1 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,900 THE KING DANCES 2 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:24,199 We'll begin. 3 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,599 But Mr. de Lully... Not without the King! 4 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,800 The King will not come. 5 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,000 Silence! 6 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,900 The King's Te Deum! 7 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:46,499 Don't amputate! 8 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:47,899 Not the leg! 9 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:49,500 Not a dancer's leg! 10 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:52,699 I beg you... 11 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:54,400 Let me go! 12 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,899 Very well, cut out my heart! 13 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:00,299 but not my leg! 14 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:01,900 Not a dancer's leg! 15 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,899 Since when has our music 16 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:52,900 Ceased to please the King? 17 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:55,399 Since you began to play him your own? 18 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:58,399 You moan by just climbing stairs. Not to mention dancing..... 19 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,300 Is muddy Italy to dictate its ways to the French Court? 20 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,099 Dance is a French specialty, my good man. 21 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:07,500 Nothing to do with opera, 22 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:10,499 that ludicrous Italian form 23 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:12,599 which few French can abide. 24 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,399 Nothing but vocalizing! 25 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,299 Can you imagine? 26 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:20,000 The King dances, Monsieur, he does not sing. 27 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:22,400 Music is movement, 28 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:24,799 must be movement. 29 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,200 Attracting the King's attention has turned your head. 30 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,300 Such favors last no longer than fairy tales. 31 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:36,300 The toad will turn back into a toad. 32 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:40,199 Indeed, the Italian 33 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,300 still reeks of mud. 34 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:56,300 Monsieur de Cambefort... 35 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,600 Tell Lully I wish to speak to him. 36 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:12,599 The King, Monsieur... 37 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,399 Notes follow the movement like butterflies. 38 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,299 Caught up in its wake. but who leads whom? 39 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:21,300 - The King wants you. - He can wait. 40 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:23,999 He's master, he has all the time he wants. 41 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,600 The King... 42 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,100 Wait? 43 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,400 Lully, Sire... 44 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:40,500 asks Your Majesty to wait. 45 00:06:40,700 --> 00:06:42,399 He dares say, Sire, 46 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,200 you are the master, therefore you can wait. 47 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,200 Mr. Lully works for our pleasure. We are content. 48 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:32,600 The King dances. 49 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:49,200 February 23, 1653 50 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,499 Sire! 51 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:26,399 Come! I've a surprise. 52 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,099 The sun will rise soon. I�ll never be ready. 53 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:32,300 Per favore, a royal surprise. 54 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,299 So they can see you 55 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:36,600 as never before. 56 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:42,600 You're stubborn like me. 57 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:45,199 but luckily you're curious like me. 58 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,500 A fine fault, even in a king. 59 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,899 A kind of personal little platform. 60 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:55,300 A little stage to carry with you, 61 00:08:55,500 --> 00:08:58,800 from which Your Majesty can dominate the world. 62 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,199 You're mad. 63 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,000 I can't dance in these. 64 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,299 I wore them myself, 65 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:08,299 to break them in. 66 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:10,900 See how supple they are. 67 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,600 You�ll tower over the greatest men! 68 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:16,600 I swear on my mother's head, 69 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,399 I want the best for you. 70 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,400 I want them to drool with awe... 71 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:26,099 to acclaim you, 72 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:28,400 for I would see you happy. 73 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,700 I warn you: If I fall, you go right back to Italy. 74 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:39,600 And if you don't fall? 75 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:41,499 What would you like most? 76 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:43,199 To be French, Sire. 77 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,799 An Italian is despised in Paris today. 78 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,499 My heart is entirely French, Sire. Lo giuro. 79 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:50,499 Only my tongue still resists. 80 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:53,500 but if you like, I will cut it off. 81 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:54,999 It serves no purpose 82 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,900 for playing music or dancing. I must cut it off. 83 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,099 Once I am truly the King, 84 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:05,099 I shall make you French. 85 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:06,699 but you are the King! 86 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:09,299 On stage, Baptiste, only on stage. 87 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:11,399 The realm of Music and Dance 88 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,800 is all my mother and her ministers allow me. 89 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,200 Power... 90 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:38,700 Pleasure... 91 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:43,100 Radiance... 92 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,799 As the light arises from the Sun, 93 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,399 still in the fire of its Dawn, 94 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:31,399 Honor 95 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,100 follows its luminous train. " 96 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:40,299 - Look! Prince de Conti! - Is he back in favor? 97 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:43,800 The King keeps him in check. See how he shrinks. 98 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:02,999 In its wake, 99 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,500 ever follow 100 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:06,700 Grace... 101 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,800 and Victory. " 102 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,799 He has all the young rebels dancing! 103 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,800 Yesterday's foes. A son per family won over. 104 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:22,900 An excellent idea. 105 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:37,500 So they find you talented, you Florentine scourge! 106 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,899 but your luck could quickly turn. 107 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:42,700 The King loathes Italian manners. 108 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:46,300 A pity! 109 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,500 Favor, Renown and Peace 110 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,399 now all join in the universal chorus 111 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,400 to celebrate he who, 112 00:12:57,100 --> 00:13:00,200 with his divine rays, brings down to Earth 113 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:03,300 Life and Light. 114 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:14,900 This child... 115 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,399 He is no longer a child, Madam, 116 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:18,900 he is a king. 117 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,400 Eight years later March 10, 1661 118 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:37,499 O Lord, don't let me tremble. 119 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:39,899 Often I cannot find the words, 120 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,500 and though I would not admit it, 121 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,199 I'm often beset by doubt. 