be writing, just copying out. 1708 02:30:30,223 --> 02:30:31,663 Let's hear it, then. 1709 02:30:31,825 --> 02:30:35,685 If you write two letters a day, thirty letters equals two weeks. 1710 02:30:36,396 --> 02:30:38,586 In two weeks go back to Paris. 1711 02:30:38,765 --> 02:30:41,195 Manage it however you can. 1712 02:30:41,534 --> 02:30:44,134 - She'll already be half-won. - Who? 1713 02:30:44,437 --> 02:30:45,667 - Fervaques. - The Countess? 1714 02:30:45,839 --> 02:30:47,529 What's wrong with that? 1715 02:30:47,707 --> 02:30:49,607 She's a widow, she's rich, 1716 02:30:49,776 --> 02:30:52,636 and she has the best box at the opera. 1717 02:30:52,812 --> 02:30:56,112 If you do this right, it'll drive Mathilde mad. 1718 02:30:56,916 --> 02:31:01,376 Why fifty-six letters? Why not fifty-five or fifty-nine? 1719 02:31:01,688 --> 02:31:05,488 Because my Russian friend Korasov, who wrote them, 1720 02:31:05,658 --> 02:31:07,218 was finally rejected 1721 02:31:07,861 --> 02:31:10,391 just after he'd written the fifty-sixth. 1722 02:31:11,464 --> 02:31:13,764 Black tie, blue frock-coat... 1723 02:31:13,933 --> 02:31:16,703 Look bashful as you deliver your letter. 1724 02:31:16,870 --> 02:31:19,240 If someone sees you from a window, 1725 02:31:19,572 --> 02:31:22,202 force a little melancholy smile. 1726 02:31:22,642 --> 02:31:26,132 With Mathilde, do the opposite of what she expects. 1727 02:31:26,446 --> 02:31:28,636 A good rule for this century, in fact! 1728 02:31:28,815 --> 02:31:31,175 Don't reproach her. 1729 02:31:31,484 --> 02:31:35,394 Be aloof, but don't overdo it. That wouldn't ring true. 1730 02:31:36,089 --> 02:31:39,179 She sees everything that goes on in that house. 1731 02:31:39,525 --> 02:31:42,355 So always look in a hurry when you go out, 1732 02:31:42,528 --> 02:31:44,618 and weary when you return. 1733 02:31:44,864 --> 02:31:49,774 The Countess will keep on ignoring the letters. 1734 02:31:50,103 --> 02:31:54,203 At around the thirty-fifth, suddenly stop writing. 1735 02:31:54,841 --> 02:31:56,931 And then, take my word... 1736 02:32:00,513 --> 02:32:02,143 A letter for Mr Sorel. 1737 02:32:07,220 --> 02:32:09,590 - What is it? - A letter for Mr Sorel. 1738 02:32:20,934 --> 02:32:22,804 Her Ladyship is coming. 1739 02:32:34,681 --> 02:32:35,681 Hello, Julien. 1740 02:32:37,150 --> 02:32:39,450 A great match! Two parvenus! 1741 02:32:40,353 --> 02:32:43,753 No, that's flattering you. A carpenter and his whore! 1742 02:32:44,590 --> 02:32:47,680 How could you? All of Paris knows about it! 1743 02:32:47,860 --> 02:32:50,490 A letter a day, sometimes two! 1744 02:32:55,635 --> 02:32:58,465 All of Paris knows about what? 1745 02:32:59,639 --> 02:33:01,729 That you... you and her... 1746 02:33:02,742 --> 02:33:04,712 that she's your mistress! 1747 02:33:05,912 --> 02:33:06,912 I admit nothing. 1748 02:33:07,447 --> 02:33:09,917 I'm not surprised though. She likes priests. 1749 02:33:10,383 --> 02:33:13,183 She has a whole swarm of them sniffing round her! 1750 02:33:18,691 --> 02:33:20,851 You don't even care about her! 1751 02:33:21,194 --> 02:33:24,394 You can't be bothered to open her letters! 1752 02:33:24,664 --> 02:33:29,234 Well, since they seem to interest you so much... 1753 02:33:32,171 --> 02:33:34,331 "Sir, The opera is playing tonight." 1754 02:33:34,507 --> 02:33:39,437 "Please join me in my box. We shall have supper afterwards." 1755 02:33:40,146 --> 02:33:41,736 But you can't love her 1756 02:33:42,548 --> 02:33:44,808 if you don't open her letters. 1757 02:33:45,184 --> 02:33:48,524 Excuse me, I must get dressed for the opera. 1758 02:33:50,523 --> 02:33:52,513 I love you, Julien. I'm sorry! 1759 02:33:52,658 --> 02:33:56,118 Whom do you love? 1760 02:33:57,830 --> 02:33:59,700 I want proof. 1761 02:34:00,700 --> 02:34:02,400 Proof? 1762 02:34:02,702 --> 02:34:05,572 Yes. What will you say tomorrow, or tonight? 1763 02:34:05,772 --> 02:34:10,212 That I'm nothing to you? That you'll marry Croisenois? 1764 02:34:10,543 --> 02:34:12,443 I'll never marry him! 1765 02:34:15,681 --> 02:34:18,451 I have to think, and I'm late. 1766 02:34:19,652 --> 02:34:21,522 Leave me, please. 1767 02:35:10,870 --> 02:35:12,130 You came! 1768 02:35:29,555 --> 02:35:30,675 She's lovely! 1769 02:36:18,171 --> 02:36:21,401 I can't take my eyes off her. I've never loved her like tonight. 1770 02:36:23,476 --> 02:36:26,536 That's because tonight she's madly in love with you. 1771 02:36:26,746 --> 02:36:27,906 You think so? 1772 02:36:49,168 --> 02:36:51,428 Think of a lion-tamer. 1773 02:36:52,171 --> 02:36:55,771 He's on intimate terms with his lioness or tigress. 1774 02:36:56,108 --> 02:36:58,668 He strokes her, she purrs. 1775 02:36:58,844 --> 02:37:02,184 But his pistol is always within reach. 1776 02:37:06,185 --> 02:37:08,805 Stay! Keep her scared, or you're done for. 1777 02:37:45,491 --> 02:37:47,861 You want proof? Here! 1778 02:38:02,742 --> 02:38:06,142 Take me away, to Scotland. How's that for proof? 