1 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,121 {y:i}(Chopin’s {y:i}”Fantasie-Impromptu in C minor”) 2 00:00:40,457 --> 00:00:44,377 "(woman)" Aurora! Aurora! 3 00:01:32,884 --> 00:01:35,011 Hear me, 4 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:36,930 O Corambe. 5 00:01:37,013 --> 00:01:38,807 Corambe, 6 00:01:38,890 --> 00:01:43,311 thou who art man, woman and god in one, 7 00:01:43,395 --> 00:01:45,230 hear me. 8 00:01:48,692 --> 00:01:50,819 I free this bird in thy name. 9 00:01:55,407 --> 00:01:57,992 Come to me, sublime being. 10 00:01:58,660 --> 00:02:05,375 I want to know the meaning of life. And I want to find perfect, perfect love. 11 00:02:06,668 --> 00:02:09,170 I free this lizard in thy name. 12 00:02:13,216 --> 00:02:14,759 Don’t be dead. 13 00:02:14,843 --> 00:02:17,554 "(tuts)" Oh, balls. 14 00:02:19,848 --> 00:02:23,893 {y:i}My little ritual in the woods {y:i}didn’t always go smoothly, 15 00:02:23,977 --> 00:02:29,482 {y:i}but I was never discouraged {y:i}and I never gave up hoping for an answer. 16 00:02:31,151 --> 00:02:33,737 {y:i}(cock crows) 17 00:02:44,664 --> 00:02:46,958 {y:i}(frantic cIucking) 18 00:02:48,585 --> 00:02:52,839 - That won’t work. - Fish are attracted to a bright colour. 19 00:02:52,922 --> 00:02:55,342 Your fish will die of fear first. 20 00:02:56,509 --> 00:03:00,472 - Are you coming? - Mallefille will come looking for us. 21 00:03:00,555 --> 00:03:03,767 - We’re supposed to have our lessons. - No, he won’t. 22 00:03:03,850 --> 00:03:07,103 He’s sleeping with Mummy. She doesn’t get up till noon. 23 00:03:07,187 --> 00:03:10,940 He’s not sleeping with Mummy. She doesn’t like him any more. 24 00:03:14,986 --> 00:03:17,072 My love? 25 00:03:19,908 --> 00:03:21,993 My soul? 26 00:03:27,123 --> 00:03:30,377 - My sweet? {y:i}- (knocking) 27 00:03:30,460 --> 00:03:32,337 My heart? 28 00:03:32,420 --> 00:03:34,547 {y:i}(lock rattles) 29 00:03:34,631 --> 00:03:36,508 George? 30 00:03:39,260 --> 00:03:42,013 George, please let me in. 31 00:04:10,333 --> 00:04:13,336 Are you from the printers? We’ve been waiting... 32 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:17,173 Madame Sand. Pardon. Please excuse... 33 00:04:17,257 --> 00:04:19,759 {y:i}(murmuring) 34 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:23,888 Madame Sand is on her way up. 35 00:04:24,848 --> 00:04:26,891 Don’t do that! 36 00:04:26,975 --> 00:04:29,060 "(whistles)" It is rather far. 37 00:04:29,144 --> 00:04:31,730 - I’ll have to face her, that’s all. - Alfred! 38 00:04:31,813 --> 00:04:35,316 I’ll be perfectly behaved. Even a little scornful. 39 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,445 No, you won’t. You’ll be impossible. 40 00:04:38,528 --> 00:04:41,156 I don’t want a scene. Now get in there. 41 00:04:41,239 --> 00:04:43,533 And hurry up! 42 00:04:46,369 --> 00:04:50,081 Hello, George! I wasn’t expecting you till next month. 43 00:04:50,165 --> 00:04:52,876 - How are the children, the country? - Fine. 44 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:55,879 Listen. I need another 3,000 francs. 45 00:04:55,962 --> 00:04:58,173 What happened to the advance you got? 46 00:04:58,256 --> 00:05:01,134 You know my expenses. The children, the estate, 47 00:05:01,217 --> 00:05:04,888 my mother’s nursing home... The divorce took half of everything. 48 00:05:04,971 --> 00:05:08,600 All right. But let me have one more instalment first. 49 00:05:08,683 --> 00:05:11,478 How? I’ve got no place to work. 50 00:05:11,561 --> 00:05:13,813 What’s wrong with the country? 51 00:05:13,897 --> 00:05:16,149 Mallefille is there. 52 00:05:16,232 --> 00:05:19,402 The children do need a tutor, but... 53 00:05:19,486 --> 00:05:23,031 I just can’t stand the sight of him any more. 54 00:05:23,114 --> 00:05:26,910 I tell him outright I want him to leave and he plainly refuses. 55 00:05:26,993 --> 00:05:31,706 I’m a coward, of course. I can never simply boot my lovers down the stairs. 56 00:05:31,790 --> 00:05:34,042 - Ha! - What? 57 00:05:38,630 --> 00:05:42,258 Why don’t you stay here in Paris and write? 58 00:05:42,342 --> 00:05:44,844 Because Alfred’s here. 59 00:05:44,928 --> 00:05:48,264 I’ve got to go somewhere. Anywhere, I don’t know. 60 00:05:48,348 --> 00:05:51,518 Maybe I should just curl up and die, yes? 61 00:05:52,644 --> 00:05:55,939 Listen, Buloz. I need 3,000 francs now. 62 00:05:56,022 --> 00:06:00,819 Let me read this... and we’ll talk tonight at the Baroness Laginsky’s party. 63 00:06:00,902 --> 00:06:04,489 I hadn’t planned to attend. Alfred might be there. 64 00:06:05,782 --> 00:06:08,993 I know for a fact that he won’t. 65 00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:14,833 All right. 66 00:06:22,173 --> 00:06:23,883 - What’s that? - Marvellous. 67 00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:26,886 - Her memoirs? Am I in it? - No! 68 00:06:26,970 --> 00:06:29,389 This bit’s about her childhood. 69 00:06:29,472 --> 00:06:33,643 You’ll come in later, after she chews up her husband and a hundred others. 70 00:06:33,727 --> 00:06:36,730 It’s true. She’s a cannibal. 71 00:06:36,813 --> 00:06:42,569 She’d drink her children’s blood from her lover’s skull and not feel a stomachache. 72 00:06:42,652 --> 00:06:47,490 Alfred, go home. Put it into verse, I’ll publish it. 73 00:06:47,574 --> 00:06:49,826 Then you’ll get paid. 74 00:06:49,909 --> 00:06:52,912 Thanks to you I can’t go to the baroness’s party. 75 00:06:52,996 --> 00:06:56,708 - In fact, I’ll have to leave Paris. - No more advances. 76 00:06:56,791 --> 00:06:59,461 I don’t need your money, old sow. 77 00:07:00,628 --> 00:07:05,133 I’ve had an invitation to the country. From a duchess, no less. 78 00:07:08,845 --> 00:07:11,222 Good day. 79 00:07:12,682 --> 00:07:15,852 {y:i}(strains of piano music) 80 00:07:23,902 --> 00:07:25,862 {y:i}(coughs) 81 00:07:26,905 --> 00:07:32,786 This summer dust is ruinous to my lungs. I hope the air will be better in Angers. 82 00:07:32,869 --> 00:07:35,330 The Duchess d’Antan has invited you too? 83 00:07:36,289 --> 00:07:39,584 - Well, yes. - How delightful. 84 00:07:39,668 --> 00:07:42,712 Please continue, dear fellow. 85 00:07:49,969 --> 00:07:52,472 - Good day, Countess. - "(gasps)" George! 86 00:07:52,555 --> 00:07:55,642 - I’m sorry I frightened you. {y:i}- (baby cries) 87 00:07:55,725 --> 00:07:58,228 I had the most fearful dream. 88 00:07:58,311 --> 00:08:02,899 Blandine was a terrible creature with fly’s wings 89 00:08:02,982 --> 00:08:06,152 that was draining my life from me. 90 00:08:06,236 --> 00:08:09,698 They are deadly little charmers. 91 00:08:11,408 --> 00:08:13,910 Chromatic glissando. 92 00:08:13,993 --> 00:08:16,496 The wings of a butterfly. 93 00:08:16,579 --> 00:08:18,707 Or the wrath of God. 94 00:08:21,084 --> 00:08:22,752 {y:i}(baby cries) 95 00:08:22,836 --> 00:08:25,922 He wakes the baby, then complains about the crying. 96 00:08:26,006 --> 00:08:30,135 - How is Franz? - He’s a saint. Sublime. 97 00:08:30,218 --> 00:08:33,096 He’ll even stay that way if you don’t marry him. 98 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:38,018 Yes, well, there’s no danger of that. The count won’t divorce me. 99 00:08:38,101 --> 00:08:41,813 Since I left him, he won’t even allow me to see the children. 100 00:08:41,896 --> 00:08:45,567 Well, now you’ve begun a new family. 101 00:08:47,986 --> 00:08:50,780 Still, I prefer to be married. 102 00:08:50,864 --> 00:08:53,783 I know you thumb your nose at all that. 103 00:08:54,868 --> 00:08:56,995 It’s funny. 104 00:08:59,122 --> 00:09:02,417 I thought I’d die of suffocation when I was married. 105 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:05,670 Now it’s my freedom that’s killing me. 106 00:09:05,754 --> 00:09:07,922 {y:i}(baby cries) 107 00:09:08,006 --> 00:09:10,216 Sophie! 108 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:13,595 Tell me, have you been invited to Angers next week? 109 00:09:13,678 --> 00:09:17,515 The Duke and Duchess d’Antan have asked us to their estate. 110 00:09:17,599 --> 00:09:18,641 {y:i}(baby screams) 111 00:09:18,725 --> 00:09:21,770 Sophie! Where is that wretch? Excuse me. 112 00:09:31,863 --> 00:09:34,240 Franz? 113 00:09:46,503 --> 00:09:48,588 I will see you. 114 00:09:51,091 --> 00:09:54,052 You’re not going to Angers too? Eugene! 115 00:09:54,135 --> 00:09:58,181 A whole fortnight among some tiresome old aristocrats. 116 00:09:59,516 --> 00:10:04,229 A fortnight of free food, exquisite scenery and no bills. 117 00:10:05,939 --> 00:10:09,275 And all you have to be is brilliant at dinner. 118 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:15,782 She doesn’t seem bothered she’s being eaten alive. 119 00:10:15,865 --> 00:10:17,117 No. 120 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,288 She’d probably say ”Better to feel something than nothing.” 121 00:10:23,331 --> 00:10:25,834 Even if it’s teeth. 122 00:10:31,214 --> 00:10:33,675 {y:i}(piano being played) 123 00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:41,016 Madame Sand! 124 00:10:41,808 --> 00:10:46,563 Oh, what a great honour you do my humble salon! 125 00:10:46,646 --> 00:10:51,317 Delighted to meet you, Baroness. I’m looking for my publisher, Monsieur Buloz. 126 00:10:51,401 --> 00:10:55,488 He’s in the salon with the others, but you’ll have to wait to go in. 127 00:10:55,572 --> 00:11:01,244 I’ve so longed to meet you! I knew your father when he was young. 128 00:11:01,327 --> 00:11:02,704 - Really? - Yes. 129 00:11:02,787 --> 00:11:07,876 We girls were enraged when we heard he’d married that dancer. 130 00:11:07,959 --> 00:11:11,463 - You mean my mother? - Oh... of course. 131 00:11:11,546 --> 00:11:14,924 - Is she still living? - Yes. 132 00:11:15,008 --> 00:11:17,260 - But she’s ill now. - How sad. 133 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:21,139 And what a tragedy your father died so young. 134 00:11:21,222 --> 00:11:24,768 The Count de Saxe. So dashing. 135 00:11:27,062 --> 00:11:28,980 Those idiots! 136 00:11:29,064 --> 00:11:30,523 Excuse me. 137 00:11:30,607 --> 00:11:32,859 Not yet! 138 00:11:32,942 --> 00:11:36,363 {y:i}(Baroness mutters angrily) 139 00:11:36,446 --> 00:11:39,032 {y:i}(soulful piano passage) 140 00:12:29,082 --> 00:12:33,586 Madame Sand! Is it true that you’re writing a memoir? 141 00:12:35,005 --> 00:12:40,719 - Do you pray, Baroness? - If you must know, I’m secretly devout. 142 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:46,766 - Do you ever hear an answer? - To my prayers? Well, no. 143 00:12:48,184 --> 00:12:51,396 There... is the answer. 144 00:12:51,479 --> 00:12:55,567 Ah, you mean Monsieur Chopin. How clever. 145 00:12:55,650 --> 00:12:58,778 It’s very rare to hear him play, you know. 146 00:12:58,862 --> 00:13:04,534 The Duchess d’Antan is having him for a whole fortnight at her house in Angers. 147 00:13:04,617 --> 00:13:07,245 I could only wish I were a fly on the wall. 148 00:13:07,871 --> 00:13:11,875 Except that they already have crowds of flies down there. 149 00:13:11,958 --> 00:13:14,919 I do find the provinces beastly. 150 00:13:15,003 --> 00:13:18,631 {y:i}- (applause) - Monsieur Liszt will play next. 151 00:13:22,427 --> 00:13:25,513 - Ah, George. I read your... - In a minute. 