122 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,700 My mother will oppose me. 123 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:49,700 I must resist. 124 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,499 Stand up to her anger, her tears. 125 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,900 I must speak clearly and firmly, suffer no argument. 126 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:03,500 Lord, I beg you, do not forsake me. 127 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,199 The Cardinal is dead. 128 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,000 Now is the time. 129 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:41,600 Gentlemen. 130 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,100 Madam. 131 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:53,700 Today, the theater inaugurates a new drama. 132 00:14:55,100 --> 00:14:58,099 Until now, I have Let my ministers govern 133 00:14:58,100 --> 00:14:59,999 under the late Cardinal, 134 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,500 Mazarin. 135 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:06,700 Henceforth, I rule alone. 136 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,400 I shall govern on my own. 137 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:18,300 You will counsel me if I request it. 138 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,499 I order you to sign nothing, 139 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:25,400 not even a passport, without my consent. 140 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,500 Such is my will, gentlemen. 141 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,700 Now you must obey it. 142 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,199 Louis! You cannot rule without a Prime Minister. 143 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,400 That, Madam, is exactly what I intend to do. 144 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:58,199 but, Louis! 145 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,199 You have no experience of governing. 146 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:02,999 Yes, you know the guitar. 147 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,099 And hunting, and ballet! 148 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:06,800 but the State? 149 00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:09,399 What do you know of that? 150 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,400 I think I know how to govern properly. 151 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:16,300 As for my fondness for ballet, know this: 152 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:20,200 My father founded a French Academy, I shall create one for dance. 153 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:24,299 This shall be my first decree. 154 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:26,600 My poor child! 155 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,199 well, well... 156 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,400 my cousin Conti. 157 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:42,199 It's admirable, Madam, 158 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,900 how he has regained your favor... 159 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:51,000 since giving up his riotous life to adopt these airs of fervent piety. 160 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,299 At least he doesn't flaunt a mistress 161 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:56,399 6 months after marrying a Spanish princess! 162 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,400 Before playing the prude, our Conti did worse things than I ever will. 163 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,199 My lord de Conti is a Pharisee 164 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,300 like his order of bigots, 165 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:10,299 which, banned by the Cardinal, 166 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:12,399 still meets in secret. 167 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,700 As prince of the blood, he is a royal threat and richer than I. 168 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,300 How I loathe these long, hypocritical faces! 169 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:22,899 France is exhausted, 170 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:24,199 she is ill. 171 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,200 She needs lively blood, a new sun. 172 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,499 I revere God as you do, dear Mother, 173 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:32,399 but ours are different gods. 174 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,000 Yours wallows in shadow and penance. He bewails the past. 175 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:37,999 He fears the future. 176 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,399 Mine is the God of life. 177 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,999 He drives me toward the light. 178 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,200 Whatever you and your friends in black think, 179 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:48,799 I shall be my God's eldest son, 180 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,700 and his representative on earth. 181 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:53,900 The Prince de Conti 182 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:57,200 will surely frown on this, 183 00:17:57,300 --> 00:17:59,199 but I care not. 184 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,500 He may no longer sit in Council. 185 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,500 You can't exclude him! 186 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,899 Who is to prevent me? 187 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:09,600 I will! 188 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:14,900 Then I have no choice but to exclude you, as well. 189 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,099 You wouldn't dare! 190 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:18,700 Louis! 191 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,399 I would, Mother, 192 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,500 for the good of the realm. 193 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,299 In fact, it is done. 194 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:27,600 Cousin, 195 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,200 the Queen and you will no longer attend the Council. 196 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:32,800 Sire! 197 00:18:38,100 --> 00:18:40,399 I am 22 years old, Mother, 198 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,800 and I am your King. 199 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,299 The King 200 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:12,100 dances! 201 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,299 Play the finest music 202 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:24,099 for the god Jupiter, 203 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:25,900 Master of the Universe! 204 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,200 You'd given me your word, Madeleine. 205 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,400 Your father awaited my proposal. 206 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:09,999 I thought it was his wish, too. 207 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,899 It is the King's wish. 208 00:20:11,900 --> 00:20:13,600 The King's? Lully's? 209 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:19,300 Or yours? 210 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,700 Lully, the King, it's all the same. 211 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,700 I am nothing. 212 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:44,100 Lully turned your head, as he did the King's. 213 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,800 He is steeped in vice. He sleeps with boys and visits whores. 214 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:56,899 Madeleine, you're mine. 215 00:20:56,900 --> 00:20:58,899 - Must I remind you... - He knows. 216 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,199 I told him, hoping to disgust him. 217 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,099 He only laughed. 218 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:06,099 He found it titillating to come after you. 219 00:21:06,100 --> 00:21:10,200 When the King married 6 months ago Lully decided to do the same. 220 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,999 Coming, my angel? 221 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,399 You won't have her. 222 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,900 Change your tone, Mr. Steward of the Queen's Music. 223 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:22,900 I understand you make her weep. Bravo! I have the King's ear. 224 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,799 He likes my music. I make him dance. 225 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,700 When he dances, he's like a god. My sun rose with the King's. 226 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,899 You�ll be forgotten along with the old court. 227 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:34,700 Madeleine chose well. 228 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:38,900 Don't, please! Weakness means your downfall here. 229 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:08,200 Mr. Le Vau, Mr. Le Notre! 230 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:11,499 I want an enchanted garden, 231 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:14,800 with flowerbeds, ponds, fountains, forests. 232 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,899 Ali to be built in this perspective. 233 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:20,299 Sire, the countryside around Versailles 234 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:21,799 is hopelessly flat. 235 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:22,999 The ground is a sewer. 236 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,200 There are trees on the hills, but only marshes here. 237 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:28,399 Nature must obey as men do. 238 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:29,999 I wish it. Do it. 239 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,999 Hire 3,ooo workers, if you must, 240 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,300 plant full-grown trees. 