1 00:03:28,618 --> 00:03:31,218 - In the first days of December 1815, 2 00:03:31,778 --> 00:03:34,778 about an hour before sunset, 3 00:03:34,938 --> 00:03:36,697 a man entered the town. 4 00:03:39,177 --> 00:03:41,297 He reported to the gendarmerie. 5 00:03:42,697 --> 00:03:44,376 No one knew him. 6 00:03:44,936 --> 00:03:46,176 Where had he come from? 7 00:03:46,856 --> 00:03:48,016 From the South. 8 00:03:48,736 --> 00:03:50,895 Maybe from the seashore. 9 00:03:58,766 --> 00:04:00,526 Never! All right, all right. 10 00:04:01,818 --> 00:04:02,858 Ah... 11 00:04:09,764 --> 00:04:13,324 - Where were you? How long does it take you to wash some laundry? 12 00:04:13,469 --> 00:04:15,549 So, where were you? 13 00:04:15,574 --> 00:04:18,133 - I missed you. Come here. 14 00:04:18,158 --> 00:04:19,758 Come on! The jug breaks. 15 00:04:20,411 --> 00:04:21,851 Can't you watch what you're doing? 16 00:04:23,331 --> 00:04:25,610 Isn't being late enough for you? 17 00:04:25,770 --> 00:04:28,313 I'll deduct the price of the jug from your wages. 18 00:04:28,338 --> 00:04:31,258 And try to be more pleasant with the customers. 19 00:04:33,313 --> 00:04:35,024 Drinks are on me, guys. 20 00:04:50,246 --> 00:04:51,570 - He's a convict. 21 00:04:51,831 --> 00:04:53,150 Look at him. 22 00:05:04,626 --> 00:05:07,026 - I'm sorry, I can't take you in. 23 00:05:07,594 --> 00:05:09,428 These gentlemen have booked all the rooms. 24 00:05:10,392 --> 00:05:12,472 The stables will do. 25 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,760 - The horses take up all the space. - I need very little. 26 00:05:16,111 --> 00:05:17,671 Well, that's already too much. 27 00:05:25,278 --> 00:05:28,838 - I've been walking since sunrise, I've gone twelve leagues, I'm hungry. 28 00:05:29,257 --> 00:05:31,457 And I have nothing for you. 29 00:06:07,396 --> 00:06:09,036 Just a piece of bread. 30 00:06:10,356 --> 00:06:11,596 - Come on, get out of here. 31 00:06:22,750 --> 00:06:24,628 - Starving bum! 32 00:06:25,276 --> 00:06:27,636 We don't want you here! 33 00:06:27,661 --> 00:06:28,728 Murderer! 34 00:07:46,149 --> 00:07:47,109 Don't move! 35 00:09:34,214 --> 00:09:35,894 36 00:09:52,886 --> 00:09:54,805 What are you doing there, my friend? 37 00:09:56,411 --> 00:09:57,811 I'm trying to sleep. 38 00:09:58,165 --> 00:09:59,845 On the stone, outside? 39 00:10:01,044 --> 00:10:02,204 I've had worse. 40 00:10:03,657 --> 00:10:05,097 Then go to the inn. 41 00:10:09,170 --> 00:10:10,130 Alas, 42 00:10:11,263 --> 00:10:13,062 you have no money? 43 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:17,820 I only have four sous. - Give them anyway. 44 00:10:22,684 --> 00:10:23,844 We could put you up. 45 00:10:24,543 --> 00:10:25,503 Out of charity. 46 00:10:27,164 --> 00:10:28,923 I knocked on every door. 47 00:10:29,083 --> 00:10:30,883 And everywhere, I was turned away. 48 00:10:31,136 --> 00:10:32,455 There's a house 49 00:10:32,743 --> 00:10:34,742 down the road, there. 50 00:10:35,702 --> 00:10:37,141 Did you knock there? 51 00:10:37,842 --> 00:10:38,802 No. 52 00:10:41,562 --> 00:10:42,722 Then knock there. 53 00:10:44,327 --> 00:10:45,087 Hm? 54 00:10:45,112 --> 00:10:46,693 My cousin's neighbor, 55 00:10:46,824 --> 00:10:51,598 it was him the police were after, the counterfeiter. 56 00:10:51,725 --> 00:10:53,520 Evil is everywhere. 57 00:10:53,678 --> 00:10:55,633 They even arrested his wife. 58 00:10:57,392 --> 00:10:59,955 The prosecutor says he'll get a confession within the week. 59 00:10:59,980 --> 00:11:01,259 What if he's innocent? 60 00:11:01,284 --> 00:11:04,570 Then what is he doing in prison? - Good question. 61 00:11:05,691 --> 00:11:08,840 What should be done with a man accused before he's tried? 62 00:11:10,215 --> 00:11:13,598 Letting him go free means risking that he'll do it again. 63 00:11:13,623 --> 00:11:15,623 If he did commit the act he's accused of. 64 00:11:16,376 --> 00:11:19,415 Putting him in prison means treating him as guilty. 65 00:11:19,575 --> 00:11:21,575 Even if he's innocent. 66 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,920 - Those people are scoundrels, they're everywhere. 67 00:11:24,441 --> 00:11:27,041 One even came into town today. 68 00:11:27,429 --> 00:11:28,669 Yes, miss. 69 00:11:28,829 --> 00:11:30,549 That man could be dangerous. 70 00:11:30,889 --> 00:11:33,528 They say he's horrible, ugly, hairy, and stinks. 71 00:11:34,233 --> 00:11:35,073 A horror. 72 00:11:35,098 --> 00:11:38,137 Definitely a gypsy, a real cutthroat. 73 00:11:38,297 --> 00:11:39,487 - Really? - Just as I said. 74 00:11:39,512 --> 00:11:42,392 Something bad will happen, everyone says so. 75 00:11:43,323 --> 00:11:45,443 - Everyone, that's a lot of people. 76 00:11:50,215 --> 00:11:51,575 - Let me tell the locksmith 77 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,064 to put the old locks back on, we have them here. 78 00:11:55,089 --> 00:11:57,529 - At this hour? - It's just three doors down. 79 00:11:57,733 --> 00:12:00,853 He'll be glad to help. His sister is a friend. 80 00:12:01,233 --> 00:12:02,713 It'll only take a minute. 81 00:12:02,738 --> 00:12:05,937 - Madame Magloire, no need to invent an excuse about the lock 82 00:12:05,962 --> 00:12:08,602 to go see your good friend the locksmith. 83 00:12:09,811 --> 00:12:11,747 Those are slanders, Your Grace. 84 00:12:11,772 --> 00:12:15,652 - A stupid lie spat out by jealous people. - We could put on a latch. 85 00:12:15,812 --> 00:12:17,737 So we're in serious danger? 86 00:12:18,146 --> 00:12:20,746 - You don't live with the door open to every wind. 87 00:12:20,906 --> 00:12:24,865 - Talk to him, he won't listen to me. - If it puts Mme Magloire at ease. 88 00:12:25,364 --> 00:12:29,188 - At least for tonight, until this danger has passed. 89 00:12:29,607 --> 00:12:31,464 They'd even let the devil into this house! 90 00:12:32,008 --> 00:12:34,304 - Locking yourself away isn't just refusing other people. 91 00:12:34,690 --> 00:12:38,520 It's also refusing what we could be or become. 92 00:12:39,184 --> 00:12:41,546 A doctor's door must always stay open. 93 00:12:42,412 --> 00:12:43,543 But you're not a doctor. 94 00:12:44,496 --> 00:12:46,616 - Every man is another man's doctor. 95 00:12:46,776 --> 00:12:47,713 I am a... 96 00:12:51,648 --> 00:12:52,608 Come in! 97 00:13:08,007 --> 00:13:09,447 My name is Jean Valjean. 98 00:13:10,306 --> 00:13:12,226 I spent nineteen years in the penal colony. 99 00:13:13,086 --> 00:13:15,006 I've been free for four days. 100 00:13:15,661 --> 00:13:17,980 Four days I've been walking since Toulon. 101 00:13:18,275 --> 00:13:20,275 Four days I've been hearing: 'Get out.' 102 00:13:21,042 --> 00:13:23,962 Nobody wanted me, I slept outside, 103 00:13:24,168 --> 00:13:26,767 an old woman told me to knock at your house. 104 00:13:27,301 --> 00:13:28,581 I knocked. 105 00:13:32,297 --> 00:13:34,457 - Mme Magloire, set one more place. 106 00:13:41,336 --> 00:13:42,855 - Did you hear me? 107 00:13:43,015 --> 00:13:44,215 I'm a convict. 108 00:13:48,268 --> 00:13:49,907 Here's my passport. 109 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:54,267 It's used to present me to the authorities when I arrive in town 110 00:13:54,292 --> 00:13:55,840 and get me thrown out. 111 00:13:55,944 --> 00:13:57,304 Will you read it!? 112 00:13:59,763 --> 00:14:01,843 'Spent nineteen years in the penal colony. 