152 00:13:29,517 --> 00:13:33,104 George! You’ll want to sit over here, my dear. 153 00:13:33,855 --> 00:13:36,399 The respectable people are over there. 154 00:13:36,483 --> 00:13:41,029 - Could you point out Monsieur Chopin? - Chopin? But he left. 155 00:13:41,112 --> 00:13:44,532 Don’t you know him? He’s frail as a holy wafer. 156 00:13:44,616 --> 00:13:48,536 Look at those hypocrites. They’ve shunned me all evening. 157 00:13:49,913 --> 00:13:54,709 I’m thrilled not to be one of them any more. Their lives are so boring. 158 00:13:56,002 --> 00:14:00,048 You see? Every single one is throbbing for him. 159 00:14:00,131 --> 00:14:02,842 They know perfectly well why I ran off with him. 160 00:14:02,926 --> 00:14:05,220 For his teeth. 161 00:14:07,931 --> 00:14:10,558 {y:i}(plays theatrical piece) 162 00:14:23,905 --> 00:14:25,990 {y:i}(shrieks excitedly) 163 00:14:33,540 --> 00:14:35,208 Charles? 164 00:14:39,546 --> 00:14:40,839 Charles! 165 00:14:41,548 --> 00:14:43,633 Charles! 166 00:14:45,844 --> 00:14:48,888 {y:i}- (gunshot) {y:i}- (gasps) 167 00:14:48,972 --> 00:14:51,057 Grab it! Grab it! 168 00:14:54,936 --> 00:14:56,771 Darling! 169 00:14:56,855 --> 00:15:01,443 Charles! Charles! I’ve had the most extraordinary letter! 170 00:15:01,526 --> 00:15:06,823 Madame George Sand is quite brazenly inviting herself to the fortnight! 171 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:11,453 You know the one. She wears men’s clothes and leads a most depraved life! 172 00:15:11,536 --> 00:15:14,247 I’m dying to meet her. 173 00:15:14,330 --> 00:15:16,207 Charles? 174 00:15:16,291 --> 00:15:19,586 She writes that marriage is barbaric, darling. 175 00:15:19,669 --> 00:15:22,756 They say no marriage is safe around her. 176 00:15:22,839 --> 00:15:26,885 Just think, she might take a fancy to your turkey wattles. 177 00:15:26,968 --> 00:15:30,388 Didier! Don’t touch that! Come here! 178 00:15:30,472 --> 00:15:33,767 I’m in a quandary because I’ve invited Alfred de Musset. 179 00:15:33,850 --> 00:15:38,063 Everybody knows he and Madame Sand practically tore each other to pieces. 180 00:15:38,146 --> 00:15:41,775 I’m petrified that if they so much as clap eyes on each other... 181 00:15:41,858 --> 00:15:44,110 {y:i}(howls with rage) 182 00:15:49,324 --> 00:15:51,618 Has anyone ever met this duchess? 183 00:15:53,203 --> 00:15:55,080 No. 184 00:15:55,163 --> 00:15:59,751 Must be one of those titled tarts stuck in the provinces with an uncouth husband. 185 00:15:59,834 --> 00:16:05,340 She’s probably famished for culture and determined to import it at any cost. 186 00:16:06,925 --> 00:16:08,927 Charles! 187 00:16:09,010 --> 00:16:11,596 - Where are you going? - Hunting. 188 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,933 - Goodbye. I’ll be back in a few days. - But you can’t! 189 00:16:15,016 --> 00:16:17,602 - Our guests arrive today. - Precisely. 190 00:16:17,686 --> 00:16:19,229 You blockhead! 191 00:16:19,312 --> 00:16:23,942 These are the great geniuses of our time, gathered together in our home! 192 00:16:24,025 --> 00:16:26,111 They are a gang of parasites. 193 00:16:26,194 --> 00:16:30,824 After a few days in their company, I expect you’ll come to your senses. 194 00:16:30,907 --> 00:16:33,910 You’ll humiliate me if you don’t receive them. 195 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:35,662 Charles! 196 00:16:35,745 --> 00:16:38,623 You don’t want me to be a success! 197 00:16:40,542 --> 00:16:41,835 Gustav? 198 00:16:42,544 --> 00:16:44,546 Gustav! 199 00:16:44,629 --> 00:16:47,549 Attach little bags of seed to the branches. 200 00:16:47,632 --> 00:16:51,720 I want thousands of birds singing when they come up the avenue. 201 00:16:51,803 --> 00:16:53,346 Darling? 202 00:16:53,430 --> 00:16:57,851 You’re not dressed properly. Go and put on your pink waistcoat. 203 00:16:57,934 --> 00:16:59,644 {y:i}- (gunshot) - Oh! 204 00:16:59,728 --> 00:17:04,357 That murderer! There won’t be a bird left in the sky! 205 00:17:26,296 --> 00:17:27,922 Welcome! 206 00:17:28,006 --> 00:17:30,675 Yes. Come on, Hélène. 207 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:32,886 Welcome! 208 00:17:34,971 --> 00:17:38,975 In my house, you are the nobility. 209 00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:43,688 The nobility of genius. 210 00:17:47,901 --> 00:17:49,444 Madame Sand! 211 00:17:49,527 --> 00:17:52,739 - Hello. How was your trip? - Madame Sand! 212 00:17:52,822 --> 00:17:55,408 I’m melting with delight! 213 00:17:55,492 --> 00:17:58,745 Oh, and you’ve brought your two boys! 214 00:17:59,871 --> 00:18:02,707 - I’m a girl. - Ah. 215 00:18:11,132 --> 00:18:15,553 Here, Master Delacroix. I have given you my own studio. 216 00:18:15,637 --> 00:18:18,223 The light, you can see, is perfection. 217 00:18:20,225 --> 00:18:22,560 When is Monsieur Chopin arriving? 218 00:18:22,644 --> 00:18:25,438 Tomorrow. Or so he wrote to me in his letter. 219 00:18:26,731 --> 00:18:29,818 Here is the theatre! 220 00:18:29,901 --> 00:18:34,322 Sometimes we indulge ourselves in little amateur productions. 221 00:18:36,074 --> 00:18:40,120 And here, Madame Sand, is your workroom. 222 00:18:40,203 --> 00:18:44,457 If you open the doors, perhaps our southern moonlight will inspire you 223 00:18:44,541 --> 00:18:47,669 to write those sublime novels which I so admire. 224 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 225 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 226 00:19:04,227 --> 00:19:06,563 George! Up, quick! 227 00:19:09,566 --> 00:19:12,360 We have food for a picnic! 228 00:19:12,444 --> 00:19:14,404 And a donkey! 229 00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:17,115 Come, before the dreaded duchess finds us. 230 00:19:30,503 --> 00:19:32,589 Cheers. 231 00:19:41,765 --> 00:19:43,433 Come on! 232 00:19:55,904 --> 00:19:58,698 What is wrong with our Georgie? 233 00:19:59,991 --> 00:20:02,744 She is incurably disgusted. 234 00:20:02,827 --> 00:20:04,662 With what? 235 00:20:04,746 --> 00:20:07,290 Love, no doubt. 236 00:20:07,374 --> 00:20:10,502 She should only have what Marie and I have. 237 00:20:10,585 --> 00:20:12,671 {y:i}(men laugh) 238 00:20:14,214 --> 00:20:17,258 Only God deserves love. 239 00:20:18,051 --> 00:20:21,012 I adore this silence. 240 00:20:21,096 --> 00:20:23,598 {y:i}- (baby screams) {y:i}- (Liszt groans) 241 00:20:26,142 --> 00:20:28,978 George has gone off, it seems. 242 00:20:29,062 --> 00:20:32,148 - Shall we go and look for her? - Can you walk? 243 00:20:33,858 --> 00:20:35,777 Not presently. 244 00:20:35,860 --> 00:20:40,490 I need this rest. My tour next month is 20 cities. 245 00:20:40,573 --> 00:20:43,451 - Where are you going? - Vienna, Geneva... 246 00:20:43,535 --> 00:20:45,745 You’re going on a tour? 247 00:20:46,746 --> 00:20:49,040 Darling, did I forget to tell you? 248 00:20:49,124 --> 00:20:51,960 What of your writing, your work? 249 00:20:52,043 --> 00:20:54,504 What of me? Am I going with you? 250 00:20:54,587 --> 00:20:56,464 We’ll talk about it later. 251 00:20:56,548 --> 00:20:57,632 Sophie! 252 00:20:59,426 --> 00:21:01,511 We’re going back. 253 00:21:05,265 --> 00:21:08,226 {y:i}(groans) 254 00:21:11,896 --> 00:21:14,107 {y:i}(blast on horn) 255 00:21:15,650 --> 00:21:17,819 {y:i}(another blast) 256 00:21:21,197 --> 00:21:23,450 {y:i}(horse neighs) 257 00:21:38,256 --> 00:21:41,343 {y:i}(neighs in pain) 258 00:22:02,864 --> 00:22:04,824 {y:i}(gunshot) 259 00:22:10,914 --> 00:22:12,999 Thank you, young man. 260 00:22:14,501 --> 00:22:17,962 What a magnificent horse. Must have been a great hunter. 261 00:22:18,046 --> 00:22:19,589 Yes. 262 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:21,883 Yes. 263 00:22:21,966 --> 00:22:25,428 I’d invite you to my home for a drink, 264 00:22:25,512 --> 00:22:28,390 but I’ve got a house full of fops. 265 00:22:28,473 --> 00:22:31,142 Guests of my wife’s. 266 00:22:32,894 --> 00:22:37,732 I won’t let her move to Paris so she’s trying to bring Paris here. 267 00:22:37,816 --> 00:22:41,778 Still, it’s her money. And I love her for it. 268 00:22:41,861 --> 00:22:43,405 {y:i}(laughs) 269 00:22:43,488 --> 00:22:46,783 Where are you staying, lad? At the inn? 270 00:22:48,910 --> 00:22:52,122 That is either Monsieur Chopin or Monsieur de Musset. 271 00:22:52,205 --> 00:22:54,874 - You haven’t invited Alfred? - I’m afraid so. 272 00:22:54,958 --> 00:22:57,210 Do you think it’ll be a disaster? 273 00:22:57,293 --> 00:22:59,629 Why do you laugh? 274 00:23:00,672 --> 00:23:03,383 This will be judgement day for George. 275 00:23:03,466 --> 00:23:06,553 She should pay for her sins like any other fallen woman. 276 00:23:06,636 --> 00:23:09,514 She can’t avoid everything by being a man. 277 00:23:11,057 --> 00:23:15,603 That’s not Alfred at all. This gets better and better. 278 00:23:15,687 --> 00:23:18,857 - Who is it? - Félicien Mallefille. 279 00:23:18,940 --> 00:23:23,486 - He’s the children’s tutor. - He can discipline those two savages! 280 00:23:23,570 --> 00:23:26,448 I wonder where I shall put him, though. 281 00:23:26,531 --> 00:23:30,243 In George’s room, of course. That’s what he’s accustomed to. 282 00:23:30,326 --> 00:23:32,537 No! 283 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:35,623 He is a handsome brute! 284 00:23:35,707 --> 00:23:38,543 How does she merit all these men? 285 00:23:38,626 --> 00:23:40,587 "(Marie)" He looks angry. 286 00:23:40,670 --> 00:23:44,799 I don’t think he appreciated being left behind at Nohant. 287 00:23:44,883 --> 00:23:47,469 - George! - George! 288 00:23:58,980 --> 00:24:01,858 I’ll give you a horse to ride back to the inn. 289 00:24:01,941 --> 00:24:06,154 - There’s something I must confess. - Drat! We’ve been seen! 290 00:24:06,237 --> 00:24:07,906 Shit! 291 00:24:07,989 --> 00:24:09,491 "(Mallefille)" George! 292 00:24:12,285 --> 00:24:14,579 Not that one, monsieur! He’s a devil! 293 00:24:23,213 --> 00:24:27,300 By God! What a fine seat that fellow George has. 294 00:24:27,384 --> 00:24:31,471 Madame George Sand, dear. The authoress. 295 00:24:36,768 --> 00:24:38,645 {y:i}(coughing) 296 00:24:51,908 --> 00:24:54,119 {y:i}(horse neighs) 297 00:25:21,604 --> 00:25:25,859 - Are you ready now to face me? - God, Mallefille! Not now! 298 00:25:25,942 --> 00:25:27,777 Yes, now. 299 00:25:28,903 --> 00:25:32,532 No kisses? Where’s my greeting? 300 00:25:32,615 --> 00:25:34,909 Didn’t you get my letter? 301 00:25:34,993 --> 00:25:39,247 Yes. Your message was clear indeed... between the lines. 302 00:25:39,330 --> 00:25:44,210 - I will defend my position. - Oh, balls! 303 00:25:44,294 --> 00:25:47,839 You’re not in the army any more. 304 00:25:47,922 --> 00:25:51,843 You had an affair, not a pitched battle. 305 00:25:54,846 --> 00:25:57,390 Oh, Mallefille. 306 00:25:58,683 --> 00:26:01,436 Poor boy. It won’t hurt for long. 307 00:26:04,064 --> 00:26:08,026 - I know it must seem unfair. - George. 308 00:26:08,651 --> 00:26:14,115 - You promised to love me. - I didn’t promise to succeed. 309 00:26:15,742 --> 00:26:18,787 - Whom did you come here to meet? - No-one. 310 00:26:18,870 --> 00:26:20,663 Help me off with my boots. 311 00:26:20,747 --> 00:26:23,917 He should write his epitaph because I’m going to kill him! 312 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,462 Your rival is imaginary! 