241 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:36,700 Here 242 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:40,300 we shall built a canal, wide as a sea. 243 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:44,700 I will sail galleys upon it. 244 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:45,999 About statues... 245 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,099 Le Vau, we�ll discuss the statues, 246 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:50,100 for the ponds, too. 247 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,400 There, a maze to lose myself in with someone eager to find me. 248 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:58,899 There an open-air theater for Mr. de Moli�re 249 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:01,200 and his sumptuous theatricals. 250 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,700 Moli�re, come here. 251 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,100 Start thinking about entertainments, something with brio. 252 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,299 See Lully. He knows my tastes. 253 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:13,099 I will provide the theme. 254 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:15,099 I will see to it, Sire. 255 00:23:15,100 --> 00:23:16,800 Heed him. 256 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,999 He will set your words to music as he does my dreams. 257 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,000 We will make this marsh dance, make this kingdom dance. 258 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,299 We shall give such balls as none have dreamed of. 259 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:33,300 With lights to dim the stars. We shall sing of life, 260 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,900 of love. 261 00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:43,999 A glimpse of Eden before the Fall ! 262 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,400 My Lord, this is an outrage. 263 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:51,200 He'd sink us in this swamp? 264 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:30,300 The fever's still rising. 265 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,800 The windows! 266 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,999 - I can't breathe! - The wind's too strong, Sire. 267 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,999 - Fresh sheets will cool you. - Prepare everything! 268 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,500 Let go of me! 269 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,099 Moli�re... 270 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,400 Preparing our festivities? 271 00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:12,800 Yes, Sire. 272 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,500 We�ll astonish them. 273 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,999 It's the fever! 274 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,899 We must bleed his foot. 275 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:30,700 - We did, three times. - Cup him, then? 276 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:39,600 How is he? 277 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:46,100 I can�t just wait. They've barred my way. 278 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,800 He won't die, will he? 279 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,400 If he dies, I lose everything. 280 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:00,799 It can't be. God won't allow it. 281 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,300 You, invoking God? 282 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:06,999 When I need God, I'm a good Christian. 283 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,100 You're a strange one. 284 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,299 Not him. 285 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:16,700 He can't die, he's young, strong. 286 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,299 He's a god. 287 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:20,200 He can't die, he's a god. 288 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,499 How inopportune, is it not? 289 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:27,600 No more dancing, Signor Batista. 290 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:30,399 Tomorrow, I will have your pretty ass 291 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,399 booted out of this court 292 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,700 that your antics contaminate. 293 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,200 bugger you, my prince! 294 00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:52,500 Make way! 295 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,299 Monsieur, the baby is coming! 296 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:13,700 Madeleine needs you. The baby's in the breech position. 297 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:19,400 - Tend to her. I'm busy. - busy! 298 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,300 He needs me. 299 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:20,400 Don't leave me. 300 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,400 I'm here, Louis. 301 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,300 You must think of the kingdom's future. 302 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,500 Your cousin Conti is here. 303 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,800 For the love of God, 304 00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:38,900 speak to him. 305 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,399 You've been recommended to me 306 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,700 with great urgency, cousin. 307 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,100 I entrust to you what is most dear to me... 308 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:07,300 My mother 309 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,700 and my kingdom. 310 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,100 Let him in. 311 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:54,000 Let him in. 312 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:38,999 Get out! 313 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,599 She's dead! 314 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,900 - She's dead... Madeleine! - back, you�ll smother her! 315 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,900 Let him in. 316 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,600 It's a miracle. 317 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,200 You're a wizard, Baptiste. 318 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,499 No, no, Moli�re! 319 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:43,699 How can you have speaking and singing in the same scene? 320 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:47,600 Moron can say he's so used to singing he can't talk otherwise. 321 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:50,499 - And? - Satyre answers in song. 322 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:53,499 Music first, music and nothing but. 323 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:56,900 Mixing words and music! They won't understand. 324 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,900 An audience understands if it knows the basic rules. 325 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,199 Words and music don't mix that easily. 326 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,700 The unconventional scares you. Why refuse to blend them? 327 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,499 It's like a dialogue... 328 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:11,099 Let go! 329 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:13,299 It's like two people vying for power. 330 00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:16,700 Ludicrous! Ludicrous! 331 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,500 The King won't like it. 332 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:22,200 Why won't he like it? 333 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:25,300 You're the Ludicrous one. 334 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:28,300 Anyway, we can't back out now. 335 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:32,000 May 8, 1664 336 00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:40,900 Do you know what those two buffoons have in store? 337 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000 The worst, Madam, the worst. but he�ll like it, I fear. 338 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,799 Most ladies today can be led by the ears. 339 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,499 Thus everyone meddles in music. 340 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:03,699 One only wins them over 341 00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:05,699 with little songs. 342 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:08,899 I must learn to sing as others do. 343 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:10,600 And here�s just the man. 344 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,700 Satyre, my friend, remember your promise: 345 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,400 Teach me to sing. 346 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,400 A song? 347 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,200 A song for singing? 348 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,600 Good gracious, a love song! 349 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:34,099 He's so used to singing 350 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:36,300 he can only talk that way. 351 00:34:41,700 --> 00:34:43,400 Let us sing... 352 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:49,800 Sing to my beloved, dear bird... 353 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,200 See, we've done it! 354 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,100 My mortal pain, dear bird 355 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:05,300 My deathly pain 356 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,500 Wait, Madeleine! 