0 00:00:17,613 --> 00:00:20,824 The Sexual Life Of The Belgians 1950 - 1978 1 00:01:23,545 --> 00:01:25,345 My mother had nice tits. 2 00:01:25,446 --> 00:01:28,746 I remember them well. I sucked them for two years. 3 00:01:29,947 --> 00:01:33,548 Better and cheaper than powdered milk. 4 00:01:39,050 --> 00:01:40,951 Then came chips and lentils. 5 00:01:41,150 --> 00:01:43,751 They're filling with lots of vitamins. 6 00:01:46,152 --> 00:01:49,553 Cheap. - My God, he talks! 7 00:01:52,354 --> 00:01:55,255 At 13, I always wore shorts. 8 00:01:55,455 --> 00:01:57,455 Everyone laughs at me. 9 00:01:57,656 --> 00:01:58,956 But they show your nice thighs off. 10 00:01:59,457 --> 00:02:01,557 And your trousers won't wear out so quick. 11 00:02:01,757 --> 00:02:04,158 Yeah, and they're cheap. 12 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,361 On his days off, my dad looked after his pigeons. 13 00:02:14,562 --> 00:02:16,161 There are three kinds of pigeons: 14 00:02:16,362 --> 00:02:19,863 Those that win races, those we cook 15 00:02:20,263 --> 00:02:23,965 and my dad's, that fly away and never come back. 16 00:02:27,666 --> 00:02:29,066 No. 17 00:02:30,067 --> 00:02:33,067 When she was 18 my sister Ariane dressed like my mother. 18 00:02:44,471 --> 00:02:47,772 No! I won't wear that dress! 19 00:02:48,272 --> 00:02:50,373 I look ridiculous! 20 00:02:50,773 --> 00:02:52,674 No, no! 21 00:02:54,475 --> 00:02:57,876 On Sundays, after the mass, we went to the country. 22 00:03:11,980 --> 00:03:13,680 We could buy a car. 23 00:03:13,881 --> 00:03:16,281 Everyone's got one now. 24 00:03:16,482 --> 00:03:18,782 But bikes are healthy. 25 00:03:19,083 --> 00:03:21,283 And they're cheap. 26 00:03:22,484 --> 00:03:25,384 Bed and no dinner for you when we get home. 27 00:03:28,586 --> 00:03:31,186 One day Ariane found a stray dog. 28 00:03:32,587 --> 00:03:34,587 She named it Marouf. 29 00:03:34,787 --> 00:03:37,388 It's moulting again! 30 00:03:38,789 --> 00:03:41,589 Jerome, do something with that dog. 31 00:03:44,090 --> 00:03:47,491 It moults and scratches. 32 00:03:47,692 --> 00:03:50,493 Dogs like that ruin sofas. 33 00:03:50,693 --> 00:03:54,294 Sofas have to be replaced and they cost a lot. 34 00:03:55,694 --> 00:03:58,095 Jerome, please. 35 00:04:05,097 --> 00:04:09,299 Come on, boy, we're going for a walk. 36 00:04:09,699 --> 00:04:11,700 Wait, I'll come too. 37 00:04:17,602 --> 00:04:21,903 He hit it on the head with a hammer and threw it in a pit. 38 00:04:31,306 --> 00:04:32,907 Marouf! 39 00:04:40,409 --> 00:04:42,210 ... to take the hand 40 00:04:42,509 --> 00:04:46,611 of Fabiola de Mora y Aragon 41 00:04:46,811 --> 00:04:49,012 before you. - Yes. 42 00:04:49,212 --> 00:04:50,413 It's dead. 43 00:04:50,612 --> 00:04:56,714 Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, did you come of your own free will 44 00:04:56,914 --> 00:05:01,115 to join in holy matrimony with Baudouin, King of the Belgians? 45 00:05:01,316 --> 00:05:03,316 You killed it. 46 00:05:23,723 --> 00:05:25,723 A few weeks later she met a man 47 00:05:26,624 --> 00:05:28,925 and called him "darling". 48 00:05:37,327 --> 00:05:39,928 Before, she used to go to the market with mum. 49 00:05:40,128 --> 00:05:42,329 Ah, Noella. - The cherries are dear. 50 00:05:42,830 --> 00:05:45,130 She didn't use to like it. - 10 francs for the oranges, OK? 51 00:05:45,330 --> 00:05:46,231 No, 12 francs. 52 00:05:46,630 --> 00:05:48,931 Me neither. - 11 francs, the market's closing. 53 00:05:49,231 --> 00:05:50,732 They cost me 12 francs. 54 00:05:50,932 --> 00:05:53,133 The market's over. You won't sell them. 55 00:05:53,333 --> 00:05:55,333 OK, 11 francs. You want a kilo? 56 00:05:55,534 --> 00:05:57,133 No, half. 57 00:05:58,834 --> 00:06:02,135 Noella, why me? 58 00:06:02,336 --> 00:06:03,936 Here you are. 59 00:06:05,436 --> 00:06:08,338 Let's go, Martha. 60 00:06:10,338 --> 00:06:14,639 Aunt Martha was beautiful, but she always did what she pleased. 61 00:06:14,939 --> 00:06:17,140 She always dressed the same, 62 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:20,342 and never wore knickers. 63 00:06:21,741 --> 00:06:23,943 I liked Aunt Martha a lot. 64 00:06:27,144 --> 00:06:28,545 She didn't have any kids. 65 00:06:28,744 --> 00:06:32,545 She said the world was too horrible, but she liked life. 66 00:06:36,447 --> 00:06:39,748 Aunt Martha, why aren't things as we want them? 67 00:06:39,948 --> 00:06:42,048 It's because of that poof up there. 68 00:06:42,649 --> 00:06:45,149 She liked the cinema best. 69 00:06:45,349 --> 00:06:46,650 She took me there all the time. 70 00:06:46,850 --> 00:06:49,551 The first film she took me to was "Johnny Guitar". 71 00:06:51,251 --> 00:06:53,252 It was magic. 72 00:07:05,556 --> 00:07:07,857 How many men have you forgotten? 73 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:19,060 How many women do you remember? 74 00:07:20,261 --> 00:07:22,062 Are they real? 75 00:07:22,262 --> 00:07:25,563 Yes, but they live over the ocean. 76 00:07:25,763 --> 00:07:27,163 Is it far? 77 00:07:29,764 --> 00:07:31,665 They're going to kiss. 78 00:07:32,965 --> 00:07:34,966 Lie to me. 79 00:07:35,266 --> 00:07:38,467 Tell me you waited for me all these years. 80 00:07:39,668 --> 00:07:42,068 I waited for you all these years. 81 00:07:42,468 --> 00:07:44,169 Look, little love... 82 00:07:44,369 --> 00:07:47,570 I bet they end up getting married. 83 00:07:48,070 --> 00:07:51,671 She's going to steal his money? - What do you think, eh? 84 00:07:52,672 --> 00:07:55,572 I didn't stop loving you one second. 85 00:07:55,873 --> 00:07:58,474 I waited for you so long, Johnny. 86 00:08:01,474 --> 00:08:04,775 Why did you wait so long? 87 00:08:19,780 --> 00:08:22,181 I never saw my parents kiss. 88 00:08:22,481 --> 00:08:26,882 I wondered how they could have made a baby. 89 00:08:27,183 --> 00:08:28,984 Me, for example. 