1 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:18,925 THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE BELGIANS 1950 - 1978 2 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,164 My mother had nice tits. 3 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,682 I remember them well. I sucked them for two years. 4 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,487 Better and cheaper than powdered milk. 5 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:40,843 Then came chips and lentils. 6 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,725 They're filling with lots of vitamins. 7 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,527 Cheap. - My God, he talks! 8 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,204 At 13, I always wore shorts. 9 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,402 Everyone laughs at me. 10 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:58,886 But they show your nice thighs off. 11 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,482 And your trousers won't wear out so quick. 12 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,047 Yeah, and they're cheap. 13 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:14,246 On his days off, my dad looked after his pigeons. 14 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,090 There are three kinds of pigeons: 15 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,807 those that win races, those we cook 16 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,886 and my dad's, that fly away and never come back. 17 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,011 No. 18 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:33,003 When she was 18 my sister Ariane dressed like my mother. 19 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,648 No! I won't wear that dress! 20 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,322 I look ridiculous! 21 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:52,603 N'), no! 22 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,802 On Sundays, after the mass, we went to the country. 23 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:13,564 We could buy a car. 24 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,161 Everyone's got one now. 25 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,727 But bikes are healthy. 26 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:21,161 And they're cheap. 27 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,250 Bed and no dinner for you when we get home. 28 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,091 One day Ariane found a stray dog. 29 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,442 She named it Marouf. 30 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:37,291 It's moulting again! 31 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,530 Jerome, do something with that dog. 32 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,402 It moults and scratches. 33 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,365 Dogs like that ruin sofas. 34 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,167 Sofas have to be replaced and they cost a lot. 35 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,000 Jerome, please. 36 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,209 Come on, boy, we're going for a walk. 37 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,568 Wait, I'll come too. 38 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,769 He hit it on the head with a hammer and threw it in a pit. 39 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,804 Marouf! 40 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,129 ...to take the hand 41 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,450 of Fabiola de Mora y Aragon 42 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,847 before you. - Yes. 43 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:50,280 It's dead. 44 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:56,601 Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, did you come of your own free will 45 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,010 to join in holy matrimony with Baudouin, King of the Belgians? 46 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,168 You killed it. 47 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,642 A few weeks later she met a man 48 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,921 and called him "darling". 49 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,846 Before, she used to go to the market with mum. 50 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,281 Ah, Noella. - The cherries are dear. 51 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,041 She didn't use to like it. - 10 francs for the oranges, OK? 52 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,207 No, 12 francs. 53 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,921 Me neither. - 11 francs, the market's closing. 54 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,690 They cost me 12 francs. 55 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,042 The market's over. You won't sell them. 56 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,242 OK, 11 francs. You want a kilo? 57 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,090 No, half. 58 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,042 Noella, why me? 59 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:03,844 Here you are. 60 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,244 Let's go, Martha. 61 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,564 Aunt Martha was beautiful, but she always did what she pleased. 62 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,087 She always dressed the same, 63 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:20,329 and never wore knickers. 64 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,921 I liked Aunt Martha a lot. 65 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:28,451 She didn't have any kids. 66 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,486 She said the world was too horrible, but she liked life. 67 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,642 Aunt Martha, why aren't things as we want them? 68 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:42,002 It's because of that poof up there. 69 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,046 She liked the cinema best. 70 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,605 She took me there all the time. 71 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,531 The first film she took me to was "Johnny Guitar". 72 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,168 It was magic. 73 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,767 How many men have you forgotten? 74 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,008 How many women do you remember? 75 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,003 Are they real? 76 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,488 Yes, but they live over the ocean. 77 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,091 Is it far? 78 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,563 They're going to kiss. 79 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,922 Lie to me. 80 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,408 Tell me you waited for me all these years. 81 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,000 I waited for you all these years. 82 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,084 Look, little love... 83 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,489 I bet they end up getting married. 84 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,601 She's going to steal his money? - What do you think, eh? 85 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,444 I didn't stop loving you one second. 