1779 02:38:06,879 --> 02:38:10,579 I'm ready for any danger. I don't care what people say. 1780 02:38:10,750 --> 02:38:12,880 My father will drive us away. 1781 02:38:16,489 --> 02:38:18,579 He'll drive me away, not you. 1782 02:38:24,597 --> 02:38:27,257 No, we'll leave together, arm in arm. 1783 02:38:27,566 --> 02:38:29,186 I'll tell him everything. 1784 02:38:30,870 --> 02:38:33,400 Don't talk to him yet. I forbid you! 1785 02:38:45,217 --> 02:38:47,377 I'll wait for you tonight in my room. 1786 02:38:47,553 --> 02:38:50,893 Julien, tell us about England. How he made me laugh! 1787 02:38:51,223 --> 02:38:53,923 "Every Englishman goes mad at least once a day." 1788 02:38:54,760 --> 02:38:56,490 Only Julien can make me laugh! 1789 02:38:58,831 --> 02:39:01,531 Julien, where did you get to? 1790 02:39:03,235 --> 02:39:04,565 Excuse me. 1791 02:39:06,138 --> 02:39:08,228 In the letter you sent me today 1792 02:39:08,708 --> 02:39:11,638 you said, "I'm writing to you from St Petersburg." 1793 02:39:11,811 --> 02:39:15,581 Why St Petersburg, Julien? I didn't quite understand. 1794 02:39:16,415 --> 02:39:20,845 - St Petersburg... Why? - One second, if you please. 1795 02:39:22,154 --> 02:39:23,184 I'll be right back. 1796 02:39:23,956 --> 02:39:26,716 Idiot! You copy like a machine! 1797 02:39:31,897 --> 02:39:34,197 - Don't blame me. - I blame myself. 1798 02:39:34,533 --> 02:39:37,903 I guessed a long time ago but didn't say anything. 1799 02:39:38,371 --> 02:39:41,171 Now what can I say? This is a confession, isn't it? 1800 02:39:41,474 --> 02:39:43,504 Yes, it's a confession. 1801 02:39:45,378 --> 02:39:47,708 The poor man. It'll break his heart. 1802 02:39:48,114 --> 02:39:50,614 - Mathilde wants to tell him. - God protect you! 1803 02:39:50,783 --> 02:39:53,383 He'll take his revenge, and rightly so. 1804 02:39:55,855 --> 02:39:58,375 I feel sorry for him, but... 1805 02:39:58,824 --> 02:40:00,664 You feel sorry for him? 1806 02:40:03,529 --> 02:40:07,159 He's my benefactor. I don't like to hurt him. 1807 02:40:07,800 --> 02:40:09,230 But I'm not afraid. 1808 02:40:09,702 --> 02:40:12,642 You're afraid of no one. Not even of God. 1809 02:40:13,906 --> 02:40:15,866 I'm frightened for you, my son. 1810 02:40:22,415 --> 02:40:24,575 It was good of you to come. 1811 02:40:25,151 --> 02:40:27,751 This damned gout! 1812 02:40:28,220 --> 02:40:29,880 We'll dine late. 1813 02:40:30,256 --> 02:40:33,516 It's April 30th. Mathilde is at the cemetery. 1814 02:40:33,692 --> 02:40:35,462 You know about that? 1815 02:40:35,628 --> 02:40:38,688 - How is she? - I've never seen her happier. 1816 02:40:38,864 --> 02:40:42,534 So much so, that this evening 1817 02:40:42,701 --> 02:40:46,431 she won't be in mourning. The cemetery will be enough. 1818 02:40:46,739 --> 02:40:49,169 Croisenois is a good influence on her. 1819 02:40:49,475 --> 02:40:53,165 Their courtship is turning out very well indeed. 1820 02:40:53,546 --> 02:40:55,776 "I will never be a duchess." 1821 02:40:57,383 --> 02:40:59,373 "I knew this when I fell in love." 1822 02:41:00,386 --> 02:41:04,906 "It was I who fell in love first. I seduced him." 1823 02:41:10,596 --> 02:41:13,456 "But it was you who brought him into this house," 1824 02:41:13,732 --> 02:41:16,392 "and brought his fine qualities to my attention." 1825 02:41:18,537 --> 02:41:20,727 "It was you who said to me" 1826 02:41:21,140 --> 02:41:23,630 "that he alone could make you laugh." 1827 02:41:27,246 --> 02:41:29,206 "He showed me the utmost respect" 1828 02:41:29,515 --> 02:41:32,805 "as he has a fine awareness of the differences of class." 1829 02:41:33,686 --> 02:41:35,616 "I have done an irreparable wrong." 1830 02:41:38,524 --> 02:41:41,654 "If you wish it, and we shall understand if you do," 1831 02:41:42,661 --> 02:41:44,721 "you will never see us again." 1832 02:41:45,564 --> 02:41:47,434 "I shall go with him." 1833 02:41:48,734 --> 02:41:52,604 "It is my duty. He is the father of my child." 1834 02:42:01,847 --> 02:42:03,907 We'll go away to avoid any scandal. 1835 02:42:04,683 --> 02:42:05,783 We'll live modestly. 1836 02:42:07,686 --> 02:42:11,486 He can be a Latin teacher. In Switzerland, for example. 1837 02:42:14,927 --> 02:42:16,827 No one will know. 1838 02:42:17,496 --> 02:42:20,856 No one will know that Mrs Sorel is your daughter... 1839 02:42:21,767 --> 02:42:22,887 Be quiet! 1840 02:42:26,205 --> 02:42:29,605 Stop it! Be quiet, I beg you! 1841 02:42:30,709 --> 02:42:33,799 You won't be Mrs Sorel. I'll kill him first! 1842 02:42:34,179 --> 02:42:35,479 Then I'll die! 1843 02:42:35,814 --> 02:42:39,344 You can't be called Mrs Sorel! That little upstart! 1844 02:42:39,518 --> 02:42:42,648 If he dies I'll wear mourning and make it public! 1845 02:42:43,155 --> 02:42:44,745 I'll be the Widow Sorel! 1846 02:42:47,393 --> 02:42:49,733 The noblest men in France have asked for your hand. 1847 02:42:49,895 --> 02:42:54,195 He's the only man I respect. He'll raise himself up... 1848 02:42:54,667 --> 02:42:58,397 And if there's another revolution he'll save you. 1849 02:42:58,571 --> 02:43:00,471 Why didn't he run? 1850 02:43:01,640 --> 02:43:04,840 If you seduced him... I can't bear to think about it! 1851 02:43:05,177 --> 02:43:06,737 - Papa, you adored him. - Yes. 1852 02:43:07,212 --> 02:43:10,812 But now the thought of him fills me with revulsion. 