357 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,400 Wait, please! 358 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:36,400 It can't be too late for us 359 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,600 I don't know how your brow remains so pure. 360 00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:44,899 When I think of Lully infecting you, 361 00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:48,400 or how you could become like all these swine! Not you! 362 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:49,800 Not us! 363 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:54,000 I can't undo what is done. He is my husband before God. 364 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:55,399 before the King. 365 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,900 God had nothing to do with it. 366 00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:04,199 Wear this. 367 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,000 It will protect you, as my love would protect you. 368 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:11,500 God is my Last hope since you left me. 369 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:14,500 - I didn't leave you. - Answer me. 370 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,100 Is it Baptiste or is it me? 371 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:31,800 He gave me two sons, 372 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,600 and I sleep in his bed. 373 00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:37,300 It was your decision. 374 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,399 You're too young to be at court, naughty girl! 375 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,900 I'm a dream, Baptiste. 376 00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:02,199 A cloud. 377 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,200 An angel. 378 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:05,899 A little devil, rather. 379 00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:08,200 You alone resist me. 380 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,600 If you weren't my wife's niece... 381 00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:19,799 Long live the comedy-ballet! 382 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,799 As high priestess of the arts, 383 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,900 and certified virgin, 384 00:37:24,900 --> 00:37:26,799 I invite you to celebrate 385 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,599 the nuptials of Theater and Music. 386 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:34,100 Jean-Baptiste Moli�re, King's upholsterer, author and actor, 387 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,500 do you take in true and loyal union, Jean-Baptiste Lully, 388 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,899 Steward of the King's Music, 389 00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:43,399 to love, cherish and support him 390 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,399 till death do you part? 391 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,300 Jean-Baptiste Lully 392 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,200 is a usurper, 393 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,100 a sodomite 394 00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:55,200 and the devil incarnate. And Moli�re, 395 00:37:57,100 --> 00:37:58,799 an incestuous libertine, 396 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,999 who married his own daughter. It's public knowledge. 397 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,699 The King protects you 398 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:06,399 but God will not spare you. 399 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:11,300 The products of this monstrous union will be doomed to the flames. 400 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,400 Nothing will remain! 401 00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:41,000 What can be more odious than these zealots ? 402 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,899 charlatans who scoff at what mortals hold most sacred. 403 00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:46,999 The King won't confront his mother. 404 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,100 He's using you. You�ll be taking all the risks. 405 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,600 I serve the King, Baptiste. 406 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:56,699 He's prescribed the words we're to use on stage 407 00:38:56,700 --> 00:38:59,299 and which I enjoy rehearsing. 408 00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:04,800 Self-interested people who make piety their stock in trade. 409 00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:08,500 Who buy merit and dignity with winks and false gushing. 410 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,100 The zealots have powerful protectors. You're mad. 411 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,099 People we see on the way to Heaven, 412 00:39:15,100 --> 00:39:17,499 rushing to fortune, burning and praying, 413 00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:20,600 adapting their zeal to their vices. 414 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:24,100 Ali the more dangerous for killing with sanctified steel 415 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,700 using the weapons we revere. 416 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:29,199 We are the instruments, the hands. 417 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,300 Instruments are broken, hands cut off. 418 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,000 Coward! 419 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,500 We must spit on the old graybeards, and your mouth is dry. 420 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,400 Take this handkerchief before you speak. 421 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:50,599 Cover that bosom, my flesh is weak. 422 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,199 Such sights as that 423 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,100 undermine the soul. Unclean thoughts are difficult to control. 424 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,499 Your soul, it seems, has poor defenses, 425 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:01,200 Has flesh such sway over your senses? 426 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,199 If I saw you naked from head to toe 427 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,300 Not all your skin would tempt me so. 428 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,099 Madam is coming down... 429 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:12,600 I must be too old to appreciate Mr. Moli�re�s jests. 430 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:15,300 but I see he mocks the pious. 431 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,599 May Heaven, whose infinite goodness we adore, 432 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,600 Preserve your body and soul forevermore. 433 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,599 - I trust you are again well and strong - Quite well, 434 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,699 the fever didn't last for long. 435 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:31,000 My prayers, I am sure, Did not merit this cure. 436 00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:32,499 Why is your hand there? 437 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,199 Feeling your gown, what soft stuff! 438 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,900 Please don't, I'm ticklish. Enough! 439 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,900 My, what lovely lacework on your dress! 440 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,500 The workmanship's miraculous, no less. 441 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:48,900 I've seen nothing to equal it so. 442 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,900 You care for nothing here below. 443 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,799 My heart's not made of stone, you know. 444 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,300 To love eternal beauty far above Is not to be immune to earthly love. 445 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,699 Our senses are easily captivated 446 00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:05,699 by perfect works that Heaven created. 447 00:41:05,700 --> 00:41:08,100 How to look on you, flawless creature, 448 00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:10,999 And not admire the author of all nature? 449 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,299 A most gallant declaration, sir, 450 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:16,099 but don't you find it out of character? 451 00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:17,599 It ill becomes 452 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,100 a pious man like you. 453 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,100 I may be pious, but I'm human too. 454 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:33,399 Though such words are strange from me. 455 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,800 I'm no angel nor meant to be. 456 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,399 And if you think I put myself to shame 457 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,299 Your charms are to blame. 458 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:43,699 Don't you fear I may take a notion...? 459 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:46,499 To tell my husband of your emotion? 460 00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:50,200 I know in your gracious charity, You will pardon my temerity, 461 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,500 And that you will bear in mind, 462 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,100 I'm human, and not blind. 463 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,000 Sit down, Madam. 464 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:05,799 Kindly cease this commotion. 465 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,700 Your manners, your prot�g�s, 466 00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,799 your life cause the commotion. 