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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:41,959 --> 00:00:45,042 Good people, feast your eyes on my fair merchandise! 2 00:00:45,128 --> 00:00:49,087 Look well, for these goods are no trifles! 3 00:00:50,717 --> 00:00:53,880 - Will it cure gout? - It'll stiffen your stick! 4 00:01:00,143 --> 00:01:01,553 Come here, little girl! 5 00:01:02,688 --> 00:01:05,179 Where can women relieve themselves? 6 00:01:05,274 --> 00:01:06,274 The Jakes? 7 00:01:06,858 --> 00:01:10,191 The what? The Jakes? Aye, the Jakes. 8 00:01:10,696 --> 00:01:12,277 The Jakes! 9 00:01:12,364 --> 00:01:14,696 For two pence, I'll take them there. 10 00:01:26,712 --> 00:01:29,078 We overindulged in plums and grapes! 11 00:01:29,172 --> 00:01:31,834 Quick, or I'll go in my drawers! 12 00:01:32,217 --> 00:01:33,423 Me too! 13 00:01:34,386 --> 00:01:36,377 I doubt you see much theater here. 14 00:01:36,471 --> 00:01:39,804 No, madame. We're too poor. 15 00:01:41,184 --> 00:01:43,345 Is church your only entertainment? 16 00:01:43,437 --> 00:01:45,393 That, and nature. 17 00:01:53,614 --> 00:01:54,694 Is this it? 18 00:01:54,781 --> 00:01:56,487 Yes, madame. 19 00:01:56,575 --> 00:02:00,159 Pull your skirts up high or they'll get mucky. 20 00:02:01,913 --> 00:02:03,699 I'll guard the door. 21 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:07,665 Move over, pissant! 22 00:02:07,753 --> 00:02:11,541 - No! I paid my penny! - I'll tell the priest! 23 00:02:15,802 --> 00:02:17,963 What a good little girl! 24 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,426 Don't we get to see their titties? 25 00:02:24,728 --> 00:02:27,686 Gorgibus! Push it the other way! 26 00:02:28,398 --> 00:02:30,480 We'll never be ready in time! 27 00:02:31,276 --> 00:02:32,276 What do you want? 28 00:02:32,361 --> 00:02:33,942 Food, moliere! 29 00:02:34,029 --> 00:02:36,111 I could eat an ox, couldn't you? 30 00:02:36,198 --> 00:02:38,029 We have to get the stage up. 31 00:02:38,116 --> 00:02:39,356 Are you never hungry? 32 00:02:39,451 --> 00:02:40,611 God help me! 33 00:02:43,288 --> 00:02:45,324 You should try some. 34 00:02:45,415 --> 00:02:47,701 What are we doing in this rathole? 35 00:02:47,793 --> 00:02:49,249 Don't blame me. 36 00:02:49,336 --> 00:02:51,122 What do you mean? 37 00:02:52,756 --> 00:02:55,998 It's what comes from your love of playing tragedy. 38 00:02:56,385 --> 00:02:59,297 Is staging old corneille's work a sin? 39 00:02:59,388 --> 00:03:01,344 Speaking of corneille... 40 00:03:02,891 --> 00:03:05,348 Was I really that bad? 41 00:03:05,435 --> 00:03:07,471 Not bad, but wide of the Mark. 42 00:03:07,562 --> 00:03:10,019 The apples that hit me were not! 43 00:03:10,107 --> 00:03:12,940 - You overact. - And you don't? 44 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:14,766 No more than you. 45 00:03:15,779 --> 00:03:18,896 We'll give these folk something less subtle. 46 00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:20,446 “The jealous lout”? 47 00:03:20,534 --> 00:03:23,492 I could do a speech from “le cid” or “nicomeéde”. 48 00:03:23,578 --> 00:03:25,159 - No! - Why not? 49 00:03:28,583 --> 00:03:35,079 All the gold on earth would not suffice to buy this secret beyond price! 50 00:06:06,283 --> 00:06:08,569 I'll ask her to come to Paris. 51 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:09,820 I saw her first! 52 00:06:15,292 --> 00:06:16,577 Go ahead. 53 00:06:17,085 --> 00:06:18,746 Quiet! 54 00:06:19,629 --> 00:06:20,994 Wait your turn! 55 00:06:21,089 --> 00:06:23,171 Make way, old man. You mean me? 56 00:06:23,258 --> 00:06:25,965 Let me salute the graceful artist. 57 00:06:26,052 --> 00:06:28,634 I am her father, giacomo da gorla. 58 00:06:28,722 --> 00:06:30,713 Who is with her? A cousin? 59 00:06:30,807 --> 00:06:32,672 What are you suggesting? 60 00:06:32,767 --> 00:06:35,179 That you should stand aside, giacomo! 61 00:06:35,270 --> 00:06:36,851 I advise you to listen. 62 00:06:36,938 --> 00:06:38,929 - Mind your business! - Mind this! 63 00:06:41,443 --> 00:06:45,402 Peace, gentlemen. I suggest something else - the theater! 64 00:06:45,488 --> 00:06:47,979 The illustrious theater! Come. 65 00:06:53,371 --> 00:06:55,202 You dance divinely. 66 00:06:55,290 --> 00:06:58,748 Pray wait your turn and settle up with my father. 67 00:06:59,794 --> 00:07:01,955 I settled him already. 68 00:07:03,214 --> 00:07:05,205 He fell at my feet. 69 00:07:06,843 --> 00:07:08,799 Will you come to Paris? 70 00:07:09,220 --> 00:07:11,711 Hush! You're distracting me. 71 00:07:11,806 --> 00:07:13,797 I'm stiff with admiration. 72 00:07:13,892 --> 00:07:16,725 Please control your tongue, monsieur! 73 00:07:17,270 --> 00:07:20,433 I'm only saying you should act. 74 00:07:21,107 --> 00:07:22,688 What do you think I'm doing? 75 00:07:22,776 --> 00:07:24,266 You're dancing. 76 00:07:24,361 --> 00:07:27,478 Quiet! I'm losing my faculties! 77 00:07:27,572 --> 00:07:28,857 So tell me, 78 00:07:28,949 --> 00:07:31,861 what “acting” would I do with you? 79 00:07:37,624 --> 00:07:40,115 Damn short for the price, I say! 80 00:07:40,210 --> 00:07:43,623 Are you the man they call “moliere™? 81 00:07:43,713 --> 00:07:44,748 Sadly, no. 82 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:48,923 I'm only rené du parc, alias gros-rené, his leading comic actor. 83 00:07:50,762 --> 00:07:52,753 Did mother tell you acting's my dream? 84 00:07:53,431 --> 00:07:57,970 I saw it in your eyes. Your mother wrote your destiny in them. 85 00:07:58,061 --> 00:08:01,519 Are you a mind reader to know my heart so well? 86 00:08:01,606 --> 00:08:03,062 I want to marry you! 87 00:08:07,696 --> 00:08:09,652 You don't mince words! 88 00:08:09,739 --> 00:08:12,481 The truest words come straight from the heart. 89 00:08:15,996 --> 00:08:17,486 What can I say? 90 00:08:17,580 --> 00:08:18,660 Say yes. 91 00:08:19,165 --> 00:08:21,406 Join the lllustrious theater, 92 00:08:26,214 --> 00:08:29,297 consent! Moliere's waiting and I'm hungry. 93 00:08:30,385 --> 00:08:33,422 Is this an act or is your love Sincere? 94 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:35,299 Do I look as if I'm lying? 95 00:08:51,865 --> 00:08:54,151 Meet marquise, my fiancee! 96 00:08:54,242 --> 00:08:57,200 - Where's moliere? - Gone to get the priest. 97 00:08:57,287 --> 00:08:59,824 Marquise is joining us. She's an actress. 98 00:09:00,665 --> 00:09:03,407 Meet armande, Madeleine, Genevieve... 99 00:09:03,501 --> 00:09:05,116 That's him! The fat one! 100 00:09:05,211 --> 00:09:08,669 The vile seducer! Destroyer of families! 101 00:09:09,382 --> 00:09:11,043 Butcher of honest men! 102 00:09:11,134 --> 00:09:13,295 Marry them at once, father, 103 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:17,800 or he'll refuse to perform in “the jealous lout”! 104 00:09:17,891 --> 00:09:19,631 Give me back my daughter! 105 00:09:22,187 --> 00:09:23,427 Give him his bride! 106 00:09:23,521 --> 00:09:25,682 Are you trying to quarter me? 107 00:09:25,774 --> 00:09:26,889 Hands off! 108 00:09:30,028 --> 00:09:32,360 Father! Let's go to it! 109 00:09:33,698 --> 00:09:35,359 Wait! 110 00:09:35,450 --> 00:09:37,941 You need the father's consent! 111 00:09:38,036 --> 00:09:39,367 He's right! 112 00:09:39,954 --> 00:09:41,785 What says the girl? 113 00:09:43,166 --> 00:09:47,705 I'll marry him if I can give up dancing, vertically and horizontally. 114 00:09:48,671 --> 00:09:51,253 On with the wedding! 115 00:09:51,341 --> 00:09:53,002 She's my daughter! 116 00:09:54,344 --> 00:09:56,756 I detest cold food. It gives me gas. 117 00:09:57,388 --> 00:09:58,548 Whoa, father! 118 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,177 Giving up a daughter is a big decision. 119 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:05,681 I'm going to do it right, though it makes you fart all night. 120 00:10:05,772 --> 00:10:08,605 Is it the “giving” that irks you? 121 00:10:08,691 --> 00:10:13,185 No more than you, monsieur. When you “give” a performance, 122 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:15,440 don't you count the profit? 123 00:10:15,532 --> 00:10:18,319 I offer her my heart, a career in Paris! 124 00:10:19,035 --> 00:10:21,117 For 100 pounds in gold... 125 00:10:23,456 --> 00:10:25,321 Her parents could be consoled. 126 00:10:25,416 --> 00:10:27,031 What ails the player? 127 00:10:27,127 --> 00:10:29,493 "Tis more than his life's wages! 128 00:10:29,587 --> 00:10:32,545 "Tis god's will! My daughter is priceless. 129 00:10:33,091 --> 00:10:34,456 - Twenty! - Prithee? 130 00:10:34,551 --> 00:10:35,882 Twenty-five! 131 00:10:35,969 --> 00:10:39,177 - Sixty! - Sixty, so be it! 132 00:10:39,264 --> 00:10:40,379 Twenty-seven! 133 00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:42,429 - Speak up! - Twenty-eight! 134 00:10:44,144 --> 00:10:45,805 Thirty! Aye, thirty! 135 00:10:45,895 --> 00:10:48,477 Not a penny less, for that odd fellow 136 00:10:48,565 --> 00:10:51,932 is my friend, my brother and my son. 137 00:10:52,026 --> 00:10:53,061 Thank you. 138 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,693 Accept! Or before the priest has done digesting 139 00:10:58,783 --> 00:11:02,526 he'll bury you and marry me at the same time! 140 00:11:02,620 --> 00:11:03,905 Thirty! 141 00:11:05,331 --> 00:11:07,037 Father, please. 142 00:11:07,125 --> 00:11:08,661 Marry them, quick! 143 00:11:09,878 --> 00:11:13,416 René du parc, do you take marquise thérése gorla 144 00:11:13,506 --> 00:11:16,669 to be your wedded wife for better or for worse, 145 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:19,796 till death do you part? 146 00:11:19,888 --> 00:11:20,718 I do. 147 00:11:20,805 --> 00:11:22,670 Marquise therese gorla, 148 00:11:22,765 --> 00:11:25,973 do you take this man to be your husband? 149 00:11:26,060 --> 00:11:26,924 I do. 150 00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:29,261 What do you give her? 151 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:30,435 My word. 152 00:11:30,523 --> 00:11:32,764 Very well. Amen. 153 00:11:44,829 --> 00:11:46,694 Acting with moliere! 154 00:11:46,789 --> 00:11:48,825 Any mother would be proud. 155 00:11:48,917 --> 00:11:50,157 Thank you, mother! 156 00:11:50,251 --> 00:11:52,788 Begone, father! 157 00:11:57,884 --> 00:12:01,752 And now, we give you “the jealous lout”! 158 00:12:15,193 --> 00:12:16,683 “Gadzooks, my dear! 159 00:12:16,778 --> 00:12:19,235 What a tun of flesh your father is! 160 00:12:19,322 --> 00:12:22,906 How dense his wit, how dark his soul!” 161 00:12:22,992 --> 00:12:27,201 “I blush for him. I can barely believe that I am his daughter! 162 00:12:27,288 --> 00:12:30,746 One day fate will reveal that I'm of nobler birth.” 163 00:12:30,833 --> 00:12:32,448 “I believe it. 164 00:12:32,543 --> 00:12:36,582 You have that look about you. I fancy I do, too.” 165 00:12:36,673 --> 00:12:40,211 Let's start again. “Gadzooks, my dear! What a tun of flesh...” 166 00:12:42,637 --> 00:12:44,844 Tales of love! 167 00:12:45,848 --> 00:12:48,089 Of jealousy! 168 00:12:48,184 --> 00:12:50,971 You will see the great turk! 169 00:13:01,614 --> 00:13:05,106 I'll sell my wife fo the turk for the agreed sum. 170 00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:07,487 Selling too cheap is a sin 171 00:13:07,578 --> 00:13:11,787 for one so skilled as you at turning pence into pounds! 