1853 02:43:12,585 --> 02:43:16,915 I need time to think. There are ways out of this. 1854 02:43:17,623 --> 02:43:19,923 You think poverty is shameful. I don't. 1855 02:43:20,392 --> 02:43:22,422 I'll live in exile with him. 1856 02:43:22,595 --> 02:43:25,615 Don't talk about exile, you don't know what it means! 1857 02:43:25,798 --> 02:43:27,228 Or poverty! 1858 02:43:27,533 --> 02:43:29,233 So we'll marry publicly. 1859 02:43:29,535 --> 02:43:32,695 We'll go on a trip, and when we come back the baby will be born. 1860 02:43:32,871 --> 02:43:37,401 "We"? Who? Mr and Mrs Sorel? 1861 02:43:40,145 --> 02:43:41,605 I'm finally happy. 1862 02:43:42,648 --> 02:43:44,668 That's all you ever wanted. 1863 02:43:44,850 --> 02:43:46,650 Not like this. He must go! 1864 02:43:46,819 --> 02:43:49,549 - Be careful! - Oh, my God! 1865 02:43:51,657 --> 02:43:54,587 If he doesn't go, I'll kill him! 1866 02:43:55,194 --> 02:43:58,634 I need... I don't know... a few weeks. 1867 02:43:59,498 --> 02:44:03,458 We have a few weeks, don't we? Then I'll decide. 1868 02:44:03,636 --> 02:44:05,626 - How many weeks. - Three... a month. 1869 02:44:05,804 --> 02:44:09,714 I don't know. But get him away from here. 1870 02:44:10,676 --> 02:44:13,536 Or I'll have one of my valets kill him. 1871 02:44:20,853 --> 02:44:21,853 He won't see you. 1872 02:44:23,656 --> 02:44:25,446 He left you this... 1873 02:44:28,560 --> 02:44:30,190 to go away with, 1874 02:44:30,496 --> 02:44:34,486 to Edinburgh... or New York... wherever you want. 1875 02:44:36,435 --> 02:44:39,165 He doesn't want to see you! 1876 02:44:43,475 --> 02:44:45,665 You can't take my son from me! 1877 02:45:04,129 --> 02:45:06,149 Let him live, please! 1878 02:45:06,565 --> 02:45:08,185 Kill me instead. 1879 02:45:09,368 --> 02:45:10,798 Victor, stop! 1880 02:45:22,414 --> 02:45:24,584 There's one thing I'd like to know. 1881 02:45:25,584 --> 02:45:28,524 Was this love affair completely... 1882 02:45:29,521 --> 02:45:30,891 unlooked for? 1883 02:45:31,223 --> 02:45:32,623 What do you mean? 1884 02:45:32,791 --> 02:45:37,321 You know about my fortune, you know I love my daughter. 1885 02:45:37,863 --> 02:45:41,733 So, even if I accept that Mathilde took the initiative, 1886 02:45:42,067 --> 02:45:45,627 why didn't you flee? It was your duty. 1887 02:45:48,440 --> 02:45:52,670 I asked you to send me to London earlier. Do you remember? 1888 02:45:56,115 --> 02:45:57,545 Your feelings... 1889 02:45:58,417 --> 02:46:00,777 There were never any mercenary... 1890 02:46:01,587 --> 02:46:04,447 any mercenary motives behind your feelings? 1891 02:46:04,623 --> 02:46:06,453 Money doesn't interest me. 1892 02:46:09,194 --> 02:46:12,164 Who are you? What do you want? 1893 02:46:13,098 --> 02:46:16,158 I love life. I want to live for my son now. 1894 02:46:16,802 --> 02:46:19,772 You can't take this love away from me. 1895 02:46:22,207 --> 02:46:25,897 You can't take my child... or Mathilde. 1896 02:46:29,681 --> 02:46:32,211 I know you can't live without her. 1897 02:46:32,618 --> 02:46:34,548 But she can't live without me. 1898 02:47:27,673 --> 02:47:29,833 It's too dangerous in my room. 1899 02:47:36,849 --> 02:47:38,649 I'm leaving Thursday. 1900 02:47:38,817 --> 02:47:41,677 The four weeks are up. I'm coming to you. 1901 02:47:41,854 --> 02:47:43,854 Four weeks! An eternity! 1902 02:47:47,192 --> 02:47:49,492 - Have you been miserable? - Yes. 1903 02:47:50,128 --> 02:47:52,388 I can't live without you. 1904 02:47:59,638 --> 02:48:01,608 I begged him to come to the wedding. 1905 02:48:01,773 --> 02:48:04,803 One day he's overcome with grief, the next he's fine. 1906 02:48:05,244 --> 02:48:07,714 It's like a game we're playing. 1907 02:48:07,880 --> 02:48:10,580 - He has to make a decision. - About what? 1908 02:48:11,250 --> 02:48:13,780 I still hope he'll accept a public marriage. 1909 02:48:13,952 --> 02:48:18,752 I told you not to keep trying. It doesn't matter. 1910 02:48:18,924 --> 02:48:22,264 But it does matter... to me. Leave it to me. 1911 02:48:22,594 --> 02:48:24,624 I know what I'm doing. 1912 02:48:25,697 --> 02:48:27,627 You seem completely different. 1913 02:48:31,570 --> 02:48:34,870 All my life I've been a tortoise. Now I feel like a bird. 1914 02:48:37,576 --> 02:48:39,906 Now go! It's too dangerous for you here. 1915 02:48:47,619 --> 02:48:50,609 I forgot to tell you... I broke off my engagement. 1916 02:49:06,405 --> 02:49:08,665 The witnesses are present. Let's begin. 1917 02:49:13,545 --> 02:49:14,565 He might still come. 1918 02:49:23,889 --> 02:49:25,689 - They'll kill you! - Mathilde, 1919 02:49:26,525 --> 02:49:28,215 you won't take his name! 1920 02:49:28,527 --> 02:49:30,497 This is the house of God, Norbert! 1921 02:49:33,165 --> 02:49:34,715 I have here a commission 1922 02:49:34,900 --> 02:49:37,200 for Mr Julien "de la Vernaye". 1923 02:49:39,538 --> 02:49:41,868 You have 24 hours, sir, to join your regiment. 1924 02:49:42,407 --> 02:49:45,897 My father grants you his lands in the Languedoc. 1925 02:49:46,378 --> 02:49:49,468 The official wedding ceremony will take place in Paris next month. 