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TWICE UPON A TIME

Director and actress fall in love

A triumph at the Oscars

The Break-up

Present-day London

But then, Alice has always

instinctively known what was best for her.

Really? Alice d'Abanville? That's impossibIe!

Why shoot this film in London?

First of all, because it's a film

a very exotic land.

As we say back home.; If men come from Mars,

Excellent!

How was that, Rageaud? Good, wasn't I?

You're not reIeasing your fiIm here?

You don't know how to have fun.

Just as weII with you around, Louis!

Yes, he's right here. I'II put him on.

AIice d'AbanviIIe's agent.

Speaking, yes.

No, no. Very weII...

No probIem.

Thank you. Goodbye.

AIice d'AbanviIIe wants to see me!

WeII, weII!

The ''monument''?

You Iook superb. You've hardIy changed.

I can't say the same for you.

OK, I take back the ''hardIy''.

Coffee.

Just a coffee.

How is your ''dear'' mother?

She's dead.

She wouId have been...

1 12, after aII...

She had you young.

She never had your good heaIth.

I hear you're into kitchen-sink comedies these days.

WeII, I prefer audiences to statuettes and such objets d'art.

What about you?

You've moved into experimentaI theatre, I hear.

Yes.

Shakespeare.

To each his own standards.

Anyway...

I'm deepIy touched you agreed to give me that award.

I didn't expect you to be so incIined towards me.

We parted a IittIe abruptIy.

WeII, 30 years, eh?

Wait a minute!

The reason I accepted was not at aII to pIease you,

but out of respect for my coIIeagues!

Now AIice...

Don't go thinking I'm doing this in memory of our... IittIe romance!

There've been enough misunderstandings between us.

- Haven't there? - Yes. Mind you...

Good.

I'm gIad we were abIe to taIk so freeIy.

Goodbye, Louis.

She caIIed it a ''IittIe romance''. I'II give her IittIe romances!

Damn woman!

The oId bag!

I thought she was the Iove of your Iife!

- That's what the papers caIIed it. - The papers!

I was her director, she was my actress.

I made her!

Without me, there'd be no AIice d'AbanviIIe.

She knows. And she knows I know she knows.

And that's what annoys her!

I seem to remember interviews

in which you caIIed her your muse, driving force,

source of inspiration.

Look, Rageaud, it was a fIirt, a fIing, no more than that!

Oh yes, just a ''IittIe romance''!

You just come this way

and jump on the stage.

Jump on the stage?

- Yes. - Very good.

I'm in a rush.

So, Iet's rehearse. I remember you needed a Iot of rehearsaIs!

I have seen the ceremony before. I remember

I have to cross the stage, smiIing,

say a few pIeasant banaIities,

and hand a Iump of metaI scuIpted by a contemporary artist

to another artist at the end of his career.

I shouId be abIe to manage that.

- For the banaIities... - Yes?

- If you need me... - What for?

That's how we worked, isn't it?

I wrote, you just said the words.

I'II find the words.

Yes, ''pIeasant banaIities''!

Tom, couId this gentIeman

stay stage Ieft and I stage right?

First position, pIease.

She can stay

in the wings and record her speech.

That way, we might get a good take!

I'II do you a good take. Watch carefuIIy!

ShaII I teII you where to stick your award, Louis?

Why didn't you find some young actress who's Iess bitter?

Less... ground down by Iife!

It's good for the fiIm!

Do we have to drag the producer around?

Take cover, dammit!

I apoIogise to aII the francophobes here tonight

- and I know that there are a Iot of you -

but I have to speak French,

because Louis, among other things,

is very bad at foreign Ianguages.

I was asked to give you this award, Louis,

due to what united us in the past.

Our 5 fiIms, I suppose. And that's fair enough.

I was there at the start. OnIy naturaI I'm here at the end.

I'm often asked why I gave up movies after working with you.

The answer's in the question.

Though we're here tonight to reward the past,

Iet's not forget what's Ieft of the future.

Louis has come to EngIand to make his new fiIm.

A comedy, I'm toId,

in which sex wiII pIay a key roIe.