172 00:13:11,874 --> 00:13:17,494 Lucille will be mine, and cuckold's horns will adorn her little man's head! 173 00:13:17,588 --> 00:13:18,588 Good-bye, babooshi. 174 00:13:18,673 --> 00:13:21,289 Good-bye, my lord gabba-dabba... 175 00:13:26,389 --> 00:13:27,549 Zounds! 176 00:13:28,141 --> 00:13:30,883 That scoundrel will get his just deserts! 177 00:13:31,644 --> 00:13:35,057 I'll sell that ugly old wench he calls his wife! 178 00:13:35,148 --> 00:13:36,934 Unless! Unless... 179 00:13:37,025 --> 00:13:41,860 I sell the rogue himself for ogling my lovely Lucille! 180 00:13:41,946 --> 00:13:46,861 He wants to “horn” me but I'll “horn” him first! 181 00:13:51,372 --> 00:13:53,579 Here's his housemaid. 182 00:13:53,666 --> 00:13:55,327 Well? 183 00:13:57,420 --> 00:13:59,376 Speak! 184 00:14:01,632 --> 00:14:02,917 Go on... 185 00:14:03,634 --> 00:14:04,999 Speak! 186 00:14:05,094 --> 00:14:10,054 Did your mistress not send a message for me? 187 00:14:12,185 --> 00:14:14,426 Do I have to guess it? 188 00:14:16,439 --> 00:14:19,476 Must I tear it from your throat? 189 00:14:19,567 --> 00:14:22,400 Lucille has nothing to tell me. 190 00:14:22,487 --> 00:14:28,483 My lords, she has nothing to say! She has nothing to say! 191 00:14:28,576 --> 00:14:31,534 Perhaps I should dance it instead! 192 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,037 Speak up! We can't hear a thing! 193 00:14:42,131 --> 00:14:43,996 She's... 194 00:14:46,344 --> 00:14:47,424 I don't know! 195 00:14:47,512 --> 00:14:49,969 Armande! Quick! 196 00:14:51,265 --> 00:14:54,507 There you are! I was wondering where you'd gone. 197 00:14:55,269 --> 00:14:58,227 My master has two maids, one deaf and one dumb. 198 00:14:58,314 --> 00:15:02,307 He sends one or the other to his mistresses' husbands. 199 00:15:02,402 --> 00:15:04,233 One or the other? 200 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,355 Aye! 201 00:15:05,446 --> 00:15:07,437 If a cuckold wants to protest, 202 00:15:07,532 --> 00:15:09,944 he sends him the deaf one. 203 00:15:10,034 --> 00:15:13,822 But if he wants to tell a husband that he's cuckolding him, 204 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:16,780 he sends this one - the mute! 205 00:15:21,045 --> 00:15:26,961 For, as he says, nobody likes to be told of his own misfortune. 206 00:16:39,248 --> 00:16:41,330 Hurry, hurry, my sugars! 207 00:16:49,091 --> 00:16:54,006 Dear brother, consider the facts. Your plight is due to your acts. 208 00:16:54,096 --> 00:16:58,840 Though your woes be ever so great, none will take pity on your state. 209 00:16:58,935 --> 00:17:01,677 This affair is much to my liking. 210 00:17:01,771 --> 00:17:03,511 Its moral is very striking! 211 00:17:03,606 --> 00:17:07,269 A born cuckold, if ever there was one! 212 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:09,726 By hellish ruse I am undone 213 00:17:09,820 --> 00:17:14,405 yet even Satan himself, methinks, is no more fiendish 214 00:17:14,492 --> 00:17:16,073 than this minx! 215 00:17:24,335 --> 00:17:26,917 The best of them are full of deceit... 216 00:17:28,047 --> 00:17:31,039 The doom of every man they meet. 217 00:17:31,133 --> 00:17:34,375 I abjure their sex henceforth. 218 00:17:34,470 --> 00:17:36,256 Let Satan take them 219 00:17:36,347 --> 00:17:38,508 for what they're worth! 220 00:17:40,518 --> 00:17:44,181 Come to my house. You too, good sire. 221 00:17:44,272 --> 00:17:46,558 Tomorrow we'll try to calm his ire. 222 00:17:46,649 --> 00:17:50,858 If you have a werewolf spouse, send him for lessons at our house! 223 00:18:14,594 --> 00:18:16,676 Marquise, marquise! Listen! 224 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:19,128 Keep them awake until we're ready. 225 00:18:19,223 --> 00:18:20,759 Take that off! 226 00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:24,800 Remember, versailles awaits us. 227 00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:31,640 A chocolate, my dear? 228 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:36,024 - They're killingly divine. - No, thank you. 229 00:20:04,995 --> 00:20:07,111 - What"s she doing? - Upstaging us! 230 00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:09,288 The sweet is upstaging the meat! 231 00:20:30,438 --> 00:20:32,724 Does anyone know that beauty's name? 232 00:20:32,815 --> 00:20:35,978 Have you suddenly acquired a taste for women? 233 00:20:36,068 --> 00:20:38,855 Fear not, my dear. I'm merely curious. 234 00:20:39,739 --> 00:20:41,855 Do you know her, racine? 235 00:20:41,949 --> 00:20:44,656 No, milady, but I expect lully does. 236 00:20:44,744 --> 00:20:47,952 - Marquise du parc. - Moliére's mistress? 237 00:20:48,038 --> 00:20:49,403 Presumably. 238 00:20:49,999 --> 00:20:51,535 And corneille's? 239 00:20:51,625 --> 00:20:53,490 He wrote her a sonnet. 240 00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:56,202 At his age, it's all he can do for her. 241 00:20:57,423 --> 00:20:59,254 She is gros-rené's wife. 242 00:20:59,341 --> 00:21:01,423 This angel, wedded to that tub? 243 00:21:01,510 --> 00:21:06,220 They say the fellow is descended from Hannibal's elephant. 244 00:21:06,974 --> 00:21:08,555 Is he from carthage? 245 00:21:08,642 --> 00:21:10,724 I said the elephant, 246 00:21:10,811 --> 00:21:12,597 not Hannibal. 247 00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:16,101 If that is a joke, lully, try putting it to music. 248 00:21:16,192 --> 00:21:19,776 Musician though I am, permit me to spell it out. 249 00:21:19,862 --> 00:21:24,902 The elephant and husband both have big bodies and long appendages! 250 00:21:25,493 --> 00:21:29,577 I don't care for your Italian sauce, monsieur lully. 251 00:21:29,663 --> 00:21:31,278 Neither does monsieur racine. 252 00:21:31,373 --> 00:21:35,332 Shall we go to prince de Conti's dinner party? 253 00:21:35,419 --> 00:21:37,080 I dared not suggest it. 254 00:22:28,889 --> 00:22:30,971 You're ripe enough to eat. 255 00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:32,969 You're tickling me, monsieur lully! 256 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:35,851 I'm fingering your luscious fruit. 257 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,400 Milord? 258 00:22:49,785 --> 00:22:52,618 - Did you enjoy the play? - Very much. 259 00:22:52,705 --> 00:22:55,037 How I laughed! So did milady. 260 00:22:55,791 --> 00:22:57,827 By gad, I liked you! 261 00:22:58,252 --> 00:23:04,088 All my friends will tell you how rarely I succumb to the charms of your gender. 262 00:23:04,842 --> 00:23:07,754 May I introduce the other players? 263 00:23:07,845 --> 00:23:12,134 No need. I know them already. Ancient history. 264 00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:15,511 I have an idea. 265 00:23:15,603 --> 00:23:17,013 Monsieur lully? 266 00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:27,649 For the king's birthday, 267 00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:32,279 I wish you to compose a play with dances and pleasing words, 268 00:23:32,369 --> 00:23:36,203 in which his majesty may admire the youthful grace 269 00:23:36,290 --> 00:23:38,121 of mademoiselle du parc. 270 00:23:42,212 --> 00:23:44,123 I'll get down to it at once. 271 00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:52,011 We all know how my brother loves to dance! 272 00:23:53,182 --> 00:23:55,764 When is his majesty's birthday? 273 00:23:55,851 --> 00:23:57,432 One week hence. Why? 274 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:06,313 “Lord, which dark star shone at my birth... 275 00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:11,568 That bores harass me for all they are worth?” 276 00:24:16,246 --> 00:24:19,955 “That bores harass me... 277 00:24:20,793 --> 00:24:22,954 For all they are worth. 278 00:24:25,714 --> 00:24:27,454 A new one is born each day...” 279 00:24:27,549 --> 00:24:29,130 Go to the devil! 280 00:24:29,969 --> 00:24:32,927 “But no bores compare... 281 00:24:33,472 --> 00:24:37,761 With those of today.” is “bores” a word? 282 00:24:39,436 --> 00:24:41,142 Of course! Everybody says it. 283 00:24:42,147 --> 00:24:43,307 I'll come back. 284 00:24:43,399 --> 00:24:46,311 Come in, now you're here. What do you want? 285 00:24:46,402 --> 00:24:47,938 I'm so unhappy. 286 00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:51,361 - Is rené a bad husband? - No, far from it. 287 00:24:51,448 --> 00:24:54,315 - Are you unhappy in Paris? - Far from it. 288 00:24:54,410 --> 00:24:56,321 You're pregnant, then. 289 00:24:56,412 --> 00:24:58,744 Far from it. I bleed each month. 290 00:24:58,831 --> 00:25:02,995 “Far from it.” is that all you can say? 291 00:25:03,085 --> 00:25:04,120 Far from it. 292 00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:06,326 I want to be an actress. 293 00:25:08,424 --> 00:25:10,881 Play dumb again, you mean? 294 00:25:11,844 --> 00:25:14,711 I didn't give up everything just to go on dancing. 295 00:25:17,224 --> 00:25:20,557 But here you'll dance to please the king! 296 00:25:21,437 --> 00:25:23,849 - I don't care. - The chance of a lifetime! 297 00:25:24,648 --> 00:25:26,980 I want to learn to act. 298 00:25:27,067 --> 00:25:30,230 Then go and act with gros-Rene. 299 00:25:30,696 --> 00:25:33,483 He'll train you. Go! I have work to do. 300 00:25:39,038 --> 00:25:44,123 Madeleine, Catherine, all the girls, even the cook, say how much they owe you. 301 00:25:45,252 --> 00:25:46,332 Really? 302 00:25:49,298 --> 00:25:50,298 They said that? 303 00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:53,923 That you perform so well... “What else? 304 00:25:54,011 --> 00:25:57,629 First, the audience must be comfortably seated. 305 00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:05,014 Then the lights must go down... 306 00:26:05,105 --> 00:26:07,221 And then, finally... 307 00:26:09,902 --> 00:26:11,358 The curtain rises... 308 00:26:13,489 --> 00:26:14,899 And we enter... 309 00:26:15,783 --> 00:26:18,195 The crux of the matter. 310 00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:35,878 The seashell opens... 311 00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:40,095 To see, in this fair place, 312 00:26:40,182 --> 00:26:43,049 the greatest king of the globe... 313 00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:50,015 Mortals, I have come to you from my forest abode. 314 00:26:50,109 --> 00:26:51,599 Music, maestro! 315 00:26:52,736 --> 00:26:55,978 Meanwhile the naiads, satyr, centaur... 316 00:26:56,073 --> 00:26:59,065 Armande! Come on, please! 317 00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:01,108 There. Good. 318 00:27:01,203 --> 00:27:02,989 Madeleine, go upstage! 319 00:27:04,164 --> 00:27:05,529 Bores, begone! 320 00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:10,368 Or if you must stay, let it be only to brighten his day. 321 00:27:14,967 --> 00:27:16,673 This is no time to dawdle! 322 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,751 Eraste! Enter! 323 00:27:18,846 --> 00:27:23,135 What dark star shone at my birth, that bores harass me... 324 00:27:23,225 --> 00:27:24,886 We're not there yet. 325 00:27:25,310 --> 00:27:26,846 Get changed! 326 00:27:26,937 --> 00:27:30,179 Marie! Her costume! 327 00:27:30,607 --> 00:27:32,563 Keep it going! 328 00:27:32,651 --> 00:27:33,982 Where's my part? 329 00:27:40,951 --> 00:27:42,441 You're the forest queen. 330 00:27:44,204 --> 00:27:45,694 Don't I say anything? 331 00:27:49,126 --> 00:27:50,662 You dance. 