90 00:08:36,886 --> 00:08:39,586 It must have been on a special day. 91 00:08:39,887 --> 00:08:43,388 My father was a worker at the Lano textile factory. 92 00:08:43,588 --> 00:08:47,590 He worked 8 hours a day, with overtime some Saturdays, 93 00:08:47,789 --> 00:08:50,590 and came home at 5pm every day. 94 00:08:51,791 --> 00:08:55,692 I think it was that day the boss asked him to become foreman 95 00:08:55,893 --> 00:08:57,793 and he refused. 96 00:08:58,392 --> 00:09:01,793 "Foreman", that means look after the stock, 97 00:09:02,094 --> 00:09:05,795 orders, invoices, things to read and write. 98 00:09:06,795 --> 00:09:10,897 That was a problem for him, reading I mean. 99 00:09:11,597 --> 00:09:15,298 He was posing when he flicked through his newspaper. 100 00:09:15,499 --> 00:09:17,399 My father couldn't read or write. 101 00:09:26,902 --> 00:09:27,902 Hi! 102 00:09:41,307 --> 00:09:43,308 What you drinking, Noella? 103 00:09:43,508 --> 00:09:46,308 Six beers, please. 104 00:10:04,815 --> 00:10:07,315 Help me, goddamned! 105 00:10:08,216 --> 00:10:11,717 Not like that, you're fucking hurting me! 106 00:10:16,718 --> 00:10:18,819 What a wanker! 107 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,321 You're a pain in the neck. - Shut up! 108 00:10:25,521 --> 00:10:29,123 Go on, help me! 109 00:10:31,724 --> 00:10:34,125 Not so hard, sucker! 110 00:10:36,624 --> 00:10:40,927 God, what did I do to get such a stupid husband? 111 00:11:44,346 --> 00:11:47,148 Once in front of the ovary, 112 00:11:47,548 --> 00:11:49,949 I must have hesitated. 113 00:11:50,248 --> 00:11:52,549 But because others were pushing me up 114 00:11:52,749 --> 00:11:54,551 I had to give in. 115 00:11:55,250 --> 00:11:57,952 They always get you. 116 00:12:13,257 --> 00:12:16,057 You should never be ashamed of your body. 117 00:12:25,961 --> 00:12:28,562 When you grow up, you'll be a famous author. 118 00:12:28,761 --> 00:12:31,262 You'll surprise them all. 119 00:12:34,963 --> 00:12:36,964 Aunt Martha died this side of the ocean. 120 00:12:38,965 --> 00:12:41,865 For once, she wore knickers. 121 00:12:42,666 --> 00:12:44,266 Get away from there. 122 00:12:45,667 --> 00:12:48,968 Put a jumper on, you'll get fucking ill again. 123 00:12:54,569 --> 00:12:56,970 Look at this lazy slob. 124 00:12:57,271 --> 00:12:59,671 Jerome, wake up. 125 00:13:04,173 --> 00:13:05,774 Come on! 126 00:13:12,175 --> 00:13:14,876 For God's sake, Jerome! 127 00:13:15,177 --> 00:13:17,477 I think he's dead, Mum. 128 00:13:21,279 --> 00:13:23,079 The fool. 129 00:13:29,382 --> 00:13:31,482 It's hardly the right moment. 130 00:13:34,983 --> 00:13:38,084 Just before he gets his seniority bonus. 131 00:13:44,586 --> 00:13:46,487 Noella, 132 00:13:47,587 --> 00:13:50,088 I got you the cheapest one. 133 00:13:53,990 --> 00:13:57,290 You did well, Gilbert. The dead don't know. 134 00:13:59,391 --> 00:14:00,892 Go on, 15,000. 135 00:14:01,091 --> 00:14:03,592 15,000? Go away! 136 00:14:04,692 --> 00:14:07,293 I had to go to the quarry to get it. 137 00:14:07,594 --> 00:14:09,694 I brought it all the way back here, cut it... 138 00:14:09,894 --> 00:14:12,795 Cut what? - In all, it cost me 15,000. 139 00:14:12,995 --> 00:14:17,097 12,000, not a penny more. Or he won't get a tombstone. 140 00:14:18,197 --> 00:14:21,298 We can't bury Jerome without a tombstone. 141 00:14:23,699 --> 00:14:25,099 13,500 then. 142 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:27,400 12,000, and I'll pay cash. 143 00:14:31,202 --> 00:14:33,202 OK, 12,000. 144 00:14:33,702 --> 00:14:35,703 I was fond of Jerome. 145 00:14:36,202 --> 00:14:37,803 OK. 146 00:14:43,205 --> 00:14:44,705 Come on, let's go. 147 00:15:22,918 --> 00:15:26,419 My first sexual experience happened at Blankenberg. 148 00:15:26,719 --> 00:15:28,719 It was with Eddy. 149 00:15:40,423 --> 00:15:42,325 Do you want more? 150 00:15:47,326 --> 00:15:50,327 Blankenberg is cheaper than Knokke. 151 00:15:50,927 --> 00:15:53,728 Come and see my films, Jan. 152 00:15:54,028 --> 00:15:56,629 You've got Laurel and Hardy? - Of course. 153 00:16:04,632 --> 00:16:08,633 Always going inside. With all this fresh air. 154 00:16:08,833 --> 00:16:10,833 Kids today don't understand anything. 155 00:16:11,033 --> 00:16:12,935 They're too spoilt, they've got everything. 156 00:16:13,234 --> 00:16:14,935 They didn't live through the war. 157 00:16:19,737 --> 00:16:21,337 Do you want more? 158 00:16:34,641 --> 00:16:37,942 Suddenly, Eddy put his hand on my knee, 159 00:16:39,343 --> 00:16:41,844 then my buttock, 160 00:16:43,044 --> 00:16:45,245 and he grabbed my willy. 161 00:16:47,245 --> 00:16:49,446 It started to get hard, 162 00:16:50,046 --> 00:16:52,247 I quite liked it. 163 00:16:53,347 --> 00:16:56,548 Eddy wasn't a girl, 164 00:16:58,650 --> 00:17:01,350 but when he put my hand in his pants, 165 00:17:01,550 --> 00:17:03,351 I was sure. 166 00:17:07,252 --> 00:17:10,553 Suddenly, a white liquid spurted out of my hands, 167 00:17:13,354 --> 00:17:15,454 and then I came. 168 00:17:23,657 --> 00:17:25,258 One? 169 00:17:25,858 --> 00:17:29,659 I needed to compare my experience with Eddy. 170 00:17:29,859 --> 00:17:31,360 Two. 171 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,261 Here you are. Thank you. 172 00:17:46,165 --> 00:17:49,265 Take your places, for the next ride. 173 00:18:13,573 --> 00:18:17,775 She's easy, she kisses all the boys. 174 00:18:17,975 --> 00:18:19,775 I know. 175 00:18:39,582 --> 00:18:42,883 At school there was the most beautiful girl in the world. 176 00:18:45,084 --> 00:18:48,385 They say she came to school one day with dirty knickers. 177 00:18:48,585 --> 00:18:50,985 Everyone called her "Dirty knickers". 178 00:18:51,786 --> 00:18:55,287 I didn't care, I loved her. 179 00:18:55,787 --> 00:18:57,588 But I didn't tell her. 180 00:19:03,090 --> 00:19:06,190 One afternoon, the first warm winds from the Azores 181 00:19:06,390 --> 00:19:08,192 blew over Harelbeek. 