313 00:26:28,505 --> 00:26:33,635 If you’re not going to help, go and find somewhere to sleep and leave me! 314 00:26:33,718 --> 00:26:37,389 Make that two epitaphs, because I’ll kill you if I find... 315 00:26:37,472 --> 00:26:39,766 Oh, my God, you’re hurt! 316 00:26:39,849 --> 00:26:41,726 You’re bleeding. 317 00:26:43,853 --> 00:26:45,730 Yes. 318 00:26:46,523 --> 00:26:50,026 Be a dear. Ask Ursula if she’s got something for a bandage. 319 00:26:50,110 --> 00:26:52,362 Of course. Don’t move. 320 00:26:52,445 --> 00:26:53,988 No. 321 00:27:00,161 --> 00:27:02,247 {y:i}(lock clicks) 322 00:27:07,043 --> 00:27:08,920 Bastard! 323 00:27:17,721 --> 00:27:21,224 {y:i}(gentle piano music) 324 00:27:34,154 --> 00:27:35,697 {y:i}(dog barking) 325 00:27:35,780 --> 00:27:37,657 {y:i}(gasps) 326 00:29:14,212 --> 00:29:15,672 {y:i}(yells) 327 00:29:16,339 --> 00:29:18,133 Oh, don’t stop! 328 00:29:19,509 --> 00:29:25,056 Monsieur Chopin, you were in the middle of a miracle. I’m not quite yet cured. 329 00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:28,143 How did you get in? Who are you? 330 00:29:28,935 --> 00:29:31,062 I am your slave. 331 00:29:31,146 --> 00:29:34,357 And you have summoned me with your music. 332 00:29:34,441 --> 00:29:38,069 Oh, yes. I think I know who you are. 333 00:29:39,112 --> 00:29:41,781 I have heard you described. 334 00:29:41,865 --> 00:29:44,868 Madame Sand, rumour has it you are a woman, 335 00:29:44,951 --> 00:29:47,912 and so I must ask you to leave my private chambers. 336 00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:53,209 Have I offended your modesty? 337 00:29:53,293 --> 00:29:55,420 I apologise. 338 00:29:55,503 --> 00:29:59,507 - Play me one more piece and I’ll go. - This is ridiculously improper! 339 00:29:59,591 --> 00:30:03,595 And frightening as well. Please leave now. 340 00:30:11,269 --> 00:30:13,355 Still, I am content. 341 00:30:13,438 --> 00:30:15,940 I’ve seen you at last. 342 00:30:16,941 --> 00:30:21,196 And I am delighted to find you’re not a man at all. 343 00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:24,115 You’re an angel. 344 00:30:24,199 --> 00:30:29,204 Hands, halo, wings... 345 00:30:30,914 --> 00:30:32,999 everything. 346 00:30:34,542 --> 00:30:37,087 Good night, my dream. 347 00:30:46,221 --> 00:30:49,683 My poor lady, you are a wreck. 348 00:30:49,766 --> 00:30:52,977 I am a resurrected wreck. 349 00:30:53,061 --> 00:30:55,146 Move over. 350 00:31:06,449 --> 00:31:08,284 {y:i}(grunting) 351 00:31:14,958 --> 00:31:19,587 Citizen Maurice, the prisoner is ready for execution. 352 00:31:19,671 --> 00:31:26,219 Viscount de Swamp, you are guilty of crimes against the people of France. 353 00:31:26,302 --> 00:31:32,142 To the guillotine! To the guillotine! To the guillotine! 354 00:31:32,225 --> 00:31:34,185 The king has escaped! 355 00:31:34,269 --> 00:31:36,354 - Catch him! - I will! 356 00:31:36,438 --> 00:31:39,983 Tyrant! You will be brought to justice. 357 00:31:40,066 --> 00:31:42,777 - Long live the republic! {y:i}- (gunshot) 358 00:31:44,988 --> 00:31:49,242 - The king’s guard! We’re surrounded. - We’ll hold the king as hostage. 359 00:31:49,325 --> 00:31:53,830 We’ll shoot the viscount and throw them his body and demand their surrender. 360 00:31:53,913 --> 00:31:56,750 Do we have enough ammunition to hold them off? 361 00:31:56,833 --> 00:31:59,753 - I don’t think so. - I can help you. 362 00:31:59,836 --> 00:32:04,007 - My papa’s got plenty of gunpowder. - This could be very useful. 363 00:32:09,804 --> 00:32:11,556 "(girl)" Beautiful! 364 00:32:13,391 --> 00:32:15,268 "(both)" Yes! 365 00:32:22,025 --> 00:32:25,570 Good morning... master. 366 00:32:26,988 --> 00:32:29,949 - Morning, Excellency. - Claudette. 367 00:32:35,872 --> 00:32:39,000 Ah. Velvet flowers. 368 00:32:41,002 --> 00:32:43,922 Did you make these, Claudette? 369 00:32:44,005 --> 00:32:47,717 I have a tiny talent and an enormous amount of time. 370 00:32:47,801 --> 00:32:51,846 But have you come to work? I will leave you in peace. 371 00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:54,182 Oh, no. "(giggles)" 372 00:32:54,265 --> 00:32:56,017 It’s very bad. 373 00:32:56,101 --> 00:32:57,686 No, don’t! 374 00:32:57,769 --> 00:33:00,563 Ooh! 375 00:33:00,647 --> 00:33:02,899 That’s really quite good. 376 00:33:15,161 --> 00:33:17,038 One, two. 377 00:33:17,122 --> 00:33:21,376 {y:i}(piano transcription of Beethoven’s {y:i}”Symphony No.6 in F”) 378 00:33:24,879 --> 00:33:26,840 You’re a fine shot, sir. 379 00:33:26,923 --> 00:33:30,427 I can see you’re not one of those perfumed prancers in there. 380 00:33:30,510 --> 00:33:34,848 - What do you say to a little hunting? - I am standing guard on my mistress. 381 00:33:34,931 --> 00:33:39,561 That one? She doesn’t need your protection, by God. Fascinating creature. 382 00:33:39,644 --> 00:33:42,272 I’m sure she’d rather come hunting with us 383 00:33:42,355 --> 00:33:44,983 than sit around arranging her flounces. 384 00:33:45,066 --> 00:33:49,988 ”One warm word from you and I live. One brutal word and I die.” 385 00:33:50,071 --> 00:33:53,491 ”It doesn’t matter, for I am not afraid of death any more.” 386 00:33:53,575 --> 00:33:57,245 ”I have already visited the beyond in your music.” 387 00:33:57,996 --> 00:34:02,250 - Will you take it to him? - Why don’t you take it to him yourself? 388 00:34:03,251 --> 00:34:05,879 I’ve been avoiding him all morning. 389 00:34:05,962 --> 00:34:09,424 He’s had a poor first impression of me, I fear. 390 00:34:10,383 --> 00:34:16,014 Before I meet him again, I want him to be convinced of my complete sincerity. 391 00:34:17,682 --> 00:34:20,685 Well? What do you think? 392 00:34:20,769 --> 00:34:24,356 Look, you know him. How will he respond? 393 00:34:24,439 --> 00:34:28,360 I can’t imagine any man resisting this prose. It would melt the Alps. 394 00:34:28,443 --> 00:34:33,823 But tell me, why do you pounce on our poor Chopin? 395 00:34:33,907 --> 00:34:38,161 My dear, he’s got one foot in the grave. 396 00:34:38,244 --> 00:34:39,704 No, no. 397 00:34:39,788 --> 00:34:43,041 We shall all be in our graves soon enough. 398 00:34:43,124 --> 00:34:46,294 But Chopin is eternal. 399 00:34:47,462 --> 00:34:50,882 The only permanent thing about him is his cough. 400 00:34:50,965 --> 00:34:52,759 "(Duke)" Ah. 401 00:34:55,595 --> 00:34:57,847 - All right. - Thank you, my friend. 402 00:34:57,931 --> 00:35:01,518 Madame Sand, will you delight us with your company on a hunt? 403 00:35:01,601 --> 00:35:03,603 I must decline, Your Excellency. 404 00:35:03,687 --> 00:35:07,065 My maid is fitting me for a dress this afternoon. 405 00:35:07,941 --> 00:35:10,110 A dress? 406 00:35:10,193 --> 00:35:14,155 {y:i}(piano transcription {y:i}of Beethoven’s Sixth continues) 407 00:35:17,617 --> 00:35:21,329 {y:i}(laughter and absorbed chatter) 408 00:36:35,570 --> 00:36:37,864 - Quick! - "(final chord)" 409 00:36:37,947 --> 00:36:39,699 Perfect! 410 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:42,160 Marvellous. 411 00:36:42,243 --> 00:36:45,914 Darling, George proposes a game of croquet. 412 00:36:45,997 --> 00:36:49,292 Excellent idea. Chopin will join us. 413 00:36:49,376 --> 00:36:52,796 Oh, no. Please excuse me. I do not really like the sun. 414 00:36:52,879 --> 00:36:54,756 Hah! 415 00:36:57,717 --> 00:36:59,844 Dear friend... 416 00:36:59,928 --> 00:37:02,597 I do not wish you to be burned. 417 00:37:16,319 --> 00:37:17,612 {y:i}(coughs) 418 00:37:17,696 --> 00:37:19,781 {y:i}(knocking) 419 00:37:22,492 --> 00:37:24,577 Excuse me. I’m sorry, my friend. 420 00:37:24,661 --> 00:37:29,290 May I speak with you? Something very terrible has happened. 421 00:37:30,542 --> 00:37:33,044 - Oh! - Ah! 422 00:37:34,379 --> 00:37:35,797 Again. 423 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,010 - George seems more cheerful. - Mm. She has a crush on Chopin. 424 00:37:40,093 --> 00:37:42,971 The Polish corpse? 425 00:37:43,054 --> 00:37:47,684 - They couldn’t be more different. - Then they will definitely fall in love. 426 00:37:47,767 --> 00:37:50,562 I suppose as friends we should help them along. 427 00:37:50,645 --> 00:37:53,273 Absolutely not! 428 00:37:53,356 --> 00:37:57,944 Franz, you and I must put ourselves between them at every opportunity. 429 00:37:58,028 --> 00:38:00,613 - Marie! Your turn. - Yes. 430 00:38:05,076 --> 00:38:08,079 He is so frail, darling. 431 00:38:08,163 --> 00:38:11,416 You know George will finish him off. 432 00:38:11,499 --> 00:38:15,754 - The countess made advances to you? - She is my friend’s mistress. 433 00:38:15,837 --> 00:38:20,050 - She has borne his child. - He wouldn’t mind if she changed hands. 434 00:38:21,009 --> 00:38:24,429 Really, I don’t understand the attitude of you people. 435 00:38:25,305 --> 00:38:28,850 Are we at a livestock sale? She’s a woman, not a goat. 436 00:38:28,933 --> 00:38:32,896 - Are you in love with her yourself? - Of course not. 437 00:38:32,979 --> 00:38:36,274 ”I’m not full of virtues and noble qualities.” 438 00:38:36,358 --> 00:38:38,818 ”I love, that is all.” 439 00:38:39,778 --> 00:38:45,033 ”But I love strongly, exclusively, steadfastly.” 440 00:38:45,116 --> 00:38:50,497 No, it’s like something out of a novel... like that dreadful woman writes. 441 00:38:50,580 --> 00:38:53,541 - If you can call her a woman. - George? 442 00:38:55,168 --> 00:38:58,713 She makes a great hash of her life, but she’s got a good heart. 443 00:38:58,797 --> 00:39:01,675 That’s why so many men don’t want to let go of her. 444 00:39:01,758 --> 00:39:04,260 George knows how to love... 445 00:39:04,344 --> 00:39:06,513 while she loves. 446 00:39:06,596 --> 00:39:08,890 The countess has an extraordinary style. 447 00:39:08,973 --> 00:39:12,185 I’d not have guessed there was a volcano under that ice. 448 00:39:31,371 --> 00:39:33,873 We can’t find anything, citizen. 449 00:39:33,957 --> 00:39:37,293 The viscount has been completely obliterated. 450 00:39:43,008 --> 00:39:45,051 - Good to see you. - Good evening. 451 00:39:45,135 --> 00:39:47,387 They’re all in here. Follow me. 452 00:39:50,932 --> 00:39:52,392 What the devil... 453 00:39:54,686 --> 00:39:58,481 Good God, Claudette! Go back upstairs and change! 454 00:39:58,565 --> 00:40:00,608 - Pooh! - Ow! 455 00:40:00,692 --> 00:40:03,236 Hello! Welcome. 456 00:40:03,319 --> 00:40:06,823 Well, he left the salon at that moment. 457 00:40:06,906 --> 00:40:11,828 Claudette’s decided to dress as a man for some reason. Do you want a drink? 458 00:40:14,789 --> 00:40:17,959 At that stage everyone started to laugh. 459 00:40:24,549 --> 00:40:27,552 At last! Madame Sand! 460 00:40:27,635 --> 00:40:31,723 Everybody’s staring at me. It’s a revelation wearing trousers. 461 00:40:31,806 --> 00:40:34,809 I feel quite the bully! 462 00:40:34,893 --> 00:40:37,145 George in a dress? 463 00:40:37,228 --> 00:40:40,565 Red and white, the colours of the Polish flag. 464 00:40:40,648 --> 00:40:43,318 That’s a bit of overkill. 465 00:40:43,401 --> 00:40:46,863 I tell you, we’ll discuss it... 466 00:40:49,115 --> 00:40:51,326 May I take your arm? 467 00:40:51,409 --> 00:40:56,247 My husband’s in a temper tonight because I’m wearing his britches. 