332 00:27:51,128 --> 00:27:52,834 You said I would act. 333 00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:56,254 - Don't blame me. - What do you mean? 334 00:27:58,051 --> 00:28:01,043 Last night I was trying to work on your speech. 335 00:28:01,138 --> 00:28:04,096 You kept me from writing all night long. 336 00:28:04,558 --> 00:28:06,344 Braggart! 337 00:28:07,477 --> 00:28:12,187 You fell asleep before the action had barely begun. 338 00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:15,057 I've no time to prattle. Get changed. 339 00:28:15,944 --> 00:28:17,605 Only fishwives prattle! 340 00:28:18,822 --> 00:28:22,440 Lully will rehearse with you. I'm busy with the prologue. 341 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:24,490 From the beginning! 342 00:28:28,582 --> 00:28:30,493 I will not dance. 343 00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:40,548 Women! 344 00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:03,230 Pretty! 345 00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:10,237 Alas, I fear I drew a blank. 346 00:29:46,034 --> 00:29:47,490 Allow me. 347 00:29:50,664 --> 00:29:51,699 To do what? 348 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:56,625 Offer you my hand and knee to help you jump off the wall. 349 00:29:57,462 --> 00:29:59,498 Isn't that what you want? 350 00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:01,959 Take courage! 351 00:30:02,718 --> 00:30:06,711 Go on, jump! The pond is deep, and you will drown, I swear. 352 00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:22,810 What do you want with me? 353 00:30:22,904 --> 00:30:25,020 I saw you dance the other night. 354 00:30:26,074 --> 00:30:27,860 Exactly. 355 00:30:28,243 --> 00:30:29,949 I am like you. 356 00:30:30,037 --> 00:30:31,447 You're a dancer? 357 00:30:33,373 --> 00:30:35,238 Like you, I need my talent... 358 00:30:36,877 --> 00:30:40,335 For I have no title, no family, no income. 359 00:30:41,381 --> 00:30:43,747 I am all that I have. 360 00:30:45,302 --> 00:30:48,419 It's no use complaining that life is unfair. 361 00:30:48,513 --> 00:30:51,380 God created the poor and the rich, 362 00:30:51,475 --> 00:30:55,138 nobles and serfs, kings and slaves. 363 00:30:55,228 --> 00:30:56,968 Then I have no hope. 364 00:30:57,064 --> 00:30:58,679 You have! 365 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,439 Just learn to smile and be what people want you to be. 366 00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:11,195 Look at me. I have no choice. 367 00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:14,153 I dance in the hands of the mighty 368 00:31:14,247 --> 00:31:19,492 as you will dance for the king tonight and bask in his radiance. 369 00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:22,994 Who are you, monsieur? 370 00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:42,646 Why worry about a mere extra? 371 00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:44,270 They'll quarter me! 372 00:31:44,361 --> 00:31:46,022 I warned you. 373 00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:49,775 I've got it! Look! 374 00:31:49,866 --> 00:31:51,697 - I have the step! - No you don't. 375 00:31:55,122 --> 00:31:56,658 If she dances, I won't play! 376 00:31:56,748 --> 00:31:57,783 Not you too! 377 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,878 I've searched the gardens. I can't find her. 378 00:32:04,965 --> 00:32:06,876 Couldn't you Grant her wish? 379 00:32:06,967 --> 00:32:09,299 She angered me. 380 00:32:10,971 --> 00:32:14,134 You promised her. Vows made in bed should be kept. 381 00:32:16,518 --> 00:32:18,554 You're telling me? 382 00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:23,685 Sleep with marquise, but don't hurt her, or you'll have me to reckon with. 383 00:32:24,734 --> 00:32:27,146 You dare to threaten me? 384 00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:37,406 You'll have us clapped in irons! 385 00:32:38,707 --> 00:32:42,996 I have only one thing to say. I will act or die. 386 00:32:44,171 --> 00:32:48,005 I solemnly swear that you will act but just for today, dance! 387 00:32:48,091 --> 00:32:50,082 Look out! The king! 388 00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:51,795 I am doomed! 389 00:32:54,181 --> 00:32:55,341 Marie! My costume! 390 00:32:56,975 --> 00:32:59,307 Go, go! 391 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:25,708 It will be all right. 392 00:33:28,131 --> 00:33:30,463 Moliere! I'm waiting. 393 00:33:33,345 --> 00:33:34,835 Music, maestro! 394 00:33:46,316 --> 00:33:48,557 We're on! Let's go! 395 00:33:51,196 --> 00:33:52,857 You're fine like that. 396 00:35:09,524 --> 00:35:11,139 We're saved. 397 00:35:12,611 --> 00:35:14,147 I'm afraid not, monsieur. 398 00:35:14,237 --> 00:35:15,773 Don't bother me! 399 00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:17,855 You were in such haste... 400 00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:21,695 I didn't have time to put these on her. 401 00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:27,406 She's to do a cartwheel before the king! 402 00:35:43,266 --> 00:35:45,348 May as well go hang yourself. 403 00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:37,062 Your majesty? 404 00:36:37,153 --> 00:36:39,235 Come here, moliere. 405 00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:42,898 You have pleased us beyond measure. 406 00:36:45,412 --> 00:36:47,403 Where fools and prigs 407 00:36:47,497 --> 00:36:51,410 see only fantasy and make-believe, 408 00:36:51,501 --> 00:36:54,868 you have shown us that the theater 409 00:36:54,963 --> 00:36:57,875 is the fountainhead of life itself. 410 00:37:16,776 --> 00:37:18,641 Law is the art of good justice. 411 00:37:18,737 --> 00:37:20,227 I see good, but I do evil. 412 00:38:07,285 --> 00:38:09,321 Where is mansart? 413 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:15,707 Must I wait a century before versailles is finished? 414 00:38:16,711 --> 00:38:18,372 The frost, your majesty. 415 00:38:19,547 --> 00:38:22,084 It ruined all the plaster. 416 00:38:22,175 --> 00:38:24,291 Why wasn't it done last summer? 417 00:38:24,385 --> 00:38:26,592 - We were not ready. - I am! 418 00:38:28,348 --> 00:38:30,509 Don't try my Patience. 419 00:38:35,396 --> 00:38:37,011 Moliére! Come forward. 420 00:38:39,442 --> 00:38:40,477 Your majesty? 421 00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:45,611 You must give up “tartuffe”, this new play you're writing. 422 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,784 I am informed it would offend the church. 423 00:38:51,246 --> 00:38:52,531 But your majesty! 424 00:38:52,622 --> 00:38:56,535 When we read it to you, didn't you laugh at the pious hypocrites I mock? 425 00:38:58,962 --> 00:39:03,331 True, but now the sun has gone in. You must abandon it. 426 00:39:08,847 --> 00:39:12,681 My duty is to the state. It must not be upset by that play. 427 00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:18,057 Think up something new that will please both the clergy and my court. 428 00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:22,311 Something new, your majesty? But how? 429 00:39:22,402 --> 00:39:26,816 Plays do not write themselves, and we open in two days. 430 00:39:26,906 --> 00:39:28,988 Two days is short, I Grant. 431 00:39:29,075 --> 00:39:31,657 God himself took six to make the world! 432 00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:39,198 Your majesty, 433 00:39:39,294 --> 00:39:41,831 we could set “tartuffe” in england. 434 00:39:41,921 --> 00:39:44,333 And start a war against me? 435 00:39:44,966 --> 00:39:46,877 Or in the colonies? 436 00:39:47,343 --> 00:39:51,302 No, no. No niggers and savages here! 437 00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:55,428 We could alter it to mock the protestants, couldn't we, father? 438 00:39:55,935 --> 00:39:57,175 We'll see. 439 00:39:59,355 --> 00:40:02,222 Milady speaks highly of monsieur racine. 440 00:40:02,317 --> 00:40:05,150 You'll oblige me by staging his new play. 441 00:40:05,695 --> 00:40:07,606 “The thebans', I believe. 442 00:40:08,823 --> 00:40:10,279 Is it a comedy? 443 00:40:11,492 --> 00:40:15,076 I don't know. You'll see. I'll leave all that to you. 444 00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:28,423 Good grief! Would the king have us take the veil? 445 00:40:34,891 --> 00:40:38,008 If he wants. A hanged man doesn't choose his rope. 446 00:40:40,063 --> 00:40:42,224 Having to act a play by a novice! 447 00:40:51,741 --> 00:40:52,947 Friends! 448 00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:57,902 This is monsieur racine, author of “the thebans”... 449 00:40:57,997 --> 00:40:58,997 Mind your head. 450 00:40:59,082 --> 00:41:02,290 Which the king has kindly asked me to stage. 451 00:41:07,006 --> 00:41:08,416 A tragedy? 452 00:41:10,343 --> 00:41:12,208 Is that a question or a rebuke? 453 00:41:13,221 --> 00:41:15,257 Just wondering. 454 00:41:16,182 --> 00:41:18,093 It's a tragedy. 455 00:41:18,559 --> 00:41:21,551 Then it's a rebuke, but not to you. 456 00:41:23,606 --> 00:41:24,812 A rebuke to whom? 457 00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:26,389 Moliere. 458 00:41:26,943 --> 00:41:30,481 By trying to help you he's not helping you or us. 459 00:41:30,571 --> 00:41:34,109 He'll have us back playing muddy villages again. 460 00:41:35,618 --> 00:41:39,952 You know that none of us here are capable of playing tragedy. 461 00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:42,246 It's a good play, Rene. 462 00:41:44,085 --> 00:41:45,950 Our business is laughter. 463 00:41:46,045 --> 00:41:50,584 I'm afraid this tragedy will become a farce in our clumsy hands 464 00:41:50,675 --> 00:41:53,633 and a windfall for baked-apple vendors. 465 00:41:58,391 --> 00:42:01,349 Is there a part for me in your play? 466 00:42:03,146 --> 00:42:05,808 I would delight to hear you speak my words. 467 00:42:08,651 --> 00:42:10,858 Are you not forewarned against me? 468 00:42:10,945 --> 00:42:13,152 On what grounds? 469 00:42:14,782 --> 00:42:17,148 I've never played a tragic role. 470 00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:23,909 Pardon my presumption, but... 471 00:42:24,792 --> 00:42:26,328 I believe you have. 472 00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:29,164 Ladies, gentlemen. 473 00:42:46,147 --> 00:42:50,390 Charles, you'll be polynice. Not my ideal brother, but still... 474 00:42:50,485 --> 00:42:52,225 Gorgibus, 475 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,437 you'll play eteocle, the old king of thebes. 476 00:42:55,531 --> 00:42:58,898 Given his age, I don't see who else can do it. 477 00:42:58,993 --> 00:43:01,075 Now... brécourt 478 00:43:01,162 --> 00:43:04,529 will be hemon, son of creon and antigone's lover. 479 00:43:10,129 --> 00:43:12,085 As for the ladies... 480 00:43:15,009 --> 00:43:17,125 Madeleine will play jocaste, 481 00:43:17,929 --> 00:43:20,841 Genevieve plays olympe, jocaste's confidante 482 00:43:20,932 --> 00:43:22,888 and Catherine is antigone. 483 00:43:22,975 --> 00:43:24,260 All right? 484 00:43:25,561 --> 00:43:29,429 Ridiculous! Antigone's role is much subtler than jocaste's. 485 00:43:29,524 --> 00:43:31,560 I've always played the hardest parts. 486 00:43:32,693 --> 00:43:36,982 Madeleine, even in olden days mothers were born before their daughters. 