1 00:00:21,856 --> 00:00:23,816 I love you, my love. 2 00:00:38,998 --> 00:00:41,918 THE BLUE NOTE 3 00:01:52,196 --> 00:01:54,949 It's him. 4 00:01:55,033 --> 00:01:56,826 I recognize these sounds. 5 00:01:56,909 --> 00:02:01,497 Nobody on earth. The litheness. The grace. 6 00:02:01,581 --> 00:02:03,916 Demonic! Oh. 7 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,544 It's God talking through his fingers. 8 00:02:06,628 --> 00:02:10,340 That's a piece I've never heard. That means he's on top form. 9 00:02:10,423 --> 00:02:11,883 Top? 10 00:02:11,966 --> 00:02:13,885 Top hat! 11 00:02:13,968 --> 00:02:15,720 A barcarole. 12 00:02:15,803 --> 00:02:18,056 I'd rather say a pigeon's goal. 13 00:02:18,139 --> 00:02:20,808 Amazing that he's at it so early in the day. 14 00:02:20,892 --> 00:02:22,685 He was always rising at dawn. 15 00:02:22,769 --> 00:02:25,146 Here, dawn is called "Aurora." 16 00:02:25,229 --> 00:02:27,190 Aurora Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, 17 00:02:27,273 --> 00:02:29,192 pen name, George. 18 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:31,069 Oh, what spirit. 19 00:02:31,152 --> 00:02:34,822 Just wait to rub against it, ducky, you'll see the spirit. 20 00:02:34,906 --> 00:02:35,782 What a man! 21 00:02:35,907 --> 00:02:38,201 Hello, you. Where's my fiancée? 22 00:02:38,284 --> 00:02:40,244 - Ivan's leaving. - Then where's everybody? 23 00:02:40,328 --> 00:02:42,538 - Ah, Ivan. - My Grzymala! 24 00:02:42,622 --> 00:02:44,666 My Dumpling. 25 00:02:44,749 --> 00:02:47,085 You're going to reheat those war stories, eh? 26 00:02:47,168 --> 00:02:50,046 It wasn't a war, it was an insurrection. 27 00:02:50,129 --> 00:02:52,173 That wild charge you did, you Uhlans? 28 00:02:52,256 --> 00:02:53,716 - Lancers. - Oh yes. 29 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:55,176 It was crazily romantic, wasn't it, Louis? 30 00:02:55,301 --> 00:02:57,595 - Crazily. - The little one? 31 00:02:57,679 --> 00:02:59,138 Chip, Chip? A lark. 32 00:02:59,222 --> 00:03:01,224 Oh, good fairy. 33 00:03:03,559 --> 00:03:06,479 It's just some flour. Today, even your wife will be slaving over a hot stove. 34 00:03:06,562 --> 00:03:09,357 Pauline? What an amazing change in her ways. 35 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,067 - My hat. - Oh, yes. 36 00:03:11,150 --> 00:03:14,737 We are in the midst of the most amusing misadventure, we have no house staff left. 37 00:03:14,821 --> 00:03:15,988 What do you mean, no house staff? 38 00:03:16,072 --> 00:03:18,950 Right you are, my dear Fernand. Today we'll have to do everything by ourselves. 39 00:03:19,033 --> 00:03:22,495 The great. The unique. Genius in female form. 40 00:03:22,578 --> 00:03:26,082 You, whose novels have shown women 41 00:03:26,165 --> 00:03:29,711 - the path of independence. - The Countess Czosnowska. 42 00:03:29,794 --> 00:03:33,172 Back in Ukraine, I learned your books off by heart. 43 00:03:33,256 --> 00:03:35,383 - Mr. Turgenev. - Russian. 44 00:03:35,466 --> 00:03:36,926 Writer. 45 00:03:37,009 --> 00:03:39,470 And a slave to the genius of Pauline, my dear Louis. 46 00:03:39,554 --> 00:03:43,641 - Ivan has Russian sadnesses. - The Russians are always too sad or too merry. 47 00:03:43,725 --> 00:03:44,976 Especially when they cut your throat. 48 00:03:45,059 --> 00:03:48,020 I forbid you! I'll accompany you, Ivan. 49 00:03:49,522 --> 00:03:51,899 I do omelet crayfish. 50 00:03:51,983 --> 00:03:54,819 - Have you crayfish, here around? - There's the little stream, yes. 51 00:03:54,902 --> 00:03:58,030 Ha, if there is stream, there is crustaceans! 52 00:03:58,114 --> 00:04:01,826 - And if you'll allow me, I'll go hunting. - An excellent idea! 53 00:04:02,034 --> 00:04:05,329 I'm sorry to impose on your horses this to-ing and fro-ing between train stations and Nohant. 54 00:04:05,413 --> 00:04:09,375 - It doesn't matter. - You will say hello to Frederic and Eugene for me. 55 00:04:09,459 --> 00:04:12,420 I haven't seen them this morning, but I admit I haven't really looked for them. 56 00:04:12,503 --> 00:04:14,839 - Paris? - Petersburg. 57 00:04:14,922 --> 00:04:16,174 Is it so bad? 58 00:04:17,842 --> 00:04:20,803 Well, for me, when things go wrong, when I lose all hope, 59 00:04:20,887 --> 00:04:22,555 when I don't understand anything about life, 60 00:04:22,638 --> 00:04:27,101 when I don't want anything of it, when it hurts so bad... when the sky is empty... 61 00:04:28,394 --> 00:04:31,105 I go to the end of the garden and I call him. 62 00:04:31,189 --> 00:04:33,399 - I call: Corambe! - Who? 63 00:04:33,483 --> 00:04:35,401 Co-ram-be. 64 00:04:35,485 --> 00:04:37,779 These three syllables were born out of a dream. 65 00:04:37,862 --> 00:04:40,990 Corambe has no sex. Sometimes, when I was little, I dressed him as a girl. 66 00:04:41,073 --> 00:04:42,283 He's well meaning, 67 00:04:42,366 --> 00:04:44,744 maybe a touch ironic, but devoid of spite. 68 00:04:44,827 --> 00:04:46,120 I see. 69 00:04:46,245 --> 00:04:49,165 Don't look at me with those eyes, Ivan. 70 00:04:49,248 --> 00:04:53,044 It's me who arranged the delay of Louis' arrival from Paris. It's me who put Pauline in my son's bed. 71 00:04:53,169 --> 00:04:53,878 But why? 72 00:04:53,961 --> 00:04:56,255 Because Pauline is the greatest singer in the whole world. 73 00:04:56,339 --> 00:04:57,757 I followed her all across Europe. 74 00:04:57,882 --> 00:05:01,219 Because she has this unique talent and Maurice has to become a man. 75 00:05:01,302 --> 00:05:04,972 - And this I'll never be. - Don't even, Ivan. 76 00:05:05,056 --> 00:05:07,475 The world is made for the good people only in theory. 77 00:05:07,558 --> 00:05:11,896 - What about you? - Me, I'm not good. 78 00:05:11,979 --> 00:05:14,106 I'm socialist. 79 00:05:14,190 --> 00:05:16,776 I'm so socialist that I threw out my house staff. 80 00:05:16,859 --> 00:05:19,529 And I hate you, because you own serfs on your lands in Russia! 81 00:05:19,612 --> 00:05:23,282 - I will free my serfs. - Don't free your serfs, Ivan. 82 00:05:23,366 --> 00:05:27,036 Lie. In order to write, lie. 83 00:05:34,085 --> 00:05:35,545 It's... 84 00:05:35,628 --> 00:05:37,922 it's a top hat from Dupreuil's. 85 00:05:38,005 --> 00:05:40,508 - His chambers are upstairs. - Upstairs. 86 00:05:43,886 --> 00:05:45,972 - Have you seen Maurice, Louis? - Not yet. 87 00:05:46,055 --> 00:05:48,641 The Countess Czosnowska. Maurice! Ah, ha, Maurice. 88 00:05:49,976 --> 00:05:52,395 My God, has he become a man. 89 00:05:52,478 --> 00:05:53,646 Hasn't he? 90 00:05:55,982 --> 00:05:57,692 That was your pigeon. 91 00:05:58,901 --> 00:06:01,237 Adalbert, I will show you to your quarters later. 92 00:06:02,655 --> 00:06:05,324 - You know the house. - So if you want to get refreshed, 93 00:06:05,408 --> 00:06:07,618 some potato starch will do the trick. The potato starch will do it, 94 00:06:07,702 --> 00:06:10,079 - shouldn't it, Jean? - Me not talking to Sir. 95 00:06:10,162 --> 00:06:13,624 - Bachi Bouzouk! - Ruffian! Noble family. 96 00:06:13,749 --> 00:06:16,836 Oh, really? Keep gabbing, my friend. 97 00:06:16,919 --> 00:06:18,629 Me, great-great-great grandson of the King of Poland. 98 00:06:18,713 --> 00:06:20,423 - Savvy? - That's enough, Maurice! 99 00:06:20,506 --> 00:06:22,133 But it's true, Mom! At least tell him. 100 00:06:22,216 --> 00:06:24,135 - We hail from the Marechal de Saxe. - Stop it! 101 00:06:24,218 --> 00:06:25,595 What do you want, Jean? 102 00:06:25,678 --> 00:06:30,725 Mister Frederic send me, ask permission Madam Poline not singing that. 103 00:06:31,809 --> 00:06:34,103 - Mister Frederic, play piano. - Oh, of course. Sorry. 104 00:06:34,186 --> 00:06:36,022 - I'm sorry. - Why of course? 105 00:06:36,105 --> 00:06:37,607 You don't have the right to sing now? 106 00:06:37,690 --> 00:06:40,318 We can't measure against a genius, Maurice. 107 00:06:40,401 --> 00:06:42,445 Thank you for dying artist. 108 00:06:43,738 --> 00:06:46,657 - What does he mean by "dying"? - Nothing. 109 00:06:46,741 --> 00:06:48,701 Dear Frederic has inflammation of the tonsils, 110 00:06:48,784 --> 00:06:51,329 and the country air makes him perfectly hysterical. 111 00:06:51,996 --> 00:06:52,872 You laughs? 112 00:06:53,456 --> 00:06:54,540 We cries. 113 00:06:55,541 --> 00:06:57,084 - Jean? - Madam? 114 00:06:57,168 --> 00:07:00,338 You'll help us do the cooking, now that we're alone? 115 00:07:00,421 --> 00:07:03,591 Me, not making general cuisine. Me, take care of Mister Frederic. 116 00:07:03,674 --> 00:07:05,217 Oh yes? And what will he eat, Mister Frederic? 117 00:07:06,302 --> 00:07:10,431 Eat his heart, drink his tears. 118 00:07:12,433 --> 00:07:15,144 Oh, my. 119 00:07:15,227 --> 00:07:17,897 He deserves a part in the play I'm writing. 120 00:07:20,441 --> 00:07:23,277 - Mmm, that looks divine. - It's because Maurice got hungry and I-- 121 00:07:23,361 --> 00:07:27,114 Him too? It seems that Augustine-- by the way, whereabouts is Augustine? 122 00:07:47,134 --> 00:07:48,761 You're in need of something, Monsieur Louis? 123 00:07:48,844 --> 00:07:52,723 - Titine. - No, that was on the streets. 124 00:07:52,807 --> 00:07:55,351 Here, it's Augustine. 125 00:07:56,143 --> 00:07:59,480 And George adopted me legally. 126 00:08:04,110 --> 00:08:07,822 Augustine made a frumenty to die of happiness for. 127 00:08:07,905 --> 00:08:09,824 Go find her, Maurice. 128 00:08:09,907 --> 00:08:11,659 I'll fetch her. 129 00:08:11,742 --> 00:08:14,203 What gracefulness. What breeziness. Oaf! 130 00:08:17,039 --> 00:08:18,290 You. 131 00:08:18,374 --> 00:08:21,043 Take care of your shit. 132 00:08:21,127 --> 00:08:23,838 Monsieur, if you wouldn't be the brother of my fiancée-- 133 00:08:23,921 --> 00:08:26,757 Your fiancée? Oh, let me laugh. 134 00:08:26,841 --> 00:08:30,928 You bet that you won't stay fiancé to the end of the day? 135 00:08:45,901 --> 00:08:49,155 Whereever you want, whenever you want, Monsieur. 136 00:08:49,238 --> 00:08:51,032 Fernand, you bore. 137 00:08:51,115 --> 00:08:53,951 Now, Maurice, you will present your apologies to Monsieur. 138 00:08:55,202 --> 00:08:59,707 Oh, Fernand, here you go. There is the potato starch for your hat. 139 00:09:00,708 --> 00:09:03,753 And why don't you go pick yourself a shotgun in the hallway? 140 00:09:03,836 --> 00:09:06,714 Seems an ideal day for showcasing one's shooter. 141 00:09:06,797 --> 00:09:09,258 Hoot for the shooter, dear Mama. 142 00:09:16,515 --> 00:09:19,143 And for Frederic, some casse-museau, hard as stone. 143 00:09:19,226 --> 00:09:22,396 He suffers from toothache, he'll hate it. 144 00:09:28,611 --> 00:09:30,029 Solange? 145 00:09:30,863 --> 00:09:32,531 Solange. 146 00:09:33,199 --> 00:09:34,075 Croak. 147 00:09:34,158 --> 00:09:36,118 Your fiancé's about! 148 00:09:36,202 --> 00:09:38,662 Ah, let him hang himself. 149 00:09:42,583 --> 00:09:44,794 Augustine? Augustine? 150 00:09:44,877 --> 00:09:46,921 - No, here, it's Solange. - You wouldn't have seen Augustine? 151 00:09:47,004 --> 00:09:49,340 Mmm, search the shitter. 152 00:09:50,549 --> 00:09:53,886 - Oh, the brat. - It's in the blood. 153 00:09:53,969 --> 00:09:56,180 - But why? - Piss off! 154 00:10:12,488 --> 00:10:15,282 He's playing. So soon. 155 00:10:15,366 --> 00:10:18,285 And me, a brute, I was sleeping. 156 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,422 Oh, you are playing for real. 157 00:10:30,506 --> 00:10:33,425 Oh, what joy, my joy. My only joy. 158 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:12,339 I will never catch it. Never! 159 00:11:12,423 --> 00:11:15,259 - But what? - I'm a zero! 160 00:11:15,342 --> 00:11:18,429 I haven't a clue what I'm doing. 161 00:11:18,512 --> 00:11:21,265 I have no talent, no ear! 162 00:11:21,348 --> 00:11:24,435 If Jean would take away his hands, maybe you'd recover two of them. 163 00:11:24,518 --> 00:11:26,270 Huh? 164 00:11:28,731 --> 00:11:30,774 But it should be so easy. 165 00:11:40,409 --> 00:11:43,579 You're all rumpled. And your coiffure, you look like a wild child. 166 00:11:43,662 --> 00:11:46,749 - I've not groomed yet. - Exactly what I'm saying. 167 00:11:46,832 --> 00:11:50,044 A young girl should never appear-- 168 00:11:51,420 --> 00:11:53,130 Like this? 169 00:11:54,423 --> 00:11:57,551 Like what? Like she really is? 170 00:12:03,557 --> 00:12:05,392 Please come and dress me, 171 00:12:05,476 --> 00:12:07,895 brush my hair. Like when I was little. 172 00:12:09,647 --> 00:12:12,149 And stop making yourself more ridiculous than you are. 173 00:12:12,733 --> 00:12:16,403 Oh, no! It stinks too much. Through the walls, it stinks. 174 00:12:16,487 --> 00:12:18,489 So come. It doesn't stink in my room. 175 00:12:18,572 --> 00:12:20,574 You didn't even wash, I bet. 176 00:12:20,658 --> 00:12:23,452 If, for a second, you could just stop playing the moralizer. 177 00:12:23,535 --> 00:12:27,164 Your mother wouldn't approve of you coming here like this. 178 00:12:27,248 --> 00:12:29,667 Okay, stay in your stench with my mother! 179 00:12:30,918 --> 00:12:32,920 At ease, Jan. Repos! Repos! 180 00:12:33,003 --> 00:12:35,631 My God. It's you. Darlings. My tender souls. 181 00:12:44,056 --> 00:12:46,225 Some ice! Jean! 182 00:12:46,308 --> 00:12:48,811 Don't lie him down, it's suffocates him. Keep him upright! 183 00:12:48,894 --> 00:12:51,772 Oh, this smell kills him. Bring him to my room. 184 00:12:54,650 --> 00:12:57,361 I've found it, mother-to-be! 185 00:13:25,264 --> 00:13:29,018 And where will I find the buckshot? 186 00:13:35,190 --> 00:13:38,610 You had more heart about you before, Monsieur Louis. 187 00:13:41,113 --> 00:13:43,824 Here, it's in place of a heart. 