1926 02:49:52,651 --> 02:49:55,521 Unless father insists, I shall not be present. 1927 02:49:55,721 --> 02:49:57,551 We've won, my love. 1928 02:50:01,560 --> 02:50:02,860 We've won! 1929 02:50:51,443 --> 02:50:55,473 It annoys them that you've gone straight to lieutenant. 1930 02:50:56,214 --> 02:50:57,214 It's understandable. 1931 02:50:58,850 --> 02:51:02,220 But that's nothing. I'll be general before I'm thirty! 1932 02:51:07,692 --> 02:51:09,682 Mathilde! What are you doing here? 1933 02:51:11,496 --> 02:51:12,756 What's happened? 1934 02:51:15,500 --> 02:51:16,630 What's happened? 1935 02:51:16,802 --> 02:51:18,432 Something has happened. 1936 02:51:19,237 --> 02:51:21,667 Tell me! Is it the baby? 1937 02:51:22,574 --> 02:51:25,674 My father damns you to hell! It's all over! 1938 02:51:29,481 --> 02:51:30,781 Go on! 1939 02:51:31,583 --> 02:51:35,353 Who's Mrs de Rênal, and why did she write this horrible letter? 1940 02:51:36,121 --> 02:51:37,751 Why did you tell my father... 1941 02:51:38,090 --> 02:51:40,390 I was her son's tutor, 1942 02:51:40,592 --> 02:51:41,752 in Verrières. 1943 02:51:46,364 --> 02:51:50,464 "Sir, My duty to my faith and to my moral principles" 1944 02:51:50,635 --> 02:51:52,755 "obliges me to reply sincerely." 1945 02:51:54,906 --> 02:51:56,866 "The person about whom you ask me 1946 02:51:57,209 --> 02:51:59,869 "behaved abominably in our household." 1947 02:52:01,113 --> 02:52:03,603 "Poor and avaricious," 1948 02:52:04,616 --> 02:52:08,746 "this man displays the basest hypocrisy in seeking advancement." 1949 02:52:10,522 --> 02:52:12,722 "Mr Sorel has no religious principles." 1950 02:52:17,729 --> 02:52:19,559 "I believe the only way" 1951 02:52:19,698 --> 02:52:20,888 "he can succeed..." 1952 02:52:26,238 --> 02:52:29,468 "is by seducing the lady of the house he lives in." 1953 02:52:33,879 --> 02:52:37,709 It's all lies. It's not true. 1954 02:52:39,618 --> 02:52:41,178 All lies. 1955 02:52:41,520 --> 02:52:45,890 Do you believe it? Do you believe this letter? 1956 02:52:48,860 --> 02:52:50,380 My father does. 1957 02:52:54,199 --> 02:52:55,199 Of course. 1958 02:52:58,537 --> 02:53:00,697 What father would give his daughter 1959 02:53:00,872 --> 02:53:03,672 to the monster described in this letter? 1960 02:53:08,413 --> 02:53:09,643 Forget me, Mathilde. 1961 02:53:23,461 --> 02:53:24,721 I feel I must add 1962 02:53:24,896 --> 02:53:28,856 that behind his innocent demeanour and grandiloquence, 1963 02:53:29,801 --> 02:53:31,741 Julein Sorel has but one aim: 1964 02:53:31,903 --> 02:53:34,803 To pillage the riches of high-class families 1965 02:53:35,540 --> 02:53:37,060 whom he has always hated. 1966 02:53:37,509 --> 02:53:40,769 He leaves only unhappiness and bitter regrets in his wake... 1967 02:54:50,682 --> 02:54:52,652 Don't let them hurt him. 1968 02:54:57,188 --> 02:54:59,118 You... you mustn't let them hurt him. 1969 02:56:04,656 --> 02:56:09,176 Why did you write that letter, forbidding me to reply 1970 02:56:09,761 --> 02:56:12,091 or to talk about you to our child? 1971 02:56:17,135 --> 02:56:18,855 I've seen the governor. 1972 02:56:19,537 --> 02:56:22,097 I swore that I was your wife. 1973 02:56:23,174 --> 02:56:26,844 He's given me permission to come and see you every day. 1974 02:56:27,779 --> 02:56:30,479 I've taken a house two streets away. 1975 02:56:31,216 --> 02:56:36,306 Mathilde... Don't make me have to repeat 1976 02:56:36,588 --> 02:56:39,058 what I told you in my letter. 1977 02:56:39,357 --> 02:56:42,087 Your meals will be delivered twice a day. 1978 02:56:42,761 --> 02:56:45,461 And you can walk in the courtyard 1979 02:56:45,630 --> 02:56:47,760 whenever you want. 1980 02:56:48,833 --> 02:56:51,393 I don't want you to bother, Mathilde. 1981 02:57:00,612 --> 02:57:02,082 You'll forget me. 1982 02:57:03,181 --> 02:57:07,481 You'll marry Croisenois and you'll be happy. 1983 02:57:08,553 --> 02:57:11,083 Even if that seems impossible now. 1984 02:57:13,124 --> 02:57:15,684 This isn't the 16th century! 1985 02:57:16,594 --> 02:57:19,124 I've got the best barrister, Mr Massonet. 1986 02:57:19,497 --> 02:57:23,397 He's saved dozens of killers. And you didn't kill anyone. 1987 02:57:23,802 --> 02:57:25,432 You won't die for that. 1988 02:57:25,737 --> 02:57:26,897 What did you say? 1989 02:57:28,606 --> 02:57:30,766 I didn't kill her? 1990 02:57:32,877 --> 02:57:33,877 Are you sure? 1991 02:57:34,546 --> 02:57:37,166 We'll fight. I'll save you, Julien. 1992 02:57:37,549 --> 02:57:39,519 You don't deserve to die. 1993 02:57:39,684 --> 02:57:41,124 She's alive! 1994 02:57:43,922 --> 02:57:46,822 But then... I wounded her. 1995 02:57:47,158 --> 02:57:49,718 Is she in pain? Where was she wounded? 1996 02:57:50,562 --> 02:57:53,762 How is she? You have to find out for me! 1997 02:57:54,599 --> 02:57:55,619 I can find out. 1998 02:57:56,501 --> 02:57:57,801 She's alive! 1999 02:58:02,841 --> 02:58:06,541 So she might... she might forgive me. 2000 02:58:06,811 --> 02:58:09,641 If she did it would help your defence. 2001 02:58:10,915 --> 02:58:12,575 Yes, the trial... 