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- Hello, Germain.
- Anouk!

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- How are you?
- Good, you?

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- Good summer?
- Yeah, you?

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Brittany, as usual

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The meeting's starting.

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- Get your schedule?
- Yeah.

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- Happy?
- Sophomore C for homeroom.

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Sounds good.

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Yeah, sure.

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Read the memo?

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Equality triumphs once
again in the Republic

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Another populist initiative

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It's early to be so pessimistic

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I read Schopenhauer all summer

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Hi, Robert

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How's it going?

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Dear colleagues, let's begin

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Come closer, please.

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Don't be shy

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Can everyone hear me?

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Yes.

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You received

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a memo outlining this year's new policy.

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We're no longer
just any high school

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we're a pilot school

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and we should be proud.

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We'll be establishing new foundations

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and exploring new directions in education,

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whilst returning to tradition
by reintroducing uniforms

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for all our pupils.

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In a school like ours, with adolescents

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from such diverse backgrounds

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the uniform is a bold step

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That's right, a bold step

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toward finally getting all our learners

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on equal ground.

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IN THE HOUSE

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How'd it go?

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You could've come with me.

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I haven't been to mass in ages, dear.

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It was Bruno's funeral.

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He wasn't family or a friend.

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I would've appreciated
a little support.

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I saw the twin sisters.

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They're just like Bruno said.

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I didn't know whether
to offer my condolences.

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As I was leaving, one of them came up.

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Who knows which,
impossible to tell them apart.

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They're coming to the gallery tomorrow
to discuss the future.

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Are you listening?
Yes.

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Anyway.

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Shall we go to the movies?

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Ok, I'll just finish
grading my papers.

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F, D, D, C...

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Are they that bad?

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Worst class I've had in my life.
Terrifying

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You say that every year.

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Here...

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Listen to this.

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"Saturday I ate pizza and watched TV.

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Sunday I was tired

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and did nothing." Period.

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30 minutes, 2 lines.
48 hours in the life of a teenager.

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Saturday: TV and pizza.
Sunday: Nothing.

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I didn't ask for Alexandrine verse.

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I asked about their weekend.

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To see if they can write
more than 2 lines. They can't!

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Here's another.

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"I don't like Sundays.

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I do like Saturdays.

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But Saturday Dad grounded me
and took my cell phone."

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You know, Jeanne,

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I chose teaching
to give them a taste for literature.

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What do I get?

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Cell phones and pizza.

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It's not their ignorance.
It's imagining tomorrow.

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These kids are the future!

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Reactionary philosophers
predict a Barbarian invasion

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They're already among us,
in our classrooms!

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"My Last Weekend."

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Claude Garcia.

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"Saturday I went
to Raphael Artole's to study."

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Thanks, dear.

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"I got the idea
because for a while now,

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I've wanted to get in his house."

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All last summer,

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I'd stare at it
from a bench in the adjacent park

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One night,

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his mother nearly caught me
spying from the sidewalk.

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Friday I took advantage
of Rapha flunking his math test

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and offered to help him
with the homework.

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Just an excuse, of course.

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I knew we'd go to his place,

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Rapha would never set foot
in my neighborhood.

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At 11 am I rang the bell

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and the house finally opened to me.

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I followed Rapha to his room,

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Which was exactly as I imagined it.

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I got him going
on a trigonometry problem,

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made an excuse
about getting a Coke and took a snoop.

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Here I was inside this house

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I'd imagined being in so many times.

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It's much bigger than I thought.

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Four of my houses would fit inside.

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Everything is neat and tidy.

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"Enough for today," I said to myself,

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but just as I was heading back to Rapha,

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an odor caught my attention.

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The singular scent
of a middle-class woman.

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I followed the scent to the living room.

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There, sitting on the sofa,

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perusing a home improvement magazine,

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was the lady of the house,
Rapha's mother.

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I stared at her until she looked up,

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revealing eyes the color of the sofa.

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"Hello, are you Charles?"

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That voice! Where do these women

118
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learn to talk like that?

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"No, Claude,"

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I said, holding her gaze.

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"Looking for the loo?"
"The kitchen."

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She took me there.

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"Like some ice?

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"Help yourself," she said.
"Make yourself at home."

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Then she returned to her sofa
and her magazine.

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Back in Rapha's room,

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I solved his trig problem.

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He'll need a lot of help

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to pass math this year.

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To be continued.

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He wrote, "To be continued"?

132
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Yes. In parentheses

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You're giving him a B ?

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No spelling mistakes.

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His vocabulary's good
compared to the others.

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Who is this boy?

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Let's see...

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Claude Garcia.

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I don't know them all yet.

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B  for making fun
of his friend and the mother?

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This year we'll be studying
the great French authors.

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La Fontaine,

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a great master
at reconciling form and content.

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You'll learn to write,
develop your ideas,

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express yourselves, tell stories.

146
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Don't forget the adjective assignment
for Monday.

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Try to read a little!

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Spend some time with books.

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Forget your phones.

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I'm counting on you.
Read books.

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Be curious.

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You wanted to see me, sir?
Yes.

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The paper about your weekend...
Did you write it?

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Yes, why?

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It troubles me. May I see it?

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Is it my punctuation?
Semi-colons confuse me.

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No, the punctuation is fine.

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I'm better at math, but this year
I want to improve my writing.

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I'm concerned about the content.

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You write about a classmate
and his family. Could be hurtful.

161
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Did someone else read it?

162
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Not yet, but I could show it
to the principal.

163
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I wrote it for you, not him.

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How would your friend Rapha feel
reading this?

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"An odor caught my attention.

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The singular scent
of a middle-class woman."

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What's between the lines is worse.
The tone.

168
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If you read it in class,
how would he feel?

169
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I don't know.

170
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You told us to write about our weekend.

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I don't know what you're up to
but let's turn the page.

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Sir, can I give you
the adjective assignment?

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- It's due Monday.
- I did it yesterday.

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I know we had to use adjectives
from the list in a text.

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I wasn't sure
if they had to be in the same order.

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Doesn't matter.

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I didn't know
if we could use other adjectives.

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Look it over, turn it in Monday.

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I'd rather now
I'm on math this weekend.

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Goodbye.

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Write a text using
the following adjectives:

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Happy, different, normal,

183
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good, focused, little, fantastic.

184
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Hi, Rapha

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Monday I suggested to Rapha

186
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we continue doing trigonometry together

187
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Happy, he invited me to his house
that very afternoon

188
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Wanna come this afternoon?

189
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Rapha. Why Rapha?

190
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Why him?

191
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This ordinary, affable classmate?

192
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Because he's different. He's normal.

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Others are too

194
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but something made me zero in on Rapha.

195
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Last year

196
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I noticed his parents
often came to pick him up

197
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hand in hand

198
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Most boys would be embarrassed

199
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if their parents picked them up
at our age.

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Not Rapha.
He has no problem with it.

201
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I wondered,

202
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What's his house like?

203
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What's a perfect family's house like?

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- Hi, Mr. Andre.
- Hi Rapha!

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On the way

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we talked about what boys talk about.

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Girls, sports, basketball,

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cars, our future plans

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These subjects kept us talking
until we got there.

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To his house.

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THE MINOTAUR'S MAZE

212
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Do you think this is art for perverts?

213
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I don't know.

214
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The twins do, since it's not selling.

215
00:13:10,591 --> 00:13:13,174
If it were, they'd change their tune.

216
00:13:14,175 --> 00:13:17,882
Those two hicks might as well
have inherited a delicatessen!

217
00:13:18,175 --> 00:13:20,424
You know how I feel about this stuff.

218
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I need faces, people.
I feel so lonely surrounded by...

219
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Germain, I'm about to lose my job.

220
00:13:27,091 --> 00:13:29,049
I don't need your theories on modern art.

221
00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:33,174
I need you to say the twins
are fucking bitches!

222
00:13:33,508 --> 00:13:35,757
Your fucking bitches
want to close the gallery?

223
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I have a month to prove
it's a viable business.

224
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Find something that sells.

225
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If I don't they'll surrender the lease
and it's curtains.

226
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How was your day?

227
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Mine? Nothing special.

228
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- I spoke to that boy.
- And?

229
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We talked and he gave me
his adjective exercise.

230
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And?

231
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He's at it again.

232
00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:04,174
He gave me Chapter 2.

233
00:14:04,383 --> 00:14:07,257
He warned us, remember?
"To be continued."

234
00:14:07,675 --> 00:14:08,382
You have it?

235
00:14:08,841 --> 00:14:09,590
Yes.

236
00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:11,465
You don't want me to read it.

237
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I'm not sure it's a good idea.

238
00:14:14,591 --> 00:14:17,174
I've been reading your pupils' papers
for 10 years.

239
00:14:18,633 --> 00:14:19,840
It's cool you're helping me.

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When we entered,

241
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Rapha's mother was in the living room
with a magazine

242
00:14:25,425 --> 00:14:26,507
and a ruler

243
00:14:26,966 --> 00:14:27,882
Hi, Mom.

244
00:14:28,091 --> 00:14:30,882
She didn't see us right away,
she was so focused

245
00:14:31,216 --> 00:14:32,049
How are you?

246
00:14:33,341 --> 00:14:34,257
On the TV,

247
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next to a Chinese dragon,
a photo of the Holy Family.

248
00:14:37,633 --> 00:14:39,632
The dragon staring at them hungrily

249
00:14:39,883 --> 00:14:41,507
Your friend...
Claude.

250
00:14:43,425 --> 00:14:45,382
Did you do good?
B in math.

251
00:14:45,675 --> 00:14:47,757
Said Rapha, "Thanks to Claude!"

252
00:14:48,050 --> 00:14:49,174
Fantastic!

253
00:14:49,425 --> 00:14:50,882
Like a snack?

254
00:14:51,591 --> 00:14:53,299
I bought bread.
Cool

255
00:14:53,591 --> 00:14:55,090
There's chocolate in the cupboard.

256
00:14:55,591 --> 00:14:56,590
Enjoy.

257
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She went back to the living room

258
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with her magazine and ruler

259
00:15:02,841 --> 00:15:04,257
floating like a phantom

260
00:15:04,550 --> 00:15:08,882
in a dress providing a glimpse
of her middle-class curves.

261
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To be continued.

262
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I feel uncomfortable.

263
00:15:14,383 --> 00:15:15,299
Why?

264
00:15:15,758 --> 00:15:18,924
Don't you find it shocking
a 16-year-old writing this?

265
00:15:19,258 --> 00:15:20,299
With such irony?

266
00:15:20,508 --> 00:15:21,757
No I don't.

267
00:15:22,008 --> 00:15:24,965
No more than your sex shop blow-up dolls.

268
00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:27,632
It's not a sex shop,
it's an art gallery!

269
00:15:27,883 --> 00:15:31,007
I know, it's subversion.
Sex and dictators

270
00:15:31,216 --> 00:15:33,840
That's right.
The dictatorship of sex

271
00:15:35,883 --> 00:15:37,840
You should speak to the principal.

272
00:15:38,050 --> 00:15:40,674
Because of "middle-class curves"?

273
00:15:40,966 --> 00:15:44,049
Or talk to his other teachers.

274
00:15:44,425 --> 00:15:46,382
And the parents.
Talk to the parents.

275
00:15:46,716 --> 00:15:48,215
So they'll ban him from the house?

276
00:15:48,508 --> 00:15:50,215
Not Rapha's parents.

277
00:15:50,425 --> 00:15:53,715
The writer's parents, this... Claude.

278
00:15:54,383 --> 00:15:57,215
He needs a shrink.
He could be dangerous.

279
00:15:57,508 --> 00:15:58,924
He's just a rebel.

280
00:15:59,216 --> 00:16:01,715
Angry at reality,
who can blame him?

281
00:16:01,966 --> 00:16:06,215
Better to vent with words
than set fire to cars.

282
00:16:07,008 --> 00:16:09,799
Maybe he has a problem
and wants to get your attention.

283
00:16:10,883 --> 00:16:13,924
- What's he look like?
- I told you, average.

284
00:16:14,175 --> 00:16:15,299
His behavior in class?

285
00:16:15,758 --> 00:16:17,715
Quiet, no trouble.

286
00:16:18,008 --> 00:16:20,007
He always sits in the back row.

287
00:16:21,716 --> 00:16:22,549
So did you

288
00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:23,560
It's the best spot.

289
00:16:23,758 --> 00:16:26,882
You see everyone, no one sees you.

290
00:16:27,758 --> 00:16:29,632
Hello.

291
00:16:33,341 --> 00:16:34,257
Hi, Anouk.

292
00:16:37,675 --> 00:16:39,549
- How are you?
- So-so

293
00:16:39,841 --> 00:16:41,465
September's rough on us all.

294
00:16:41,758 --> 00:16:44,299
I need information about a pupil

295
00:16:44,633 --> 00:16:46,840
- Which class?
- Sophomore C.

296
00:16:47,133 --> 00:16:50,257
- Sophomore C...
- Which pupil?

297
00:16:50,508 --> 00:16:51,757
Claude Garcia.

298
00:16:51,966 --> 00:16:54,715
Doesn't ring a bell.

299
00:16:55,133 --> 00:16:57,215
Wait, I remember.

300
00:16:57,466 --> 00:17:00,382
Claude Garcia
a shy, blond fellow?

301
00:17:00,716 --> 00:17:03,757
He's been here 2 years,
seems to have moved a lot.

302
00:17:04,091 --> 00:17:07,590
Only child. Mother absent.
Father unemployed

303
00:17:07,841 --> 00:17:11,549
A laborer on disability.
Probably injured on the job

304
00:17:23,550 --> 00:17:24,595
"Good" with "do" is an adverb.

305
00:17:24,675 --> 00:17:26,840
Understand?

306
00:17:27,175 --> 00:17:29,132
"Did you do good"?

307
00:17:29,425 --> 00:17:30,757
Not bad otherwise.

308
00:17:30,966 --> 00:17:32,882
I brought you some books

309
00:17:33,591 --> 00:17:36,382
Not from the library, they're mine

310
00:17:37,008 --> 00:17:39,090
Don't underline anything,
dog-ear the pages

311
00:17:39,383 --> 00:17:42,174
or turn them over open.

312
00:17:43,550 --> 00:17:45,840
All this? Got anything shorter?

313
00:17:46,091 --> 00:17:49,090
Try them.
If they don't interest you, return them.

314
00:17:50,425 --> 00:17:52,882
If it doesn't interest you,
return it.

315
00:17:54,341 --> 00:17:56,590
Back in the perfect family's house

316
00:17:56,925 --> 00:17:59,590
I help Rapha,
my ordinary, affable friend

317
00:17:59,883 --> 00:18:01,465
who is clueless in math.

318
00:18:02,675 --> 00:18:03,507
What?

319
00:18:04,050 --> 00:18:06,257
This is minus infinite zero,

320
00:18:06,508 --> 00:18:08,049
this is zero plus the infinite.

321
00:18:09,383 --> 00:18:12,882
Teamwork, right boys?

322
00:18:13,175 --> 00:18:15,465
Share information
Divide responsibility.

323
00:18:15,841 --> 00:18:16,715
Delegate

324
00:18:17,008 --> 00:18:19,757
We pass each other the ball
and together we score!

325
00:18:21,633 --> 00:18:24,090
Grizzlies vs. Clippers tonight.
Pizza?

326
00:18:24,258 --> 00:18:25,049
Great!

327
00:18:25,258 --> 00:18:27,257
Four cheese, chicken wings!

328
00:18:27,508 --> 00:18:30,049
- Join us, Charles?
- Claude.

329
00:18:32,883 --> 00:18:35,257
I'm hitting the shower. Study hard.

330
00:18:38,008 --> 00:18:38,674
Later.

331
00:18:39,050 --> 00:18:40,965
I accept
the man in tight sweatpants' offer.

332
00:18:41,216 --> 00:18:42,215
Your dad's nice.

333
00:18:42,841 --> 00:18:43,965
He's fairly cool.

334
00:18:44,175 --> 00:18:47,174
As Rapha grapples with his x

335
00:18:47,425 --> 00:18:49,965
I imagine Rapha Senior
lathering up in the shower

336
00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:51,799
They're both called Rapha

337
00:18:52,341 --> 00:18:55,715
An hour later I hardly recognize him.

338
00:18:55,925 --> 00:18:58,090
Without his sweats he's someone else

339
00:18:58,425 --> 00:18:59,720
But his way with the remote control

340
00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,424
Leaves no doubt
he's head of the family.

341
00:19:02,716 --> 00:19:03,632
He's a sneaky one.

342
00:19:03,841 --> 00:19:06,049
The Chinese say Koreans are sneaky.