487 00:43:37,824 --> 00:43:40,281 We'll have marquise as antigone next! 488 00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:43,275 And why not? 489 00:43:43,371 --> 00:43:46,238 I've read the play. Antigone is for me. 490 00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:49,957 I'm the right age. I have the looks. 491 00:43:51,170 --> 00:43:53,582 Madeleine could easily be my mother. 492 00:43:53,673 --> 00:43:56,915 You'd make a good servant without even acting 493 00:43:57,009 --> 00:43:59,170 and Genevieve can be the maid. 494 00:43:59,262 --> 00:44:02,004 I'll play your lover but not your partner! 495 00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:04,680 Don't worry, brecourt. You'll never be either. 496 00:44:05,518 --> 00:44:08,476 To be my lover, you'd have to bend it double for thickness 497 00:44:08,563 --> 00:44:12,727 and as for partners, I'd rather act with that wooden chair. 498 00:44:14,610 --> 00:44:16,350 Then I give up! 499 00:44:16,445 --> 00:44:18,936 Let rené try his luck. She's his wife. 500 00:44:22,785 --> 00:44:25,117 You want me to play the mother? 501 00:44:25,204 --> 00:44:26,614 Why not? 502 00:44:26,706 --> 00:44:27,866 And me the servant? 503 00:44:27,957 --> 00:44:30,699 And I'm to empty buckets! 504 00:44:31,460 --> 00:44:34,668 Agreed! Now shall we begin? 505 00:44:36,632 --> 00:44:38,588 After I kill you! 506 00:44:53,482 --> 00:44:57,441 Enough, women! Do you keep your brains between your legs? 507 00:44:58,905 --> 00:45:01,692 I am a mother, creon. 508 00:45:02,116 --> 00:45:08,237 His brother has my heart but I love the king in no lesser part. 509 00:45:09,165 --> 00:45:13,499 Craven courtiers may hate him but I, 510 00:45:13,586 --> 00:45:17,750 as a mother, cannot my instincts belie. 511 00:45:18,257 --> 00:45:20,964 Your interests with ours run true. 512 00:45:21,802 --> 00:45:25,010 The king's foes are not all hostile to you. 513 00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:27,422 Creon, you're a father 514 00:45:27,516 --> 00:45:29,552 and of those foes, one... 515 00:45:33,648 --> 00:45:38,733 Creon, you're a father and of those foes, one... 516 00:45:38,819 --> 00:45:39,819 Creon, 517 00:45:40,363 --> 00:45:42,570 you're a father and of those foes, one 518 00:45:42,657 --> 00:45:45,399 perhaps you imagine to be your son. 519 00:45:45,493 --> 00:45:49,452 We all know how valiantly hemon serves polynice. 520 00:45:54,627 --> 00:45:59,542 I know it, madam, and I do him justice. 521 00:45:59,632 --> 00:46:03,341 I Grant that he is no common man 522 00:46:03,427 --> 00:46:07,591 and I hate him uncommonly as none other can. 523 00:46:08,432 --> 00:46:10,047 I wish, in my anger 524 00:46:10,142 --> 00:46:11,882 righteous and true 525 00:46:11,978 --> 00:46:15,596 that as my son hates me, all should hate him too! 526 00:46:21,279 --> 00:46:23,520 The play isn't over yet! 527 00:46:24,865 --> 00:46:26,355 She'll kill you. 528 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:28,065 I was only helping her. 529 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:29,946 Don't act so naive. 530 00:46:34,250 --> 00:46:37,617 Get rid of marquise or I quit! 531 00:46:37,712 --> 00:46:40,545 I'll tear her apart and save us time! 532 00:46:47,305 --> 00:46:49,717 Where's she hiding? 533 00:46:49,807 --> 00:46:52,924 I'll rip her tongue out! 534 00:46:54,854 --> 00:46:58,096 She's hiding! Curse the little trollop! 535 00:46:58,190 --> 00:47:00,772 She's not here. Follow me! 536 00:47:05,156 --> 00:47:09,570 I want to hear your heart flutter as lightly as an eyelash. 537 00:47:10,661 --> 00:47:13,494 It must come, not from here but from here! 538 00:47:14,498 --> 00:47:16,113 Repeat after me: 539 00:47:16,208 --> 00:47:21,328 'Hemon, see how love o'ercomes me. I cannot live except for thee.” 540 00:47:21,422 --> 00:47:22,878 Let go of me first. 541 00:47:22,965 --> 00:47:24,580 - Go on! - I refuse! 542 00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:27,542 Say it! The other day, by the pond, 543 00:47:27,636 --> 00:47:30,799 your heart needed no prompting to speak. 544 00:47:35,561 --> 00:47:37,017 “Hemon, 545 00:47:37,104 --> 00:47:39,686 see how love o'ercomes me. 546 00:47:39,774 --> 00:47:42,140 I cannot live... 547 00:47:43,694 --> 00:47:45,901 Except for thee.” 548 00:47:45,988 --> 00:47:49,196 Don't explain the words. Suffer them! 549 00:47:52,328 --> 00:47:53,534 “Yes... 550 00:47:54,830 --> 00:47:57,697 Love, you hold my fleeing soul. 551 00:47:59,001 --> 00:48:01,743 I hear the voice of my vanquisher. 552 00:48:03,297 --> 00:48:05,959 My heart has lost all hope, 553 00:48:06,759 --> 00:48:11,002 yet you are alive, and bid me also live.” 554 00:48:54,306 --> 00:48:56,137 I am among friends here. 555 00:48:56,225 --> 00:48:58,216 Come. 556 00:49:11,407 --> 00:49:14,365 Monsieur racine almost became a lawyer. 557 00:49:14,452 --> 00:49:16,408 I'd gladly file suit with him! 558 00:49:16,495 --> 00:49:19,407 Mademoiselle de ruy! Restrain yourself. 559 00:49:19,498 --> 00:49:21,955 You are here at my request. 560 00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:24,875 Milord wages a war of courtesies 561 00:49:24,962 --> 00:49:29,296 while I marshal an army of damsels to serve the king. 562 00:49:31,802 --> 00:49:35,465 - Do you take me for la fontaine? - Why? 563 00:49:35,556 --> 00:49:38,298 I feel like a fox in a henhouse. 564 00:49:38,392 --> 00:49:41,179 Beware lest the hens devour you! 565 00:49:45,858 --> 00:49:48,725 I want to see you here often. 566 00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:53,734 In the royal theater, the best scenes are often played in the wings. 567 00:49:54,158 --> 00:49:57,616 How ugly she is with her big mouth and small eyes. 568 00:49:57,703 --> 00:49:59,944 And thick-witted, with such a low brow. 569 00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:02,246 Doesn't she smell of the farmyard? 570 00:50:02,333 --> 00:50:04,870 She stinks of vulgarity, in any case. 571 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,168 Apparently she showed her backside to the king! 572 00:50:08,255 --> 00:50:09,495 How appalling! 573 00:50:12,635 --> 00:50:15,877 Allow me to introduce widow Catherine deshayes, 574 00:50:15,971 --> 00:50:19,839 an expert in powders of dispatch, 575 00:50:19,934 --> 00:50:23,097 lethal brews, needles and other instruments, 576 00:50:23,187 --> 00:50:24,552 devil-worship... 577 00:50:24,647 --> 00:50:25,978 Is that a condemnation? 578 00:50:26,065 --> 00:50:28,602 No, it's my vocation. 579 00:50:28,692 --> 00:50:30,853 - All without risk? - I guarantee it. 580 00:50:30,945 --> 00:50:33,937 The best shield against poison is to have your own poisoner. 581 00:50:36,116 --> 00:50:37,947 Follow me, monsieur. 582 00:50:39,203 --> 00:50:40,943 My name's Elizabeth. 583 00:50:41,038 --> 00:50:43,495 - A game of backgammon? - No thank you. 584 00:50:43,582 --> 00:50:45,447 What will you give us? 585 00:50:45,543 --> 00:50:47,909 A few lines from “andromaque”. 586 00:50:53,717 --> 00:50:55,173 “Do you seek me, madame? 587 00:50:55,261 --> 00:50:57,752 May I Cherish the hope?” 588 00:50:57,846 --> 00:51:00,212 She's mad to show her to the queen! 589 00:51:01,016 --> 00:51:04,975 “Judging by their alarm, the greeks...” 590 00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:06,552 Ladies, the queen! 591 00:51:44,351 --> 00:51:47,388 Mademoiselle du parc, at your service. 592 00:51:48,814 --> 00:51:51,647 So you are the one the king told me about. 593 00:51:58,741 --> 00:52:01,153 Now I understand why 594 00:52:01,243 --> 00:52:05,327 he graced me with his attentions twice last night. 595 00:52:05,914 --> 00:52:09,827 You were upon his mind while he was upon me. 596 00:52:35,235 --> 00:52:36,850 Serves her right. 597 00:52:41,367 --> 00:52:42,607 Your majesty. 598 00:52:51,460 --> 00:52:53,075 Would you have us jailed? 599 00:52:53,170 --> 00:52:55,582 They were sizing me up like a heifer! 600 00:52:56,382 --> 00:52:59,795 Are you going to spend your life waiting for a role? 601 00:52:59,885 --> 00:53:04,049 Are you going to spend yours currying favor with milady? 602 00:53:04,139 --> 00:53:07,427 Milady and her court appreciate good poetry. 603 00:53:07,518 --> 00:53:11,887 Poetry? Is that a Parisian word for leading the bull to the cow? 604 00:53:15,943 --> 00:53:19,026 I have no talent, only charms. Look at me. 605 00:53:19,655 --> 00:53:21,816 Don't be so childish! 606 00:53:22,324 --> 00:53:24,815 Come to my house tomorrow. 607 00:53:25,703 --> 00:53:27,239 Your house? 608 00:53:28,372 --> 00:53:30,033 We'll rehearse. 609 00:53:32,543 --> 00:53:36,252 Don't forget. Your andromaque is a widow but I'm not. 610 00:54:02,030 --> 00:54:04,191 I haven't slept. 611 00:54:04,283 --> 00:54:05,898 Nor have I. 612 00:54:05,993 --> 00:54:07,449 Come in. 613 00:54:13,500 --> 00:54:15,331 Pardon my state of dress. 614 00:54:15,878 --> 00:54:17,288 Come. 615 00:54:22,593 --> 00:54:24,834 Come in, sit down. 616 00:54:27,306 --> 00:54:29,638 Have you finished your play? 617 00:54:29,725 --> 00:54:31,340 Not yet. 618 00:54:33,645 --> 00:54:35,135 I'm not sure it's worth it. 619 00:54:38,650 --> 00:54:42,234 One moment I read my words and they seem like pearls. 620 00:54:42,321 --> 00:54:46,280 The next, I feel that not even swine would swallow them. 621 00:54:47,826 --> 00:54:51,318 I'm no good at words. I had too little schooling 622 00:54:51,413 --> 00:54:54,450 but I trust you and commit myself to you... 623 00:54:55,501 --> 00:54:56,866 By instinct. 624 00:55:09,014 --> 00:55:12,097 “Ah! Stay, my lord. What would you do? 625 00:55:12,184 --> 00:55:15,472 If you yield up the son, yield up the mother too.” 626 00:55:15,562 --> 00:55:18,395 “Phoenix will vouch that I gave my word.” 627 00:55:19,983 --> 00:55:23,396 “What shall I say? What words are my lot? 628 00:55:23,946 --> 00:55:27,154 Source of my woes, prince who knows them not, 629 00:55:27,241 --> 00:55:30,449 sire, see the state to which you reduce me...” 630 00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:35,821 I didn't write that. 631 00:55:35,916 --> 00:55:38,658 You didn't? It sprang to my lips. 632 00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:41,076 You'd rewrite my play? 633 00:55:41,171 --> 00:55:43,787 Her words are mine, her voice is yours. 634 00:55:43,882 --> 00:55:47,545 It's out of the question. I won't allow it. 635 00:55:48,762 --> 00:55:50,969 Moliere could teach you humility. 636 00:55:51,056 --> 00:55:53,092 A pox on moliere! 637 00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:58,595 Gros-rené has often invented lines on stage, which moliére kept 638 00:55:58,689 --> 00:56:02,227 as a precious token of their friendship. 639 00:56:03,777 --> 00:56:06,063 Is that how I should take your lines? 640 00:56:06,154 --> 00:56:10,147 “Sire, what shall I say?” 641 00:56:11,159 --> 00:56:12,945 That you are mine alone. 642 00:56:13,036 --> 00:56:16,199 “Source of my woes, prince who knows them not...” 643 00:56:16,290 --> 00:56:20,659 I know everything. I'd die for you. 644 00:56:22,754 --> 00:56:25,370 “See the state to which you reduce me.” 645 00:56:25,883 --> 00:56:28,420 No, not yet. 646 00:56:28,510 --> 00:56:30,375 Don't refuse. You have no right. 647 00:56:31,889 --> 00:56:35,222 Finish the play and I will be yours. 648 00:56:36,101 --> 00:56:39,138 Don't torture me. I love you. 649 00:56:39,229 --> 00:56:42,562 I love you too. But I wouldn't want our embraces 650 00:56:42,649 --> 00:56:45,732 to leave your page as white as a bedsheet. 651 00:56:59,416 --> 00:57:01,247 What ails you, dearest? 