He knows both weII.

EngIand for having spent a few years with me,

and sex for aIways taIking about it a Iot!

Anyway, if the function of art

is to subIimate one's impotence, I bet that Louis' next fiIm

wiII be a compIete success.

Thank you.

She's magnificent!

Her cheeks are aII pink!

She just demoIished you in front of 400 peopIe!

So, why try so hard to piss me off?

I don't think you reaIize what that impIies.

WiII you heIp me shoot the singer?

What a repertoire!

Oh, for one Sardou song!

I've got something better!

You wouIdn't, wouId you?

Just watch me!

Go home and practise!

1 , 2, 3, 4...

The clock goes tick tock

The birds in the park go peck peck

Gobble gobble go the turkeys

The bell goes ding dong ding But... boom!

When our heart goes boom

Everything else goes boom And Iove

blooms

Boom! Singing ''Love in BIoom''

To the rhythm of this boom

Which says boom in my ear

All has changed since yesterday Eyes at the windows

Lilacs and outstretched hands On the sea the sun wiII appear

Boom!

The day star goes boom

The broken dishes crash The wet feet spIash

But... boom! When our heart goes boom

Everything else goes boom

The bird says boom There's a storm

Everything else goes boom When our heart goes...

What is it?

What's going on?

You can't do this to me.

You started it.

I didn't ask for any of this.

He shouId avoid sudden acceIerations.

You have to decIutch.

But you do have to be carefuI.

Any previous history of heart probIems?

No, he had an iron constitution.

The best thing wouId be to do a IittIe MOT, asap.

MeanwhiIe, Mr Ruinard shouId get a few days' rest.

- Has he a pIace to stay? - Yes. We'II put him up at the manor.

I'II send for my car.

What brand?

No, wait.

I can Iook after him at the hoteI.

Get off my back, Rageaud.

I say, you're Iooking better!

As my father used to say...

I haven't introduced myseIf.

EveIyn GayIord.

I don't want to disturb you.

You're not disturbing anybody.

The house is big enough to be turned into a miIitary

hospitaI!

I'II go back to London.

No... RandaII!

My dear feIIow, you need some rest. And anyway,

AIice is deIighted to see you again.

Excuse me...

Is EveIyn your first name?

Of course.

I'II Ieave you in RandaII's hands.

You'II see,

he's a reaI nanny.

If I may say so, sir...

you have a very impressive moustache.

You Iike moustaches?

Yes, sir.

Very much so.

Maybe one day, you'II have one of your own.

I'II wait untiI Lord and Lady GayIord ask me to grow one, sir.

Do you need anything eIse?

No, thanks, my IittIe moustache and I are just fine.

TotaIIy gross!

A ray of sunshine in the EngIish countryside!

'Morning.

PIenty of room, isn't there?

Better than the 2-room pIace we had!

Indeed.

When did we Iast breakfast together?

I've never been a morning person.

Good morning.

What wouId sir Iike for breakfast?

ScrambIed eggs, porridge, cereaIs, toast...

No, just coffee and a soft-boiIed egg.

Very good, sir.

Great evening, eh?

Astonishing reunion!

''Astonishing'' - that's exactIy the word I was Iooking for.

You Iook much better now.

That's heaIth for you. Comes and goes...

A weak heart is a common condition.

Weak heart? You! That's new!

Yes, AIice, it is new.

It's good news to hear you've got one!

Your coffee, sir.

And an egg.

Soft-boiIed.

Thank you, RiddIe!

RandaII... My pIeasure, sir.

I Iike him.

I Iike your husband too. A charming man. WeII-bred.

So kind to take me in Iike that.

Though he said it was to pIease you.

Seems you ''so insisted''.

He said that?

AIice, wouId you be so kind

as to pass me the saIt?

WeII, at Ieast we avoided that.

What?

30 years of ''Pass the saIt''!

Excuse me, madam.

Mr PauI is in the Iiving room.

ShouId I ask him to join you?

No, no.

I'II go.

My chauffeur wiII drive you back as soon as you're ready.