468 00:40:58,458 --> 00:41:01,544 George, Chopin does not deserve to be collected. 469 00:41:01,628 --> 00:41:04,005 He’s so fragile, you know he might... 470 00:41:04,089 --> 00:41:08,218 What’s this? A secret? Is he the one you came here to meet? 471 00:41:08,301 --> 00:41:11,805 Mallefille, if you can’t behave, go to your room. 472 00:41:14,516 --> 00:41:17,519 I am quite marooned. 473 00:41:17,602 --> 00:41:20,814 Will you... partner me? 474 00:41:21,439 --> 00:41:23,108 Of course. 475 00:41:37,747 --> 00:41:40,500 - "Bon appétit." - "(all) Bon appétit." 476 00:41:43,503 --> 00:41:46,673 I understand many of you artists are atheists. 477 00:41:46,756 --> 00:41:49,134 Atheists? Oh, no. 478 00:41:49,217 --> 00:41:51,344 No, we feel that God exists. 479 00:41:51,428 --> 00:41:54,931 He’s just not considered worth all the trouble of denying him. 480 00:41:55,015 --> 00:41:56,224 Oh, really! 481 00:41:56,307 --> 00:41:58,351 The baron is baiting you. 482 00:41:58,435 --> 00:42:01,813 He maintains there is no scientific evidence of God. 483 00:42:01,896 --> 00:42:06,317 And I reply “Because civilisation has poured dust on his traces.” 484 00:42:06,401 --> 00:42:08,820 God has been buried by science. 485 00:42:08,903 --> 00:42:10,530 But alive! 486 00:42:10,613 --> 00:42:12,323 God exists. 487 00:42:13,116 --> 00:42:15,076 But he is no longer loved, 488 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,663 so he hides away to conceal his broken heart. 489 00:42:18,747 --> 00:42:20,331 {y:i}(sympathetic murmurs) 490 00:42:20,415 --> 00:42:24,085 Certainly it is difficult to find God in our age. 491 00:42:24,169 --> 00:42:27,422 And artists are the only hope. 492 00:42:27,505 --> 00:42:29,799 But we shall locate him again. 493 00:42:29,883 --> 00:42:32,844 We are a search party, if you like, of orphans, 494 00:42:32,927 --> 00:42:36,056 with our emotions as a lantern in the dark. 495 00:42:36,139 --> 00:42:38,016 {y:i}(amused murmuring) 496 00:42:38,099 --> 00:42:42,312 Our greatest hope may be Monsieur Chopin, 497 00:42:42,395 --> 00:42:45,648 in whose music we find both emotion and science 498 00:42:45,732 --> 00:42:49,152 in the most perfect rapport. 499 00:42:49,235 --> 00:42:51,488 "(guests)" Hear! Hear! 500 00:42:51,571 --> 00:42:53,281 Thank you. 501 00:42:53,365 --> 00:42:58,119 May I, in turn, propose a toast to our host and hostess? 502 00:42:58,203 --> 00:43:03,291 For without the noble patronage of the aristocracy, we are orphans indeed. 503 00:43:03,375 --> 00:43:05,960 They understand and nurture us. 504 00:43:06,044 --> 00:43:10,465 They are our model and inspiration. 505 00:43:10,548 --> 00:43:11,633 Thank you. 506 00:43:13,093 --> 00:43:15,679 George, you’re not drinking. 507 00:43:15,762 --> 00:43:19,641 You must pardon Madame Sand. She is allergic to the aristocracy. 508 00:43:22,143 --> 00:43:23,853 Surely that can’t be! 509 00:43:23,937 --> 00:43:26,773 Madame Sand, my hobby is genealogy, 510 00:43:26,856 --> 00:43:29,984 and if I am correct, you are a baroness by marriage 511 00:43:30,068 --> 00:43:32,529 and your father’s mother was a countess. 512 00:43:32,612 --> 00:43:33,655 Really? 513 00:43:33,738 --> 00:43:37,325 Yes, but my mother’s father was a bird-seller. 514 00:43:37,409 --> 00:43:41,454 There you are, philosopher. Scientific proof of God. 515 00:43:41,538 --> 00:43:45,959 The lion may lie down with the lamb, and the baroness with the bird-seller. 516 00:43:46,042 --> 00:43:47,752 {y:i}(laughter) 517 00:43:47,836 --> 00:43:50,296 Since you must know birds, Madame Sand, 518 00:43:50,380 --> 00:43:52,674 what do you think of our local partridge? 519 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,720 We flushed four of them in a field this afternoon. 520 00:43:56,803 --> 00:44:00,473 Your friend Mallefille here shot three of them. 521 00:44:00,557 --> 00:44:03,476 I only wounded the last one. It flew away. 522 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,355 I don’t know how it could fly - one wing was nearly torn off. 523 00:44:07,439 --> 00:44:12,527 When we were wandering back, we saw it thrashing about in the garden. 524 00:44:12,610 --> 00:44:16,865 The dogs had got it! One of the bitches had bitten off its head. 525 00:44:16,948 --> 00:44:19,909 - Feathers were flying everywhere... - Charles! 526 00:44:20,785 --> 00:44:24,122 {y:i}(violent coughing) 527 00:44:24,998 --> 00:44:27,751 Now see what you’ve done! 528 00:44:28,877 --> 00:44:31,171 What the devil’s the matter with him? 529 00:44:31,254 --> 00:44:35,133 He has trouble with his lungs. Makes a misery of his life. 530 00:44:36,176 --> 00:44:38,261 He should be bled. 531 00:44:38,345 --> 00:44:43,058 We have an excellent physician. He’s developed a special variety of leeches. 532 00:44:43,141 --> 00:44:45,685 Painless, and they leave very little mark. 533 00:44:45,769 --> 00:44:48,646 Better yet, send in George to Monsieur Chopin. 534 00:44:48,730 --> 00:44:51,316 She leaves no mark at all. 535 00:44:51,399 --> 00:44:53,610 Hungarian humour, George. 536 00:44:53,693 --> 00:44:55,153 {y:i}(crash) 537 00:44:55,236 --> 00:44:58,573 - You are too familiar. Apologise. - Sit down, you ass! 538 00:44:58,656 --> 00:45:03,495 - You think I don’t know what’s going on? - She has made love with Monsieur Liszt? 539 00:45:03,578 --> 00:45:06,164 Apologise or I’ll rip your throat out! 540 00:45:06,247 --> 00:45:08,458 Apologise! 541 00:45:08,541 --> 00:45:12,212 - Agh! Alfred! - St George! 542 00:45:12,295 --> 00:45:16,716 - What are "you" doing here? - I’m the dragoon. I was invited. 543 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,760 Duchess, I’ve only just arrived. 544 00:45:18,843 --> 00:45:21,888 Thank God I was in time to defend Madame Sand’s honour. 545 00:45:21,971 --> 00:45:24,099 - You followed me. - He’s the one? 546 00:45:24,182 --> 00:45:27,936 - You’re starting up with him again? - I’d sooner chew glass. 547 00:45:30,647 --> 00:45:33,358 Choose your seconds and meet me at dawn, sir. 548 00:45:33,441 --> 00:45:36,194 - No more duels! - This is men’s business. 549 00:45:36,277 --> 00:45:39,781 - I accept. - Men? You’re not fit to be men! 550 00:45:40,824 --> 00:45:44,035 Morons! Idiots! 551 00:45:45,078 --> 00:45:49,457 Choose your weapons, Mallefille. Red or white? 552 00:45:50,583 --> 00:45:54,254 Leave her alone! She’s going off to write about us. 553 00:45:54,337 --> 00:45:58,383 It’s time for her nightly regurgitation. 20 pages. 554 00:45:58,466 --> 00:46:01,386 The only reason she needs you or me or anybody 555 00:46:01,469 --> 00:46:05,348 is to provide characters for her ghastly novels! 556 00:46:05,432 --> 00:46:09,310 - I trust you have no objection to pistols. - What? 557 00:46:09,394 --> 00:46:13,481 - For tomorrow. - My boy, I really don’t care. 558 00:46:24,576 --> 00:46:28,997 Thank you for the loan, my dear. It was most instructive. 559 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:33,835 You’ll be up before dawn for the duel, so I shall sleep in my own bed. 560 00:46:33,918 --> 00:46:36,713 Ooh! I do wish I could be there tomorrow. 561 00:46:36,796 --> 00:46:38,882 You will make sure nobody’s killed? 562 00:46:38,965 --> 00:46:43,136 I abhor killing, but a good fight’s something to see. 563 00:46:43,219 --> 00:46:45,972 - Good night. - Good night, Claudette. 564 00:46:49,100 --> 00:46:51,394 {y:i}(chuckles) 565 00:46:52,645 --> 00:46:54,939 {y:i}(hums) 566 00:47:00,653 --> 00:47:02,989 - Good evening. - Ohh! 567 00:47:03,073 --> 00:47:05,033 {y:i}(gasps) 568 00:47:06,910 --> 00:47:09,496 {y:i}(gasps and pants) 569 00:47:14,959 --> 00:47:17,003 What do you... 570 00:47:19,798 --> 00:47:21,758 Shh. 571 00:47:29,015 --> 00:47:30,475 No! 572 00:47:34,604 --> 00:47:36,189 Ow! 573 00:47:46,449 --> 00:47:48,576 Those lips. 574 00:47:49,703 --> 00:47:51,830 Show me your tongue. 575 00:47:51,913 --> 00:47:54,541 Darling. 576 00:47:54,624 --> 00:47:58,169 - What is that scent? - "(horse snorts)" 577 00:47:59,462 --> 00:48:03,341 Oats. Oats de Cologne. 578 00:48:07,220 --> 00:48:09,556 Mm. My darling. 579 00:48:33,204 --> 00:48:35,206 {y:i}(grunts) 580 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,877 Damn it. 581 00:48:43,381 --> 00:48:45,175 Let’s go and see. 582 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 583 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 584 00:48:45,258 --> 00:48:47,135 {y:i}(George screams) 585 00:48:47,218 --> 00:48:51,181 - Goodbye, George. I’m going to my death. - What are you ranting about? 586 00:48:51,264 --> 00:48:54,184 - But before I die... - Oh, my God! 587 00:48:57,020 --> 00:49:00,065 - One kiss from you is all I ask. - What are you doing? 588 00:49:00,148 --> 00:49:03,234 Let go of me. Get that horse out of here. 589 00:49:03,318 --> 00:49:05,028 Shh. 590 00:49:06,863 --> 00:49:11,493 I will be dead soon. Mallefille is going to shoot me. 591 00:49:11,576 --> 00:49:13,161 {y:i}(gasps) 592 00:49:14,829 --> 00:49:17,457 You two can’t be serious. Please. 593 00:49:17,540 --> 00:49:19,668 Please, Alfred, don’t go. 594 00:49:19,751 --> 00:49:21,211 Um... 595 00:49:21,294 --> 00:49:24,005 - I’ll talk to Mallefille. - No. 596 00:49:24,089 --> 00:49:27,258 - I want to die. - Oh, Alfred. 597 00:49:27,342 --> 00:49:31,596 Darling, I want to be on your conscience. 598 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,973 You destroyed my youth. 599 00:49:34,057 --> 00:49:37,060 You buried my springtime in shadows. 600 00:49:37,143 --> 00:49:39,270 Alfred. 601 00:49:39,354 --> 00:49:41,815 I was much too good for you. 602 00:49:41,898 --> 00:49:43,942 I spoiled you. 603 00:49:44,025 --> 00:49:47,487 I gave you money. I nursed you when you were sick. 604 00:49:47,570 --> 00:49:51,366 Yes. And then you fucked the doctor. 605 00:49:51,449 --> 00:49:53,702 God, Alfred! 606 00:49:53,785 --> 00:49:57,080 You were sick because you’d been out every night 607 00:49:57,163 --> 00:49:59,624 screwing all the whores in Venice 608 00:49:59,708 --> 00:50:03,003 while I was sitting at my desk writing so that we had a... 609 00:50:03,086 --> 00:50:06,840 {y:i}- (laughs hysterically) - Oh! 610 00:50:06,923 --> 00:50:09,092 The horse is a critic! 611 00:50:09,175 --> 00:50:12,929 Get out! Kill yourself, I don’t care! I hate you! 612 00:50:31,906 --> 00:50:35,285 - Gentlemen, are you ready? - Yes. 613 00:50:40,540 --> 00:50:42,000 And... 614 00:50:43,043 --> 00:50:45,628 One. 615 00:50:45,712 --> 00:50:47,547 Two. 616 00:50:47,630 --> 00:50:50,467 Three. 617 00:50:50,550 --> 00:50:52,594 Four. 618 00:50:52,677 --> 00:50:55,180 Five. 619 00:50:55,263 --> 00:50:57,557 Six. 620 00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,768 Seven. 621 00:50:59,851 --> 00:51:01,561 Eight. 622 00:51:02,479 --> 00:51:05,065 Nine. 623 00:51:05,148 --> 00:51:06,983 Ten! 624 00:51:23,833 --> 00:51:26,753 I want to go home. 625 00:51:26,836 --> 00:51:30,840 Mummy said we can’t go till the roads dry up. 626 00:51:30,924 --> 00:51:34,427 But it’s been raining for three days now. 627 00:51:34,511 --> 00:51:37,597 It’s no use. We’re prisoners. 628 00:51:37,681 --> 00:51:40,517 Prisoners of the Bastille. 629 00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,852 Guards are everywhere. 