652 00:57:01,335 --> 00:57:04,077 A pain that gnaws at my heart. 653 00:57:04,171 --> 00:57:06,287 Am I the cause? 654 00:57:06,381 --> 00:57:07,587 No, my love. 655 00:57:07,674 --> 00:57:11,587 I don't mind what you do or who with as long as you love me. 656 00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:14,169 Nothing will come between us. 657 00:57:18,310 --> 00:57:20,426 Not even monsieur racine? 658 00:57:23,732 --> 00:57:25,518 Won't you answer? 659 00:57:25,984 --> 00:57:27,849 I'm afraid. 660 00:57:28,403 --> 00:57:29,813 Of him? 661 00:57:29,905 --> 00:57:31,770 I'm afraid of myself. 662 00:57:32,366 --> 00:57:34,152 Do you love him? 663 00:57:35,661 --> 00:57:40,496 “I am no ogre on the prowl ever returning home to growl! 664 00:57:40,582 --> 00:57:44,541 Nor an arrant, brutal fool who seeks his wife to rule!” 665 00:57:46,588 --> 00:57:48,078 I love you, my giant. 666 00:57:48,173 --> 00:57:51,916 No man is half the man you are, in heart, soul or body. 667 00:57:52,010 --> 00:57:54,342 Ah, my wench! 668 00:58:01,353 --> 00:58:03,765 “...as my son hates me...” 669 00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:09,850 Lean back! That's it. 670 00:58:12,155 --> 00:58:15,113 “ All should hate him too!” 671 00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,361 Stop this at once! 672 00:58:20,914 --> 00:58:23,246 Are you drunk to interrupt us thus? 673 00:58:23,333 --> 00:58:26,575 Moliere, I put no dancing in my “thebans”! 674 00:58:26,670 --> 00:58:27,534 Use your buffoon 675 00:58:27,629 --> 00:58:30,917 to weigh down your farces, not my tragedies! 676 00:58:31,008 --> 00:58:34,466 Your “thebans” made barely a pound last week. 677 00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:38,137 You should thank Rene and marquise for doubling the take. 678 00:58:38,223 --> 00:58:41,636 You too, no doubt, for penning a popular version! 679 00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:46,808 Yes, monsieur! When moliére plays, people applaud. 680 00:58:46,898 --> 00:58:49,264 With racine, they yawn and get bored! 681 00:58:49,359 --> 00:58:54,524 More likely you're afraid the king will think me better than you. 682 00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:57,151 Ambition blinds you, young man! 683 00:58:57,242 --> 00:58:59,233 I'm trying to save your tragedy. 684 00:58:59,327 --> 00:59:02,034 Again! 7, 8... 1! 685 00:59:02,122 --> 00:59:06,286 Save it? By debasing my verse and marquise's talent? 686 00:59:06,376 --> 00:59:09,459 Do you judge an actress's talent by her hips 687 00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:12,208 and the way she thrusts them at you? 688 00:59:13,091 --> 00:59:16,424 You don't deserve my play. I take it back. 689 00:59:16,803 --> 00:59:19,294 And I throw it back! 690 00:59:19,389 --> 00:59:21,471 I vomit it back at you! 691 00:59:32,527 --> 00:59:35,143 I've come to lay andromaque in your hands... 692 00:59:36,823 --> 00:59:38,154 And my soul at your feet. 693 00:59:39,743 --> 00:59:42,075 The ink is still wet. 694 00:59:42,162 --> 00:59:44,494 I've waited so long for this! 695 00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:46,663 Floridor is ready to stage it. 696 00:59:49,795 --> 00:59:51,160 Is the part still mine? 697 00:59:52,547 --> 00:59:54,208 Is the baby yours? 698 00:59:54,716 --> 01:00:00,302 No, moliere and armande's. She's thrilled. Duc de créqui is to be godfather! 699 01:00:01,139 --> 01:00:03,425 - Will you be godmother? - Not me. 700 01:00:03,517 --> 01:00:05,473 Princesse d'orléans, no less! 701 01:00:08,605 --> 01:00:11,347 I added some orange water to help him sleep. 702 01:00:18,782 --> 01:00:22,570 Go on, be off! If moliere sees you, he'll kill you. 703 01:00:41,388 --> 01:00:42,503 I am moliere's man. 704 01:00:42,597 --> 01:00:44,258 I won't desert him. 705 01:00:47,144 --> 01:00:51,934 I owe him nothing. To him I'm just a dancer, a mistress. 706 01:00:52,023 --> 01:00:54,480 He only takes. He never gives. 707 01:00:57,821 --> 01:00:59,152 And me? 708 01:00:59,239 --> 01:01:02,652 What would I do in “andromaque”, supposing I broke my word? 709 01:01:03,034 --> 01:01:05,275 - Pyrrhus. - Don't make fun of me. 710 01:01:05,370 --> 01:01:08,612 It's a big part. Whoever wants it can have it. 711 01:01:08,707 --> 01:01:12,450 - Won't you even read it? - I do no big parts, only fat ones. 712 01:01:21,136 --> 01:01:23,377 Rehearsals start tomorrow. 713 01:01:23,471 --> 01:01:25,211 If all goes well, 714 01:01:25,307 --> 01:01:29,346 in three weeks, the king and all of Paris will applaud you. 715 01:01:29,436 --> 01:01:31,518 All France will know your name. 716 01:01:31,605 --> 01:01:33,721 Yours, you mean. 717 01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:35,555 The same thing, as you will be mine. 718 01:01:42,449 --> 01:01:44,656 The candlelight bothers me. 719 01:01:50,373 --> 01:01:51,408 Is that better? 720 01:01:55,086 --> 01:01:57,202 I can't leave moliere. 721 01:01:59,341 --> 01:02:00,251 I'll talk to the king. 722 01:02:00,342 --> 01:02:03,049 It's not moliére. It's gros-rené. 723 01:02:04,137 --> 01:02:05,923 Where does he come into it? 724 01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:09,048 He's my husband, remember. 725 01:02:09,142 --> 01:02:11,303 Since when do husbands interfere? 726 01:02:13,355 --> 01:02:17,223 You offered me andromaque. Now take me, as I promised. 727 01:02:19,069 --> 01:02:20,855 Get dressed. 728 01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:24,320 Have you lost your mind? 729 01:02:24,407 --> 01:02:27,524 No, it's saving me from the lures of my senses. 730 01:02:36,169 --> 01:02:38,285 You'll be mine when you're andromaque. 731 01:02:38,380 --> 01:02:41,372 I'll burn my play before I give her to another. 732 01:02:41,466 --> 01:02:42,672 I love you. 733 01:02:43,093 --> 01:02:44,173 I'll wait. 734 01:03:14,165 --> 01:03:15,780 Are you praying, madame? 735 01:03:17,210 --> 01:03:18,746 I'm pissing. 736 01:03:19,254 --> 01:03:21,085 In church? 737 01:03:21,923 --> 01:03:25,836 You're almost an hour late and charity inspires me 738 01:03:25,927 --> 01:03:29,670 to share what god so generously put in my bladder. 739 01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:37,890 The problem is the lady loves her husband. 740 01:03:40,859 --> 01:03:45,523 The delicate problem you mentioned is actually child's play. 741 01:03:47,032 --> 01:03:49,489 I have some chocolates here. 742 01:03:49,576 --> 01:03:52,739 If they don't work I'll make more, free of charge, 743 01:03:52,829 --> 01:03:55,741 until your wishes are fulfilled. 744 01:04:02,839 --> 01:04:04,124 And if they work? 745 01:04:04,215 --> 01:04:06,547 You pay me a share of your royalties. 746 01:04:06,634 --> 01:04:10,923 I'm told you'll soon be greater than corneille and moliére combined. 747 01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:32,607 I despaired of seeing you. 748 01:04:33,578 --> 01:04:35,694 I've been thinking since that night. 749 01:04:38,041 --> 01:04:39,952 What is that? 750 01:04:40,919 --> 01:04:42,250 Some chocolates. 751 01:04:43,797 --> 01:04:47,506 Let milady and her maids enjoy them. You can't bribe me. 752 01:04:47,592 --> 01:04:50,254 - They're not for you. - Not for me? 753 01:04:51,721 --> 01:04:53,336 They're for gros-Rene. 754 01:04:56,184 --> 01:04:58,721 You think you can buy him with sweets? 755 01:04:59,646 --> 01:05:03,889 No. I hoped to present my respects and say with this modest gift 756 01:05:03,983 --> 01:05:07,521 how much I admire his loyalty to moliere. 757 01:05:07,612 --> 01:05:09,148 Never mind andromaque. 758 01:05:09,239 --> 01:05:14,074 It's not every day that a playwright can salute an actor's honesty. 759 01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:15,991 Moliere should stage it. 760 01:05:17,872 --> 01:05:21,535 Floridor only wants money. Moliere squanders it, 761 01:05:21,626 --> 01:05:25,164 but beneath his mask he knows about the agonies of love. 762 01:05:28,091 --> 01:05:29,376 May I see gros-Rene? 763 01:05:29,467 --> 01:05:31,924 Alas, no. He took ill last night. 764 01:05:34,264 --> 01:05:36,175 He's very sick. 765 01:05:36,266 --> 01:05:38,302 Does it happen often? 766 01:05:38,393 --> 01:05:40,099 Never before, thank god. 767 01:05:41,312 --> 01:05:42,927 Did he overeat? 768 01:05:43,022 --> 01:05:44,887 He won't even touch food. 769 01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:48,937 Give me those. 770 01:05:57,579 --> 01:05:59,695 I want to talk to you alone. 771 01:06:18,475 --> 01:06:20,887 You love marquise, don't you? 772 01:06:24,147 --> 01:06:25,683 I cannot... 773 01:06:26,941 --> 01:06:29,023 “I cannot”? 774 01:06:29,110 --> 01:06:33,319 Three meager syllables. One quarter of a hexameter. 775 01:06:34,407 --> 01:06:37,274 Make it up to a third. Do you love her? 776 01:06:38,953 --> 01:06:40,534 Yes. 777 01:06:47,962 --> 01:06:50,453 Then I entrust her to you. 778 01:06:50,548 --> 01:06:54,461 But first, swear to me you'll never do her wrong. 779 01:06:54,886 --> 01:06:56,501 Never. 780 01:06:56,596 --> 01:06:58,552 She is so fragile. 781 01:07:00,141 --> 01:07:01,141 She will love you. 782 01:07:02,894 --> 01:07:05,010 She denies it, but she will. 783 01:07:06,189 --> 01:07:08,555 Don't hurt her. Swear it. 784 01:07:09,484 --> 01:07:11,020 Swear it! 785 01:07:14,072 --> 01:07:15,403 I swear. 786 01:07:20,620 --> 01:07:22,485 Let us scrutinize 787 01:07:23,206 --> 01:07:26,619 the humors first, before we proceed 788 01:07:26,709 --> 01:07:31,248 to take the measure of the hard and soft. 789 01:07:34,008 --> 01:07:38,468 I agree we should apply our noses to the task. 790 01:07:48,731 --> 01:07:52,474 But not our fingers. I suggest we let blood. 791 01:07:54,153 --> 01:07:57,737 Then let us apply leeches to the prominent parts. 792 01:07:57,824 --> 01:07:58,859 I'm dying! 793 01:07:58,950 --> 01:08:00,941 Indeed, monsieur. 794 01:08:02,078 --> 01:08:05,696 Leeches, glasses, incisions, 795 01:08:06,416 --> 01:08:08,202 ten liters of enema... 796 01:08:08,710 --> 01:08:10,325 I'm dying. 797 01:08:11,879 --> 01:08:13,210 Gros-rené... 798 01:08:13,298 --> 01:08:15,414 Call a doctor, quick! 799 01:08:23,641 --> 01:08:25,097 - I'm dying. - No. 800 01:08:25,184 --> 01:08:27,391 No, my love. Don't die. 801 01:08:28,062 --> 01:08:29,973 Don't do that to me. 802 01:08:33,234 --> 01:08:34,940 Don't leave me. 803 01:08:46,831 --> 01:08:48,492 He's dead. 804 01:08:55,882 --> 01:08:58,840 Speak up! We can't hear you! 805 01:08:58,926 --> 01:09:01,133 He says he's dead! 806 01:09:07,727 --> 01:09:10,264 Medicine killed him! 807 01:09:26,162 --> 01:09:28,323 Out! Get out of my room. 808 01:09:28,414 --> 01:09:31,030 Moliere has set aside a role for you. 809 01:09:31,125 --> 01:09:33,912 What kind of role would he give me? 810 01:09:34,003 --> 01:09:36,210 He's never believed in me. 811 01:09:37,048 --> 01:09:39,881 Racine declares you'll be andromaque. 812 01:09:39,967 --> 01:09:44,256 He says it to console me. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. 813 01:09:44,347 --> 01:09:45,837 Why not? 814 01:09:45,932 --> 01:09:48,264 I'm tied to moliere's company. 815 01:09:48,351 --> 01:09:50,842 Racine has obtained your release. 816 01:09:50,937 --> 01:09:53,349 The role of andromaque awaits you! 817 01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:55,930 So much kindness, all for nothing. 818 01:09:56,484 --> 01:09:58,020 Bestir yourself, madame... 