86 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,411 I waited for you so long, Johnny. 87 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,648 Why did you wait so long? 88 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,047 I never saw my parents kiss. 89 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,769 I wondered how they could have made a baby. 90 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:28,889 Me, for example. 91 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,531 It must have been on a special day. 92 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,247 My father was a worker at the Lano textile factory. 93 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,490 He worked 8 hours a day, with overtime some Saturdays, 94 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:50,490 and came home at 5pm every day. 95 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,565 I think it was that day the boss asked him to become foreman 96 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:57,728 and he refused. 97 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,727 "Foreman", that means look after the stock, 98 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,686 orders, invoices, things to read and write. 99 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,845 That was a problem for him, reading I mean. 100 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,241 He was posing when he flicked through his newspaper. 101 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,369 My father couldn't read or write. 102 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:27,921 Hi! 103 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,282 What you drinking, Noella? 104 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,290 Six beers, please. 105 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,286 Help me, goddamned! 106 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,727 Not like that, you're fucking hurting me! 107 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,768 What a wanker! 108 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,291 You're a pain in the neck. - Shut up! 109 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:29,041 Go on, help me! 110 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,086 Not so hard, sucker! 111 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:40,849 God, what did I do to get such a stupid husband? 112 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,090 Once in front of the ovary, 113 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,847 I must have hesitated. 114 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,441 But because others were pushing me up 115 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:54,529 I had to give in. 116 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,851 They always get you. 117 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,010 You should never be ashamed of your body. 118 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,491 When you grow up, you'll be a famous author. 119 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,206 You'll surprise them all. 120 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,928 Aunt Martha died this side of the ocean. 121 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,804 For once, she wore knickers. 122 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,204 Get away from there. 123 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,888 Put ajumper on, you'll get fucking ill again. 124 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:57,006 Look at this lazy slob. 125 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,686 Jerome, wake up. 126 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,770 Come on! 127 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,931 For God's sake, Jerome! 128 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,487 I think he's dead, Mum. 129 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,044 The fool. 130 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,482 It's hardly the right moment. 131 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,083 Just before he gets his seniority bonus. 132 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,489 Noella, 133 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,046 I got you the cheapest one. 134 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,243 You did well, Gilbert. The dead don't know. 135 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:00,845 Go on, 15,000. 136 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,611 15,000? Go away! 137 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:07,331 I had to go to the quarry to get it. 138 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:09,682 I brought it all the way back here, cut it... 139 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,770 Cut what? - In all, it cost me 15,000. 140 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:17,124 12,000, not a penny more. Or he won't get a tombstone. 141 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,243 We can't bury Jerome without a tombstone. 142 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,091 13,500 then. 143 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,408 12,000, and I'll pay cash. 144 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,162 OK, 12,000. 145 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,648 I was fond of Jerome. 146 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:37,804 OK. 147 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:44,685 Come on, let's go. 148 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,401 My first sexual experience happened at Blankenberg. 149 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,688 It was with Eddy. 150 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:42,283 Do you want more? 151 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,250 Blankenberg is cheaper than Knokke. 152 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,730 Come and see my films, Jan. 153 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,571 You've got Laurel and Hardy? - Of course. 154 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,605 Always going inside. With all this fresh air. 155 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,768 Kids today don't understand anything. 156 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,928 They're too spoilt, they've got everything. 157 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:14,929 They didn't live through the war. 158 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,324 Do you want more? 159 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,882 Suddenly, Eddy put his hand on my knee, 160 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,806 then my buttock, 161 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,247 and he grabbed my willy. 162 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,521 It started to get hard, 163 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,281 I quite liked it. 164 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,569 Eddy wasn't a girl, 165 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,371 but when he put my hand in his pants, 166 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,403 I was sure. 167 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,602 Suddenly, a white liquid spurted out of my hands, 168 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,482 and then I came. 169 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,250 one? 170 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,640 I needed to compare my experience with Eddy. 171 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,365 Two. 172 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,321 Here you are. Thank you. 173 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:49,283 Take your places, for the next ride. 174 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:17,809 She's easy, she kisses all the boys. 175 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,809 I know. 176 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,882 At school there was the most beautiful girl in the world. 