630 00:51:42,936 --> 00:51:45,897 - We’ll blast our way out. - Yes! 631 00:51:45,980 --> 00:51:50,568 {y:i}(plays listless, melancholic piece) 632 00:51:53,405 --> 00:51:56,282 {y:i}(sighs) 633 00:52:15,176 --> 00:52:19,556 Monsieur Chopin, it sounds so like the raindrops, it’s quite magical, 634 00:52:19,639 --> 00:52:23,435 but I must ask you to produce a little sunshine for us instead. 635 00:52:23,518 --> 00:52:28,898 I’m about to go mad with the sound of horrid rain, day in, day out. 636 00:52:28,982 --> 00:52:32,777 Ordinarily I would just take a bromide and go to bed, 637 00:52:32,861 --> 00:52:37,115 but one has guests to entertain. 638 00:52:38,158 --> 00:52:41,536 Stupid, stupid rain! 639 00:52:44,873 --> 00:52:47,375 No need to entertain us, Your Excellency. 640 00:52:47,459 --> 00:52:50,253 Rather, it is our turn to entertain you. 641 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 642 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 643 00:52:50,337 --> 00:52:53,673 - I’ve just written a play for your theatre. - Oh, how gay! 644 00:52:53,757 --> 00:52:57,302 Eugene will paint the scenery. The maids can do the costumes. 645 00:52:57,385 --> 00:53:00,722 - Chopin will provide an accompaniment. - Delighted. 646 00:53:00,805 --> 00:53:05,685 We’ll play the parts and you will enjoy this tribute from your grateful geniuses. 647 00:53:06,728 --> 00:53:11,107 The style’s a bit precious. Do you mind if I rewrite it? 648 00:53:11,191 --> 00:53:15,612 - Not at all. We’ll have a horse sent in. - "(Marie giggles)" 649 00:53:15,695 --> 00:53:18,948 What is the subject of your play? 650 00:53:19,699 --> 00:53:24,621 - Noah and the flood. - "(laughs)" How appropriate! 651 00:53:35,715 --> 00:53:38,677 "(George)" Oh, this heat! Will it never end? 652 00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:43,223 Here sits my stupid lout of a husband. I don’t know what God sees in him. 653 00:53:43,306 --> 00:53:45,642 I hate those things. Can I see that? 654 00:53:45,725 --> 00:53:49,396 You don’t remember them because you didn’t write them! 655 00:53:49,479 --> 00:53:53,108 I can’t remember them because they’re shit! 656 00:53:53,191 --> 00:53:55,860 {y:i}(arguing) 657 00:54:07,163 --> 00:54:09,165 Ah, children. 658 00:54:09,249 --> 00:54:12,252 You are wanted in the theatre. Now! 659 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,603 There you are! 660 00:54:30,687 --> 00:54:34,649 You must hurry. Hurry up! Get into your costumes! 661 00:54:39,070 --> 00:54:43,408 I am as excited as if it were an opening night at the Comédie Française. 662 00:54:43,491 --> 00:54:48,371 - You rode over in all this rain! - A new play! This is a real treat! 663 00:54:48,455 --> 00:54:54,294 Our artists have been up all night making their costumes. It’s terribly exciting! 664 00:54:54,377 --> 00:54:56,463 You’re not acting in this piece? 665 00:54:56,546 --> 00:55:00,383 I have no stomach for farce. I am here to cue you. 666 00:55:00,467 --> 00:55:03,887 When I signal you like so, 667 00:55:03,970 --> 00:55:07,640 you must play something which suggests rain. 668 00:55:07,724 --> 00:55:10,518 I expect this will be very amusing. 669 00:55:10,602 --> 00:55:12,270 Yes. 670 00:55:12,354 --> 00:55:16,107 Alfred and George have really outdone themselves this time. 671 00:55:16,191 --> 00:55:20,779 Do you know, I think they are still in love with each other. 672 00:55:20,862 --> 00:55:22,572 {y:i}(knocking) 673 00:55:35,126 --> 00:55:36,795 - Clap. - Good evening. 674 00:55:36,878 --> 00:55:39,798 I am God. 675 00:55:39,881 --> 00:55:46,346 I have grown disappointed in my master creation, the human race. 676 00:55:46,429 --> 00:55:51,685 I endowed them with everything. The riches of the land, sea and air. 677 00:55:51,768 --> 00:55:55,105 And enough intelligence to worship me. 678 00:55:55,188 --> 00:55:57,857 But they have become arrogant and pampered. 679 00:55:57,941 --> 00:55:59,776 I shall destroy them. 680 00:55:59,859 --> 00:56:04,531 All except for one man and his family. 681 00:56:07,409 --> 00:56:09,786 "(Duchess)" Ah! 682 00:56:09,869 --> 00:56:13,248 This is my servant Noah 683 00:56:13,331 --> 00:56:16,960 and his wife Noette and their children. 684 00:56:17,043 --> 00:56:21,589 Into their hands do I place the future of mankind. 685 00:56:22,632 --> 00:56:26,302 Oh, this heat! Will it never rain? 686 00:56:26,386 --> 00:56:31,850 Here sits my stupid lout of a husband. I don’t know what God sees in him. 687 00:56:31,933 --> 00:56:37,731 Ah, who can express the despair of youth married to age? 688 00:56:37,814 --> 00:56:44,029 My husband is 600 years old while I am but 150! 689 00:56:47,407 --> 00:56:49,743 A dove! Ha! 690 00:56:49,826 --> 00:56:53,246 What luck! There will be good hunting today! 691 00:56:54,122 --> 00:56:56,249 Look! 692 00:56:58,001 --> 00:57:03,590 It has begun to rain! Stupid, stupid rain! 693 00:57:03,673 --> 00:57:07,427 Yes, I have sent the stupid rain to fall upon the earth 694 00:57:07,510 --> 00:57:10,805 and stupidity shall engulf all its inhabitants. 695 00:57:10,889 --> 00:57:12,724 Hurry now to the ark 696 00:57:12,807 --> 00:57:17,354 and fill it with two each of the creatures of land, sea and air. 697 00:57:17,437 --> 00:57:20,106 Lord, we have no need for animals. 698 00:57:20,190 --> 00:57:23,318 Art alone will save the world. 699 00:57:23,401 --> 00:57:27,238 We’ll need two of everything. Two poets, painters, musicians... 700 00:57:27,322 --> 00:57:32,410 They will not come - your conversation is not witty and you have no ideals. 701 00:57:32,494 --> 00:57:35,121 "(laughs)" True. 702 00:57:35,205 --> 00:57:39,584 But we shall also give them free food and lodging for 40 days and nights. 703 00:57:39,668 --> 00:57:42,921 We shall also need two playwrights, two composers, 704 00:57:43,004 --> 00:57:45,090 two makers of velvet flowers. 705 00:57:45,173 --> 00:57:46,716 Now you go too far. 706 00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,386 But it is an art, surely. 707 00:57:49,469 --> 00:57:54,933 Noette, come quickly! This stupid rain is up to our waists! 708 00:57:56,226 --> 00:58:00,605 We are now half-stupid! Soon we shall be completely stupid! 709 00:58:00,689 --> 00:58:04,567 No matter! We shall have geniuses surrounding us on the ark 710 00:58:04,651 --> 00:58:07,570 and so our stupidity shall be concealed. 711 00:58:08,488 --> 00:58:10,990 I want no further part of this production! 712 00:58:14,994 --> 00:58:18,039 Madame Sand, you insult our hosts. 713 00:58:18,123 --> 00:58:22,377 But... it’s in the spirit of fun, Monsieur Chopin. 714 00:58:22,460 --> 00:58:24,546 You disgrace our position as guests. 715 00:58:24,629 --> 00:58:28,800 I for one was not brought up to repay generosity with impertinence. 716 00:58:28,883 --> 00:58:33,054 You want everything dusted with sugar, like your music, Chopin? 717 00:58:33,138 --> 00:58:37,851 You should know art does not apologise! 718 00:58:54,826 --> 00:58:59,330 I shouldn’t grieve if I never saw another artist again in my whole life. 719 00:58:59,414 --> 00:59:02,500 At last you’ve come to your senses. 720 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 721 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 722 00:59:04,627 --> 00:59:06,087 Sorry. 723 00:59:06,171 --> 00:59:07,714 Ah. 724 01:00:06,690 --> 01:00:09,401 Do it the way you did it last time. 725 01:00:09,484 --> 01:00:12,987 Something that makes me look a little younger, please. 726 01:00:13,071 --> 01:00:15,365 You always look young to me. 727 01:00:15,448 --> 01:00:17,867 Perhaps I should chop it all off like you. 728 01:00:17,951 --> 01:00:20,704 Except that I’m not that crazy. 729 01:00:21,746 --> 01:00:25,000 Aurora, surely you can afford a dress by now. 730 01:00:26,042 --> 01:00:30,922 I’ve got used to trousers. They’re comfortable and I can move around. 731 01:00:31,006 --> 01:00:35,010 Can you feel that draught? It comes straight through that wall. 732 01:00:35,093 --> 01:00:39,597 I’ve told you before, Mama. Don’t stay here. 733 01:00:39,681 --> 01:00:42,934 - Come back with me to Nohant. - No, I want to be in Paris. 734 01:00:43,018 --> 01:00:45,520 Besides, you don’t need my company. 735 01:00:45,603 --> 01:00:49,232 You have that young man. What’s he called? 736 01:00:49,315 --> 01:00:51,776 Malle... Malle... 737 01:00:52,819 --> 01:00:56,614 - Mallefille. - Mallefille! 738 01:00:56,698 --> 01:01:00,910 - A very dashing fellow. - I wish he’d fall off the map. 739 01:01:00,994 --> 01:01:04,539 You’re always looking for something better, Aurora. 740 01:01:04,622 --> 01:01:07,208 If you’d stayed married, you’d have money. 741 01:01:07,292 --> 01:01:10,754 - You shouldn’t beg for scraps like I did. - I’m doing fine. 742 01:01:10,837 --> 01:01:16,301 The only money I ever saw was what your grandmother paid me not to see you. 743 01:01:16,384 --> 01:01:18,678 You didn’t have to take it. 744 01:01:20,263 --> 01:01:22,474 That’s rather nice. 745 01:01:23,975 --> 01:01:29,064 I think I’ll go dancing tonight, get out of this dungeon. 746 01:01:29,147 --> 01:01:34,319 - Can I be your partner? - Certainly not. I want a proper man. 747 01:01:34,402 --> 01:01:36,321 "(Liszt)" It’s only for six weeks. 748 01:01:36,404 --> 01:01:39,157 You only just got back. It’s humiliating! 749 01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,952 I know you. Six weeks means six months. 750 01:01:43,036 --> 01:01:48,166 My concerts raise money for the refugees. The floods this year were devastating. 751 01:01:48,249 --> 01:01:51,419 It’s my country, these are my people and they need me. 752 01:01:51,503 --> 01:01:54,130 Suddenly you’re the patron saint of Hungary! 753 01:01:54,214 --> 01:01:57,467 I couldn’t stand between you and mankind. 754 01:02:02,138 --> 01:02:04,599 I’ll return as soon as I can. 755 01:02:04,683 --> 01:02:08,395 My beautiful archangel. I’ll miss you. 756 01:02:18,071 --> 01:02:20,907 {y:i}(baby cries) 757 01:02:22,992 --> 01:02:27,622 - You made my milk come out. - Hadn’t you better feed the baby? 758 01:02:27,706 --> 01:02:29,541 I gave up everything for you. 759 01:02:29,624 --> 01:02:33,128 I disgraced myself for our dream, Franz. 760 01:02:33,211 --> 01:02:36,464 All I wanted was to kneel at your feet. 761 01:02:36,548 --> 01:02:39,843 - Don’t start, Marie. - Inspire you to write music. 762 01:02:39,926 --> 01:02:43,847 - I can’t get anything done here! - Nor anywhere! You’re impotent! 763 01:02:43,930 --> 01:02:46,725 - Musically, that is. - Get up! 764 01:02:46,808 --> 01:02:48,727 You’re a performing bear! 765 01:02:48,810 --> 01:02:53,189 Are the countess and Monsieur Liszt at home? 766 01:02:53,273 --> 01:02:55,191 I will see, madame. 767 01:02:57,027 --> 01:02:59,696 Is that the new baby? 768 01:02:59,779 --> 01:03:03,700 She’s adorable. Can I hold her? 769 01:03:06,286 --> 01:03:08,413 Darling. 770 01:03:15,795 --> 01:03:19,341 - Countess! - Hello, George. 771 01:03:19,424 --> 01:03:22,510 I just saw the new baby. She’s adorable. 772 01:03:22,594 --> 01:03:24,596 Was it a difficult labour? 773 01:03:24,679 --> 01:03:27,766 Very. What brings you to Paris? 774 01:03:27,849 --> 01:03:30,769 - My mother’s ill. - Oh. 775 01:03:30,852 --> 01:03:35,607 I’ve been so depressed. Seeing friends again will do me good. 776 01:03:35,690 --> 01:03:37,609 How’s Franz? 