819 01:10:00,863 --> 01:10:03,354 Before you're dried up and unwanted. 820 01:10:06,744 --> 01:10:07,744 Not forget him... 821 01:10:08,871 --> 01:10:10,907 Just replace him. 822 01:10:12,542 --> 01:10:14,533 You have a heart of stone. 823 01:10:14,627 --> 01:10:18,540 If I were begged, as you are, I'd know where to find love. 824 01:10:20,216 --> 01:10:24,255 Go on! What are you waiting for? Take the role yourself! 825 01:10:31,728 --> 01:10:34,060 Whether your grief is real or feigned... 826 01:10:35,481 --> 01:10:38,644 It won't bring gros-reneé back to life. 827 01:10:38,735 --> 01:10:41,818 Do it for him, if not for yourself. 828 01:10:41,904 --> 01:10:42,939 For him? 829 01:10:43,030 --> 01:10:46,648 To be sure! Whenever marquise appears on stage 830 01:10:46,743 --> 01:10:49,450 the name of du parc will be applauded. 831 01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,576 How I love you for thinking of that! 832 01:11:01,257 --> 01:11:04,465 Stay, my lord! What would you do? 833 01:11:04,969 --> 01:11:08,211 If you yield up the son, yield up the mother too. 834 01:11:08,306 --> 01:11:11,048 Just now, you vowed me such amity... 835 01:11:11,142 --> 01:11:14,134 No, no, no! For pity's sake, marquise! 836 01:11:14,228 --> 01:11:18,767 We're not on the Pont Neuf, playing to the vulgar masses. 837 01:11:19,358 --> 01:11:22,646 Give it style, forsooth! Grandeur! 838 01:11:22,737 --> 01:11:24,147 Art! 839 01:11:25,031 --> 01:11:26,896 Let's go on. 840 01:11:26,991 --> 01:11:30,859 Lord! Can I not now appeal to your pity? 841 01:11:31,245 --> 01:11:33,657 Is he doomed? Will my plea be unheard? 842 01:11:33,748 --> 01:11:37,332 Phoenix will vouch that I gave my word. 843 01:11:38,336 --> 01:11:41,544 You, who once braved every peril for me... 844 01:11:41,631 --> 01:11:43,246 Then I was blind. 845 01:11:43,966 --> 01:11:46,127 Now I can see. 846 01:11:46,219 --> 01:11:49,677 You could have saved him from his fate, 847 01:11:49,764 --> 01:11:53,131 had you but asked. Now 'tis too late. 848 01:11:54,185 --> 01:11:55,595 The die is cast. 849 01:11:56,938 --> 01:11:58,599 My lord, 850 01:11:59,315 --> 01:12:01,601 you heard how I sighed 851 01:12:01,692 --> 01:12:04,684 for fear that my request would be denied. 852 01:12:06,948 --> 01:12:09,314 One question, marquise. 853 01:12:10,201 --> 01:12:12,817 Is this how you plan to act? 854 01:12:12,912 --> 01:12:14,072 Yes. Why? 855 01:12:16,749 --> 01:12:19,206 Perhaps I misread you. Forgive me. 856 01:12:19,293 --> 01:12:22,751 Is this poetry or a woman's words scribbled in haste? 857 01:12:22,839 --> 01:12:24,579 You are jesting. 858 01:12:24,674 --> 01:12:28,462 No, just wondering. Are we to play for the mob? 859 01:12:28,553 --> 01:12:31,920 Play it so the court will hail and adore us. 860 01:12:32,765 --> 01:12:34,972 If marquise plays it her way 861 01:12:35,059 --> 01:12:38,176 they won't hail and adore us, they'll ignore us. 862 01:12:38,271 --> 01:12:41,604 Can't you tell great floridor, as you told me, 863 01:12:41,691 --> 01:12:44,273 “don't act the words, suffer them”? 864 01:12:44,777 --> 01:12:49,191 For heaven's sake, let monsieur floridor act as he sees fit. 865 01:12:49,282 --> 01:12:51,113 He's not fit, he's deaf 866 01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:54,613 so he shouts and sprays me with spittle! 867 01:12:55,454 --> 01:12:59,447 Crowned heads have been content, in the heat of the moment, 868 01:12:59,542 --> 01:13:01,578 to bathe in my glory. 869 01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:09,003 Count your blessings. You'll act for the king 870 01:13:09,093 --> 01:13:11,209 with the greatest thespian alive. 871 01:13:11,304 --> 01:13:15,468 You ridiculed moliere for less when we played your “thebans”. 872 01:13:16,225 --> 01:13:18,090 Moliere is a mere comedian. 873 01:13:18,185 --> 01:13:22,144 Here, madame, we are performing tragedy. 874 01:13:22,231 --> 01:13:27,271 Floridor is right. I bow to his wisdom and so should you. 875 01:13:30,615 --> 01:13:34,028 Do as he says. If you can't respect him, do it for me. 876 01:13:34,827 --> 01:13:39,161 It's not easy to die of love for a senile, impotent old fogy! 877 01:13:40,374 --> 01:13:41,614 Do you mean me? 878 01:13:42,919 --> 01:13:44,455 He admits it! 879 01:13:44,545 --> 01:13:48,663 I'm glad to see you still possess a grain of mental lucidity. 880 01:13:49,592 --> 01:13:55,087 Enough to perceive that your mouth is better at taking than giving! 881 01:14:00,269 --> 01:14:01,269 She's mad. 882 01:14:14,700 --> 01:14:17,157 Monsieur racine, it's past noon. 883 01:14:18,162 --> 01:14:19,823 Come in. 884 01:14:21,415 --> 01:14:25,579 - Take it away. We're not hungry. - You've had nothing for two days. 885 01:14:25,670 --> 01:14:27,581 I'm starving! 886 01:14:36,097 --> 01:14:37,928 I can hear your heart. 887 01:14:38,015 --> 01:14:39,380 What is it saying? 888 01:14:39,475 --> 01:14:40,635 It's saying 889 01:14:41,352 --> 01:14:43,468 I love you... 890 01:14:44,855 --> 01:14:46,891 And you love me. 891 01:14:46,983 --> 01:14:48,598 Be quiet. 892 01:14:49,944 --> 01:14:51,605 Isn't it saying that? 893 01:14:51,696 --> 01:14:53,106 Yes, but... 894 01:14:54,865 --> 01:14:56,401 - But what? - I'm hot. 895 01:14:58,411 --> 01:14:59,901 You're lying. 896 01:15:00,997 --> 01:15:03,613 Didn't we swear to share everything? 897 01:15:04,125 --> 01:15:06,411 To keep no secrets from each other? 898 01:15:06,961 --> 01:15:08,917 I don't want to hurt you. 899 01:15:10,423 --> 01:15:13,756 Who can hurt a dead man? You have slain me. 900 01:15:16,345 --> 01:15:19,257 You may have mastered the secrets of the soul 901 01:15:20,182 --> 01:15:24,016 but women have depths that you have yet to fathom. 902 01:15:24,729 --> 01:15:26,219 Such as? 903 01:15:26,981 --> 01:15:29,814 You make love the way moliére acts tragedy. 904 01:15:29,900 --> 01:15:32,607 You raise your voice, puff up the lines, 905 01:15:32,695 --> 01:15:36,938 recite when you should speak and run when you should walk. 906 01:15:37,033 --> 01:15:38,489 You excite me. 907 01:15:38,576 --> 01:15:41,318 The way tragedy excites moliere. 908 01:15:42,788 --> 01:15:46,155 You have to control yourself or it's no good. 909 01:15:46,250 --> 01:15:49,083 - You have no right. - I have every right. 910 01:16:03,976 --> 01:16:07,685 Hurry! The king has arrived. Get into your costume! 911 01:16:07,772 --> 01:16:11,731 I have the trots! Stage fright! I'm too excited. 912 01:16:15,362 --> 01:16:18,069 I'm sorry. Go and pay your respects. 913 01:16:18,157 --> 01:16:19,818 We can't keep him waiting. 914 01:16:21,285 --> 01:16:25,278 I'm not like him. I can't perform on a toilet seat. 915 01:16:27,041 --> 01:16:28,747 You're killing me. 916 01:16:29,376 --> 01:16:31,241 Who's this? Who's this? 917 01:16:31,337 --> 01:16:32,668 Who can it be? 918 01:16:33,672 --> 01:16:35,458 It's my finance minister! 919 01:16:35,549 --> 01:16:38,336 No, you're much softer than him. 920 01:16:39,095 --> 01:16:40,960 What's this you're giving me? 921 01:16:45,684 --> 01:16:47,766 My, what a surprise! 922 01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:53,522 We can start in a moment, your majesty. 923 01:16:54,110 --> 01:16:57,193 These damsels were saying their charms surpass 924 01:16:57,279 --> 01:16:59,861 those of du parc, who keeps us stewing here. 925 01:16:59,949 --> 01:17:01,610 On slow coals! 926 01:17:01,992 --> 01:17:05,450 Mademoiselle de ruy was claiming that her bosom 927 01:17:05,830 --> 01:17:11,496 is so much Fuller than du parc's, my armies could maneuver in it. 928 01:17:12,169 --> 01:17:13,500 I agree, majesty. 929 01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:19,708 Madame de reneville was vaunting her legs and thighs, 930 01:17:19,802 --> 01:17:22,965 which all of versailles would not tire. 931 01:17:23,055 --> 01:17:24,055 I don't deny it. 932 01:17:29,979 --> 01:17:33,142 Show us the way to the spring where I love to bathe. 933 01:17:36,527 --> 01:17:38,267 It's so soft! 934 01:17:40,447 --> 01:17:46,443 Admit that they all surpass the grace and beauty of your du parc, 935 01:17:46,537 --> 01:17:48,528 who's beginning to exhaust my Patience. 936 01:17:48,622 --> 01:17:50,362 I do, your majesty. 937 01:17:50,457 --> 01:17:51,867 You see? 938 01:17:53,878 --> 01:17:59,544 You are, ladies, without a doubt the crest on his majesty's coat of arms. 939 01:17:59,633 --> 01:18:00,998 Nevertheless, 940 01:18:01,093 --> 01:18:05,052 though you bend over backwards to equal miss du parc, 941 01:18:05,139 --> 01:18:07,630 you will only be pale imitations. 942 01:18:08,100 --> 01:18:12,264 If your eyes contained a quarter of what lies in hers, 943 01:18:12,354 --> 01:18:17,269 would you need to flaunt your bosoms and bottoms thus? 944 01:18:21,780 --> 01:18:24,738 “Flaunt your bosoms and bottoms”! 945 01:18:26,035 --> 01:18:30,324 Racine, among my army of flatterers you are beyond doubt 946 01:18:30,414 --> 01:18:32,370 the field marshal. 947 01:18:37,838 --> 01:18:39,078 We're ready, majesty. 948 01:18:39,173 --> 01:18:40,709 What luck! 949 01:18:40,799 --> 01:18:44,462 Du parc has the grace to be just one hour late! 950 01:18:58,567 --> 01:19:02,606 Let my son admire those who gave him birth. 951 01:19:02,696 --> 01:19:06,029 Encourage him to imitate their worth. 952 01:19:06,116 --> 01:19:09,904 Tell him about the feats which won them fame 953 01:19:09,995 --> 01:19:13,783 for noble deeds outweigh a noble name. 954 01:19:13,874 --> 01:19:16,911 Remind him each day of the virtues of his father... 955 01:19:19,088 --> 01:19:21,170 And, now and then... 956 01:19:24,426 --> 01:19:27,088 Remind him of his mother. 957 01:19:29,848 --> 01:19:34,467 Urge him not to avenge our fate. He'll have a master on whom to wait. 958 01:19:35,271 --> 01:19:38,104 Let him not boast of the blood in his veins, 959 01:19:38,691 --> 01:19:42,775 though of great Hector tis all that remains... 960 01:19:45,739 --> 01:19:47,821 And for those remains 961 01:19:48,575 --> 01:19:50,907 I myself, in one day, 962 01:19:51,328 --> 01:19:54,161 my blood, my hate and my love gave away. 963 01:19:57,459 --> 01:19:58,699 Do not come with me 964 01:19:58,794 --> 01:20:02,161 if your heart fears that it cannot contain its tears. 965 01:20:04,466 --> 01:20:06,047 Someone is coming. 966 01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,172 Dry your eyes, and do not forget 967 01:20:09,930 --> 01:20:12,922 andromaque's fate depends on you yet. 968 01:20:17,062 --> 01:20:18,973 It is Hermione. 969 01:20:19,648 --> 01:20:21,104 Come. 970 01:20:23,444 --> 01:20:25,730 Let us flee her wrath. 971 01:20:46,133 --> 01:20:48,089 Rise, madame. 972 01:20:50,804 --> 01:20:53,420 Take your triumph standing up. 973 01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,086 Well done! 974 01:21:35,057 --> 01:21:36,968 You made me weep! 975 01:21:38,310 --> 01:21:40,847 I feel I've met my match. 976 01:21:40,938 --> 01:21:43,645 You have! She has age on her side. 977 01:21:44,733 --> 01:21:48,021 Look at my hands. They're red from clapping! 978 01:21:49,488 --> 01:21:51,649 I'm so happy for you! 979 01:21:52,491 --> 01:21:53,822 Marvelous! 980 01:22:04,336 --> 01:22:05,667 Didn't I tell you? 981 01:22:15,681 --> 01:22:18,718 What can I say, except that I was wrong? 982 01:22:19,685 --> 01:22:21,346 You liked my performance? 983 01:22:26,275 --> 01:22:30,143 I never dreamed that tragedy could be acted so naturally. 984 01:22:30,237 --> 01:22:33,855 But you set out the rules in “les précieuses”! 