182 00:19:08,392 --> 00:19:10,892 Ginger Leon pulled her knickers off. 183 00:19:29,898 --> 00:19:32,599 Here you are. - My name's Christine. 184 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,201 Bucquoy loves Dirty Knickers. 185 00:19:42,003 --> 00:19:46,304 Everyone at school says we're engaged. 186 00:19:46,904 --> 00:19:48,704 Well, if that's what they say. 187 00:19:48,905 --> 00:19:51,306 They call me Christine now. 188 00:19:52,306 --> 00:19:55,406 I never had dirty knickers. 189 00:19:55,607 --> 00:19:59,708 Ginger made it up, because I didn't want to be his girlfriend. 190 00:19:59,908 --> 00:20:01,308 Wait. 191 00:20:08,811 --> 00:20:10,312 Look. 192 00:20:10,812 --> 00:20:14,112 It's true they're not dirty. - They're for you. 193 00:20:14,413 --> 00:20:15,914 Thanks. 194 00:20:18,114 --> 00:20:19,715 Look. 195 00:20:29,718 --> 00:20:32,519 I've never shown anyone before. 196 00:20:42,322 --> 00:20:44,923 We'll stay together for ever. 197 00:20:48,824 --> 00:20:51,425 How are you? - Alright. 198 00:20:51,625 --> 00:20:54,426 I brought you a book. - That's kind of you. 199 00:20:54,626 --> 00:20:58,228 Do you like it? - It's not really my sort of book. 200 00:20:58,427 --> 00:20:59,928 You know what? 201 00:21:00,128 --> 00:21:03,529 My family's taking me to the Belgian Congo. 202 00:21:03,729 --> 00:21:04,729 When? 203 00:21:05,030 --> 00:21:06,830 In three days' time. 204 00:21:07,330 --> 00:21:09,531 But we're not supposed to part? 205 00:21:09,731 --> 00:21:12,932 When I get back, we'll get married. 206 00:21:14,032 --> 00:21:16,233 I will have a houseboy, 207 00:21:16,433 --> 00:21:20,034 and monkeys, giraffes and even elephants in the garden. 208 00:21:20,335 --> 00:21:23,235 When will you come back? - I've a lot to do. 209 00:21:23,936 --> 00:21:28,137 I'm going. Promise to come and say goodbye? 210 00:21:32,638 --> 00:21:34,639 Dirty knickers! 211 00:21:35,540 --> 00:21:37,440 Dirty knickers! 212 00:21:40,341 --> 00:21:41,941 For the holidays, 213 00:21:42,141 --> 00:21:45,142 we predicted the anticyclone centred round the Isle of Wight 214 00:21:45,342 --> 00:21:49,244 would influence our region favourably. 215 00:21:51,745 --> 00:21:54,446 They forecast a dry and hot summer. 216 00:22:02,549 --> 00:22:04,249 I give up, 217 00:22:05,749 --> 00:22:07,950 you're too strong for me. 218 00:22:08,550 --> 00:22:11,151 Do you want to watch Laurel and Hardy? 219 00:22:11,351 --> 00:22:13,852 No, I've seen them all. 220 00:22:16,752 --> 00:22:20,054 It's no better with girls, if that's what you think. 221 00:22:20,253 --> 00:22:22,255 I'll see next summer. 222 00:22:46,162 --> 00:22:49,663 The following summer, they built on the campsite 223 00:22:49,863 --> 00:22:51,964 and I never saw Eddy again. 224 00:23:15,171 --> 00:23:17,373 I saw Dirty Knickers again in May '68. 225 00:23:24,175 --> 00:23:26,776 It's been so long, Dirty Knick... sorry, 226 00:23:27,476 --> 00:23:30,677 Christine. - Nearly ten years. 227 00:23:31,677 --> 00:23:33,678 You haven't changed. 228 00:23:34,678 --> 00:23:37,479 You, yes. Well no, I mean... 229 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,580 Is it true I haven't changed? 230 00:23:48,983 --> 00:23:51,383 Remember Leon? 231 00:23:51,583 --> 00:23:54,284 Yes, Ginger. 232 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,000 The sun took its time to rise, 233 00:24:44,301 --> 00:24:47,601 and a cold wind from the Shetlands rustled my face. 234 00:24:48,302 --> 00:24:50,503 Nothing wakes you up better than that. 235 00:25:13,410 --> 00:25:17,512 Now for the results: Moretti, 6,5/20. 236 00:25:17,911 --> 00:25:20,612 Your notion of the ideal woman is really out of time. 237 00:25:22,213 --> 00:25:24,814 Pirana, seven. 238 00:25:25,214 --> 00:25:27,414 A true lump of meat. 239 00:25:27,715 --> 00:25:30,316 You'll always be a butcher's son. 240 00:25:30,916 --> 00:25:35,017 Brusselmans, desperate five. I wonder what you've learnt. 241 00:25:37,118 --> 00:25:39,619 Mia, 16. 242 00:25:39,919 --> 00:25:41,619 A slight tedious, but not bad. 243 00:25:41,819 --> 00:25:45,421 You've already the questions, the answers will follow soon. 244 00:25:47,822 --> 00:25:49,422 Bucquoy, 245 00:25:55,724 --> 00:25:57,425 19. 246 00:25:59,125 --> 00:26:00,926 Very good. 247 00:26:03,327 --> 00:26:05,827 Come and see me after class. 248 00:26:11,129 --> 00:26:12,929 When I passed my exams, 249 00:26:13,129 --> 00:26:15,731 I wanted to continue studying in Brussels. 250 00:26:49,042 --> 00:26:52,443 You'll start in the offices at Lano tomorrow. 251 00:26:52,742 --> 00:26:54,943 Everything's arranged. - But... 252 00:26:55,143 --> 00:26:59,845 It's a good job at Lano. Your father never suffered there. 253 00:27:00,045 --> 00:27:01,546 But no... 254 00:27:35,757 --> 00:27:38,758 On Saturdays, we went out with Pirana and Moretti. 255 00:27:53,662 --> 00:27:55,863 It was Mia's birthday, 256 00:27:56,063 --> 00:27:59,065 the school swot type, a bit shy, 257 00:27:59,264 --> 00:28:01,465 stiff, badly dressed. 258 00:28:07,067 --> 00:28:11,568 She was in love with Pirana but he had other ideas. 259 00:28:21,172 --> 00:28:22,972 You're not dancing? 260 00:28:25,573 --> 00:28:29,074 Why? - I don't like the music. 261 00:28:29,274 --> 00:28:31,575 What turns you up? 262 00:28:31,875 --> 00:28:35,776 Jazz, bebop, Miles Davis... 263 00:28:36,076 --> 00:28:38,477 Oh, niggers' music! 264 00:28:48,380 --> 00:28:52,482 You don't seem to like girls. You're not gay by any chance? 265 00:28:53,382 --> 00:28:55,983 If they're all like you, it's no wonder, isn't it? 266 00:28:56,283 --> 00:28:57,983 Charming. 267 00:29:03,185 --> 00:29:06,386 You know your mum still has credit at the butcher's? 268 00:29:11,588 --> 00:29:13,388 Bye. 269 00:29:32,495 --> 00:29:35,195 If you're bored, why don't you scram? 270 00:29:35,395 --> 00:29:38,596 I'm waiting for Pirana. - Me too. 271 00:29:40,497 --> 00:29:43,098 You haven't done with it! 272 00:29:43,398 --> 00:29:45,698 Pirana likes girls with big tits not like yours... 