777 01:03:37,692 --> 01:03:39,944 He’s very well. 778 01:03:45,700 --> 01:03:48,036 Have you seen the charming Chopin? 779 01:03:48,870 --> 01:03:50,497 No. 780 01:03:51,539 --> 01:03:54,334 - Why do you ask? - Marie... 781 01:03:56,878 --> 01:03:59,422 I’ve tried so hard to put him out of my mind. 782 01:03:59,506 --> 01:04:01,633 You want him very badly. 783 01:04:01,716 --> 01:04:06,096 For a few heavenly minutes l thought I had him, too. 784 01:04:06,179 --> 01:04:09,349 In Angers, remember, I wore that dress. Our eyes met... 785 01:04:09,432 --> 01:04:13,103 You won’t get him with a dress. On the contrary, my dear. 786 01:04:13,186 --> 01:04:16,773 I know the man. He is not a man. He is a woman. 787 01:04:16,856 --> 01:04:19,651 He’s all emotion and refinement. 788 01:04:19,734 --> 01:04:22,445 He has very few defences. 789 01:04:22,529 --> 01:04:25,949 You must win him as a man wins a woman. 790 01:04:26,032 --> 01:04:28,368 If anyone can do it, you can, George. 791 01:04:28,451 --> 01:04:31,913 This is enlightening. Tell me more. 792 01:04:31,996 --> 01:04:34,249 How does a man pursue a woman? 793 01:04:34,332 --> 01:04:37,544 He flings himself at her feet, follows her everywhere. 794 01:04:37,627 --> 01:04:39,754 Wherever she turns, he is there, 795 01:04:39,838 --> 01:04:43,800 pouring into her ear only what she most wants to hear. 796 01:04:43,883 --> 01:04:46,094 His passion frightens her, 797 01:04:46,177 --> 01:04:49,889 but a woman will always bend toward a strong man, 798 01:04:49,973 --> 01:04:53,143 just as the vine stretches toward the wall. 799 01:04:53,935 --> 01:04:57,814 A woman is always on the point of abandoning herself anyhow. 800 01:04:57,897 --> 01:05:01,026 It only takes one firm push. 801 01:05:04,529 --> 01:05:07,490 You are sublime! 802 01:05:07,574 --> 01:05:09,701 A true friend. 803 01:05:43,568 --> 01:05:45,653 Ah! 804 01:05:45,737 --> 01:05:48,656 Yes. Those are marvellous. 805 01:05:48,740 --> 01:05:50,158 Yes. 806 01:05:51,284 --> 01:05:53,119 This is from... 807 01:05:53,745 --> 01:05:55,413 George Sand. 808 01:05:57,082 --> 01:05:59,501 Thank you. 809 01:06:02,003 --> 01:06:07,217 And I want something with a much thinner, narrower line. 810 01:06:09,010 --> 01:06:11,179 Yes, that is good, I think. 811 01:06:11,262 --> 01:06:15,308 In fact, you could make this even more... 812 01:06:35,203 --> 01:06:38,957 No, I don’t want this. Take it off, please. 813 01:06:45,922 --> 01:06:49,175 You are so good to escort me tonight. 814 01:06:49,259 --> 01:06:53,471 People shun me unless I am on the arm of someone respectable. 815 01:06:53,555 --> 01:06:58,184 I do not understand your concern. You will find nothing but friends at Eugene’s. 816 01:06:58,268 --> 01:07:00,353 Friends? Ha! 817 01:07:01,396 --> 01:07:03,773 - You are fatally sweet. - Hm. 818 01:07:05,817 --> 01:07:08,528 I wonder if George will be there. 819 01:07:08,611 --> 01:07:13,992 She has the most alarming way of turning up everywhere I go. 820 01:07:14,075 --> 01:07:17,370 I’m beginning to find it unnerving. 821 01:07:17,454 --> 01:07:19,873 She has a desperate purpose. 822 01:07:21,291 --> 01:07:23,418 What do you mean? 823 01:07:23,501 --> 01:07:28,715 A while ago she was out drinking and gambling - she leads a rough life - 824 01:07:28,798 --> 01:07:31,343 and she boasted that... 825 01:07:33,011 --> 01:07:38,266 Let’s not talk about it. I fear I am about to commit a tremendous faux pas. 826 01:07:44,522 --> 01:07:50,737 Socially she is too bizarre, but somehow I find her very compelling. 827 01:07:50,820 --> 01:07:53,281 I wonder if she is different when alone. 828 01:07:53,365 --> 01:07:55,992 She boasted that you are to be her next lover. 829 01:07:56,076 --> 01:07:59,037 Alfred was there. He’s still the love of her life. 830 01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:02,457 He put money on it you wouldn’t be seduced. 831 01:08:02,540 --> 01:08:07,504 Yes, they made you the object of a bet. 832 01:08:08,338 --> 01:08:11,883 Well, you know she’s eternally in need of money. 833 01:08:12,967 --> 01:08:15,136 Here we are. 834 01:08:25,105 --> 01:08:28,650 You have the most priceless expression on your face. 835 01:08:28,733 --> 01:08:31,820 There’s Mallefille. We can be sure George is here. 836 01:08:31,903 --> 01:08:34,531 He’s still following her like a tail. 837 01:08:34,614 --> 01:08:36,783 Darling, it’s so good to see you. 838 01:08:36,866 --> 01:08:40,870 - I didn’t know you’d be here. - I didn’t either. 839 01:08:40,954 --> 01:08:43,039 {y:i}(chatter and laughter) 840 01:08:54,592 --> 01:08:57,178 Chopin hates my paintings. 841 01:08:58,638 --> 01:09:03,393 No. Dear friend, I am just a musician. What do I know? 842 01:09:03,476 --> 01:09:06,271 They... They are very... 843 01:09:09,774 --> 01:09:11,776 - Are you ill? - No. 844 01:09:11,860 --> 01:09:14,946 I only wish to lie down for a minute. 845 01:09:16,239 --> 01:09:20,160 I have a room just to the side where you can relax. 846 01:09:22,662 --> 01:09:26,332 It’s all right, everyone. She’s going to be all right. 847 01:09:27,334 --> 01:09:31,171 - What do you suppose is wrong? - She’s probably pregnant again. 848 01:09:31,254 --> 01:09:32,464 There’s George. 849 01:09:34,215 --> 01:09:37,677 Excuse me. I have no desire to speak to that woman. 850 01:09:44,476 --> 01:09:47,354 Chopinsky! You hiding from George too? 851 01:09:49,898 --> 01:09:51,733 You would know the reason. 852 01:09:51,816 --> 01:09:55,737 I don’t want to spoil a good drunken stupor by imagining your reason. 853 01:09:55,820 --> 01:09:59,449 Ever since the latest chapter of her egregious memoir was published, 854 01:09:59,532 --> 01:10:01,743 I can hardly show my face anywhere. 855 01:10:01,826 --> 01:10:05,705 Did you read her latest novel? It’s not literature, it’s drainage. 856 01:10:06,456 --> 01:10:09,501 She only wrote good books when she was with me. 857 01:10:09,584 --> 01:10:14,214 Every morning while she was sleeping I’d cross out half her adjectives. 858 01:10:14,297 --> 01:10:16,633 Hercules could not have done it. 859 01:10:17,509 --> 01:10:22,347 He’d have rather cleaned out the bloody stables. 860 01:10:23,390 --> 01:10:25,350 Know what’s funny? 861 01:10:26,434 --> 01:10:28,561 - She doesn’t come. - Oh. 862 01:10:28,645 --> 01:10:31,856 She makes a lot of pretty noise, but she can’t come. 863 01:10:31,940 --> 01:10:35,944 Like her books - lovesick posturing and pretence for quick money. 864 01:10:36,027 --> 01:10:38,905 Oh, what a whore she is. 865 01:10:38,988 --> 01:10:42,117 This is despicable. You are drunk. 866 01:10:43,535 --> 01:10:48,498 My only regret is that I didn’t put 20 francs on the mantelpiece the first time. 867 01:10:48,581 --> 01:10:50,834 I can assure you, monsieur, 868 01:10:50,917 --> 01:10:54,337 that Madame Sand will gain no money from you on my account. 869 01:10:54,421 --> 01:10:55,630 Hm? 870 01:10:58,633 --> 01:11:02,095 {y:i}(jaunty music) 871 01:11:04,264 --> 01:11:06,808 Eugene! 872 01:11:06,891 --> 01:11:10,061 Where’s angel fingers? I’ve lost him. 873 01:11:10,145 --> 01:11:13,189 - He’s taking the Countess d’Agoult home. - Oh. 874 01:11:16,067 --> 01:11:18,111 If you plan to invade Poland, 875 01:11:18,194 --> 01:11:21,948 you should know that the countess has placed her troops at the border. 876 01:11:22,032 --> 01:11:23,742 What are you talking about? 877 01:11:23,825 --> 01:11:28,246 - I read a love letter she wrote to him. - What letter? What did it say? 878 01:11:28,329 --> 01:11:30,206 Marie’s jealous of you. 879 01:11:30,290 --> 01:11:34,961 She couldn’t stand it if you got a better composer than hers. 880 01:11:36,254 --> 01:11:40,550 I don’t know why I dress up. Nothing here but old men. 881 01:11:40,633 --> 01:11:43,845 You should bring that Mallefille fellow with you. 882 01:11:43,928 --> 01:11:49,351 - He’s at Nohant tutoring the children. - So you took my advice and kept him. 883 01:11:49,434 --> 01:11:52,562 No. It’s all over with us. 884 01:11:52,645 --> 01:11:55,648 - What does he say to that? - Oh... 885 01:11:55,732 --> 01:11:59,444 He threatens to kill me and himself if I leave him. 886 01:11:59,527 --> 01:12:02,322 He’s been reading too many of your books! 887 01:12:02,405 --> 01:12:05,742 - Let’s stop here. - Mama, it is too cold for you here. 888 01:12:05,825 --> 01:12:08,411 No, it’s a lovely day. 889 01:12:14,334 --> 01:12:19,214 Why should the last thing I see be a priest with the face of a dustbin? 890 01:12:19,297 --> 01:12:21,633 I’m not afraid to stand before my maker. 891 01:12:21,716 --> 01:12:27,013 God can accuse me of many things, but I defy him to say I haven’t loved him. 892 01:12:27,097 --> 01:12:32,310 Yes. Yes, that’s pretty. Now the ribbons, hm? 893 01:12:32,394 --> 01:12:34,354 No, it’s too heavy. 894 01:12:36,314 --> 01:12:39,317 Yes, in a bow. 895 01:12:39,401 --> 01:12:41,361 {y:i}(sighs) 896 01:12:41,444 --> 01:12:43,530 So hot. 897 01:12:44,614 --> 01:12:48,201 Will you be going back to Nohant? 898 01:12:48,284 --> 01:12:50,036 Yes, Mama. 899 01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,706 I want you to take me with you. 900 01:12:53,790 --> 01:12:57,794 - You always hated it there. - No, I didn’t. 901 01:12:57,877 --> 01:12:59,754 I felt excluded, that’s all. 902 01:13:00,797 --> 01:13:03,341 I never excluded you. 903 01:13:03,425 --> 01:13:05,176 I needed you. 904 01:13:05,260 --> 01:13:10,223 You never needed anybody. Always running off alone in the woods. 905 01:13:10,306 --> 01:13:14,227 All the servants out calling “Aurora!” 906 01:13:15,770 --> 01:13:17,856 Aurora? 907 01:13:18,898 --> 01:13:21,776 - Where did you go? - In the woods? 908 01:13:22,944 --> 01:13:26,698 I wasn’t going anywhere. I was just running. 909 01:13:29,617 --> 01:13:32,579 Mama? Mama? 910 01:13:35,457 --> 01:13:40,003 {y:i}(étude, played with unrelenting {y:i}vigour and harshness) 911 01:13:56,895 --> 01:14:02,734 Good. Yes, you’ve learned a great many notes, Your Highness. 912 01:14:02,817 --> 01:14:08,531 I think it’s just a question of joining them together... legato. 913 01:14:08,615 --> 01:14:12,869 Simplicity is the hardest thing. It’s the final thing. 914 01:14:14,204 --> 01:14:16,331 Well, er... 915 01:14:16,414 --> 01:14:18,875 - Next week, then? - Yes. 916 01:14:28,718 --> 01:14:31,137 Good day, Your Highness. 917 01:14:33,264 --> 01:14:36,017 Monsieur, Baroness Dudevant is here. 918 01:14:36,851 --> 01:14:39,562 Baroness Dudevant? 919 01:14:39,646 --> 01:14:41,731 I don’t think I know her. 920 01:14:43,525 --> 01:14:45,860 Well, send her in. 921 01:14:53,827 --> 01:14:56,788 This is the first time I’ve found a use for my title. 922 01:14:56,871 --> 01:14:58,498 You are incredible! 923 01:14:58,581 --> 01:15:01,459 I only need a minute of your time, then I’ll go. 924 01:15:04,379 --> 01:15:08,258 Very well. I’ll give you exactly one minute. 925 01:15:12,887 --> 01:15:14,931 I am leaving Pa... 926 01:15:15,015 --> 01:15:17,809 {y:i}(plays “Minute Waltz”) 927 01:15:25,150 --> 01:15:27,610 I am leaving Paris. 928 01:15:27,694 --> 01:15:31,364 You can’t have failed to notice I’ve been pursuing you. 929 01:15:32,741 --> 01:15:34,409 I’m in love with you. 930 01:15:39,456 --> 01:15:41,666 I don’t know you at all... 931 01:15:48,715 --> 01:15:50,383 {y:i}(stops playing) 932 01:15:54,846 --> 01:15:59,434 I don’t know you at all, but I know this: 933 01:16:00,477 --> 01:16:02,645 you are great. 