188 00:13:43,907 --> 00:13:46,827 I've yet to get a life of my own, Monsieur Louis. 189 00:13:46,910 --> 00:13:48,912 For you, it's a whim. 190 00:13:48,996 --> 00:13:51,749 For me, it's-- 191 00:13:54,001 --> 00:13:55,961 Thank you, my angel. 192 00:13:56,045 --> 00:13:59,423 - Angelic Solange. - How do you feel? 193 00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:02,259 Sorry. For making a spectacle of myself. 194 00:14:02,343 --> 00:14:04,261 For making you put up with it. 195 00:14:04,345 --> 00:14:07,598 - Young, rumpled and cold. - Young, yes. 196 00:14:07,681 --> 00:14:09,350 - Rumpled. - Cold. 197 00:14:09,433 --> 00:14:11,226 Hot. 198 00:14:11,310 --> 00:14:14,188 This terrible tonsillitis I'm prone to on my walks. 199 00:14:15,606 --> 00:14:19,401 George, that walking does a lot of good. 200 00:14:20,652 --> 00:14:23,280 And when I'm back home, 201 00:14:23,364 --> 00:14:25,741 I find everything higgledy-piggledy. 202 00:14:25,824 --> 00:14:28,160 Even the wallpapers are replaced, 203 00:14:28,243 --> 00:14:31,789 the rugs, the furniture, everything. 204 00:14:32,790 --> 00:14:36,418 A frenzy of change seized Aurore. 205 00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:41,340 By the way, we have to change too, Solange, for the ten o'clock. 206 00:14:41,423 --> 00:14:44,259 - I told you. - Oh, don't scold, for once. 207 00:14:45,302 --> 00:14:48,055 Jean will bring you your Sunday best here. 208 00:14:49,556 --> 00:14:52,351 And we will help you to change, and I-- 209 00:14:52,434 --> 00:14:54,895 Oh, my God. Do you hear that? 210 00:14:56,438 --> 00:14:58,941 She understood everything, she kept everything. 211 00:15:00,067 --> 00:15:06,156 I was afraid that she'll sing Bellini... 212 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,117 who was just half a master. But here... 213 00:15:08,242 --> 00:15:09,368 It is-- 214 00:15:09,451 --> 00:15:11,787 I would love to tell you it's Bach, my friend. 215 00:15:11,870 --> 00:15:14,498 But it's me. Only me! 216 00:15:14,581 --> 00:15:16,500 For you see, this phrase... 217 00:15:16,583 --> 00:15:19,628 Solange, may I play on your horrible little piano? 218 00:15:20,838 --> 00:15:22,631 It will be honored. 219 00:15:40,858 --> 00:15:43,193 That's it. I'm working on it. 220 00:15:43,277 --> 00:15:45,654 She works on me since the beginning of summer. 221 00:16:05,716 --> 00:16:07,843 Don't turn. 222 00:16:07,926 --> 00:16:11,388 Of all things, please don't turn. You'd offend my modesty. 223 00:16:11,472 --> 00:16:13,432 Play, Frederic. 224 00:16:13,515 --> 00:16:16,101 Imagine I've never grown up. 225 00:16:17,561 --> 00:16:20,314 I am so happy that you're playing in my room. 226 00:16:20,397 --> 00:16:26,278 That you're staying here, for me, with me. 227 00:16:43,545 --> 00:16:45,172 Beg your pardon. 228 00:16:45,255 --> 00:16:47,424 Sir! 229 00:16:59,269 --> 00:17:02,481 And then, Jean and me, without a thought, like it is in war, 230 00:17:02,564 --> 00:17:04,775 - we jump! Jump! - Bloody Fernand. 231 00:17:04,858 --> 00:17:07,027 If Monsieur de Preault didn't have the grace to miss me, 232 00:17:07,110 --> 00:17:09,238 we would have just one piano player less on this earth. 233 00:17:09,321 --> 00:17:11,240 No pianist. a Messiah! 234 00:17:11,323 --> 00:17:13,367 - Do you agree, Jean? - 'Gree! 235 00:17:13,450 --> 00:17:16,453 If I stooped enough to aim at you, sir... 236 00:17:16,537 --> 00:17:17,788 Chopin. 237 00:17:17,871 --> 00:17:20,415 - Where on earth does one get such a name? - It's from the Lorraine. 238 00:17:20,499 --> 00:17:22,417 Oh, so your accent's Lorrainian? 239 00:17:22,501 --> 00:17:25,003 No, Polish. My father made himself a living in Poland, 240 00:17:25,087 --> 00:17:26,672 my mother is Polish. 241 00:17:26,797 --> 00:17:28,966 - What was his trade? - He's still a tutor. 242 00:17:29,091 --> 00:17:32,052 Ha. With the right class, I hope. 243 00:17:32,135 --> 00:17:34,680 In a class of your own. 244 00:17:34,763 --> 00:17:38,183 Well, everybody knows that when I met Frederic my children's tutor was my lover. 245 00:17:38,350 --> 00:17:40,894 Mister Mallefille lavished them with care. 246 00:17:41,019 --> 00:17:43,313 And he even pursued Frederic, in the street, 247 00:17:43,397 --> 00:17:44,856 with a gun! 248 00:17:44,940 --> 00:17:48,235 - He wasn't a good enough shot? - Oh, he was! 249 00:17:48,318 --> 00:17:50,654 I have brilliant remembrances of it. 250 00:17:51,697 --> 00:17:56,910 So what's wrong? Am I shocking you? Bluntness, even if brutal. 251 00:17:59,079 --> 00:18:01,164 You see, when I met Frederic, 252 00:18:01,248 --> 00:18:04,126 I declared myself first. 253 00:18:04,918 --> 00:18:09,881 I wanted him, I pursued him and I got him. 254 00:18:09,965 --> 00:18:11,550 Veni, vidi, vici. 255 00:18:14,344 --> 00:18:16,805 I even wrote a letter to his friend Grzymala 256 00:18:16,888 --> 00:18:19,725 to ask for Frederic's hand. Didn't I, my clump? 257 00:18:22,394 --> 00:18:25,188 All is fair in love and war, eh? I never lie. 258 00:18:26,523 --> 00:18:29,401 - You said? - Nothing. I say nothing. 259 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:37,743 Alluring, Line. 260 00:18:37,826 --> 00:18:39,411 I want to bid you farewell, Monsieur Eugene. 261 00:18:39,494 --> 00:18:40,787 Why farewell? 262 00:18:40,871 --> 00:18:44,041 I won't be able to pose for you anymore, Monsieur Eugene. 263 00:18:44,124 --> 00:18:45,584 It's not that I didn't got to love it. 264 00:18:45,667 --> 00:18:47,586 Get to love it. 265 00:18:47,669 --> 00:18:50,505 - But we got kicked out by Madam! - Shh. 266 00:18:51,590 --> 00:18:54,426 Seemed that we were too noisy when Madam was still asleep. 267 00:18:55,886 --> 00:18:57,971 Still, one must keep one's dignity. 268 00:19:06,521 --> 00:19:08,982 You will know where to find me in Paris, won't you, Line? 269 00:19:12,027 --> 00:19:14,029 Yes. 270 00:19:15,405 --> 00:19:17,407 You like my flowers? 271 00:19:17,491 --> 00:19:19,493 Oh, you can't eat flowers, can you? 272 00:19:33,465 --> 00:19:34,800 - Hello, hello. - Hello, Maurice. 273 00:19:34,883 --> 00:19:38,095 Don't let me disturb you. Hello, Pauline. Adalbert. 274 00:19:38,178 --> 00:19:39,805 Take it, it's for you. 275 00:19:39,888 --> 00:19:42,808 - It's for you. - Cheat. 276 00:19:42,891 --> 00:19:46,895 Be wary of this pert wench. She'll get it. She's already got it. 277 00:19:47,938 --> 00:19:51,316 - Jealous? - Of course. 278 00:19:52,025 --> 00:19:53,485 Fernand, you know Eugene, of course? 279 00:19:53,568 --> 00:19:55,737 - Eugene? - Delacroix. 280 00:19:58,615 --> 00:20:00,325 De Preault. 281 00:20:00,409 --> 00:20:04,287 Wouldn't it be the great, the unique? Oh. 282 00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:05,664 The revolutionary. 283 00:20:05,747 --> 00:20:07,207 No, not that awful word. 284 00:20:07,290 --> 00:20:10,836 I keep all your daguerreotypes, at home in Ukraine. By heart. 285 00:20:10,919 --> 00:20:14,589 For me, little Polish goose, this dwelling place of geniuses, 286 00:20:14,673 --> 00:20:16,675 it's... It's... 287 00:20:24,057 --> 00:20:26,309 And what's more, she dances. 288 00:20:26,393 --> 00:20:27,811 She's expressing. 289 00:20:27,894 --> 00:20:29,813 I am absolutely sorry for being late, but my watch. 290 00:20:29,896 --> 00:20:31,481 It's a Breguet? 291 00:20:31,565 --> 00:20:33,525 I wouldn't know, it's a gift from my father. 292 00:20:33,608 --> 00:20:36,528 - The real or the fake one? - Pardon? 293 00:20:36,611 --> 00:20:40,907 You are a bastard, Eugene. Maybe that's why you paint so well. 294 00:20:40,991 --> 00:20:44,244 I regret that you find it appropriate to revert to these trooper's manners 295 00:20:44,327 --> 00:20:46,288 as they disfigure you, Lucile. 296 00:20:46,371 --> 00:20:47,497 Lucile? 297 00:20:48,707 --> 00:20:53,712 A trooper's manner can look saner than those of a perfumed moralist. 298 00:20:57,048 --> 00:20:59,634 You didn't try my cookies, Frederic. I made them just for you, d'you know? 299 00:20:59,718 --> 00:21:01,511 I can't. They are too tough. 300 00:21:04,431 --> 00:21:06,516 You could maybe ask Jean to chew them for you? 301 00:21:08,018 --> 00:21:12,981 I'm sure that Jean has jaws of steel. 302 00:21:13,315 --> 00:21:15,525 Me, steel. 303 00:21:17,277 --> 00:21:21,615 I'd rather have some of that delicious soufflé. 304 00:21:21,698 --> 00:21:24,034 With tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, 305 00:21:24,117 --> 00:21:27,537 and ta, ta, ta, ta, tapioca. 306 00:21:34,419 --> 00:21:36,546 Enough? 307 00:21:37,380 --> 00:21:39,508 And you, madam, another helping? 308 00:21:39,591 --> 00:21:42,803 I'm much too excited by the loftiness of your conversation. 309 00:21:42,886 --> 00:21:44,846 Augustine, pass me the frumenty, if you please. 310 00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:48,266 - Frumenty is a peasant's dish, isn't it? - Yes. 311 00:21:48,350 --> 00:21:51,186 Madam, I have to say that at this very moment-- 312 00:21:51,311 --> 00:21:52,312 Yes? 313 00:21:52,437 --> 00:21:54,147 ...the peasants are not in vogue right now. 314 00:21:54,231 --> 00:21:55,565 - Really? Where? - At home. 315 00:21:55,649 --> 00:21:57,776 - Leave it, Lorka. - No, no, on the contrary. 316 00:21:57,859 --> 00:22:02,113 When I was leaving Krakow a week ago, the whole countryside was on fire and in blood. 317 00:22:02,197 --> 00:22:04,366 But Poland is always on fire and in blood, isn't it, Frederic? 318 00:22:04,449 --> 00:22:06,618 That's even why you're never there. 319 00:22:07,327 --> 00:22:10,247 But this time it's different. The peasants are cutting noble throats. 320 00:22:10,372 --> 00:22:13,291 - At last! - But why right now? 321 00:22:15,210 --> 00:22:20,757 Like always the nobles took the lead of an insurrection against the occupier. 322 00:22:20,841 --> 00:22:24,344 The occupier found a simple way to stem it: 323 00:22:24,553 --> 00:22:27,389 they pay in thalers for each noble head cut off. 324 00:22:27,806 --> 00:22:31,309 So the peasants are cutting the heads and selling them. 325 00:22:31,393 --> 00:22:33,895 - It's radical. - It's revolutionary. 326 00:22:34,271 --> 00:22:35,605 It's a massacre. 327 00:22:35,689 --> 00:22:39,401 The chief of the butchers made himself a harem from the victims' wives, 328 00:22:39,484 --> 00:22:41,319 ladies of high standing. 329 00:22:41,403 --> 00:22:42,946 The under-fucked, no doubt. 330 00:22:43,822 --> 00:22:44,656 George! 331 00:22:44,781 --> 00:22:46,408 Oh, please shut up, right? 332 00:22:46,658 --> 00:22:50,579 The fact that you don't share my convictions regarding your peasants, who are just slaves, 333 00:22:50,662 --> 00:22:54,332 and about women, doesn't give you the right to raise the tone of your voice! 334 00:22:54,416 --> 00:22:57,794 And then, every revolt of the oppressed, no matter how blind, 335 00:22:57,878 --> 00:23:00,672 is salutary... 336 00:23:01,923 --> 00:23:05,260 even if... even if it is horrifying. 337 00:23:06,595 --> 00:23:08,722 It's because I haven't slept. 338 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:12,934 And then the cook left. And Line too. 339 00:23:13,351 --> 00:23:17,397 Me, I've worked all night long. I'm so tired. 340 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,275 Oh, my darlings, this is silly. You are what I hold dearest in this world, 341 00:23:20,358 --> 00:23:22,485 and I would love that we love each other, 342 00:23:22,569 --> 00:23:25,447 and that we stay happy and... 343 00:23:25,530 --> 00:23:28,658 I'm fat, unworthy, and mean. 344 00:23:29,951 --> 00:23:32,829 - And I feel old. - Come, come. You are the prettiest. 345 00:23:32,913 --> 00:23:34,414 - The sweetest. You're the most... - There... 346 00:23:34,497 --> 00:23:38,126 ...fragile, the most courageous. The most adored of all mommies. 347 00:23:38,209 --> 00:23:41,046 Everything is beautiful about you. Your hair, your eyes, 348 00:23:41,129 --> 00:23:44,883 your hands so small and dimpled, your feet so tiny. 349 00:23:44,966 --> 00:23:47,093 You have the prettiest little feet on earth. 350 00:23:47,177 --> 00:23:50,639 Like little moon rabbits, so white. 351 00:23:50,722 --> 00:23:54,601 Eugene, forgive me if I went astray. 352 00:23:54,684 --> 00:23:56,519 It's hot, she'll get her vapors. 353 00:23:56,603 --> 00:23:58,939 - She's got them! - Thank you, Augustine. 354 00:23:59,022 --> 00:24:01,232 A bit of vinegar water on your temples, Aurore. 355 00:24:01,316 --> 00:24:03,318 Oh, my friend. I owe you so much. 356 00:24:03,401 --> 00:24:05,487 I am... I am so jittery. 357 00:24:05,570 --> 00:24:08,531 Oh, so that was the thing that stank so bad. I wouldn't dare asking. 358 00:24:08,615 --> 00:24:10,700 - Me took good vinegar kitchen. - The baboon! 359 00:24:10,784 --> 00:24:15,372 Allow me, lovely mother-in-law. I have in my trousseau some eau de Londres. 360 00:24:15,455 --> 00:24:16,873 Excuse me. 361 00:24:16,957 --> 00:24:20,710 Lovely, yes. Mother-in-law, not yet, you rat. 362 00:24:26,049 --> 00:24:28,510 Enough of that. Here we go. 363 00:24:29,052 --> 00:24:31,429 - Ah-ha! - I've got your last one, my Dumpling. 364 00:24:31,513 --> 00:24:34,599 The publisher entrusted me with it to surprise you. 365 00:24:35,141 --> 00:24:36,851 My God, my book has arrived. 366 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:40,063 The mistakes, the typos, one will have to correct them all. 367 00:24:40,146 --> 00:24:41,856 I'm going to change, it's getting too hot. 368 00:24:41,940 --> 00:24:44,067 - Why? Because you're sweating? - Me, sweating? 369 00:24:44,150 --> 00:24:46,611 But of course. Like everybody, Frederic. Everybody sweats. 370 00:24:46,695 --> 00:24:48,321 Me, I sweat; Frederic sweats, right, Augustine? 371 00:24:48,405 --> 00:24:50,031 - If you say so, Mom. - Really? 