273 00:29:45,899 --> 00:29:47,500 Bastard! 274 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:51,500 I'm sorry. 275 00:29:51,901 --> 00:29:54,302 Come on, we'll wipe it off. - OK. 276 00:29:54,502 --> 00:29:56,102 Come on. - No, it's alright. 277 00:29:56,302 --> 00:29:59,003 It won't take a minute. 278 00:31:00,723 --> 00:31:01,723 My mother... 279 00:31:03,124 --> 00:31:04,725 Andre! 280 00:31:08,326 --> 00:31:11,126 God damn it! You'll get it later. 281 00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:14,328 And you Bucquoy, don't come here ever again! 282 00:31:14,527 --> 00:31:18,629 Get out of here, dirty little bastard! 283 00:31:34,634 --> 00:31:37,835 Joyce, Miller, Camus, Steinbeck... 284 00:31:43,737 --> 00:31:46,438 You could become a writer... 285 00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:49,839 Who knows, win a Pulitzer prize. 286 00:32:21,950 --> 00:32:24,050 You'll never be anything. 287 00:32:25,651 --> 00:32:27,652 You know nothing of life. 288 00:32:28,552 --> 00:32:31,153 Above all, you don't know the value of money. 289 00:32:36,855 --> 00:32:39,356 Life is so expensive. 290 00:32:50,659 --> 00:32:53,960 It was summer when I arrived in Brussels. 291 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,162 A warm wind blew in from the Balearics over Harelbeek 292 00:32:57,461 --> 00:32:59,262 caressing my face. 293 00:32:59,562 --> 00:33:01,463 I wandered around. 294 00:33:36,374 --> 00:33:38,775 What are you drinking? 295 00:33:40,476 --> 00:33:42,776 It's on the house. 296 00:33:43,576 --> 00:33:44,977 A Palm. 297 00:33:48,178 --> 00:33:50,378 You've a nice face, you know? 298 00:33:51,479 --> 00:33:53,679 My name's Greta. 299 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,681 Herman J. Claes, writer. 300 00:33:58,781 --> 00:34:01,382 Jan Bucquoy, from Harelbeek... 301 00:34:02,483 --> 00:34:04,583 I write too. 302 00:34:05,183 --> 00:34:06,984 What do you write? 303 00:34:12,185 --> 00:34:15,987 It's the story of two bulls. One old, one young. 304 00:34:16,187 --> 00:34:18,588 They're climbing a hill, and at the top, 305 00:34:18,788 --> 00:34:22,889 the young one notices a field with thousands of cows. 306 00:34:23,089 --> 00:34:25,590 The young one, all excited, says to the old one: 307 00:34:25,790 --> 00:34:28,391 "Let's run over and screw one. " 308 00:34:28,591 --> 00:34:32,092 Wait, wait... The old one says: 309 00:34:32,292 --> 00:34:35,593 "Let's go slowly, 310 00:34:35,793 --> 00:34:37,894 and screw all of them. " 311 00:34:50,098 --> 00:34:51,898 Where will you sleep? 312 00:34:52,098 --> 00:34:54,399 I don't know, I've just arrived. 313 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:56,600 I've a bedroom upstairs. 314 00:35:01,401 --> 00:35:03,002 You coming? 315 00:35:18,807 --> 00:35:21,708 The "Dolle Mol" was the cafe that initiated me. 316 00:35:22,209 --> 00:35:25,809 Greta taught me the kamasutra. It took a few months. 317 00:35:28,110 --> 00:35:32,412 Her friend, Esther, introduced me to the revolutionary theories. 318 00:35:34,512 --> 00:35:38,613 She was a hardline Marxist Leninist and libertarian activist. 319 00:35:39,114 --> 00:35:41,214 I liked Esther a lot. 320 00:35:41,415 --> 00:35:45,916 Children, Santa Claus and Father Christmas don't exist. 321 00:35:46,116 --> 00:35:50,417 They are your parents or any other adults in disguise 322 00:35:50,617 --> 00:35:53,419 who give you presents if you're good. 323 00:35:53,619 --> 00:35:57,820 Accuse your parents of pretending to be Father Christmas 324 00:35:58,020 --> 00:36:01,121 and they will admit it's true and that they never stopped lying to you. 325 00:36:01,421 --> 00:36:04,022 "Support the Vietnamese People" 326 00:36:04,222 --> 00:36:08,123 I enrolled at the University in both political science and history of arts. 327 00:36:09,223 --> 00:36:10,924 But I didn't take exams. 328 00:36:13,325 --> 00:36:16,226 I was a member of the revolutionary avant-garde. 329 00:36:16,426 --> 00:36:19,027 My job was to educate the reactionary masses 330 00:36:19,327 --> 00:36:22,528 and whittle away at the moral basis of the imperialist state. 331 00:36:24,029 --> 00:36:25,629 Politics, it's all humbug. 332 00:36:25,829 --> 00:36:29,330 You can study thanks to workers' sweat. 333 00:36:37,433 --> 00:36:40,734 Understand, the Vietnam war, 334 00:36:40,934 --> 00:36:43,835 the exploitation of the third world only profit the big capital. 335 00:36:44,036 --> 00:36:47,537 If we don't oppose them, we become their objective allies, see? 336 00:36:47,736 --> 00:36:51,537 It's all Greek to me. I don't give a damn about politics. 337 00:36:57,740 --> 00:37:00,241 "La Chinoise" is showing at the Arenberg. Fancy going? 338 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,141 Yes, I would. 339 00:37:04,241 --> 00:37:07,542 As the bourgeoisie develops, - i. e. The capital - 340 00:37:07,743 --> 00:37:10,744 so does the proletariat: The modern working class, 341 00:37:10,943 --> 00:37:13,344 who only live if they find work 342 00:37:13,644 --> 00:37:17,146 and don't find any as soon as the work stops feeding the capital. 343 00:37:19,146 --> 00:37:21,847 Workers, forced to sell themselves every day 344 00:37:22,047 --> 00:37:24,749 are a merchandise like any other commercial product. 345 00:37:24,949 --> 00:37:28,150 Consequently they suffer all the vicissitudes of competition, 346 00:37:28,350 --> 00:37:30,550 all the ups and downs of the market. 347 00:37:30,751 --> 00:37:33,551 With machines, and the division of labour, 348 00:37:33,851 --> 00:37:37,152 the worker's labour is stripped of its individual characteristics 349 00:37:37,453 --> 00:37:41,154 and its usefulness. The capitalist... 350 00:37:49,156 --> 00:37:53,758 As a result, workers' wages are just enough 351 00:37:53,958 --> 00:37:57,159 to live and propagate their race. 352 00:37:57,459 --> 00:37:59,359 So, the more work becomes 353 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,961 repugnant the more salaries decline. 