113 00:14:02,003 --> 00:14:04,242 'Five years for burglary. 114 00:14:04,267 --> 00:14:07,919 'Fourteen for attempting to escape, this man is dangerous.' 115 00:14:13,749 --> 00:14:14,709 There. 116 00:14:19,753 --> 00:14:22,393 - I see you've been caught in the rain, sir. 117 00:14:22,732 --> 00:14:24,092 You must be tired. 118 00:14:28,525 --> 00:14:30,971 Come closer, the fire will warm you. 119 00:14:58,948 --> 00:14:59,754 You'll have supper 120 00:14:59,779 --> 00:15:01,939 while your bed is being made. 121 00:15:02,887 --> 00:15:06,166 Mme Magloire, put white sheets on the alcove bed. 122 00:15:14,405 --> 00:15:17,084 Please, sir, sit down. 123 00:16:13,651 --> 00:16:15,011 What is this place? 124 00:16:22,550 --> 00:16:23,589 Who are you? 125 00:16:25,836 --> 00:16:27,035 A priest. 126 00:16:28,641 --> 00:16:29,601 A priest? 127 00:16:34,072 --> 00:16:35,831 A good, decent priest. 128 00:16:40,221 --> 00:16:42,620 Who lives with two women, to top it off. 129 00:16:44,158 --> 00:16:47,997 - There are things I refuse to hear, I'll be in the kitchen. 130 00:16:51,377 --> 00:16:55,176 - A man opens his door to you, feeds you, and you slander him? 131 00:16:56,055 --> 00:16:57,420 That wasn't my intention. 132 00:16:57,445 --> 00:16:59,525 That's what you did. 133 00:17:19,943 --> 00:17:22,182 Two men stood there, face to face. 134 00:17:22,835 --> 00:17:23,995 One, the convict, 135 00:17:24,020 --> 00:17:27,139 was rough, but had hidden nothing about his past. 136 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,799 The other, the good priest, was clearly kinder, 137 00:17:31,824 --> 00:17:34,019 but he remained a mystery to everyone. 138 00:17:34,801 --> 00:17:36,521 A few decades earlier, 139 00:17:36,546 --> 00:17:38,459 he had gone to Italy arm in arm with his wife 140 00:17:38,484 --> 00:17:40,444 and returned alone and irritable. 141 00:17:41,093 --> 00:17:43,453 The death of the woman he loved had changed him. 142 00:17:43,819 --> 00:17:46,539 He had left the world and entered religion. 143 00:17:46,564 --> 00:17:50,187 He had convinced himself he must become an unforgiving servant of God, 144 00:17:50,501 --> 00:17:53,028 but his transformation was not yet complete. 145 00:17:53,503 --> 00:17:55,343 And to understand what followed, 146 00:17:55,797 --> 00:17:58,877 we must go back to his first visit here. 147 00:17:59,684 --> 00:18:03,523 - The sisters work miracles, but we're short of everything, Your Grace. 148 00:18:04,672 --> 00:18:08,313 Bandages, potions, and even food. 149 00:18:09,918 --> 00:18:12,486 We should be able to buy meat now and then. 150 00:18:12,511 --> 00:18:16,165 A sick person has to eat to get well again. 151 00:18:17,237 --> 00:18:18,277 Ah... 152 00:18:19,756 --> 00:18:21,676 - Mr. Director. - Yes? 153 00:18:23,037 --> 00:18:24,797 Excuse me, Your Grace. 154 00:18:26,278 --> 00:18:27,958 What's going on? 155 00:18:27,983 --> 00:18:32,183 That day, the man who was now a bishop was visiting the hospital. 156 00:18:33,637 --> 00:18:36,716 A chore he vowed never to impose on himself again. 157 00:18:37,352 --> 00:18:40,053 Monseigneur Myriel, for that was his real name, 158 00:18:40,513 --> 00:18:42,931 had the title and all the trappings of his office. 159 00:18:43,917 --> 00:18:45,689 His Eminence preferred visiting the rich 160 00:18:45,714 --> 00:18:47,674 and mingling with the powerful. 161 00:18:48,836 --> 00:18:52,835 He lived like a notable, one of those who judge and condemn. 162 00:18:53,291 --> 00:18:56,730 And then, one day, something happened. 163 00:18:57,135 --> 00:18:58,774 No one knows what. 164 00:19:00,074 --> 00:19:01,674 But it did. 165 00:19:03,014 --> 00:19:04,054 He changed. 166 00:19:05,060 --> 00:19:07,620 But even more, he changed. 167 00:19:10,234 --> 00:19:12,210 And what had been a chore to avoid 168 00:19:12,235 --> 00:19:14,235 became a daily event. 169 00:19:15,972 --> 00:19:18,891 - Have a good day, my friend. - Thank you, Your Grace. 170 00:19:19,051 --> 00:19:21,583 - The beds are packed very close together. 171 00:19:21,608 --> 00:19:23,408 It's getting worse and worse. 172 00:19:24,595 --> 00:19:26,915 I'm very worried about the future. 173 00:19:27,501 --> 00:19:31,381 The floor is full, we've put the poor souls in the courtyard. 174 00:19:31,769 --> 00:19:34,048 Not to mention the epidemics to come. 175 00:19:35,169 --> 00:19:37,529 This year, we had typhus. 176 00:19:37,561 --> 00:19:38,920 Try to sleep. 177 00:19:39,215 --> 00:19:42,775 - We ran out of space, and it will happen again. 178 00:19:43,094 --> 00:19:46,749 What do you expect, we have to accept reality. 179 00:19:46,909 --> 00:19:49,429 We won't be able to accept everyone anymore. 180 00:19:49,454 --> 00:19:53,093 - How many beds could fit in my dining room? 181 00:19:53,253 --> 00:19:55,973 - My lord, please. - I'm here. 182 00:19:56,133 --> 00:19:57,868 You mean at the palace? 183 00:19:58,487 --> 00:20:00,338 To understand the director's surprise, 184 00:20:00,363 --> 00:20:03,664 you have to know that the bishop's palace 185 00:20:04,398 --> 00:20:07,552 was a grand manor house, everything about it was imposing. 186 00:20:07,785 --> 00:20:09,922 The bishop's apartments, the galleries, the staircases, 187 00:20:10,082 --> 00:20:11,602 the fountains, the gardens. 188 00:20:11,722 --> 00:20:13,362 Everything was magnificent. 189 00:20:13,762 --> 00:20:15,442 In your dining room? 190 00:20:16,675 --> 00:20:18,464 I'm not quite sure, 191 00:20:18,489 --> 00:20:21,220 but I imagine it could hold 192 00:20:21,607 --> 00:20:23,167 sixty patients. 193 00:20:23,687 --> 00:20:24,647 At least. 194 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,080 Then there must be a mistake, my friend. 195 00:20:33,682 --> 00:20:36,241 You have my quarters and I have yours. 196 00:20:36,801 --> 00:20:39,881 Give me back my house, I'm at home here. 197 00:20:41,633 --> 00:20:45,352 The next day, twenty-six patients were settled in the palace, 198 00:20:46,065 --> 00:20:50,184 and Bishop Myriel took as his home what had been serving as the hospital. 199 00:20:50,349 --> 00:20:53,029 - A man like that, he's a gift from heaven. 200 00:20:53,054 --> 00:20:56,803 He's not the same anymore, he doesn't want bishop's meals. 201 00:20:57,502 --> 00:20:58,982 If I listened to him, 202 00:20:59,007 --> 00:21:01,607 he'd have lunch on oil soup and bread. 203 00:21:02,272 --> 00:21:04,831 You'd think he feeds on the smell of flowers. 204 00:21:04,991 --> 00:21:07,830 - That's not very bishop-like behavior. 205 00:21:08,649 --> 00:21:11,769 Let's not forget it was the emperor who made him bishop. 206 00:21:13,190 --> 00:21:17,109 They say he gave up his carriage and now trots around on a donkey. 207 00:21:17,618 --> 00:21:21,257 - He's going to give the poor his carriage allowance 208 00:21:21,282 --> 00:21:23,082 and his pastoral travel expenses. 209 00:21:23,425 --> 00:21:25,446 What if he were imposing penance on himself 210 00:21:25,471 --> 00:21:28,848 - because he sinned? - This man is different. 211 00:21:30,041 --> 00:21:32,073 He visits the poor as long as he has money. 