985 01:22:55,429 --> 01:22:58,387 The king just spoke to me about you-know-what. 986 01:22:58,474 --> 01:23:00,590 May I hope? 987 01:23:00,684 --> 01:23:03,050 Have I ever failed you? 988 01:23:03,145 --> 01:23:05,101 Never, milady. 989 01:23:38,347 --> 01:23:41,430 I remember when I first saw you dance. 990 01:23:41,517 --> 01:23:43,508 I remember too. 991 01:23:44,061 --> 01:23:46,768 - The air was raw. - I caught a cold. 992 01:23:46,855 --> 01:23:49,096 Did my rays not warm you up? 993 01:23:49,191 --> 01:23:54,436 Alas, majesty, the sun lights the world but its touch burns the moon. 994 01:24:04,248 --> 01:24:06,990 Are you so bold as to refuse me? 995 01:24:07,084 --> 01:24:10,417 I've become even cheekier since we first met. 996 01:24:11,129 --> 01:24:14,246 Milady and racine seem to share every secret. 997 01:24:39,157 --> 01:24:41,819 Why are you moving everything out? 998 01:24:44,538 --> 01:24:46,620 Who sent you bullies here? 999 01:24:46,707 --> 01:24:48,948 It's been seized - by me! 1000 01:24:50,043 --> 01:24:51,999 You slimy toad! 1001 01:24:59,136 --> 01:25:01,718 The creditors have seized the theater. 1002 01:25:04,933 --> 01:25:07,174 Quick, while he's not looking! 1003 01:25:07,269 --> 01:25:09,134 - Where's moliére? - At the white sheep. 1004 01:25:19,823 --> 01:25:22,906 Friends! Here comes an angel. 1005 01:25:24,328 --> 01:25:27,161 Heaven sent her to us. Come, my lovely. 1006 01:25:27,247 --> 01:25:29,829 - Give him a drink. - No! 1007 01:25:31,710 --> 01:25:33,996 The king won't let the dogs eat you. 1008 01:25:34,838 --> 01:25:36,294 The king can't help me. 1009 01:25:36,381 --> 01:25:37,871 Appeal to him. 1010 01:25:37,966 --> 01:25:40,207 What for, marquise? 1011 01:25:40,969 --> 01:25:44,382 To save your theater, your troupe, your life. 1012 01:25:46,475 --> 01:25:48,056 You're such a child. 1013 01:25:48,143 --> 01:25:51,431 The king must humor the church, I must humor him, 1014 01:25:51,521 --> 01:25:53,261 you must humor floridor. 1015 01:25:54,149 --> 01:25:56,140 Come drown with us, moliére. 1016 01:25:56,234 --> 01:25:58,145 Well said. Come on, lully. 1017 01:25:58,236 --> 01:25:59,646 Let's go. 1018 01:26:09,665 --> 01:26:12,577 What can we do? Art, literature, theater... 1019 01:26:12,668 --> 01:26:16,286 It's all just empty, hollow vanity. 1020 01:26:16,380 --> 01:26:19,167 My soul is sad. My life's sad. This wine's sad! 1021 01:26:19,257 --> 01:26:20,872 Hush! 1022 01:26:21,593 --> 01:26:22,708 I'm still here. 1023 01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:25,711 That's true. You're here. 1024 01:26:25,806 --> 01:26:30,425 Madeleine's here too, holding the strings of my empty purse. 1025 01:26:31,103 --> 01:26:33,515 And Catherine, Genevieve 1026 01:26:34,272 --> 01:26:36,888 and armande, my little armande... 1027 01:26:36,983 --> 01:26:39,474 Only women? You're doomed! 1028 01:26:41,863 --> 01:26:46,232 Women are more help than drunken, smelly old composers. 1029 01:26:46,326 --> 01:26:49,033 Smelly old composers live forever! 1030 01:26:49,121 --> 01:26:51,954 No woman ever composed music... 1031 01:26:53,291 --> 01:26:56,078 Or wrote for the theater. 1032 01:26:59,464 --> 01:27:01,045 “I'm still here.” 1033 01:27:04,052 --> 01:27:06,885 “I'm here for you!” 1034 01:27:12,144 --> 01:27:16,308 If only gros-Rene were here to give me courage and make me laugh! 1035 01:27:17,441 --> 01:27:22,185 I can tell jokes and play the fool if it keeps you from drinking. 1036 01:27:22,279 --> 01:27:24,019 I love you, marquise. 1037 01:27:26,408 --> 01:27:28,820 You haven't let me down. 1038 01:27:28,910 --> 01:27:30,946 That's why I love you. 1039 01:27:32,622 --> 01:27:34,908 Do you want to drown with me? 1040 01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:36,000 Do you? 1041 01:27:37,335 --> 01:27:38,620 Let's go. 1042 01:27:40,672 --> 01:27:42,082 What about racine? 1043 01:27:43,550 --> 01:27:45,131 He surrounds me with old men. 1044 01:27:48,346 --> 01:27:50,632 He deserted me for floridor. 1045 01:27:51,183 --> 01:27:53,139 He'll desert you too. 1046 01:27:53,226 --> 01:27:56,263 He's a natural born deserter. 1047 01:27:57,105 --> 01:28:01,314 Aha! You're more jealous than the ogres in your plays. 1048 01:28:01,401 --> 01:28:03,107 Let's do a play for Rene. 1049 01:28:03,195 --> 01:28:06,483 - Let's jump in the seine. - Let's ask the king. 1050 01:28:06,573 --> 01:28:08,529 Let's die first and talk later. 1051 01:28:12,329 --> 01:28:13,990 What do you say, angel? 1052 01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,366 I say you're our best author. 1053 01:28:25,967 --> 01:28:28,959 Italians can't take French wine! 1054 01:28:38,355 --> 01:28:43,019 Begging the king for favors is not a part I like to play. 1055 01:28:43,401 --> 01:28:45,767 The ottoman ambassador! 1056 01:28:50,033 --> 01:28:51,398 You have no appointment. 1057 01:28:51,493 --> 01:28:53,575 Please stand aside. 1058 01:28:53,662 --> 01:28:55,653 Do you know this man? 1059 01:28:55,747 --> 01:28:58,705 To say I do not would be to insult the theater. 1060 01:29:00,293 --> 01:29:03,330 Please ask the king to give him an audience. 1061 01:29:03,421 --> 01:29:06,413 I'm afraid he is already giving audience. 1062 01:29:11,012 --> 01:29:13,094 They say you have balls, monsieur. 1063 01:29:14,599 --> 01:29:17,966 Prove it by letting me in, and I'll let you in 1064 01:29:18,061 --> 01:29:21,269 somewhere else, whenever you please. 1065 01:29:22,983 --> 01:29:23,983 Will you really? 1066 01:29:44,087 --> 01:29:48,456 I beg you to buy back moliere's theater from his creditors. 1067 01:29:49,384 --> 01:29:50,965 Madame, you irritate me. 1068 01:29:51,052 --> 01:29:54,010 Are you aping andromaque or just being insolent? 1069 01:29:54,973 --> 01:29:57,055 Andromaque is a woman, not an idea. 1070 01:29:57,142 --> 01:30:00,054 She isn't brave on stage and weak in life. 1071 01:30:00,145 --> 01:30:04,104 Is it her bravery that incites you to nag poor floridor, 1072 01:30:04,190 --> 01:30:06,476 whom my grandfather so admired? 1073 01:30:06,568 --> 01:30:10,527 Your grandfather was young then and floridor already old. 1074 01:30:16,912 --> 01:30:20,746 Your sarcasm, madame, amuses us most highly. 1075 01:30:20,832 --> 01:30:23,289 Let the merriment continue. 1076 01:30:24,836 --> 01:30:26,076 Our dear racine... 1077 01:30:28,548 --> 01:30:32,132 You can't imagine what he was willing to do for you. 1078 01:30:32,218 --> 01:30:35,255 I know what he's willing to give up. 1079 01:30:35,347 --> 01:30:39,636 Poisoning du parc to make you a widow held no fear for him. 1080 01:30:40,352 --> 01:30:41,967 Majesty! I never dreamed... 1081 01:30:42,062 --> 01:30:46,897 I hear that you signed away a third of your income 1082 01:30:46,983 --> 01:30:51,477 to a woman notorious for dealing in lethal chocolates. 1083 01:31:01,206 --> 01:31:03,822 Your majesty, it's a malicious rumor. 1084 01:31:03,917 --> 01:31:08,536 It's true, racine writes tragedies which poison my life 1085 01:31:08,630 --> 01:31:09,630 but gros-rené - 1086 01:31:09,714 --> 01:31:13,172 forgive me, marquise - was a tolerant husband. 1087 01:31:13,843 --> 01:31:17,711 Majesty, I admit I sometimes wished rené dead, 1088 01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:22,224 but what lover would not kill for his beloved? 1089 01:31:26,940 --> 01:31:31,354 He loves her. She loves him. They are thwarted... 1090 01:31:31,444 --> 01:31:32,934 So he draws his sword 1091 01:31:33,029 --> 01:31:36,192 and slays the bore who stands in his way. 1092 01:31:36,282 --> 01:31:37,192 You see? 1093 01:31:37,283 --> 01:31:40,446 It sounds more like corneille than racine. 1094 01:31:40,537 --> 01:31:45,122 Tragedy writers kill many people, but only on paper. 1095 01:31:45,208 --> 01:31:49,167 Your generosity and mettle will always endear you to us. 1096 01:31:50,797 --> 01:31:52,162 I thank your majesty. 1097 01:31:54,300 --> 01:31:56,882 As for you, racine... step forward. 1098 01:32:07,522 --> 01:32:11,185 Kindly desist from signing anything but your plays. 1099 01:33:01,493 --> 01:33:04,860 Why are you crying? Didn't we triumph tonight? 1100 01:33:09,584 --> 01:33:12,121 It's nothing, madame. 1101 01:33:12,879 --> 01:33:14,619 Look at me. 1102 01:33:15,507 --> 01:33:19,591 Repeat after me: Patati, patata. 1103 01:33:20,220 --> 01:33:21,505 I'm too miserable. 1104 01:33:21,596 --> 01:33:23,052 Go on, say it. 1105 01:33:27,102 --> 01:33:29,263 There! You're smiling. 1106 01:33:30,146 --> 01:33:32,979 Now tell me what's wrong. Blow your nose. 1107 01:33:36,444 --> 01:33:38,901 You act so convincingly. 1108 01:33:39,948 --> 01:33:42,030 Is that why you're crying? 1109 01:33:44,410 --> 01:33:47,197 I wish I could act like you! 1110 01:33:48,915 --> 01:33:51,702 Say a line from andromaque. Any line. 1111 01:33:51,793 --> 01:33:53,533 I don't know any. 1112 01:33:54,420 --> 01:33:56,285 Why are you lying? 1113 01:34:00,093 --> 01:34:03,256 “Although the greeks may remonstrate, 1114 01:34:03,346 --> 01:34:06,133 you are still mistress of your fate.” 1115 01:34:08,351 --> 01:34:10,433 First, stand up. 1116 01:34:10,520 --> 01:34:14,388 Don't breathe from here. From here! Go on! 1117 01:34:16,192 --> 01:34:19,309 Although the greeks may remonstrate, 1118 01:34:19,404 --> 01:34:21,395 you are still mistress of your fate. 1119 01:34:21,489 --> 01:34:23,025 Again! 1120 01:34:29,706 --> 01:34:32,493 Look into my eyes. Pretend I'm your lover. 1121 01:34:33,418 --> 01:34:35,283 I'm a virgin. 1122 01:34:37,046 --> 01:34:38,707 Use your imagination. 1123 01:34:50,685 --> 01:34:53,176 I want to feel your stomach swell 1124 01:34:53,271 --> 01:34:56,308 and your heart burst from your breast! 1125 01:35:01,571 --> 01:35:03,027 Suffer it! 1126 01:35:03,114 --> 01:35:06,026 Or I'll tan your rump until my palms are raw. 1127 01:35:06,117 --> 01:35:07,117 Go on! 1128 01:35:12,582 --> 01:35:14,948 “Although the greeks may remonstrate, 1129 01:35:15,043 --> 01:35:17,910 you are still mistress of your fate.” 1130 01:35:18,004 --> 01:35:21,246 “Alas, see now what your words have done. 1131 01:35:21,758 --> 01:35:24,465 I have no choice but to doom my son.” 1132 01:35:24,552 --> 01:35:28,295 “Madame, with your husband you have kept faith. 1133 01:35:28,389 --> 01:35:31,222 Do not let too much virtue lead to death. 1134 01:35:31,309 --> 01:35:34,267 He would have urged you to be mild.” 1135 01:35:37,649 --> 01:35:39,435 See? Acting is easy. 1136 01:35:39,901 --> 01:35:42,608 You just have to die on stage every night. 1137 01:35:44,530 --> 01:35:46,896 Good. Now help me dress. 1138 01:36:19,649 --> 01:36:21,264 Were you waiting for me? 1139 01:36:21,693 --> 01:36:23,479 Congratulate me! 1140 01:36:24,737 --> 01:36:27,479 I'm to be the king's historian! 1141 01:36:27,573 --> 01:36:29,529 I wish you luck. 1142 01:36:30,034 --> 01:36:32,366 Is that all you can say? 1143 01:36:32,453 --> 01:36:35,365 I'm going to lie down for a while. 1144 01:37:04,319 --> 01:37:06,685 What's the matter? - Nothing. 1145 01:37:07,447 --> 01:37:11,065 I'm worried. I was nowhere near my best last night. 1146 01:37:11,159 --> 01:37:13,320 Nonsense! The whole audience wept. 1147 01:37:13,411 --> 01:37:16,198 Tonight we play at the king's command. 1148 01:37:16,289 --> 01:37:17,495 If "m strong enough. 1149 01:37:17,582 --> 01:37:20,574 Hush! Like last night, you'll be splendid. 1150 01:37:20,668 --> 01:37:21,668 Let's go. 1151 01:37:22,253 --> 01:37:23,868 I've had enough. 1152 01:37:23,963 --> 01:37:26,500 - Walk out on the king? - I feel sick. 1153 01:37:26,591 --> 01:37:27,831 Marquise, please! 