2002 02:58:13,818 --> 02:58:16,908 Julien, why did you shoot that woman? Why? 2003 02:58:17,589 --> 02:58:19,249 I have to defend myself. 2004 02:58:19,891 --> 02:58:23,591 Against the lies, the insults, the newspapers, the mob... 2005 02:58:23,761 --> 02:58:26,891 - I'd rather just die. - If you die, so will I. 2006 02:58:32,203 --> 02:58:34,503 As you can see, Your Worship, I'm very well. 2007 02:58:34,873 --> 02:58:38,433 It was less than two months ago but I came all this way by coach. 2008 02:58:38,710 --> 02:58:40,470 To see the trial? 2009 02:58:40,645 --> 02:58:43,765 No, my presence could prejudice the case against Mr Sorel. 2010 02:58:45,450 --> 02:58:47,850 People might think I want revenge, 2011 02:58:48,720 --> 02:58:51,480 whereas all I want is to save him. 2012 02:58:51,890 --> 02:58:54,550 - But he shot you. - He lost his head. 2013 02:58:54,893 --> 02:58:58,563 Everyone in Verrières will tell you how volatile he can be. 2014 02:58:59,230 --> 02:59:03,130 Full of enthusiasm one minute, despondent the next. 2015 02:59:03,568 --> 02:59:05,658 My son, who adores him, will tell you. 2016 02:59:07,639 --> 02:59:09,799 He has enemies. Who hasn't? 2017 02:59:10,174 --> 02:59:13,874 But no one has ever doubted his talent, his intelligence, 2018 02:59:14,646 --> 02:59:16,936 the depth of his culture. 2019 02:59:18,149 --> 02:59:20,879 This is no ordinary man you will be judging. 2020 02:59:22,487 --> 02:59:26,887 He knows the Bible by heart. He's pious, pure... 2021 02:59:27,258 --> 02:59:29,618 That's not what you once wrote. 2022 02:59:29,794 --> 02:59:31,764 I regret that. 2023 02:59:32,196 --> 02:59:35,126 I was manipulated and tricked. 2024 02:59:35,433 --> 02:59:38,833 I quite understand how that letter made him lose his head. 2025 02:59:40,538 --> 02:59:43,738 So you admit that your letter spurred him to that terrible act? 2026 02:59:44,142 --> 02:59:47,112 What's more, he fired twice. 2027 02:59:47,545 --> 02:59:48,765 So it was premeditated. 2028 02:59:49,113 --> 02:59:51,173 That's not true! I saw him. 2029 02:59:51,482 --> 02:59:53,472 He didn't know what he was doing. 2030 02:59:53,651 --> 02:59:57,711 I recognized that look he has when he loses his head. 2031 02:59:59,824 --> 03:00:03,894 Your Worship, if through my fault an innocent man is executed, 2032 03:00:05,129 --> 03:00:07,599 my whole life will be tainted. 2033 03:00:07,765 --> 03:00:09,555 It was not premeditated. 2034 03:00:10,401 --> 03:00:13,231 I knew Julien Sorel a few years ago. 2035 03:00:14,839 --> 03:00:17,929 What did you say his name is now? De la Fresnay? 2036 03:00:18,409 --> 03:00:21,849 De la Vernaye. I have letters here from the War Office. 2037 03:00:22,614 --> 03:00:26,714 My father wanted him promoted for our official wedding ceremony. 2038 03:00:26,918 --> 03:00:29,148 An improper alliance indeed. 2039 03:00:30,188 --> 03:00:32,748 He is a carpenter's son, isn't he? 2040 03:00:32,890 --> 03:00:35,550 I was told you have influence in this town. 2041 03:00:36,194 --> 03:00:38,824 So your father is the Marquis de la Mole? 2042 03:00:40,531 --> 03:00:43,401 And my uncle is the Bishop of Reims' cousin. 2043 03:00:43,568 --> 03:00:44,898 He has great influence. 2044 03:00:45,870 --> 03:00:49,170 What about the victim? This Mrs de Rênal? 2045 03:00:50,208 --> 03:00:52,838 - She isn't dead? - You know about the case? 2046 03:00:53,544 --> 03:00:57,614 Besançon is a small town. Everyone talks. 2047 03:00:58,216 --> 03:01:01,516 - All the more so since... - Since? 2048 03:01:03,554 --> 03:01:08,554 They say that she was once very enamoured of this young man. 2049 03:01:09,127 --> 03:01:12,527 And that it was mutual. That's what they say. 2050 03:01:14,532 --> 03:01:16,692 Why did he shoot her? 2051 03:01:17,902 --> 03:01:19,562 She's fully recovered. 2052 03:01:20,405 --> 03:01:22,455 This was his first and only crime. 2053 03:01:23,441 --> 03:01:26,741 Was it because of jealousy? That could be it. 2054 03:01:27,745 --> 03:01:30,935 She'd become very fond of her confessor. 2055 03:01:32,517 --> 03:01:36,177 Otherwise, why did he shoot her in the church 2056 03:01:36,788 --> 03:01:40,448 while the priest was saying mass? 2057 03:01:44,195 --> 03:01:45,385 Will you help him? 2058 03:01:45,563 --> 03:01:48,663 The jury will be chosen from 30 of the town's leading citizens. 2059 03:01:48,833 --> 03:01:51,703 I will know at least ten of them very well. 2060 03:01:52,136 --> 03:01:55,826 It will be the purest bad luck if the majority isn't on my side. 2061 03:01:57,575 --> 03:01:59,835 You might need to reinforce some friendships. 2062 03:02:00,511 --> 03:02:03,841 I have 50,000 francs here. I can get twice that if... 2063 03:02:08,119 --> 03:02:09,709 That ought to do it. 2064 03:02:13,891 --> 03:02:18,231 Of course, the second shot will be the problem. 2065 03:02:36,814 --> 03:02:39,514 Julien, one last time, 2066 03:02:40,118 --> 03:02:42,448 let me plead jealousy. 2067 03:02:43,488 --> 03:02:45,818 If you do that I'll kill you. 2068 03:02:49,494 --> 03:02:50,794 Out you get. 2069 03:02:56,200 --> 03:02:57,360 This way. 2070 03:02:59,604 --> 03:03:00,704 Out of the way! 2071 03:03:01,439 --> 03:03:02,529 - Well? - No. 2072 03:03:02,707 --> 03:03:06,467 Julien, everyone would be moved by a crime of passion. 