Yes, sir.

More coffee?

Or saIt perhaps?

This isn't the bathroom! But it's easy to get Iost here.

Louis Ruinard.

Are you famiIy?

In a way. AIice and EveIyn are my parents.

What?

This big Iad is your son? That's great.

I never wouId have imagined...

You aIways Iacked imagination.

WouId you Ieave me aIone with my son?

I'm off to rehearsaIs soon. I'II drop you at your hoteI.

JuIien!

If I'd had a son, I wouId've caIIed him JuIien.

Mind you, I'm aIIergic to the words ''marriage'' and ''baby''.

Same here with the words ''Iies'' and ''poIygamy''.

AII the same...

I think you made the right choice.

What makes you think it was a choice?

If I remember correctIy you chose to Ieave 30 years ago.

WeII, in your opinion, Louis Ruinard...

what wouId have happened if I hadn't Ieft?

If you wanted to find out, you shouId have stayed.

We had our whoIe Iives ahead of us.

Our whoIe Iives...

That wouId have been too Iong.

- Don't move. - What?

A huge bee.

I hate those things!

Yes, I know.

Let me handIe it. Keep stiII.

Don't taIk, don't say a word.

You mustn't frighten it.

There is a certain Miss Shago to see Mr Ruinard.

- Why're you here, Rageaud? - You're feeIing better.

Much better, in fact.

Spit it out!

A smaII probIem.

Your dizzy speII was in aII the papers.

- What do I care? - A medicaI!

The insurers demand one.

What for? Can't you see I feeI fine?

You did see I faked it, didn't you?

I did, but the insurers of your fiIm didn't!

Sorry!

I can't go back with you.

I'm going with my assistant. Something urgent came up.

PIease excuse me.

Of course. No probIem.

Isn't it great we taIked without kiIIing each other?

Let's meet one Iast time.

We can't part on bad terms.

Drop by the theatre if you Iike.

- Do you get pain in the chest? - It depends.

- In the arm? - Which one?

Shortness of breath?

Yes, of course.

PaIpitations?

In the past 5 minutes!

- Do you eat saIty food? - Of course. Don't you?

Why aII these questions?

I faked it, I toId you.

I faked!

Do I have to teII you in Serbo-Croat?

So you say!

Listen, oId man...

Here's some friendIy advice.

CaIm down.

You'II send your bIood pressure up.

In your condition, that's bad.

What condition?

A man your age

who Iives Iike a young man!

You must Iearn to sIow down,

take things easier.

Or you won't get far.

I didn't say you're done for.

Most peopIe your age retired ages ago.

Or are dead and buried!

I'm joking.

EngIish humour.

As for

sex, do you take...

No, never!

Indeed!

Cut it out right away. It's very bad.

Just Iike fatty food, aIcohoI, strong emotions...

What exactIy did the doctor say?

Nothing. He suggested.

Did he suggest you onIy had a few days Ieft?

A few days... a few hours.

I'm at the end of the road!

- Let's have a coffee. - Herb tea.

Herb tea for me.

I don't get it. You faked it, didn't you?

Was the other night reaI?

Without reaIising it, I anticipated it.

What is it?

It's starting again. I've got a twinge.

That's just psychosomatic.

What? You've got no heart!

No, but I've got patience.

OK, here's what we'II do...

We'II wait tiII the insurance company's got in touch.

MeanwhiIe, we'II carry on preparing the fiIm.

You're not dead yet!

Sometimes you scare me, Rageaud!

''Titus Andronicus''. If I remember correctIy

don't they end up eating each other? Pretty intense.

It's not a comedy.

No, it's not.

Sit down.

But aren't we weII on the way to making peace?

If there is a war, I'm not the one who started it.

That's your way of Iooking at it, AIice.

''My Lord, in this frank, simpIe, open avowaI''...

I'm not criticising you.

It's aII ancient history,

but in the Iast 30 years, I've had time to wonder.

I go home one night - no more AIice! Pfffut! Vanished!

Not a word, not a note, nothing!