177 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,368 They say she came to school one day with dirty knickers. 178 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,006 Everyone called her "Dirty knickers". 179 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,247 I didn't care, I loved her. 180 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,564 But I didn't tell her. 181 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,203 One afternoon, the first warm winds from the Azores 182 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,164 blew over Harelbeek. 183 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,840 Ginger Leon pulled her knickers off. 184 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,611 Here you are. - My name's Christine. 185 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,209 Bucquoy loves Dirty Knickers. 186 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:46,244 Everyone at school says we're engaged. 187 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,683 Well, if that's what they say. 188 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,326 They call me Christine now. 189 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,403 I never had dirty knickers. 190 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:59,650 Ginger made it up, because I didn't want to be his girlfriend. 191 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:01,330 Wait. 192 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,290 Look. 193 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,128 It's true they're not dirty. - They're for you. 194 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:15,845 Thanks. 195 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,690 Look. 196 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,484 I've never shown anyone before. 197 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:44,931 We'll stay together for ever. 198 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,451 How are you? - Alright. 199 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,450 I brought you a book. - That's kind of you. 200 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,281 Do you like it? - It's not really my sort of book. 201 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,005 You know what? 202 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,568 My family's taking me to the Belgian Congo. 203 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:04,761 When? 204 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:06,844 In three days' time. 205 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:09,567 But we're not supposed to part? 206 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,969 When I get back, we'll get married. 207 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,242 I will have a houseboy, 208 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,126 and monkeys, giraffes and even elephants in the garden. 209 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,324 When will you come back? - I've a lot to do. 210 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,210 I'm going. Promise to come and say goodbye? 211 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,642 Dirty knickers! 212 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,489 Dirty knickers! 213 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:42,010 For the holidays, 214 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,204 we predicted the anticyclone centred round the Isle of Wight 215 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,291 would influence our region favourably. 216 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,445 They forecast a dry and hot summer. 217 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,329 l give "P, 218 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,007 you're too strong for me. 219 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,166 Do you want to watch Laurel and Hardy? 220 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:13,886 No, I've seen them all. 221 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,088 It's no better with girls, if that's what you think. 222 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,282 I'll see next summer. 223 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,642 The following summer, they built on the campsite 224 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,002 and I never saw Eddy again. 225 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:17,361 I saw Dirty Knickers again in May '68. 226 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,806 It's been so long, Dirty Knick... sorry, 227 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,643 Christine. - Nearly ten years. 228 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,648 You haven't changed. 229 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,450 You, yes. Well no, I mean... 230 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,567 ls it true I haven't changed? 231 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,401 Remember Leon? 232 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,251 Yes, Ginger. 233 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,130 The sun took its time to rise, 234 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,642 and a cold wind from the Shetlands rustled my face. 235 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:50,567 Nothing wakes you up better than that. 236 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,610 Now for the results: Moretti, 6,5120. 237 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,651 Your notion of the ideal woman is really out of time. 238 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,846 Pirana, seven. 239 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,521 A true lump of meat. 240 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,371 You'll always be a butcher's son. 241 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,124 Brusselmans, desperate five. I wonder what you've learnt. 242 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,646 Mia, 16. 243 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,644 A slight tedious, but not bad. 244 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,447 You've already the questions, the answers will follow soon. 245 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,490 BucqLIOV, 246 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,529 19. 247 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,969 Very good. 248 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:05,840 Come and see me after class. 249 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,003 When I passed my exams, 250 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,771 I wanted to continue studying in Brussels. 251 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,527 You'll start in the offices at Lano tomorrow. 252 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,007 Everything's arranged. - But... 253 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,842 It's a good job at Lano. Your father never suffered there. 