212 00:21:32,298 --> 00:21:34,817 When he has none left, he visits the rich. 213 00:21:36,088 --> 00:21:39,128 He says that's where he can find some to give away. 214 00:21:39,288 --> 00:21:41,567 - He's managed to win over his flock. 215 00:21:42,380 --> 00:21:44,580 Do you know what nickname they gave him? 216 00:21:44,813 --> 00:21:47,492 'Welcome', 'Bishop Welcome'. 217 00:21:48,366 --> 00:21:50,366 That's what they call you. 218 00:21:50,985 --> 00:21:54,065 - I like that name. 'Welcome' softens the 'Bishop'. 219 00:21:54,898 --> 00:21:56,340 I find you very tolerant. 220 00:21:56,365 --> 00:22:00,125 Here, many mouths talk and very few heads think. 221 00:22:01,486 --> 00:22:02,686 Your Grace, 222 00:22:02,711 --> 00:22:04,764 it's not for you to pick up potatoes. 223 00:22:04,984 --> 00:22:08,383 - A man of the Church must kneel as often as possible 224 00:22:08,596 --> 00:22:10,120 or he ends up believing 225 00:22:10,145 --> 00:22:12,413 - that he's important. - And me? 226 00:22:13,796 --> 00:22:15,236 What do they say about me? 227 00:22:16,402 --> 00:22:18,282 I imagine I'm causing a stir. 228 00:22:18,435 --> 00:22:20,755 - Let them try, they'll have me to deal with. 229 00:22:20,915 --> 00:22:24,354 They know that without you, he'd never answer his mail. 230 00:22:24,514 --> 00:22:27,394 He'd be forgotten by his friends, his cousins 231 00:22:27,494 --> 00:22:29,094 and the bishop's council. 232 00:22:29,589 --> 00:22:33,243 - The other bishops prefer not to hear from me. 233 00:22:33,983 --> 00:22:38,053 To them, I'm an open door, and they don't like fresh air. 234 00:22:38,078 --> 00:22:41,942 - The bigwigs, like the big hats, aren't the fairest. 235 00:22:42,614 --> 00:22:46,494 You write so well, you should write about your brother. 236 00:22:47,088 --> 00:22:49,414 Great men deserve great tributes. 237 00:22:49,439 --> 00:22:52,442 - I don't have that talent, and besides, publishers 238 00:22:52,467 --> 00:22:55,077 would never trust a woman. 239 00:22:55,766 --> 00:22:58,086 And then, Monsignor Bienvenu would have to 240 00:22:58,111 --> 00:22:59,711 reveal his whole life to us. 241 00:22:59,736 --> 00:23:02,535 But there are things he doesn't want to tell. 242 00:23:03,491 --> 00:23:04,931 Monsignor is a holy man. 243 00:23:05,918 --> 00:23:09,597 If you don't write this book, someone else will have to. 244 00:23:10,967 --> 00:23:12,366 Some great author. 245 00:23:12,934 --> 00:23:16,053 Someone like Mr. Châteaubriand. 246 00:23:17,871 --> 00:23:19,631 But I refuse to let him write 247 00:23:19,656 --> 00:23:21,815 that I let you starve to death! 248 00:23:34,457 --> 00:23:36,860 Shall we go into the garden? 249 00:23:40,646 --> 00:23:42,006 It's very practical. 250 00:23:42,031 --> 00:23:45,270 They say a retired minister invented it 251 00:23:46,372 --> 00:23:48,092 because he was bored. 252 00:23:49,154 --> 00:23:52,113 One should never underestimate the virtues of boredom. 253 00:23:52,820 --> 00:23:55,660 - I'm not looking at the object, I'm looking at you. 254 00:23:55,685 --> 00:23:56,805 Hm. 255 00:24:06,274 --> 00:24:09,073 Why didn't you come see me sooner? 256 00:24:10,513 --> 00:24:14,192 - Your letters were meant to set me straight. 257 00:24:15,472 --> 00:24:19,232 Then the tone of your letters changed, so I came. 258 00:24:21,831 --> 00:24:22,791 - Forgive me. 259 00:24:32,910 --> 00:24:36,390 - Besides, I wanted you to have a different memory of me. 260 00:24:36,672 --> 00:24:39,714 - You'll always be the one who defended me to our parents 261 00:24:39,739 --> 00:24:41,876 when I got into fights. 262 00:24:42,443 --> 00:24:44,043 - A saint? - Hey... 263 00:24:45,402 --> 00:24:49,081 - I'll ask whoever writes your life to portray me as a virgin 264 00:24:49,487 --> 00:24:52,226 with barely enough body to have a gender. 265 00:24:52,695 --> 00:24:55,222 A diaphanous creature, fine and transparent. 266 00:24:55,247 --> 00:24:57,920 - 'A diaphanous creature, fine and transparent.' 267 00:24:58,472 --> 00:25:00,191 Not everyone can be a holy man. 268 00:25:01,831 --> 00:25:04,631 - Priest stories don't interest anyone. 269 00:25:05,278 --> 00:25:07,278 Your great author would be better off 270 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,200 finding another character. 271 00:25:10,552 --> 00:25:12,592 In the meantime, the holy man is hungry. 272 00:25:32,283 --> 00:25:35,950 - Are you sure you want to take in that beast? 273 00:25:35,975 --> 00:25:38,215 - Some acts are acts of faith. 274 00:25:38,645 --> 00:25:40,444 - Sit down, miss. 275 00:25:40,596 --> 00:25:44,428 - Let me do my job. - I can make myself useful. 276 00:25:44,453 --> 00:25:47,108 I was supposed to stay a few days, it's been three months. 277 00:25:47,133 --> 00:25:48,453 You're at home here. 278 00:26:04,472 --> 00:26:05,512 Hm... 279 00:26:40,815 --> 00:26:43,742 Since you're a priest, you won't ask me for money? 280 00:26:43,767 --> 00:26:47,286 - God is your host, here or elsewhere, He is everywhere. 281 00:26:48,954 --> 00:26:49,913 - Not there. 282 00:26:51,459 --> 00:26:52,979 That's a shame. 283 00:26:54,086 --> 00:26:56,886 It's a place that deserves His presence. 284 00:26:58,683 --> 00:27:01,682 - Don't get me started on that, you'd throw me out. 285 00:27:01,707 --> 00:27:03,731 You can speak freely. 286 00:27:03,756 --> 00:27:07,051 Nothing will deprive you of shelter or food. 287 00:27:08,364 --> 00:27:09,524 Admit that the gods 288 00:27:09,549 --> 00:27:12,869 rarely show themselves, especially where they're needed. 289 00:27:13,164 --> 00:27:14,843 Not yours, not the others. 290 00:27:17,351 --> 00:27:18,771 My sister shares 291 00:27:18,796 --> 00:27:21,355 your doubts about God's existence. 292 00:27:21,876 --> 00:27:25,235 As for me, I admit I try to believe as much as I can. 293 00:27:25,690 --> 00:27:28,147 - It's never too late to meet God. 294 00:27:28,172 --> 00:27:29,492 Of God or of man, 295 00:27:29,517 --> 00:27:30,837 which created the other? 296 00:27:31,489 --> 00:27:33,608 Under the varnish of the gods, you find man. 297 00:27:34,947 --> 00:27:36,867 - He's no better than the other. 298 00:27:37,414 --> 00:27:38,814 My God... 299 00:27:41,430 --> 00:27:44,147 - If he's yours, teach him some manners. 300 00:27:46,699 --> 00:27:48,754 I forbid you to blaspheme. 301 00:28:02,237 --> 00:28:06,517 - You said this was a house where one could be honest, 302 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,699 - without fear of being thrown out. - And I repeat it. 303 00:28:10,724 --> 00:28:12,843 I've had my share of lies. 304 00:28:13,751 --> 00:28:16,751 Too many for me to be fed with nonsense 305 00:28:17,798 --> 00:28:20,340 they give to small fry, to the miserable. 306 00:28:20,664 --> 00:28:22,819 They get fed legends to swallow: 307 00:28:22,844 --> 00:28:25,926 the soul, immortality, paradise. 308 00:28:26,943 --> 00:28:30,183 They chew it all up, and spread it on their dry bread. 309 00:28:30,356 --> 00:28:32,156 He who has nothing has God. 310 00:28:32,956 --> 00:28:33,916 Well, no. 311 00:28:34,529 --> 00:28:37,408 - He who has nothing has nothing. - What about the Gospels? 312 00:28:38,195 --> 00:28:41,514 'Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.' 