Yet, if I remember correctIy,

back then, our reIationship had

a certain feverishness, didn't it?

Do you want to know why I Ieft?

Yes, AIice, teII me why you Ieft.

Have you no idea?

No.

Are you OK, Louis?

Let's not rake up the past. You're right, it's ancient history.

- FeeIing better? - Yes.

I've just been overdoing it.

The doctor said I was on top form.

But what about yesterday?

Oh, no...

that was...

nothing!

''Nothing''?

It wasn't reaI! It was... Iike him!

Wait a minute.

Are you trying to teII me you faked a heart attack?

You faked...

a heart attack in front of everyone?

Just Iike that? For a Iaugh?

You scared everyone - and me... for nothing!

It was your fauIt for ridicuIing me.

I had to come up with something!

Don't make a drama out of everything. It was a joke.

Liar!

Cheat! Impostor!

Hypocrite!

Traitor! You have no respect for anyone!

I swore I'd never mention it but

you asked for it.

Do you want to know why I Ieft 30 years ago?

HoteI Lutetia.

Room 212. Ring a beII?

Yes, I rented it for castings.

Castings! I did indeed catch you casting some actress!

I don't remember seeing you...

You'd have had to be very suppIe to see me!

Mind you, with your eIastic notions of moraIity!

I don't know what you mean.

And anyway, it was the 70s, dammit!

The 70s?

Peace, Iove and understanding?

Know what the 70s gave me? You!

Your baseness...

Your cowardice...

Your betrayaI!

HeII, no!

BIoody heII!

HeIIo.

Now what?

Let's be boId!

200000.

Fine woman, eh?

She was great in...

What's the fiIm caIIed?

The girI who came down from heaven with an umbreIIa.

Oh, yes, hang on...

SupercaIi...

HeIp me out here.

- You know! - ''Mary Poppins''.

Right! She was reaIIy good in that.

- I'm afraid that was JuIie Andrews. - No way!

Carrington is never wrong!

GiIbert, don't make a scene.

About that dinner party...

Yeah...

Has she made her mind up,

Mary Poppins?

If I say 1975, Rageaud, what does it remind you of?

The faII of Saigon.

Not that! Who did I cast in 1975?

I'd onIy just been born.

CaII that humour?

Who?

I don't know. Trintignant? Rochefort? BeImondo?

- DeIon? - I meant actresses!

- Wasn't there AIice? - Yes, but who eIse?

There were too many of them.

That's my probIem. Too many of 'em.

I can't remember who I ''cast'', as she put it.

It's terribIe to forget what you did with your Iife.

TerribIe... I'II teII you something, Rageaud.

I'm dying to hear it.

I have the appaIIing feeIing I missed my destiny.

Of course you didn't.

What wiII I Ieave behind me

once I've Ieft the stage, eh?

Grease stains!

No!

I'm joking. Er, Iots of fiIms.

Pay up!

- You'II Iove it. - Are you sure about this Iocation?

I forgot you're a woman.

No harm done!

But I remembered the dress code.

We'II camp it aII up.

Good, eh?

We've found our Iocation.

We may even cast the extras whiIe we're at it.

I'm not so sure. I'II be accused of overdoing it again.

Come on, we're nearIy there. Chin up!

EveIyn!

Did you spot a Iady friend?

I don't beIieve it!

It's perfect. We've got aII the camera angIes.

Not to mention those amazing extras!

Something wrong?

My ''EIastic notions of moraIity''!

Latex isn't eIastic, is it?

Kevin's giving us a Iift.

I'II catch you up.

Can I heIp you?

I'm Iooking for AIice.

She sIept at the theatre. She does sometimes before a pIay opens.

Were you rehearsing Shakespeare aII night too?

I did some painting... to reIax

before work. My job's very stressfuI.

StressfuI, yes...

Excuse me.

I see!

I know what you'II say.

It's the work of a sick mind, I shouId get some therapy.

Save your breath. I aIready heard aII that

the first time I tried to show them.

And?

The first and Iast time.

I work in the City now.

I'm a business investor.

Is it fuIfiIIing to earn money?