2073 03:03:06,778 --> 03:03:09,178 Everyone? I don't care about everyone. 2074 03:03:10,214 --> 03:03:12,554 I just want it all over with. 2075 03:03:13,184 --> 03:03:15,554 Mathilde has managed to get... 2076 03:03:15,720 --> 03:03:18,660 Stop! Let Mathilde scheme away. 2077 03:03:19,524 --> 03:03:22,464 I tell you, that woman is wearing me out! 2078 03:04:01,699 --> 03:04:02,699 Julien. 2079 03:04:05,203 --> 03:04:08,373 Ten of the jurors are on our side and another five might be. 2080 03:04:11,542 --> 03:04:12,632 I love you. 2081 03:04:16,113 --> 03:04:17,553 Mr Massonet. 2082 03:04:17,715 --> 03:04:20,505 My friend, my friend... 2083 03:04:21,419 --> 03:04:22,549 You're here, too! 2084 03:04:23,621 --> 03:04:26,521 What got into you? You had everything. 2085 03:04:26,691 --> 03:04:28,491 What got into you? 2086 03:04:29,227 --> 03:04:32,527 You see the woman in the big hat over there? 2087 03:04:32,897 --> 03:04:34,457 Take her a message. 2088 03:04:38,169 --> 03:04:40,159 The president of the jury... 2089 03:04:40,471 --> 03:04:41,501 Gentlemen of the jury! 2090 03:04:54,886 --> 03:04:59,186 The prosecutor was ridiculous, spouting empty phrases: 2091 03:04:59,490 --> 03:05:01,520 "The barbarity of this crime", 2092 03:05:01,759 --> 03:05:05,529 "the boundless ambition of this son of a carpenter"... 2093 03:05:05,897 --> 03:05:08,657 - The jurors were yawning. - How is he? 2094 03:05:09,400 --> 03:05:10,890 Difficult to say. 2095 03:05:11,736 --> 03:05:14,526 He looks miles away, as if... 2096 03:05:15,673 --> 03:05:18,443 Apparently he's going to defend himself. 2097 03:05:18,843 --> 03:05:22,473 He sent a friend, an Italian, to ask how you were. 2098 03:05:22,713 --> 03:05:24,773 He asked after me! 2099 03:05:25,883 --> 03:05:29,553 Good Lord! He asked how I am! 2100 03:05:32,556 --> 03:05:33,776 Gentlemen of the jury, 2101 03:05:36,460 --> 03:05:38,620 I do not belong to your class. 2102 03:05:39,797 --> 03:05:42,427 I see no craftsmen or labourers amongst you, 2103 03:05:43,601 --> 03:05:45,691 no prosperous peasants... 2104 03:05:48,072 --> 03:05:51,062 This means I shall not be judged by my peers... 2105 03:05:54,412 --> 03:05:56,742 for the heinous crime I committed. 2106 03:05:59,450 --> 03:06:01,150 I have no illusions. 2107 03:06:02,453 --> 03:06:04,823 I demand no special favours. 2108 03:06:06,624 --> 03:06:11,154 My crime was unspeakable. It was fully premeditated. 2109 03:06:17,601 --> 03:06:20,661 I deserve death for my attempt on the life... 2110 03:06:25,209 --> 03:06:27,109 of a woman worthy of respect, 2111 03:06:30,414 --> 03:06:31,544 a pure woman, 2112 03:06:34,585 --> 03:06:36,605 a woman I loved... 2113 03:06:38,656 --> 03:06:42,316 whom I loved like the mother I never had, 2114 03:06:42,493 --> 03:06:44,053 like a sister... 2115 03:06:46,530 --> 03:06:49,500 and whom I worship with all my heart, 2116 03:06:51,102 --> 03:06:54,872 because she alone showed me that generosity exists in this world. 2117 03:06:56,107 --> 03:06:59,127 She alone showed me that happiness is possible. 2118 03:07:01,545 --> 03:07:05,065 So I deserve death, yes. 2119 03:07:06,851 --> 03:07:10,411 I must be punished for the crime I committed. 2120 03:07:11,756 --> 03:07:14,346 I see some men in this room 2121 03:07:14,658 --> 03:07:17,528 who would like to punish me for another crime, 2122 03:07:18,095 --> 03:07:20,185 which, in their eyes, is even more serious. 2123 03:07:20,831 --> 03:07:22,531 I see men in this room 2124 03:07:22,833 --> 03:07:25,633 who would like to use this mistake of mine 2125 03:07:25,803 --> 03:07:28,863 to try and discourage a generation of young people, 2126 03:07:29,640 --> 03:07:32,470 young people born in the lower classes, 2127 03:07:34,612 --> 03:07:38,572 young people who are oppressed and revolted 2128 03:07:38,749 --> 03:07:40,219 by your scorn, 2129 03:07:40,551 --> 03:07:42,521 revolted by inequality... 2130 03:07:42,787 --> 03:07:45,877 Young people who have the audacity to demand an education, 2131 03:07:46,223 --> 03:07:49,683 who wish to take their place in what you, the rich, 2132 03:07:49,860 --> 03:07:51,230 call "society"! 2133 03:07:53,230 --> 03:07:54,420 What a crime! 2134 03:07:55,132 --> 03:07:56,572 Look at you! 2135 03:07:56,734 --> 03:08:00,804 You're terrified that we'll take your privileges from you again, 2136 03:08:02,506 --> 03:08:04,866 that we'll take your fortunes. You're scared! 2137 03:08:05,209 --> 03:08:07,609 Yes, scared, and of course you are, 2138 03:08:08,512 --> 03:08:11,742 because the Revolution will soon be at your doors! 2139 03:08:12,483 --> 03:08:14,253 You don't want to hear it! 2140 03:08:15,252 --> 03:08:16,882 You don't want to hear it! 2141 03:08:17,221 --> 03:08:18,751 But it will come! 2142 03:08:18,923 --> 03:08:21,953 Nothing can stop the forces of fraternity, equality... 2143 03:08:23,894 --> 03:08:25,734 It's your appeal. Sign it. 2144 03:08:25,896 --> 03:08:27,956 Didn't you like my speech? 