313 00:28:42,410 --> 00:28:46,489 'Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled.' 314 00:28:47,087 --> 00:28:50,516 'Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.' 315 00:28:51,953 --> 00:28:53,153 It's gibberish. 316 00:28:55,012 --> 00:28:56,446 The poor aren't happy. 317 00:28:57,201 --> 00:28:59,201 To sacrifice earth for paradise, 318 00:28:59,339 --> 00:29:01,899 is to let go of the prey for the shadow. 319 00:29:02,355 --> 00:29:05,115 - I can't make the bed for such a man. 320 00:29:05,459 --> 00:29:07,791 Sir is our guest! 321 00:29:09,045 --> 00:29:12,605 - The poor aren't happy. They're not pretty either. 322 00:29:19,511 --> 00:29:21,871 It's better to be the tooth than the grass. 323 00:29:23,118 --> 00:29:24,878 I'll help you clear the table. 324 00:29:28,117 --> 00:29:29,197 Please. 325 00:29:36,541 --> 00:29:37,501 Thank you. 326 00:29:41,995 --> 00:29:44,874 - Wait, miss, I'll help you. 327 00:30:00,762 --> 00:30:02,962 We need to alert the gendarmes. 328 00:30:04,779 --> 00:30:06,715 We'll do as my brother wishes. 329 00:30:06,740 --> 00:30:09,140 - Your Grace doesn't know those men. 330 00:30:09,326 --> 00:30:10,606 He attacked me. 331 00:30:11,728 --> 00:30:13,647 He's just an unfortunate man. 332 00:30:14,873 --> 00:30:17,033 - These poor souls have no business being here. 333 00:30:17,058 --> 00:30:18,978 These poor souls are already here. 334 00:30:23,672 --> 00:30:25,111 Why do you say that? 335 00:30:27,334 --> 00:30:29,974 - An unwed mother who puts her child in boarding care 336 00:30:29,999 --> 00:30:33,838 to find a way to feed her, isn't she a poor soul? 337 00:30:35,266 --> 00:30:37,715 A woman who, on the day her little girl falls ill, 338 00:30:37,740 --> 00:30:41,121 cannot care for her or even see her before she's buried, 339 00:30:41,281 --> 00:30:43,160 isn't she a poor soul? 340 00:30:43,373 --> 00:30:44,700 A mother who has cried so much 341 00:30:44,725 --> 00:30:48,404 that she has no tears left, isn't she a poor soul? 342 00:30:48,573 --> 00:30:52,332 - You are My Lord's sister. - Then I am both. 343 00:30:54,230 --> 00:30:56,790 - I'm saying, miss, that you're mixing everything up 344 00:30:57,092 --> 00:30:59,332 and that there is, on the other side of this wall, 345 00:30:59,492 --> 00:31:01,177 what comes closest to an angel 346 00:31:01,296 --> 00:31:02,536 and a demon. 347 00:31:05,362 --> 00:31:06,682 I'm going to bed. 348 00:31:10,426 --> 00:31:12,746 Could you bring me up a hot brick? 349 00:31:13,048 --> 00:31:16,363 - Of course. Let your herbal tea steep, I'll bring it to you. 350 00:31:16,388 --> 00:31:17,708 And barricade yourself in. 351 00:31:18,572 --> 00:31:20,571 We know nothing about him. 352 00:31:21,333 --> 00:31:24,373 My Lord didn't ask what his story was. 353 00:31:24,406 --> 00:31:26,325 Yet his fault lies in his story. 354 00:31:27,293 --> 00:31:30,172 - That's why my brother didn't mention it to him. 355 00:31:32,072 --> 00:31:35,631 Some guilty people are too focused on their misery. 356 00:31:35,671 --> 00:31:39,695 It's best to distract them by making them believe they're 357 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,258 - just like everyone else. - But he's an animal. 358 00:31:43,283 --> 00:31:44,243 A beast. 359 00:31:44,862 --> 00:31:45,942 A man. 360 00:31:50,342 --> 00:31:51,605 Good night, Mme Magloire. 361 00:31:51,662 --> 00:31:53,382 - Do you think I'll be able to sleep 362 00:31:53,407 --> 00:31:55,022 with a convict under our roof? 363 00:31:56,391 --> 00:31:57,751 The latch, mademoiselle. 364 00:31:59,392 --> 00:32:00,712 Remember to lock it. 365 00:32:20,709 --> 00:32:22,108 Do I scare you? 366 00:32:23,115 --> 00:32:24,555 You startled me. 367 00:32:29,228 --> 00:32:31,068 Isn't my brother with you? 368 00:32:31,981 --> 00:32:35,420 - I was looking for the latrine while he gets us some wine. 369 00:32:40,879 --> 00:32:42,999 Why did you defend me? 370 00:32:44,186 --> 00:32:48,025 - Because I know some mistakes haunt you for the rest of your life. 371 00:32:51,091 --> 00:32:52,171 Come. 372 00:33:03,044 --> 00:33:04,644 Let me help with your arm. 373 00:33:06,885 --> 00:33:09,633 And I agree with you, how could we be happy 374 00:33:09,658 --> 00:33:13,954 when children work like beasts of burden 375 00:33:14,822 --> 00:33:17,266 and women sell their teeth for 40 francs? 376 00:33:17,291 --> 00:33:19,370 The price of a bunch of asparagus. 377 00:33:20,282 --> 00:33:24,121 When it's not their teeth, it's the rest, body and soul. 378 00:33:38,352 --> 00:33:39,952 It's going to be a cold night. 379 00:33:42,385 --> 00:33:44,804 - Isn't it always cold for people like you and me? 380 00:33:47,611 --> 00:33:50,691 - The maid is right, lock your door. 381 00:33:53,291 --> 00:33:55,332 - I have too little time left to live in fear. 382 00:33:56,861 --> 00:33:58,807 Besides, what could happen to me? 383 00:33:59,562 --> 00:34:01,882 I've been dead for a long time. 384 00:35:06,176 --> 00:35:08,856 - I'm glad you like the wine. 385 00:35:09,009 --> 00:35:11,249 Have some biscuits too. 386 00:35:16,581 --> 00:35:19,300 How about we go for a walk outside? 387 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,520 - This way. - Right behind you. 388 00:35:34,883 --> 00:35:39,163 - Earlier, you tried to make yourself hated. Why? 389 00:35:41,770 --> 00:35:43,969 I give people what they expect. 390 00:35:45,015 --> 00:35:46,135 I understand. 391 00:35:47,628 --> 00:35:48,588 I doubt it. 392 00:35:59,618 --> 00:36:01,817 - How do you expect to be forgiven 393 00:36:01,842 --> 00:36:03,963 if you're at war with everyone? 394 00:36:03,988 --> 00:36:06,387 I neither ask for nor grant forgiveness. 395 00:36:07,137 --> 00:36:10,455 - But being mean takes effort, doesn't it? 396 00:36:11,552 --> 00:36:13,911 You have paid your debt to society, 397 00:36:14,268 --> 00:36:16,943 your rights today are the same as mine. 398 00:36:17,609 --> 00:36:19,883 - You have a right to a roof over your head, while I have to sleep outside. 399 00:36:19,908 --> 00:36:24,290 - You won't be sleeping outside. - One exception doesn't change the rule. 400 00:36:24,528 --> 00:36:27,247 What I see in your servant's eyes, 401 00:36:27,866 --> 00:36:29,786 I see in every gaze. 402 00:36:50,964 --> 00:36:52,524 I love these moments. 403 00:36:54,130 --> 00:36:56,130 They make me accept infinity. 404 00:36:58,383 --> 00:37:01,903 The day ends and announces another, everything will start again. 405 00:37:02,988 --> 00:37:06,142 The spectacle of nature has always seemed invigorating to me. 406 00:37:07,517 --> 00:37:10,156 And this is the hour when scents rise up. 407 00:37:11,196 --> 00:37:13,396 The world's energy nourishes us 408 00:37:14,009 --> 00:37:16,289 and the sky becomes permission. 409 00:37:18,041 --> 00:37:19,761 It all depends on who you are. 410 00:37:22,922 --> 00:37:24,397 You believe that some people's happiness 411 00:37:24,422 --> 00:37:26,302 is built on the misery of others. 412 00:37:29,604 --> 00:37:32,524 - Stars aren't enough to ease suffering. 413 00:37:32,683 --> 00:37:37,123 Those above praise the heavens, while those below see only night. 414 00:37:39,015 --> 00:37:40,175 But the stars are there. 415 00:37:42,129 --> 00:37:45,008 - Some lights bring out the darkness. 