254 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,610 But no... 255 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,764 On Saturdays, we went out with Pirana and Moretti. 256 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,881 It was Mia's birthday, 257 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,050 the school swot type, a bit shy, 258 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,527 stiff, badly dressed. 259 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,608 She was in love with Pirana but he had other ideas. 260 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,123 You're not dancing? 261 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,201 Why? - I don't like the music. 262 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,721 What turns you up? 263 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,931 Jazz, bebop, Miles Davis... 264 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,566 Oh, niggers' music! 265 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,610 You don't seem to like girls. You're not gay by any chance? 266 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,125 If they're all like you, it's no wonder, isn't it? 267 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,049 Charming. 268 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,483 You know your mum still has credit at the butcher's? 269 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,523 Bye. 270 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,285 If you're bored, why don't you scram? 271 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,643 I'm waiting for Pirana. - Me too. 272 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,131 You haven't done with it! 273 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,801 Pirana likes girls with big tits not like yours... 274 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,570 Bastard! 275 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,606 I'm sorry. 276 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,400 Come on, we'll wipe it off. - OK. 277 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,170 Come on. - No, it's alright. 278 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,125 It won't take a minute. 279 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:01,767 My mother... 280 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,770 Andre! 281 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,210 God damn it! You'll get it later. 282 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,404 And you Bucquoy, don't come here ever again! 283 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,650 Get out of here, dirty little bastard! 284 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,883 Joyce, Miller, Camus, Steinbeck... 285 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,451 You could become a writer... 286 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,928 Who knows, win a Pulitzer prize. 287 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,202 You'll never be anything. 288 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,768 You know nothing of life. 289 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,246 Above all, you don't know the value of money. 290 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,446 Life is so expensive. 291 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,043 It was summer when I arrived in Brussels. 292 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,323 A warm wind blew in from the Balearics over Harelbeek 293 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,363 caressing my face. 294 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,603 I wandered around. 295 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,881 What are you drinking? 296 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,847 It's on the house. 297 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,130 A Palm. 298 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,521 You've a nice face, you know? 299 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,807 My name's Greta. 300 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,767 Herman J. Claes, writer. 301 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,491 Jan Bucquoy, from Harelbeek... 302 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,648 I write too. 303 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,044 What do you write? 304 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,046 It's the story of two bulls. One old, one young. 305 00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:18,641 They're climbing a hill, and at the top, 306 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,970 the young one notices a field with thousands of cows. 307 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,686 The young one, all excited, says to the old one: 308 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,451 "Let's run over and screw one." 309 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,201 Wait, wait... The old one says: 310 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,643 "Let's go slowly, 311 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,002 and screw all of them." 312 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,003 Where will you sleep? 313 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,487 I don't know, I've just arrived. 314 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,728 I've a bedroom upstairs. 315 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,124 You coming? 316 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,764 The "Dolle Mol" was the cafe that initiated me. 317 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,841 Greta taught me the kamasutra. It took a few months. 318 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,444 Her friend, Esther, introduced me to the revolutionary theories. 319 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,730 She was a hardline Marxist Leninist and libertarian activist. 320 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,248 I liked Esther a lot. 321 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:46,002 Children, Santa Claus and Father Christmas don't exist. 322 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,524 They are your parents or any other adults in disguise 323 00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:53,564 who give you presents if you're good. 324 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,004 Accuse your parents of pretending to be Father Christmas 325 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,283 and they will admit it's true and that they never stopped lying to you. 326 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,206 "Support the Vietnamese People" 327 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,246 I enrolled at the University in both political science and history of arts. 328 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,050 But! didn't take exams. 329 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,364 I was a member of the revolutionary avant-garde. 330 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,166 My job was to educate the reactionary masses 331 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,723 and whittle away at the moral basis of the imperialist state. 332 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,770 Politics, it's all humbug. 333 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,442 You can study thanks to workers' sweat. 334 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,848 Understand, the Vietnam war, 335 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,010 the exploitation of the third world only profit the big capital. 