372 00:24:50,115 --> 00:24:52,659 - Frederic sweats? - You're mean. 373 00:24:52,742 --> 00:24:55,787 What's mean about that, deep down? It's human, Solange. 374 00:24:55,870 --> 00:24:57,622 And that's a word you'll understand later, 375 00:24:57,706 --> 00:25:01,001 when you'll go to live your own life and stop reflecting upon mine. 376 00:25:01,084 --> 00:25:03,336 But no, I-- 377 00:25:04,170 --> 00:25:06,548 Fine. We have to establish a battle plan for tonight's dinner. 378 00:25:06,673 --> 00:25:08,216 Where's my shoe? 379 00:25:08,299 --> 00:25:10,844 Battle? Me knows. 380 00:25:10,927 --> 00:25:14,347 I'll make gnocchi, my specialty. With Augustine's help. 381 00:25:14,431 --> 00:25:16,766 - Rump steak pudding. - Very good, my darling. 382 00:25:16,850 --> 00:25:19,227 Iced coffee, the Italian way. 383 00:25:19,310 --> 00:25:21,688 - I'll make bigos. - Mister Frederic need cabbage. 384 00:25:22,063 --> 00:25:23,440 I love you. 385 00:25:24,899 --> 00:25:26,735 I love you... 386 00:25:27,819 --> 00:25:30,697 - with Solange's help. - Chestnuts as a side dish. 387 00:25:31,531 --> 00:25:33,074 - Borscht! - What? 388 00:25:33,158 --> 00:25:36,327 - The national soup. - Me require beets. 389 00:25:36,411 --> 00:25:38,997 - Oh, they're all over. - Me go over. 390 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,999 Brilliant. 391 00:25:42,167 --> 00:25:44,127 Tally-ho! 392 00:25:44,210 --> 00:25:46,004 Another peep and I kill him. 393 00:25:46,087 --> 00:25:48,798 What can that be? Peasants? 394 00:25:48,882 --> 00:25:52,218 At last. It's for Frederic's room. I'll show them. 395 00:25:53,678 --> 00:25:55,680 - My dear friends. - Many fine mornings, Monsieur Jean. 396 00:25:55,764 --> 00:25:58,016 - My proletarian brothers! - Good day, miss. 397 00:25:58,099 --> 00:26:00,143 Be so kind as to follow me. 398 00:26:01,144 --> 00:26:04,689 It's true that with Line gone, we don't have a model. 399 00:26:04,773 --> 00:26:07,734 Well, we'll paint tigers, or drapery. 400 00:26:09,486 --> 00:26:10,320 But... 401 00:26:10,403 --> 00:26:12,530 One doesn't become a painter with buts, eh? 402 00:26:12,614 --> 00:26:14,491 It's with hands. 403 00:26:14,574 --> 00:26:17,285 Alright. I'll do the table. 404 00:26:21,873 --> 00:26:24,000 Would you care for... 405 00:26:26,795 --> 00:26:28,838 - Pauline. - Yes, Frederic? 406 00:26:28,922 --> 00:26:31,216 Is it true that I smell bad? 407 00:26:31,674 --> 00:26:33,802 You smell of grace. 408 00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:37,597 The music. 409 00:26:41,059 --> 00:26:43,353 I'm on my way towards death, 410 00:26:44,229 --> 00:26:45,939 I'm still full of music. 411 00:26:48,525 --> 00:26:51,778 I can't remember any Polish landscapes. 412 00:27:06,209 --> 00:27:08,837 Here it is, my dove. 413 00:27:11,589 --> 00:27:13,716 What's this book about? Is it by her? 414 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,510 You never tell me anything. 415 00:27:15,593 --> 00:27:19,013 Reproaches, already. It's just her last novel, 416 00:27:19,097 --> 00:27:20,473 "Lucrezia Floriani." 417 00:27:20,557 --> 00:27:22,475 He's half the man he was. 418 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:24,894 He doesn't pay attention to me anymore. 419 00:27:24,978 --> 00:27:27,313 I remember times when... what about you, 420 00:27:27,397 --> 00:27:29,858 ha, Adalbert? 421 00:27:29,941 --> 00:27:31,693 She's so sweet. 422 00:27:41,202 --> 00:27:43,663 Be as quiet as you can, right? 423 00:27:45,707 --> 00:27:47,584 You'll truly finish by tonight? 424 00:27:47,667 --> 00:27:50,461 Without being noisy, Mademoiselle Solange. I can't promise, but... 425 00:27:53,381 --> 00:27:56,259 And this terrible stink. We still don't know what it is? 426 00:27:56,926 --> 00:27:58,970 Glue that has rotted, or... the wallpaper? 427 00:28:44,307 --> 00:28:46,559 Yes, Maman, yes. 428 00:29:19,342 --> 00:29:22,178 - Yes, Maman. - He's at it again. 429 00:29:22,470 --> 00:29:25,682 - Yes. - Tell him to stop. 430 00:29:25,765 --> 00:29:27,767 Oh, no, it's too beautiful. 431 00:29:27,850 --> 00:29:31,771 - It drills into my nerves. - He's composing, this is his way. 432 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,634 In fact, he sees his music in a flash, fully formed. 433 00:30:02,135 --> 00:30:05,638 Then he calls me, he plays it to me, his eyes closed, like in a trance. 434 00:30:05,722 --> 00:30:09,142 I applaud, I say: "Right, put pen to paper." 435 00:30:09,225 --> 00:30:11,561 And then the horror starts: he can't. 436 00:30:11,644 --> 00:30:16,274 For days on end he grinds away, changing the notes, adding them, retracting them. 437 00:30:16,357 --> 00:30:19,819 Shaken with doubts, he wants to change the whole idea, 438 00:30:19,902 --> 00:30:21,988 the theme, the reason to be of his music. 439 00:30:22,071 --> 00:30:25,658 He says that Haydn is better, and that Bach, you can't compete. 440 00:30:26,117 --> 00:30:27,744 And then, by the end of the month, 441 00:30:27,827 --> 00:30:30,663 ten hours of piano per day, 442 00:30:31,164 --> 00:30:33,666 Monsieur delivers his piece on paper: 443 00:30:34,208 --> 00:30:36,669 exactly as he had played it to me the first time. 444 00:30:38,713 --> 00:30:40,048 It's beautiful. 445 00:30:40,506 --> 00:30:42,592 It's useless, this suffering. 446 00:30:44,010 --> 00:30:46,262 What's useless is never beautiful. 447 00:30:46,346 --> 00:30:50,141 You can't bear the difficult anymore, can you, Maman? 448 00:30:51,601 --> 00:30:53,144 No. 449 00:30:54,812 --> 00:30:58,358 Even that, d'you hear? Not even a mazurka. I can't. I will go mad. 450 00:30:59,650 --> 00:31:02,070 - Do I scratch anything out, me? - Me, personally, me. 451 00:31:02,153 --> 00:31:04,447 Not a word, not a line. 452 00:31:04,530 --> 00:31:07,617 If I could, I wouldn't even reread myself! Where are my matches? 453 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:09,327 Oh, you should. 454 00:31:09,410 --> 00:31:11,496 But if I listened to you, little girl, 455 00:31:11,579 --> 00:31:14,415 I wouldn't have written the hundred books which still give us a living. 456 00:31:15,416 --> 00:31:18,044 Him, he never wrote a hundred books, but the great artist here is not you! 457 00:31:18,127 --> 00:31:20,713 - And then you have no right to-- - Oh, yes. This is my house. 458 00:31:20,797 --> 00:31:23,925 Mine too, I thought. It's called family, Maman. 459 00:31:24,008 --> 00:31:26,803 Family? Alright, let's talk family, if you wish. 460 00:31:29,347 --> 00:31:31,516 The first time I escaped the bed of my husband, 461 00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:35,395 this cretin of a baron who bored me to tears, 462 00:31:35,478 --> 00:31:37,063 you were the fruit. 463 00:31:40,441 --> 00:31:42,735 You were born out of nothing. A draft. 464 00:31:45,071 --> 00:31:46,572 Then Papa, he was-- 465 00:31:46,656 --> 00:31:49,242 Your whole family is me, Solange! Me alone! 466 00:31:49,325 --> 00:31:52,036 And I have a hundred thousand francs worth of debts 467 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,372 and a furious need... 468 00:31:56,082 --> 00:31:57,750 to smoke this cigar. 469 00:31:58,835 --> 00:32:00,920 By the way, isn't it Eugene's room? 470 00:32:01,045 --> 00:32:02,880 So what? 471 00:32:04,507 --> 00:32:06,426 I forbid you, Solange. 472 00:32:06,509 --> 00:32:08,428 I forbid you to forbid. 473 00:32:08,511 --> 00:32:12,598 My little girl. You always reached for God knows what. The moon. 474 00:32:13,099 --> 00:32:15,643 Not the moon. Love. 475 00:32:15,726 --> 00:32:18,020 But you've always trampled on those who offered you some. 476 00:32:18,104 --> 00:32:20,231 And who was offering it, please? Huh? 477 00:32:20,314 --> 00:32:25,445 Your friends more numerous than my memory... those passing by, or those from the warmth of your bed. 478 00:32:25,528 --> 00:32:28,030 When one came in to say good morning to you, 479 00:32:28,114 --> 00:32:30,700 one had to remember their first names, or, or... 480 00:32:30,783 --> 00:32:35,371 forget them before putting one's foot in it with the next one. 481 00:32:37,165 --> 00:32:39,625 You make me out like a monster. 482 00:32:39,709 --> 00:32:42,753 I don't make you out. 483 00:32:42,837 --> 00:32:45,465 You are. 484 00:32:45,548 --> 00:32:48,217 My little girl. 485 00:32:52,972 --> 00:32:55,057 You're too hard on her, George. 486 00:32:59,312 --> 00:33:01,063 Oh, but you're on fire. 487 00:33:04,609 --> 00:33:05,902 Come. 488 00:33:08,821 --> 00:33:11,115 Help me, Pauline. 489 00:33:11,699 --> 00:33:13,910 But with what? 490 00:33:29,008 --> 00:33:32,178 Nobody understands your music anymore. 491 00:33:32,261 --> 00:33:35,097 It's because... listen. 492 00:33:35,181 --> 00:33:38,100 The resolution of this phrase is so banal. 493 00:33:38,184 --> 00:33:40,228 A waltz, Frederic. 494 00:33:40,311 --> 00:33:42,522 I play light music when I need money. 495 00:33:42,605 --> 00:33:44,607 - It's an order. - From whom, please? 496 00:33:44,690 --> 00:33:47,527 - From me. - Ah. 497 00:33:49,153 --> 00:33:51,989 Why did it become so difficult, Maurice? 498 00:33:52,073 --> 00:33:53,866 Do you remember all the things we did together? 499 00:33:54,325 --> 00:33:56,536 I was thinking, George. 500 00:33:56,619 --> 00:33:59,247 It's not yet chestnut season. 501 00:33:59,789 --> 00:34:01,958 Then for my side-dish... 502 00:34:02,041 --> 00:34:04,502 if you had some preserved... 503 00:34:07,255 --> 00:34:09,840 You'll find it in the little cellar. 504 00:34:11,759 --> 00:34:14,095 I'm a bit afraid of cellars. 505 00:34:19,392 --> 00:34:21,686 In the stoneware jars, 506 00:34:21,769 --> 00:34:24,063 to the left. 507 00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:37,243 Is it because of the women? 508 00:34:37,326 --> 00:34:40,746 What does she have in common with all the women, my mother? 509 00:34:40,830 --> 00:34:42,582 Is this it? 510 00:34:42,665 --> 00:34:44,417 A waltz. 511 00:34:48,212 --> 00:34:52,967 Every time a woman has left me... 512 00:34:53,050 --> 00:34:55,386 I have composed a waltz. 513 00:35:37,637 --> 00:35:39,388 Mm. The red. 514 00:35:50,274 --> 00:35:52,652 The yellow. 515 00:35:54,820 --> 00:35:56,906 Oh, it's you. 516 00:35:57,948 --> 00:36:00,076 Wrong pitch. 517 00:36:00,159 --> 00:36:02,703 It should be, "aa-aah, you!" 518 00:36:02,787 --> 00:36:05,122 - You fancy his music, Augustine? - Oh. 519 00:36:05,206 --> 00:36:09,627 There is no illusion in his music. Just a sort of rape on threadbare velvet. 520 00:36:11,295 --> 00:36:14,632 When there are so many illusions in these flowers. 521 00:36:16,592 --> 00:36:18,636 You have sharp eyes, don't you? 522 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,514 And now that Line has gone... 523 00:36:21,597 --> 00:36:25,226 you, with your pretty dead virgin's face, 524 00:36:25,309 --> 00:36:27,478 the way you see, the glacial way you look at things, 525 00:36:27,561 --> 00:36:30,648 and your laughter, impudent and stupid. 526 00:36:42,451 --> 00:36:45,579 And me, what do I smell of? Blue? 527 00:36:45,663 --> 00:36:47,581 Pink? 528 00:36:48,874 --> 00:36:50,459 Sweat. 529 00:36:50,543 --> 00:36:52,795 Not to your fancy? 530 00:36:55,756 --> 00:36:57,341 For God's sake! 531 00:36:58,551 --> 00:37:05,558 Well, God... God, if you really wish so, but, err... 532 00:37:05,641 --> 00:37:07,226 Isn't it, Demogorgon? 533 00:37:07,309 --> 00:37:08,978 Who's Demogorgon? 534 00:37:09,061 --> 00:37:10,730 Demogorgon? 535 00:37:11,856 --> 00:37:14,358 My personal little God... 536 00:37:14,442 --> 00:37:16,402 who's been with me since childhood. 537 00:37:18,070 --> 00:37:19,905 Thanks to him, 538 00:37:19,989 --> 00:37:22,700 I can adjust to having two fathers, 539 00:37:22,783 --> 00:37:26,203 the real and the fake one. 540 00:37:27,621 --> 00:37:31,584 And it's him who helps me to stay unemotional. 541 00:37:39,258 --> 00:37:41,427 What on earth are you trying to achieve? 542 00:37:47,308 --> 00:37:49,727 Show me what a Pole is really capable of. 543 00:37:49,810 --> 00:37:52,563 - Mister Frederic, Polish. - Mmm, only half. 544 00:37:52,646 --> 00:37:54,690 - Mister Grzymala, is... - What? 545 00:37:54,774 --> 00:37:57,276 Seems to me you're really on top of things. 546 00:37:57,359 --> 00:37:59,361 Mister Grzymala very good officer. 547 00:37:59,445 --> 00:38:02,156 - And you? - Me, very good cavalier. 548 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,367 And me, very good filly. 549 00:38:07,745 --> 00:38:09,413 Stay. 550 00:38:09,497 --> 00:38:11,832 Too many men mounted his mare. 551 00:38:14,251 --> 00:38:16,420 Pity. 552 00:38:18,631 --> 00:38:20,800 Oh, Corambe. 553 00:38:45,908 --> 00:38:48,035 (Speaking Polish) 554 00:38:55,292 --> 00:39:00,297 Ah, it's so strange. Like somewhere in the Tatra Mountains. 555 00:39:00,381 --> 00:39:03,342 The Tatras, you say? 556 00:39:07,137 --> 00:39:10,391 Goldie, I'll show you the peak. 557 00:39:10,474 --> 00:39:12,560 Oh-oh-oh-oh. Oops-a-daisy! 558 00:39:12,643 --> 00:39:14,645 Oops. 559 00:39:19,984 --> 00:39:21,944 It's cold! 560 00:39:23,153 --> 00:39:26,115 Cold? Oh, you hush up. 561 00:39:26,198 --> 00:39:29,618 Didn't your husband fire a bullet into his head 562 00:39:29,702 --> 00:39:31,203 because of you? 563 00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:33,789 In the old days, I had some successes. 564 00:40:33,223 --> 00:40:37,019 Somebody up there? No? 565 00:40:37,102 --> 00:40:39,605 Oh, well. Sorry. 566 00:40:53,619 --> 00:40:56,497 Yes? Me, Solange? 567 00:40:56,580 --> 00:40:58,582 I have to be truer? 568 00:40:58,666 --> 00:41:01,669 Truer still? But one cannot be more true. 569 00:41:01,752 --> 00:41:05,756 And then, I have nothing, but nothing in common with my mother. 