343
00:19:06,425 --> 00:19:08,382
The Clippers have a Korean player,

344
00:19:08,633 --> 00:19:11,299
an excuse for him to talk about China,
his obsession.

345
00:19:11,591 --> 00:19:13,257
Fucking unbelievable!

346
00:19:14,175 --> 00:19:16,590
Respect is important in China.

347
00:19:17,050 --> 00:19:20,090
They look after their elders.
Koreans couldn't care less.

348
00:19:20,383 --> 00:19:22,215
A week in China ten years ago

349
00:19:22,591 --> 00:19:24,424
makes him an expert.

350
00:19:25,091 --> 00:19:26,174
15 minutes in,

351
00:19:26,425 --> 00:19:29,549
the Grizzlies' power forward fouls out

352
00:19:30,008 --> 00:19:32,965
and Rapha Senior
gets a call from work.

353
00:19:35,383 --> 00:19:37,382
Hello? Maurice!

354
00:19:37,591 --> 00:19:39,215
It's Maurice, his boss.

355
00:19:39,425 --> 00:19:42,257
Asking him to pick up
a Chinese client, Wong Lee.

356
00:19:42,425 --> 00:19:43,257
At the airport?

357
00:19:43,466 --> 00:19:46,132
"Now? What a drag!" says his wife.

358
00:19:46,425 --> 00:19:48,549
Rapha Senior gets changed
to pick up Wong Lee

359
00:19:48,841 --> 00:19:51,882
as The Clippers rally back.

360
00:19:52,175 --> 00:19:53,299
Fucking hell!

361
00:19:53,466 --> 00:19:54,257
To be continued.

362
00:19:57,758 --> 00:19:59,132
Is it a parody?

363
00:19:59,716 --> 00:20:02,382
- Parody?
- The way you describe

364
00:20:02,716 --> 00:20:03,886
Rapha Senior entering the room,

365
00:20:03,966 --> 00:20:06,840
the ridiculous things he says,
his sweats...

366
00:20:07,050 --> 00:20:09,882
You're exaggerating
for comic effect, right?

367
00:20:10,175 --> 00:20:11,424
No, that's how he is.

368
00:20:11,633 --> 00:20:12,715
So it's realism?

369
00:20:12,925 --> 00:20:14,299
What do you mean?

370
00:20:14,508 --> 00:20:18,174
Like having a hidden camera.
Peeping through the keyhole.

371
00:20:18,425 --> 00:20:19,132
No.

372
00:20:19,591 --> 00:20:21,007
Stylization?

373
00:20:21,966 --> 00:20:25,174
Are you writing what you see
or transforming it?

374
00:20:25,466 --> 00:20:28,507
I don't put every detail.
I don't care if the sweats

375
00:20:28,841 --> 00:20:30,132
are green or blue.

376
00:20:30,466 --> 00:20:31,882
Why the present tense?

377
00:20:32,425 --> 00:20:34,174
Why'd you switch?

378
00:20:35,883 --> 00:20:39,590
For me, it's a way to stay in the house.

379
00:20:40,133 --> 00:20:41,007
I see.

380
00:20:41,716 --> 00:20:43,757
The first question a writer must ask is

381
00:20:44,133 --> 00:20:45,174
who am I writing for?

382
00:20:45,966 --> 00:20:47,674
Who are you writing for?

383
00:20:48,591 --> 00:20:51,757
It's easy to show the worst
in characters,

384
00:20:52,341 --> 00:20:53,924
making mediocre people feel superior,

385
00:20:54,258 --> 00:20:56,382
scorning and mocking them.

386
00:20:56,758 --> 00:20:59,882
It's much harder to look closely,

387
00:21:00,258 --> 00:21:02,007
without judging.

388
00:21:02,383 --> 00:21:03,840
Flaubert is a perfect example.

389
00:21:04,175 --> 00:21:05,455
He doesn't judge his characters.

390
00:21:06,091 --> 00:21:07,590
Same time tomorrow?

391
00:21:07,841 --> 00:21:08,632
Yeah.

392
00:21:13,883 --> 00:21:15,215
Why are you helping me?

393
00:21:16,716 --> 00:21:19,715
I'm your teacher.
It's my job.

394
00:21:19,966 --> 00:21:21,549
Why me and no one else?

395
00:21:25,050 --> 00:21:28,340
I don't care for compliments,
but you write well.

396
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,299
You deserve encouragement.

397
00:21:31,133 --> 00:21:32,007
Thank you, sir.

398
00:21:32,841 --> 00:21:33,882
See you tomorrow.

399
00:21:35,258 --> 00:21:36,882
I don't get it.

400
00:21:37,216 --> 00:21:42,049
The boy has a gift for writing.
I'm just trying,

401
00:21:42,383 --> 00:21:46,299
though it may sound pompous,
to teach him literature.

402
00:21:46,591 --> 00:21:48,090
And thus, a bit about life.

403
00:21:48,508 --> 00:21:49,886
Literature teaches us nothing about life.

404
00:21:49,966 --> 00:21:50,799
Is that so?

405
00:21:51,258 --> 00:21:53,799
The nutcase who killed John Lennon
carried a book,

406
00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:55,840
The Catcher in the Rye

407
00:21:56,258 --> 00:21:58,965
What did literature teach him?
Nothing.

408
00:22:00,591 --> 00:22:04,049
Obviously your art exhibits
teach us much more.

409
00:22:04,341 --> 00:22:06,257
My art exhibits are the same.

410
00:22:06,633 --> 00:22:09,424
Art in general teaches us nothing.

411
00:22:09,758 --> 00:22:11,507
It awakens our senses to beauty.

412
00:22:11,841 --> 00:22:12,590
Wine?

413
00:22:14,341 --> 00:22:16,882
Version 2. Back in the house.

414
00:22:17,383 --> 00:22:20,549
In Rapha's room I help him study
for the math test.

415
00:22:21,883 --> 00:22:22,715
Come in!

416
00:22:23,716 --> 00:22:25,549
Rapha's dad enters the room

417
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,715
in greenish sweats.
He invites me to watch the game.

418
00:22:30,675 --> 00:22:33,590
Minute 2, 2nd quarter,
a 3-point shot.

419
00:22:33,883 --> 00:22:35,049
The Raphas go wild.

420
00:22:36,175 --> 00:22:38,257
- Beautiful!
- Did you see that?

421
00:22:38,466 --> 00:22:39,299
Good game, boys?

422
00:22:39,508 --> 00:22:40,215
Minute 3,

423
00:22:40,425 --> 00:22:43,965
Rapha's mom joins us for the game
but can't get into it.

424
00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:46,674
Minute 7, she opens Number 215

425
00:22:47,008 --> 00:22:48,007
of <i>House Beautiful</i>

426
00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:49,715
and admires a dream house

427
00:22:50,008 --> 00:22:51,174
she'll never own.

428
00:22:51,383 --> 00:22:54,507
Minute 8, Rapha Senior
wants to buy a plasma screen.

429
00:22:54,883 --> 00:22:56,757
We'll put in a plasma screen.

430
00:22:57,091 --> 00:22:58,049
Minute 10,

431
00:22:58,258 --> 00:23:01,299
Esther draws plans
to remodel the house.

432
00:23:01,633 --> 00:23:03,257
She's always at the house.

433
00:23:03,591 --> 00:23:05,340
But she's not happy with it.

434
00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:08,132
Minute 12, she stares into space,

435
00:23:08,383 --> 00:23:10,507
haunted by the existential question,

436
00:23:10,758 --> 00:23:12,799
"Where shall I put the new bathroom?"

437
00:23:13,633 --> 00:23:14,507
Minute 15,

438
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,840
The Grizzlies' power forward fouls out.

439
00:23:17,133 --> 00:23:18,632
The Raphas applaud.

440
00:23:18,966 --> 00:23:20,340
His personal score is amazing.

441
00:23:20,966 --> 00:23:25,090
The phone rings. Rapha Senior checks
his watch, not wanting to answer.

442
00:23:25,258 --> 00:23:25,965
Hello?

443
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:27,590
Maurice!

444
00:23:28,341 --> 00:23:30,632
Not at all. What can I do for you?

445
00:23:31,841 --> 00:23:32,965
I'm writing it down.

446
00:23:35,341 --> 00:23:37,965
10:15 pm, Terminal 2.

447
00:23:38,425 --> 00:23:39,424
A sign?

448
00:23:39,675 --> 00:23:41,257
Right, with his name.

449
00:23:41,633 --> 00:23:44,507
Wong Lee? Wong with an "o"?

450
00:23:45,591 --> 00:23:47,924
Got it. Convention Hotel.

451
00:23:49,633 --> 00:23:53,174
No worries. Get some rest.

452
00:23:53,383 --> 00:23:54,215
Bye.

453
00:23:54,883 --> 00:23:57,757
Rapha Senior changes
and heads for the airport

454
00:23:58,133 --> 00:24:00,174
as The Clippers come back from behind.

455
00:24:03,508 --> 00:24:05,549
The middle-class woman joins us.

456
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,924
Obviously she knows nothing
about basketball.

457
00:24:08,175 --> 00:24:10,757
- Who's winning, boys?
- The Clippers

458
00:24:11,633 --> 00:24:12,674
Not happy?

459
00:24:13,008 --> 00:24:15,257
Dad and I are Grizzlies fans.

460
00:24:15,550 --> 00:24:17,174
I thought you liked The Clippers.

461
00:24:17,633 --> 00:24:18,590
Mom!

462
00:24:18,966 --> 00:24:19,606
To be continued.

463
00:24:20,550 --> 00:24:22,965
You're right. He's gifted.

464
00:24:23,216 --> 00:24:26,299
But this version
is even more snarky and disdainful.

465
00:24:26,508 --> 00:24:27,632
- You think?
- Yes.

466
00:24:28,091 --> 00:24:30,049
He's manipulating you.

467
00:24:30,341 --> 00:24:32,007
He's the one teaching you a lesson.

468
00:24:33,258 --> 00:24:36,174
You know Dostoyevsky's secret?

469
00:24:36,508 --> 00:24:37,757
His genius?

470
00:24:37,966 --> 00:24:40,299
Turning normal... I mean pathetic,
wretched human beings

471
00:24:40,550 --> 00:24:41,757
into unforgettable characters.

472
00:24:42,383 --> 00:24:43,823
But if you'd rather do caricature...

473
00:24:44,091 --> 00:24:45,549
You said look close.

474
00:24:45,883 --> 00:24:47,840
I write what I see.

475
00:24:48,883 --> 00:24:51,757
If all you can see is ugliness, fine.

476
00:24:52,008 --> 00:24:54,674
But transpose it, transform it.

477
00:24:54,966 --> 00:24:58,174
Maybe you're not cut out for this.

478
00:24:58,716 --> 00:25:00,174
I brought you more books.

479
00:25:02,883 --> 00:25:04,882
Chekhov, Dickens...

480
00:25:05,716 --> 00:25:06,840
And the genius, Flaubert

481
00:25:07,133 --> 00:25:08,465
<i>Madame Bovary</i>

482
00:25:11,091 --> 00:25:12,090
What do you think?

483
00:25:13,091 --> 00:25:14,882
Ordinary objects.

484
00:25:15,466 --> 00:25:17,590
A kitchen clock, a fan.

485
00:25:18,091 --> 00:25:21,549
Yes, but they've been altered
to create surprise.

486
00:25:22,008 --> 00:25:24,299
The clock goes to 13.

487
00:25:26,425 --> 00:25:27,215
Not bad.

488
00:25:28,175 --> 00:25:30,174
And this. Listen.

489
00:25:30,425 --> 00:25:30,925
What is it?

490
00:25:31,050 --> 00:25:32,507
Listen.

491
00:25:36,633 --> 00:25:38,799
"Verbal painting."

492
00:25:39,341 --> 00:25:40,590
The artist

493
00:25:40,883 --> 00:25:44,215
attaches headphones
to a blank wall or frame.

494
00:25:44,550 --> 00:25:46,215
He describes the painting.

495
00:25:46,508 --> 00:25:48,257
The person listening becomes co-creator.

496
00:25:48,591 --> 00:25:50,590
Imagining the painting,

497
00:25:50,841 --> 00:25:53,507
projecting his imagination
into the blank frame.

498
00:25:53,925 --> 00:25:55,465
The paintings existed,

499
00:25:55,716 --> 00:25:58,382
but after describing them,
the artist destroyed them.

500
00:25:59,008 --> 00:26:00,174
There are thirteen.

501
00:26:00,425 --> 00:26:02,757
The artist is poking fun

502
00:26:03,050 --> 00:26:06,090
at the culture industry's obsession
with tangible objects,

503
00:26:06,425 --> 00:26:08,465
giving us something poetic,

504
00:26:08,758 --> 00:26:12,965
ephemeral, devoid of materiality.

505
00:26:13,841 --> 00:26:16,174
I'm not sure it'll sell.

506
00:26:16,841 --> 00:26:17,799
Germain!

507
00:26:18,258 --> 00:26:20,757
The opening's in 3 weeks.

508
00:26:21,008 --> 00:26:23,007
If I don't succeed
the twins will throw me out.

509
00:26:23,341 --> 00:26:26,632
If you need me naked
in the gallery window,

510
00:26:26,966 --> 00:26:28,174
I'll do it.

511
00:26:31,008 --> 00:26:31,924
Want to read it?

512
00:26:37,841 --> 00:26:39,715
I give Rapha 3 exercises.

513
00:26:39,966 --> 00:26:42,674
An easy one to start
a hard one,

514
00:26:42,841 --> 00:26:45,840
then a really hard one
so he'll get stuck

515
00:26:46,133 --> 00:26:48,465
While he grapples with imaginary numbers,

516
00:26:48,716 --> 00:26:51,715
I explore the perfect family's house.

517
00:26:52,383 --> 00:26:54,382
Wong Lee got drunk last night.

518
00:26:54,675 --> 00:26:56,382
He feels Maurice disrespected him.

519
00:26:56,966 --> 00:27:01,090
He's not happy with his cut.
He wants at least 15%.

520
00:27:01,633 --> 00:27:03,674
It got me thinking

521
00:27:03,883 --> 00:27:06,049
Maybe I should set up my own business.

522
00:27:06,425 --> 00:27:08,465
You've got a good job,
everyone likes you.

523
00:27:08,925 --> 00:27:11,132
But they don't respect me.

524
00:27:11,466 --> 00:27:14,590
Maurice gets all the credit
for my ideas.

525
00:27:15,258 --> 00:27:17,340
You always say teamwork suits you.

526
00:27:17,550 --> 00:27:19,715
Yeah, but on a team,

527
00:27:19,966 --> 00:27:22,424
some pass the ball, others score.

528
00:27:23,133 --> 00:27:26,799
Wong Lee told me about
these dolls, like Barbie.

529
00:27:27,050 --> 00:27:30,090
3 euros to make.
They sell for 10 times more.

530
00:27:30,508 --> 00:27:33,757
We send him our product specs
and he makes them.

531
00:27:34,008 --> 00:27:37,007
Better yet
we send a photo and they copy it.

532
00:27:37,841 --> 00:27:39,882
We'll need an initial investment.

533
00:27:41,258 --> 00:27:44,715
I was thinking,
with our savings and a small loan...

534
00:27:44,966 --> 00:27:46,549
What about my remodeling?

535
00:27:47,758 --> 00:27:50,590
We just decided to turn the terrace
into a veranda.

536
00:27:53,050 --> 00:27:55,340
At my age, I need motivation.

537
00:27:55,633 --> 00:27:57,007
Something's gotta give.

538
00:27:57,466 --> 00:28:00,090
Look what Maurice makes.
Why not me?

539
00:28:00,591 --> 00:28:01,840
You could help me.

540
00:28:02,216 --> 00:28:05,674
Choose products, establish a clientele.
You're good at that.

541
00:28:05,966 --> 00:28:07,287
You're proposing I work with you?

542
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:09,590
Yeah.

543
00:28:10,383 --> 00:28:11,965
Let's work together.

544
00:28:12,216 --> 00:28:15,382
Rapha's older now,
I want to get a decorating job.

545
00:28:15,591 --> 00:28:18,882
I know, but this will be ours. Ours!

546
00:28:19,175 --> 00:28:22,215
If it works, and I'm sure it will,

547
00:28:22,508 --> 00:28:23,965
you can remodel all you like.

548
00:28:24,341 --> 00:28:26,507
You're wearing me out.

549
00:28:35,091 --> 00:28:36,424
What are you doing here?

550
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,382
I have to finish helping Rapha.

551
00:28:39,633 --> 00:28:41,507
Hurry up, it's dark out.