467 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,600 You will account to God for it. 468 00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:16,500 I�ll work things out with Him. 469 00:42:17,100 --> 00:42:20,500 Without sacred values, no reign can endure. 470 00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:24,599 You are the Church's eldest son. 471 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,800 Don't be its shameful son. 472 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,799 Moli�re is a good servant, Madam. 473 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,399 His play is merely a farce. 474 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:36,200 It made many people laugh and did not displease me. 475 00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:40,000 between Christ and a lowly buffoon, you choose the buffoon? 476 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,199 No, Louis, 477 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,300 so long as I live, nothing shall be done to those 478 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,800 who spur the progress of devotion. 479 00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:50,299 Moli�re is a devil. 480 00:42:50,300 --> 00:42:53,099 A devil in man's clothing, the vilest sinner 481 00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:54,599 that ever lived. 482 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,800 He must do public penance 483 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,899 for his lewd, irreligious poetry. 484 00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:02,799 Sire, think of the consequences. 485 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,100 The Church condemns this play. 486 00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:10,400 The Church has no mission to dictate to the King of France. 487 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,100 The theater, you will agree, Sire, 488 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,999 must not judge the Church nor its advocates. 489 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,400 Louis, 490 00:43:18,700 --> 00:43:20,399 it is either Moli�re 491 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,599 or war with the high clergy. 492 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:23,899 Another rebellion... 493 00:43:23,900 --> 00:43:26,100 Is that what you want? 494 00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:29,200 Will you defy the voice of God? 495 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,299 Armande is young. 496 00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:12,400 You�ll have other children. 497 00:44:12,900 --> 00:44:15,900 My mother lost three, and still has four. 498 00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:45,900 There's worse, my friend. 499 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:50,800 The King has banned your play. 500 00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:53,400 He's banned Tartuffe. 501 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,900 but he commissioned the play. 502 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,200 The Queen Mother's clique has won. 503 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,700 Someone had to be sacrificed. 504 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,499 I read him a few scenes. 505 00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:10,099 He had me modify each one. 506 00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:12,900 They weren't harsh enough for him. 507 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,700 The old courtiers are using you to get at the King. 508 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,399 Once the King silences the zealots, 509 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,700 once he rules alone, he will impose your play. 510 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,099 Words burn, Baptiste. 511 00:45:34,100 --> 00:45:38,500 but with music you can say anything and remain above reproach. 512 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:42,200 Look at me. I don't know failure. It's a meaningless word. 513 00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:46,500 Yes, it is the coward speaking. Fear gives me wings, 514 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,999 it makes me run like the wind. I'm afraid. 515 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,300 Afraid since the day I arrived with my three penny violin. 516 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,799 Afraid to be sent back to Italy, 517 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,900 to have no one to compose for, to set dancing. 518 00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,999 Fear ensured my success. 519 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,300 Music is the queen. 520 00:46:02,900 --> 00:46:05,500 We must wed her to the King. 521 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,200 I will write enchanted music and you a story, 522 00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:12,600 to accompany my music, are we clear on that? 523 00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:15,799 No explicit messages, no slings or arrows. 524 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,800 Our art is a political tool, it uses grace 525 00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:20,999 and emotion 526 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,300 to turn the listener inside out, without his noticing. 527 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:31,300 I don't know... 528 00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:33,299 I can't... 529 00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:34,799 Yes, you can. 530 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,499 Come. You must live. 531 00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:38,799 Our life is a stage, you know that. 532 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,200 Or else death will claim you. 533 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:42,900 Come with me. 534 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,700 We�ll scorch the asses of the zealots, the Queen, the King if you wish. 535 00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:18,500 What have you done? 536 00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:22,700 - Baptiste, what have you done? - If I only knew. 537 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,100 Try as I may, I can remember nothing. 538 00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:28,400 Oh, my God! 539 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,500 Don't mention Him, please! 540 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,899 You've been drinking? 541 00:48:37,900 --> 00:48:39,500 A lot. 542 00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:43,099 And all the rest, 543 00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:45,200 as usual. I don't remember. 544 00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:50,900 The marquis's page... 545 00:48:51,700 --> 00:48:54,300 lovely as a girl, better than a girl... 546 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,699 Lying on me naked this morning... 547 00:48:58,700 --> 00:49:01,000 with his throat cut. 548 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,300 You killed him? 549 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,400 Killed? 550 00:49:08,900 --> 00:49:11,000 No, Madeleine, no! 551 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,900 If so, you must tell me. 552 00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:24,100 The zealots are behind this. 553 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,500 First they struck at Moli�re, now you. 554 00:49:27,500 --> 00:49:29,199 They�ll use every means 555 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,799 to solicit the King. You must leave! 556 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,300 I�ll get the coach! 557 00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:37,000 Without him, I'm nothing. 558 00:49:39,700 --> 00:49:41,600 He's my reason for living. 559 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,100 My talent is useless without him. 560 00:49:50,300 --> 00:49:52,000 I can't leave him. 561 00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:56,500 Forgive me, Madeleine. 562 00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,100 Your heart belongs to another. 563 00:50:00,700 --> 00:50:02,300 but me... 564 00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:05,200 what did I do to win you? 565 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,800 I'm here. 566 00:50:18,900 --> 00:50:20,900 I'm here, Baptiste. 567 00:50:21,500 --> 00:50:23,200 I'm your wife. 568 00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:25,900 I bear your children, 569 00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:27,899 I keep your house, 570 00:50:27,900 --> 00:50:31,200 uphold your reputation. I'm wholly devoted to you. 571 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:38,600 You fill my life. 572 00:50:43,300 --> 00:50:45,400 You've become my life. 573 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,299 The disease is stubborn. 574 00:51:18,300 --> 00:51:19,599 What we cut out 575 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,300 has formed again. 576 00:51:22,500 --> 00:51:25,000 but there's no putrefaction. 577 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,699 With God's help, 578 00:51:27,700 --> 00:51:30,100 and your courage, Majesty, 579 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,400 we�ll master it. 580 00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:46,399 I ask Your Majesty to forgive me 581 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,300 for the pain I'm about to cause you. 582 00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:52,700 I won't cut deep tonight. 583 00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,200 bite the sponge. 584 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,700 Adjust the movement of the planets, Beauchamp. 585 00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:43,400 Planets don't brush against the Sun, they keep a respectful distance. 586 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,799 They allow it to glow. 587 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,800 The aim is to stress its brilliance, 588 00:52:49,300 --> 00:52:50,599 not smother it. 589 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,200 Air, Beauchamp! Air! 590 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,300 You're angry. I'm not guilty. 