570 00:41:05,839 --> 00:41:09,134 Don't you understand? You don't understand? 571 00:41:25,442 --> 00:41:27,611 What is it about, my doll? 572 00:41:30,572 --> 00:41:32,741 Nothing. 573 00:41:51,427 --> 00:41:54,346 Admire the show of skill. 574 00:41:54,430 --> 00:41:58,142 You'll notice that it's always the adults who bare the brunt of chores, 575 00:41:58,225 --> 00:41:59,977 not the brats. 576 00:42:00,060 --> 00:42:02,187 Where's he gone, the valiant hunter? 577 00:42:02,271 --> 00:42:05,816 - He hunts after the goddess of love. - The great Amazon. 578 00:42:05,899 --> 00:42:08,235 Mind you, she rides horses very well. She gets it from her mother. 579 00:42:08,318 --> 00:42:11,488 Err, I shall need cognac, Muscat, 580 00:42:11,572 --> 00:42:16,201 truffles, bread, lard, milk. 581 00:42:16,285 --> 00:42:18,537 So far, so good. Augustine? To the cellar. 582 00:42:18,620 --> 00:42:20,956 - I'm afraid of the cellar. - I'll go with you. 583 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,125 Oh, how brave. 584 00:42:23,208 --> 00:42:25,878 The crayfish omelet is not urgent, we can leave it right up until the last moment. 585 00:42:25,961 --> 00:42:28,839 But for the beef, bring the brandy and the rum. 586 00:42:31,759 --> 00:42:34,678 Pauline, what did you do? 587 00:42:34,762 --> 00:42:37,181 The rat bit me to the bone. 588 00:42:37,264 --> 00:42:39,558 Oh, no. 589 00:42:53,363 --> 00:42:56,200 It's that terrible music, too. 590 00:42:56,283 --> 00:43:00,621 - As if it was our fault. - But what? 591 00:43:00,704 --> 00:43:02,706 Everything. 592 00:43:02,790 --> 00:43:06,335 - I love you, Pauline. - I know. 593 00:43:07,628 --> 00:43:09,379 How do you prepare this dish? 594 00:43:09,463 --> 00:43:10,464 So... 595 00:43:10,547 --> 00:43:14,760 knead the dough with flour, eggs, lukewarm water... 596 00:43:14,843 --> 00:43:18,555 sprinkle with beef gratings, fold three times, wait ten minutes, fold again, and wait... 597 00:43:18,639 --> 00:43:21,350 - Stop. I'm lost. - Not quite. 598 00:43:21,433 --> 00:43:24,019 - What are you doing, Louis? - What I've been told to do. 599 00:43:24,103 --> 00:43:26,021 The oven. Stoke the oven. 600 00:43:26,105 --> 00:43:28,398 What are these red things that are getting in everybody's way? 601 00:43:28,482 --> 00:43:30,192 They're Jean's beets. 602 00:43:34,613 --> 00:43:36,824 You like it? It's musk. 603 00:43:36,907 --> 00:43:38,826 It's a good thing Frederic's not here. 604 00:43:38,909 --> 00:43:42,162 That said, given the stuff he pours on himself, you wouldn't stand the competition. 605 00:43:42,246 --> 00:43:45,749 Competition? With him? Don't even think of it. 606 00:43:47,167 --> 00:43:50,546 Oh, it looks so very jolly in here. 607 00:43:50,629 --> 00:43:52,464 Here you are. 608 00:43:52,548 --> 00:43:54,800 You'll help me with the gnocchi, since Augustine hasn't reappeared. 609 00:43:54,883 --> 00:43:58,095 - She's disappeared? - Yes. With Maurice. 610 00:44:21,910 --> 00:44:24,746 Something bad happened to Solange! 611 00:44:26,165 --> 00:44:28,375 Nothing bad will ever happen to Solange. 612 00:44:28,458 --> 00:44:30,419 What now? 613 00:44:30,502 --> 00:44:32,504 You take two eggs, set aside the yolks. 614 00:44:32,588 --> 00:44:34,089 I rather like yolk yellow. 615 00:44:34,173 --> 00:44:36,884 Then you stir in the sugar until they turn white. 616 00:44:36,967 --> 00:44:39,720 White, the noblest of colors. 617 00:44:39,803 --> 00:44:41,763 - We'll add this to the mix later. - Right. 618 00:44:41,847 --> 00:44:44,641 It will need to cool for two hours. 619 00:44:45,851 --> 00:44:48,979 My chestnuts will be done in a few minutes. 620 00:44:49,062 --> 00:44:51,064 Can you check? 621 00:44:51,148 --> 00:44:53,901 - How? - If they're soft in your hand. 622 00:45:00,157 --> 00:45:03,952 You're mad. He's scalded. What got into you, my love? 623 00:45:04,036 --> 00:45:06,371 - Repeat that. - My love. 624 00:45:06,455 --> 00:45:08,665 Quick! The medicine chest, the alcohol, the ointment. 625 00:45:08,832 --> 00:45:12,211 Me has drink alcohol chest. 626 00:45:12,294 --> 00:45:13,629 You did what? 627 00:45:13,712 --> 00:45:16,715 Pure alcohol, me melancholy. 628 00:45:16,798 --> 00:45:18,759 Give that back. It's old prune. 629 00:45:18,842 --> 00:45:20,802 You're encumbering me. 630 00:45:21,637 --> 00:45:24,139 Oh. Listen, you're an encumbrance! 631 00:45:24,223 --> 00:45:26,642 I don't recognize you, Dumpling. 632 00:45:28,227 --> 00:45:30,604 - Hey. - If you marry me. 633 00:45:30,687 --> 00:45:33,941 - George, your milk is on the boil. - Oh, shoot. 634 00:45:34,024 --> 00:45:36,235 Pauline, carry on. 635 00:45:37,861 --> 00:45:39,488 Can you pass me the brandy, Maman? 636 00:45:39,571 --> 00:45:41,907 Just be careful, my Bouli, eh? 637 00:45:46,995 --> 00:45:50,582 - Bravo. - Ah, the flames are beautiful. 638 00:46:07,808 --> 00:46:10,227 - How skilled are you with your hands. - Maurice is good at everything. 639 00:46:10,310 --> 00:46:12,938 - Except painting. - But no. 640 00:46:13,021 --> 00:46:15,732 Your painting has merit. It's only that... 641 00:46:15,816 --> 00:46:19,695 - God is not with me. - Not God. The gods. 642 00:46:19,778 --> 00:46:21,780 And the goddesses. 643 00:46:24,992 --> 00:46:28,704 I'll daub the entrance walls. This, at least, I know how to do. 644 00:46:38,964 --> 00:46:41,591 Cabbage Mister Frederic cutted. 645 00:46:41,675 --> 00:46:43,510 Oh. What now? 646 00:46:43,593 --> 00:46:47,806 Me, washed feet with brandy and squashed cabbage in basin. 647 00:46:47,889 --> 00:46:49,683 - Eh? - Old Polish custom. 648 00:46:49,766 --> 00:46:51,601 Lorka, please, not now. 649 00:46:51,685 --> 00:46:53,937 Me, very clean feet. Mister Frederic wouldn't allow. 650 00:46:54,021 --> 00:46:55,772 We don't doubt you, my friend, 651 00:46:55,856 --> 00:46:57,441 but maybe there should be another way to... 652 00:46:57,524 --> 00:46:59,443 This way. 653 00:47:01,445 --> 00:47:03,822 Your feet are maybe a bit small. 654 00:47:04,906 --> 00:47:06,908 Should we ask Laure? 655 00:47:13,540 --> 00:47:15,459 I love your tiny tootsies, Laure. 656 00:47:15,542 --> 00:47:18,712 And I'm a countess, and I know how to sing. 657 00:47:18,795 --> 00:47:21,048 Not as well as Pauline, of course, but, me, for example, 658 00:47:21,131 --> 00:47:25,093 the mazurka, I know how, even if it's peasant, I know too. 659 00:47:34,394 --> 00:47:36,396 Oh, women. 660 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:54,623 - I'm dreaming, aren't I? - But, Jean... at ease! 661 00:47:54,706 --> 00:47:56,249 If you keep trampling your cabbage, 662 00:47:56,333 --> 00:47:59,461 how long will need to sour? 663 00:47:59,544 --> 00:48:01,254 A month! 664 00:48:06,343 --> 00:48:08,637 How the hell will Poland ever make it? 665 00:48:37,541 --> 00:48:41,503 Frederic, quick, play, play, the dog. 666 00:48:46,299 --> 00:48:48,468 I like you very much. 667 00:48:50,554 --> 00:48:53,807 - She kissed me. - You're not bleeding? 668 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,286 Never again, Frederic! Never again! 669 00:50:47,587 --> 00:50:49,548 So here we are, look at this lovely weather. 670 00:50:49,631 --> 00:50:51,841 Mister Frederic charge cavalry. 671 00:50:56,972 --> 00:51:00,225 Frederic, I was observing you just now. You were closing your eyes. 672 00:51:00,308 --> 00:51:03,061 - You were descending into hell. - It was a great torment. 673 00:51:03,144 --> 00:51:05,146 One should master one's torment, Frederic. 674 00:51:05,230 --> 00:51:07,816 One must render it... polite. Yes, that's it. Polite to the others. 675 00:51:07,899 --> 00:51:09,859 And if, despite the politeness, the audience won't follow you? 676 00:51:09,943 --> 00:51:12,612 High society is following. The rest are just crowds. 677 00:51:12,696 --> 00:51:14,614 And I'm afraid of crowds. 678 00:51:14,698 --> 00:51:17,993 Frederic... a propos George, may I warn you about certain things...? 679 00:51:18,076 --> 00:51:20,870 If you think I shall... Mind you. I know. 680 00:51:20,954 --> 00:51:23,707 Don't say anything. You see, she's making a huge effort. 681 00:51:23,790 --> 00:51:26,126 She strives in love as others toil. 682 00:51:26,209 --> 00:51:28,503 She writes with such ease. 683 00:51:30,046 --> 00:51:32,716 The rawness and the bitterness of things 684 00:51:32,799 --> 00:51:35,969 must take their revenge anyhow, no? 685 00:51:37,470 --> 00:51:40,724 Nobody flees from it. Nobody's free. 686 00:51:40,974 --> 00:51:44,686 D'you know, when I met her for the first time, 687 00:51:44,769 --> 00:51:46,813 I found her horrifyingly ugly? 688 00:51:46,896 --> 00:51:48,648 Oh? Even her eyes? 689 00:51:48,732 --> 00:51:53,320 She was sporting the smile of a Basilisk. It's a stare. 690 00:51:53,403 --> 00:51:57,157 Heavy, cold, devouring. 691 00:51:57,949 --> 00:52:01,995 She was dressed as a man, and was smoking a cigar which made me cough. 692 00:52:02,078 --> 00:52:05,248 She was so down to earth. Like the witch in a-- 693 00:52:05,332 --> 00:52:08,043 in fairy tales... like a Gorgon. 694 00:52:08,126 --> 00:52:09,878 Why, for you, is a witch down to earth? 695 00:52:09,961 --> 00:52:11,755 - Everything's down to earth. - Even music? 696 00:52:11,838 --> 00:52:13,923 Oh, especially music. 697 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,262 I got so scared. You-- you left so abruptly. 698 00:52:19,346 --> 00:52:21,848 You are so abrupt with me, so distant. 699 00:52:21,931 --> 00:52:23,808 - You who were so... - Set to go? 700 00:52:23,892 --> 00:52:26,269 I'm happy to have found you. But I remind you that it's you who did-- 701 00:52:26,353 --> 00:52:28,271 Picked you up? Yes. Our household ways. 702 00:52:28,355 --> 00:52:31,191 - But you were so delicious. - The masks drop. 703 00:52:31,274 --> 00:52:32,609 No... so radiant. 704 00:52:32,692 --> 00:52:34,778 I'm not. Honestly, Fernand, I'm hideous. 705 00:52:34,861 --> 00:52:37,072 If I don't flap about, I am graceless and formless. 706 00:52:37,155 --> 00:52:39,366 How can you say that? 707 00:52:39,449 --> 00:52:43,620 See by yourself. Do you see? 708 00:52:43,703 --> 00:52:45,789 You cannot not see. 709 00:52:45,872 --> 00:52:48,291 I have to thrash about, giggle. Hee, hee, hee, hee. 710 00:52:48,375 --> 00:52:50,460 Make noise, pretend. 711 00:52:50,543 --> 00:52:52,712 Why? Because if I stay like this, 712 00:52:52,796 --> 00:52:55,423 I'll turn crude. A beast. 713 00:52:55,507 --> 00:52:58,802 Blubbery. Sluggard. 714 00:52:58,885 --> 00:53:00,762 Tiring. 715 00:53:01,596 --> 00:53:03,723 My arms will grow hairy, won't they? 716 00:53:03,807 --> 00:53:05,517 My calves too. 717 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,103 And my nose, it's growing. 718 00:53:08,186 --> 00:53:11,314 - But you are adorable. Naturally. - Not at all, you fool. 719 00:53:11,398 --> 00:53:13,233 I'm nonexistent. 720 00:53:14,818 --> 00:53:16,861 But you do have your mother's eyes, and-- 721 00:53:18,863 --> 00:53:21,950 Oh, but not at all! See, it's when you don't know what to say, 722 00:53:22,033 --> 00:53:26,287 you speak about the eyes of a woman. And I'm not a woman, I am a tomboy. 723 00:53:26,371 --> 00:53:28,331 You-- you're mocking me? 724 00:53:29,124 --> 00:53:33,044 And what about me showing you, here. Me telling you. 725 00:53:33,128 --> 00:53:34,796 Oh, I beg you, please, don't. 726 00:53:34,879 --> 00:53:37,966 - I'm frightening you? - We're-- we're engaged, Solange. 727 00:53:38,049 --> 00:53:40,176 Everything in due course. 728 00:53:41,302 --> 00:53:43,263 It's that I-- I do love you. 729 00:53:46,641 --> 00:53:48,768 Oh, you're a good Fernand. 730 00:53:48,852 --> 00:53:50,895 I was wrong to make you lose your head. 731 00:53:50,979 --> 00:53:54,274 I did it my mother's way. Oh, I was diabolic. 732 00:53:54,357 --> 00:53:57,193 It's not difficult, believe me. A little dust in the eyes, 733 00:53:57,277 --> 00:53:59,112 and your eyes are so naive. 734 00:53:59,195 --> 00:54:02,323 You're rich, handsome, virile. 735 00:54:02,407 --> 00:54:05,410 I am sure that you have made many conquests with these eyes. 736 00:54:05,493 --> 00:54:08,580 - Well, if you put it like that... - But I-- I would hurt you so bad. 737 00:54:08,663 --> 00:54:11,374 I would cheat on you all the time. 738 00:54:11,458 --> 00:54:14,794 When you'll be hunting. Hunting is what you prefer, isn't it? 739 00:54:14,878 --> 00:54:18,423 Well, let's say that, yes. I'm a good shot. Hmm. 740 00:54:19,799 --> 00:54:22,010 I'm not good game, Fernand. 741 00:54:22,093 --> 00:54:24,596 Not for shooting, not for anything. 742 00:54:24,679 --> 00:54:27,182 I'm poisonous, like my brother and... 743 00:54:27,265 --> 00:54:31,060 I can't keep still for a moment. I'm hot, I'm cold, 744 00:54:31,144 --> 00:54:33,646 I... I despise you as much as I like you. 745 00:54:33,730 --> 00:54:36,107 I pity you and I-- 746 00:54:37,776 --> 00:54:40,862 I want to-- 747 00:54:40,945 --> 00:54:43,031 I want to beat you. 748 00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:47,660 - Skedaddle. - Me? Never. 749 00:54:47,744 --> 00:54:49,746 Don't you believe me? 750 00:54:53,750 --> 00:54:56,544 It's for your own good, Fernand. 751 00:54:56,628 --> 00:54:58,713 Get lost. 752 00:54:58,797 --> 00:55:01,841 It's for your own good, Fernand, if I dishonor you! 753 00:55:01,925 --> 00:55:03,927 Get lost! 754 00:55:31,162 --> 00:55:33,164 Oh, I love you. 755 00:55:39,879 --> 00:55:42,799 I don't understand these highbrow people who find your music elegant. 756 00:55:42,882 --> 00:55:46,636 I always preferred Ingres to your paintings. He's more relaxing. 