934 01:16:04,356 --> 01:16:07,859 You have made a single instrument speak the language of God. 935 01:16:07,942 --> 01:16:11,738 And I wanted to learn it from your lips, you see. 936 01:16:11,821 --> 01:16:14,366 Anyway, you... 937 01:16:14,449 --> 01:16:16,242 You don’t want me and... 938 01:16:16,326 --> 01:16:20,789 it’s become complicated, like everything between two people. 939 01:16:20,872 --> 01:16:24,876 It seems to me a pity, because it could have been so simple. 940 01:16:24,959 --> 01:16:27,128 I’m begging you to give this up. 941 01:16:29,964 --> 01:16:34,469 I know that you’re in need, with your children and your mother’s funeral. 942 01:16:34,552 --> 01:16:37,764 Why don’t you take this? Then you can call off the bet. 943 01:16:37,847 --> 01:16:39,391 What bet? 944 01:16:39,474 --> 01:16:44,354 I know you have sworn to seduce me, and at this rate you will succeed, so... 945 01:16:44,437 --> 01:16:47,857 That’s a disgusting lie! Who told you that? Marie? 946 01:16:47,941 --> 01:16:50,151 I have no reason to doubt her. 947 01:16:50,235 --> 01:16:54,030 Once I wrote you a letter and asked her to deliver it. 948 01:16:54,114 --> 01:16:56,825 I found out that she signed her own name to it! 949 01:16:56,908 --> 01:16:59,911 Surely you realise she wants you for herself? 950 01:17:02,122 --> 01:17:05,417 - Dear lady, please... - Don’t worry, I’m going! 951 01:17:06,876 --> 01:17:08,753 She’s right. We’re not suited. 952 01:17:08,837 --> 01:17:12,132 I’m not full of virtues and noble qualities. 953 01:17:12,215 --> 01:17:14,592 I love, that is all. 954 01:17:14,676 --> 01:17:20,056 But I love strongly, exclusively, steadfastly. 955 01:17:43,538 --> 01:17:45,999 - You remember? {y:i}- (children laugh) 956 01:17:47,709 --> 01:17:50,295 {y:i}(knock at door) 957 01:17:50,378 --> 01:17:53,548 "- (Mallefille)" George? {y:i}- (lock rattles) 958 01:18:35,507 --> 01:18:38,677 - Is madame at home, please? - Yes, monsieur. 959 01:18:46,768 --> 01:18:50,897 - Madame? Please excuse me. - Sophie! 960 01:18:51,856 --> 01:18:55,735 There’s no more. I’m empty. That’s the last you’ll get from me. 961 01:18:55,819 --> 01:18:59,364 - I will return another time. - Don’t go. 962 01:19:00,407 --> 01:19:02,909 You haven’t visited me for a long time. 963 01:19:02,992 --> 01:19:05,787 Forgive me. My health has been hateful. 964 01:19:05,870 --> 01:19:07,455 Franz is away. 965 01:19:07,539 --> 01:19:12,127 All the royal houses of Europe have invited him to play, it seems. Even Russia. 966 01:19:12,210 --> 01:19:15,755 Like most peasants, he has a weakness for crowned heads. 967 01:19:16,423 --> 01:19:18,717 You may turn around. 968 01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:20,760 Please sit. 969 01:19:21,803 --> 01:19:23,888 Thank you. 970 01:19:26,307 --> 01:19:29,519 Do you hear anything from Madame Sand? 971 01:19:29,602 --> 01:19:33,606 - Will she be coming to Paris this year? - I am no longer her friend. 972 01:19:33,690 --> 01:19:37,235 She severed herself from Franz and me with no explanation. 973 01:19:37,318 --> 01:19:40,697 - You have her latest book, I see. - Yes. 974 01:19:40,780 --> 01:19:44,117 - Have you read it? - I wouldn’t touch such trash. 975 01:19:46,953 --> 01:19:49,664 Madame, last summer you gave me a letter. 976 01:19:50,874 --> 01:19:52,959 Yes, I took a chance... 977 01:19:53,043 --> 01:19:56,212 you would forgive me speaking the truth of my heart. 978 01:19:56,296 --> 01:19:58,465 In fact, I was appalled. 979 01:19:58,548 --> 01:20:02,802 But I could not reject it entirely. 980 01:20:02,886 --> 01:20:06,639 Something touched me. A phrase, like a tune one can’t forget. 981 01:20:06,723 --> 01:20:10,352 - Shall I remind you what you wrote? - Do. 982 01:20:15,357 --> 01:20:18,818 ”I am not full of virtues and noble qualities.” 983 01:20:18,902 --> 01:20:20,695 ”I love, that is all.” 984 01:20:20,779 --> 01:20:24,908 ”But I love strongly, exclusively, steadfastly.” 985 01:20:25,950 --> 01:20:28,495 Imagine my surprise when I found that here. 986 01:20:29,746 --> 01:20:32,457 I see I must confess. 987 01:20:33,750 --> 01:20:36,503 When I wrote you that letter, 988 01:20:36,586 --> 01:20:39,506 my tender feelings for you so overpowered me 989 01:20:39,589 --> 01:20:43,802 I could not find words of clarity and persuasion. 990 01:20:43,885 --> 01:20:48,515 I was desperate. I looked around me for help. 991 01:20:48,598 --> 01:20:51,226 I saw George’s book and stole what I needed. 992 01:20:51,309 --> 01:20:54,020 But a year ago this book had not been published. 993 01:20:55,063 --> 01:20:57,565 Or even written, I suspect. 994 01:20:59,109 --> 01:21:03,029 I think I’ve found the truth, for which I thank you, 995 01:21:03,113 --> 01:21:05,532 and I owe Madame Sand an apology. 996 01:21:05,615 --> 01:21:08,326 Perhaps now she and I can become friends. 997 01:21:08,410 --> 01:21:11,121 Don’t be content with just a little truth. 998 01:21:11,204 --> 01:21:15,875 George will never be content with just your friendship. She wants your manhood. 999 01:21:15,959 --> 01:21:19,170 Your virtue, your genius, your soul. 1000 01:21:19,254 --> 01:21:22,173 Listen to me! That woman is a graveyard! 1001 01:21:22,257 --> 01:21:24,509 But I can help you. 1002 01:21:24,592 --> 01:21:26,636 I can inspire you. 1003 01:21:29,055 --> 01:21:32,726 This is the novel and that’s the last chapter of the memoir. 1004 01:21:39,107 --> 01:21:43,486 - It’s a bit on the thin side. - So’s my life. 1005 01:21:50,535 --> 01:21:53,747 - Do you know of a good tutor? - I’ll ask around. 1006 01:21:53,830 --> 01:21:57,834 By the way, Mr Chopin came to see me last week. 1007 01:21:57,917 --> 01:22:01,629 He asked if you would call on him when you were in town. 1008 01:22:02,213 --> 01:22:06,051 Mmm! Do I hear a duet? 1009 01:22:06,134 --> 01:22:09,596 Perhaps this is not the last chapter, eh? 1010 01:22:09,679 --> 01:22:12,349 Give me my money, you jackal! 1011 01:22:12,682 --> 01:22:15,060 Madame Aurora Dudevant. 1012 01:22:21,983 --> 01:22:24,819 Aurora is the name I was born with. 1013 01:22:25,737 --> 01:22:29,824 Aurora. What a lovely name. 1014 01:22:31,785 --> 01:22:33,703 The dawn. 1015 01:22:33,787 --> 01:22:37,290 {y:i}(plays “Fantasie-Impromptu in C minor”) 1016 01:23:22,711 --> 01:23:24,796 {y:i}(sighs) 1017 01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,139 - I’m not happy with it. - Why? 1018 01:23:34,222 --> 01:23:39,394 Because a perfect impromptu should seem spontaneous and free. 1019 01:23:39,477 --> 01:23:43,690 No-one should be able to guess at the desperate calculation behind it. 1020 01:23:43,773 --> 01:23:47,360 I’ve been struggling with this for so long. 1021 01:23:47,444 --> 01:23:50,488 It’s like being tangled in a net. I feel... 1022 01:23:50,572 --> 01:23:53,575 I have terrible dreams at night. 1023 01:23:53,658 --> 01:23:58,455 I think if I ever finish it, then it will have finished me. 1024 01:24:03,835 --> 01:24:07,339 You must suffer tortures 1025 01:24:07,422 --> 01:24:11,468 to find the perfect word that will make it all seem effortless. 1026 01:24:12,594 --> 01:24:17,265 Me? Suffer for art? You must be joking. 1027 01:24:17,349 --> 01:24:20,226 I suffer quite enough for life. 1028 01:24:21,269 --> 01:24:25,648 I have no hope to be perfect. I simply pump out pages for money. 1029 01:24:25,732 --> 01:24:29,694 No, your books are admirable. I’ve been reading them. 1030 01:24:29,778 --> 01:24:32,030 Have you? 1031 01:24:33,531 --> 01:24:35,617 "(George)" Ah. 1032 01:24:40,038 --> 01:24:43,041 Is this your family? 1033 01:24:43,124 --> 01:24:45,543 No, that’s my fiancée. 1034 01:24:45,627 --> 01:24:48,755 Well, we are no longer engaged. 1035 01:24:48,838 --> 01:24:53,301 Her family didn’t feel that I was a very good risk for a husband. 1036 01:24:53,385 --> 01:24:55,637 No-one expects me to live very long. 1037 01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:58,890 - Balls! - I beg your pardon? 1038 01:25:00,850 --> 01:25:05,397 Look, I don’t believe you’re ill at all. 1039 01:25:05,480 --> 01:25:08,274 You just need more strength. 1040 01:25:08,358 --> 01:25:10,068 Take mine. 1041 01:25:11,486 --> 01:25:13,029 Really. 1042 01:25:14,155 --> 01:25:16,574 I have too much of it. 1043 01:25:40,432 --> 01:25:42,767 - No. - Yes. I want you so. 1044 01:25:42,851 --> 01:25:44,394 - No. - Oh! 1045 01:25:46,646 --> 01:25:48,982 Forgive me. 1046 01:25:55,947 --> 01:25:57,574 I... 1047 01:25:57,657 --> 01:26:02,454 fear that we would harm the memory of our beautiful afternoon. 1048 01:26:03,288 --> 01:26:06,332 Yes. Yes, of course. 1049 01:26:08,626 --> 01:26:10,295 All right. 1050 01:26:15,091 --> 01:26:17,552 Who’s taught you to be afraid? 1051 01:26:17,635 --> 01:26:20,180 No wonder you’re choking to death. 1052 01:26:20,263 --> 01:26:23,641 Someone’s got to show you how to breathe. 1053 01:26:23,725 --> 01:26:27,062 Come on. Come on. 1054 01:26:27,145 --> 01:26:30,940 You need light and air. You need to move about. 1055 01:26:31,024 --> 01:26:34,736 Why stay inside wrestling with perfection? 1056 01:26:34,819 --> 01:26:38,573 Come outside! Perfection is flowing all around you! 1057 01:26:38,656 --> 01:26:40,784 - "(Mallefille)" George! - No! 1058 01:26:46,915 --> 01:26:48,708 Run, Chopin! 1059 01:26:48,792 --> 01:26:51,336 - Excuse me? - Yes. 1060 01:26:53,254 --> 01:26:55,715 I won’t kill you here as you deserve. 1061 01:26:55,799 --> 01:26:58,593 I will kill you honourably at dawn tomorrow. 1062 01:26:58,677 --> 01:27:01,012 With any weapon you prefer. 1063 01:27:02,180 --> 01:27:04,099 You wish to fight me? 1064 01:27:05,392 --> 01:27:08,520 You have stolen my lady’s affections. 1065 01:27:08,603 --> 01:27:12,273 - I wish the chance to avenge myself. - "(George)" Mallefille! 1066 01:27:13,566 --> 01:27:15,485 No! 1067 01:27:15,568 --> 01:27:17,987 Very well, monsieur. 1068 01:27:18,071 --> 01:27:20,323 I will give you the opportunity. 1069 01:27:20,407 --> 01:27:23,118 But not the prize. 1070 01:27:33,086 --> 01:27:36,464 Let’s go back. This is ridiculous. 1071 01:27:36,548 --> 01:27:43,346 What, run for my hole like a rabbit? I could never respect myself afterwards. 1072 01:27:43,430 --> 01:27:45,390 Nor could you, Aurora. 1073 01:27:45,473 --> 01:27:49,811 I’m going to fight at dawn for the right to see another dawn. 1074 01:27:51,438 --> 01:27:54,232 - Eugene. - It’s too late. 1075 01:27:54,315 --> 01:27:57,193 He’s in love. 1076 01:27:57,277 --> 01:27:59,696 Monsieur. Madame. 1077 01:27:59,779 --> 01:28:02,365 Welcome. 1078 01:28:03,491 --> 01:28:06,411 The doctor is here. These are my seconds. 1079 01:28:07,620 --> 01:28:10,457 The sun is rising. Shall we go? 1080 01:28:10,540 --> 01:28:12,083 Please. 1081 01:28:21,676 --> 01:28:26,014 I wonder... Is there by any chance a cleaner one? 1082 01:28:31,311 --> 01:28:36,524 - Don’t hurt him. Aim at the clouds. - He is not much more than a cloud. 1083 01:28:36,608 --> 01:28:39,402 I’ll come back to you. I’ll never see him again. 1084 01:28:39,486 --> 01:28:41,696 Just stop these silly heroics. 1085 01:28:41,780 --> 01:28:45,325 You have placed me in an impossible position. 1086 01:28:45,408 --> 01:28:47,786 All I have left is a show of strength. 