552
00:28:42,175 --> 00:28:44,215
Does she suspect me of spying?

553
00:28:44,591 --> 00:28:48,132
Or think I was admiring
the Klee watercolors?

554
00:28:49,925 --> 00:28:52,674
He hears all that or makes it up?

555
00:28:53,050 --> 00:28:54,757
He's not really there.

556
00:28:54,966 --> 00:28:56,840
He's in the hall looking at paintings.

557
00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:59,007
He just hears snippets.

558
00:29:00,591 --> 00:29:02,674
- It doesn't add up.
- What?

559
00:29:03,716 --> 00:29:05,840
Klee watercolors in a middle-class home

560
00:29:06,466 --> 00:29:08,049
I think they're reproductions.

561
00:29:08,550 --> 00:29:09,090
No!

562
00:29:11,466 --> 00:29:15,382
Rapha has a big math test next week.
He's nervous

563
00:29:15,925 --> 00:29:18,132
Maybe we should get him a tutor.

564
00:29:19,133 --> 00:29:20,757
He's got Claude.

565
00:29:21,175 --> 00:29:23,799
He needs a real teacher,
not a classmate.

566
00:29:24,883 --> 00:29:27,007
They're not helping each other.

567
00:29:27,466 --> 00:29:29,382
Rapha's so glad to have a friend.

568
00:29:30,133 --> 00:29:31,549
He makes me nervous.

569
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,799
He was looking at the watercolors.

570
00:29:34,091 --> 00:29:35,215
He's strange.

571
00:29:35,633 --> 00:29:37,799
I'm sick of having him underfoot.

572
00:29:38,383 --> 00:29:40,215
I'll tell Rapha to stop inviting him.

573
00:29:42,341 --> 00:29:43,049
To be continued.

574
00:29:43,466 --> 00:29:45,632
Know who your pupil reminds me of?

575
00:29:45,841 --> 00:29:46,632
Who?

576
00:29:47,716 --> 00:29:50,090
My Yorkshire cousin, Andrew

577
00:29:50,425 --> 00:29:52,424
At marriages and baptisms

578
00:29:52,758 --> 00:29:54,757
he gets off on
dishing all the family dirt.

579
00:29:57,341 --> 00:29:58,799
Some people love that.

580
00:29:59,633 --> 00:30:01,424
Peeping through the keyhole.

581
00:30:12,133 --> 00:30:13,924
The surprise is waning.

582
00:30:14,175 --> 00:30:17,382
You're like a provincial cousin
dishing family dirt.

583
00:30:17,675 --> 00:30:20,007
If someone read this in a book...

584
00:30:20,258 --> 00:30:21,465
Is someone else reading it?

585
00:30:21,716 --> 00:30:24,174
It's not good enough,
I've shown no one.

586
00:30:24,425 --> 00:30:26,049
Don't show anyone.

587
00:30:26,216 --> 00:30:27,215
I'm telling you,

588
00:30:27,466 --> 00:30:29,965
if someone read this, they'd say

589
00:30:30,425 --> 00:30:31,840
it lacks...

590
00:30:32,633 --> 00:30:34,007
conflict.

591
00:30:34,633 --> 00:30:35,549
After you.

592
00:30:37,925 --> 00:30:39,465
A character

593
00:30:40,050 --> 00:30:41,840
desires something

594
00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:45,965
There are obstacles
to attaining his desire.

595
00:30:46,216 --> 00:30:48,715
Rivals and adversaries

596
00:30:48,966 --> 00:30:52,757
Ulysses wants to go home
but the Cyclops is after him,

597
00:30:53,008 --> 00:30:56,299
the Sirens hypnotize him,
the Witch sequesters him.

598
00:30:56,550 --> 00:30:57,257
Sometimes,

599
00:30:57,466 --> 00:31:00,674
the conflict is not
between the hero and someone else

600
00:31:00,966 --> 00:31:02,465
but within himself.

601
00:31:02,758 --> 00:31:03,965
I don't mean remodeling,

602
00:31:04,258 --> 00:31:08,757
building a veranda
or scheming with the Chinese

603
00:31:09,008 --> 00:31:11,674
I'm talking about deep inner struggle.

604
00:31:11,883 --> 00:31:13,382
Achilles!

605
00:31:13,633 --> 00:31:14,882
Do I march on Troy

606
00:31:15,216 --> 00:31:17,715
or stay with my beloved Deidamia?

607
00:31:18,050 --> 00:31:19,590
Now the reader wonders

608
00:31:19,841 --> 00:31:22,757
how the hero
will overcome his difficulties

609
00:31:23,050 --> 00:31:24,674
and attain his objectives

610
00:31:24,966 --> 00:31:26,049
That's the key question.

611
00:31:26,216 --> 00:31:28,424
You must lodge it in the reader's mind:

612
00:31:28,716 --> 00:31:29,674
What will happen?

613
00:31:29,925 --> 00:31:32,382
Whether mystery or Shakespearean drama,

614
00:31:32,633 --> 00:31:33,833
ask yourself this one question

615
00:31:34,008 --> 00:31:38,507
How do I solve the problem
of what's going to happen?

616
00:31:38,716 --> 00:31:42,299
No respite for the reader.
Maintain suspense

617
00:31:42,508 --> 00:31:44,549
The reader is like Shahrazad's Sultan.

618
00:31:45,050 --> 00:31:47,090
If you bore me, I'll cut off your head!

619
00:31:47,466 --> 00:31:49,049
But give him a good story

620
00:31:49,383 --> 00:31:50,590
and he'll give you his heart.

621
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,632
The Sultan or anyone else.
People need stories

622
00:31:53,841 --> 00:31:55,674
Life is nothing without them

623
00:31:56,008 --> 00:31:56,757
Bravo, maestro!

624
00:31:56,966 --> 00:31:58,049
Don't call me maestro.

625
00:31:59,716 --> 00:32:02,090
I don't know if I can keep writing.

626
00:32:03,466 --> 00:32:04,132
Why not?

627
00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:07,090
Rapha and I have a math test Thursday.

628
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:10,549
If he flunks,
his mom will fire me and hire a tutor.

629
00:32:11,050 --> 00:32:11,757
So?

630
00:32:11,966 --> 00:32:12,924
Well...

631
00:32:13,425 --> 00:32:17,090
If you want me to keep going there
and writing...

632
00:32:19,050 --> 00:32:20,424
I don't get it.

633
00:32:21,675 --> 00:32:24,799
Are you asking me to steal the math test?

634
00:32:25,091 --> 00:32:26,132
I didn't say that.

635
00:32:27,008 --> 00:32:29,174
But Rapha's no whiz at math,

636
00:32:29,591 --> 00:32:30,882
and his mom doesn't like me

637
00:32:32,466 --> 00:32:35,424
You don't need to go there
Imagine.

638
00:32:35,633 --> 00:32:38,674
I've tried, it's no use.
I need to be with them.

639
00:32:39,883 --> 00:32:40,674
Get going.

640
00:32:53,425 --> 00:32:54,340
Hi, Bernard

641
00:33:00,758 --> 00:33:02,549
Are you finding Sophomore C difficult?

642
00:33:03,383 --> 00:33:05,549
Not particularly.

643
00:33:06,383 --> 00:33:09,799
And Raphael Artole?
How are his math skills?

644
00:33:10,966 --> 00:33:13,007
Uneven, but he's trying.

645
00:33:13,716 --> 00:33:15,132
When's the next test?

646
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:16,715
Thursday

647
00:33:18,133 --> 00:33:21,090
I suppose you know
what you'll put on it?

648
00:33:24,258 --> 00:33:25,174
Excuse me...

649
00:33:26,091 --> 00:33:27,799
when'd you get interested in math?

650
00:33:36,258 --> 00:33:37,799
Wait a second.
Go ahead.

651
00:33:38,091 --> 00:33:40,632
Where was your text yesterday?

652
00:33:40,841 --> 00:33:42,757
I can't write if I don't go.

653
00:33:42,966 --> 00:33:43,549
Go sit down.

654
00:33:49,925 --> 00:33:51,174
NO STUDENTS ALLOWED

655
00:33:56,091 --> 00:33:58,049
- Who've you got now?
- Junior D.

656
00:34:00,008 --> 00:34:02,049
- Coming, Germain?
- I'm not done yet.

657
00:34:02,716 --> 00:34:03,590
See you later then.

658
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,090
Bye.

659
00:34:30,841 --> 00:34:32,090
Ten more minutes

660
00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:58,424
An A?
An A in math!

661
00:34:58,841 --> 00:35:00,674
See? Just takes work.

662
00:35:00,841 --> 00:35:02,340
- How'd you do, Claude?
- B 

663
00:35:02,508 --> 00:35:03,799
That's good too.

664
00:35:04,091 --> 00:35:06,590
My work with Rapha
is starting to pay off.

665
00:35:06,841 --> 00:35:09,715
Now I'm a potential teammate.

666
00:35:10,758 --> 00:35:14,590
The housewife joins us,
a tea towel in hand.

667
00:35:14,841 --> 00:35:16,715
- Nice job, honey.
- Thanks, Mom.

668
00:35:16,883 --> 00:35:17,799
Esther...

669
00:35:18,050 --> 00:35:20,549
Thanks for helping him, Claude.

670
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,840
You should play basketball with us.

671
00:35:24,133 --> 00:35:25,924
We play Saturdays, 6 to 8 pm.

672
00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:27,507
You'll love the team.

673
00:35:27,841 --> 00:35:29,049
Basketball's not really...

674
00:35:29,258 --> 00:35:31,757
So what? Playing's the main thing!

675
00:35:32,966 --> 00:35:34,299
We get drinks after,

676
00:35:34,633 --> 00:35:36,174
yell at the ref, it's fun!

677
00:35:36,425 --> 00:35:37,590
Say yes. We'll be gentle.

678
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,549
I'm not sure I'm free.

679
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,132
I'm busy Saturday.

680
00:35:41,341 --> 00:35:44,590
But I see Rapha's disappointed.

681
00:35:44,841 --> 00:35:47,507
I risk no longer being his best friend.

682
00:35:47,758 --> 00:35:49,632
A and C makes a B average.

683
00:35:49,841 --> 00:35:51,215
- Yeah?
- Good boy!

684
00:35:53,633 --> 00:35:55,174
See you tomorrow.
Yeah.

685
00:35:57,716 --> 00:35:59,049
At school...

686
00:35:59,883 --> 00:36:02,507
everyone's talking
about you and Germain,

687
00:36:02,841 --> 00:36:05,049
how you stay after class.

688
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,757
He's helping me improve my writing.

689
00:36:08,383 --> 00:36:10,132
Did he give you the math test?

690
00:36:11,383 --> 00:36:12,340
Why do you say that?

691
00:36:12,591 --> 00:36:13,924
Careful, he's weird

692
00:36:14,133 --> 00:36:17,007
I hear his wife
has a porn shop in town.

693
00:36:22,883 --> 00:36:25,424
What are we doing in the story?

694
00:36:26,050 --> 00:36:28,590
I don't know, he's losing his way.

695
00:36:30,633 --> 00:36:32,924
What about you and this math test?

696
00:36:35,341 --> 00:36:36,549
I don't believe it!

697
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:37,382
What?

698
00:36:37,591 --> 00:36:38,799
You gave it to them?

699
00:36:39,091 --> 00:36:40,840
It was lying on a table.

700
00:36:41,175 --> 00:36:42,924
Do you realize what you've done?

701
00:36:43,133 --> 00:36:45,090
You're a teacher, not a delinquent!

702
00:36:45,425 --> 00:36:47,424
It was wrong but I had to,

703
00:36:47,758 --> 00:36:49,799
to keep Claude tutoring Rapha!

704
00:36:50,008 --> 00:36:51,299
And writing like a voyeur.

705
00:36:51,466 --> 00:36:54,007
Yeah, so? Loosen up a little!

706
00:36:54,258 --> 00:36:55,757
- Germain!
- Ok!

707
00:36:56,341 --> 00:36:59,382
I admit it was risky
but no one's the wiser.

708
00:36:59,716 --> 00:37:01,965
It'll never happen again.

709
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,340
Saturday, 5:30 pm.
I'm in the park,

710
00:37:12,633 --> 00:37:14,382
near the bench
where I sat last summer.

711
00:37:24,966 --> 00:37:25,965
The coast is clear.

712
00:37:26,966 --> 00:37:28,132
I ring the bell.

713
00:37:28,508 --> 00:37:30,840
Obviously it's perfectly ridiculous.

714
00:37:33,675 --> 00:37:35,424
The door opens and she appears.

715
00:37:36,050 --> 00:37:36,799
Claude!

716
00:37:36,966 --> 00:37:39,382
Esther, the world's most bored woman.

717
00:37:39,633 --> 00:37:40,965
They just left for basketball

718
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,090
Shall I call them?

719
00:37:43,341 --> 00:37:46,257
No, I just forgot my math book.

720
00:37:48,966 --> 00:37:50,549
Come in, we'll find it.

721
00:37:51,675 --> 00:37:53,090
Alone at last with Esther.

722
00:37:53,883 --> 00:37:54,715
In the house.

723
00:37:58,175 --> 00:37:59,507
Strange, I can't find it.

724
00:37:59,716 --> 00:38:01,465
Of course she can't, it's at home

725
00:38:01,841 --> 00:38:03,174
in my backpack.

726
00:38:06,133 --> 00:38:08,257
My mom had the same earrings.

727
00:38:08,466 --> 00:38:10,924
I said, indicating her earrings.

728
00:38:11,716 --> 00:38:13,049
She left when I was nine.

729
00:38:14,216 --> 00:38:15,424
She couldn't stand my dad.

730
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,280
I guess she couldn't stand me either.

731
00:38:20,508 --> 00:38:22,590
My words hit the bull's eye.

732
00:38:22,966 --> 00:38:25,507
The story about my mom provokes sympathy.

733
00:38:25,716 --> 00:38:27,590
- Something to drink?
- Sure.

734
00:38:27,925 --> 00:38:28,882
A bond is created.

735
00:38:29,050 --> 00:38:29,674
Coke?

736
00:38:29,883 --> 00:38:32,465
She wants to protect me.
Be my mother.

737
00:38:35,883 --> 00:38:39,465
She pours me a Coke.
We talk about Rapha, basketball,

738
00:38:39,758 --> 00:38:40,924
her difficulty with math.

739
00:38:41,216 --> 00:38:42,965
I left school to take care of Rapha.

740
00:38:43,883 --> 00:38:46,299
Now he's older,
I want to study architecture.

741
00:38:46,508 --> 00:38:49,924
Or find a job in art or decorating.

742
00:38:50,216 --> 00:38:51,132
I like being with her

743
00:38:51,341 --> 00:38:52,590
I figured she wanted to talk.

744
00:38:52,841 --> 00:38:54,215
Time passes and I think,

745
00:38:54,508 --> 00:38:57,174
I'll come back next Saturday
for more alone time.

746
00:38:57,841 --> 00:39:00,757
Curtains, wallpaper, paintings...

747
00:39:01,841 --> 00:39:03,632
- Did you see the watercolors?
- Yeah.

748
00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:05,174
- Pretty, huh?
- Very.

749
00:39:05,383 --> 00:39:06,549
Let's go look at them.

750
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:10,965
Rettung.

751
00:39:11,175 --> 00:39:12,507
Unterbrechung.

752
00:39:13,466 --> 00:39:14,549
Hoffnung.

753
00:39:16,466 --> 00:39:17,465
Scary angels.

754
00:39:17,675 --> 00:39:20,090
Angels? I never thought of that.

755
00:39:20,341 --> 00:39:23,049
Like the Rapha males,
she speaks no German.

756
00:39:23,341 --> 00:39:26,340
These watercolors
are just decorative to her

757
00:39:26,591 --> 00:39:28,924
When she repaints, she'll change them.

758
00:39:29,216 --> 00:39:30,757
Rettung means redemption.

759
00:39:31,008 --> 00:39:32,882
Unterbrechung, interruption.

760
00:39:33,383 --> 00:39:35,090
Hoffnung, hope.

761
00:39:37,383 --> 00:39:39,549
Zerstorung, destruction.

762
00:39:40,841 --> 00:39:43,965
I should go.
The Rapha males will soon return.

763
00:39:44,175 --> 00:39:46,132
What if they found me in their house

764
00:39:46,341 --> 00:39:49,049
with Esther, Rapha's wife,

765
00:39:49,675 --> 00:39:50,882
Rapha's mother?

766
00:39:51,300 --> 00:39:52,174
To be continued.

767
00:39:53,133 --> 00:39:55,257
This'll end badly, mark my words.

768
00:39:55,508 --> 00:39:56,674
- No.
- It will!