757 00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:48,972 But you, you torture simplicity, me, I flout it. 758 00:55:49,055 --> 00:55:51,891 And anyway, my painting is only literature with colors. 759 00:55:51,975 --> 00:55:54,894 Me? I have no illusions about what will remain of me. 760 00:55:54,978 --> 00:55:58,314 Personally, I shall be out of fashion before having even created a fashion. 761 00:55:58,398 --> 00:56:00,608 Look who's complaining? The court adores you. 762 00:56:00,692 --> 00:56:03,236 The king showers you with medals. 763 00:56:03,319 --> 00:56:05,613 At least you created a fashion in waistcoats. 764 00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:07,615 At heart I'm a snob. 765 00:56:07,699 --> 00:56:10,451 Me, too. I own two hundred pairs of gloves. 766 00:56:10,535 --> 00:56:14,080 Did you know, I've been commissioned to paint the ceilings of the Senate Palace, 767 00:56:14,163 --> 00:56:17,876 and I see you as Dante, crossing the Styx, on the-- 768 00:56:23,006 --> 00:56:25,675 - It's the river of the dead? - Yes. 769 00:56:25,758 --> 00:56:27,594 Jan, home. Jan, I want to go home. 770 00:56:27,677 --> 00:56:29,721 Home. 771 00:56:48,072 --> 00:56:50,909 Home. Home. My only home. 772 00:56:50,992 --> 00:56:54,203 - My only home. - Home. 773 00:56:54,287 --> 00:56:56,581 George wants me to send you back home. 774 00:56:56,664 --> 00:56:58,458 Me got hunch. 775 00:56:58,541 --> 00:57:04,547 We're not romantic, exotic, young, handsome, fragile, anymore. 776 00:57:04,631 --> 00:57:09,302 Now that I've grown weak, and I earn much less. 777 00:57:09,385 --> 00:57:11,304 We have become a burden. Am I not heavy? 778 00:57:11,387 --> 00:57:13,765 Heavy like leaf in wind. 779 00:57:13,848 --> 00:57:16,851 One doesn't say "I dismiss you" in Polish. One says "I love you." 780 00:57:16,935 --> 00:57:20,855 We parasites emigre detritus. 781 00:57:20,939 --> 00:57:22,815 Whatever good must pass. 782 00:57:22,899 --> 00:57:27,111 What is good never stays. Madame Aurore miser. 783 00:57:28,613 --> 00:57:31,741 No, no. Nine years, a miracle. 784 00:57:33,785 --> 00:57:36,287 Not miracle, war. Me know. 785 00:57:36,371 --> 00:57:38,748 Insurrection, civil war. 786 00:57:38,831 --> 00:57:42,585 Insurrection, me know. Exile, solitude. 787 00:57:42,669 --> 00:57:46,631 - Solange will take care of me. - Love killing you. 788 00:57:46,714 --> 00:57:49,050 Everything is killing me. Even a donkey kills me. 789 00:57:49,133 --> 00:57:52,929 - You're nature goo-goo ga-ga. - You'll know French when I'm dead. 790 00:57:53,012 --> 00:57:55,306 Oh, you came back to me? 791 00:58:03,523 --> 00:58:05,483 I stink of donkey. I'll go change. 792 00:58:05,566 --> 00:58:07,694 When will order return here? 793 00:58:19,956 --> 00:58:21,374 Too low. 794 00:58:29,340 --> 00:58:32,593 - Too high! - Jean, take a cushion from the sofa. 795 00:58:34,762 --> 00:58:39,475 Here, Frederic, I'll stand just behind you. 796 00:58:39,559 --> 00:58:42,145 You'll lean against me. I won't budge. 797 00:58:42,228 --> 00:58:44,564 I'm strong and patient. 798 00:58:56,409 --> 00:59:00,580 Me finish borscht, and me go. 799 00:59:34,739 --> 00:59:36,699 You must be very tired. 800 00:59:36,783 --> 00:59:38,910 You can lean on me more firmly, you know. 801 00:59:55,927 --> 00:59:59,055 You're a bad support! What I'm doing is naught! 802 01:00:33,089 --> 01:00:35,633 If I had milk I'd nourish you. 803 01:00:41,347 --> 01:00:43,391 Now we should resume your lesson. 804 01:00:48,020 --> 01:00:50,022 I play awfully. 805 01:00:51,023 --> 01:00:53,484 A young lady should master the piano. 806 01:00:53,568 --> 01:00:56,028 A young lady must refrain from making commentaries. A young lady-- 807 01:00:56,112 --> 01:00:59,615 A young lady must be groomed, elegant, reserved. 808 01:00:59,699 --> 01:01:02,201 I will never marry. 809 01:01:04,495 --> 01:01:07,999 Solange, where is your fiancé? 810 01:01:09,750 --> 01:01:12,753 Looking for another fiancée, I guess. 811 01:01:12,837 --> 01:01:16,299 - My God, you haven't-- - I have, Frederic. 812 01:01:21,137 --> 01:01:24,182 Is it so difficult to be a pair? 813 01:01:24,807 --> 01:01:27,435 It's difficult to grow older. 814 01:01:28,603 --> 01:01:31,564 - You're only thirty-six. - Already? 815 01:01:35,568 --> 01:01:38,237 I only need a friend like you, Frederic. 816 01:01:42,867 --> 01:01:45,703 And I'll always be groomed. 817 01:01:45,786 --> 01:01:48,122 Oh, later on, when we'll be married... 818 01:01:48,206 --> 01:01:50,416 and I'll have the hands of a young lady. 819 01:01:50,499 --> 01:01:53,586 - You have dirt under your nails. - It washes out. 820 01:01:53,669 --> 01:01:56,464 Conformism doesn't wash out, Solange. 821 01:01:56,547 --> 01:01:58,674 I am a conformist, 822 01:01:59,467 --> 01:02:02,511 and I lived with the least conformist of women. 823 01:02:04,972 --> 01:02:07,225 I'll be more of one for you. 824 01:02:07,308 --> 01:02:10,102 If I hadn't met George, if it wasn't for this house... 825 01:02:10,186 --> 01:02:12,813 - I wouldn't have written all this. - You might have written. 826 01:02:12,897 --> 01:02:15,149 - What? - A mass. 827 01:02:17,693 --> 01:02:22,448 And if I let you go... you fall. 828 01:02:39,924 --> 01:02:41,801 Oh, right. 829 01:02:46,222 --> 01:02:49,225 I'm never bored with you. 830 01:02:49,308 --> 01:02:52,853 I'm a bloody bore, Solange, and I sweat. 831 01:02:55,022 --> 01:02:57,024 I have to wash myself of this music. 832 01:02:59,819 --> 01:03:01,862 The air's so heavy. 833 01:03:06,951 --> 01:03:09,328 No, it's me who's heavy. 834 01:03:12,039 --> 01:03:13,749 Lift me up. 835 01:03:24,719 --> 01:03:26,637 I can't do it. 836 01:03:28,556 --> 01:03:30,975 So simply touch me. 837 01:03:37,189 --> 01:03:39,400 You'll never wash yourself of me. 838 01:03:53,247 --> 01:03:55,082 Now what are you doing? 839 01:03:55,166 --> 01:03:57,084 Nothing, I'm doing nothing. 840 01:03:57,168 --> 01:04:00,755 I do what I like best. I'm listening to you. 841 01:04:43,255 --> 01:04:46,425 - Is Madame in? - Yes-- err, no. She went for a stroll. 842 01:04:46,509 --> 01:04:48,677 They won't be much longer. 843 01:04:52,139 --> 01:04:54,266 "To be hanged and strangled 844 01:04:54,350 --> 01:04:56,977 On the marketplace, do you you hear me? 845 01:04:57,061 --> 01:05:02,274 To be hanged and strangled on the marketplace. 846 01:05:02,942 --> 01:05:05,611 Standing on the scaffold 847 01:05:05,694 --> 01:05:09,031 I was looking at France 848 01:05:09,115 --> 01:05:11,200 I saw my companions..." 849 01:05:11,283 --> 01:05:13,994 - Oh? I don't know that one. - It's a highwayman's song. 850 01:05:14,078 --> 01:05:17,164 - Oh, that's why. - Pause for thought. 851 01:05:17,248 --> 01:05:20,543 Now, we will sing, it'll be a competition. 852 01:05:20,626 --> 01:05:25,172 Yes, yes. Charming. They will stop mocking me when they hear my voice. 853 01:05:29,718 --> 01:05:31,929 I don't meant to bother you Frederic. I'm just breezing by. 854 01:05:32,012 --> 01:05:33,514 Vol au vent! 855 01:05:33,597 --> 01:05:36,308 - At ease, Jean. - Would you like a refreshment? 856 01:05:36,392 --> 01:05:38,436 Thank you, no. 857 01:05:38,519 --> 01:05:40,479 Some coffee, maybe. 858 01:05:40,563 --> 01:05:43,190 - I'm coming straight from Spain. - Your father wrote us. 859 01:05:43,274 --> 01:05:46,444 Even when I travel, the old ogre cannot stop himself from writing. 860 01:06:00,458 --> 01:06:02,960 So quick? 861 01:06:03,043 --> 01:06:05,171 Monsieur Alexandre Dumas, the younger. 862 01:06:05,254 --> 01:06:07,381 I remember. 863 01:06:10,134 --> 01:06:12,136 You see, The Lady of Camellias is dead, and... 864 01:06:12,219 --> 01:06:13,721 Who? 865 01:06:14,221 --> 01:06:17,391 I've got the dispatch in Madrid. Immediately, I made my return. 866 01:06:17,475 --> 01:06:18,893 She was a florist? 867 01:06:18,976 --> 01:06:20,895 She was a whore. 868 01:06:20,978 --> 01:06:23,314 If you like. 869 01:06:26,108 --> 01:06:28,652 So she was a woman. 870 01:06:32,323 --> 01:06:34,742 - Little girl. - Don't say that. 871 01:06:38,454 --> 01:06:43,792 "You won't see me again, I'm a child lost." 872 01:06:44,710 --> 01:06:46,879 What comes after that? There's another couplet? 873 01:06:46,962 --> 01:06:50,549 "Hey surging water, 874 01:06:50,633 --> 01:06:54,678 surging little water..." 875 01:06:54,762 --> 01:06:56,639 A song of our highlanders. 876 01:06:56,722 --> 01:06:58,432 A special voice, to be heard over distances. 877 01:07:00,059 --> 01:07:02,645 - Hey, hey, hey! - "He cried..." 878 01:07:20,996 --> 01:07:23,249 She was born in the countryside among the hardest, 879 01:07:23,332 --> 01:07:25,709 the poorest, the most stupid. 880 01:07:25,793 --> 01:07:29,296 People living like beasts. 881 01:07:29,380 --> 01:07:32,007 She was born like a flower on a dung heap-- 882 01:07:32,091 --> 01:07:33,509 these miracles happen. 883 01:07:34,134 --> 01:07:36,637 Very beautiful. 884 01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:39,265 Then she began to sell the one thing that distinguished herself from the rest: 885 01:07:39,348 --> 01:07:40,808 her beauty. 886 01:07:41,809 --> 01:07:44,395 When she entered salons, the women stopped talking, 887 01:07:45,312 --> 01:07:47,106 and the men... 888 01:07:47,731 --> 01:07:50,359 The men went crazy. 889 01:07:50,651 --> 01:07:55,447 She was the most divine one ever saw, one ever got. 890 01:07:56,448 --> 01:07:59,368 She was very expensive. 891 01:08:00,661 --> 01:08:02,413 But she had a secret. 892 01:08:03,414 --> 01:08:06,792 There is always a mystery, deep in the depths of beauty, 893 01:08:06,875 --> 01:08:12,590 a point of fragility, vulnerability. 894 01:08:12,673 --> 01:08:15,342 Or, if you prefer, justice. 895 01:08:18,429 --> 01:08:20,222 She was spitting blood. 896 01:08:21,557 --> 01:08:24,059 The more she refined herself, became elegant, white and polished, 897 01:08:24,143 --> 01:08:28,147 the more she was rotting from within. 898 01:08:28,230 --> 01:08:30,441 She was living, please excuse me, 899 01:08:30,566 --> 01:08:34,361 from this mouth down below, which gives blood once a month, 900 01:08:35,321 --> 01:08:36,905 and she was saying to her admirers, 901 01:08:36,989 --> 01:08:39,950 that she will wear white camellias on the days she is available, 902 01:08:40,034 --> 01:08:41,910 the days when she isn't bleeding, 903 01:08:41,994 --> 01:08:44,872 and red ones when she has her period. 904 01:08:46,457 --> 01:08:48,083 Am I shocking you, Solange? 905 01:08:50,586 --> 01:08:52,713 No. 906 01:08:52,796 --> 01:08:55,132 She was lying. 907 01:08:56,967 --> 01:08:59,887 To bleed from this mouth down there was of no importance. 908 01:09:01,555 --> 01:09:03,766 The camellias were a sign of her bleeding from the mouth up there. 909 01:09:03,849 --> 01:09:06,101 - And she died? - Yes. 910 01:09:06,185 --> 01:09:08,270 - I will-- - Write this story? 911 01:09:08,354 --> 01:09:11,231 - It's what my father tells me. - It's a very beautiful story. 912 01:09:11,315 --> 01:09:13,609 It's a terrible story. And you, Frederic, 913 01:09:13,692 --> 01:09:15,319 what did you think of it? 914 01:09:15,402 --> 01:09:18,656 Pardon? I haven't been listening. 915 01:09:23,285 --> 01:09:25,621 It's so quiet here. 916 01:09:44,098 --> 01:09:47,893 I'd love that when you'll leave my forest, 917 01:09:48,852 --> 01:09:52,398 my garden, my house... 918 01:09:52,981 --> 01:09:55,067 I'd love that you'll take Frederic with you. 919 01:09:55,150 --> 01:09:57,820 What you say, Dumpling? 920 01:09:57,903 --> 01:10:00,781 I say that he never stops dying, 921 01:10:01,990 --> 01:10:04,284 and I'm scared of it. 922 01:10:28,016 --> 01:10:30,352 I hope they won't bungle everything. 923 01:10:30,436 --> 01:10:34,815 We should protect them, as deep down they're admirable. 924 01:10:34,898 --> 01:10:38,026 Yes, deep down, admirable. 925 01:10:44,700 --> 01:10:46,535 And Frederic? 926 01:10:46,618 --> 01:10:48,704 What is he playing, Frederic? 927 01:10:48,787 --> 01:10:51,165 I'm a bit hard of hearing. 928 01:10:51,248 --> 01:10:53,417 Now? Nothing. He's playing nothing. 929 01:10:55,210 --> 01:10:59,131 But, yes. A concerto. 930 01:11:00,132 --> 01:11:02,134 Mmm... 931 01:11:02,217 --> 01:11:06,096 It's just a breath of wind passing. 932 01:11:07,598 --> 01:11:09,516 Alright. 933 01:11:20,694 --> 01:11:22,863 Thank you, Solange. 934 01:11:23,989 --> 01:11:26,658 - Yoo-ou here? - But we don't know each other. 935 01:11:26,742 --> 01:11:30,162 - One says "yoo-ou" to a goddess. - Off limits, Alexandre. 936 01:11:31,330 --> 01:11:33,582 - Maurice. - The Countess Grzymala. 937 01:11:33,665 --> 01:11:37,503 - Oh no, my name is Czosnowska. - Baron Grzymala. 938 01:11:37,586 --> 01:11:38,962 Hat, hat, hat! 939 01:11:39,046 --> 01:11:41,924 - Monsieur and Madame Viardot. - Good day. 940 01:11:44,009 --> 01:11:46,887 - Hat! - Incorrigible! 941 01:11:47,888 --> 01:11:49,973 I just got the news. 942 01:11:50,057 --> 01:11:52,142 What an admirable novel your father would make of it. 943 01:11:52,226 --> 01:11:54,937 I'll make a better one. If you don't pinch it from me, ogress. 944 01:11:55,020 --> 01:11:57,189 No, too naturalistic for me. 945 01:11:57,272 --> 01:11:59,608 My mother prefers to lie in her novels. 946 01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:05,447 In any case, never talk to Frederic about it. This kind of story makes him sick. 947 01:12:08,242 --> 01:12:10,577 I'd love to change now. 948 01:12:26,510 --> 01:12:29,763 I've just stopped for a moment. If it was a faux pas, I'm leaving. 949 01:12:30,597 --> 01:12:33,141 The sunset will bloody the sky. 950 01:12:33,225 --> 01:12:36,311 Like in those ballads I composed when I was young, 951 01:12:36,395 --> 01:12:38,772 where the dead were appearing all the time. 952 01:12:38,856 --> 01:12:42,109 Come, my delicate genius, my invalid, my music. 