354 00:38:02,261 --> 00:38:04,461 Allow me to ask your daughter's hand, Madam. 355 00:38:05,362 --> 00:38:07,562 Therese is too young. 356 00:38:09,863 --> 00:38:12,164 Allow me to insist. 357 00:38:13,264 --> 00:38:16,765 There's nothing to insist. She's too young. 358 00:38:17,466 --> 00:38:20,166 Mother... - Shut up! 359 00:38:20,466 --> 00:38:22,867 You could have found better than that. 360 00:38:26,068 --> 00:38:28,069 She's pregnant. 361 00:38:30,070 --> 00:38:33,671 Get out! Never come back here. 362 00:38:43,074 --> 00:38:46,875 I was ready to live openly my petit bourgeois contradictions. 363 00:38:47,075 --> 00:38:50,076 But as Lenin said, 364 00:38:50,476 --> 00:38:52,977 "revolution is a daily practice". 365 00:39:07,081 --> 00:39:09,182 You want more? - No. 366 00:39:25,487 --> 00:39:27,589 Marriage is expensive. 367 00:39:29,289 --> 00:39:31,190 You're still young. 368 00:39:35,691 --> 00:39:38,892 And you. Have you thought long and hard? 369 00:39:39,092 --> 00:39:41,293 Mum, stop. 370 00:39:47,195 --> 00:39:50,295 Listen, it's me or your mother. 371 00:39:57,498 --> 00:39:59,899 We married on October 17. 372 00:40:13,403 --> 00:40:15,904 I forgot my wallet in Harelbeek. 373 00:40:16,705 --> 00:40:18,905 It doesn't matter, Mum. I'll pay. 374 00:40:27,708 --> 00:40:29,409 It lasted three years. 375 00:40:29,609 --> 00:40:33,110 Then came the first oil shock. 376 00:40:33,510 --> 00:40:36,411 Same as usual? 377 00:40:45,814 --> 00:40:49,815 Jan Bucquoy, choose. Me or the Dolle Mol. 378 00:40:57,418 --> 00:41:00,518 And the need to feel good, to totally control oneself, 379 00:41:00,819 --> 00:41:02,719 and in a suitable way, 380 00:41:03,019 --> 00:41:06,721 that all paves the way to the most severe forbidding 381 00:41:06,921 --> 00:41:08,521 of the next stage, 382 00:41:08,721 --> 00:41:11,422 the forbidding of masturbating. 383 00:41:14,523 --> 00:41:17,724 Children's sexual inhibitions form the basis 384 00:41:17,924 --> 00:41:22,626 of the fixation on the parental environment: The family. 385 00:41:23,126 --> 00:41:25,327 It's at the basis of the lack of independence 386 00:41:25,627 --> 00:41:27,427 in thought and deed. 387 00:41:27,627 --> 00:41:32,129 I want to know the truth: Where were you last night? 388 00:41:33,329 --> 00:41:36,330 You're not my mother, I don't have to tell you. 389 00:41:42,232 --> 00:41:43,632 Naughty. 390 00:42:08,941 --> 00:42:11,441 Jan Bucquoy, I hate you! 391 00:42:20,345 --> 00:42:23,946 A breeze from Scandinavia, licked my face. 392 00:42:24,245 --> 00:42:25,946 Nothing better for meditating. 393 00:42:30,448 --> 00:42:33,049 I took an apartment in Anderlecht. 394 00:42:50,254 --> 00:42:53,755 Therese, it's me. - You disgust me. 395 00:42:59,158 --> 00:43:02,058 He wanted to live together. 396 00:43:03,258 --> 00:43:05,659 I didn't feel ready. 397 00:43:06,459 --> 00:43:09,260 But he promised eternal love. 398 00:43:09,860 --> 00:43:11,862 He'd only love me. 399 00:43:13,461 --> 00:43:15,862 What a bastard. 400 00:43:17,763 --> 00:43:21,365 I got it all, the big game: 401 00:43:22,465 --> 00:43:25,966 Lies, infidelity. 402 00:43:28,566 --> 00:43:31,167 Always dragged in the shit. 403 00:43:32,368 --> 00:43:36,269 Monsieur was preparing the permanent revolution. 404 00:43:38,370 --> 00:43:41,871 You know the type, a century too late. 405 00:43:43,771 --> 00:43:48,274 The only work he did was to try and write a book. 406 00:43:49,573 --> 00:43:51,675 A masterpiece. 407 00:43:54,175 --> 00:43:55,976 My foot! 408 00:43:59,377 --> 00:44:03,678 Monsieur didn't want to be the watchdog of the bourgeoisie. 409 00:44:05,779 --> 00:44:07,679 What a joke. 410 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:15,682 All he left me, was two kids. 411 00:44:17,983 --> 00:44:19,983 What a son of a bitch. 412 00:44:41,691 --> 00:44:45,092 Who are you with? Young and pretty? 413 00:44:45,292 --> 00:44:47,292 No, Therese, I'm alone. 414 00:44:47,492 --> 00:44:49,693 I warn you, you'll never see the kids again. 415 00:44:49,993 --> 00:44:53,094 I swear I'm alone. It's the heater you can hear. 416 00:44:53,394 --> 00:44:55,895 It's that little slut you met working on the porn mag. 417 00:44:56,195 --> 00:44:59,096 That so-called model. What happened to the romantic poet? 418 00:44:59,296 --> 00:45:02,697 Poet, my ass! Pornographer, yes! 419 00:45:07,599 --> 00:45:09,499 I can't live without, 420 00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:11,500 I can't live with. 421 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,401 Without it, everything's wrong. 422 00:45:14,601 --> 00:45:18,502 No skin without head. No hot without dog. 423 00:45:19,303 --> 00:45:21,203 No woman, no love. 424 00:45:21,403 --> 00:45:24,404 It's hard with, but everything stops without. 425 00:45:25,604 --> 00:45:30,007 The heart beats slower, the neck stiffens without women. 426 00:45:30,406 --> 00:45:32,807 Legs would be paralyzed. 427 00:45:33,007 --> 00:45:35,909 Without a woman, we are blunted. 428 00:45:36,208 --> 00:45:38,509 Without a woman, we stay in the cupboard. 429 00:45:38,709 --> 00:45:40,809 It's hard with, impossible without. 430 00:45:55,715 --> 00:45:59,716 It's the story of a frog, with a big, big mouth. 431 00:46:00,216 --> 00:46:02,217 She goes off to discover the universe 432 00:46:02,417 --> 00:46:06,418 and suddenly meets a big beast with large brown spots: 433 00:46:06,618 --> 00:46:09,519 "Good day. Who are you? - I'm a cow. " 434 00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:12,120 "And what are you eating? - I'm eating grass. " 435 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,321 "That's interesting. " 436 00:46:14,620 --> 00:46:17,822 And she goes on... and meets lots of animals... 437 00:46:18,021 --> 00:46:22,424 and then, flap, flap, the flap of huge wings. 