2145 03:08:30,501 --> 03:08:31,501 Pity. 2146 03:08:31,669 --> 03:08:34,369 I was sincere for the first time. 2147 03:08:36,407 --> 03:08:38,467 For the last time, too. 2148 03:08:40,845 --> 03:08:41,865 Sign! In two months... 2149 03:08:42,213 --> 03:08:45,213 I'd rather die straight away, while I have the courage. 2150 03:08:47,852 --> 03:08:49,382 You won't sign? 2151 03:08:50,855 --> 03:08:54,545 No. I won't sign. 2152 03:08:55,793 --> 03:08:59,423 You say you hate hypocrisy, but you're the biggest hypocrite. 2153 03:08:59,763 --> 03:09:02,703 So please, one last time, try to be sincere. 2154 03:09:06,937 --> 03:09:09,907 You love that woman and you always have done. 2155 03:09:10,941 --> 03:09:14,901 It wasn't for love of me that you tried to kill her. 2156 03:09:15,746 --> 03:09:17,806 You did it because you love her. 2157 03:09:18,149 --> 03:09:21,709 If she begged you to sign this appeal, you would. 2158 03:09:23,154 --> 03:09:24,924 You always do what she wants. 2159 03:09:25,256 --> 03:09:28,816 Even that contemptible letter she sent 2160 03:09:29,593 --> 03:09:32,433 made you do exactly what she wanted: 2161 03:09:32,596 --> 03:09:34,496 Punish her at your expense! 2162 03:09:34,665 --> 03:09:38,685 I hate her! And I curse the day I ever laid eyes on you! 2163 03:10:26,617 --> 03:10:27,737 You've come! 2164 03:10:27,918 --> 03:10:31,178 Don't say anything. Let me look at you. 2165 03:10:32,890 --> 03:10:36,190 Forgive me, I beg you. 2166 03:10:36,527 --> 03:10:39,717 No, it is I who should beg forgiveness. 2167 03:10:39,897 --> 03:10:42,527 I've always loved you, no one but you. 2168 03:10:43,734 --> 03:10:46,644 Your wound... Show me. 2169 03:10:47,137 --> 03:10:49,867 - It's better now. - How could I have done that? 2170 03:10:50,441 --> 03:10:54,431 And how could I have sent that terrible letter? 2171 03:10:54,912 --> 03:10:57,542 It wasn't my idea, you know. 2172 03:10:59,750 --> 03:11:01,810 But I copied it out and signed it. 2173 03:11:02,152 --> 03:11:03,882 I'm so ashamed. 2174 03:11:05,556 --> 03:11:07,516 Forgive me, but... 2175 03:11:07,691 --> 03:11:09,921 I was jealous 2176 03:11:10,394 --> 03:11:12,734 of your happiness with that young woman. 2177 03:11:13,931 --> 03:11:15,901 Tell me everything. 2178 03:11:17,735 --> 03:11:19,495 You're the only one I love, 2179 03:11:22,539 --> 03:11:24,839 the only one I've ever loved. 2180 03:11:26,443 --> 03:11:27,573 There's only you! 2181 03:11:33,651 --> 03:11:34,681 Don't cry. 2182 03:11:50,100 --> 03:11:52,160 I've paid the gaoler well. 2183 03:11:53,504 --> 03:11:55,774 I can come every day for two months... 2184 03:11:57,841 --> 03:11:59,211 if you sign your appeal. 2185 03:12:01,912 --> 03:12:03,852 Is that why you came? 2186 03:12:04,848 --> 03:12:08,748 Yes. Two months together, then we say goodbye. 2187 03:12:09,820 --> 03:12:12,520 - What do you mean? - Nothing. 2188 03:12:14,491 --> 03:12:16,521 I'll sign it on one condition, 2189 03:12:16,694 --> 03:12:20,564 that you will never make an attempt on your own life. 2190 03:12:20,831 --> 03:12:23,561 What if we died here, together? 2191 03:12:28,238 --> 03:12:31,138 I'd rather spend two months with you. 2192 03:12:31,575 --> 03:12:32,865 Do you promise? 2193 03:12:33,143 --> 03:12:34,413 I promise. 2194 03:12:41,852 --> 03:12:43,682 I'm so happy. 2195 03:12:47,558 --> 03:12:50,688 - Will you come every day? - Every day. 2196 03:13:28,732 --> 03:13:31,222 - Mrs de Rênal? - In the garden. 2197 03:13:58,796 --> 03:14:02,386 The appeal has been rejected. I haven't told him yet. 2198 03:14:03,200 --> 03:14:04,860 I think he'll be pleased. 2199 03:14:07,805 --> 03:14:13,535 Do you know why he wants to die? He speaks to you more than me. 2200 03:14:15,712 --> 03:14:16,802 No... 2201 03:14:20,384 --> 03:14:21,544 The appeal, rejected? 2202 03:14:21,718 --> 03:14:24,848 I know all about your visits... 2203 03:14:25,422 --> 03:14:27,912 how often... how long you spend with him. 2204 03:14:28,659 --> 03:14:30,519 I've had you watched. 2205 03:14:35,332 --> 03:14:38,732 I made an awful fuss about it at first, crying and screaming. 2206 03:14:41,505 --> 03:14:45,365 But I've changed. Perhaps I've grown up. 2207 03:14:46,477 --> 03:14:48,667 I understand he loves you more than me, 2208 03:14:50,747 --> 03:14:52,807 even though you've done him harm. 2209 03:14:53,750 --> 03:14:56,580 I had to be strong to be able to accept that. 2210 03:14:57,187 --> 03:14:59,847 But I am strong, and I accepted it. 2211 03:15:06,396 --> 03:15:07,856 This will surprise you: 2212 03:15:09,132 --> 03:15:10,832 I love him more than ever. 2213 03:15:11,168 --> 03:15:13,098 It doesn't surprise me. 2214 03:15:13,871 --> 03:15:16,671 Oh, God! The appeal has been rejected! 2215 03:15:17,541 --> 03:15:19,911 Why didn't you go yesterday? 2216 03:15:21,211 --> 03:15:24,181 - Sometimes I'm too weak to... - To pretend you're well? 2217 03:15:26,216 --> 03:15:28,506 You must go tomorrow. 2218 03:15:28,752 --> 03:15:31,622 For all he denies it, your visits make him happy. 2219 03:15:31,788 --> 03:15:33,588 Nothing else. 2220 03:15:34,491 --> 03:15:37,121 Give me your arm... 2221 03:15:41,532 --> 03:15:44,662 Julien was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. 