953 01:12:42,192 --> 01:12:44,820 Enough! Where did you trot to, anyway? 954 01:12:44,903 --> 01:12:47,739 You know that the country air is vivifying for you, and exercising. 955 01:12:47,865 --> 01:12:50,242 - I've dismissed Jean. - What? 956 01:12:50,325 --> 01:12:52,452 - He was insolent. - He carried you in his arms. 957 01:12:52,536 --> 01:12:55,664 He spoke to you in Polish. He was like a mother. 958 01:12:55,747 --> 01:12:58,250 One cannot have two mothers. 959 01:12:59,543 --> 01:13:01,795 You're as unjust as mine is. 960 01:13:02,796 --> 01:13:04,798 At heart, yes, 961 01:13:04,882 --> 01:13:09,636 you are both mean and capricious, and you are meant to be together. 962 01:13:10,220 --> 01:13:11,847 But we are together. 963 01:13:14,433 --> 01:13:18,562 But... me too, I'm writing a novel. It's not difficult to write a novel. 964 01:13:18,645 --> 01:13:22,149 It's sufficient enough to tell whatever, to put on airs. 965 01:13:23,567 --> 01:13:25,777 Why don't you slap me? 966 01:13:26,445 --> 01:13:28,238 Slap me! 967 01:13:31,074 --> 01:13:33,118 Alexandre, you'll dine with us, no matter what? 968 01:13:33,201 --> 01:13:37,789 No, no, I'll just have some of your delicious pâté for the road, George. 969 01:14:05,150 --> 01:14:08,487 I stealing Polish books, dedications to Madam Sand. 970 01:14:08,570 --> 01:14:11,365 - She not deserving. - Oh, Jean. 971 01:14:32,010 --> 01:14:35,013 Mister Frederic much too responsible to confess he loves you. 972 01:14:36,556 --> 01:14:38,350 That's all. 973 01:14:38,433 --> 01:14:40,227 He loves me? 974 01:14:40,727 --> 01:14:43,522 Oh, but then... 975 01:14:49,945 --> 01:14:52,155 But then, will you have courtesy to finish borscht for me? 976 01:14:52,239 --> 01:14:54,783 - But Jean, I wouldn't know how. - Of course you would, it's simple. 977 01:14:55,742 --> 01:15:00,080 An hour of simmering, then you add the broth to the beet juice, which is ready. 978 01:15:00,163 --> 01:15:01,957 You will serve it with the gnocchi of Madame. 979 01:15:02,040 --> 01:15:03,917 - In it? - In it. 980 01:15:09,256 --> 01:15:11,466 Pardon me for having used such bad French, 981 01:15:11,550 --> 01:15:14,136 but it pleased Monsieur Frederic so much to correct me. 982 01:15:15,137 --> 01:15:17,347 See you very soon, Jean. 983 01:15:20,892 --> 01:15:23,228 God be with you. 984 01:15:23,311 --> 01:15:26,189 Because Monsieur Frederic loves you only for your shortcomings. 985 01:15:26,857 --> 01:15:28,734 No, no, not these. The salmon ones. 986 01:15:28,817 --> 01:15:31,278 I'm all at sea. Your bloody gloves. 987 01:15:31,361 --> 01:15:33,405 We talk French now, between us? 988 01:15:33,822 --> 01:15:36,241 About what's traitorous and shameful, yes. 989 01:15:37,325 --> 01:15:40,787 The day you met Madame Sand 990 01:15:40,871 --> 01:15:42,956 is to be cursed among all days! 991 01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:46,710 She endured us for another day, didn't she? 992 01:15:46,793 --> 01:15:49,046 I slept with her, Fred. 993 01:15:51,423 --> 01:15:53,717 This is my refuge. 994 01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:57,054 My shelter, my cocoon. 995 01:15:58,972 --> 01:16:01,475 I shall die if it fades away. 996 01:16:04,269 --> 01:16:08,565 As wretched as it may appear. 997 01:16:09,483 --> 01:16:11,485 Kill me. 998 01:16:11,568 --> 01:16:13,320 With what? 999 01:16:14,362 --> 01:16:16,114 My piano? 1000 01:16:20,786 --> 01:16:22,788 God, aren't you a Pole? 1001 01:16:23,455 --> 01:16:27,793 Solange is learning Polish for you. 1002 01:16:31,588 --> 01:16:34,216 Take her. Escape. 1003 01:16:34,299 --> 01:16:38,386 She's a diamond in the rough. 1004 01:16:40,931 --> 01:16:43,850 And I know about these things. 1005 01:17:00,826 --> 01:17:03,703 I say, it's Jean. Are you fleeing? 1006 01:17:03,787 --> 01:17:06,206 Good evening, Mister. Me deserter. 1007 01:17:09,918 --> 01:17:12,254 Jump in. 1008 01:17:12,337 --> 01:17:14,422 Me go brothel Chatoroo. 1009 01:17:15,382 --> 01:17:16,758 There's a brothel in Chateauroux? 1010 01:17:16,842 --> 01:17:18,885 Brothel everywhere. 1011 01:17:18,969 --> 01:17:21,888 He who looks... finds. 1012 01:17:21,972 --> 01:17:24,391 You'll show me? 1013 01:17:47,831 --> 01:17:49,541 Aurore? 1014 01:17:52,961 --> 01:17:57,090 Lucile Aurore Amantine George... 1015 01:17:58,216 --> 01:18:00,051 is no more. 1016 01:18:04,347 --> 01:18:06,725 It's the Sun rising, 1017 01:18:07,726 --> 01:18:11,313 Radiant Solange. 1018 01:18:19,029 --> 01:18:21,198 - You're so... - No. 1019 01:18:26,536 --> 01:18:28,455 ...fresh. 1020 01:18:29,247 --> 01:18:31,249 Drink. 1021 01:18:40,842 --> 01:18:43,762 - I'm not bleeding. - I love you. 1022 01:18:43,845 --> 01:18:45,931 I'm yours. 1023 01:18:49,726 --> 01:18:52,354 Not for long, my transvestite. 1024 01:18:55,148 --> 01:18:57,400 Foraging through my clothes now? 1025 01:19:01,947 --> 01:19:03,865 You'll have to go! 1026 01:19:04,491 --> 01:19:06,910 Wherever you want: Rome, Paris, Chateauroux. Whenever you wish. 1027 01:19:06,993 --> 01:19:09,663 But leave my house. And leave my poor friend alone. 1028 01:19:09,746 --> 01:19:12,749 Your enemy, right! Your whipping boy. 1029 01:19:12,832 --> 01:19:16,127 Through whom you'll stay famous long after you yourself have been forgotten, 1030 01:19:16,211 --> 01:19:19,798 you who don't love anyone except yourself! 1031 01:19:19,881 --> 01:19:21,591 But you've always been with me, Maurice and you! 1032 01:19:21,675 --> 01:19:24,094 I've always done everything for you. Ask Chip. 1033 01:19:24,844 --> 01:19:27,681 Why "Chip"? He has a name, doesn't he? 1034 01:19:27,764 --> 01:19:30,850 Yeah, and me too. 1035 01:19:31,518 --> 01:19:33,311 What about you? 1036 01:19:34,145 --> 01:19:37,148 Aren't you just a leech, Solange? 1037 01:19:45,573 --> 01:19:47,075 Holy Mary. 1038 01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:49,494 Let's see. This infamous hump of clay 1039 01:19:49,577 --> 01:19:52,205 would love to be a David d'Angers, I am right? 1040 01:19:52,289 --> 01:19:54,416 And this, what is it? But what is that? 1041 01:19:54,499 --> 01:19:57,419 Oh, but it's a Delacroix. A botched Delacroix. 1042 01:19:57,502 --> 01:19:59,462 Totally botched. 1043 01:19:59,546 --> 01:20:02,215 Oh, oh. Some fake George Sand, I imagine? 1044 01:20:02,299 --> 01:20:03,967 There is nothing more fake than George Sand. 1045 01:20:04,050 --> 01:20:05,802 Oh, listen! "He lowered towards me his huge eyes, 1046 01:20:05,885 --> 01:20:08,013 with their long, quivering eyelashes. I quivered myself. 1047 01:20:08,096 --> 01:20:11,474 This night Waldemar the friend will become Waldemar the lover." 1048 01:20:13,435 --> 01:20:14,519 Frederic! 1049 01:20:17,063 --> 01:20:19,607 I accept your proposal. 1050 01:20:21,401 --> 01:20:24,070 I will divorce the Baron and will marry you. 1051 01:20:24,154 --> 01:20:26,698 No! Frederic, you didn't promise anything to her, did you? 1052 01:20:26,781 --> 01:20:28,033 You didn't promise anything? 1053 01:20:28,116 --> 01:20:30,660 It would put an end to this scandalous liaison. 1054 01:20:30,744 --> 01:20:33,038 As a love like ours is unique, isn't it? 1055 01:20:36,041 --> 01:20:38,418 I don't know, you decide. 1056 01:20:38,501 --> 01:20:40,712 Go on, for once, you can make your own decision. 1057 01:20:40,795 --> 01:20:43,173 I don't know, I don't know anything. 1058 01:20:45,884 --> 01:20:48,511 Ask her to show you the chamber that she's redecorating for you. 1059 01:20:49,888 --> 01:20:51,931 Well, we've just finished it, Baroness. 1060 01:20:52,015 --> 01:20:54,601 Just as we promised, Miss Solange. 1061 01:20:55,143 --> 01:20:56,936 Fine, Firmin, just give me the key. 1062 01:20:57,020 --> 01:20:58,396 No way, Maman. I'm stronger than you are. 1063 01:20:58,480 --> 01:21:01,316 But, no. I still have to bring flowers and... baubles. 1064 01:21:01,399 --> 01:21:03,026 So that everything will be tiptop, like always. 1065 01:21:03,109 --> 01:21:06,571 - That horrible smell, what was it? - Show them, anyway. 1066 01:21:08,114 --> 01:21:11,701 It was behind the gray wallpaper. So, of course... 1067 01:21:13,119 --> 01:21:14,788 You wouldn't do that? 1068 01:21:14,913 --> 01:21:16,081 Wouldn't you? 1069 01:21:16,206 --> 01:21:18,541 I think I will visit my chamber now. 1070 01:21:18,625 --> 01:21:21,628 - Now... - But wait. 1071 01:21:21,711 --> 01:21:24,422 You can't always terrorize everybody with your childish fads. 1072 01:21:24,506 --> 01:21:26,508 Listen... 1073 01:21:46,194 --> 01:21:48,613 I'm terrified of the red, and you know it! 1074 01:21:53,993 --> 01:21:56,788 One cannot change people, and you know it. 1075 01:21:59,082 --> 01:22:03,711 You didn't become a woman, I didn't become a man. 1076 01:22:07,674 --> 01:22:10,301 Despite battling for eight years. 1077 01:22:14,139 --> 01:22:16,266 You are leaving with Solange, aren't you? 1078 01:22:16,391 --> 01:22:18,309 Yes. 1079 01:22:19,394 --> 01:22:22,772 Ah, that's good. 1080 01:22:25,108 --> 01:22:27,360 I'll only ask you one favor... 1081 01:22:29,279 --> 01:22:32,323 this evening, let's pretend that nothing happened. 1082 01:22:34,075 --> 01:22:36,911 I would love to read some pages from my novel. 1083 01:22:37,412 --> 01:22:39,706 I would love to hear you play. 1084 01:22:41,583 --> 01:22:44,085 Up to the last note, you know. 1085 01:22:45,128 --> 01:22:49,799 So delicate, almost inaudible... 1086 01:22:51,551 --> 01:22:54,053 which I call the Blue Note. 1087 01:22:55,430 --> 01:22:56,848 Enough! 1088 01:23:06,858 --> 01:23:08,902 What did she say? What does she want? 1089 01:23:08,985 --> 01:23:10,945 I don't know. 1090 01:23:24,250 --> 01:23:26,711 It's me you will marry. 1091 01:23:30,089 --> 01:23:31,966 Yes. 1092 01:23:35,428 --> 01:23:39,891 "Oh, my country, you are like health. 1093 01:23:39,974 --> 01:23:46,105 How much are you precious, only the one who lost it can know." 1094 01:23:52,278 --> 01:23:58,826 "You will bring us back to your bosom by sheer miracle. 1095 01:23:58,910 --> 01:24:02,163 But for now, please fly my longing soul to your green pastures--" 1096 01:24:02,247 --> 01:24:06,125 You will bring us back to your bosom by sheer miracle. 1097 01:24:06,209 --> 01:24:10,547 But for now, please fly my longing soul to your green pastures, 1098 01:24:10,630 --> 01:24:13,633 so vastly spread about the banks of your rivers, 1099 01:24:13,716 --> 01:24:18,263 to your wooded hills, 1100 01:24:18,346 --> 01:24:20,890 to your fields painted with sundry grains, gilded with wheat, 1101 01:24:20,974 --> 01:24:24,602 silvered with rye, flowered with white, 1102 01:24:24,686 --> 01:24:27,272 red with blood. 1103 01:24:37,907 --> 01:24:41,244 No! It's nothing! 1104 01:24:44,497 --> 01:24:46,583 Aurore. 1105 01:24:46,708 --> 01:24:50,420 No, it's Solange. 1106 01:24:53,006 --> 01:24:55,466 Solange... 1107 01:24:55,883 --> 01:24:58,469 Angelic Solange. 1108 01:25:01,097 --> 01:25:03,266 My love... 1109 01:25:03,349 --> 01:25:05,768 my little one... 1110 01:25:06,311 --> 01:25:08,313 my life. 1111 01:25:21,659 --> 01:25:23,995 What will become of us, Frederic? 1112 01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:08,581 I love you. 1113 01:26:10,833 --> 01:26:13,127 I will love you always. 1114 01:26:13,711 --> 01:26:15,546 But... 1115 01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:24,931 It wouldn't be Christian. 1116 01:26:30,269 --> 01:26:32,897 And if I wouldn't want to be a Christian anymore? 1117 01:26:35,650 --> 01:26:37,610 But you are. 1118 01:26:42,699 --> 01:26:46,452 Go away. Please, go away. 1119 01:27:57,899 --> 01:27:59,984 It's Frederic. 1120 01:28:00,067 --> 01:28:02,320 He has Solange. 1121 01:28:03,029 --> 01:28:05,573 He's dying. 1122 01:28:09,202 --> 01:28:11,662 Not bad. But you'll need some more sugar and cinnamon. 1123 01:28:11,746 --> 01:28:15,208 And I'll need four to six truffles. 1124 01:28:15,291 --> 01:28:17,585 - Dried? - Yes. 1125 01:28:17,668 --> 01:28:19,587 - In the cellar. - Louis? 1126 01:28:19,670 --> 01:28:22,632 Yes? - Could you cut the lard into slices? 1127 01:28:22,715 --> 01:28:24,675 I... 1128 01:28:24,759 --> 01:28:27,887 I beg your forgiveness, Adalbert. 1129 01:28:29,096 --> 01:28:31,641 You getting sentimental, Dumpling? 1130 01:28:31,724 --> 01:28:34,185 I always was. 1131 01:28:36,896 --> 01:28:38,856 Prick, ass, shit, spunk... 1132 01:28:38,940 --> 01:28:40,733 prick, ass, shit, spunk. 1133 01:28:40,858 --> 01:28:47,824 "You can't measure yourself against a gee-eenius, Maurice." 1134 01:28:52,161 --> 01:28:54,580 "Guess who I got it from." 1135 01:28:55,706 --> 01:28:58,417 "Guess who?" 1136 01:29:00,127 --> 01:29:02,547 Crash, bang, wallop! 1137 01:29:03,965 --> 01:29:06,717 "Frederic sweats!" 1138 01:29:08,219 --> 01:29:13,099 "Frederic eat his heart, 1139 01:29:13,182 --> 01:29:16,269 drink his tears..." 1140 01:29:22,024 --> 01:29:25,194 "What does she have in common with other women, my mother?" 1141 01:29:28,781 --> 01:29:30,950 "I'm an artist, Maman. 1142 01:29:31,951 --> 01:29:35,997 I am an artist. I am an artist..." 1143 01:29:36,747 --> 01:29:39,375 Look. I will redo your eye! 1144 01:29:45,006 --> 01:29:47,341 If I want. 1145 01:29:53,973 --> 01:29:56,225 Somebody's prowling around the house. Don't you hear? 1146 01:29:57,602 --> 01:30:00,146 Go look, my Dumpy. 1147 01:30:04,609 --> 01:30:06,944 You always had this miraculous ear, Maman. 1148 01:30:09,196 --> 01:30:11,490 Oh, this is all that I've got left. 1149 01:30:11,949 --> 01:30:13,618 And you... 1150 01:30:15,328 --> 01:30:17,246 Tell me, my Dumpy, was it good with Augustine? 