Yes, very fuIfiIIing.

If you can wait whiIe I take a shower

I'II drop you in town.

GIadIy.

HeIIo, you.

You too...

Did sir have a good evening?

I was there for work, not pIeasure.

Sir is Iucky, the Iine between sir's work and Ieisure is very...

fine!

WeII, anyway...

Who's that weird guy?

Here? Sir's mother, sir.

Mr PauI's grandmother.

She passed on 10 years ago.

A stupid gardening accident.

Squashed by a sequoia.

That's you behind the pony.

How Iong have you worked for them?

30 years, sir.

I was hired the week Mr PauI was born.

A Iifetime ago!

December '75, to be precise.

Not '75. That's impossibIe.

No doubt about it. '75.

The year Saigon feII.

What have you aII got with the faII of Saigon?

I'm ready.

On Saturday, we're dining with

a cIient who sponsors the arts.

It shouId be rather... coIourfuI. Does it grab you?

Mum wiII be there.

Saturday's a Iong way away. I'II caII you...

God wiIIing!

Me!

Just a moment.

Give me a bIoody break!

I have one Iast question to ask you.

I'm Iistening.

Right, here goes...

You Ieft me in ApriI '75, as I recaII.

Just before the Cannes FestivaI.

I went up the red carpet aIone.

Everyone wondered why I was aIone.

So?

I just found out, by compIete chance,

that PauI was born in December '75.

December, January... So what?

AIice, who were you sIeeping with when Saigon feII?

Why the faII of Saigon?

It's a Iandmark event for me. WeII?

What about you, Louis?

Who were you sIeeping with in the HoteI Lutetia?

Why do you aIways have to reverse the situation?

That's something that's aIways annoyed me!

I'm asking the questions today.

And I think I'm entitIed to ask!

Oh, reaIIy?

You've aIways Iied to me. 30 years ago, 2 days ago...

So, why shouId I teII you the truth?

Sorry, but I've got more urgent business.

What, Rageaud? What is it now?

Is this a funeraI?

The fiIm's in a coma!

What?

Thanks to that doctor, the insurers have backed out.

They've bIocked preproduction.

You need a fuII check-up.

We don't shoot tiII everyone's reassured.

I'm sure they won't find anything.

We'II just wait a week.

I have to Iay everyone off.

- I'm a condemned man, aren't I? - No!

But when money's at stake, everyone opens their parachute!

What'II happen to you without me, my dear?

I'II wait whiIe you get that damn check-up done,

go back to Paris with you tiII we get the resuIts,

and I'II rest up untiI the fiIm restarts.

It won't restart. It was my Iast fiIm.

An uncompIeted fiIm.

Like me...

What is it?

Just checking. I must be dead if you've come to see me.

No, you're not. Remember, I missed you yesterday!

No vodka in your tomato juice anymore?

No tomato juice in your vodka anymore?

I heard about your fiIm.

I'm sorry. Is there...

Is there reaIIy no hope?

What does it matter?

You never said that before.

What ''before''?

Our ''before''!

Oh, AIice, nothing was ever Iike before... after.

If you see what I mean...

I do.

Have you seen my fiIms?

So, you understand.

I Ioved it when you were sozzIed.

I was never sozzIed.

Not reaIIy, but your eyes shone,

you forgot your EngIish principIes, that everything had to be just-so.

You Iaughed at my stupid jokes.

You became terribIy human.

''TerribIy human''?

Not onIy that. You were aIso terribIy hot!

Never stopped you Iooking eIsewhere.

That's nothing to do with it!

I Iove that kind of Iine!

''It's not what you think, you're the onIy one''!

It isn't what you think, and you are the onIy one.

Who cares? We're oId now.

Speak for yourseIf.

See, there's Iife in you yet.

Our train's in an hour.

- Aren't you ready? - I'm not Ieaving now, my dear.

- HeIIo, PauI? - y es.

- Louis Ruinard here. - Hello, Louis.

Is that dinner at Lorenzo de' Medici's stiII on?

y es.

Good, because I'm stiII aIive after aII.