1154 01:37:27,925 --> 01:37:30,211 If ever I can't perform, 1155 01:37:31,012 --> 01:37:32,718 swear you won't replace me. 1156 01:37:33,431 --> 01:37:37,094 How often must I tell you? Only you can be andromaque. 1157 01:37:42,774 --> 01:37:44,389 Mansart! 1158 01:37:47,403 --> 01:37:51,066 Lift our spirits. Will we soon be in versailles? 1159 01:37:51,157 --> 01:37:55,947 If your majesty would ask milord not to fire his musket at my scaffolding, 1160 01:37:56,037 --> 01:37:57,573 you could move in by Christmas. 1161 01:37:58,247 --> 01:38:03,287 He has maimed two of my workers and blinded another to amuse his friends. 1162 01:38:03,378 --> 01:38:07,212 How irksome. I assure you it won't happen again. 1163 01:38:07,298 --> 01:38:08,788 I thank your majesty. 1164 01:38:08,883 --> 01:38:12,216 As of tomorrow, milord will take musketry lessons. 1165 01:38:12,595 --> 01:38:16,304 It is unworthy of a prince to miss his Mark. 1166 01:38:28,945 --> 01:38:31,436 Racine! Step forward. 1167 01:38:38,830 --> 01:38:42,322 Hold this and summon miss du parc. 1168 01:38:42,750 --> 01:38:46,459 I will show her a sight as rare as the one she showed us. 1169 01:38:46,546 --> 01:38:48,252 Here she comes, sire. 1170 01:38:50,550 --> 01:38:54,384 Can you imagine? My doctors have told me to take a bath! 1171 01:38:54,470 --> 01:38:56,381 A bath? How horrible! 1172 01:38:56,472 --> 01:38:58,554 I know. Some years ago 1173 01:38:58,641 --> 01:39:02,008 I had a very strict tutor who inflicted one on me. 1174 01:39:02,103 --> 01:39:05,721 To Mark the event, I have penned a short poem. 1175 01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:10,892 Would you comfort me by reciting it as I take the plunge? 1176 01:39:10,987 --> 01:39:12,477 If it pleases your majesty. 1177 01:39:19,495 --> 01:39:22,202 Is it a king's duty to sacrifice himself? 1178 01:39:22,290 --> 01:39:24,030 It is, your majesty. 1179 01:39:24,125 --> 01:39:29,085 Gentlemen, I commit myself to you for the glory of science 1180 01:39:29,172 --> 01:39:31,788 at the risk of my life! 1181 01:39:47,273 --> 01:39:49,229 Have you ever taken a bath? 1182 01:39:49,317 --> 01:39:53,981 No, but your example may encourage me to try one. 1183 01:40:01,829 --> 01:40:06,619 “How lovely it is to see the grace and beauty of this mere 1184 01:40:06,709 --> 01:40:11,920 as, cradled in a bed held dear, its gentle tides flow sleepily.” 1185 01:40:12,006 --> 01:40:14,668 Forgive me, but I hear you poorly! 1186 01:40:18,429 --> 01:40:21,045 How lovely it is to see 1187 01:40:21,140 --> 01:40:24,598 the grace and beauty of this mere... 1188 01:40:24,685 --> 01:40:29,679 Your water cure is softening my ears. I can't hear a thing! 1189 01:40:31,776 --> 01:40:34,017 Some wine will clear my voice. 1190 01:40:34,111 --> 01:40:35,772 I beg your pardon? 1191 01:41:04,517 --> 01:41:08,009 Is this close enough or shall I send for your ear-trumpet? 1192 01:41:09,355 --> 01:41:12,062 “O eyes! Let us draw nearer 1193 01:41:12,775 --> 01:41:17,189 to the peerless chimera displayed in this glassy pool. 1194 01:41:17,613 --> 01:41:20,946 Let us admire the beauty and might 1195 01:41:21,033 --> 01:41:23,399 with which its waters clear and cool 1196 01:41:23,494 --> 01:41:28,204 enchant and beguile our senses and sight.” 1197 01:41:30,376 --> 01:41:32,742 Wicked man, making you catch your death! 1198 01:41:32,837 --> 01:41:36,955 My back is burning, my lungs and throat are on fire, 1199 01:41:37,049 --> 01:41:39,131 my nose is dripping, my ears ache... 1200 01:41:39,218 --> 01:41:40,424 By god! 1201 01:41:40,511 --> 01:41:43,628 I'll have to act through my asshole tonight. 1202 01:41:46,100 --> 01:41:48,261 It's time you got deflowered. 1203 01:41:48,352 --> 01:41:51,890 How can you act if words offend you? You're delirious. 1204 01:41:51,981 --> 01:41:52,981 More cups 1205 01:41:53,024 --> 01:41:55,640 - and don't lecture me. - I'm cupping. 1206 01:41:55,735 --> 01:41:58,602 - Do you want leeches too? - No! 1207 01:41:58,696 --> 01:42:01,733 - I hate those creatures. - I adore them. 1208 01:42:01,824 --> 01:42:04,987 I'd love to see them purge you of your meanness. 1209 01:42:05,453 --> 01:42:09,446 Mean? Me? Because I mock your cherry? 1210 01:42:09,540 --> 01:42:12,782 Look to your health instead of corrupting me. 1211 01:42:14,211 --> 01:42:16,167 Take them off. I have to go. 1212 01:42:16,255 --> 01:42:17,711 So soon? 1213 01:42:21,218 --> 01:42:22,674 Look. 1214 01:42:23,304 --> 01:42:25,135 Look at my eyes. 1215 01:42:26,182 --> 01:42:28,764 Don't they seem to glow with rapture 1216 01:42:28,851 --> 01:42:31,467 like the eyes of a tortured martyr? 1217 01:42:31,562 --> 01:42:32,642 They do. 1218 01:42:33,689 --> 01:42:38,649 Quick! Before I recover and their feverish glow goes out. 1219 01:42:41,447 --> 01:42:43,904 Hurry up and dress me. 1220 01:42:43,991 --> 01:42:46,607 You know you shouldn't go on. 1221 01:42:46,702 --> 01:42:48,567 Of course I know. 1222 01:42:49,705 --> 01:42:53,539 How I wish I could be like you! 1223 01:42:55,711 --> 01:42:57,997 Madame, 1224 01:42:58,089 --> 01:43:03,209 judging by their alarm, the greeks will soon give you fresh cause to weep. 1225 01:43:03,302 --> 01:43:05,543 What urgency provokes their fright? 1226 01:43:05,638 --> 01:43:08,926 Has some poor trojan made good his flight? 1227 01:43:30,329 --> 01:43:33,071 Why be stubborn? Unleash your tongue! 1228 01:43:33,165 --> 01:43:36,077 - He swore to yield my son. - 'Tis not yet done! 1229 01:43:38,045 --> 01:43:40,627 Whether I weep or not, he dies. 1230 01:43:40,715 --> 01:43:43,798 Does she not even deign to turn her eyes? 1231 01:43:43,884 --> 01:43:45,715 What pride! 1232 01:43:45,803 --> 01:43:48,260 I'm only fueling his rage. 1233 01:43:49,056 --> 01:43:50,842 Let us away. 1234 01:44:03,654 --> 01:44:05,519 Is there no stand-in? 1235 01:44:05,614 --> 01:44:08,651 No-one stands in for marquise. Who could? 1236 01:44:08,743 --> 01:44:09,983 I know her role! 1237 01:44:10,077 --> 01:44:13,444 I've recited it backstage every night, 1238 01:44:13,539 --> 01:44:16,576 matching the movements of my lips to hers, 1239 01:44:16,667 --> 01:44:19,875 following her steps, copying her gestures 1240 01:44:19,962 --> 01:44:24,296 until I don't even know who's acting - her or me. 1241 01:44:25,593 --> 01:44:27,800 Put on the dress. 1242 01:44:27,887 --> 01:44:29,798 I'll tell them we'll go on. 1243 01:44:29,889 --> 01:44:31,470 I won't allow it! 1244 01:44:33,267 --> 01:44:37,761 Moliere's through with you. If I go bankrupt, you're finished. 1245 01:44:37,855 --> 01:44:38,890 You have no right. 1246 01:44:38,981 --> 01:44:43,224 Marquise will be well tomorrow. She told me to step in. 1247 01:44:49,241 --> 01:44:50,947 Put on the costume. 1248 01:44:53,120 --> 01:44:57,580 Madame, judging from their alarm, the greeks 1249 01:44:57,666 --> 01:45:00,373 will soon give you fresh cause to weep. 1250 01:45:00,461 --> 01:45:03,624 What urgency has caused their fright? 1251 01:45:03,714 --> 01:45:06,877 Has some poor trojan made good his flight? 1252 01:45:18,771 --> 01:45:21,604 They fear not that he'll avenge his father 1253 01:45:22,358 --> 01:45:25,521 but that he'll dry the tears of his mother. 1254 01:45:27,488 --> 01:45:30,651 With him, no spouse or father would I need. 1255 01:45:32,243 --> 01:45:34,359 Yet I must lose all, 1256 01:45:34,453 --> 01:45:37,069 and always by your deed. 1257 01:46:06,318 --> 01:46:09,060 Be still. You have a fever. 1258 01:46:14,326 --> 01:46:16,032 Where am I? 1259 01:46:17,371 --> 01:46:19,578 At home, look. 1260 01:46:20,749 --> 01:46:23,115 How long have I been here? 1261 01:46:25,004 --> 01:46:26,210 Three days. 1262 01:46:33,387 --> 01:46:35,252 Where is racine? 1263 01:46:37,391 --> 01:46:40,178 Shall I warm you some broth with a little hot wine? 1264 01:46:43,981 --> 01:46:46,313 Has the play been stopped? 1265 01:46:47,985 --> 01:46:49,816 No, why? 1266 01:46:54,742 --> 01:46:57,654 They can't do “andromaque” without me. 1267 01:47:02,124 --> 01:47:04,160 Marie is standing in for you. 1268 01:47:04,627 --> 01:47:08,540 Marie? That pup who still sucks at my breast? 1269 01:47:08,923 --> 01:47:10,413 She has made progress. 1270 01:47:10,507 --> 01:47:12,919 Racine won't let her. 1271 01:47:13,010 --> 01:47:15,251 And yet he does. 1272 01:47:16,680 --> 01:47:18,545 I don't believe it. 1273 01:47:19,433 --> 01:47:20,969 She's a child. 1274 01:47:21,060 --> 01:47:23,301 There are no children. 1275 01:47:25,606 --> 01:47:28,439 She might tempt him for three or four days... 1276 01:47:28,984 --> 01:47:31,441 The fourth day is almost over. 1277 01:47:38,035 --> 01:47:39,775 What does the king say? 1278 01:47:42,498 --> 01:47:44,989 He has somewhat deserted us. 1279 01:47:47,169 --> 01:47:49,831 We're actors to the end, you said. 1280 01:47:49,922 --> 01:47:53,631 Did 1? I refute it. If not, I dispute it. 1281 01:47:56,428 --> 01:47:58,009 Don't go. 1282 01:48:05,604 --> 01:48:06,889 Don't forget me. 1283 01:48:53,193 --> 01:48:56,651 Remember how pyrrhus, with eyes of fire, 1284 01:48:57,197 --> 01:49:00,234 made of our palaces a funeral pyre, 1285 01:49:00,743 --> 01:49:04,452 trampling my brothers' corpses on his way, 1286 01:49:04,538 --> 01:49:08,201 dripping with blood, urging his men to slay! 1287 01:49:08,292 --> 01:49:10,783 Hear how the Victors yelled! 1288 01:49:11,420 --> 01:49:13,251 Hear how the victims cried 1289 01:49:13,338 --> 01:49:16,830 as, choked by smoke and gored by sword, they died. 1290 01:49:19,094 --> 01:49:22,052 Picture andromaque amid the bloody strife. 1291 01:49:23,390 --> 01:49:26,723 That is how pyrrhus came into my life. 1292 01:50:56,400 --> 01:50:59,483 Tragedy actors suffer a terrible fate. 1293 01:50:59,570 --> 01:51:04,610 They are born at the start of act one and die at the end of act five. 1294 01:51:06,451 --> 01:51:10,319 In the meantime, what must they do? Suffer, suffer... 1295 01:51:11,456 --> 01:51:12,992 Suffer. 1296 01:51:14,376 --> 01:51:16,742 So they flee the stage because... 1297 01:51:17,421 --> 01:51:19,753 They are afraid of all this suffering. 1298 01:51:21,800 --> 01:51:24,917 But then they see there's nowhere else for them... 1299 01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:29,422 Nowhere else than the stage... 1300 01:51:30,726 --> 01:51:33,138 For them to live out their suffering, 1301 01:51:33,520 --> 01:51:34,635 their anguish, 1302 01:51:35,606 --> 01:51:37,392 their tragedy. 1303 01:51:40,736 --> 01:51:44,900 One day, you will understand that to act is to agree to die. 1304 01:51:56,960 --> 01:51:58,746 Did I say my lines well? 1305 01:51:59,713 --> 01:52:02,750 Very well but hush, now. 1306 01:52:03,383 --> 01:52:05,965 You replaced me too soon. 1307 01:52:06,053 --> 01:52:08,635 She acts a role. I acted my life. 1308 01:52:08,722 --> 01:52:10,804 Why did you do this? 1309 01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:13,886 A pregnant woman's whim. 1310 01:52:15,270 --> 01:52:16,885 You're pregnant? 1311 01:52:16,980 --> 01:52:18,936 Four months. 1312 01:52:21,652 --> 01:52:23,643 Why didn't you tell me? 1313 01:52:26,865 --> 01:52:29,447 I didn't want you to replace me. 1314 01:52:31,662 --> 01:52:33,823 Hush, hush. 1315 01:52:34,248 --> 01:52:35,784 I love you. 1316 01:52:42,172 --> 01:52:43,662 Look. 1317 01:52:44,424 --> 01:52:47,336 I'm dying happy in your arms. 1318 01:52:48,762 --> 01:52:50,468 Kiss me. 89907

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