1151 01:30:17,330 --> 01:30:21,751 Uh, yeah, well you can tell her that, as for the marriage it's... Quack! 1152 01:30:21,834 --> 01:30:23,669 You're so wrong. These kind of women make for excellent spouses. 1153 01:30:23,753 --> 01:30:25,254 Stop it, Maman. 1154 01:30:25,338 --> 01:30:27,465 Do you see me covered with brats, 1155 01:30:27,548 --> 01:30:30,635 buried here, chasing maids' skirts, 1156 01:30:30,718 --> 01:30:33,054 just like Monsieur, my father? 1157 01:30:33,387 --> 01:30:35,306 No, my Dumpy. 1158 01:30:36,098 --> 01:30:39,477 - I am an artist, Maman. - Yes, Dumpy. 1159 01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:41,771 - Like you. - Yes. 1160 01:31:47,044 --> 01:31:49,922 Sorry. I have to finish Madame's gnocchi. 1161 01:31:50,006 --> 01:31:51,716 Madame? 1162 01:31:51,799 --> 01:31:53,134 Madame Sand. 1163 01:32:13,404 --> 01:32:15,156 God, what fragrances... 1164 01:32:17,867 --> 01:32:19,952 What suavity. 1165 01:32:23,873 --> 01:32:26,125 It's you, the maiden of the house? 1166 01:32:28,377 --> 01:32:31,714 - Gadzooks, what a beauty. - Oh, no, this is only Augustine. 1167 01:32:31,797 --> 01:32:33,883 I don't believe it! 1168 01:32:33,966 --> 01:32:36,510 Me, whose name is Auguste. 1169 01:32:37,553 --> 01:32:39,847 The same lust for life fires us. 1170 01:32:39,930 --> 01:32:43,184 - Except that I'm a sculptor. - A colleague! 1171 01:32:47,855 --> 01:32:49,857 George's daughter. 1172 01:32:57,656 --> 01:32:59,241 Same eyes... 1173 01:33:03,204 --> 01:33:04,872 same figure... 1174 01:33:07,833 --> 01:33:09,585 same hands. 1175 01:33:19,512 --> 01:33:21,305 A happy life... 1176 01:33:21,722 --> 01:33:23,766 with an exceptional man. 1177 01:33:26,185 --> 01:33:28,354 And so many talents. 1178 01:33:34,068 --> 01:33:36,487 - You sculpt, by any chance? - No, I ride horses. 1179 01:33:36,570 --> 01:33:39,406 - Liar. - Come again? 1180 01:33:39,990 --> 01:33:41,992 To women? 1181 01:33:42,618 --> 01:33:44,703 Very much so. 1182 01:33:46,497 --> 01:33:50,084 To you? Who knows? But you do sculpt. 1183 01:33:50,167 --> 01:33:54,046 What you do is very beautiful. I know it. I sense it. 1184 01:33:54,130 --> 01:33:56,715 - You'll show me? - I don't know. 1185 01:33:58,926 --> 01:34:02,555 Everything's a sculpture. Take this pâté. 1186 01:34:02,638 --> 01:34:05,015 A form of ugliness. 1187 01:34:05,099 --> 01:34:08,978 But it's enough to-- there's but one spirit! 1188 01:34:09,061 --> 01:34:10,813 Bravo! 1189 01:34:13,232 --> 01:34:15,359 Me too, I-- 1190 01:34:29,290 --> 01:34:30,499 A queen. 1191 01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:36,589 The queen. 1192 01:34:53,439 --> 01:34:56,275 - You? - Me? 1193 01:34:57,234 --> 01:35:00,905 I did three hundred kilometers by foot to breathe your house's redolence. 1194 01:35:00,988 --> 01:35:03,741 Me, I did three thousand. 1195 01:35:03,824 --> 01:35:06,785 Which is explained by the size of your tiny tootsies. 1196 01:35:12,333 --> 01:35:14,835 Iced coffee, the Italian way! 1197 01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:21,508 Solange, my child, show your sculptures to Auguste, as we have to finish cooking. 1198 01:35:21,592 --> 01:35:23,677 Me, myself, I make an excellent shepherd's pie. 1199 01:35:23,761 --> 01:35:25,930 - Tomorrow. - You keeping me? 1200 01:35:26,013 --> 01:35:28,390 Out of decency, we can't throw you out to the wolves. 1201 01:35:28,474 --> 01:35:31,977 - It'll be pitch black outside. - The wolf... it's me. 1202 01:35:32,770 --> 01:35:35,064 - Where's the way? - Through here. 1203 01:35:35,231 --> 01:35:37,233 Later, I'll show you my marionettes. 1204 01:35:40,361 --> 01:35:42,404 Hot, the cat. 1205 01:35:42,488 --> 01:35:45,532 Frederic, can you come with us? 1206 01:35:58,671 --> 01:36:03,092 The thing is, there is no one to carry Frederic up the stairs anymore. 1207 01:36:04,510 --> 01:36:06,720 But... what do you have against stairs? 1208 01:36:07,471 --> 01:36:09,139 Me. 1209 01:36:11,475 --> 01:36:13,936 Stairs are a perfect sculpture. 1210 01:36:14,019 --> 01:36:16,605 Like solidified waves of the sea. 1211 01:36:19,191 --> 01:36:22,903 Jacob's ladder. The fight with the angel. 1212 01:36:22,987 --> 01:36:25,739 At the end, light, the gates of Heaven. 1213 01:36:25,823 --> 01:36:27,241 George... 1214 01:36:28,158 --> 01:36:30,160 may I give you a piece of advice? 1215 01:36:30,286 --> 01:36:32,830 No, you can't. 1216 01:36:32,913 --> 01:36:35,874 Solange is fed up with our pieces of advice, right, Solange? 1217 01:36:47,011 --> 01:36:48,971 I'll go with them. 1218 01:36:56,353 --> 01:36:58,981 Was it the same stare as then? 1219 01:36:59,064 --> 01:37:00,858 Yes. 1220 01:37:04,570 --> 01:37:07,573 Well, my dear, what about some cooking? 1221 01:37:09,241 --> 01:37:10,743 You sure? 1222 01:37:11,118 --> 01:37:14,246 What else is there left for us to do? 1223 01:37:14,621 --> 01:37:16,915 I'm bursting all over! 1224 01:37:18,500 --> 01:37:20,794 There are so many spirits in this room. 1225 01:37:21,670 --> 01:37:25,466 Of art, of impatience. I knew it. 1226 01:37:32,431 --> 01:37:38,062 "By the clear spring I walked by..." 1227 01:37:38,145 --> 01:37:41,106 "I found the water so lovely 1228 01:37:41,190 --> 01:37:44,735 that I bathed in it. 1229 01:37:44,818 --> 01:37:47,780 It's such a long time I love you 1230 01:37:47,863 --> 01:37:51,325 never will I forget..." 1231 01:37:51,408 --> 01:37:54,286 "Sing, nightingale, sing" 1232 01:37:54,370 --> 01:37:57,247 "You whose heart is merry, 1233 01:37:57,331 --> 01:38:00,626 your heart is eager to laugh 1234 01:38:00,709 --> 01:38:03,253 me, mine is to lament." 1235 01:38:03,337 --> 01:38:05,005 Is it that you wanted to sculpt? 1236 01:38:05,756 --> 01:38:07,383 Yes. 1237 01:38:08,258 --> 01:38:10,761 You see, you are a grand sculptor, Solange. 1238 01:38:10,844 --> 01:38:12,763 And you, who are you? 1239 01:38:12,846 --> 01:38:14,973 What did you do with your life? 1240 01:38:15,057 --> 01:38:16,725 Not much. 1241 01:38:20,020 --> 01:38:22,731 - Will you marry me? - Yes. 1242 01:38:25,609 --> 01:38:27,528 With my mother's benediction. 1243 01:38:27,653 --> 01:38:29,154 Yes. 1244 01:38:30,447 --> 01:38:32,199 I knew it! 1245 01:38:33,784 --> 01:38:35,202 Let my joy endure! 1246 01:38:35,285 --> 01:38:37,454 It's peace I'm offering you, Solange. 1247 01:38:38,997 --> 01:38:41,125 - Forever? - Forever. 1248 01:38:41,208 --> 01:38:43,335 Mother and daughter. 1249 01:38:59,268 --> 01:39:01,895 This is the most beautiful day of my life. 1250 01:39:02,062 --> 01:39:03,772 Yours too? 1251 01:39:06,108 --> 01:39:10,195 Go and take care of everything while I settle my arrangement with Monsieur. 1252 01:39:10,779 --> 01:39:12,573 Yes, Maman. 1253 01:39:33,886 --> 01:39:36,847 Take this. Put it around my waist. 1254 01:39:36,930 --> 01:39:39,933 Here we go, Frederic. 1255 01:39:42,728 --> 01:39:44,188 Now... 1256 01:39:44,688 --> 01:39:47,274 tell me what I'm supposed to do? 1257 01:39:47,608 --> 01:39:49,401 You save the beet juice. 1258 01:39:49,485 --> 01:39:51,320 - Right, Laure? - Yes. 1259 01:39:51,403 --> 01:39:53,530 Isn't this a peasant's dish you're preparing here? 1260 01:39:53,614 --> 01:39:57,159 I'll set the table. George told me that there is sublime silverware 1261 01:39:57,242 --> 01:39:58,994 that she inherited from one of our Polish Kings. 1262 01:39:59,077 --> 01:40:00,913 Hold it. 1263 01:40:14,301 --> 01:40:16,553 Leave it. I'll do it better than you. 1264 01:40:19,056 --> 01:40:22,059 Augustine. I can't-- I can't stand it anymore. 1265 01:40:25,020 --> 01:40:27,773 You have to. 1266 01:40:27,856 --> 01:40:30,817 You have to, you have to. 1267 01:40:30,943 --> 01:40:32,819 You again? 1268 01:40:34,196 --> 01:40:36,156 Always me! 1269 01:40:36,240 --> 01:40:38,867 Poking your big nose into business that's not yours! 1270 01:40:38,951 --> 01:40:41,912 - I don't poke. - Anything. We know. 1271 01:40:41,995 --> 01:40:44,748 Pay attention to Solange. 1272 01:40:44,831 --> 01:40:49,545 You don't pronounce it "Solan-che," you say "Solan-ge." 1273 01:40:49,628 --> 01:40:52,422 It's in French. You are in France. 1274 01:40:52,506 --> 01:40:55,509 It's been seven years that you've been saying "Solan-che." 1275 01:40:55,592 --> 01:41:00,055 - Eight years, Maurice! Eight. - There again. Not "eat" years. 1276 01:41:00,138 --> 01:41:02,266 "Eight" years. 1277 01:41:02,349 --> 01:41:04,685 Ight. 1278 01:41:04,768 --> 01:41:07,896 Eight! Quick. 1279 01:41:09,064 --> 01:41:13,193 Hurry up and finish it, Frederic, before we have to-- 1280 01:41:13,277 --> 01:41:16,822 - You what? - Before I cast you out. 1281 01:44:00,277 --> 01:44:03,739 Just the way it should be served-- lukewarm! 1282 01:44:03,822 --> 01:44:06,032 Hoping that's not your favorite temperature. 1283 01:44:06,116 --> 01:44:10,954 My old bones, Augustine, ignite once they rub against youth. 1284 01:44:11,037 --> 01:44:13,206 Especially one. 1285 01:44:13,290 --> 01:44:15,208 - And the gnocchi? - What? Sculptural! 1286 01:44:15,292 --> 01:44:17,127 It's true that everything's perfect, George. 1287 01:44:17,210 --> 01:44:20,213 Isn't it? You won't be bothered if I smoke? 1288 01:44:20,297 --> 01:44:23,049 Mmm, ha. I smoke too. Tobacco. Excitement. 1289 01:44:23,133 --> 01:44:25,343 - And me too, too, too, too. - It really won't bother you, Frederic? 1290 01:44:25,427 --> 01:44:29,097 No, no, everybody has the absolute right to smoke, especially Aurore. 1291 01:44:29,181 --> 01:44:32,184 - Down with good manners! - Down with hypocrisy! 1292 01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:37,105 My dear friends, I want to announce a... a most felicitous event. 1293 01:44:37,189 --> 01:44:41,276 My daughter is to be married. No, well, she got engaged. 1294 01:44:41,359 --> 01:44:44,070 I have acceded to Monsieur Auguste's demand for her hand. 1295 01:44:44,446 --> 01:44:46,448 Aren't they both incredible, extraordinary? 1296 01:44:46,531 --> 01:44:49,034 Aren't they the Revolution, progress, liberty? 1297 01:44:49,117 --> 01:44:51,787 The future. Sculpture...! 1298 01:44:51,870 --> 01:44:54,289 By the way, what is your name, Auguste? 1299 01:44:54,372 --> 01:44:57,292 Me, I happen to know Monsieur's name. 1300 01:44:57,375 --> 01:44:59,753 Alas, I also know Monsieur in person. 1301 01:44:59,836 --> 01:45:03,423 Would it be churlish of me to warn you that Monsieur is drowning in debt? 1302 01:45:03,507 --> 01:45:05,217 Mmm. For new times, new morals! 1303 01:45:05,300 --> 01:45:06,635 - And women...? - You flatterer. 1304 01:45:06,718 --> 01:45:10,347 - Bravo! - Money? An abstraction. 1305 01:45:17,729 --> 01:45:19,439 Admirable! 1306 01:45:20,232 --> 01:45:23,026 Do you have any more? In another pocket? 1307 01:45:26,488 --> 01:45:28,448 My pocket? No. 1308 01:45:28,824 --> 01:45:31,660 So by what means do you expect to provide for Mademoiselle Solange? 1309 01:45:31,743 --> 01:45:34,162 What's it got to do with you, Eugene? 1310 01:45:34,746 --> 01:45:37,082 I'll work for both of us, if required. 1311 01:45:37,165 --> 01:45:39,125 What a metamorphosis. 1312 01:45:52,472 --> 01:45:54,015 Well... 1313 01:45:55,559 --> 01:45:56,977 Solange... 1314 01:45:58,979 --> 01:46:01,898 has an absolute right to make her own choices. 1315 01:46:03,525 --> 01:46:06,903 Solange, most of all, 1316 01:46:07,362 --> 01:46:09,197 has the right to be happy. 1317 01:46:09,698 --> 01:46:12,284 I hope she will be. 1318 01:46:13,159 --> 01:46:14,870 Forgive me. 1319 01:46:16,955 --> 01:46:19,249 Have you tried our borscht, Aurore? 1320 01:46:23,295 --> 01:46:26,006 Augustine, could I have a helping, please? 1321 01:46:29,050 --> 01:46:31,887 - But it's red. - My favorite color. 1322 01:46:34,764 --> 01:46:37,100 If I drool in it... 1323 01:46:38,143 --> 01:46:39,728 one wouldn't notice the difference. 1324 01:46:55,869 --> 01:46:56,953 What? 1325 01:46:58,580 --> 01:47:01,124 - Eh, a bone! - Where? 1326 01:47:01,875 --> 01:47:03,835 In the pâté. 1327 01:47:10,008 --> 01:47:12,135 They're sticking, these noodles. 1328 01:47:15,180 --> 01:47:17,682 I will render your bust. And Solange's, of course. 1329 01:47:17,766 --> 01:47:20,769 In marble. Only marble can do justice. 1330 01:47:20,852 --> 01:47:22,646 Or ashes. 1331 01:47:23,688 --> 01:47:25,941 George is a genius, Monsieur! 1332 01:47:26,232 --> 01:47:28,818 There are only geniuses in this house, don't you know? 1333 01:47:28,902 --> 01:47:32,030 Here, it's in one's interest to be a genius. 1334 01:47:32,113 --> 01:47:34,282 Oh yes, yes, yes! 1335 01:47:35,784 --> 01:47:38,495 The banquet of the geniuses. 1336 01:47:43,959 --> 01:47:45,752 You're all red in the face! 1337 01:47:46,294 --> 01:47:47,921 Something's wrong? 1338 01:47:52,550 --> 01:47:55,720 He's having a syncope! 1339 01:47:55,804 --> 01:47:59,349 No... no... no... no. On the contrary. 1340 01:48:00,016 --> 01:48:02,394 Leave me. 1341 01:48:03,019 --> 01:48:08,233 What choice do we have in our lives so brief, so absurd, 1342 01:48:09,359 --> 01:48:11,444 in hostile landscapes, 1343 01:48:11,987 --> 01:48:14,447 among impenetrable people? 1344 01:48:17,534 --> 01:48:21,830 Some short fireworks in a sky of night. 1345 01:48:22,372 --> 01:48:25,250 Fires that run, 1346 01:48:25,333 --> 01:48:28,420 ah, silvery, 1347 01:48:29,421 --> 01:48:36,511 to explode in sheaves of exhausted prayers. 1348 01:48:36,594 --> 01:48:40,306 Of ecstasy, of... 1349 01:48:41,307 --> 01:48:43,601 music. 1350 01:48:44,561 --> 01:48:46,896 Isn't it so, Frederic? 1351 01:48:47,897 --> 01:48:50,650 Not to be frightened anymore... 1352 01:48:50,734 --> 01:48:52,610 to die. 1353 01:48:53,361 --> 01:48:56,448 My business affairs. 1354 01:48:57,157 --> 01:49:01,619 - These bad investments. - You never told me. 1355 01:49:08,710 --> 01:49:10,920 I'm telling you now. 1356 01:49:13,131 --> 01:49:17,260 I'm ruined. 