- l'll send you the address. - Great.

- 7 PM. - That's early.

Yes, it is a bit earIy.

Here's Dr Jacques Trudeau,

MontreaI's greatest pIastic surgeon.

In aII of Canada!

And Miranda, his wife.

His greatest masterpiece.

And here's Lord GayIord.

His son, PauI,

a heII of a trader!

And someone who needs no introduction...

The great, the famous...

Let's sit down.

Very originaI. It's Iike being on a safari.

Thank you, CaroI!

You know, I shot aII those creatures myseIf.

It's aII right, Mum.

It's an oId custom back home.

It can mean two things.

The moose wants to shag...

Or dinner is served!

PauI, didn't you say

another showbiz friend was coming?

Hope I'm not Iate.

Louis Ruinard,

the famous French fiImmaker.

- GiIbert Carrington. - HeIIo.

Don't stand on ceremony. Sit next to CaroI.

Showbiz!

Have we aIready met?

Why're you here?

I missed my train.

What kind of fiIms do you make?

A Iot of gags, very IittIe diaIogue,

IittIe psychoIogy.

So, GiIbert,

you wanted to ask my mother about sponsoring the arts.

I Iike the theatre, music haII, showbiz.

But peanuts eat up aII my time.

I don't even know what kind of thing you're in right now.

An EIizabethan thing. ''Titus Andronicus''.

Is that a bit Iike ''GIadiator''

with guys in skirts?

I adooooored ''GIadiator''!

I Iike every singIe fiIm about gIadiators.

I don't know if you couId caII

''Titus Andronicus'' a gIadiator fiIm.

I adore this dinner party!

Where's the bathroom?

Second on the Ieft. Just after the BengaI tiger.

Thank you.

Oh, excuse me. I think I Ieft my piIIs in my raincoat.

Do forgive me.

Why're you here?

Why the kiss Iast night?

What're you taIking about? I didn't kiss you.

You did! Very weII, too.

Rubbish!

StiII a great kisser...

I didn't kiss you. I was saying goodbye.

Adieu, in fact, because...

you were Ieaving.

Did it do nothing for you?

No, nothing! Nothing whatsoever...

You Iiar!

I'm the Iiar now, am I?

Swear it did nothing for you.

Did that do nothing for you either?

Nothing! Let me pass.

You shouIdn't have started it.

Sauteed anteIope! Masai sauce!

That one won'tjump anywhere again!

That remind you of anything?

You bet! The safari in Tanzania. What a Iaugh!

I wonder if we didn't bag more gazeIIes!

Tanzania, the Iand of the big apes!

You know it?

My father Iives there.

His name's Kong.

He's in the movies too.

ReaIIy? Did he go there to retire?

He Iives in the jungIe,

jumping from vine to vine, watching out

for eviI hunters,

and eating peanuts.

He Ioves fine fruit.

In fact, I Iove fine fruit too.

GiIbert,

what's this sauce? I beIieve I recognise it.

Peanut!

One point to you, PauI.

That is the soon-to-be-famous Carrington sauce

which I patented a few days ago. A sure-fire hit!

Sorry, GiIbert, but I'm reaIIy aIIergic to peanuts.

You can't try that on every time!

At Ieast try it. Keep an open mind.

AII I'm aIIergic to is buIIshit!

I'm aIIergic to it too!

The oIder I get, the more I see!

I agree. It's everywhere.

Ah, a buIIshit hunt.

A safari doomed to faiIure!

Too right.

Who did you?

I beg your pardon?

RemarkabIe.

Quincke's oedema. The nuts!

Get him to the manor!

Come on!

Quick!

GiIbert, excuse me. Goodbye. I'II caII you.

Fworry I ruined your evening. It's fe fwirst time it's happened.

- I'm sorry, Louis. - It's OK, I fnow what it's Iike.

FhoIy cow!

It's for your own good.

I didn't think you'd see my bwottom Iike fwis!

There... You stay nice 'n' quiet. The sweIIing wiII soon go down.

I'II be right back.

Winfton! TotaIIy gwoss!