336 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,682 If we don't oppose them, we become their objective allies, see? 337 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,646 It's all Greek to me. I don't give a damn about politics. 338 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,366 "La Chinoise" is showing at the Arenberg. Fancy going? 339 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,291 Yes, I would. 340 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,688 As the bourgeoisie develops, - i.e. the capital - 341 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,850 so does the proletariat: the modern working class, 342 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,520 who only live if they find work 343 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:17,281 and don't find any as soon as the work stops feeding the capital. 344 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,971 Workers, forced to sell themselves every day 345 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,845 are a merchandise like any other commercial product. 346 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,249 Consequently they suffer all the vicissitudes of competition, 347 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,647 all the ups and downs of the market. 348 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,730 With machines, and the division of labour, 349 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,322 the worker's labour is stripped of its individual characteristics 350 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,241 and its usefulness. The capitalist... 351 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:53,842 As a result, workers' wages are just enough 352 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,328 to live and propagate their race. 353 00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,522 So, the more work becomes 354 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,127 repugnant the more salaries decline. 355 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,607 Allow me to ask your daughter's hand, Madam. 356 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,687 Therese is too young. 357 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,287 Allow me to insist. 358 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,842 There's nothing to insist. She's too young. 359 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,285 Mother... - Shut up! 360 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,001 You could have found better than that. 361 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,162 She's pregnant. 362 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,761 Get out! Never come back here. 363 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,000 I was ready to live openly my petit bourgeois contradictions. 364 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,170 But as Lenin said, 365 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,091 "revolution is a daily practice". 366 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,288 You want more? - No. 367 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,682 Marriage is expensive. 368 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,243 You're still young. 369 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,969 And you. Have you thought long and hard? 370 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,367 Mum, stop. 371 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,529 Listen, it's me or your mother. 372 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,041 We married on October 17. 373 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,091 I forgot my wallet in Harelbeek. 374 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,121 It doesn't matter, Mum. I'll pay. 375 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,569 It lasted three years. 376 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,321 Then came the first oil shock. 377 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,610 Same as usual? 378 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:50,005 Jan Bucquoy, choose. Me or the Dolle Mol. 379 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,729 And the need to feel good, to totally control oneself, 380 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,888 and in a suitable way, 381 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,841 that all paves the way to the most severe forbidding 382 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:08,690 of the next stage, 383 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,611 the forbidding of masturbating. 384 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,883 Children 's sexual inhibitions form the basis 385 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:22,768 of the fixation on the parental environment: the family. 386 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:25,527 It's at the basis of the lack of independence 387 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:27,563 in thought and deed. 388 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:32,322 I want to know the truth: where were you last night? 389 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,484 You're not my mother, I don't have to tell you. 390 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,810 Naughty- 391 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,611 Jan Bucquoy, I hate you! 392 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,081 A breeze from Scandinavia, licked my face. 393 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,050 Nothing better for meditating. 394 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,205 I took an apartment in Anderlecht. 395 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,927 Therese, it's me. - You disgust me. 396 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:02,210 He wanted to live together. 397 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,766 I didn't feel ready. 398 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,404 But he promised eternal love. 399 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,002 He'd only love me. 400 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,961 What a bastard. 401 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,441 I got it all, the big game: 402 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,047 lies, infidelity. 403 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,331 Always dragged in the shit. 404 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,451 Monsieur was preparing the permanent revolution. 405 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,047 You know the type, a century too late. 406 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,449 The only work he did was to try and write a book. 407 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:51,927 A masterpiece. 408 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,169 My foot! 409 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,929 Monsieur didn't want to be the watchdog of the bourgeoisie. 410 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,843 What a joke. 411 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,846 All he left me, was two kids. 412 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,162 What a son of a bitch. 413 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,282 Who are you with? Young and pretty? 414 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,448 No, Therese, I'm alone. 415 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,927 I warn you, you'll never see the kids again. 