2222 03:15:45,536 --> 03:15:49,496 He wasn't born noble, but he's noble in his heart. 2223 03:15:50,173 --> 03:15:53,473 That's why he wants to die simply and without fuss, 2224 03:15:54,111 --> 03:15:57,171 to make himself worthy of your child. 2225 03:15:57,781 --> 03:15:59,841 My father is going to the King. 2226 03:16:00,183 --> 03:16:02,523 His grace is our last chance. 2227 03:16:02,686 --> 03:16:05,706 I could go, too, and throw myself at his feet. 2228 03:16:05,889 --> 03:16:08,119 Julien forbade me to do that. 2229 03:16:09,126 --> 03:16:11,416 But I have nothing to lose. 2230 03:16:11,795 --> 03:16:15,085 I'll say I made him jealous, and he lied to save me. 2231 03:16:15,399 --> 03:16:17,159 It was all my fault. I... 2232 03:16:17,467 --> 03:16:21,367 Julien hates scandal. Leave it to my father. 2233 03:16:21,805 --> 03:16:23,705 I'd like to embrace you. 2234 03:16:25,709 --> 03:16:27,899 Be careful! My shoulder... 2235 03:16:36,320 --> 03:16:40,150 There are thousands of people marching on the Louvre! 2236 03:16:40,457 --> 03:16:41,547 We'll get by. 2237 03:16:41,725 --> 03:16:45,155 But the King isn't at Saint-Cloud. He's going to abdicate! 2238 03:16:57,074 --> 03:16:58,804 What insane times these are! 2239 03:17:24,601 --> 03:17:27,471 I obeyed conventions I had no respect for. 2240 03:17:31,208 --> 03:17:32,698 I was... 2241 03:17:35,512 --> 03:17:37,172 I was proud. 2242 03:17:44,221 --> 03:17:45,921 I was ambitious... 2243 03:17:52,596 --> 03:17:56,226 I obeyed conventions I had no respect for! 2244 03:18:04,941 --> 03:18:08,541 I tried to kill the only woman who will mourn my death. 2245 03:18:14,918 --> 03:18:16,608 Would you like some wine? 2246 03:18:19,823 --> 03:18:20,823 It'll do you good. 2247 03:18:21,458 --> 03:18:23,948 It's good. Mathilde had it sent from Tuscany. 2248 03:18:24,895 --> 03:18:27,415 Carry on, my child. Carry on. 2249 03:18:30,600 --> 03:18:32,930 I only repented when I saw her again. 2250 03:18:34,705 --> 03:18:39,105 Alive! She was alive! 2251 03:18:41,778 --> 03:18:44,708 It was only then that I realized 2252 03:18:45,649 --> 03:18:49,709 how madly in love I was, and how terrible was my crime. 2253 03:18:51,722 --> 03:18:53,552 I love her madly. 2254 03:18:59,596 --> 03:19:03,456 Thank you for coming, father. I had to see you. 2255 03:19:03,934 --> 03:19:06,774 I was so upset to hear... 2256 03:19:09,539 --> 03:19:11,869 I got your letter in Strasbourg, 2257 03:19:12,676 --> 03:19:16,476 and the money you sent, which I've brought back. 2258 03:19:16,680 --> 03:19:18,940 Keep it or give it away. 2259 03:19:24,588 --> 03:19:25,678 You look tired. 2260 03:19:26,656 --> 03:19:31,646 I think it's better to die young than end up decrepit like this. 2261 03:19:36,199 --> 03:19:38,359 I wanted to ask you something. 2262 03:19:40,103 --> 03:19:41,803 Are you afraid of death? 2263 03:19:45,542 --> 03:19:48,202 Death... is a personal adventure. 2264 03:19:48,812 --> 03:19:50,752 I'm lucky. 2265 03:19:51,381 --> 03:19:53,651 Mine will be in God's company. 2266 03:19:55,118 --> 03:19:56,548 You've rejected Him. 2267 03:19:56,720 --> 03:20:00,620 But He will forgive you because you are full of love. 2268 03:20:03,226 --> 03:20:07,656 What I want more than anything is for it all to go smoothly. 2269 03:20:11,134 --> 03:20:13,694 I don't want to die shamefully. 2270 03:20:13,870 --> 03:20:16,200 If your courage wavers, 2271 03:20:16,540 --> 03:20:19,740 think of the best times, of the bright lights... 2272 03:20:20,844 --> 03:20:23,714 God will not reject you. 2273 03:20:24,414 --> 03:20:27,654 You're not a monster, my child. I know that for sure. 2274 03:20:43,567 --> 03:20:45,687 Your principles will be his. 2275 03:20:45,869 --> 03:20:47,389 I'll tell him about you. 2276 03:20:47,571 --> 03:20:51,201 I'll teach him his father died rather than accept compromise. 2277 03:20:52,542 --> 03:20:54,372 About Bonaparte, too. 2278 03:20:54,611 --> 03:20:58,451 He'll be called Sorel. It's safer nowadays, anyway. 2279 03:20:59,115 --> 03:21:01,375 Paris is up in arms. 2280 03:21:02,752 --> 03:21:05,852 I'll also say you followed your passion right to the end... 2281 03:21:06,590 --> 03:21:08,850 Even if I do share it with another woman. 2282 03:21:10,727 --> 03:21:11,847 Don't say anything. 2283 03:21:17,901 --> 03:21:19,561 Feel your child. 2284 03:21:22,672 --> 03:21:24,162 Please forgive me. 2285 03:22:27,837 --> 03:22:30,567 Remember your promise. You must live. 2286 03:22:31,841 --> 03:22:32,871 I love you. 2287 03:22:35,512 --> 03:22:36,772 Kiss me, my love. 2288 03:23:14,784 --> 03:23:17,454 Lay me to rest in the woods by your house. 2289 03:24:48,511 --> 03:24:51,141 Mathilde followed Julien's body to the tomb, 2290 03:24:51,448 --> 03:24:54,708 wanting to bury her lover's head with her own hands, 2291 03:24:55,085 --> 03:24:57,775 just as her ancestor had done. 2292 03:24:58,621 --> 03:25:01,111 Mrs de Rênal kept her promise. 2293 03:25:01,558 --> 03:25:04,548 She made no attempt to take her own life. 2294 03:25:05,161 --> 03:25:06,891 But, three days after Julien, 2295 03:25:07,564 --> 03:25:10,364 she died in the arms of her son. 171819