769
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,215
Imagine they quit playing,
come home early

770
00:40:01,550 --> 00:40:04,465
and find the mother
and son's friend on the sofa.

771
00:40:04,716 --> 00:40:06,924
What sofa? Where's the sofa?

772
00:40:07,216 --> 00:40:10,590
No sofa was mentioned.
You're imagining them on the sofa.

773
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,465
Whatever
If Rapha finds them he'll kill him.

774
00:40:13,758 --> 00:40:14,799
Father or son?

775
00:40:15,008 --> 00:40:16,757
Both! They'll kill Claude.

776
00:40:17,216 --> 00:40:20,090
You're taking it too seriously
It's harmless.

777
00:40:20,425 --> 00:40:23,340
He's making most of it up, imagining.

778
00:40:23,675 --> 00:40:26,382
He's got some imagination.

779
00:40:26,716 --> 00:40:29,174
It's more and more believable,
and dangerous.

780
00:40:29,591 --> 00:40:31,882
I don't want Claude getting carried away,

781
00:40:32,175 --> 00:40:35,382
but with supervision,
he could be great.

782
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,090
- Give me a break
- What?

783
00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:39,049
So he's the new Kafka?

784
00:40:40,133 --> 00:40:42,340
Your model student in the back row.

785
00:40:42,716 --> 00:40:45,007
Hope you don't plan
to get him published.

786
00:40:45,216 --> 00:40:48,007
Why not? It's better than most
of what gets published.

787
00:40:48,383 --> 00:40:49,590
Sorry.

788
00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:53,299
Riveting dialogue, exciting situations...

789
00:41:03,383 --> 00:41:05,674
I explain imaginary numbers
for the umpteenth time,

790
00:41:06,091 --> 00:41:07,924
give Rapha four exercises

791
00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:09,345
and take advantage
of his parents' absence

792
00:41:09,425 --> 00:41:11,007
to get a better look around the house.

793
00:41:11,383 --> 00:41:13,049
I enter the parents' bedroom.

794
00:41:14,008 --> 00:41:19,674
The intoxicating scent
of the middle-class woman fills the room.

795
00:41:20,175 --> 00:41:23,924
A Chinese man smiles at me
from Rapha Senior's screensaver.

796
00:41:26,175 --> 00:41:27,799
Bianjan Doll Project...

797
00:41:28,175 --> 00:41:30,132
Junjin Jewelry Project...

798
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,799
Property deeds...

799
00:41:34,341 --> 00:41:36,507
Postcards from Rapha on vacation...

800
00:41:37,716 --> 00:41:38,507
Then, suddenly...

801
00:41:39,925 --> 00:41:41,090
an X-ray.

802
00:41:43,966 --> 00:41:45,465
A spinal column.

803
00:41:45,883 --> 00:41:49,257
The X-ray seems to be of a woman.
Yes, a woman.

804
00:41:51,966 --> 00:41:55,049
In the closet
seven pairs of women's shoes.

805
00:41:56,466 --> 00:42:01,090
I imagine Esther walking in the park
in the red shoes.

806
00:42:02,758 --> 00:42:04,507
Then I enter the bathroom.

807
00:42:04,841 --> 00:42:07,340
I spritz on Rapha Senior's cologne.

808
00:42:07,841 --> 00:42:08,924
"Eau Sauvage"

809
00:42:09,591 --> 00:42:12,340
Razors, anti-stretch mark cream,

810
00:42:12,675 --> 00:42:14,924
paracetamol... Xanax!

811
00:42:56,383 --> 00:42:57,507
It's me, babe.

812
00:42:59,216 --> 00:43:01,007
Hi, honey. How was your day?

813
00:43:02,050 --> 00:43:04,132
Guess what the Chinese guy did?

814
00:43:04,383 --> 00:43:05,215
What now?

815
00:43:05,425 --> 00:43:08,465
Fought over his cut.
Left without signing.

816
00:43:08,758 --> 00:43:09,590
Darn!

817
00:43:10,008 --> 00:43:12,549
Maurice called me in,
pulled out the bill

818
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,303
and yelled at me for choosing
such an expensive restaurant.

819
00:43:14,383 --> 00:43:18,465
He told me to impress the guy!

820
00:43:18,883 --> 00:43:21,840
- 268 euros
- Pay it yourself.

821
00:43:22,133 --> 00:43:23,465
It's not the money.

822
00:43:23,633 --> 00:43:26,340
He didn't sign, they're screwed.

823
00:43:26,550 --> 00:43:29,757
If he'd signed, the fucking bill
wouldn't matter!

824
00:43:31,008 --> 00:43:32,007
What will you do?

825
00:43:34,258 --> 00:43:35,590
Wait for it to blow over.

826
00:43:36,758 --> 00:43:39,965
They'll forget Wong Lee
and the 300 euros.

827
00:43:40,508 --> 00:43:41,507
300?

828
00:43:42,133 --> 00:43:43,257
With tip!

829
00:43:46,383 --> 00:43:47,132
To be continued.

830
00:43:47,716 --> 00:43:49,215
- She's not well.
- Who?

831
00:43:50,008 --> 00:43:50,799
Esther.

832
00:43:51,008 --> 00:43:53,215
He's the one who's not well.

833
00:43:53,633 --> 00:43:55,590
Xanax treats anxiety.

834
00:43:55,758 --> 00:43:58,715
I take Temesta
Half the teachers are on meds.

835
00:43:59,008 --> 00:44:00,674
They could be his.

836
00:44:01,675 --> 00:44:03,382
He seems more balanced.

837
00:44:03,758 --> 00:44:06,882
He has problems,
but he's obsessed with work.

838
00:44:07,133 --> 00:44:08,840
Whereas she has nothing.

839
00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:12,590
He's neglecting her,
he no longer sees her.

840
00:44:15,425 --> 00:44:17,924
I wonder why Claude

841
00:44:18,591 --> 00:44:21,465
didn't take a peek
on Rapha Senior's computer?

842
00:44:25,091 --> 00:44:27,674
Maybe deep down,

843
00:44:28,216 --> 00:44:32,049
what he's really interested in
is Esther.

844
00:44:33,258 --> 00:44:34,465
Esther's secret

845
00:44:34,675 --> 00:44:36,257
Esther has no secret,

846
00:44:36,591 --> 00:44:37,882
she's completely transparent.

847
00:44:40,091 --> 00:44:42,382
Maybe I'm missing a scene

848
00:44:42,675 --> 00:44:44,549
to explain Claude's transformation.

849
00:44:44,883 --> 00:44:45,965
Nothing's missing.

850
00:44:46,300 --> 00:44:49,424
There's too much going on.
Too much Esther...

851
00:44:49,758 --> 00:44:51,215
And that X-ray!

852
00:44:51,550 --> 00:44:54,215
Sentimental manipulation.

853
00:44:54,591 --> 00:44:57,882
What's next, Claude, cancer?

854
00:44:58,716 --> 00:45:01,840
The Claude character desires Esther,

855
00:45:02,175 --> 00:45:03,549
but obstacles arise

856
00:45:03,841 --> 00:45:05,715
Rapha Senior, Rapha Junior.

857
00:45:06,216 --> 00:45:08,799
The key question: What will happen?

858
00:45:09,050 --> 00:45:12,215
So what happens?
You meet Esther in some sleazy hotel?

859
00:45:12,466 --> 00:45:13,799
No. In the house

860
00:45:14,216 --> 00:45:16,340
Everything must happen

861
00:45:17,508 --> 00:45:18,340
in the house

862
00:45:18,508 --> 00:45:19,424
I see

863
00:45:20,425 --> 00:45:21,757
You've lost your way

864
00:45:22,091 --> 00:45:23,257
What do you want to write?

865
00:45:23,591 --> 00:45:25,382
A middle-class satire?

866
00:45:25,716 --> 00:45:27,590
A photo-novella parody?

867
00:45:28,008 --> 00:45:29,924
A Bildungsroman?

868
00:45:30,091 --> 00:45:31,965
- A what?
- I thought you spoke German.

869
00:45:32,258 --> 00:45:33,757
Zerstorung, Hoffnung?

870
00:45:34,008 --> 00:45:36,674
I asked my dad.
He used to live in Berlin.

871
00:45:37,133 --> 00:45:38,924
He told me about Klee too

872
00:45:39,091 --> 00:45:39,674
Oh really?

873
00:45:40,091 --> 00:45:42,257
Then he probably told you a Bildungsroman

874
00:45:42,550 --> 00:45:45,590
is a coming-of-age story.

875
00:45:45,966 --> 00:45:47,527
I thought that's what you were writing.

876
00:45:47,841 --> 00:45:50,924
The passage from youth to adulthood.

877
00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:52,799
Now I don't know anymore

878
00:45:53,050 --> 00:45:54,424
Claude, tell me

879
00:45:54,925 --> 00:45:55,965
What do you want to do?

880
00:45:56,508 --> 00:45:58,257
What you said, maestro.

881
00:45:58,550 --> 00:46:00,257
You're the Sultan, I'm Shahrazad.

882
00:46:00,508 --> 00:46:03,090
Don't mock a woman
who could be your mother!

883
00:46:03,425 --> 00:46:04,546
And stop calling me maestro!

884
00:46:06,091 --> 00:46:06,882
Come on

885
00:46:07,633 --> 00:46:08,715
Hello Germain, how are you?

886
00:46:09,175 --> 00:46:11,132
Fine, thank you

887
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:12,965
See you later

888
00:46:13,300 --> 00:46:14,174
Bye

889
00:46:15,216 --> 00:46:17,215
Doing overtime. That's good

890
00:46:17,591 --> 00:46:20,382
I'm helping the boy, he needs it

891
00:46:20,758 --> 00:46:23,007
- Claude Garcia, right?
- Yes.

892
00:46:24,008 --> 00:46:27,132
What do you think of the uniforms?

893
00:46:27,341 --> 00:46:30,632
Pathetic.
They seem even more like sheep.

894
00:46:31,258 --> 00:46:32,674
So, this Claude Garcia...

895
00:46:32,883 --> 00:46:35,215
black sheep or lost lamb?

896
00:46:56,050 --> 00:46:56,840
Hello!

897
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,424
Great, you're here!

898
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,965
Come in, please!

899
00:47:02,258 --> 00:47:04,757
I've discovered
a wonderful Chinese artist

900
00:47:05,091 --> 00:47:06,632
for next week's opening.

901
00:47:06,883 --> 00:47:08,465
She's getting a lot of buzz,

902
00:47:08,716 --> 00:47:12,007
but her work hasn't been
exposed in France yet.

903
00:47:14,008 --> 00:47:15,257
She's Chinese?

904
00:47:15,425 --> 00:47:17,924
Yes, but born in Los Angeles

905
00:47:18,175 --> 00:47:22,299
She revisits calligraphy
from a gender perspective.

906
00:47:22,550 --> 00:47:24,174
This is Shanghai Sky 1

907
00:47:24,466 --> 00:47:26,299
Shanghai Sky 2, Shanghai Sky 3

908
00:47:26,633 --> 00:47:28,174
and Shanghai Sky 4

909
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,424
What's the difference between
Shanghai Sky 2 and Shanghai Sky 3?

910
00:47:33,716 --> 00:47:35,303
No two pieces are alike.

911
00:47:35,383 --> 00:47:40,299
She creates infinitesimal,
random variations

912
00:47:40,425 --> 00:47:41,215
on the computer

913
00:47:41,466 --> 00:47:42,549
What do they represent?

914
00:47:42,841 --> 00:47:45,257
To me, they represent

915
00:47:45,466 --> 00:47:46,965
clouds...

916
00:47:48,675 --> 00:47:49,840
the horizon.

917
00:47:50,050 --> 00:47:53,090
Yes. They evoke a presence

918
00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:54,090
Yes.

919
00:47:54,883 --> 00:47:56,924
Presentation, not representation

920
00:47:58,591 --> 00:48:00,840
I'll show you my favorite,

921
00:48:01,216 --> 00:48:02,840
Shanghai Sky 7. Sublime

922
00:48:05,216 --> 00:48:05,965
So?

923
00:48:08,050 --> 00:48:09,674
I think they liked it

924
00:48:10,050 --> 00:48:11,382
Your Chinese artist?

925
00:48:11,675 --> 00:48:15,257
Yes. They listened to me,
looked at everything.

926
00:48:16,091 --> 00:48:17,299
What'd they say?

927
00:48:18,716 --> 00:48:21,299
Not much, but they seemed keen

928
00:48:22,841 --> 00:48:24,799
They're coming to the opening.

929
00:48:25,633 --> 00:48:28,090
But Rosalie or Eugenie, whichever

930
00:48:28,425 --> 00:48:29,840
gave me until the 30th

931
00:48:30,175 --> 00:48:31,590
The pressure's on

932
00:48:33,425 --> 00:48:37,632
The gallery's problem is not the art,
it's the name.

933
00:48:38,591 --> 00:48:41,882
"The Minotaur's Maze"
scares people, no?

934
00:48:43,550 --> 00:48:47,007
They invited me to dinner
to celebrate Rapha's A

935
00:48:47,216 --> 00:48:48,965
Chinese food, natch.

936
00:48:49,216 --> 00:48:51,882
At The Wall
they served this little filet.

937
00:48:52,216 --> 00:48:54,174
We didn't know if it was meat or fish.

938
00:48:54,633 --> 00:48:56,549
- Guess what it was?
- What?

939
00:48:57,008 --> 00:48:58,715
Duck feet webbing.

940
00:49:00,050 --> 00:49:01,549
Germain, the lit teacher,

941
00:49:01,883 --> 00:49:04,174
loaned me Kafka's <i>Great Wall of China</i>

942
00:49:04,675 --> 00:49:07,590
Rapha says he's weird. Kind of bitter.

943
00:49:07,883 --> 00:49:10,465
I think he'd rather write than teach

944
00:49:10,758 --> 00:49:11,799
He could do both.

945
00:49:12,883 --> 00:49:15,549
I think he lacks talent so he's bitter.

946
00:49:16,633 --> 00:49:19,465
Bitter! Aren't you upset about that?

947
00:49:21,341 --> 00:49:22,382
He's not wrong.

948
00:49:24,008 --> 00:49:24,757
Masochist.

949
00:49:27,425 --> 00:49:31,674
After the news,
Rapha Senior goes out for a smoke.

950
00:49:33,216 --> 00:49:36,382
Last summer I'd watch them
eating on the terrace.

951
00:49:36,633 --> 00:49:39,090
Now I'm here, gazing at the park,

952
00:49:39,383 --> 00:49:41,549
on the terrace with Rapha's dad.

953
00:49:41,758 --> 00:49:44,632
You know Claude,
people fear China.

954
00:49:44,841 --> 00:49:45,674
Really?

955
00:49:46,841 --> 00:49:48,840
But China is the future.

956
00:49:50,175 --> 00:49:52,132
The population is huge.

957
00:49:52,425 --> 00:49:56,132
With his son he talks only
about sports, cars, basketball

958
00:49:56,925 --> 00:49:58,007
With me it's different.

959
00:49:58,258 --> 00:49:59,382
Over a billion.

960
00:50:00,258 --> 00:50:02,632
And growing by 6 million a year.

961
00:50:03,091 --> 00:50:05,424
Before they had the one-kid rule.

962
00:50:05,758 --> 00:50:07,215
Now they're like rabbits.

963
00:50:07,508 --> 00:50:11,299
I spot the wino
who feeds the ducks and pigeons.

964
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,465
If he looked up and saw us,

965
00:50:14,050 --> 00:50:15,590
he might think I'm...

966
00:50:16,341 --> 00:50:17,549
Rapha's son.

967
00:50:18,883 --> 00:50:20,507
You're a good friend to my son.

968
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:24,382
I'm bonding with that man?

969
00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:27,674
To take his son's place.

970
00:50:27,966 --> 00:50:31,215
Provoking jealousy from Rapha Junior.

971
00:50:31,591 --> 00:50:34,215
A hollow character without conflict.

972
00:50:34,550 --> 00:50:37,549
Look at him, at dinner, watching TV.

973
00:50:38,050 --> 00:50:40,340
What does he think and feel?

974
00:50:40,675 --> 00:50:42,382
You don't know what to do with him.

975
00:50:42,925 --> 00:50:44,674
I'll be honest with you,

976
00:50:44,966 --> 00:50:48,257
you've got a serious problem
with the son character.

977
00:50:49,425 --> 00:50:50,507
Do you have children?

978
00:50:50,883 --> 00:50:51,924
Why do you ask?

979
00:50:52,425 --> 00:50:55,924
To help me understand
father-son relations.

980
00:50:56,258 --> 00:50:59,049
I have no children,
but I have imagination.