416 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,329 I swear I'm alone. It's the heater you can hear. 417 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,126 It's that little slut you met working on the porn mag. 418 00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,290 That so-called model. What happened to the romantic poet? 419 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,882 Poet, my ass! Pornographer, yes! 420 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,683 I can't live without, 421 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:11,730 I can't live with. 422 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,605 Without it, everything's wrong. 423 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,691 No skin without head. No hot without dog. 424 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,369 No woman, no love. 425 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,564 It's hard with, but everything stops without. 426 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,203 The heart beats slower, the neck stiffens without women. 427 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,000 Legs would be paralyzed. 428 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,044 Without a woman, we are blunted. 429 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,647 Without a woman, we stay in the cupboard. 430 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,002 It's hard with, impossible without. 431 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,845 It's the story of a frog, with a big, big mouth. 432 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,362 She goes off to discover the universe 433 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,565 and suddenly meets a big beast with large brown spots: 434 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,650 "Good day. Who are you? - I'm a cow." 435 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,241 "And what are you eating? - I'm eating grass." 436 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,522 "That's interesting." 437 00:46:14,720 --> 00:46:18,008 And she goes on... and meets lots of animals... 438 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,569 and then, flap, flap, the flap of huge wings. 439 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,770 A huge animal sits down at the edge of a lake 440 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,124 with a long beak and neck, perched on one leg. 441 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,724 "Good day. Who are you?" 442 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,208 "l'm a heron and I eat frogs 443 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,482 with big mouths..." 444 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,206 "That's interesting." 445 00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:43,082 Listen, Therese, I'm with two great chicks. 446 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,649 One is called Cathy, the other I don't know. 447 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:52,411 I'm making love to both of them. It's great. 448 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,449 Cathy's got her legs wide open, 449 00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,325 her fanny all wet, 450 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,285 and she comes sitting on my penis. 451 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,690 And the other one just sat on my mouth. 452 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,728 Therese didn't call again. 453 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,489 Look who it is. JB. 454 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,843 Jan Bucquoy. 455 00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:04,530 Haven't seen you for ages. 456 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,442 Come on, don't be shy. 457 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,407 I liked Cecile a lot, 458 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,885 but her new false teeth had torn my foreskin. 459 00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,762 What you doing there ? - None of your business. 460 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,647 Is she nearly finished? 461 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,889 Who? - My mother. 462 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,847 Who's your mother? - Cecile. 463 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,368 In my opinion, yes. 464 00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:48,608 I'm going then. 465 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,968 Will you walk me home? 466 00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,687 How old are you? 467 00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,009 Don't worry. I've got French letters. 468 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:01,725 Good, let's go. 469 00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,848 You remind me of Sterling Hyden 470 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,930 in "Johnny Guitar". 471 00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,761 What did he say to Joan Crawford? 472 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,763 "How many men have you forgotten?" 473 00:51:42,720 --> 00:51:47,203 "How many women do you remember?" 474 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,969 Shit, it's Tony's gang. 475 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,687 They're after me. About a leather jacket... 476 00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,927 Less proud now, eh? Where is it? 477 00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,646 I don't know. I know nothing about a leatherjacket. 478 00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:33,808 What? A leather jacket? 479 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,286 It could have been a love story like in the movies. 480 00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,365 But, as Magritte said: 481 00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,045 "Art isn't life." 482 00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:27,847 You know what? 483 00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,169 You don't know nothing. Nothing at all. 484 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,367 Wanker. Let's go. 485 00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,010 Can you change the music? 486 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,043 Leave if you don't like it. 487 00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:52,449 Come on, don't start. Looking for trouble? 488 00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,291 Calm down, Jan. That's enough. 489 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,881 What's the matter? You want a fight? 490 00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,880 Watch it, mate. 491 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:05,130 I'll do you right in. 492 00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,767 They weren't too expensive? 493 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,760 Don't worry, Mum, there was a sale at the florist. 494 00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,001 You coming again Sunday? 495 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,851 I don't know. I'm very busy. 496 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,204 You know, 497 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,327 the flowers, you shouldn't have. 498 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,201 Don't waste your money. 499 00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:58,487 It would be cheaper to come back and live with me. 500 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:33,529 Sure, I was angry. 