416 00:37:47,661 --> 00:37:50,381 - I'd never seen things that way before. 417 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:54,420 Your wall is in bad shape. 418 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:57,219 Over there, near the stairs. 419 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,800 Have it repaired or someone will slip into your place. 420 00:38:10,764 --> 00:38:12,072 Why climb over the wall 421 00:38:12,097 --> 00:38:14,096 when the door is open? 422 00:39:10,471 --> 00:39:13,231 I'll walk you to your room. 423 00:40:02,663 --> 00:40:06,663 Between the ladle and the cutlery, it's worth 200 francs. 424 00:40:18,761 --> 00:40:21,641 That's twice what I earned in nineteen years. 425 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:25,320 There you go. 426 00:40:26,346 --> 00:40:29,626 All the justice in the world, crammed into a closet. 427 00:40:37,071 --> 00:40:39,123 I haven't slept under the same roof as a woman 428 00:40:39,148 --> 00:40:40,828 for nineteen years. 429 00:40:42,777 --> 00:40:45,337 Do you really think a latch is going to stop me? 430 00:40:47,690 --> 00:40:49,769 The only question you need to ask yourself is, 431 00:40:50,782 --> 00:40:53,262 'What time is he coming?' 432 00:41:05,533 --> 00:41:06,893 This way. 433 00:41:24,558 --> 00:41:26,278 Please, sir. 434 00:41:34,696 --> 00:41:36,408 Will that do for you? 435 00:41:41,729 --> 00:41:44,089 I had a glass of water brought up for you. 436 00:42:01,419 --> 00:42:04,739 Tomorrow morning, you'll have a cup of milk from our cow. 437 00:42:04,764 --> 00:42:06,841 I milk her myself. 438 00:42:07,266 --> 00:42:10,644 I tell you I'm a convict, and you call me 'sir'. 439 00:42:11,597 --> 00:42:13,997 Who says I didn't commit murder? 440 00:42:18,943 --> 00:42:21,143 Have a good night, sir. 441 00:43:44,085 --> 00:43:47,932 Whatever his fate, whenever he peers into the darkness, 442 00:43:48,272 --> 00:43:51,219 the one who has known the chain sees the same faces again. 443 00:43:51,577 --> 00:43:54,377 The same proof of the world's darkness. 444 00:43:55,579 --> 00:43:56,579 Aaah...! 445 00:43:56,604 --> 00:44:00,003 He remains forever prey to the laughter of darkness. 446 00:44:18,987 --> 00:44:19,947 Fff... 447 00:44:25,666 --> 00:44:26,706 Gue... 448 00:46:58,687 --> 00:47:02,086 'Jean Valjean' had collapsed fully clothed onto the bed. 449 00:47:03,833 --> 00:47:06,341 His whole story came back to him. 450 00:47:07,032 --> 00:47:08,832 Everything that had brought him there. 451 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,640 He had lost his father and mother at a very young age. 452 00:47:16,128 --> 00:47:19,448 All he had left of his family was a sister. 453 00:47:19,858 --> 00:47:23,338 She already had five children when she became a widow. 454 00:47:23,498 --> 00:47:25,938 He stayed and provided for them. 455 00:47:33,736 --> 00:47:37,779 He hired himself out as a laborer to bring bread home 456 00:47:43,226 --> 00:47:44,385 Tree pruner. 457 00:47:44,571 --> 00:47:46,491 Day laborer. Lumberjack. 458 00:47:46,758 --> 00:47:48,838 He took any job he could get. 459 00:47:52,589 --> 00:47:55,029 - Don't touch anything, go get the others. 460 00:47:55,054 --> 00:47:56,046 Hurry up! 461 00:47:58,161 --> 00:48:00,601 Then one winter turned harsh. 462 00:48:05,674 --> 00:48:07,594 Food began to run out. 463 00:48:17,744 --> 00:48:19,784 Five children, no bread. 464 00:48:20,399 --> 00:48:22,399 What do you expect would happen? 465 00:48:51,313 --> 00:48:54,272 That loaf of bread sealed his fate. 466 00:50:06,961 --> 00:50:07,921 Stop! 467 00:50:11,291 --> 00:50:14,469 If you're here, it's because society doesn't want you anymore, 468 00:50:14,566 --> 00:50:16,166 that you're guilty. 469 00:50:16,893 --> 00:50:19,972 If you die, no one will miss you. 470 00:50:20,627 --> 00:50:23,107 So, don't stand out. 471 00:50:23,759 --> 00:50:25,238 Come on, get to work. 472 00:50:30,541 --> 00:50:31,501 The penal colony, 473 00:50:31,526 --> 00:50:35,125 is not just the loss of freedom. 474 00:50:35,847 --> 00:50:38,007 It is also forced labor. 475 00:50:39,060 --> 00:50:40,740 Every day of the year. 476 00:50:41,613 --> 00:50:43,373 Year after year. 477 00:50:48,491 --> 00:50:50,171 The stone wears you down. 478 00:50:50,771 --> 00:50:52,796 It drains you dry. 479 00:50:54,730 --> 00:50:55,890 It destroys you. 480 00:50:57,643 --> 00:51:00,282 Identity dissolves into dust. 481 00:51:01,254 --> 00:51:03,934 Men become ghosts. 482 00:51:07,492 --> 00:51:11,132 Time is measured by the marks it leaves on faces. 483 00:51:12,475 --> 00:51:15,327 Yet it is the scars you cannot see 484 00:51:15,352 --> 00:51:17,112 that run the deepest. 485 00:51:17,454 --> 00:51:19,894 The ones that let hope slip away. 486 00:51:21,227 --> 00:51:23,347 Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf of bread. 487 00:51:24,562 --> 00:51:27,055 Claude Gueux had stolen a loaf of bread. 488 00:51:27,295 --> 00:51:28,432 What are you doing? 489 00:51:28,457 --> 00:51:30,137 Mr. Director. 490 00:51:31,322 --> 00:51:32,842 I'm judging someone. 491 00:51:33,969 --> 00:51:36,488 - Four out of five thefts are caused by hunger. 492 00:51:39,565 --> 00:51:41,325 Good morning, Mr. Director. 493 00:51:43,422 --> 00:51:44,625 Claude Gueux 494 00:51:44,650 --> 00:51:46,570 was a quiet man. Shock and cry 495 00:51:47,021 --> 00:51:48,580 But the prison director 496 00:51:48,605 --> 00:51:52,005 had separated him from his only friend without giving him a reason. 497 00:51:53,820 --> 00:51:55,260 Lift it! Lift it! 498 00:51:55,285 --> 00:51:57,684 My legs! My legs! 499 00:51:59,613 --> 00:52:01,292 The weeks went by, 500 00:52:02,532 --> 00:52:04,868 and every time Claude asked him 501 00:52:04,893 --> 00:52:07,172 about the reason for his decision... 502 00:52:07,208 --> 00:52:09,768 - Go on! - Take those! 503 00:52:09,962 --> 00:52:12,521 The other gave him the same answer. 504 00:52:15,261 --> 00:52:16,301 'Because.' 505 00:52:16,355 --> 00:52:17,315 'Because.' 506 00:52:18,353 --> 00:52:20,913 The director was one of those men who like to abuse 507 00:52:20,938 --> 00:52:22,578 the power they have. 508 00:52:23,026 --> 00:52:24,106 Why? 509 00:52:24,609 --> 00:52:25,467 Because. 510 00:52:25,492 --> 00:52:30,236 - The spark that such lighters strike from such stones 511 00:52:30,261 --> 00:52:32,187 often starts fires. 512 00:52:32,212 --> 00:52:34,927 - Ah! - Go on, Claude, make him bleed! 513 00:52:34,952 --> 00:52:37,487 - Make him bleed, come on! 514 00:52:37,512 --> 00:52:39,472 Come on! Come on! 515 00:52:55,589 --> 00:52:57,509 Come on! Hit him! 516 00:53:00,918 --> 00:53:03,798 Finish that bitch off! Go on, do it! 517 00:53:04,952 --> 00:53:05,685 Bleed him! 518 00:53:06,950 --> 00:53:08,189 Finish him off! 519 00:53:10,873 --> 00:53:14,273 This is the kind of event that every convict witnesses 520 00:53:14,298 --> 00:53:16,298 every day of his sentence. 521 00:53:16,323 --> 00:53:18,163 The humiliations of one 522 00:53:18,586 --> 00:53:22,306 sometimes help to understand the behavior of the other. 523 00:53:32,875 --> 00:53:35,075 And what Claude had endured 524 00:53:36,274 --> 00:53:40,594 was in many ways similar to what Jean had endured. 