981
00:50:59,966 --> 00:51:01,007
Didn't you want them?

982
00:51:01,633 --> 00:51:02,513
None of your business.

983
00:51:05,508 --> 00:51:08,715
The important thing
is to develop Rapha Junior

984
00:51:16,716 --> 00:51:20,340
Saturday.
Though dying to be alone with Esther

985
00:51:20,633 --> 00:51:23,132
I decide to join the Rapha males.

986
00:51:23,550 --> 00:51:25,632
There they are, in shorts,

987
00:51:25,925 --> 00:51:27,424
chasing after their ball.

988
00:51:30,133 --> 00:51:32,090
I watch them for a long time,

989
00:51:32,466 --> 00:51:33,882
trying to imagine

990
00:51:34,133 --> 00:51:35,799
me and my father

991
00:51:36,091 --> 00:51:38,382
prancing around
aiming a ball at a hoop

992
00:51:38,550 --> 00:51:41,382
Nope. I can't imagine me and my father

993
00:51:41,716 --> 00:51:43,549
prancing around
aiming a ball at a hoop.

994
00:51:43,841 --> 00:51:44,882
But they do it.

995
00:51:46,758 --> 00:51:50,757
Every Saturday,
Rapha Junior and Senior

996
00:51:51,133 --> 00:51:54,549
are happy when the ball goes in
and sad when it doesn't.

997
00:51:58,091 --> 00:51:59,924
Rapha, look who's here!

998
00:52:01,008 --> 00:52:02,465
Cool, you came!

999
00:52:09,175 --> 00:52:11,424
- Nice shot!
- So you do play basketball?

1000
00:52:11,758 --> 00:52:13,299
I look him in the eyes and say,

1001
00:52:13,591 --> 00:52:17,382
The day Mom left,
Dad quit playing basketball.

1002
00:52:18,008 --> 00:52:19,174
And so did I.

1003
00:52:19,966 --> 00:52:22,174
C'mon Claude, you're on my team!

1004
00:52:46,091 --> 00:52:47,965
You're better in the house.

1005
00:52:48,341 --> 00:52:51,507
Why'd you go to the court?
It's like a cheesy sitcom.

1006
00:52:51,841 --> 00:52:53,840
You want to write for TV?

1007
00:52:54,133 --> 00:52:57,215
Stop explaining.
Let the reader fill in the blanks.

1008
00:52:57,758 --> 00:53:00,299
Rapha Junior still worries me.

1009
00:53:00,550 --> 00:53:03,007
He's just a foil for Claude.

1010
00:53:03,341 --> 00:53:05,924
Yet you want to take his place.
Too obvious.

1011
00:53:06,216 --> 00:53:09,215
Reveal who he really is.

1012
00:53:09,466 --> 00:53:12,882
Start with the father playing alone,

1013
00:53:13,133 --> 00:53:15,799
end with Claude telling Rapha Jr...

1014
00:53:16,133 --> 00:53:19,424
The day Mom left,
Dad quit playing basketball.

1015
00:53:21,675 --> 00:53:22,424
So did I.

1016
00:53:22,633 --> 00:53:23,924
That's the key.

1017
00:53:24,133 --> 00:53:28,382
Gently drive the action,
then surprise the reader.

1018
00:53:28,841 --> 00:53:31,549
The last paragraph is pure filler.

1019
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:32,799
I don't understand.

1020
00:53:33,050 --> 00:53:35,049
If you know how, why don't you write?

1021
00:53:35,883 --> 00:53:37,174
To tell you the truth,

1022
00:53:37,591 --> 00:53:40,882
I tried, a few years ago.
I wasn't good enough.

1023
00:53:42,216 --> 00:53:44,340
Neither are you.
But you could be.

1024
00:53:44,591 --> 00:53:45,590
You have a gift.

1025
00:53:45,966 --> 00:53:50,549
If you work hard,
one day you'll be a writer.

1026
00:53:54,675 --> 00:53:57,174
A Simple Heart
by Gustave Flaubert

1027
00:53:58,591 --> 00:54:02,215
I asked you to write
about your best friend.

1028
00:54:02,716 --> 00:54:08,840
Who'll read theirs aloud?

1029
00:54:09,341 --> 00:54:11,049
As brave as ever.

1030
00:54:11,300 --> 00:54:13,049
I'll pick someone at random.

1031
00:54:14,008 --> 00:54:15,007
Let's see...

1032
00:54:17,008 --> 00:54:18,549
Raphael Artole.

1033
00:54:19,591 --> 00:54:22,090
Come read us your paper.

1034
00:54:22,591 --> 00:54:23,840
Come on, Raphael.

1035
00:54:25,383 --> 00:54:26,590
My best friend...

1036
00:54:26,841 --> 00:54:27,970
Louder.

1037
00:54:28,050 --> 00:54:29,715
My best friend, Claude Garcia.

1038
00:54:32,383 --> 00:54:36,257
I didn't know him last year,
we weren't in the same class.

1039
00:54:36,466 --> 00:54:38,965
This year we made friends over math.

1040
00:54:40,341 --> 00:54:42,840
He helps me study and improve.

1041
00:54:43,175 --> 00:54:44,174
Math-Match. Com!

1042
00:54:45,300 --> 00:54:47,132
Quiet, please

1043
00:54:47,758 --> 00:54:50,840
I wanted him to play basketball
with me and Dad

1044
00:54:51,133 --> 00:54:52,299
but he's not into sports.

1045
00:54:52,591 --> 00:54:53,757
I respect him.

1046
00:54:54,466 --> 00:54:57,299
In sports you must respect your opponent.

1047
00:54:57,550 --> 00:54:58,382
Hurry up!

1048
00:54:58,758 --> 00:55:00,299
Quiet, please.

1049
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:02,799
Before my dad was my best friend.

1050
00:55:03,175 --> 00:55:04,007
Now I know

1051
00:55:04,383 --> 00:55:06,674
that was weird, my mom told me.

1052
00:55:07,091 --> 00:55:08,007
She was jealous!

1053
00:55:09,591 --> 00:55:13,257
Last Saturday, Claude made an effort
to play basketball.

1054
00:55:13,591 --> 00:55:15,549
That's when I knew he truly was...

1055
00:55:16,591 --> 00:55:17,632
my best friend.

1056
00:55:20,591 --> 00:55:23,424
Quiet.

1057
00:55:24,133 --> 00:55:24,757
Please.

1058
00:55:25,133 --> 00:55:26,632
Copy it on the blackboard,

1059
00:55:27,300 --> 00:55:28,757
and we'll correct it.

1060
00:55:29,966 --> 00:55:31,424
I felt like shit

1061
00:55:31,633 --> 00:55:33,507
Forget that asshole, concentrate

1062
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:35,549
See why it's an imaginary number?

1063
00:55:36,216 --> 00:55:36,882
I think so.

1064
00:55:37,216 --> 00:55:37,799
Come on!

1065
00:55:38,050 --> 00:55:41,465
The plane, not the axis.

1066
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:43,882
It's like he undressed me.

1067
00:55:44,300 --> 00:55:45,965
Obviously he's upset.

1068
00:55:46,216 --> 00:55:49,757
- You shouldn't have.
- I just corrected his mistakes.

1069
00:55:50,008 --> 00:55:52,757
You should've stopped
when they started laughing.

1070
00:55:53,133 --> 00:55:54,882
I want him to know what it's like.

1071
00:55:55,300 --> 00:55:58,257
I could kick his ass.
And burn his car!

1072
00:55:58,550 --> 00:55:59,674
I don't think he has one.

1073
00:55:59,925 --> 00:56:01,965
I don't drive. My wife has a car.

1074
00:56:02,216 --> 00:56:04,882
I'll kick his ugly teacher ass!

1075
00:56:05,383 --> 00:56:07,132
- You could do better.
- What?

1076
00:56:07,925 --> 00:56:11,882
Write an article in <i>The Torch</i>.
Tell your side.

1077
00:56:12,216 --> 00:56:14,507
You want him to criticize me
in <i>The Torch</i>?

1078
00:56:14,716 --> 00:56:15,549
Why not?

1079
00:56:15,883 --> 00:56:18,049
The Rapha character needs to exist.

1080
00:56:22,008 --> 00:56:24,299
Far be it from me to sully <i>The Torch</i>,

1081
00:56:24,508 --> 00:56:26,215
with its field trip photos,

1082
00:56:26,466 --> 00:56:29,382
tributes to retired teachers
and gooey poetry.

1083
00:56:29,675 --> 00:56:33,590
I won't have anyone saying
I censored <i>The Torch!</i>

1084
00:56:33,925 --> 00:56:36,465
Then why don't you talk to Rapha?

1085
00:56:36,758 --> 00:56:38,299
I'm not supposed to know.

1086
00:56:38,633 --> 00:56:41,799
There's no article, as far as I know.

1087
00:56:44,883 --> 00:56:46,590
Raphael, can I see you?

1088
00:56:47,383 --> 00:56:48,632
I need to talk to you.

1089
00:56:53,508 --> 00:56:56,549
He wanted to talk
but didn't say much.

1090
00:56:56,841 --> 00:56:57,882
He gave me this.

1091
00:56:58,341 --> 00:57:00,799
"Don't underline, dog-ear the pages
or turn it over open."

1092
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,840
- Maybe I shouldn't publish my article.
- Why not?

1093
00:57:06,175 --> 00:57:08,840
This book is like saying sorry.

1094
00:57:09,008 --> 00:57:10,549
No, you have to.

1095
00:57:17,675 --> 00:57:18,424
Hello.

1096
00:57:28,675 --> 00:57:31,882
I haven't slept for a week,
wondering,

1097
00:57:32,300 --> 00:57:35,590
Why did Mr. Germain
humiliate me in class,

1098
00:57:35,841 --> 00:57:39,007
making me read my paper
while everyone laughed?

1099
00:57:39,425 --> 00:57:42,549
He's the one who said to write
about our best friend.

1100
00:57:43,091 --> 00:57:45,340
His cruel streak not satisfied,

1101
00:57:45,550 --> 00:57:49,882
he made me write it on the board,

1102
00:57:50,383 --> 00:57:53,340
But once I wrote it,
Mr. Germain undressed me.

1103
00:57:53,550 --> 00:57:55,840
Erasing each sentence, one by one,

1104
00:57:56,133 --> 00:57:59,049
until the board was naked.

1105
00:57:59,633 --> 00:58:00,840
Desperately naked.

1106
00:58:01,133 --> 00:58:04,215
"I wanted to share my story

1107
00:58:04,550 --> 00:58:06,340
to stop such humiliations

1108
00:58:06,675 --> 00:58:08,382
and calm the knot in my stomach

1109
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:10,757
next time I get called
to the board.

1110
00:58:11,633 --> 00:58:12,882
Raphael Artole."

1111
00:58:14,966 --> 00:58:17,340
- He's right to be mad at you.
- Why?

1112
00:58:17,550 --> 00:58:19,507
It's like undressing him in public!

1113
00:58:19,716 --> 00:58:23,632
You take off his shirt,
pants, underwear...

1114
00:58:23,966 --> 00:58:25,924
I call a spade a spade.

1115
00:58:26,300 --> 00:58:28,257
Correcting bad writing
is correcting bad writing.

1116
00:58:29,216 --> 00:58:32,174
This is well-written, well-argued.

1117
00:58:32,550 --> 00:58:33,549
He's a bright kid.

1118
00:58:33,841 --> 00:58:35,090
I'm sure Claude wrote it.

1119
00:58:36,925 --> 00:58:38,382
What's the principal say?

1120
00:58:41,008 --> 00:58:43,715
Frankly, you fucked up.

1121
00:58:44,758 --> 00:58:46,340
You know the rules.

1122
00:58:46,591 --> 00:58:48,799
Teachers must place learners
at the heart...

1123
00:58:49,258 --> 00:58:51,965
...of learning, I know.

1124
00:58:52,466 --> 00:58:55,090
Don't say pupil, say learner.

1125
00:58:55,300 --> 00:58:58,299
Don't punish the pupil...
excuse me, learner.

1126
00:58:58,508 --> 00:59:00,549
Gently guide him with praise.

1127
00:59:00,758 --> 00:59:02,549
Use green pens, not red.

1128
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:04,632
Red makes the learner anxious.

1129
00:59:04,883 --> 00:59:08,632
I know all this new
mumbo-jumbo by heart.

1130
00:59:09,133 --> 00:59:09,757
So spare me.

1131
00:59:10,050 --> 00:59:11,674
This pupil writes

1132
00:59:12,591 --> 00:59:14,132
that you undressed him.

1133
00:59:14,425 --> 00:59:17,507
Are you kidding me? Seriously.

1134
00:59:17,883 --> 00:59:19,674
With those stupid uniforms!

1135
00:59:19,925 --> 00:59:22,632
Just tell me one thing.

1136
00:59:22,883 --> 00:59:26,174
Why did you humiliate that boy?

1137
00:59:26,425 --> 00:59:30,382
I didn't humiliate him.
I corrected his homework!

1138
00:59:30,758 --> 00:59:33,215
That's what you pay me for!

1139
00:59:33,550 --> 00:59:35,299
Just be aware that as principal,

1140
00:59:35,591 --> 00:59:39,340
I'm meant to inform
the head of the district.

1141
00:59:48,841 --> 00:59:49,715
Come in.

1142
00:59:51,883 --> 00:59:55,215
Mr. Artole.
Please have a seat.

1143
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:59,674
It's about my son's article
in the school paper.

1144
00:59:59,925 --> 01:00:02,090
Don't worry, it's already forgotten.

1145
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,382
Rapha didn't tell me.

1146
01:00:05,258 --> 01:00:06,840
But he seemed strange.

1147
01:00:07,633 --> 01:00:09,174
I was shocked to read this.

1148
01:00:09,383 --> 01:00:13,340
I was just doing my job as a learner...

1149
01:00:13,758 --> 01:00:15,382
I mean educator.

1150
01:00:15,633 --> 01:00:18,715
What matters in education,
politics, sports,

1151
01:00:19,133 --> 01:00:20,382
life in general,

1152
01:00:20,675 --> 01:00:21,757
is respect.

1153
01:00:22,050 --> 01:00:23,090
Respect for pupils,

1154
01:00:23,341 --> 01:00:25,840
partners, bosses, employees,

1155
01:00:26,050 --> 01:00:26,924
workers!

1156
01:00:27,216 --> 01:00:29,924
I understand,
but no need to get upset

1157
01:00:30,300 --> 01:00:34,132
over this admittedly awkward incident.

1158
01:00:34,591 --> 01:00:36,799
Teaching is teamwork.

1159
01:00:37,758 --> 01:00:39,507
Share information.

1160
01:00:39,883 --> 01:00:41,424
Divide responsibility.

1161
01:00:41,758 --> 01:00:42,632
Delegate.

1162
01:00:43,050 --> 01:00:44,882
We pass each other the ball

1163
01:00:45,258 --> 01:00:47,340
and together we score.

1164
01:00:50,300 --> 01:00:53,049
You humiliated my son in public.

1165
01:00:53,425 --> 01:00:56,465
My son deserves your respect.

1166
01:00:57,008 --> 01:00:59,632
I want you to apologize in public

1167
01:01:14,300 --> 01:01:18,674
- So?
- People like it, I'm happy.

1168
01:01:18,966 --> 01:01:19,840
Any buyers?

1169
01:01:20,091 --> 01:01:22,799
Not yet, but I can tell it's a hit.

1170
01:01:23,050 --> 01:01:23,965
Good job, dear.

1171
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:27,049
Did you see the twins?

1172
01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:29,382
- What do they look like?
- Twins.

1173
01:01:29,883 --> 01:01:32,215
I hope they come
and see all these people.

1174
01:01:35,216 --> 01:01:36,507
- I don't believe it.
- What?

1175
01:01:36,966 --> 01:01:38,674
- That couple.
- Who?

1176
01:01:38,966 --> 01:01:39,882
Rapha's parents.

1177
01:01:40,508 --> 01:01:41,299
You don't say?

1178
01:01:42,508 --> 01:01:43,215
Them?

1179
01:01:44,633 --> 01:01:47,590
I'd never have pictured them like that.

1180
01:01:48,925 --> 01:01:50,257
She's quite pretty.

1181
01:01:51,425 --> 01:01:52,799
You've seen them before?

1182
01:01:53,216 --> 01:01:56,132
The father came
for a parent-teacher meeting.

1183
01:01:58,175 --> 01:02:00,632
- Let's talk to them.
- No, stop!

1184
01:02:01,175 --> 01:02:04,132
- Why not?
- What're they doing here?