501 00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,282 Angry that she never held me in her arms. 502 00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:44,051 In any case, I went for the most expensive. 503 00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:12,528 FOR SALE 504 00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:19,323 With the money from the house, I paid 8-years living allowances. 505 00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,521 See you next week. 506 00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:29,204 This is how you make a Molotov cocktail: 507 00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,164 take a glass bottle, 508 00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,364 fill it with an inflammable liquid, 509 00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:38,007 like petrol stolen from a car. 510 00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,166 You must add a drop of soap or oil 511 00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:47,966 to make the liquid greasy. 512 00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:53,482 You can also add some nails, some gravel, 513 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,206 to strengthen the impact. 514 00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,564 Then, 515 00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:06,684 mix it all up. 516 00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:13,124 Take a bit of cloth, dipped in petrol 517 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:17,969 which we'll fix to the bottle with a piece of cork. 518 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:25,930 Light the cloth and throw the bottle at the target. 519 00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:31,289 When the bottle hits a hard surface, it will explode. 520 00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,689 Is that clear? Any questions? 521 00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:52,842 And now, the nitroglycerine formula. 522 00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:07,684 When Franco died, I spat on his tomb in Madrid. 523 00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,207 In Stammheim, Ulrike, Andreas, Gudrun 524 00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:15,290 and Ingrid were murdered in their cell. 525 00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,801 I became a hardcore vegetarian. 526 00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:24,040 Oh yes, Jan Bucquoy, what a mess, that bloke. 527 00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,049 It was unreal. 528 00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:29,244 I remember when I met him, he was depressed... 529 00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:32,649 He was heavy, heavy... He didn't stop, this, that. 530 00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,481 He'd just left his wife, Therese, and it was bad. 531 00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:40,162 I just wanted to fuck. That's all. 532 00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,728 He went on and on about sexual freedom. 533 00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:47,641 But if I wanted to go and party on my own, no way. 534 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,845 He caused a scene, shouted, the whole works! 535 00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:56,204 And then one day, he left and went to Germany. 536 01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:02,528 I saw him a year later. 537 01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,208 He was much better. 538 01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,802 Less depressed, more sure of himself. 539 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:11,889 He was alright. 540 01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:16,126 I think then we could have got something together. 541 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,967 But it was too late. 542 01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:51,969 I had become more sure of myself with women. 543 01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:00,244 Hello. I want to make love to you. 544 01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,811 You know why I wanted to make love with you? 545 01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:51,603 I don't know. My charm, my intelligence? 546 01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:54,485 No. 547 01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:59,447 My eves, my body? 548 01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:01,490 No. 549 01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:08,409 Having savoured the artist, you fell in love with the man. 550 01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:11,845 No. 551 01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:21,129 You realized immediately I was the man of your life? 552 01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:26,361 No, you're the first man I've met with no telly. 553 01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:44,408 To be loved for what I was I bought a TV - a Grundig 554 01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:47,763 colour, with a big screen and remote control. 555 01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,008 On credit, of course. 556 01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:21,411 Why do you like making love to me? 557 01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,487 Because you're the nicest man I've ever met. 558 01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,051 "Everything ls Alright" 559 01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:49,769 I liked Daisy a lot. 560 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:54,165 But one day she met a man, and they opened a snack bar together. 561 01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,489 And! started meat again. - Closing time! 562 01:04:46,372 --> 01:04:48,101 I liked them all... 563 01:04:49,532 --> 01:04:51,182 Women... 564 01:04:52,452 --> 01:04:55,262 Fat ones, thin ones, 565 01:04:55,452 --> 01:04:57,853 small ones, tall ones, 566 01:04:58,852 --> 01:05:01,776 brunettes, black-haired, 567 01:05:01,972 --> 01:05:05,374 yellow ones, red ones, blue ones, 568 01:05:06,492 --> 01:05:08,176 rainbows... 569 01:05:22,172 --> 01:05:25,733 Whales, tramways, 570 01:05:27,532 --> 01:05:30,854 seals, teddy bears, 571 01:05:33,812 --> 01:05:35,496 the killers... 572 01:05:40,692 --> 01:05:42,535 The Midnight Express. 573 01:05:42,732 --> 01:05:46,657 Apples, bloody marys, walkie-talkies, 574 01:05:46,852 --> 01:05:50,777 summer festivals, sofas, secrets, pears, 575 01:05:50,972 --> 01:05:54,181 untouchable long-necks, parasites, 576 01:05:54,372 --> 01:05:56,613 milk shakes. I forgot loads, 577 01:05:56,812 --> 01:05:58,143 CBFQOES... 578 01:05:58,732 --> 01:06:03,021 Mezzanines, the ones who came from the cold, Iloved them all. Kisses, 579 01:06:03,212 --> 01:06:05,101 sleepwalkers... I found that... 580 01:06:05,292 --> 01:06:08,216 sorbets, ...nothing is more beautiful than a woman. 581 01:06:10,772 --> 01:06:13,901 Then I met Melanie, through the small ads. 582 01:06:14,092 --> 01:06:18,177 "Independent and dynamic woman, likes sport, reading, cinema, 583 01:06:18,372 --> 01:06:22,343 Lacan, and men who want something other than a mother or maid." 584 01:06:28,092 --> 01:06:30,254 She said man was a biological accident, 585 01:06:30,452 --> 01:06:33,217 a woman gone wrong, a moving foetus. 