525 00:53:40,994 --> 00:53:43,554 Where he should have found hope, 526 00:53:44,387 --> 00:53:46,667 trust, friendship, 527 00:53:47,333 --> 00:53:48,853 he found nothing. 528 00:53:51,626 --> 00:53:54,506 Do you know what Claude told the judge 529 00:53:54,665 --> 00:53:58,145 when the judge asked him: 'Why did you do that?' 530 00:53:58,469 --> 00:53:59,629 'Because.' 531 00:54:02,723 --> 00:54:03,883 'Because.' 532 00:54:04,482 --> 00:54:05,442 'Because.' 533 00:54:07,521 --> 00:54:09,441 Hey! 'Because.' 534 00:54:11,008 --> 00:54:12,327 'Because.' 535 00:54:15,136 --> 00:54:18,336 Come on, guys, I'm in a good mood today. 536 00:54:20,015 --> 00:54:23,734 I'll write a twenty-line letter for a bronze coin. 537 00:54:24,048 --> 00:54:27,568 Whoever adds a pinch of tobacco, I'll make him a lover, 538 00:54:28,047 --> 00:54:29,807 a prince, a literary man. 539 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:33,920 So, he tried to flee. 540 00:54:35,626 --> 00:54:36,786 To leave. 541 00:54:39,799 --> 00:54:40,999 To be free. 542 00:54:44,059 --> 00:54:45,739 To escape this hell. 543 00:54:48,973 --> 00:54:52,053 With every escape attempt, he risked his life. 544 00:54:52,531 --> 00:54:54,451 Once. 545 00:54:55,272 --> 00:54:58,667 Twice. Three times. 546 00:54:59,128 --> 00:55:01,448 But even that, he lost the taste for. 547 00:55:06,167 --> 00:55:07,847 Don't squirm, it's your turn. 548 00:55:07,872 --> 00:55:10,831 You'd rather have a bowl of diarrhea than freedom? 549 00:55:11,263 --> 00:55:13,341 Are you gonna wait out your sentence, 550 00:55:13,366 --> 00:55:16,206 spend half your money at a secondhand shop 551 00:55:16,899 --> 00:55:19,738 to try to make people forget who you are. 552 00:55:20,878 --> 00:55:23,917 Have you seen what we look like when we get out of here? 553 00:55:27,761 --> 00:55:30,321 The decent folks only have to look at your eyes. 554 00:55:30,346 --> 00:55:33,380 You'll be marked, like all of us. 555 00:55:33,747 --> 00:55:37,066 Might as well make a break for it while we still have the strength. 556 00:55:38,108 --> 00:55:40,364 - Escaping means looking over your shoulder all the time, 557 00:55:40,389 --> 00:55:42,909 jumping at every sound, being afraid of everything. 558 00:55:45,535 --> 00:55:47,054 Of the smoking roof. 559 00:55:48,020 --> 00:55:50,622 Of the man passing by. Of the barking dog. 560 00:55:52,066 --> 00:55:53,666 Of the path, of the bush. 561 00:55:56,446 --> 00:55:57,686 Of sleep. 562 00:56:00,213 --> 00:56:02,132 It's another punishment. 563 00:56:04,465 --> 00:56:05,825 Another wear and tear. 564 00:56:09,556 --> 00:56:10,676 Another emptiness. 565 00:56:21,288 --> 00:56:23,768 All my escape attempts 566 00:56:23,793 --> 00:56:26,562 only earned me more time added to my sentence. 567 00:56:27,741 --> 00:56:29,080 All of this has cost me too much. 568 00:56:29,105 --> 00:56:31,535 The years go by, those I loved have forgotten me. 569 00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,800 I don't know where they are, or even if they're alive. 570 00:56:37,419 --> 00:56:40,179 I don't even remember their faces anymore. 571 00:57:18,867 --> 00:57:21,626 - Then, he withdrew into his own conscience. 572 00:57:22,860 --> 00:57:25,060 And set himself up as a court. 573 00:57:26,086 --> 00:57:28,206 He began by judging himself. 574 00:57:29,432 --> 00:57:33,206 He admitted he was not an innocent man unjustly punished. 575 00:57:33,990 --> 00:57:36,205 - Watch out! - That he had been wrong. 576 00:57:36,230 --> 00:57:37,464 Ouch! Ah! 577 00:57:37,489 --> 00:57:40,324 - Let me go! Let me go! 578 00:57:40,733 --> 00:57:43,213 - Then he wondered if he was the only one at fault 579 00:57:43,238 --> 00:57:45,077 in this fatal story. 580 00:57:46,465 --> 00:57:48,874 If his punishment was not some kind of assault 581 00:57:48,899 --> 00:57:50,849 by the strong against the weak. 582 00:57:52,771 --> 00:57:55,331 A crime by society against the individual. 583 00:57:56,402 --> 00:57:58,878 A crime that started again every day. 584 00:57:58,956 --> 00:58:01,556 A crime that had gone on for nineteen years. 585 00:58:02,918 --> 00:58:04,917 That ought to speak to the citizens. 586 00:58:05,077 --> 00:58:07,662 - I already told you to stop shitting ink! 587 00:58:09,829 --> 00:58:10,279 - Ouch! 588 00:58:10,975 --> 00:58:12,614 Want some more? 589 00:58:15,445 --> 00:58:16,466 How do you like that? 590 00:58:16,491 --> 00:58:18,771 These questions asked and answered, 591 00:58:19,651 --> 00:58:22,211 he judged society and condemned it. 592 00:58:22,850 --> 00:58:24,930 He condemned it to his hatred. 593 00:58:27,018 --> 00:58:28,458 Oh! 594 00:58:28,949 --> 00:58:30,508 - What's gotten into you? 595 00:58:37,410 --> 00:58:38,769 Come on, Jean! 596 00:58:42,002 --> 00:58:43,922 Yes, yes, Jean! 597 00:59:31,236 --> 00:59:34,116 - If the millet grain under the millstone could think, 598 00:59:34,411 --> 00:59:37,690 it would probably think what this man thought. 599 00:59:38,141 --> 00:59:40,861 Human society had done him nothing but harm. 600 00:59:42,307 --> 00:59:45,467 The man was still good when he arrived at the penal colony. 601 00:59:46,427 --> 00:59:48,426 He felt himself becoming bad. 602 01:04:11,516 --> 01:04:13,036 No! No! 603 01:07:11,896 --> 01:07:13,216 Good morning, Mrs. Magloire. 604 01:07:13,376 --> 01:07:15,175 Good morning, Your Grace. 605 01:07:15,494 --> 01:07:19,054 That awful man is the talk of the whole town. 606 01:07:19,681 --> 01:07:22,896 Everyone's gossiping and talking your ear off. 607 01:07:23,307 --> 01:07:25,907 - Luckily, you're not like them. 608 01:07:26,407 --> 01:07:28,486 No, I'm not like them. 609 01:07:29,220 --> 01:07:30,899 I'm learning to read. 610 01:07:33,754 --> 01:07:37,633 Maybe one day, I'll be able to discuss the great authors with you 611 01:07:38,287 --> 01:07:40,828 - and understand what you're saying. - I don't doubt it. 612 01:07:40,853 --> 01:07:42,173 I don't doubt it. 613 01:07:45,444 --> 01:07:47,243 Your Grace, I tell you again: 614 01:07:47,403 --> 01:07:50,843 these flowers are useless, we'd be better off with lettuce. 615 01:07:51,375 --> 01:07:54,255 - I don't agree with you, Mrs. Magloire. 616 01:07:54,562 --> 01:07:56,922 Beauty is as useful as utility. 617 01:07:57,088 --> 01:07:58,328 Maybe even more. 618 01:07:58,955 --> 01:08:03,822 Bring me a chair, my dignity won't reach that branch. 619 01:08:09,674 --> 01:08:12,409 - You deserve for me to skip your breakfast. 620 01:08:12,433 --> 01:08:14,216 I found a basket. 621 01:08:14,241 --> 01:08:16,473 I put it on the edge of the well. 622 01:08:19,211 --> 01:08:22,011 - That's the silverware basket. - Maybe. 623 01:08:24,565 --> 01:08:27,125 - Your Grace, where did the silverware go? 624 01:08:27,404 --> 01:08:28,884 I don't know. 625 01:08:29,941 --> 01:08:33,261 - My God, it must have been the man from yesterday who stole it. 626 01:08:35,889 --> 01:08:39,688 I saw the way he was looking at the silverware last night. 627 01:08:46,698 --> 01:08:48,538 There, I knew it! 628 01:08:48,563 --> 01:08:50,683 He's not here anymore, he's gone! 629 01:08:57,803 --> 01:08:58,883 Your Grace! 630 01:09:01,161 --> 01:09:02,321 Your Grace. 631 01:09:02,921 --> 01:09:05,441 The man's gone, and the silverware's been stolen. 632 01:09:05,466 --> 01:09:08,425 I told you, those men are monsters. 