1087 01:28:47,869 --> 01:28:51,206 Besides, women like that sort of thing. 1088 01:28:51,998 --> 01:28:53,958 Are you insane? 1089 01:28:58,213 --> 01:29:00,090 Pretty dress. 1090 01:29:08,932 --> 01:29:11,601 Are you ready, gentlemen? 1091 01:29:21,778 --> 01:29:24,739 And... one. 1092 01:29:24,823 --> 01:29:26,199 Two. 1093 01:29:26,282 --> 01:29:27,867 Three. 1094 01:29:27,951 --> 01:29:29,452 Four. 1095 01:29:29,536 --> 01:29:31,079 Five. 1096 01:29:31,162 --> 01:29:32,956 Six. 1097 01:29:33,039 --> 01:29:35,542 Seven. Eight. 1098 01:29:35,625 --> 01:29:37,919 Nine. Ten. 1099 01:29:41,881 --> 01:29:44,676 - This man has fainted! - That man is wounded. 1100 01:29:44,759 --> 01:29:46,886 Too bad! Help us lift him. 1101 01:29:56,688 --> 01:29:58,314 Wait! 1102 01:29:58,398 --> 01:30:00,650 Come back! 1103 01:30:00,734 --> 01:30:03,236 I knew it! It’s the frail one! 1104 01:30:07,073 --> 01:30:10,785 Oh, my God! Is he dead? 1105 01:30:10,869 --> 01:30:13,038 I hope the damp hasn’t killed him. 1106 01:30:13,121 --> 01:30:16,833 - Show us your finest room. - I have one ready. 1107 01:30:36,978 --> 01:30:41,107 Give him milk when he wakes up. Try not to excite him. 1108 01:30:41,191 --> 01:30:43,735 Thank you, Doctor. 1109 01:30:43,818 --> 01:30:47,113 And now you’d best have a look at this rump. 1110 01:30:48,907 --> 01:30:51,785 - You’ve humiliated me. - Good. 1111 01:30:51,868 --> 01:30:54,662 You’ll be too embarrassed to speak of it. 1112 01:30:54,746 --> 01:30:57,248 No-one must know what’s happened. 1113 01:30:57,332 --> 01:30:59,876 - Gentlemen, do I have your word? - Yes. 1114 01:30:59,959 --> 01:31:02,003 And you, monsieur? 1115 01:31:02,087 --> 01:31:05,965 After all the time we spent together, how could you? 1116 01:31:06,049 --> 01:31:08,051 In cold blood? 1117 01:31:08,134 --> 01:31:12,389 It was easy. You’re a menace to the future of art. 1118 01:31:14,474 --> 01:31:17,227 Goodbye. 1119 01:31:19,437 --> 01:31:22,649 Remember what the doctor said. Try not to excite him. 1120 01:31:22,732 --> 01:31:26,027 - He needs peace. - I know what he needs. 1121 01:31:26,111 --> 01:31:29,155 Go home. Paint something dead. 1122 01:31:44,963 --> 01:31:47,549 - Aurora? - Yes. 1123 01:31:56,349 --> 01:31:58,643 I feel very weak. 1124 01:31:59,811 --> 01:32:03,273 - Have I been wounded? - No. 1125 01:32:03,356 --> 01:32:07,861 No. On the contrary, you wounded him. 1126 01:32:07,944 --> 01:32:12,115 In his shooting arm, too. He never even had time to fire. 1127 01:32:12,198 --> 01:32:14,367 It was a brilliant fight. 1128 01:32:15,910 --> 01:32:18,246 And then I fell? 1129 01:32:19,289 --> 01:32:22,792 I suppose I swooned away like a woman. 1130 01:32:23,960 --> 01:32:29,215 You were overcome by... the violence of what you’d done. 1131 01:32:29,299 --> 01:32:32,427 You’re a sensitive man. 1132 01:32:32,510 --> 01:32:34,554 It was very hard. 1133 01:32:35,597 --> 01:32:39,392 - I remember the gun was shaking so. - You see? 1134 01:32:39,476 --> 01:32:43,938 You’re stronger than you knew. And I thought you needed me. 1135 01:32:45,148 --> 01:32:47,400 But I do need you. 1136 01:33:03,667 --> 01:33:05,752 Drink your milk. 1137 01:33:10,715 --> 01:33:12,717 Where are the others? 1138 01:33:12,801 --> 01:33:15,303 They’ve gone. 1139 01:33:15,387 --> 01:33:17,889 - Gone? - Mm-hm. 1140 01:33:23,895 --> 01:33:26,231 But how will we get back to Paris? 1141 01:33:27,273 --> 01:33:31,236 Why don’t we stay here for a few days? It’s peaceful. 1142 01:33:31,319 --> 01:33:33,154 It’s discreet. 1143 01:33:35,782 --> 01:33:37,075 Chopin. 1144 01:33:40,453 --> 01:33:43,289 Do you love me? 1145 01:33:44,374 --> 01:33:46,543 God help me, I do. 1146 01:33:47,669 --> 01:33:49,504 You are superb. 1147 01:34:04,894 --> 01:34:07,397 Don’t. 1148 01:34:07,480 --> 01:34:09,566 What is wrong? 1149 01:34:13,987 --> 01:34:16,322 I’m frightened. 1150 01:34:18,450 --> 01:34:20,535 Of me? 1151 01:34:22,954 --> 01:34:27,751 Certain acts are unseemly. They are unsuitable. 1152 01:34:30,795 --> 01:34:32,714 Chopin. 1153 01:34:35,842 --> 01:34:38,386 It’s an act of love. 1154 01:34:40,847 --> 01:34:43,850 It’s the divine mystery itself. 1155 01:34:43,933 --> 01:34:47,520 You must think I’m inexperienced, but I assure you, 1156 01:34:49,397 --> 01:34:54,235 I was baptised in the brothels of Paris when I first arrived. 1157 01:34:56,613 --> 01:34:58,740 But, um... 1158 01:35:00,617 --> 01:35:03,078 I’m so ill, 1159 01:35:04,245 --> 01:35:07,415 and I have been for such a long time, 1160 01:35:07,499 --> 01:35:12,545 and my body is such a great disappointment to me 1161 01:35:12,629 --> 01:35:17,801 that I’ve already said goodbye to it. I’m not really in it any more. 1162 01:35:17,884 --> 01:35:22,972 I’m just happier floating about in music. 1163 01:35:23,056 --> 01:35:26,726 And if I should come back 1164 01:35:26,810 --> 01:35:30,855 inside this miserable collection of bones, 1165 01:35:30,939 --> 01:35:36,236 then I am afraid that it would probably collapse altogether. 1166 01:35:40,281 --> 01:35:42,367 Forgive me. 1167 01:35:43,702 --> 01:35:46,162 - I am ashamed. - No, no. 1168 01:35:48,748 --> 01:35:51,584 Forgive me. 1169 01:35:51,668 --> 01:35:53,920 I’m a fraud, you know. 1170 01:35:54,671 --> 01:35:59,175 Divine mystery! I’ve never experienced that with anyone. 1171 01:36:01,511 --> 01:36:05,181 I’ve always had disastrous relationships. 1172 01:36:06,891 --> 01:36:10,854 - I’ve never managed to stay in love. - Why? 1173 01:36:10,937 --> 01:36:13,023 I don’t know. 1174 01:36:15,942 --> 01:36:18,278 I want too much. 1175 01:36:20,780 --> 01:36:22,907 I think. 1176 01:36:24,117 --> 01:36:26,453 Except when I hear you play. 1177 01:36:27,704 --> 01:36:30,373 And when I’m around you. 1178 01:36:33,460 --> 01:36:34,836 Look... 1179 01:36:38,548 --> 01:36:41,676 I simply want to be with you. 1180 01:36:43,720 --> 01:36:46,431 The rest doesn’t matter. Really. 1181 01:36:49,392 --> 01:36:54,939 Do you think we could just... be together? 1182 01:36:56,191 --> 01:36:57,859 Like this? 1183 01:36:58,902 --> 01:37:01,196 Yes. Yes. 1184 01:37:04,407 --> 01:37:07,035 Well, I have at last heard “yes”. 1185 01:37:08,995 --> 01:37:11,956 So... that’s enough. 1186 01:37:13,124 --> 01:37:15,543 And I’m happy. 1187 01:37:23,510 --> 01:37:26,096 So we’ll go back to Paris. 1188 01:39:57,580 --> 01:39:59,958 {y:i}(Liszt and Marie arguing) 1189 01:40:00,041 --> 01:40:02,293 {y:i}(baby screams) 1190 01:40:05,255 --> 01:40:06,297 Sophie! 1191 01:40:06,381 --> 01:40:10,719 Will you please take them for a walk? Throw them in the Seine! I don’t care! 1192 01:40:12,470 --> 01:40:16,933 So George has caught another butterfly. Why shouldn’t he fall in love with her? 1193 01:40:17,017 --> 01:40:20,478 He hasn’t fallen in love. He has succumbed to her. 1194 01:40:20,562 --> 01:40:25,692 The poor man was simply standing there and was crushed under her wheels. 1195 01:40:26,568 --> 01:40:28,570 It’s not too late. 1196 01:40:28,653 --> 01:40:32,323 Franz, you must go over at once and talk to him. 1197 01:40:33,366 --> 01:40:35,243 Please. 1198 01:40:48,214 --> 01:40:51,301 Excellent. Thank you. Show me. 1199 01:40:52,344 --> 01:40:56,639 That is perfect. Thank Monsieur Villon for me. We can be off. 1200 01:40:58,725 --> 01:41:03,229 Franz. I... I didn’t know you were back. 1201 01:41:04,939 --> 01:41:08,276 - Countess. - You’re going out? 1202 01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:10,695 Er, yes, I’m just leaving. 1203 01:41:10,779 --> 01:41:13,198 The "Études" are published. I didn’t know. 1204 01:41:13,281 --> 01:41:15,367 Let’s have a listen. 1205 01:41:15,450 --> 01:41:19,996 Could you take those downstairs for me? And this trunk has to go. 1206 01:41:20,080 --> 01:41:21,956 {y:i}(starts playing) 1207 01:41:22,582 --> 01:41:25,377 Franz, Chopin’s going out. 1208 01:41:28,755 --> 01:41:31,591 We’ll come with you so we can talk. 1209 01:41:34,219 --> 01:41:36,971 I’m going to meet Madame Sand. 1210 01:41:39,057 --> 01:41:41,935 - This is wonderful! - You play it better than I. 1211 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 1212 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 1213 01:41:42,644 --> 01:41:45,313 You’re going on a trip? 1214 01:41:45,397 --> 01:41:46,564 Franz! 1215 01:41:47,565 --> 01:41:50,568 Chopin is going to meet Madame Sand. 1216 01:41:50,652 --> 01:41:54,948 Franz thinks you’re making a mistake. He’s in a position to caution you. 1217 01:41:55,031 --> 01:41:57,909 He once had his own experience with George. 1218 01:41:57,992 --> 01:42:01,830 - Marie, I told you nothing happened. - So you love to claim. 1219 01:42:01,913 --> 01:42:05,000 You must listen to him, because, one way or another, 1220 01:42:05,083 --> 01:42:08,044 Franz knows exactly who she is. 1221 01:42:08,128 --> 01:42:10,630 "(George)" I’ve always wanted to know. 1222 01:42:15,677 --> 01:42:20,432 See here, darling. Chopin has dedicated the "Études" to you. 1223 01:42:21,933 --> 01:42:24,144 To me? 1224 01:42:27,147 --> 01:42:32,110 It is a tremendous honour. What did you do to deserve it, I wonder? 1225 01:42:34,612 --> 01:42:38,366 Marie is an angel of inspiration. 1226 01:42:41,828 --> 01:42:44,205 It’s good to see you, Franz. 1227 01:42:44,289 --> 01:42:47,417 You should come back to Paris more often. 1228 01:42:47,500 --> 01:42:51,212 We all get into such trouble when you’re away. 1229 01:42:55,467 --> 01:42:57,510 Where are you taking him? 1230 01:42:57,594 --> 01:43:02,474 For a long time now I have blamed myself for your unhappiness and suffering. 1231 01:43:03,516 --> 01:43:06,519 And when I think of the music I might have written 1232 01:43:06,603 --> 01:43:10,523 if not for the guilt which has murdered my vitality all these years! 1233 01:43:12,150 --> 01:43:16,237 But Chopin has seen a happier side of you, it seems. 1234 01:43:17,364 --> 01:43:24,496 You can’t think that I... that he and I were lovers? 1235 01:43:26,664 --> 01:43:30,627 I’m not sure it was a good idea of yours dedicating the "Études" to her. 1236 01:43:30,710 --> 01:43:33,505 Why not? We are in love. 1237 01:43:33,588 --> 01:43:36,299 We can afford to be generous. 1238 01:43:38,426 --> 01:43:41,721 They’re running away together! It’s a catastrophe! 1239 01:43:41,805 --> 01:43:45,392 - It sounds like fun to me. - Oh, I see. 1240 01:43:45,475 --> 01:43:47,560 Ever the wily peasant you are. 1241 01:43:47,644 --> 01:43:52,607 With Chopin out of Paris, your music no longer suffers the comparison! 1242 01:43:58,363 --> 01:44:02,534 They say Majorca is the most magical island in the world. 1243 01:44:02,617 --> 01:44:06,538 The sun will bake that silly cough out of your lungs in no time. 1244 01:44:07,247 --> 01:44:09,916 Think of it! Spain! 1245 01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:12,293 Pirates! 1246 01:44:12,377 --> 01:44:14,713 Pirates! 1247 01:44:23,638 --> 01:44:26,516 Don’t you understand? She’ll kill him! 1248 01:44:26,599 --> 01:44:28,226 She’ll kill him! 1249 01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:31,646 "(Chopin)" May we shut this, please? 1250 01:44:33,064 --> 01:44:35,608 No, darling, the air is good for you. 1251 01:44:37,318 --> 01:44:39,404 {y:i}(Chopin coughs) 1252 01:47:37,374 --> 01:47:40,627 Visiontext Subtitles: Gill Parrott 1253 01:47:41,544 --> 01:47:43,630 ENHOH