591 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,299 That night... 592 00:53:03,300 --> 00:53:05,700 I don't wish to know. 593 00:53:05,700 --> 00:53:06,899 However, 594 00:53:06,900 --> 00:53:09,200 I demand you change your ways. 595 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,300 Do you understand? 596 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,700 Do you know the punishment for sodomy? 597 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,200 Sire, I am married. 598 00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:20,799 I know you�re married. 599 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,000 Thank you, 600 00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,900 spare me that music. 601 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,200 Your wife 602 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:35,300 has a great deal of merit to keep you. 603 00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:41,300 So do I. 604 00:53:43,300 --> 00:53:46,700 Consider your luck as great as your talent. 605 00:53:53,900 --> 00:53:56,600 I thought we were friends. 606 00:54:06,700 --> 00:54:09,300 I have...... no friends. 607 00:54:11,900 --> 00:54:13,800 As for me... 608 00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:16,900 I've not changed toward you. 609 00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:26,500 Music 610 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,700 embodies universal harmony. Thus... 611 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,600 it has a political function in the order I wish to establish. 612 00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:36,399 It serves me. 613 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:39,500 It serves the State and God. 614 00:54:41,300 --> 00:54:45,000 The Steward of my music doesn't carry on like an ass. 615 00:54:47,900 --> 00:54:51,300 France must have the finest music in Europe. 616 00:54:51,500 --> 00:54:54,000 And the most respected. 617 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:17,900 My God! 618 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,699 The physicians said they were healing you, 619 00:55:21,700 --> 00:55:24,400 that the disease had regressed. 620 00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:29,700 They cut my breast to the bone. 621 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,600 The tumor seemed defeated. 622 00:55:35,300 --> 00:55:37,500 but as you see... 623 00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,099 I am dying, Louis. 624 00:55:42,100 --> 00:55:43,900 Don't move. 625 00:55:44,100 --> 00:55:45,800 Listen to me. 626 00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,100 I fear for the kingdom. 627 00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,500 I fear greatly for you. 628 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,900 Your people's salvation depends on your own. 629 00:55:56,700 --> 00:55:59,000 If you're lost, so will they be. 630 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,900 I am not lost, Mother. 631 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,900 I buy my old enemies with the pleasures at court. 632 00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:09,499 Gathered around me, 633 00:56:09,500 --> 00:56:12,600 intent on pleasing me, they forget about plotting. 634 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,500 No, Louis, 635 00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,199 you seek only your own pleasures, 636 00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,599 your own glory. 637 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,699 We have discussed this before, Madam. 638 00:56:22,700 --> 00:56:24,699 Let us not quarrel now. 639 00:56:24,700 --> 00:56:27,499 Swear to me you will mend your ways. 640 00:56:27,500 --> 00:56:30,499 I can't bear what you have become. 641 00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:32,699 Swear, Louis. 642 00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:34,599 I don't want to die 643 00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,199 with the anxiety 644 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,000 you've plunged me into. 645 00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,200 I won't make a vow I can't keep. 646 00:56:47,100 --> 00:56:49,500 You don't love me. 647 00:56:50,700 --> 00:56:53,700 Don't ask me to repudiate myself. 648 00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:59,200 You've always criticized me, always fought me. 649 00:57:00,100 --> 00:57:04,400 If not directly, you and your friends attacked those who served me best. 650 00:57:06,100 --> 00:57:09,600 Always harsh, forbidding, ready to condemn, 651 00:57:11,100 --> 00:57:14,200 brandishing God's name like a whip over my head. 652 00:57:16,300 --> 00:57:18,399 Never did you give me 653 00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,700 the slightest solace, 654 00:57:21,300 --> 00:57:23,500 or support, 655 00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,000 or tenderness. 656 00:57:30,300 --> 00:57:34,200 You never gave me leisure to love you as I would have wished. 657 00:57:41,300 --> 00:57:43,600 Remember God, Louis! 658 01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:27,900 My goddess... 659 01:04:29,900 --> 01:04:33,300 He who rises to the heavens must know how to remain there. 660 01:04:35,900 --> 01:04:37,900 We shall know how. 661 01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,999 Majestic 3/4 leap...... 662 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:05,400 and right. 663 01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:07,699 Yes. Double left. 664 01:06:07,700 --> 01:06:10,400 And right. Pile. Leap. 665 01:06:15,100 --> 01:06:17,100 And right. 666 01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,000 And double left. 667 01:06:19,300 --> 01:06:21,500 And right. Pile. Leap. 668 01:06:28,100 --> 01:06:30,000 And right. 669 01:06:30,300 --> 01:06:31,899 And double left. 670 01:06:31,900 --> 01:06:33,900 And right. Pile. 671 01:06:35,300 --> 01:06:37,400 Out, Moli�re! 672 01:06:40,300 --> 01:06:42,700 In fact, everybody out. 673 01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:55,499 Shall I call your doctor, Sire? 674 01:06:55,500 --> 01:06:57,499 No. No one. 675 01:06:57,500 --> 01:06:59,599 It's too fast. No one can dance it. 676 01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:01,499 My dancing master can. 677 01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:03,000 So can I. 678 01:07:03,100 --> 01:07:04,600 Leave me. 679 01:07:37,700 --> 01:07:41,100 Of all light I am the source, 680 01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:46,200 And the stars which in their course Form a great circle about me 681 01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:50,600 Only draw their brilliant force From the luminosity that I decree 682 01:08:12,700 --> 01:08:15,900 Let us open our eyes wide To this display supreme. 683 01:08:25,700 --> 01:08:27,600 What grace extreme! 684 01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,100 What bearing and pride! 685 01:08:35,500 --> 01:08:37,900 No God can claim such esteem! 686 01:08:42,300 --> 01:08:43,900 Stop! 687 01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:51,500 The State seems to be tottering. 688 01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:56,800 No one is God on this earth. 689 01:09:26,100 --> 01:09:28,199 He's 32 years old, remember that! 690 01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:30,799 He wants a body of bronze, like his statues. 691 01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,299 but nature is catching up. He's aging. 692 01:09:33,300 --> 01:09:35,599 You saw how he nearly fainted. 693 01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,100 You can't make him the best anymore. He can't bear that. 694 01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:42,399 He never gave up. He won't give up. 695 01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:43,899 He wants to drive me mad. 696 01:09:43,900 --> 01:09:47,600 Drink! Drink! Cough and die. I�ll die and so must you. 697 01:09:47,700 --> 01:09:49,499 Here! Real wine that kills! 698 01:09:49,500 --> 01:09:53,100 You were to make him as admirable in the theater at Court 699 01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:54,799 as he is in the theater of war. 700 01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:58,600 To push him to that absurd perfection he seeks in all things. 701 01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:02,500 Drink! Damn your doctor, your lungs, your liver and your spleen! 702 01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:04,499 There's something else. 703 01:10:04,500 --> 01:10:08,000 - What? - You read hearts, can't you guess? 704 01:10:09,900 --> 01:10:12,100 You're on the wrong track. 705 01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:15,299 We mustn't peer under the King's doublet. 706 01:10:15,300 --> 01:10:18,099 We must find a replacement for the Royal ballet. 707 01:10:18,100 --> 01:10:19,699 So what can we do 708 01:10:19,700 --> 01:10:21,699 to sing his praises, glorify him? 709 01:10:21,700 --> 01:10:26,300 We jump into this river. If we're full of wine, it won't be so cold. 710 01:10:30,300 --> 01:10:31,900 Andiamo! 711 01:10:34,300 --> 01:10:35,800 Can you swim? 712 01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:51,700 Sire, the new play commissioned by Your Majesty 713 01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,599 is nearly finished. 714 01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:56,399 It will be the apt riposte, I am sure, 715 01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,900 to the affront the Turks dared inflict on Your Highness. 716 01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:01,699 "Our best weapon 717 01:11:01,700 --> 01:11:04,100 is laughter," claims Moli�re. 718 01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:16,799 buffoon! 719 01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:20,100 He's always laughed at you. You were more buffoon than I. 720 01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:22,899 Look at me, at what I've become! 721 01:13:22,900 --> 01:13:26,100 Did you see how the King laughed! 722 01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:27,899 He's never laughed so hard. 723 01:13:27,900 --> 01:13:31,600 He used to dance. It all had meaning. Now he laughs at me. At me! 724 01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:34,899 Spare me the sackcloth and ashes. 