633 01:09:09,540 --> 01:09:12,219 - Was that silverware really ours? 634 01:09:12,853 --> 01:09:14,373 Mrs. Magloire, 635 01:09:15,067 --> 01:09:18,746 I had kept that silverware wrongly, and for a very long time. 636 01:09:19,073 --> 01:09:20,792 It belonged to the poor. 637 01:09:22,007 --> 01:09:24,007 And what was that man? 638 01:09:24,198 --> 01:09:26,038 A poor man, obviously. 639 01:09:26,808 --> 01:09:28,086 Alas, Jesus, 640 01:09:28,246 --> 01:09:31,606 it's neither for me nor for miss, we don't care. 641 01:09:31,784 --> 01:09:35,383 But it's for Your Grace, what will he eat with now? 642 01:10:00,810 --> 01:10:02,010 Let's call the gendarmes. 643 01:10:02,636 --> 01:10:04,886 Your Grace is too kind, he'll end up with nothing left. 644 01:10:06,475 --> 01:10:08,818 I mean, you can't let yourself be robbed blind. 645 01:10:08,843 --> 01:10:12,923 Now you've got wooden cutlery. A bishop is entitled to comfort. 646 01:10:14,289 --> 01:10:15,529 Mrs. Magloire, 647 01:10:16,060 --> 01:10:18,700 An opulent priest is a contradiction. 648 01:10:19,689 --> 01:10:20,979 Your comfort is a luxury 649 01:10:21,004 --> 01:10:23,874 that would keep shouting in my ears, over and over: 650 01:10:24,336 --> 01:10:28,127 'Men are hungry, they're cold, there are poor people.' 651 01:10:29,113 --> 01:10:31,193 And there always will be. 652 01:10:31,353 --> 01:10:33,912 That's no reason to go without the essentials. 653 01:10:34,431 --> 01:10:36,287 Much less to let yourself be robbed. 654 01:10:36,312 --> 01:10:38,432 I have everything I need. 655 01:10:39,552 --> 01:10:44,179 - Help me, miss. When you have a big heart, you deserve honors and gilding. 656 01:10:44,891 --> 01:10:46,893 - I agree with you. 657 01:10:47,005 --> 01:10:48,088 My brother has a heart of gold. 658 01:10:49,685 --> 01:10:51,324 But don't confuse gold and gilding. 659 01:10:52,338 --> 01:10:55,218 If you think about it, gilding rarely covers gold. 660 01:10:58,144 --> 01:11:00,104 - Was there a theft, yes or no? 661 01:11:00,637 --> 01:11:02,957 When there's theft, there are gendarmes. 662 01:11:03,443 --> 01:11:06,443 Can you imagine, sweet Jesus, welcoming such a man? 663 01:11:07,076 --> 01:11:09,312 It's a blessing he only stole. 664 01:11:09,337 --> 01:11:11,097 It makes you shudder when you think about it. 665 01:11:11,576 --> 01:11:14,815 - No need to imagine dramas that haven't happened. 666 01:11:15,521 --> 01:11:17,041 But they will happen. 667 01:11:17,660 --> 01:11:20,620 That's why we need to call the gendarmes. 668 01:11:20,807 --> 01:11:22,088 Think of the others. 669 01:11:22,631 --> 01:11:24,631 Of the next people that animal will rob. 670 01:11:24,656 --> 01:11:28,375 Of the old women he'll frighten. Of the good men he'll betray. 671 01:11:28,535 --> 01:11:30,735 We have to turn him in, out of charity! 672 01:11:32,695 --> 01:11:34,774 I mean that he... 673 01:11:36,409 --> 01:11:37,370 Come in! 674 01:11:43,198 --> 01:11:43,831 Stop. 675 01:11:43,856 --> 01:11:44,976 Thank God. 676 01:11:45,604 --> 01:11:47,803 Well done, gentlemen, we were about to... 677 01:11:47,828 --> 01:11:49,183 Ah, there you are! 678 01:11:51,517 --> 01:11:52,637 And so? 679 01:11:53,270 --> 01:11:55,464 You didn't want to wake us, 680 01:11:55,489 --> 01:11:58,338 but to leave without saying goodbye... 681 01:12:00,527 --> 01:12:04,766 - We saw that guy running with a bag, like he was fleeing, so we caught him. 682 01:12:05,784 --> 01:12:09,298 He showed us his yellow passport when he arrived in town. 683 01:12:09,323 --> 01:12:10,883 He's a repeat offender. 684 01:12:11,171 --> 01:12:13,650 - Release is not freedom, then. 685 01:12:13,845 --> 01:12:16,686 You get out of the penal colony, but not out of the sentence. 686 01:12:16,711 --> 01:12:19,551 - Your Grace, here's what was in the bag. 687 01:12:20,031 --> 01:12:21,471 Silver cutlery. 688 01:12:22,124 --> 01:12:26,124 The bishopric's coat of arms is on the napkin wrapped around them, 689 01:12:26,541 --> 01:12:27,814 so I thought that... 690 01:12:27,839 --> 01:12:29,200 It's a misunderstanding. 691 01:12:29,669 --> 01:12:33,549 Those pieces do come from here, but they were given as a gift. 692 01:12:38,164 --> 01:12:40,843 And you had forgotten... 693 01:12:40,868 --> 01:12:42,705 'Monseigneur', isn't that a priest? 694 01:12:42,730 --> 01:12:46,683 - Be quiet. That's His Grace the bishop. 695 01:12:50,557 --> 01:12:51,757 The candlesticks. 696 01:13:02,337 --> 01:13:03,897 In that case. 697 01:13:04,192 --> 01:13:07,172 Sorry for disturbing you, Your Grace. 698 01:13:07,197 --> 01:13:07,742 No.You didn't disturb me. Gentlemen. 699 01:13:16,648 --> 01:13:17,608 Ladies. 700 01:13:38,446 --> 01:13:41,326 - I have no taste for gallows or scaffolds. 701 01:13:42,042 --> 01:13:43,359 - Punishment is necessary, or else it's chaos. 702 01:13:43,384 --> 01:13:45,625 And those men never stay innocent for very long. 703 01:13:46,512 --> 01:13:48,792 Look at the counterfeit money case. 704 01:13:48,817 --> 01:13:52,576 You doubted the culprit, but the prosecutor got a confession. 705 01:13:52,914 --> 01:13:54,240 - Oh? - Yes. 706 01:13:54,580 --> 01:13:56,500 That prosecutor is very clever. 707 01:13:56,531 --> 01:14:00,600 He made the old woman believe that the husband was sleeping elsewhere 708 01:14:00,625 --> 01:14:03,186 by showing her letters from a supposed mistress. 709 01:14:03,211 --> 01:14:05,691 The woman believed him and denounced her husband. 710 01:14:08,938 --> 01:14:12,258 - Where will that couple be tried? - At the assizes court. 711 01:14:13,484 --> 01:14:16,044 - Ah. And where will the prosecutor be tried? 712 01:14:17,237 --> 01:14:20,317 - Good day, Your Grace. - Good day, gentlemen. 713 01:14:23,609 --> 01:14:24,569 Your Grace. 714 01:14:45,906 --> 01:14:47,826 - Would you like a glass of water? 715 01:15:03,585 --> 01:15:05,630 - Mrs. Magloire, isn't it time to milk the cow 716 01:15:05,655 --> 01:15:07,415 and collect our eggs? 717 01:15:16,329 --> 01:15:17,769 Goodbye, sir. 718 01:15:26,295 --> 01:15:28,494 - Would you like to come sit down? 719 01:15:53,021 --> 01:15:56,301 I have not always been the man I am today. 720 01:15:59,614 --> 01:16:02,813 One day in Italy, many years ago, I... 721 01:16:03,546 --> 01:16:06,426 I lost the person I loved most in the world. 722 01:16:07,941 --> 01:16:10,355 That day, I was nothing but anger and violence. 723 01:16:10,380 --> 01:16:12,180 I blamed the whole world. 724 01:16:16,947 --> 01:16:18,787 I entered the religious life 725 01:16:19,247 --> 01:16:21,646 as others choose hatred. 726 01:16:22,999 --> 01:16:27,118 My faith was that of those who want to fight and evangelize. 727 01:16:27,818 --> 01:16:29,977 A faith full of certainties. 728 01:16:30,711 --> 01:16:31,910 Narrow-minded. 729 01:16:33,644 --> 01:16:35,484 A missionary's faith. 730 01:16:37,564 --> 01:16:39,594 Wherever I went, I had to convince 731 01:16:39,619 --> 01:16:40,899 and impose my faith. 732 01:16:44,380 --> 01:16:47,283 I had learned that a hermit with the worst reputation 733 01:16:47,308 --> 01:16:48,668 was at death's door. 734 01:16:51,499 --> 01:16:54,162 He had been presented to me as an enemy of the Church. 735 01:16:54,187 --> 01:16:56,867 A Convention member who had voted for the king's death. 