1185
01:02:04,425 --> 01:02:06,757
The middle class is interested in art.

1186
01:02:07,091 --> 01:02:09,007
And he's interested in China.

1187
01:02:09,216 --> 01:02:12,590
All he's interested in
is cheap labor.

1188
01:02:13,633 --> 01:02:14,924
I'm going home.

1189
01:02:15,216 --> 01:02:17,424
- Already?
- I start early tomorrow.

1190
01:02:18,175 --> 01:02:19,674
Wait for the twins at least.

1191
01:02:32,425 --> 01:02:33,215
So?

1192
01:02:34,758 --> 01:02:36,424
They never showed.

1193
01:02:36,675 --> 01:02:37,549
And Rapha's parents?

1194
01:02:38,341 --> 01:02:40,465
They didn't stay long.

1195
01:02:40,758 --> 01:02:42,549
- Did you speak to them?
- No.

1196
01:02:43,008 --> 01:02:44,507
How'd they end up there?

1197
01:02:44,758 --> 01:02:47,715
I don't give a shit!
It was my opening, Germain.

1198
01:02:48,050 --> 01:02:49,257
The twins didn't show.

1199
01:02:49,550 --> 01:02:51,715
They'll sell the gallery and fire me.

1200
01:02:52,133 --> 01:02:53,715
All you care about is that family!

1201
01:02:54,341 --> 01:02:55,174
I'm sorry.

1202
01:02:55,550 --> 01:02:57,007
Spare me your hypocrisy!

1203
01:03:01,883 --> 01:03:03,549
I invited them.

1204
01:03:07,341 --> 01:03:08,465
Rapha's parents?

1205
01:03:09,175 --> 01:03:10,090
Yes.

1206
01:03:11,216 --> 01:03:13,757
I sent an invitation.
I didn't think they'd come.

1207
01:03:15,841 --> 01:03:19,132
I wanted to see them.
And I thought you'd be happy.

1208
01:03:19,925 --> 01:03:21,632
Wrong, as usual.

1209
01:03:21,883 --> 01:03:24,174
They're fictional characters, Jeanne.

1210
01:03:24,716 --> 01:03:27,049
I don't want to see them
in your gallery.

1211
01:03:28,675 --> 01:03:30,882
Am I a fictional character?

1212
01:03:31,091 --> 01:03:33,215
Of course not, dear. Come here.

1213
01:03:34,300 --> 01:03:35,715
Of course not.

1214
01:03:41,591 --> 01:03:43,840
What are you doing? It's late.

1215
01:03:44,091 --> 01:03:46,715
These math problems are really hard.

1216
01:03:48,841 --> 01:03:50,715
Claude, you can stay if you like.

1217
01:03:52,133 --> 01:03:53,257
Ok.

1218
01:03:53,508 --> 01:03:54,590
Want to call home?

1219
01:03:54,925 --> 01:03:56,674
I don't need to.

1220
01:03:57,050 --> 01:03:59,507
Midnight strikes on unsolved problems.

1221
01:03:59,883 --> 01:04:02,424
And I'm finally sleeping over.

1222
01:04:02,716 --> 01:04:05,257
My aunt sleeps here at Christmas.

1223
01:04:08,550 --> 01:04:11,299
The room is strange.
Suddenly I think,

1224
01:04:11,591 --> 01:04:15,090
I'm at the epicenter
of the family's private life.

1225
01:04:18,050 --> 01:04:21,590
My mom's childhood toys.
She couldn't throw them out.

1226
01:04:22,008 --> 01:04:25,174
Armless, headless, blind.

1227
01:04:25,758 --> 01:04:27,465
Esther's dolls are all mutilated.

1228
01:04:28,466 --> 01:04:29,465
Poor dolls.

1229
01:04:29,716 --> 01:04:30,840
Sleep in this.

1230
01:04:36,300 --> 01:04:38,632
Thanks for helping with the article.

1231
01:04:39,550 --> 01:04:41,090
You help me so much.

1232
01:04:41,300 --> 01:04:42,340
Only normal.

1233
01:04:43,050 --> 01:04:45,590
Rapha loans me his jersey to sleep in.

1234
01:04:45,841 --> 01:04:49,007
It's way too big and he laughs.

1235
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:52,257
You're a real friend.

1236
01:04:59,633 --> 01:05:01,549
Know what I feel like?

1237
01:05:02,008 --> 01:05:04,132
Going wild like the rioters,

1238
01:05:04,508 --> 01:05:06,590
burning cars and stuff,
I get so pissed off!

1239
01:05:09,508 --> 01:05:11,549
Rapha goes to his room.

1240
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:14,174
I'm not sleepy.

1241
01:05:16,716 --> 01:05:19,465
A strange sensation comes over me
and I wonder,

1242
01:05:20,216 --> 01:05:21,924
When it's stormy out,

1243
01:05:22,300 --> 01:05:24,007
don't all children have nightmares?

1244
01:05:36,466 --> 01:05:38,465
I walk blindly down the hallway

1245
01:05:38,841 --> 01:05:41,090
until my eyes adjust to the darkness.

1246
01:05:54,091 --> 01:05:56,465
I enter my best friend's room.

1247
01:05:58,050 --> 01:05:59,882
Rapha sleeps soundly

1248
01:06:00,216 --> 01:06:01,924
but fitfully,

1249
01:06:03,175 --> 01:06:04,882
making strange movements.

1250
01:06:06,175 --> 01:06:07,465
What is he dreaming?

1251
01:06:08,258 --> 01:06:09,632
Who is he dreaming of?

1252
01:06:11,550 --> 01:06:12,965
Powerful stuff.

1253
01:06:13,300 --> 01:06:15,632
Claude wandering through
the sleeping house

1254
01:06:15,966 --> 01:06:18,257
like an angel or a vampire.

1255
01:06:18,550 --> 01:06:21,257
It's powerful, but not believable.

1256
01:06:21,550 --> 01:06:22,590
It's true though.

1257
01:06:22,883 --> 01:06:25,382
Doesn't matter if we don't believe it.

1258
01:06:25,716 --> 01:06:29,049
And what's Rapha's kiss about?

1259
01:06:29,591 --> 01:06:32,549
The latent desires
of the perfect family?

1260
01:06:32,841 --> 01:06:36,549
The father, the mother, the son...
Is this Pasolini?

1261
01:06:36,758 --> 01:06:39,799
I'm developing Rapha,
I thought you'd like it.

1262
01:06:40,091 --> 01:06:43,757
You think I like
teenage boys making out?

1263
01:06:44,008 --> 01:06:44,757
I don't know.

1264
01:06:45,133 --> 01:06:46,424
Forget my desires,

1265
01:06:46,716 --> 01:06:48,132
think of what excites you.

1266
01:07:05,133 --> 01:07:06,090
She's smiling.

1267
01:07:06,758 --> 01:07:10,132
Her skin is so white.
Her feet are like a child's.

1268
01:07:26,341 --> 01:07:29,465
As I watch them sleeping in the dark,

1269
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:31,757
I imagine them earlier,

1270
01:07:32,716 --> 01:07:35,507
making love, clumsily, hurriedly.

1271
01:07:37,925 --> 01:07:40,715
Rapha thinking about work,
the Chinese guy,

1272
01:07:41,050 --> 01:07:42,465
Esther staring blankly,

1273
01:07:42,758 --> 01:07:45,257
feigning a desire that died long ago.

1274
01:07:49,008 --> 01:07:52,174
Maybe my mother pretended too,
that's why she left.

1275
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,715
Why she left dad and me.

1276
01:07:55,675 --> 01:07:58,257
To stop pretending and start living.

1277
01:08:09,716 --> 01:08:10,965
Oh, honey!

1278
01:08:11,175 --> 01:08:14,465
A strange sensation comes over me
and I wonder,

1279
01:08:15,675 --> 01:08:20,132
When it's stormy out,
don't all children dream

1280
01:08:20,466 --> 01:08:22,146
of slipping into bed
between their parents?

1281
01:08:24,966 --> 01:08:25,882
To be continued.

1282
01:08:27,258 --> 01:08:28,840
He watched them make love.

1283
01:08:30,216 --> 01:08:32,840
No, he imagines them.

1284
01:08:33,758 --> 01:08:37,257
It's normal to have fantasies
at his age.

1285
01:08:37,966 --> 01:08:39,757
This one's pretty tame.

1286
01:08:43,008 --> 01:08:45,090
Germain, do you desire Claude?

1287
01:08:47,841 --> 01:08:49,132
What are you talking about?

1288
01:08:50,508 --> 01:08:52,382
Since you started helping him write,

1289
01:08:53,591 --> 01:08:54,965
we've stopped making love.

1290
01:08:56,550 --> 01:08:57,424
Really?

1291
01:08:59,841 --> 01:09:01,257
It's no big deal.

1292
01:09:02,133 --> 01:09:05,090
Teachers often fall in love
with their students.

1293
01:09:06,841 --> 01:09:08,674
He's a boy, Jeanne.

1294
01:09:09,300 --> 01:09:10,507
I like women.

1295
01:09:11,966 --> 01:09:15,424
Maybe with age
you're discovering new desires.

1296
01:09:17,883 --> 01:09:19,340
He's sixteen.

1297
01:09:20,341 --> 01:09:22,965
It's just that the boy touches me...

1298
01:09:23,258 --> 01:09:27,257
I mean he's got talent, that's rare.

1299
01:09:27,591 --> 01:09:29,507
I'm just trying to help him.

1300
01:09:33,466 --> 01:09:36,965
Together again, gazing at the park.

1301
01:09:37,966 --> 01:09:40,924
Esther bites into an apple
and looks at the sky.

1302
01:09:41,216 --> 01:09:42,299
I love this weather.

1303
01:09:44,175 --> 01:09:46,590
Reminds me of a Chinese artist.

1304
01:09:47,383 --> 01:09:49,590
Her work is beautiful, simple.

1305
01:09:50,008 --> 01:09:52,090
The sky in a myriad of shades.

1306
01:09:53,591 --> 01:09:55,757
The park is different in the day.

1307
01:09:56,800 --> 01:09:58,799
I remember Saturday afternoons,

1308
01:09:59,008 --> 01:10:01,715
my mom took me to play
on slides and swings.

1309
01:10:03,341 --> 01:10:05,840
Now dealers deal in the daytime

1310
01:10:06,300 --> 01:10:08,215
while retired people do Tai Chi.

1311
01:10:08,966 --> 01:10:09,840
See that bench?

1312
01:10:10,258 --> 01:10:12,465
I saw you there a lot last summer.

1313
01:10:12,883 --> 01:10:14,424
You like this park too.

1314
01:10:15,008 --> 01:10:16,757
I like how it's surrounded by houses.

1315
01:10:16,925 --> 01:10:18,053
You sit on a bench and look around.

1316
01:10:18,133 --> 01:10:21,007
There's so much going on.

1317
01:10:23,425 --> 01:10:25,632
I loved this house right away.

1318
01:10:26,591 --> 01:10:29,340
We're right in town
yet surrounded by nature.

1319
01:10:29,925 --> 01:10:31,132
The sky, the park...

1320
01:10:31,341 --> 01:10:34,215
I look at Esther.
Her skin seems soft.

1321
01:10:34,550 --> 01:10:37,299
Like the skin of an apple.
Delicious.

1322
01:10:41,466 --> 01:10:44,132
Are you ok?
It's my spine.

1323
01:10:45,133 --> 01:10:47,715
I had an operation
but it still hurts.

1324
01:10:52,008 --> 01:10:54,340
I used to run in the park with Rapha.

1325
01:10:55,383 --> 01:10:56,465
Now I can't.

1326
01:10:57,633 --> 01:10:59,007
I can't dance either.

1327
01:10:59,258 --> 01:11:02,174
As the day draws to a close,
I imagine her dancing,

1328
01:11:02,466 --> 01:11:03,215
barefoot,

1329
01:11:03,508 --> 01:11:04,882
on the yellow leaves of autumn.

1330
01:11:05,258 --> 01:11:07,174
"...on the yellow leaves of autumn"!

1331
01:11:07,425 --> 01:11:09,965
Did you shoot up a can of peaches?

1332
01:11:10,216 --> 01:11:12,840
Is the apple a symbol or just an apple?

1333
01:11:13,091 --> 01:11:14,674
"Barefoot", "yellow leaves"...

1334
01:11:15,008 --> 01:11:16,715
A contemporary art catalog!

1335
01:11:16,925 --> 01:11:19,340
- What?
- Never seen one?

1336
01:11:19,591 --> 01:11:23,090
I'll show you.
Feng Tang - Presences.

1337
01:11:23,383 --> 01:11:26,424
"What do we see in the work
of Feng Tang?

1338
01:11:26,716 --> 01:11:28,882
Silence, born in the space
between East and West.

1339
01:11:29,175 --> 01:11:32,007
Hushed presences battle
the noise of the world,

1340
01:11:32,300 --> 01:11:34,424
the deafening clamor of time,

1341
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:36,674
sensorial, blah blah blah..."

1342
01:11:37,133 --> 01:11:38,090
Words are used

1343
01:11:38,508 --> 01:11:40,632
in the worst way for art catalogs.

1344
01:11:41,050 --> 01:11:42,215
Anything to sell it.

1345
01:11:42,550 --> 01:11:43,270
Just look at that!

1346
01:11:43,508 --> 01:11:46,174
Unbelievable, art for perverts.

1347
01:11:46,508 --> 01:11:49,674
They call it art, I call it shit.

1348
01:11:50,841 --> 01:11:53,132
- Do you say that to your wife?
- Of course.

1349
01:11:53,883 --> 01:11:55,924
"I imagine her dancing,

1350
01:11:56,258 --> 01:11:58,549
barefoot,
on the yellow leaves of autumn."

1351
01:11:58,925 --> 01:12:01,924
You're off track and you know it.

1352
01:12:03,008 --> 01:12:06,549
I didn't say, but after dinner

1353
01:12:06,758 --> 01:12:10,340
we went to this place
and Wong Lee lost it

1354
01:12:10,675 --> 01:12:14,299
He was so drunk,
he hassled this girl.

1355
01:12:14,716 --> 01:12:16,674
I risked my neck
to save his sorry ass.

1356
01:12:17,008 --> 01:12:18,299
Now he says I disrespected him!

1357
01:12:18,550 --> 01:12:19,674
Had you been there before?

1358
01:12:19,883 --> 01:12:20,840
Never.

1359
01:12:21,050 --> 01:12:24,382
You gotta make the client happy.
Some like museums,

1360
01:12:24,716 --> 01:12:27,257
some like football
and others are just pigs.

1361
01:12:28,175 --> 01:12:30,090
You took him to a hooker bar?

1362
01:12:30,300 --> 01:12:33,965
It's not a hooker bar!
It's a bar with women.

1363
01:12:34,216 --> 01:12:36,132
A bar with women? That's clearer.

1364
01:12:36,591 --> 01:12:39,840
I'd never been there,
I don't go to those places!

1365
01:12:40,341 --> 01:12:41,840
Maurice does, all the time.

1366
01:12:42,091 --> 01:12:43,799
It's his thing, not mine.

1367
01:12:44,091 --> 01:12:45,174
It was for work, I had to.

1368
01:12:45,675 --> 01:12:47,090
So you were forced to go,

1369
01:12:47,383 --> 01:12:49,132
you didn't drink or dance
with those girls?

1370
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,465
I had two drinks, to be polite.

1371
01:12:52,758 --> 01:12:54,715
I don't believe you.

1372
01:12:56,258 --> 01:12:56,965
Honey...

1373
01:12:57,216 --> 01:12:58,257
Don't touch me!

1374
01:12:59,008 --> 01:13:00,132
You disgust me.

1375
01:13:01,758 --> 01:13:03,049
I'm sick of this, Esther.

1376
01:13:03,300 --> 01:13:05,299
Always the same,
you never trust me.

1377
01:13:05,591 --> 01:13:06,590
Now's my chance.

1378
01:13:08,383 --> 01:13:09,382
I know it is,

1379
01:13:10,258 --> 01:13:14,215
but for the first time, I'm scared.

1380
01:13:18,633 --> 01:13:19,590
Here.

1381
01:13:51,341 --> 01:13:52,924
I couldn't sleep last night.

1382
01:13:54,216 --> 01:13:56,299
"Even barefoot, the rain won't dance."

1383
01:13:56,591 --> 01:13:57,507
What's it mean?

1384
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,924
Nothing. It's something you feel.

1385
01:14:01,675 --> 01:14:03,215
It affects the reader.

1386
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:06,715
You help my son, he likes you.

1387
01:14:07,091 --> 01:14:08,299
My husband does too.