438 00:46:22,624 --> 00:46:25,624 A huge animal sits down at the edge of a lake 439 00:46:25,825 --> 00:46:29,925 with a long beak and neck, perched on one leg. 440 00:46:30,626 --> 00:46:33,527 "Good day. Who are you?" 441 00:46:33,827 --> 00:46:37,028 "I'm a heron and I eat frogs 442 00:46:37,228 --> 00:46:39,329 with big mouths... " 443 00:46:39,529 --> 00:46:42,030 "That's interesting. " 444 00:47:39,549 --> 00:47:42,850 Listen, Therese, I'm with two great chicks. 445 00:47:43,050 --> 00:47:47,451 One is called Cathy, the other I don't know. 446 00:47:48,251 --> 00:47:52,153 I'm making love to both of them. It's great. 447 00:47:53,153 --> 00:47:56,253 Cathy's got her legs wide open, 448 00:47:56,454 --> 00:47:59,055 her fanny all wet, 449 00:47:59,355 --> 00:48:02,055 and she comes sitting on my penis. 450 00:48:03,556 --> 00:48:06,457 And the other one just sat on my mouth. 451 00:48:45,570 --> 00:48:47,471 Therese didn't call again. 452 00:48:54,373 --> 00:48:56,273 Look who it is. JB. 453 00:48:56,774 --> 00:48:58,674 Jan Bucquoy. 454 00:49:01,576 --> 00:49:04,276 Haven't seen you for ages. 455 00:49:08,277 --> 00:49:10,278 Come on, don't be shy. 456 00:49:34,986 --> 00:49:37,187 I liked Cecile a lot, 457 00:49:37,587 --> 00:49:41,688 but her new false teeth had torn my foreskin. 458 00:49:53,191 --> 00:49:56,593 What you doing there? - None of your business. 459 00:50:23,102 --> 00:50:25,503 Is she nearly finished? 460 00:50:25,703 --> 00:50:28,703 Who? - My mother. 461 00:50:29,204 --> 00:50:32,705 Who's your mother? - Cecile. 462 00:50:35,205 --> 00:50:37,206 In my opinion, yes. 463 00:50:45,109 --> 00:50:48,410 I'm going then. 464 00:50:50,811 --> 00:50:52,811 Will you walk me home? 465 00:50:53,211 --> 00:50:55,512 How old are you? 466 00:50:56,712 --> 00:50:59,813 Don't worry. I've got French letters. 467 00:51:00,013 --> 00:51:01,514 Good, let's go. 468 00:51:21,321 --> 00:51:24,621 You remind me of Sterling Hyden 469 00:51:24,822 --> 00:51:27,623 in "Johnny Guitar". 470 00:51:30,824 --> 00:51:34,525 What did he say to Joan Crawford? 471 00:51:38,426 --> 00:51:41,527 "How many men have you forgotten?" 472 00:51:42,528 --> 00:51:46,929 "How many women do you remember?" 473 00:52:06,635 --> 00:52:09,737 Shit, it's Tony's gang. 474 00:52:09,936 --> 00:52:13,437 They're after me. About a leather jacket... 475 00:52:25,241 --> 00:52:28,642 Less proud now, eh? Where is it? 476 00:52:28,942 --> 00:52:31,443 I don't know. I know nothing about a leather jacket. 477 00:52:31,644 --> 00:52:33,544 What? A leather jacket? 478 00:53:16,358 --> 00:53:20,059 It could have been a love story like in the movies. 479 00:53:20,659 --> 00:53:22,160 But, as Magritte said: 480 00:53:22,460 --> 00:53:23,860 "Art isn't life. " 481 00:53:24,060 --> 00:53:27,662 You know what? 482 00:53:27,862 --> 00:53:30,963 You don't know nothing. Nothing at all. 483 00:53:31,763 --> 00:53:34,163 Wanker. Let's go. 484 00:53:45,167 --> 00:53:46,768 Can you change the music? 485 00:53:46,968 --> 00:53:48,869 Leave if you don't like it. 486 00:53:49,069 --> 00:53:52,270 Come on, don't start. Looking for trouble? 487 00:53:52,470 --> 00:53:55,071 Calm down, Jan. That's enough. 488 00:53:55,270 --> 00:53:57,671 What's the matter? You want a fight? 489 00:53:58,172 --> 00:54:00,673 Watch it, mate. 490 00:54:00,873 --> 00:54:04,874 I'll do you right in. 491 00:54:11,276 --> 00:54:13,577 They weren't too expensive? 492 00:54:13,776 --> 00:54:17,578 Don't worry, Mum, there was a sale at the florist. 493 00:54:28,582 --> 00:54:30,782 You coming again Sunday? 494 00:54:30,983 --> 00:54:33,683 I don't know. I'm very busy. 495 00:54:38,384 --> 00:54:39,985 You know, 496 00:54:40,885 --> 00:54:43,086 the flowers, you shouldn't have. 497 00:54:43,787 --> 00:54:45,987 Don't waste your money. 498 00:54:54,690 --> 00:54:58,291 It would be cheaper to come back and live with me. 499 00:55:31,502 --> 00:55:33,203 Sure, I was angry. 500 00:55:35,603 --> 00:55:39,005 Angry that she never held me in her arms. 501 00:55:39,905 --> 00:55:43,806 In any case, I went for the most expensive. 502 00:56:10,315 --> 00:56:12,215 FOR SALE 503 00:56:14,716 --> 00:56:19,017 With the money from the house, I paid 8-years living allowances. 504 00:56:44,926 --> 00:56:47,226 See you next week. 505 00:57:26,039 --> 00:57:28,941 This is how you make a Molotov cocktail: 506 00:57:29,140 --> 00:57:30,941 Take a glass bottle, 507 00:57:31,141 --> 00:57:34,142 fill it with an inflammable liquid, 508 00:57:34,342 --> 00:57:37,743 like petrol stolen from a car. 509 00:57:42,345 --> 00:57:44,946 You must add a drop of soap or oil 510 00:57:45,146 --> 00:57:47,746 to make the liquid greasy. 511 00:57:49,847 --> 00:57:53,248 You can also add some nails, some gravel, 512 00:57:53,449 --> 00:57:55,949 to strengthen the impact. 513 00:58:00,650 --> 00:58:02,351 Then, 514 00:58:04,752 --> 00:58:06,452 mix it all up. 515 00:58:08,753 --> 00:58:12,855 Take a bit of cloth, dipped in petrol 516 00:58:13,355 --> 00:58:17,756 which we'll fix to the bottle with a piece of cork. 517 00:58:21,558 --> 00:58:25,659 Light the cloth and throw the bottle at the target. 518 00:58:26,659 --> 00:58:31,060 When the bottle hits a hard surface, it will explode. 519 00:58:33,262 --> 00:58:36,462 Is that clear? Any questions? 520 00:58:49,267 --> 00:58:52,567 And now, the nitroglycerine formula. 521 00:59:03,171 --> 00:59:07,372 When Franco died, I spat on his tomb in Madrid. 522 00:59:08,472 --> 00:59:11,873 In Stammheim, Ulrike, Andreas, Gudrun 523 00:59:12,073 --> 00:59:14,975 and Ingrid were murdered in their cell. 524 00:59:16,175 --> 00:59:18,476 I became a hardcore vegetarian. 525 00:59:19,977 --> 00:59:23,777 Oh yes, Jan Bucquoy, what a mess, that bloke. 526 00:59:23,978 --> 00:59:25,779 It was unreal. 527 00:59:25,978 --> 00:59:28,979 I remember when I met him, he was depressed... 