1357 01:49:18,261 --> 01:49:20,513 And in Poland, 1358 01:49:20,597 --> 01:49:23,558 before the insurrection-- 1359 01:49:24,350 --> 01:49:29,397 years ago-- 1360 01:49:30,732 --> 01:49:37,322 I turned my fellow conspirators 1361 01:49:37,405 --> 01:49:39,949 over to the Russian police. 1362 01:49:41,910 --> 01:49:46,039 Out of... weakness. 1363 01:49:46,623 --> 01:49:51,252 But don't forsake your merriment, my friends. 1364 01:49:52,003 --> 01:49:54,923 Eat, drink. 1365 01:49:59,969 --> 01:50:01,805 Pleasure... 1366 01:50:03,181 --> 01:50:05,225 is fleeting. 1367 01:50:05,308 --> 01:50:07,685 Isn't it, Augustine? 1368 01:50:15,735 --> 01:50:21,449 Aurore wants to read us fragments from her new novel. 1369 01:50:22,492 --> 01:50:25,745 After dinner, Aurore always reads what she has written. 1370 01:50:25,870 --> 01:50:27,872 Are you sure? 1371 01:50:28,915 --> 01:50:31,042 Will I not bore you? 1372 01:50:31,126 --> 01:50:33,503 You, bore us? 1373 01:50:34,129 --> 01:50:36,714 - Augustine? - Yes, Madame. 1374 01:50:39,050 --> 01:50:40,635 No. Dear Solange. 1375 01:50:40,718 --> 01:50:43,847 - Can you go and prepare the cabinet? - Yes, Maman. 1376 01:50:43,930 --> 01:50:47,642 This new novel in which there is a fight for the truth. For ardor. 1377 01:50:47,725 --> 01:50:50,145 Against this world, rotten and fake, which ruined our youth. 1378 01:50:51,688 --> 01:50:54,023 The King of Poland's silverware! 1379 01:50:56,401 --> 01:50:59,654 Long live life! Naked, the truth! 1380 01:50:59,737 --> 01:51:02,949 - The soul, you fancy? - I adore you. 1381 01:51:03,032 --> 01:51:04,868 And you? 1382 01:51:08,621 --> 01:51:10,832 I adore you. 1383 01:51:10,999 --> 01:51:13,168 Please sit down, sit down! 1384 01:51:13,251 --> 01:51:15,587 Read, you genius. 1385 01:51:29,184 --> 01:51:32,061 Let's go at it! Let's go! 1386 01:51:32,145 --> 01:51:34,230 "He was insufferable. 1387 01:51:34,522 --> 01:51:38,359 Because he wanted to reason and submit the real life 1388 01:51:38,443 --> 01:51:41,779 of which he never understood anything, to principles he couldn't define. 1389 01:51:41,863 --> 01:51:44,657 He was supercilious, aloof, precious..." 1390 01:51:44,741 --> 01:51:47,160 Oh, spot on. An aristo, for sure. and it's about him. 1391 01:51:47,243 --> 01:51:50,288 - It's about the novel's hero. - Its title? 1392 01:51:51,623 --> 01:51:52,832 "Prince Karol." 1393 01:51:53,499 --> 01:51:55,418 Isn't that a Slavic name? 1394 01:51:55,501 --> 01:51:57,503 I knew it, I did! 1395 01:51:58,588 --> 01:52:00,882 "As he was so sovereignly polite and reserved, 1396 01:52:00,965 --> 01:52:03,593 nobody ever suspected what was going on inside of him..." 1397 01:52:03,676 --> 01:52:05,720 This is untrue. 1398 01:52:05,803 --> 01:52:08,973 I hate what's polite, polished. I love the rough. 1399 01:52:10,892 --> 01:52:13,269 "He was without age nor sex. 1400 01:52:13,353 --> 01:52:17,106 He had the obscene beauty of a great, sad woman..." 1401 01:52:18,358 --> 01:52:20,026 What hatred. 1402 01:52:20,944 --> 01:52:23,279 What style! 1403 01:52:31,663 --> 01:52:33,206 And the heroine, George? 1404 01:52:36,542 --> 01:52:39,504 "Why this woman, who was neither very young nor very beautiful... 1405 01:52:41,130 --> 01:52:43,967 whose character was precisely the opposite of his, 1406 01:52:44,968 --> 01:52:47,679 whose mores were imprudent, attachments unbound, 1407 01:52:47,762 --> 01:52:49,764 whose foibles of the heart and temerity of spirit appeared 1408 01:52:49,847 --> 01:52:52,767 as a violent protestation against... 1409 01:52:52,850 --> 01:52:56,062 the principles of the world and its official religion. 1410 01:52:58,982 --> 01:53:02,110 This excellent woman. had an almost uncanny instinct 1411 01:53:02,193 --> 01:53:05,446 for judging the condition of the sick and the care they require. 1412 01:53:06,990 --> 01:53:09,742 Her trusting, trusting and brave character..." 1413 01:53:14,038 --> 01:53:16,708 "'You're then my mother?' asked Karol. 1414 01:53:17,292 --> 01:53:20,837 'Yes, yes, I am your mother,' she replied, 1415 01:53:20,920 --> 01:53:24,465 not realizing that at this very moment it might have been a profanation..." 1416 01:53:24,590 --> 01:53:27,677 Incest, androgyny, 1417 01:53:27,760 --> 01:53:29,345 modernity! 1418 01:53:29,429 --> 01:53:31,264 "An invincible attraction, 1419 01:53:31,347 --> 01:53:34,767 a progression of delicate and devouring voluptuousness. 1420 01:53:34,892 --> 01:53:39,856 She was dazed by it. It seemed that all her loves had been just orgies..." 1421 01:53:39,939 --> 01:53:41,983 Orgies... ah, orgies. 1422 01:53:42,066 --> 01:53:44,902 "'I was never loved,' she cried, 1423 01:53:44,986 --> 01:53:47,905 - 'and you are my first love.'" - And you are mine, Solange. 1424 01:53:54,912 --> 01:53:57,749 "He would prefer that, never stopping to be the good, the tender, 1425 01:53:57,832 --> 01:54:01,669 the devoted, the voluptuous and the maternal Lucrezia... 1426 01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:06,549 she would stay pale, innocent, severe and virginal--" 1427 01:54:06,632 --> 01:54:08,468 To each and everyone in line with his capacities 1428 01:54:08,551 --> 01:54:10,261 and to each and everyone in line with his needs! 1429 01:54:10,345 --> 01:54:12,013 - Ah! - You know that, you? 1430 01:54:12,096 --> 01:54:14,098 Louis Blanc, by golly. 1431 01:54:14,182 --> 01:54:15,850 Socialism. 1432 01:54:21,898 --> 01:54:25,193 I slept with Louis Blanc last year... 1433 01:54:26,235 --> 01:54:27,987 as I slept with Pierre Leroux 1434 01:54:29,113 --> 01:54:31,074 and Pierre Bocage... 1435 01:54:31,157 --> 01:54:33,201 and Arago... 1436 01:54:33,951 --> 01:54:36,120 and Charles Poncy... 1437 01:54:37,747 --> 01:54:39,332 and the Queen of England. 1438 01:54:41,209 --> 01:54:44,837 Carry on, Aurore, your novel is admirable. 1439 01:54:45,546 --> 01:54:48,049 - What a waste. - Let's go, I beg you! 1440 01:54:48,132 --> 01:54:49,759 "This woman Floriani, wouldn't you believe it, 1441 01:54:49,842 --> 01:54:52,762 had a nature as chaste as the soul of a little child." 1442 01:54:52,845 --> 01:54:54,013 What a strong will, Maman. 1443 01:54:59,852 --> 01:55:02,814 "Karol, who should have understood the solidity 1444 01:55:02,897 --> 01:55:05,733 of this straight and narrow character. 1445 01:55:07,985 --> 01:55:09,737 In fact... 1446 01:55:15,827 --> 01:55:17,537 she didn't love Karol anymore." 1447 01:55:25,253 --> 01:55:26,671 I beg your forgiveness. 1448 01:55:27,213 --> 01:55:28,756 I beg your forgiveness. 1449 01:55:49,444 --> 01:55:51,696 "It is enough 1450 01:55:53,156 --> 01:55:55,741 to sacrifice the principal character 1451 01:55:56,742 --> 01:56:00,163 in order not to reward, punish... 1452 01:56:02,415 --> 01:56:04,542 or kill the others, one by one." 1453 01:57:08,231 --> 01:57:10,900 I didn't know you're an actor. 1454 01:57:10,983 --> 01:57:12,693 Clown, yes. 1455 01:57:14,779 --> 01:57:17,198 What are you playing for us now? 1456 01:57:17,281 --> 01:57:20,076 The prayer of a distraught Pole. 1457 01:57:23,704 --> 01:57:26,832 The Poles expect salvation from the Virgin Mary, 1458 01:57:26,916 --> 01:57:29,877 as they wrecked the land all by themselves. 1459 01:57:29,961 --> 01:57:32,088 The most beautiful country in the world. 1460 01:57:32,922 --> 01:57:37,051 Oh, Fred! Fred! 1461 01:57:38,553 --> 01:57:41,222 Ah, if I was still a virgin. 1462 01:57:41,305 --> 01:57:43,933 You are much more than that. 1463 01:57:45,393 --> 01:57:47,520 Fred! 1464 01:57:47,603 --> 01:57:50,106 I hate music, Solange, my angel. 1465 01:57:50,189 --> 01:57:52,650 It puts me to sleep. While we have to delight in life. 1466 01:57:52,733 --> 01:57:55,653 One should grab everything. I'm in need. 1467 01:57:55,736 --> 01:57:57,738 I'm horny like a stag. If only from looking at you. 1468 01:57:57,822 --> 01:58:00,157 - Oh, my. Nobody ever-- - Talked? Fucked? 1469 01:58:00,241 --> 01:58:03,035 This bogeyman, moribund, here, and his piano of boredom, 1470 01:58:03,119 --> 01:58:05,162 deathly and bloodless. 1471 01:58:05,246 --> 01:58:06,789 Touch me. I'll take you up the banana tree. 1472 01:58:06,872 --> 01:58:09,458 - Like a monkey? - Perfectly. The monkey is right. 1473 01:58:09,542 --> 01:58:12,211 All the rest is culture. What a shitty word. 1474 01:58:15,089 --> 01:58:17,967 The animal that is the most beautiful, the most noble. 1475 01:58:18,050 --> 01:58:19,510 Oh? I am an animal. 1476 01:58:19,594 --> 01:58:21,178 Repeat. 1477 01:58:26,642 --> 01:58:28,686 You're brilliant. 1478 01:58:32,231 --> 01:58:34,025 It's only my country that I miss. 1479 01:58:34,108 --> 01:58:35,901 Poland? 1480 01:58:43,367 --> 01:58:45,536 Yes, God's country. 1481 01:58:48,414 --> 01:58:50,416 Do you think she believes in God, Aurore? 1482 01:58:50,499 --> 01:58:53,127 - I don't know. - Who knows? 1483 01:58:53,210 --> 01:58:56,172 Certainly, deep down, or else... 1484 01:58:56,255 --> 01:58:57,840 Or else what? 1485 01:58:59,467 --> 01:59:00,926 Nothing. 1486 01:59:01,927 --> 01:59:04,180 That's for the show this evening. 1487 01:59:05,806 --> 01:59:07,808 Drink, drink, drink. 1488 01:59:09,852 --> 01:59:10,811 Monsieur Clesinger. 1489 01:59:11,771 --> 01:59:16,567 What I will ask of you won't seem, I hope, too macabre. 1490 01:59:16,901 --> 01:59:19,820 But on the day I die, oh, in a hundred years, of course-- 1491 01:59:19,904 --> 01:59:22,990 - Yes, yes, later. - Thank you, Laure. 1492 01:59:24,200 --> 01:59:26,077 Come. 1493 01:59:26,619 --> 01:59:29,580 Would you be so kind as to execute my death mask? 1494 01:59:29,664 --> 01:59:32,625 I'll leave you with a list of people to whom it should be sent, 1495 01:59:33,125 --> 01:59:35,044 - if only to terrify them. - Me? 1496 01:59:35,169 --> 01:59:37,463 I will pay you, of course, in advance. 1497 01:59:37,546 --> 01:59:39,256 Which could be of help 1498 01:59:39,340 --> 01:59:43,094 in setting up your household with Mademoiselle Solange. 1499 01:59:43,177 --> 01:59:45,846 You know, I have seen some of your work 1500 01:59:45,930 --> 01:59:48,766 and I don't quite grasp the attitudes you proffer. 1501 01:59:48,849 --> 01:59:51,686 Your sculptures appeared to me delicate... 1502 01:59:51,811 --> 01:59:54,355 and perfectly crafted. 1503 01:59:56,857 --> 01:59:58,859 Come. Come quick. 1504 01:59:58,943 --> 02:00:00,528 Come, come! 1505 02:01:47,134 --> 02:01:50,304 What's this whatchamacallit? It puts me ill at ease. 1506 02:02:48,195 --> 02:02:51,073 By God, I'm not dreaming. There is fire. Fire! 1507 02:02:51,156 --> 02:02:53,617 And I'm the captain of the fire brigade. 1508 02:02:53,701 --> 02:02:56,078 - Just one of those things, isn't it? - Be careful, Maurice. 1509 02:02:56,161 --> 02:02:58,247 Don't worry, Maman, I'll take care of everything. 1510 02:02:58,330 --> 02:03:01,667 War. We must help. 1511 02:03:03,752 --> 02:03:06,297 - They've earned the right to be alone. - Of course. 1512 02:03:06,380 --> 02:03:08,924 Let's see the fire, the colors. 1513 02:03:09,008 --> 02:03:12,094 A private fire. Yours and mine. 1514 02:03:29,987 --> 02:03:32,573 My Coleoptera! 1515 02:03:50,633 --> 02:03:53,218 At last I'll get my study back. 1516 02:05:06,875 --> 02:05:09,378 - What will Maurice become? - Mayor. 1517 02:05:09,461 --> 02:05:12,297 - He'll write over a dozen books. - About what? 1518 02:05:12,381 --> 02:05:14,341 Oh, about everything. From the ancient to the modern. 1519 02:05:14,425 --> 02:05:16,468 About mineralogy. Agriculture. 1520 02:05:16,552 --> 02:05:20,222 - Even novels. - And we will forget them all! 1521 02:05:23,225 --> 02:05:25,185 And Solange? 1522 02:05:25,644 --> 02:05:30,274 Well, spill it, know-it-alls. Solange will marry the sculptor. 1523 02:05:30,357 --> 02:05:34,737 She'll have children and be poor and miserable. 1524 02:05:34,820 --> 02:05:38,866 Frederic will be the only one to help her. 1525 02:05:38,949 --> 02:05:41,744 Then... there will be nobody. 1526 02:05:41,827 --> 02:05:44,121 A parrot and an old mare 1527 02:05:44,204 --> 02:05:47,958 will remain her only friends. 1528 02:05:48,083 --> 02:05:50,711 - Could be worse. - Oh, yes. 1529 02:05:54,131 --> 02:05:56,341 Alright. Well, don't you forget my puns. 1530 02:05:56,425 --> 02:05:59,219 - Shall we start? - We restart! 1531 02:05:59,303 --> 02:06:01,972 Don't get confused. Who's sleeping with whom, and all that. 1532 02:06:02,056 --> 02:06:04,224 Give us a break! 1533 02:06:04,308 --> 02:06:06,935 You're not the author! 1534 02:06:07,019 --> 02:06:10,355 - Who's the author, anyway? - I'll tell you. Come. 1535 02:06:11,940 --> 02:06:14,359 It's the Great Beast. 1536 02:06:15,486 --> 02:06:17,321 Look. 1537 02:06:29,208 --> 02:06:31,210 And Frederic? 1538 02:06:31,293 --> 02:06:34,254 He'll compose no more music, 1539 02:06:34,338 --> 02:06:36,757 and will die three years from now. 1540 02:06:36,840 --> 02:06:38,842 Oh. 1541 02:06:40,803 --> 02:06:42,763 And Laure? 1542 02:06:42,846 --> 02:06:48,560 She'll return to Ukraine, and will never marry again. 1543 02:06:48,644 --> 02:06:51,605 - And Pauline? - She'll see Turgenev again. 1544 02:06:51,688 --> 02:06:54,149 He will come to live in her household. 1545 02:06:54,233 --> 02:06:57,319 He'll become her only love. 1546 02:06:57,402 --> 02:07:01,448 - What about Louis? - He'll stay her only friend. 1547 02:07:03,367 --> 02:07:05,202 And Grzymala? 1548 02:07:05,285 --> 02:07:09,581 He will take care of Frederic's burial... 1549 02:07:09,665 --> 02:07:14,753 and will never finish writing his biography of him. 1550 02:07:33,188 --> 02:07:35,983 Up to the blue note, Frederic. 1551 02:07:36,733 --> 02:07:39,319 Up to the blue note, George.