1388
01:14:08,883 --> 01:14:10,465
What if they read this?

1389
01:14:11,050 --> 01:14:13,382
"Even barefoot, the rain won't dance."

1390
01:14:14,425 --> 01:14:16,757
I didn't write it for them,
I wrote it for you.

1391
01:14:18,341 --> 01:14:19,840
I think I get the rest.

1392
01:14:20,091 --> 01:14:23,007
But this thing about the rain...
I don't get it.

1393
01:14:24,633 --> 01:14:27,340
"Even barefoot, the rain won't dance."

1394
01:14:27,591 --> 01:14:29,215
You clever bastard.

1395
01:14:29,550 --> 01:14:31,424
You gave her a poem.

1396
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,632
Yes, I wrote her a poem.

1397
01:14:33,841 --> 01:14:34,674
Nice.

1398
01:14:34,925 --> 01:14:38,340
No one ever wrote her a poem.
She's practically illiterate.

1399
01:14:38,758 --> 01:14:40,590
There's no poetry in this house.

1400
01:14:40,841 --> 01:14:42,840
Toss her some verse and metaphor,

1401
01:14:43,133 --> 01:14:45,007
it's like dropping an atomic bomb.

1402
01:14:45,883 --> 01:14:47,257
I see her differently now.

1403
01:14:47,466 --> 01:14:48,257
I see.

1404
01:14:48,466 --> 01:14:51,257
Our young iconoclast has fallen
for the middle class.

1405
01:14:52,216 --> 01:14:54,632
You said look close
without judging.

1406
01:14:54,925 --> 01:14:57,757
I did. I'll get Esther
out of this house.

1407
01:14:58,050 --> 01:14:59,674
You no longer mind

1408
01:15:00,091 --> 01:15:01,507
the way she talks, her scent,

1409
01:15:01,841 --> 01:15:02,799
her love of remodeling?

1410
01:15:03,091 --> 01:15:04,215
You'll get a job, a loan,

1411
01:15:04,591 --> 01:15:06,049
buy her a prefab home?

1412
01:15:06,758 --> 01:15:08,465
I think I get the rest.

1413
01:15:09,383 --> 01:15:11,174
But this thing about the rain.

1414
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:14,299
"Even barefoot, the rain won't dance."

1415
01:15:38,508 --> 01:15:39,882
He's all we needed!

1416
01:15:43,883 --> 01:15:46,007
We're in a bad farce!

1417
01:15:46,216 --> 01:15:47,757
Ludicrous.

1418
01:15:48,175 --> 01:15:49,549
You're off track, Claude.

1419
01:15:49,925 --> 01:15:51,590
You told me to follow my desire.

1420
01:15:52,300 --> 01:15:53,882
I like kissing her.

1421
01:16:03,758 --> 01:16:04,674
To be continued.

1422
01:16:13,341 --> 01:16:14,424
What do you think?

1423
01:16:17,008 --> 01:16:18,465
It looks like a bag.

1424
01:16:19,008 --> 01:16:21,840
It is a bag. Hand-crafted from a tire.

1425
01:16:22,383 --> 01:16:23,882
Fair trade.

1426
01:16:24,258 --> 01:16:27,257
They also do backpacks, bedspreads
and coin purses.

1427
01:16:28,133 --> 01:16:29,632
Not bad, nice.

1428
01:16:31,508 --> 01:16:32,799
From China?

1429
01:16:32,966 --> 01:16:34,965
No, obviously from Africa!

1430
01:16:35,175 --> 01:16:37,424
They're nice, they should sell.

1431
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:41,715
Do you think I want to turn
my gallery into a bazaar?

1432
01:16:48,133 --> 01:16:49,590
As the sun slides lower,

1433
01:16:49,883 --> 01:16:53,507
its rays caress her legs, her neck.

1434
01:16:55,591 --> 01:16:57,924
Esther, Esther...

1435
01:16:59,383 --> 01:17:02,090
The world's most bored woman
has fallen asleep.

1436
01:17:02,633 --> 01:17:05,757
I watch her sleeping peacefully,

1437
01:17:06,008 --> 01:17:07,965
listen to her shallow breathing,

1438
01:17:08,466 --> 01:17:11,382
and once again feel
a deep desire for her.

1439
01:17:19,716 --> 01:17:20,757
What happened?

1440
01:17:21,008 --> 01:17:21,840
I'll go see.

1441
01:17:38,008 --> 01:17:39,049
Rapha,

1442
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:41,382
why did I choose you?

1443
01:17:42,258 --> 01:17:44,215
Because I thought you were different.

1444
01:17:44,716 --> 01:17:45,924
A normal boy.

1445
01:17:46,675 --> 01:17:47,924
Then why?

1446
01:17:48,841 --> 01:17:49,424
For a kiss?

1447
01:18:05,300 --> 01:18:06,590
Morning, sir!

1448
01:18:06,841 --> 01:18:08,632
Is Raphael Artole here?
No, sir.

1449
01:18:08,925 --> 01:18:10,840
- Do you know where he is?
- No, sir.

1450
01:18:11,383 --> 01:18:13,465
- Are you sure?
- Yes, sir.

1451
01:18:14,466 --> 01:18:16,090
Be right back.

1452
01:18:22,300 --> 01:18:23,132
Anouk!

1453
01:18:23,466 --> 01:18:24,132
What's wrong?

1454
01:18:24,425 --> 01:18:26,257
Did the Artoles call about their son

1455
01:18:26,675 --> 01:18:27,590
No.

1456
01:18:33,425 --> 01:18:37,132
Hello, Madam.
Anouk Mayer from school.

1457
01:18:37,508 --> 01:18:40,215
We noticed your son is absent today.

1458
01:18:41,966 --> 01:18:43,465
Right, right.

1459
01:18:45,758 --> 01:18:48,132
Ok, thank you. Goodbye, Madam.

1460
01:18:48,425 --> 01:18:49,257
So?

1461
01:18:50,216 --> 01:18:51,215
The flu.

1462
01:18:55,675 --> 01:18:58,632
Class is over. You're dismissed.

1463
01:18:58,925 --> 01:18:59,590
It's not time.

1464
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,257
I don't care.
Class is cancelled.

1465
01:19:02,883 --> 01:19:04,632
Claude, stay a second.

1466
01:19:12,050 --> 01:19:13,882
I knew you wouldn't like the suicide.

1467
01:19:14,300 --> 01:19:15,132
I changed it.

1468
01:19:17,758 --> 01:19:18,757
You've gone too far.

1469
01:19:21,091 --> 01:19:22,757
You enter the house,

1470
01:19:23,550 --> 01:19:25,882
eliminate the son, seduce the mother...

1471
01:19:26,175 --> 01:19:27,590
You confuse desire with story.

1472
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:29,507
So? That's what you taught me.

1473
01:19:29,758 --> 01:19:32,965
If someone from school
or Rapha's family sees it,

1474
01:19:33,341 --> 01:19:34,424
you'll be in big trouble.

1475
01:19:34,633 --> 01:19:36,257
And so will I.

1476
01:19:37,550 --> 01:19:38,590
Want me to stop?

1477
01:19:43,633 --> 01:19:44,340
Yes.

1478
01:19:44,925 --> 01:19:48,340
Isn't it a bit late?
You pushed me into it.

1479
01:19:49,425 --> 01:19:51,007
The lesson's over.

1480
01:19:51,716 --> 01:19:53,799
Sorry Claude, I may have been wrong.

1481
01:20:07,258 --> 01:20:09,549
I remember
the first day of school,

1482
01:20:10,091 --> 01:20:13,007
I wanted to throw out my books
and quit.

1483
01:20:13,425 --> 01:20:16,465
You had us write a paper.
You gave me a B .

1484
01:20:16,841 --> 01:20:18,257
Now I can't stop.

1485
01:20:19,508 --> 01:20:20,840
You can't stop?

1486
01:20:21,091 --> 01:20:22,549
Then write!

1487
01:20:22,883 --> 01:20:24,882
About yourself, your family, anything.

1488
01:20:25,550 --> 01:20:26,799
But forget the Raphas.

1489
01:20:27,008 --> 01:20:30,299
I like those characters now,
you taught me how.

1490
01:20:31,258 --> 01:20:32,549
I don't want to stop.

1491
01:20:33,508 --> 01:20:35,090
Then I'll have to stop reading.

1492
01:20:41,175 --> 01:20:42,132
Asshole.

1493
01:21:15,591 --> 01:21:16,757
We need to talk.

1494
01:21:22,550 --> 01:21:24,465
Maurice brought up Wong Lee's bill again.

1495
01:21:25,883 --> 01:21:27,257
He humiliated me.

1496
01:21:27,966 --> 01:21:29,674
Doesn't respect matter?

1497
01:21:31,091 --> 01:21:32,007
Yes, Rapha.

1498
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:37,132
- Esther...
- Yes?

1499
01:21:38,716 --> 01:21:39,757
I burnt his car.

1500
01:21:40,675 --> 01:21:41,465
Whose car?

1501
01:21:41,883 --> 01:21:42,799
Maurice's.

1502
01:21:43,008 --> 01:21:45,049
- Why?
- I don't know.

1503
01:21:46,050 --> 01:21:48,174
Something came over me, I had to do it!

1504
01:21:50,925 --> 01:21:52,049
I can't take it anymore,

1505
01:21:52,508 --> 01:21:54,757
this job is killing me.

1506
01:21:56,133 --> 01:21:57,090
Did anyone see you?

1507
01:21:58,341 --> 01:21:59,174
I don't know.

1508
01:22:04,508 --> 01:22:06,799
I'm sorry, I know what you'll say.

1509
01:22:07,508 --> 01:22:09,049
Please give me one more chance.

1510
01:22:09,591 --> 01:22:10,590
Please.

1511
01:22:11,675 --> 01:22:13,090
I have news too.

1512
01:22:14,466 --> 01:22:15,257
What?

1513
01:22:18,091 --> 01:22:19,132
I'm pregnant.

1514
01:22:23,425 --> 01:22:24,382
That's wonderful.

1515
01:22:25,258 --> 01:22:26,465
Why didn't you tell me?

1516
01:22:27,841 --> 01:22:29,549
I wanted to be sure I wanted it.

1517
01:22:33,966 --> 01:22:34,757
I love you.

1518
01:22:45,508 --> 01:22:47,507
Feeling better?

1519
01:22:48,216 --> 01:22:49,507
I wanted to ask you something.

1520
01:22:50,008 --> 01:22:50,924
What?

1521
01:22:52,133 --> 01:22:54,049
I want a real math tutor.

1522
01:22:55,591 --> 01:22:56,465
What about Claude?

1523
01:22:59,091 --> 01:23:00,549
I don't want to see him anymore.

1524
01:23:01,716 --> 01:23:04,590
They smile at each other.

1525
01:23:05,008 --> 01:23:06,757
The perfect family is united again.

1526
01:23:06,925 --> 01:23:07,674
Come here.

1527
01:23:10,550 --> 01:23:12,715
For a year
I dreamt of entering this house.

1528
01:23:13,300 --> 01:23:14,715
I got inside.

1529
01:23:15,216 --> 01:23:17,257
I observed a perfect family up close.

1530
01:23:17,675 --> 01:23:19,424
I even thought I could be one of them.

1531
01:23:24,133 --> 01:23:26,632
Now there's no home for me here.

1532
01:23:29,466 --> 01:23:30,215
To be continued.

1533
01:23:54,216 --> 01:23:55,257
What happened?

1534
01:23:56,550 --> 01:24:00,215
What happens when a rival
hurts his own teammate?

1535
01:24:00,425 --> 01:24:01,382
No idea.

1536
01:24:03,008 --> 01:24:05,840
If someone hurts my teammate,
I fight back.

1537
01:24:07,633 --> 01:24:09,674
- My dad and I are teammates.
- I know.

1538
01:24:11,591 --> 01:24:12,674
And my mom...

1539
01:24:14,216 --> 01:24:17,257
She doesn't play basketball,
but hands off.

1540
01:24:17,675 --> 01:24:18,465
Right.

1541
01:24:18,758 --> 01:24:21,257
Know what I do if some prick hurts her?

1542
01:24:22,383 --> 01:24:24,299
I break the prick's face,

1543
01:24:24,591 --> 01:24:25,882
and his dad's face too.

1544
01:24:27,466 --> 01:24:29,132
And if the prick says

1545
01:24:29,466 --> 01:24:30,882
a big fag kissed him?

1546
01:24:31,633 --> 01:24:32,590
Then what?

1547
01:24:38,508 --> 01:24:39,840
I thought it over.

1548
01:24:40,133 --> 01:24:42,674
The happy family reconciliation
doesn't work.

1549
01:24:43,091 --> 01:24:45,799
You must resolve the story.

1550
01:24:46,133 --> 01:24:46,965
I quit writing.

1551
01:24:48,008 --> 01:24:49,465
You stopped going?

1552
01:24:49,758 --> 01:24:51,715
You said there'd be trouble.

1553
01:24:52,550 --> 01:24:55,090
I work alone now. Only on math.

1554
01:24:56,216 --> 01:24:57,882
Math never disappoints.

1555
01:25:05,508 --> 01:25:06,757
Option A,

1556
01:25:07,383 --> 01:25:08,924
The Rapha males kill Claude.

1557
01:25:09,550 --> 01:25:10,549
Option B,

1558
01:25:10,841 --> 01:25:13,507
Claude kills them
and moves in with Esther.

1559
01:25:13,841 --> 01:25:14,840
Option C,

1560
01:25:15,425 --> 01:25:18,382
Esther burns the house
with all 3 males inside.

1561
01:25:18,633 --> 01:25:20,757
Pick one and write it yourself.

1562
01:25:21,383 --> 01:25:24,174
That's your job. It's not my story.

1563
01:25:24,550 --> 01:25:26,340
It's not up to me.

1564
01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:29,924
Know the secret to a good ending?

1565
01:25:30,175 --> 01:25:31,549
The reader says,

1566
01:25:31,883 --> 01:25:32,882
"I didn't expect that,

1567
01:25:33,175 --> 01:25:35,007
but it couldn't end any other way."

1568
01:25:35,550 --> 01:25:36,382
Option D,

1569
01:25:36,675 --> 01:25:38,299
Esther keeps repeating,

1570
01:25:38,633 --> 01:25:40,153
"Even barefoot, the rain won't dance."

1571
01:25:42,633 --> 01:25:44,840
Life is unbearable in that awful house

1572
01:25:45,216 --> 01:25:47,424
with her awful husband and awful son.

1573
01:25:48,466 --> 01:25:51,132
It's meaningless, she's suffocating.

1574
01:25:52,091 --> 01:25:53,757
So she goes outside.

1575
01:25:54,008 --> 01:25:56,590
He's there,
on the park bench, waiting.

1576
01:25:59,216 --> 01:26:00,382
She runs to him.

1577
01:26:01,425 --> 01:26:02,590
Joins him.

1578
01:26:03,591 --> 01:26:04,507
And they kiss.

1579
01:26:07,300 --> 01:26:09,132
That's Barbara Cartland.

1580
01:26:43,341 --> 01:26:44,632
Hello, Claude.

1581
01:26:46,383 --> 01:26:49,090
I knew you'd come.
I was waiting for you.

1582
01:26:51,883 --> 01:26:53,549
Here, your poem.

1583
01:26:55,841 --> 01:26:57,632
I didn't want to throw it out.

1584
01:26:58,758 --> 01:27:01,715
I came for you.
I'm taking you away.

1585
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:04,174
- What?
- You and I.

1586
01:27:04,425 --> 01:27:05,715
We must leave this town,

1587
01:27:05,925 --> 01:27:07,257
the house, the Raphas.

1588
01:27:07,883 --> 01:27:08,799
Impossible.

1589
01:27:09,550 --> 01:27:10,299
Why?

1590
01:27:11,133 --> 01:27:12,465
You're a child, Claude.

1591
01:27:13,383 --> 01:27:16,757
What happened between us never existed.
Forget it.

1592
01:27:17,591 --> 01:27:19,215
- It was...
- Magical!

1593
01:27:19,633 --> 01:27:22,799
Magical, if you like.
But not real.

1594
01:27:45,966 --> 01:27:47,382
We really hurt Rapha.

1595
01:27:48,008 --> 01:27:49,424
- Which one?
- Both.

1596
01:27:54,550 --> 01:27:57,465
I didn't mean to hurt anyone.

1597
01:28:15,216 --> 01:28:17,382
No, Claude. Stop.

1598
01:28:18,133 --> 01:28:19,757
- But I love you.
- No.

1599
01:28:21,300 --> 01:28:22,632
It's not me you love.

1600
01:28:24,133 --> 01:28:25,257
It's an image.