528 00:59:29,180 --> 00:59:32,380 He was heavy, heavy... He didn't stop, this, that. 529 00:59:32,581 --> 00:59:36,182 He'd just left his wife, Therese, and it was bad. 530 00:59:36,382 --> 00:59:39,883 I just wanted to fuck. That's all. 531 00:59:40,083 --> 00:59:43,384 He went on and on about sexual freedom. 532 00:59:43,684 --> 00:59:47,385 But if I wanted to go and party on my own, no way. 533 00:59:47,585 --> 00:59:51,587 He caused a scene, shouted, the whole works! 534 00:59:51,786 --> 00:59:55,888 And then one day, he left and went to Germany. 535 01:00:00,289 --> 01:00:02,190 I saw him a year later. 536 01:00:02,590 --> 01:00:05,891 He was much better. 537 01:00:06,091 --> 01:00:09,492 Less depressed, more sure of himself. 538 01:00:09,693 --> 01:00:11,593 He was alright. 539 01:00:12,093 --> 01:00:15,795 I think then we could have got something together. 540 01:00:19,496 --> 01:00:21,697 But it was too late. 541 01:00:48,605 --> 01:00:51,706 I had become more sure of myself with women. 542 01:00:57,108 --> 01:01:00,009 Hello. I want to make love to you. 543 01:01:42,822 --> 01:01:45,524 You know why I wanted to make love with you? 544 01:01:46,924 --> 01:01:51,326 I don't know. My charm, my intelligence? 545 01:01:52,826 --> 01:01:54,227 No. 546 01:01:56,927 --> 01:01:59,228 My eyes, my body? 547 01:01:59,728 --> 01:02:01,229 No. 548 01:02:03,729 --> 01:02:08,131 Having savoured the artist, you fell in love with the man. 549 01:02:10,232 --> 01:02:11,633 No. 550 01:02:17,834 --> 01:02:20,835 You realized immediately I was the man of your life? 551 01:02:22,535 --> 01:02:26,137 No, you're the first man I've met with no telly. 552 01:02:40,842 --> 01:02:44,043 To be loved for what I was I bought a TV - a Grundig 553 01:02:44,243 --> 01:02:47,444 colour, with a big screen and remote control. 554 01:02:48,644 --> 01:02:50,645 On credit, of course. 555 01:03:18,454 --> 01:03:21,055 Why do you like making love to me? 556 01:03:25,656 --> 01:03:29,157 Because you're the nicest man I've ever met. 557 01:03:44,063 --> 01:03:46,763 "Everything Is Alright" 558 01:03:47,763 --> 01:03:49,464 I liked Daisy a lot. 559 01:03:49,764 --> 01:03:53,865 But one day she met a man, and they opened a snack bar together. 560 01:03:54,065 --> 01:03:57,166 And I started meat again. - Closing time! 561 01:04:46,083 --> 01:04:47,783 I liked them all... 562 01:04:49,184 --> 01:04:50,884 Women... 563 01:04:52,084 --> 01:04:54,885 Fat ones, thin ones, 564 01:04:55,086 --> 01:04:57,486 small ones, tall ones, 565 01:04:58,487 --> 01:05:01,487 brunettes, black-haired, 566 01:05:01,687 --> 01:05:05,088 yellow ones, red ones, blue ones, 567 01:05:06,189 --> 01:05:07,890 rainbows... 568 01:05:21,894 --> 01:05:25,395 Whales, tramways, 569 01:05:27,195 --> 01:05:30,497 seals, teddy bears, 570 01:05:33,498 --> 01:05:35,199 the killers... 571 01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:42,201 The Midnight Express. 572 01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:46,302 Apples, bloody marys, walkie-talkies, 573 01:05:46,502 --> 01:05:50,503 summer festivals, sofas, secrets, pears, 574 01:05:50,703 --> 01:05:53,905 untouchable long-necks, parasites, 575 01:05:54,104 --> 01:05:56,306 milk shakes. I forgot loads, 576 01:05:56,505 --> 01:05:57,806 cargoes... 577 01:05:58,406 --> 01:06:02,707 Mezzanines, the ones who came from the cold, I loved them all. Kisses, 578 01:06:02,908 --> 01:06:04,808 sleepwalkers... I found that... 579 01:06:05,008 --> 01:06:07,910 sorbets... nothing is more beautiful than a woman. 580 01:06:10,510 --> 01:06:13,611 Then I met Melanie, through the small ads. 581 01:06:13,812 --> 01:06:17,912 "Independent and dynamic woman, likes sport, reading, cinema, 582 01:06:18,113 --> 01:06:22,014 Lacan, and men who want something other than a mother or maid. " 583 01:06:27,716 --> 01:06:29,816 She said man was a biological accident, 584 01:06:30,017 --> 01:06:32,817 a woman gone wrong, a moving foetus. 585 01:06:33,017 --> 01:06:35,518 That to be male was a handicap 586 01:06:35,718 --> 01:06:38,419 and manhood an illness. 587 01:06:38,619 --> 01:06:41,620 And that I was emotionally paralysed. 588 01:06:44,721 --> 01:06:48,222 Bar always full, always in a good mood. 589 01:07:16,031 --> 01:07:20,433 Women had changed, and so had I. 590 01:07:24,534 --> 01:07:28,135 I got into art, pure art, in a big way. 591 01:07:35,737 --> 01:07:37,438 What are you reading? 592 01:07:38,338 --> 01:07:40,539 "The Immortal" by Robbe-Grillet. 593 01:07:40,739 --> 01:07:43,040 Oh I know it. It's a bore. 594 01:07:54,644 --> 01:07:58,745 I heard it's over with Melanie? - Yes, I got rid of her. 595 01:08:00,245 --> 01:08:03,447 I'm available too. - And Sylvain? 596 01:08:03,647 --> 01:08:05,948 We had nothing to say to each other. 597 01:08:19,552 --> 01:08:22,053 What are you doing tonight? 598 01:08:22,253 --> 01:08:24,654 Why, you want a fuck? 599 01:08:40,659 --> 01:08:44,360 I'm not interested in men who only think about fucking. 600 01:08:55,463 --> 01:08:57,864 Do you still have your radio show? 601 01:09:04,067 --> 01:09:07,468 Yes, literature, novels... And you? 602 01:09:08,067 --> 01:09:10,568 I write every night. 603 01:09:11,069 --> 01:09:13,770 Still that famous novel? 604 01:09:13,969 --> 01:09:16,370 Yes, I went back to it. 605 01:09:20,172 --> 01:09:22,673 Who have you invited on your programme? 606 01:09:23,573 --> 01:09:25,374 What? 607 01:09:25,673 --> 01:09:28,074 Who did you invite on your last programme? 608 01:09:29,274 --> 01:09:31,176 Pierre Mertens. 609 01:09:33,076 --> 01:09:35,176 Why do we write, Pierre Mertens? 610 01:09:35,377 --> 01:09:38,677 Like Michaux said, to get out of the chaos, 611 01:09:38,878 --> 01:09:41,679 to be loved like Genet, 612 01:09:42,078 --> 01:09:46,080 or as Nabokov said, to drive back the beast? 613 01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:49,982 Do you write to please women? 