Stop fwarting!

I can't spfweak. At Ieast Iet me bweathe.

Yes?

Happiness, sir, is not to be in good heaIth,

but to stop being iII.

Nice one, RiddIe! One of yours?

No, Lord GayIord's. At Ieast, that's what he cIaims.

I Iive in hope of finding out who reaIIy said it.

Here's hoping.

My pIeasure, sir.

Did mummy's injection work?

She Iearnt to act fast with me.

I'm aIIergic to aImost everything.

IncIuding big predators?

Yes!

We have a Iot in common.

Yes, it's amusing.

WeII, I'II be off then.

PauI...

You're not staying in business?

Why do you ask?

Shame to waste your taIent.

And beIieve me, you have taIent.

RandaII's making up the guest room for you.

There's no way you're going back to London tonight. Right, AIice?

Goodnight, my darIing.

- Thank you so much. - Don't mention it.

I'm pIeased to see you've recovered a more human form.

I'm gIad to pIease you, AIice.

So, you've given up tomato juice for good?

TemporariIy.

StiII Iike CaIvados?

I won't offer you any...

I'm feeIing fine. I'm over it now.

So, you sIeep in separate rooms?

Don't ask me how I know. Perhaps you've wondered yourseIf...

But I'm sure of it.

Sure of what?

GayIord is gay!

Pardon?

Lord GayIord is gay!

Think that's funny?

It's not what you said. It's you.

EveIyn never hid things from me.

UnIike you...

It's because I've aIways been so in awe of you.

- Me? - You.

That why you went with some bIonde?

AbsoIuteIy. Because I was so in awe of you.

I've aIways feIt I'd never be good enough.

You were the one putting our Iife in fiIm.

But you inspired it.

Look what I've become.

Not so bad.

I've aIways drawn attention to myseIf with girIs.

You see...

What?

I'm in awe of you again.

And do you Iike that?

What?

Being in awe of me?

I'II join you in your room in 15 minutes.

Be a good dog. Don't you move now...

Keep stiII.

HoIy cow!

Here I am.

I'm coming.

Are you ready?

What are you doing?

I'm coming.

Coming, Louis?

Coming.

My God!

You're so beautifuI.

Not the heart attack routine!

Aren't you scared you'II catch coId?

No, Louis, I'm not scared.

It is nice 'n' warm in here.

Have you got the jitters?

What makes you think such a thing?

You stiII haven't kissed me.

I reaIIy Iike PauI.

Me too.

WouId I have been a pathetic father?

You didn't want to be a father at aII.

That was my idea of being free as a bird.

So, now what do we do?

I don't know.

Do you want to keep him?

No one ever managed to make me forget you.

No one ever?

- I have known other women though. - I beIieve you!

But each time, I had to...

heIp myseIf...

Fantasies?

That's right, fantasies.

And mentaI images.

One in particuIar...

You.

For the past 30 years, you've been my aphrodisiac.

What exactIy was this ''Image''?

Remember our first pIace?

Of course.

One evening, I came home Iate.

You were waiting on the bed, naked,

your buttocks raised up to the sky,

a gIass of wine in one hand, a book of French verbs in the other.

The innocence of a schooIgirI,

the body of a ''femme fataIe''.

I've thought about you too.

With your beaus? I understand.

When I was pruning my roses.

Every time I prune my roses, I think of you.

Because it reassures you to hoId secateurs?

EspeciaIIy with men Iike you!

Men Iike me?

They can make me suffer.

You onIy suffer when you're in Iove.

ExactIy.

I must teII you... My maIaise the other day...

WeII, we discovered that it was reaIIy...

Adieu, my Iove.

Thank you for being there at the start... and the end.

y ou're the only one I ever Ioved, AIice.

Louis.

- Yes, Rageaud? - Good news. lt's OK!

- What? - y our health!

- Say that again. - The results say you're fine.

- What? You're joking. - y ou're fine!

TeII me, Rageaud, do you know how to stop a moving train?

Oh, Rageaud, my dear, I so Iove you!

Life!

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