1601
01:28:26,300 --> 01:28:27,882
An image in your head.

1602
01:28:33,341 --> 01:28:35,174
I have to finish packing boxes.

1603
01:28:36,216 --> 01:28:37,590
- You're leaving?
- Yes.

1604
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:40,965
But the remodeling, the veranda?

1605
01:28:41,216 --> 01:28:43,632
Rapha quit his job,
we're going to China.

1606
01:28:44,383 --> 01:28:45,965
He has a partner there.

1607
01:28:46,591 --> 01:28:48,174
We're giving it a shot.

1608
01:28:48,758 --> 01:28:50,215
Starting a new life.

1609
01:28:53,091 --> 01:28:54,049
Come on.

1610
01:28:55,008 --> 01:28:56,090
Don't be sad.

1611
01:28:57,925 --> 01:28:59,090
Farewell, Claude.

1612
01:29:00,758 --> 01:29:01,799
Take care of yourself.

1613
01:29:03,675 --> 01:29:04,507
Esther!

1614
01:29:06,925 --> 01:29:08,507
They really need me.

1615
01:29:37,216 --> 01:29:38,757
Today is a different day.

1616
01:29:40,050 --> 01:29:42,507
I get up at 6:45, as usual.

1617
01:29:44,216 --> 01:29:47,174
Fix breakfast for my dad, as usual.

1618
01:29:48,550 --> 01:29:51,299
Leave the house at 8, as usual.

1619
01:29:52,883 --> 01:29:55,257
It's Wednesday. I have English at 9,

1620
01:29:55,675 --> 01:29:58,299
History at 10, Lit at 11,

1621
01:29:58,591 --> 01:30:00,174
then Math.

1622
01:30:01,591 --> 01:30:03,965
But today I'm changing directions.

1623
01:30:04,341 --> 01:30:09,174
I'm not going to school,
or to Rapha's house.

1624
01:30:09,841 --> 01:30:11,424
I'm looking for an ending.

1625
01:30:12,133 --> 01:30:14,174
An ending for my teacher.

1626
01:30:15,466 --> 01:30:18,174
Rapha...

1627
01:30:18,466 --> 01:30:22,174
You felt humiliated,
but you were just shaken up.

1628
01:30:22,508 --> 01:30:25,132
You're young, you're learning.

1629
01:30:26,050 --> 01:30:29,007
You're like the reed
in La Fontaine's fable.

1630
01:30:29,258 --> 01:30:31,507
You bend but don't break. Remember?

1631
01:30:31,883 --> 01:30:33,424
The Oak and the Reed

1632
01:30:33,675 --> 01:30:35,340
The Oak said to the Reed

1633
01:30:35,716 --> 01:30:38,382
You're right to blame
the nature of things...

1634
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:41,757
When, with fury,
comes from the horizon

1635
01:30:42,175 --> 01:30:43,590
The fiercest of all winds

1636
01:30:44,050 --> 01:30:47,299
Which the North contained till then

1637
01:30:47,633 --> 01:30:48,886
The Oak holds up, the Reed bends

1638
01:30:48,966 --> 01:30:49,715
Yes.

1639
01:30:52,425 --> 01:30:53,299
Be seated.

1640
01:30:55,133 --> 01:30:57,590
I need to see you in my office.

1641
01:30:58,216 --> 01:30:59,340
- Now?
- Yes.

1642
01:31:00,216 --> 01:31:01,382
Is Claude Garcia here?

1643
01:31:01,925 --> 01:31:02,799
He's absent.

1644
01:31:03,550 --> 01:31:04,424
Raphael Artole?

1645
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:06,882
Come with us.

1646
01:31:31,716 --> 01:31:33,632
She's here, looking tired.

1647
01:31:34,175 --> 01:31:37,549
I know her husband.
I know she has no children.

1648
01:31:37,925 --> 01:31:40,924
I know he thinks she shows "shit"

1649
01:31:41,258 --> 01:31:42,179
and "art for perverts".

1650
01:31:42,300 --> 01:31:44,590
- You're Claude, aren't you?
- Yes.

1651
01:31:44,966 --> 01:31:46,632
She looks me up and down.

1652
01:31:47,133 --> 01:31:48,424
Did she imagine me differently?

1653
01:31:48,633 --> 01:31:49,924
Don't you have class?

1654
01:31:50,383 --> 01:31:51,674
I decided to quit.

1655
01:31:52,716 --> 01:31:53,715
What'll you do?

1656
01:31:55,383 --> 01:31:58,507
People struggle with math.

1657
01:31:58,841 --> 01:32:00,132
I could give private lessons.

1658
01:32:00,633 --> 01:32:02,507
- Are you sure?
- Yes.

1659
01:32:03,716 --> 01:32:05,840
Or I could write for art catalogs.

1660
01:32:06,383 --> 01:32:08,174
My teacher says I'd be good.

1661
01:32:08,383 --> 01:32:11,549
I know.
Lots of imagination.

1662
01:32:12,550 --> 01:32:13,507
May I come in?

1663
01:32:14,716 --> 01:32:15,715
Germain isn't here.

1664
01:32:16,591 --> 01:32:17,382
I know.

1665
01:32:38,008 --> 01:32:39,049
What a nightmare.

1666
01:32:40,008 --> 01:32:41,340
A total nightmare.

1667
01:32:42,383 --> 01:32:43,549
Assholes.

1668
01:32:45,675 --> 01:32:47,507
So Claude wasn't in class?

1669
01:32:47,716 --> 01:32:48,507
How'd you know?

1670
01:32:53,258 --> 01:32:54,132
He came here?

1671
01:32:57,175 --> 01:32:58,257
You let him in?

1672
01:33:00,925 --> 01:33:02,340
Not for all eyes to see.

1673
01:33:09,758 --> 01:33:12,049
I've done it, I'm in his house.

1674
01:33:12,300 --> 01:33:13,090
Taking a trip?

1675
01:33:13,300 --> 01:33:14,715
No, I brought your husband's books.

1676
01:33:15,050 --> 01:33:16,757
The gallery was closed.

1677
01:33:17,175 --> 01:33:19,632
I start taking out the books.
We put them away.

1678
01:33:20,050 --> 01:33:22,840
He arranges them by period.

1679
01:33:23,175 --> 01:33:24,090
Tolstoy.

1680
01:33:25,008 --> 01:33:26,215
I hate the Russians.

1681
01:33:26,466 --> 01:33:28,465
I only read the first and last pages

1682
01:33:28,800 --> 01:33:29,757
of <i>Anna Karenina.</i>

1683
01:33:31,175 --> 01:33:35,049
Suddenly a book catches my eye.

1684
01:33:35,550 --> 01:33:37,257
I take it. Jeanne smiles.

1685
01:33:37,966 --> 01:33:39,382
Child of the Storm

1686
01:33:39,591 --> 01:33:43,424
Germain wrote it over 20 years ago.
Didn't he tell you?

1687
01:33:43,633 --> 01:33:45,132
No. What's it about?

1688
01:33:45,550 --> 01:33:47,590
A run-of-the-mill love story.
Not very good.

1689
01:33:48,091 --> 01:33:52,549
He knows it's not on par
with the authors he admires.

1690
01:33:52,966 --> 01:33:53,674
That's sad.

1691
01:33:53,883 --> 01:33:56,465
One of Germain's rare qualities
is lucidity.

1692
01:33:59,425 --> 01:34:00,965
You're like he was,

1693
01:34:01,341 --> 01:34:02,549
but you have talent.

1694
01:34:04,050 --> 01:34:07,882
She's different than Esther
but just as desirable.

1695
01:34:11,508 --> 01:34:12,674
Keep it.

1696
01:34:12,925 --> 01:34:15,257
She invites me for lunch.

1697
01:34:15,633 --> 01:34:17,340
We talk about the gallery, math,

1698
01:34:17,675 --> 01:34:20,757
how Germain and I got acquainted,
books she likes...

1699
01:34:21,133 --> 01:34:22,340
Then, suddenly...

1700
01:34:22,633 --> 01:34:24,715
Esther will never leave Rapha.

1701
01:34:25,425 --> 01:34:27,715
They're going through a rough patch,

1702
01:34:28,175 --> 01:34:30,299
but they have a solid bond.

1703
01:34:31,008 --> 01:34:31,757
Right.

1704
01:34:33,133 --> 01:34:35,257
They're in love.
They're having another child.

1705
01:34:37,258 --> 01:34:38,049
I didn't know.

1706
01:34:39,216 --> 01:34:41,715
Why didn't you have children?

1707
01:34:45,675 --> 01:34:48,590
We could have,
we never really thought about it.

1708
01:34:49,508 --> 01:34:52,049
Me with my work,
him with his books...

1709
01:34:54,591 --> 01:34:56,507
I've wondered whether

1710
01:34:56,800 --> 01:34:59,132
he became close to you

1711
01:34:59,383 --> 01:35:00,924
because he wants to be a father.

1712
01:35:01,883 --> 01:35:03,049
He wanted a son.

1713
01:35:04,300 --> 01:35:05,049
He told you that?

1714
01:35:07,466 --> 01:35:08,840
He told me

1715
01:35:10,216 --> 01:35:11,924
you couldn't have children

1716
01:35:12,633 --> 01:35:13,590
because you're sterile.

1717
01:35:16,841 --> 01:35:17,549
He told you that?

1718
01:35:18,300 --> 01:35:19,007
Yes.

1719
01:35:30,300 --> 01:35:31,299
What?

1720
01:35:33,300 --> 01:35:34,924
Who?

1721
01:35:37,841 --> 01:35:38,715
Ok.

1722
01:35:46,050 --> 01:35:48,382
The principal suspended Germain.

1723
01:35:48,675 --> 01:35:49,590
Why?

1724
01:35:50,258 --> 01:35:53,049
Rapha spilled the beans
about the math test.

1725
01:36:01,383 --> 01:36:03,465
The moment I met Mr. Germain,

1726
01:36:03,716 --> 01:36:05,715
I wanted to know how he lived,

1727
01:36:06,341 --> 01:36:07,715
what his house was like,

1728
01:36:08,050 --> 01:36:09,174
who his wife was,

1729
01:36:09,758 --> 01:36:10,840
what she did,

1730
01:36:11,091 --> 01:36:12,257
did they have children?

1731
01:36:12,550 --> 01:36:13,924
Were they still in love?

1732
01:36:16,508 --> 01:36:19,382
Jeanne...

1733
01:36:20,133 --> 01:36:22,090
Mr. Germain's wife lies before me

1734
01:36:22,383 --> 01:36:23,924
on the sofa.

1735
01:36:24,425 --> 01:36:26,590
Sleeping.
I listen to her breathing.

1736
01:36:29,800 --> 01:36:31,549
Her skirt is open.

1737
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:33,840
I see her alabaster skin.

1738
01:36:34,550 --> 01:36:37,590
She has beautiful feet.
Like Esther.

1739
01:36:39,550 --> 01:36:40,757
What am I doing here?

1740
01:36:41,883 --> 01:36:43,715
As my teacher's wife sleeps,

1741
01:36:44,050 --> 01:36:47,132
awakening the desires
of this back-row pupil...

1742
01:36:47,675 --> 01:36:48,715
I'm looking for an ending.

1743
01:36:49,008 --> 01:36:49,924
My ending.

1744
01:36:51,550 --> 01:36:54,382
Perhaps I'll find it here.
In his house.

1745
01:37:01,008 --> 01:37:01,882
What are you doing?

1746
01:37:02,383 --> 01:37:03,840
Packing my suitcase.

1747
01:37:04,383 --> 01:37:05,715
- You're leaving?
- Yes.

1748
01:37:06,466 --> 01:37:08,299
The gallery's a bust and so are we.

1749
01:37:08,466 --> 01:37:09,215
Where'll you go?

1750
01:37:09,466 --> 01:37:11,507
I don't know. To my mother's.

1751
01:37:12,341 --> 01:37:15,549
Are you crazy? Today?
The day I got fired?

1752
01:37:15,758 --> 01:37:18,507
I'm like Esther,
alas, you're no Rapha

1753
01:37:19,008 --> 01:37:20,632
and Claude will never be your son!

1754
01:37:22,591 --> 01:37:23,549
What are you on about?

1755
01:37:33,758 --> 01:37:34,718
You slept with that kid?

1756
01:37:36,300 --> 01:37:36,940
To be continued.

1757
01:37:37,633 --> 01:37:40,090
You slept with that kid!
Look at me, bitch!

1758
01:37:41,216 --> 01:37:43,840
- You're insane!
- He fucked you!

1759
01:37:58,133 --> 01:38:02,007
Journey to the End of the Night

1760
01:38:36,008 --> 01:38:37,049
Hi, Claude.

1761
01:38:37,508 --> 01:38:39,215
Hi. How are you feeling?

1762
01:38:42,758 --> 01:38:43,590
Better.

1763
01:38:45,716 --> 01:38:47,715
- May I sit down?
- Of course.

1764
01:38:56,716 --> 01:38:59,257
Did you find your ending?

1765
01:38:59,508 --> 01:39:01,299
No, I gave up.

1766
01:39:02,425 --> 01:39:03,549
I brought your book.

1767
01:39:04,175 --> 01:39:06,049
Your wife loaned it to me.

1768
01:39:06,883 --> 01:39:10,007
You can throw it out.
It's worthless.

1769
01:39:10,800 --> 01:39:13,382
I liked it.
It's a nice love story.

1770
01:39:13,758 --> 01:39:14,757
Then keep it.

1771
01:39:26,258 --> 01:39:29,090
Funny, all the windows
we can see from here.

1772
01:39:31,466 --> 01:39:33,090
Pretty impressive.

1773
01:39:35,591 --> 01:39:37,757
When I sat in Rapha's park,

1774
01:39:38,216 --> 01:39:40,382
I was like a spectator
in the front row.

1775
01:39:41,175 --> 01:39:42,215
I looked and wondered,

1776
01:39:42,508 --> 01:39:45,757
What's life like in those houses?

1777
01:39:50,383 --> 01:39:51,674
Look, over there.

1778
01:39:52,216 --> 01:39:54,715
Those two women. What are they doing?

1779
01:39:56,216 --> 01:39:57,132
Do you know them?

1780
01:39:59,341 --> 01:40:00,049
No.

1781
01:40:03,508 --> 01:40:05,132
They seem to be arguing.

1782
01:40:07,175 --> 01:40:08,715
Two sisters, maybe.

1783
01:40:09,508 --> 01:40:11,549
Arguing over an inheritance.

1784
01:40:12,675 --> 01:40:14,549
Two lesbians breaking up.

1785
01:40:14,841 --> 01:40:18,090
Twin sisters
fighting over the family house.

1786
01:40:18,341 --> 01:40:21,007
One wants to sell, one says no way.

1787
01:40:21,383 --> 01:40:22,590
Two lesbians.

1788
01:40:22,966 --> 01:40:25,090
Their love destroyed when the blond

1789
01:40:25,508 --> 01:40:26,632
hit on her rheumatologist.

1790
01:40:26,883 --> 01:40:29,715
The brunette says,
"And I introduced you!"

1791
01:40:30,050 --> 01:40:31,174
"Watch her hands."

1792
01:40:31,591 --> 01:40:33,049
"I introduced you!"

1793
01:40:33,258 --> 01:40:36,174
"Now I know why
you wouldn't let me come along."

1794
01:40:36,383 --> 01:40:37,215
"No way."

1795
01:40:37,550 --> 01:40:39,215
"We can't sell the house,

1796
01:40:39,591 --> 01:40:42,424
Dad fought so hard to keep it."

1797
01:40:43,925 --> 01:40:45,882
You prefer them to be twins?

1798
01:40:49,925 --> 01:40:50,799
Not really.

1799
01:40:53,383 --> 01:40:55,424
First floor on the right.

1800
01:40:56,383 --> 01:40:57,715
Forget it, Claude.

1801
01:40:58,425 --> 01:41:01,174
I doubt they need math lessons.

1802
01:41:03,300 --> 01:41:05,590
They must need something.

1803
01:41:07,216 --> 01:41:08,840
There's always a way in.

1804
01:41:09,675 --> 01:41:11,715
There's a way into every house.

1805
01:41:14,050 --> 01:41:14,930
And you could help me?

1806
01:41:34,883 --> 01:41:36,632
Mr. Germain had lost everything.

1807
01:41:36,966 --> 01:41:38,882
His wife, his job.

1808
01:41:39,591 --> 01:41:41,549
But I was there, at his side.

1809
01:41:42,633 --> 01:41:44,382
Ready to tell him another story.

1810
01:41:46,758 --> 01:41:47,465
To be continued.