614 01:09:52,982 --> 01:09:57,484 I think of my female readers, 615 01:09:57,984 --> 01:10:01,285 but I also think 616 01:10:01,485 --> 01:10:04,686 of Kafka, 617 01:10:05,087 --> 01:10:09,888 who knew a book should be like an axe 618 01:10:10,088 --> 01:10:12,689 to chop through frozen sea in August. 619 01:10:12,889 --> 01:10:17,490 I also think of Borges who dreamed there was one book 620 01:10:17,590 --> 01:10:19,391 that all writers shared, 621 01:10:19,591 --> 01:10:24,292 like one bread and wine at the last supper. 622 01:10:24,493 --> 01:10:26,793 And others like Simone Weil, 623 01:10:26,994 --> 01:10:30,595 saying we need poetry like we need bread, 624 01:10:30,795 --> 01:10:33,896 or Ingeborg Backman who retorted: 625 01:10:34,096 --> 01:10:38,097 "Yes, but a bread that grates, and is sometimes between the teeth. " 626 01:10:39,597 --> 01:10:42,998 You never felt like writing about homosexuality? 627 01:10:46,500 --> 01:10:48,401 No, because... 628 01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:52,201 Into the mike, please. 629 01:10:53,002 --> 01:10:56,203 Because every literary work 630 01:10:56,403 --> 01:10:58,804 is more or less autobiographical. 631 01:10:59,004 --> 01:11:03,905 Even "Madame Bovary", which we all know is about the author, 632 01:11:04,105 --> 01:11:07,506 even Poe's short stories, or Borges' fiction... 633 01:11:07,707 --> 01:11:11,708 If we read Flaubert's letters or those of Kafka, 634 01:11:11,909 --> 01:11:15,310 they're all the letters of a writer. 635 01:11:16,310 --> 01:11:19,811 Pierre Mertens and Marlene married on July 21 at Knokke. 636 01:11:20,011 --> 01:11:23,412 The wedding was intimate, in the presence of the Brussels gentry. 637 01:11:24,512 --> 01:11:27,213 Pierre Mertens was given the Order of Leopold II, 638 01:11:27,413 --> 01:11:29,513 in front of a Court Guard. 639 01:11:40,017 --> 01:11:44,818 I've thought about it, and I want to live with you. 640 01:11:47,620 --> 01:11:50,121 There's been a misunderstanding, Melanie. 641 01:11:50,421 --> 01:11:55,022 You're a really nice girl, rich, young, full of life, 642 01:11:55,222 --> 01:11:57,923 I'm just a nobody, I'm not the man for you. 643 01:11:58,624 --> 01:12:01,124 That's for me to decide, no? 644 01:12:01,324 --> 01:12:03,825 You know, I'm polygamous, 645 01:12:04,025 --> 01:12:07,426 I live in bars, I can't do housework, 646 01:12:07,626 --> 01:12:09,627 I've got no money, 647 01:12:10,227 --> 01:12:13,428 I'm not the bloke for you. 648 01:12:17,230 --> 01:12:18,930 Don't you love me? 649 01:12:19,330 --> 01:12:21,431 It's not that, but... 650 01:12:22,231 --> 01:12:24,531 I have to finish my book. 651 01:12:47,939 --> 01:12:50,840 Pirana, hi. - Alright? 652 01:12:53,341 --> 01:12:57,043 What you doing here? On your own? - You can see that. 653 01:12:57,442 --> 01:13:00,444 And you? - Me too, I'm alone. 654 01:13:06,945 --> 01:13:10,046 Fancy a walk? - Well, yes. 655 01:13:11,246 --> 01:13:15,248 I think it's stopped raining. I can close the umbrella. 656 01:13:15,549 --> 01:13:18,649 Can I go with you? - Of course. 657 01:13:18,849 --> 01:13:22,050 I'll follow you. - OK. This way. 658 01:13:36,455 --> 01:13:37,956 It was Christmas. 659 01:13:38,155 --> 01:13:42,057 An icy wind from Bering rose over Harelbeek. 660 01:13:43,658 --> 01:13:45,958 She sat in front of me. 661 01:13:46,358 --> 01:13:49,859 Her half-open blouse disclosed her firm and pointed tits, 662 01:13:50,059 --> 01:13:54,261 - ivory-coloured - ready for my greedy mouth. 663 01:14:03,364 --> 01:14:05,865 She took off her white gloves first, 664 01:14:06,065 --> 01:14:08,866 and I watched her hungrily. 665 01:14:18,169 --> 01:14:20,669 Peter Benoit's requiem. I like it. 666 01:14:21,570 --> 01:14:25,571 But Mozart's is the best of all. 667 01:14:26,271 --> 01:14:29,872 His spirit is close to the Christian concept of death. 668 01:14:30,073 --> 01:14:33,874 I know nothing about classical music. 669 01:14:34,774 --> 01:14:36,774 It's people who interest me. 670 01:14:37,775 --> 01:14:41,276 I want to live in an equal world, where we can all be happy. 671 01:14:41,476 --> 01:14:45,877 Mozart spoke of that too. He wrote to his father: 672 01:14:46,077 --> 01:14:49,979 "Death is man's true happiness" 673 01:14:50,380 --> 01:14:54,480 and he thanked God for enabling him to recognize death 674 01:14:54,681 --> 01:14:57,382 as the key to our beatitude. 675 01:14:57,581 --> 01:15:01,282 God doesn't exist and Mozart worked for the elite, 676 01:15:02,283 --> 01:15:05,484 whilst most people have to earn a living, 677 01:15:05,685 --> 01:15:08,285 with stupid, inhumane work. 678 01:15:08,485 --> 01:15:10,986 Men are exploited as merchandise. 679 01:15:11,186 --> 01:15:13,986 You have to contest that. Mozart didn't. 680 01:15:19,788 --> 01:15:22,289 I'm writing a book. 681 01:15:22,990 --> 01:15:26,291 To earn my living, I write for porn mags. 682 01:15:28,492 --> 01:15:31,193 No, the book I want to write is... 683 01:15:31,393 --> 01:15:33,493 Sex. 684 01:15:35,994 --> 01:15:39,395 No... sex, reality, feelings, day to day things... 685 01:15:39,596 --> 01:15:42,596 Mozart talked about that too when he spoke of death. 686 01:15:42,796 --> 01:15:45,398 Yes, but I'm interested in life. 687 01:15:53,100 --> 01:15:55,200 I'm finishing my book. 688 01:15:56,001 --> 01:16:00,202 It's nice to finish and start love. 689 01:16:01,803 --> 01:16:03,303 Yeah. 690 01:16:11,006 --> 01:16:12,506 It was Christmas. 691 01:16:12,706 --> 01:16:16,708 An icy wind from the Bering straits blew over Harelbeek. 692 01:16:18,808 --> 01:16:21,409 She sat in front of me. 693 01:16:22,710 --> 01:16:24,610 I was cold. 694 01:16:28,911 --> 01:16:31,012 She took me in her arms 695 01:16:32,213 --> 01:16:34,613 and squeezed me hard. 696 01:16:35,013 --> 01:16:39,615 Her half-open blouse disclosed her firm, pointed, ivory tits. 697 01:16:41,215 --> 01:16:44,216 Ready for my greedy mouth. 698 01:16:51,519 --> 01:16:53,619 I liked her tits a lot. 699 01:17:56,040 --> 01:18:01,441 End Of Part One