586 01:06:33,412 --> 01:06:35,938 That to be male was a handicap 587 01:06:36,132 --> 01:06:38,783 and manhood an illness. 588 01:06:38,972 --> 01:06:42,021 And that! was emotionally paralysed. 589 01:06:45,092 --> 01:06:48,653 Bar always full, always in a good mood. 590 01:07:16,452 --> 01:07:20,776 Women had changed, and so had I. 591 01:07:24,892 --> 01:07:28,499 I got into art, pure art, in a big way. 592 01:07:36,132 --> 01:07:37,861 What are you reading? 593 01:07:38,732 --> 01:07:40,894 "The Immortal" by Robbe-Grillet. 594 01:07:41,092 --> 01:07:43,379 Oh I know it. It's a bore. 595 01:07:55,012 --> 01:07:59,142 I heard it's over with Melanie? - Yes, I got rid of her. 596 01:08:00,572 --> 01:08:03,781 I'm available too. - And Sylvain? 597 01:08:03,972 --> 01:08:06,339 We had nothing to say to each other. 598 01:08:19,932 --> 01:08:22,412 What are you doing tonight? 599 01:08:22,612 --> 01:08:24,979 Why, you want a fuck? 600 01:08:40,972 --> 01:08:44,693 I'm not interested in men who only think about fucking. 601 01:08:55,852 --> 01:08:58,253 Do you still have your radio show? 602 01:09:04,412 --> 01:09:07,859 Yes, literature, novels... And you? 603 01:09:08,412 --> 01:09:10,892 I write every night. 604 01:09:11,372 --> 01:09:14,103 Still that famous novel? 605 01:09:14,292 --> 01:09:16,693 Yes, I went back to it. 606 01:09:20,532 --> 01:09:22,978 Who have you invited on your programme? 607 01:09:23,932 --> 01:09:25,696 What? 608 01:09:25,972 --> 01:09:28,452 Who did you invite on your last programme? 609 01:09:29,612 --> 01:09:31,535 Pierre Mertens. 610 01:09:33,372 --> 01:09:35,534 Why do we write, Pierre Mertens? 611 01:09:35,732 --> 01:09:38,975 Like Michaux said, to get out of the chaos, 612 01:09:39,172 --> 01:09:42,016 to be loved like Genet, 613 01:09:42,412 --> 01:09:46,462 or as Nabokov said, to drive back the beast? 614 01:09:47,012 --> 01:09:50,300 Do you write to please women? 615 01:09:53,292 --> 01:09:57,775 I think of my female readers, 616 01:09:58,292 --> 01:10:01,660 but I also think 617 01:10:01,852 --> 01:10:04,981 of Kafka, 618 01:10:05,372 --> 01:10:10,253 who knew a book should be like an axe 619 01:10:10,452 --> 01:10:12,978 to chop through frozen sea in August. 620 01:10:13,172 --> 01:10:17,780 I also think of Borges who dreamed there was one book 621 01:10:17,972 --> 01:10:19,815 that all writers shared, 622 01:10:20,012 --> 01:10:24,700 like one bread and wine at the last supper. 623 01:10:24,892 --> 01:10:27,259 And others like Simone Weil, 624 01:10:27,452 --> 01:10:30,979 saying we need poetry like we need bread, 625 01:10:31,172 --> 01:10:34,301 or Ingeborg Backman who retorted: 626 01:10:34,492 --> 01:10:38,497 "Yes, but a bread that grates, and is sometimes between the teeth." 627 01:10:40,012 --> 01:10:43,380 You never felt like writing about homosexuality? 628 01:10:46,932 --> 01:10:48,775 No, because... 629 01:10:50,212 --> 01:10:52,579 Into the mike, please. 630 01:10:53,412 --> 01:10:56,575 Because every literary work 631 01:10:56,772 --> 01:10:59,252 is more or less autobiographical. 632 01:10:59,452 --> 01:11:04,299 Even "Madame Bovary", which we all know is about the author, 633 01:11:04,492 --> 01:11:07,894 even Poe's short stories, or Borges' fiction... 634 01:11:08,092 --> 01:11:12,097 If we read Flaubert's letters or those of Kafka, 635 01:11:12,292 --> 01:11:15,694 they're all the letters of a writer. 636 01:11:16,692 --> 01:11:20,174 Pierre Mertens and Marlene married on July 21 at Knokke. 637 01:11:20,372 --> 01:11:23,819 The wedding was intimate, in the presence of the Brussels gentry. 638 01:11:24,892 --> 01:11:27,623 Pierre Mertens was given the Order of Leopold II, 639 01:11:27,812 --> 01:11:29,940 in front of a Court Guard. 640 01:11:40,452 --> 01:11:45,174 I've thought about it, and I want to live with you. 641 01:11:47,972 --> 01:11:50,498 There's been a misunderstanding, Melanie. 642 01:11:50,852 --> 01:11:55,380 You're a really nice girl, rich, young, full of life, 643 01:11:55,572 --> 01:11:58,303 I'm just a nobody, I'm not the man for you. 644 01:11:58,972 --> 01:12:01,543 That's for me to decide, no? 645 01:12:01,732 --> 01:12:04,178 You know, I'm polygamous, 646 01:12:04,372 --> 01:12:07,819 I live in bars, I can't do housework, 647 01:12:08,012 --> 01:12:10,060 I've got no money, 648 01:12:10,652 --> 01:12:13,781 I'm not the bloke for you. 649 01:12:17,652 --> 01:12:19,336 Don't you love me? 650 01:12:19,732 --> 01:12:21,780 It's not that, but... 651 01:12:22,572 --> 01:12:24,893 I have to finish my book. 652 01:12:48,292 --> 01:12:51,182 Pirana, hi. - Alright? 653 01:12:53,692 --> 01:12:57,378 What you doing here? On your own? - You can see that. 654 01:12:57,772 --> 01:13:00,821 And you? - Me too, I'm alone. 655 01:13:07,332 --> 01:13:10,461 Fancy a walk? - Well, yes. 656 01:13:11,612 --> 01:13:15,583 I think it's stopped raining. I can close the umbrella. 657 01:13:15,892 --> 01:13:18,975 Can I go with you? - Of course. 658 01:13:19,172 --> 01:13:22,415 I'll follow you. - OK. This way. 659 01:13:36,772 --> 01:13:38,297 It was Christmas. 660 01:13:38,492 --> 01:13:42,463 An icy wind from Bering rose over Harelbeek. 661 01:13:43,972 --> 01:13:46,293 She sat in front of me. 662 01:13:46,692 --> 01:13:50,253 Her half-open blouse disclosed her firm and pointed tits, 663 01:13:50,452 --> 01:13:54,616 - ivory-coloured - ready for my greedy mouth. 664 01:14:03,732 --> 01:14:06,178 She took off her white gloves first, 665 01:14:06,372 --> 01:14:09,216 and I watched her hungrily. 666 01:14:18,612 --> 01:14:21,138 Peter Benoit's requiem. I like it. 667 01:14:21,972 --> 01:14:26,057 But Mozart's is the best of all. 668 01:14:26,692 --> 01:14:30,299 His spirit is close to the Christian concept of death. 669 01:14:30,492 --> 01:14:34,292 I know nothing about classical music. 670 01:14:35,172 --> 01:14:37,220 It's people who interest me. 671 01:14:38,212 --> 01:14:41,739 I want to live in an equal world, where we can all be happy. 672 01:14:41,932 --> 01:14:46,301 Mozart spoke of that too. He wrote to his father: 673 01:14:46,492 --> 01:14:50,417 "Death is man's true happiness" 674 01:14:50,812 --> 01:14:54,942 and he thanked God for enabling him to recognize death 675 01:14:55,132 --> 01:14:57,863 as the key to our beatitude. 676 01:14:58,052 --> 01:15:01,738 God doesn't exist and Mozart worked for the elite, 677 01:15:02,732 --> 01:15:05,895 whilst most people have to earn a living, 678 01:15:06,092 --> 01:15:08,698 with stupid, inhumane work. 679 01:15:08,892 --> 01:15:11,418 Men are exploited as merchandise. 680 01:15:11,612 --> 01:15:14,456 You have to contest that. Mozart didn't. 681 01:15:20,252 --> 01:15:22,732 I'm writing a book. 682 01:15:23,372 --> 01:15:26,740 To earn my living, I write for porn mags. 683 01:15:28,932 --> 01:15:31,663 No, the book I want to write is... 684 01:15:31,852 --> 01:15:33,900 Sex. 685 01:15:36,372 --> 01:15:39,819 No... sex, reality, feelings, day to day things... 686 01:15:40,012 --> 01:15:42,982 Mozart talked about that too when he spoke of death. 687 01:15:43,172 --> 01:15:45,823 Yes, but I'm interested in life. 688 01:15:53,532 --> 01:15:55,660 I'm finishing my book. 689 01:15:56,412 --> 01:16:00,576 It's nice to finish and start love. 690 01:16:02,172 --> 01:16:03,697 Yeah. 691 01:16:11,412 --> 01:16:12,937 It was Christmas. 692 01:16:13,132 --> 01:16:17,137 An icy wind from the Bering straits blew over Harelbeek. 693 01:16:19,212 --> 01:16:21,783 She sat in front of me. 694 01:16:23,132 --> 01:16:25,021 I was cold. 695 01:16:29,332 --> 01:16:31,414 She took me in her arms 696 01:16:32,652 --> 01:16:34,973 and squeezed me hard. 697 01:16:35,412 --> 01:16:40,020 Her half-open blouse disclosed her firm, pointed, ivory tits. 698 01:16:41,572 --> 01:16:44,576 Ready for my greedy mouth. 699 01:16:51,892 --> 01:16:54,054 I liked her tits a lot. 700 01:17:56,452 --> 01:18:01,777 END OF PART ONE