725 01:13:34,900 --> 01:13:36,299 And if I won't? 726 01:13:36,300 --> 01:13:39,400 Then go drown yourself. And no one will pity you. 727 01:13:39,500 --> 01:13:42,800 We've never had such success. You should thank me. 728 01:13:42,900 --> 01:13:47,600 For reducing me to a rattle Moli�re shakes to make others laugh? 729 01:13:47,700 --> 01:13:49,300 Thank you? 730 01:13:56,100 --> 01:13:59,000 I've always known it, Moli�re. You are the king. 731 01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:01,599 Now, your sense 732 01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:03,800 of satire is unrivaled. 733 01:14:11,900 --> 01:14:13,300 Lully, are you hungry? 734 01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:17,300 Yes, Sire, I am. 735 01:14:18,100 --> 01:14:20,399 Since I stopped making you dance 736 01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,300 I'm always hungry. Aren't you? 737 01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:28,700 A regal reply to the Turks, Baptiste! 738 01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:31,100 You hit the bull's eye. 739 01:14:31,500 --> 01:14:34,299 I have an idea I'd like to discuss with you. 740 01:14:34,300 --> 01:14:37,599 It's an art form combining theater, dance, 741 01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:39,499 music and the plastic arts. 742 01:14:39,500 --> 01:14:41,300 My dream 743 01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,500 is to stage a tragedy for you. 744 01:16:34,700 --> 01:16:37,600 Stop, please, stop it! 745 01:16:38,100 --> 01:16:39,900 Stop that! 746 01:16:40,100 --> 01:16:41,999 I love you. 747 01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:44,000 I love you. 748 01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:46,600 You've been after me for years. 749 01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:50,300 You thought you'd won. 750 01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:52,799 That all you had to do... 751 01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,700 was to grow up, 752 01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:56,800 to have big tits! 753 01:16:57,700 --> 01:16:59,699 You'll never get me! 754 01:16:59,700 --> 01:17:01,200 Never! 755 01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:27,800 I have an idea for you and the King. 756 01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:31,099 Theater more magnificent and imposing 757 01:17:31,100 --> 01:17:33,800 than anything we've done till now. 758 01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:39,300 Dramatic art taken to its farthest limit musical tragedy. 759 01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:42,600 It will have everything. Audiences will dream, weep, 760 01:17:44,300 --> 01:17:47,299 come away both dazzled and elevated. 761 01:17:47,300 --> 01:17:51,600 I have something in mind... a form, really... 762 01:17:51,700 --> 01:17:53,100 Don't say a thing. 763 01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:56,700 It's a form of opera. 764 01:18:00,900 --> 01:18:03,099 but French in essence. 765 01:18:03,100 --> 01:18:05,100 Cambert has just finished his. 766 01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:07,199 An opera in French. 767 01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:08,799 The King gave him a theater, 768 01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:10,800 - and they say... - Silence that slut! 769 01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:14,099 You've taken up with Cambert! 770 01:18:14,100 --> 01:18:15,500 Get out! 771 01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:18,499 And you, my dear wife, 772 01:18:18,500 --> 01:18:21,399 you're a part of it with your old lover. 773 01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:22,999 Playing the bawd now?. 774 01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,400 Aren't you two plotting against me? 775 01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:27,099 Out of my sight! 776 01:18:27,100 --> 01:18:28,700 To the devil with you! 777 01:18:28,900 --> 01:18:30,400 I'm going. 778 01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:38,099 And you... 779 01:18:38,100 --> 01:18:41,100 You suck my blood like these leeches. 780 01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:45,199 Opera is a bastard form, Moli�re. 781 01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:47,499 A pollution. Vomit. 782 01:18:47,500 --> 01:18:50,399 An Italian thing. Mere vocalizing. 783 01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:52,299 The King made me French. 784 01:18:52,300 --> 01:18:55,600 Dance, ballet, these are French. 785 01:18:57,100 --> 01:18:59,300 You're infecting me, 786 01:19:00,500 --> 01:19:02,299 you're out to pervert me. 787 01:19:02,300 --> 01:19:03,800 It's the King's madness. 788 01:19:05,500 --> 01:19:07,600 You're infecting yourself. 789 01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:12,900 Watch out. Don't trust yourself. 790 01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,499 believe me. 791 01:19:16,500 --> 01:19:18,499 believe me, I'm your friend. 792 01:19:18,500 --> 01:19:20,700 I have no friends. 793 01:19:25,500 --> 01:19:27,899 It's you who should watch out! 794 01:19:27,900 --> 01:19:31,200 A triumph! The first opera in French! 795 01:19:31,300 --> 01:19:34,399 In French we all understand, 796 01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:35,899 you and I. 797 01:19:35,900 --> 01:19:38,099 Nothing spoken, nothing but songs! 798 01:19:38,100 --> 01:19:40,000 Pomone, Cambert's masterwork. 799 01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:43,299 Hurry! Hurry! Pomone is inside. 800 01:19:43,300 --> 01:19:45,900 The curtain is about to rise! 801 01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:26,499 Why? Why did you do it? 802 01:21:26,500 --> 01:21:29,199 You said, go to the devil. I waited for you. 803 01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,599 I wanted you to come for me. 804 01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:34,399 I'd have forgiven anything but this. 805 01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:37,800 You never looked at me, never listened to me. 806 01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:41,799 Tonight, you listened. And now you see me. 807 01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:43,599 Here I am, duped, 808 01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:47,400 ridiculed by a pious musician and an unfaithful child. 809 01:21:47,500 --> 01:21:49,899 You planned your scheme subtly, 810 01:21:49,900 --> 01:21:51,399 and underhandedly. 811 01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:53,900 I never saw it coming. 812 01:21:54,100 --> 01:21:57,500 Just say the word and I'll give it up, give up Cambert. 813 01:21:57,600 --> 01:21:59,699 I'll sing for you only. 814 01:21:59,700 --> 01:22:01,199 You'll write for me 815 01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:05,100 with Moli�re. We'll go from triumph to triumph. We'll be happy. 816 01:22:05,100 --> 01:22:07,500 Tell me, Julie... 817 01:22:07,700 --> 01:22:10,800 I want to know, to understand. 818 01:22:11,900 --> 01:22:14,499 Moli�re�s right, Baptiste. 819 01:22:14,500 --> 01:22:17,500 The audience is out there. They came. 820 01:22:18,500 --> 01:22:20,400 They're applauding us. 821 01:22:20,700 --> 01:22:23,800 Nothing is finer than singing. Nothing is finer than opera. 822 01:22:31,900 --> 01:22:34,500 So you're interested in opera now?. 823 01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:36,600 That's new. 824 01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:40,100 Cambert is debasing this privilege, Sire. 825 01:22:40,200 --> 01:22:43,500 If France is to have opera, only I can write it. 826 01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:46,300 I am your voice. 827 01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:50,199 For 2o years now, it has been me. 828 01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:53,000 And for eternity, it can only be me. 829 01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:01,200 And if I decided to change instruments? 830 01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:07,400 You'd lose by it, Sire. 831 01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:10,300 You know you would. 832 01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,400 It's a matter of your image, Sire. 833 01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:18,200 From the heights of your glory, 834 01:23:19,100 --> 01:23:21,699 we must control everything. 835 01:23:21,700 --> 01:23:23,200 Everything. 836 01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:26,199 I'll write "musical tragedies" for you. 837 01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:29,000 Opera, but in French. 838 01:23:29,300 --> 01:23:33,000 You will be the inspiration, the architect. 839 01:23:33,100 --> 01:23:35,099 Nothing but vocalizing, 840 01:23:35,100 --> 01:23:38,900 but combined with our glorious ballet. Without embellishments. 841 01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:40,799 No Italian-style excess. 842 01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:43,900 Restraint, nobility, 843 01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:45,499 grandeur. 844 01:23:45,500 --> 01:23:50,200 Gods and kings will not be sung by effeminate voices in the Italian manner, 845 01:23:50,300 --> 01:23:52,400 but by French basses 846 01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,400 and baritones. 847 01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:57,899 Males, 848 01:23:57,900 --> 01:24:01,300 true males. In Your Majesty's image. 849 01:24:03,300 --> 01:24:05,500 You no longer dance, alas. 850 01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,299 but your Court mustn't leave the stage. 851 01:24:10,300 --> 01:24:13,700 Let the theater be its reflection. 852 01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:17,100 A magnificent, even sublime mirror. 853 01:24:17,700 --> 01:24:19,500 They will tremble. 854 01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:22,400 They will weep. 855 01:24:22,700 --> 01:24:25,200 Most of all, they will admire. 856 01:24:25,300 --> 01:24:27,100 And everywhere, 857 01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:30,400 they will honor you. 858 01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:41,599 There is not another like you at court, Lully. 