736 01:16:59,037 --> 01:17:02,173 I saw it as another chance to prove my worth. 737 01:17:02,198 --> 01:17:06,157 To convince a lost soul to make peace with God. 738 01:17:32,031 --> 01:17:35,430 I was promised great misfortune for coming to see you. 739 01:17:35,643 --> 01:17:37,163 Plenty of both. 740 01:17:43,969 --> 01:17:46,928 - I no longer have the energy for such welcomes. 741 01:17:49,909 --> 01:17:53,389 People like to keep seeing you as they wish. 742 01:17:55,734 --> 01:17:57,094 I have my reputation. 743 01:17:59,603 --> 01:18:02,682 - You don't have much time left to change it. 744 01:18:03,486 --> 01:18:06,085 - I am indeed at the end of my road. 745 01:18:06,598 --> 01:18:08,838 But ending is a simple matter. 746 01:18:10,124 --> 01:18:11,844 I will die here tonight. 747 01:18:13,324 --> 01:18:14,604 Under the open sky. 748 01:18:16,939 --> 01:18:19,110 I am leaving because I want to. 749 01:18:20,549 --> 01:18:22,069 My time has come. 750 01:18:23,537 --> 01:18:26,137 I want to be free, even in my agony. 751 01:18:30,615 --> 01:18:34,413 - If you're certain, it would be a pity 752 01:18:34,438 --> 01:18:36,384 that we met for nothing. 753 01:18:40,048 --> 01:18:43,687 - If you came hoping to hear my confession, Father, 754 01:18:44,107 --> 01:18:46,547 you'll have eaten dust for nothing. 755 01:18:49,686 --> 01:18:53,125 - If I'm here, it's because you lost your way 756 01:18:53,150 --> 01:18:54,950 and because you need me. 757 01:18:57,931 --> 01:19:00,610 - I admit I voted for the tyrant's end. 758 01:19:02,618 --> 01:19:06,165 But it was also voting for the end of prostitution for women, 759 01:19:06,430 --> 01:19:10,509 the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. 760 01:19:11,050 --> 01:19:13,729 By voting for the republic, I voted for that. 761 01:19:14,349 --> 01:19:17,149 I voted for fraternity, for harmony. 762 01:19:18,689 --> 01:19:19,729 Dawn. 763 01:19:20,967 --> 01:19:24,159 - Maybe. But you're forgetting the Terror. 764 01:19:24,319 --> 01:19:27,164 There was '89, but there was also '93. 765 01:19:27,189 --> 01:19:29,110 - A cloud formed over 1,500 years. 766 01:19:29,959 --> 01:19:33,198 It finally burst, and now you're putting the thunderbolt on trial? 767 01:19:34,124 --> 01:19:37,403 - That lightning hasn't always struck the right place. 768 01:19:38,643 --> 01:19:41,363 - I will weep with you over the children of kings 769 01:19:41,612 --> 01:19:44,972 if you weep with me over the little ones of the people. 770 01:19:45,553 --> 01:19:48,150 - I weep for all. - Likewise. 771 01:19:50,703 --> 01:19:54,263 But if the scales must tip, let them tip toward the people. 772 01:19:54,937 --> 01:19:56,700 It has been longer that he has suffered. 773 01:20:04,469 --> 01:20:07,269 Not believing in the virtues of holy water, 774 01:20:12,779 --> 01:20:14,978 in the virgin birth 775 01:20:16,418 --> 01:20:20,018 or in the resurrection of a crucified man with a crown of thorns 776 01:20:20,870 --> 01:20:23,270 does not mean not believing at all. 777 01:20:36,105 --> 01:20:37,785 The human race exists. 778 01:20:59,009 --> 01:21:01,888 - I often see again the nobility of that face. 779 01:21:02,568 --> 01:21:04,488 Time written in his hands. 780 01:21:06,227 --> 01:21:08,747 That tear shed for the human race. 781 01:21:14,358 --> 01:21:16,198 God is in those moments. 782 01:21:20,950 --> 01:21:23,349 That man reconciled me with the world. 783 01:21:31,804 --> 01:21:35,084 Men are mothers, but they don't know it. 784 01:21:40,195 --> 01:21:41,154 Don't forget. 785 01:21:42,361 --> 01:21:43,841 Never forget. 786 01:21:45,485 --> 01:21:46,444 What, then? 787 01:21:48,884 --> 01:21:53,044 - That you promised me you'd become an honest man with that money. 788 01:21:57,522 --> 01:21:58,882 Jean Valjean. 789 01:22:01,389 --> 01:22:02,349 My brother. 790 01:23:14,451 --> 01:23:16,970 - Monseigneur's sister: - Jean Valjean was running away. 791 01:23:18,156 --> 01:23:20,836 He didn't know what, but he was fleeing. 792 01:23:33,504 --> 01:23:35,864 He felt a kind of anger. 793 01:23:36,223 --> 01:23:38,103 He didn't know against whom. 794 01:23:38,817 --> 01:23:41,977 He watched with concern as the kind of dreadful calm 795 01:23:42,002 --> 01:23:45,122 that the injustice of his misfortune had given him began to shake. 796 01:25:02,672 --> 01:25:03,752 Your arm. 797 01:25:03,823 --> 01:25:04,978 Go on! 798 01:25:13,298 --> 01:25:14,498 My brother. 799 01:25:20,924 --> 01:25:23,324 - A child: - Ah, it'll be fine, it'll be fine, it'll be fine 800 01:25:23,349 --> 01:25:26,268 Aristocrats to the lantern Ah, it'll be fine, it'll be fine, it'll be fine 801 01:25:26,698 --> 01:25:28,938 We'll hang the aristocrats 802 01:25:28,963 --> 01:25:31,243 Despotism will die out 803 01:25:31,537 --> 01:25:34,617 Freedom will triumph 804 01:25:35,034 --> 01:25:36,834 Ah, it'll be fine, it'll be fine, it'll be fine 805 01:25:36,994 --> 01:25:39,633 We have no more nobles or priests 806 01:25:39,928 --> 01:25:41,768 Ah, it'll be fine, it'll be fine, it'll be fine 807 01:25:41,793 --> 01:25:43,713 Equality will reign everywhere 808 01:25:51,704 --> 01:25:52,664 Hi. 809 01:25:56,921 --> 01:25:57,881 Hi. 810 01:26:02,944 --> 01:26:05,824 My coin, sir, it rolled under your foot. 811 01:26:09,323 --> 01:26:10,883 My forty-sous coin. 812 01:26:11,689 --> 01:26:13,049 It's mine. 813 01:26:13,923 --> 01:26:15,482 It's... my coin! 814 01:26:20,315 --> 01:26:21,275 Who are you? 815 01:26:22,035 --> 01:26:24,956 My name is Petit-Gervais, I'm a chimney sweep. 816 01:26:24,981 --> 01:26:26,661 You took my money. 817 01:26:26,874 --> 01:26:28,473 Give it back! 818 01:26:29,706 --> 01:26:30,302 Go away. 819 01:26:30,327 --> 01:26:33,292 Not without my coin! Go away, I said! 820 01:27:40,118 --> 01:27:41,078 Petit! 821 01:27:45,921 --> 01:27:47,001 Petit! 822 01:27:48,536 --> 01:27:50,895 Come back, I'll give you your coin back! 823 01:27:53,712 --> 01:27:54,992 Petit! 824 01:27:59,585 --> 01:28:00,825 Petit! 825 01:28:03,851 --> 01:28:04,891 Petit!! 826 01:28:23,823 --> 01:28:24,863 Petit!! 827 01:28:50,569 --> 01:28:51,808 Petit!! 828 01:29:00,797 --> 01:29:02,116 Petit!! 829 01:31:17,790 --> 01:31:18,847 Jean Valjean: 830 01:31:18,872 --> 01:31:21,570 A man's story is not just one man's story. 831 01:31:21,595 --> 01:31:24,515 It's also the story of everyone he meets. 832 01:31:27,173 --> 01:31:29,173 Those people are sometimes forgotten. 833 01:31:29,365 --> 01:31:31,925 Because their fate is less memorable, 834 01:31:31,950 --> 01:31:34,509 less extraordinary, less dramatic. 835 01:31:37,605 --> 01:31:40,324 Yet among them are truly exceptional souls. 836 01:31:40,484 --> 01:31:43,844 Souls who restore hope by narrowing the gap 837 01:31:43,869 --> 01:31:46,469 between what is and what should be. 838 01:31:48,018 --> 01:31:50,618 They do more than just show the way. 839 01:31:51,191 --> 01:31:54,151 They show you what's possible. 840 01:31:54,692 --> 01:31:56,372 They give you back your innocence. 841 01:32:13,407 --> 01:32:15,327 The dikes had broken. 842 01:32:19,479 --> 01:32:22,558 And since being the worst was no longer an option, 843 01:32:22,583 --> 01:32:25,983 from then on, he would have to be the best of men.