859 01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:44,100 That would be one too many. 860 01:24:55,100 --> 01:24:57,400 Grant me the privilege, Sire. 861 01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:01,800 To me alone. 862 01:25:02,300 --> 01:25:04,800 I'll use it better than anyone. 863 01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:16,800 Refuse me today, 864 01:25:18,900 --> 01:25:21,399 and I will see it as a repudiation. 865 01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:23,700 I will draw my conclusions. 866 01:25:28,700 --> 01:25:30,400 And Moli�re? 867 01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:34,800 Sick men disgust you as they do me, Sire. 868 01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:37,799 He spits out his lungs a little more every day. 869 01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:39,200 He coughs, 870 01:25:39,700 --> 01:25:42,100 he coughs more and more. 871 01:25:50,300 --> 01:25:54,300 From now on, France shall have only one music. 872 01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:55,800 Only one. 873 01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:59,600 I need your absolute support. 874 01:26:01,700 --> 01:26:03,799 I have only one love, 875 01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,100 which no one can measure. 876 01:26:08,100 --> 01:26:10,800 And like you, I have no friends. 877 01:26:41,700 --> 01:26:44,100 You can seal up your pit. 878 01:26:44,100 --> 01:26:46,100 You'll have no orchestra. 879 01:26:46,700 --> 01:26:48,699 Since yesterday, no play 880 01:26:48,700 --> 01:26:51,800 may include more than 2 singers and 2 instruments. 881 01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:01,699 What is this nonsense? 882 01:27:01,700 --> 01:27:03,199 This nonsense is the King's decree. 883 01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:06,200 Here is a copy, signed by his hand. 884 01:27:06,700 --> 01:27:09,299 I alone may produce musical drama. 885 01:27:09,300 --> 01:27:11,199 I alone. I come from Cambert's. 886 01:27:11,200 --> 01:27:13,100 He must close his theater. 887 01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:14,799 You're not serious! 888 01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:16,799 No more than 2 musicians, 889 01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:18,199 only 2 singers. 890 01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:19,799 Without music, my theater 891 01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:21,799 won't last 2 seasons. 892 01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:24,599 You've signed my death warrant, you know that. 893 01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:29,000 I'm renovating in order to put on the comedy-ballets we wrote together, 894 01:27:29,100 --> 01:27:31,200 you and I, Baptiste. 895 01:27:43,700 --> 01:27:45,300 Psyche. 896 01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:47,600 The Magnificent Lovers. 897 01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:50,199 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. 898 01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:52,799 The bourgeois Gentleman. 899 01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:55,899 All are now published under one name... 900 01:27:55,900 --> 01:27:57,300 Mr. de Lully. 901 01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:01,100 They're my works too. 902 01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:02,599 You can't steal them! 903 01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:07,600 The King's decree stipulates that all texts set to my music 904 01:28:07,700 --> 01:28:09,400 become my property. 905 01:28:09,900 --> 01:28:11,799 It is under my name 906 01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:14,500 that these works will now appear. 907 01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:15,600 Wait! 908 01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:23,700 You can't take it all. 909 01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:28,100 This isn't like you. 910 01:28:28,100 --> 01:28:30,500 Look at yourself now. 911 01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:33,799 Who is compromising now?. 912 01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:35,899 You smother us with farces. 913 01:28:35,900 --> 01:28:37,999 The Court laughs. 914 01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:40,899 Gold fills your coffers. You've lost your soul. 915 01:28:40,900 --> 01:28:43,500 You accommodate to life. Not me! 916 01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:46,499 I grapple with it like a wrestler. 917 01:28:46,500 --> 01:28:48,200 At times above. 918 01:28:48,500 --> 01:28:50,400 At times beneath. 919 01:28:55,700 --> 01:28:57,700 What's going on? 920 01:28:57,700 --> 01:29:00,099 You're mad. What all this? 921 01:29:00,100 --> 01:29:01,900 You want the truth? 922 01:29:03,300 --> 01:29:05,500 The real truth? 923 01:29:06,700 --> 01:29:08,600 The naked truth? 924 01:29:09,100 --> 01:29:11,900 I won't be your subordinate anymore. 925 01:29:13,700 --> 01:29:15,899 For years, you've badgered me..... 926 01:29:15,900 --> 01:29:20,000 Baptiste, give me some notes here, a bit of ballet there... " 927 01:29:20,100 --> 01:29:22,500 I won't take any orders now. 928 01:29:22,900 --> 01:29:25,599 My music won't be second to your words. 929 01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:28,599 It's beauty will stand on its own. 930 01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:32,100 I will rule the music of this nation as the King rules Europe. 931 01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:35,400 Alone. Sharing with no one. 932 01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:44,700 Get out. 933 01:29:46,900 --> 01:29:48,600 Take your people and go. 934 01:29:50,300 --> 01:29:51,899 It's all over. 935 01:29:51,900 --> 01:29:53,700 I'd warned you, Moli�re. 936 01:29:54,300 --> 01:29:57,600 The King's fed up with your spitting and wheezing. 937 01:29:57,900 --> 01:29:59,999 - You're mere clay, Moli�re. - Enough. 938 01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,199 A cloud. A storm. 939 01:30:02,200 --> 01:30:04,799 It suits you to tell him I'm dying. 940 01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:06,100 A relic. 941 01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:11,600 I reek of death, is that it? 942 01:30:16,200 --> 01:30:19,600 I chose between him, whom I love, and you, my friend. 943 01:30:20,300 --> 01:30:22,299 He is fickle. 944 01:30:22,300 --> 01:30:25,500 He loves only his glory, but I love him. 945 01:30:25,900 --> 01:30:27,299 He's the best of me. 946 01:30:27,300 --> 01:30:29,300 This is a farce. 947 01:30:29,700 --> 01:30:31,300 A farce! 948 01:30:34,100 --> 01:30:36,299 You move me to write this farce. 949 01:30:36,300 --> 01:30:37,699 Here and now. 950 01:30:37,700 --> 01:30:41,700 About a fake invalid. To music, and to hell with you, Lully! 951 01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:56,800 February 17, 1673 952 01:31:03,100 --> 01:31:04,899 The King still hasn't come. 953 01:31:04,900 --> 01:31:07,899 If he doesn't come tonight, it's all over. 954 01:31:07,900 --> 01:31:09,299 but we have the public. 955 01:31:09,300 --> 01:31:11,399 Think that's enough? blockhead! 956 01:31:11,400 --> 01:31:13,300 Take your places! 957 01:31:14,300 --> 01:31:17,500 How sad to be a slave to the whims of the mighty! 958 01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:19,400 Go on! 959 01:31:23,900 --> 01:31:25,600 My God, 960 01:31:25,800 --> 01:31:28,699 how a man must suffer before he can die! 961 01:31:28,700 --> 01:31:30,200 Curtain! 962 01:31:32,100 --> 01:31:35,300 3 and 2 make 5, 963 01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:39,000 and 5 make 1o, 964 01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:42,000 and 1o 965 01:31:42,300 --> 01:31:43,399 make 2o. 966 01:31:43,400 --> 01:31:45,900 Total: 63 livres, 967 01:31:46,100 --> 01:31:49,300 4 sols and six deniers. 968 01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:54,200 That means for this month I've had... 969 01:31:55,900 --> 01:31:58,900 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 970 01:31:59,100 --> 01:32:01,700 6, 7, 8, 9... 971 01:32:04,500 --> 01:32:08,000 1o, 11, 12 enemas! 972 01:32:09,900 --> 01:32:12,800 And last month I had... 973 01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:19,600 12 prescriptions and 20 enemas. 974 01:32:24,300 --> 01:32:27,800 No wonder I'm feeling less well this month. 975 01:32:33,300 --> 01:32:34,599 They can't hear. 976 01:32:34,600 --> 01:32:36,700 The bell's not loud enough. 977 01:32:39,500 --> 01:32:41,700 They're deaf. Toinette! 978 01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:45,200 This is infuriating! 979 01:32:48,100 --> 01:32:49,599 Ding-a-ling-a-ling! 980 01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:52,100 The devil take them! 981 01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:13,400 How could they leave a poor sick fellow all alone! 982 01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:26,800 This is pathetic! 983 01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:37,800 They'll let me die here alone. 984 01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:01,300 This is new. 985 01:40:03,100 --> 01:40:05,100 Thank you for coming. 986 01:40:05,500 --> 01:40:09,000 He's been asking for you for 3 days. I feared you'd be too late. 987 01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:12,599 He won't have his leg amputated. 988 01:40:12,600 --> 01:40:16,800 He says he must make the King dance and that Moli�re is waiting on stage. 989 01:40:21,100 --> 01:40:23,200 You still love him so. 990 01:40:41,500 --> 01:40:43,600 My little light. 991 01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:48,600 You're here, at last. 992 01:40:52,500 --> 01:40:55,200 The King is coming. Show your best face. 993 01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:57,800 The King will come no more. 994 01:40:58,100 --> 01:40:59,600 You know that. 995 01:41:01,500 --> 01:41:03,700 The King no longer wants me. 996 01:41:04,700 --> 01:41:07,600 He no longer wants my music. 997 01:41:09,300 --> 01:41:12,200 Your music made him immortal. 998 01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:14,800 Immortal... 999 01:41:17,600 --> 01:41:19,700 That's true... 1000 01:41:20,300 --> 01:41:22,200 That's good. 1001 01:41:26,400 --> 01:41:29,100 Does he even know I�m dying? 1002 01:41:36,700 --> 01:41:39,300 My god, what silence... 1003 01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:52,400 What silence... 1004 01:42:15,500 --> 01:42:18,900 Is there no music tonight?