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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:10,404 --> 00:01:12,406 It began as a holiday. 2 00:01:16,702 --> 00:01:19,037 Arthur Howitzer Junior, college freshman... 3 00:01:19,204 --> 00:01:21,874 eager to escape a bright future on the Great Plains... 4 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,586 convinced his father, proprietor of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun... 5 00:01:25,752 --> 00:01:29,339 to fund his transatlantic passage as an educational opportunity... 6 00:01:29,506 --> 00:01:30,966 to learn the family business... 7 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:33,719 through the production of a series of travelogue columns... 8 00:01:33,886 --> 00:01:38,098 to be published for local readers in the Sunday Picnic magazine. 9 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,863 Over the next ten years, he assembled a team... 10 00:01:53,030 --> 00:01:55,407 of the best expatriate journalists of his time... 11 00:01:55,574 --> 00:01:58,827 and transformed Picnic into The French Dispatch... 12 00:02:00,078 --> 00:02:03,999 a factual weekly report on the subjects of world politics... 13 00:02:04,166 --> 00:02:08,377 the arts, high and low, fashion, fancy cuisine, fine drink... 14 00:02:08,544 --> 00:02:12,966 and diverse stories of human interests set in faraway quartiers. 15 00:02:14,801 --> 00:02:17,221 He brought the world to Kansas. 16 00:02:22,017 --> 00:02:25,771 His writers line the spines of every good American library. 17 00:02:27,272 --> 00:02:28,565 Berensen... 18 00:02:29,608 --> 00:02:31,109 Sazerac... 19 00:02:32,194 --> 00:02:33,570 Krementz... 20 00:02:35,072 --> 00:02:36,782 Roebuck Wright. 21 00:02:37,908 --> 00:02:39,826 One reporter known as the best living writer... 22 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:42,287 in quality of sentences per minute. 23 00:02:43,121 --> 00:02:45,040 One who never completed a single article... 24 00:02:45,207 --> 00:02:48,335 but haunted the halls cheerily for three decades. 25 00:02:49,086 --> 00:02:53,257 One privately blind writer who wrote keenly through the eyes of others. 26 00:02:54,508 --> 00:02:58,053 The uncontested crackerjack of grammatical expertise. 27 00:03:00,138 --> 00:03:02,975 Cover illustrations by Hermès Jones. 28 00:03:03,433 --> 00:03:05,352 Famously gracious with his writers... 29 00:03:05,519 --> 00:03:09,106 Arthur Junior was less courteous with the rest of the magazine's staff. 30 00:03:09,273 --> 00:03:11,024 Oh, no, what's that? 31 00:03:11,191 --> 00:03:12,609 I need a turkey. 32 00:03:12,776 --> 00:03:15,737 Stuffed and roasted on a table with all the trimmings and pilgrims! 33 00:03:15,904 --> 00:03:19,074 His fiscal management system was convoluted but functional. 34 00:03:19,241 --> 00:03:21,994 Give her 150 francs a week for the next 15 years... 35 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,955 against five American cents per word, minus expenses. 36 00:03:25,163 --> 00:03:29,042 His most repeated literary advice, perhaps apocryphal, was simply this... 37 00:03:29,251 --> 00:03:32,671 Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose. 38 00:03:32,963 --> 00:03:37,050 His return to Liberty comes precisely 50 years after his departure, 39 00:03:37,176 --> 00:03:39,303 on the occasion of his funeral... 40 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:41,430 by which time the magazine's circulation exceeds... 41 00:03:41,597 --> 00:03:44,433 half a million subscribers in 50 countries. 42 00:03:45,017 --> 00:03:48,979 A willow hamper containing umpteen pins, plaques, and official citations... 43 00:03:49,146 --> 00:03:51,481 of the highest order is buried at his side, 44 00:03:51,648 --> 00:03:53,192 along with an Andretti Ribbon-mate... 45 00:03:53,358 --> 00:03:56,987 and a ream of triple bond, Egyptian cotton typing stock. 46 00:04:00,908 --> 00:04:03,869 He received an Editor's burial. 47 00:04:06,246 --> 00:04:08,290 In his will, he stipulated that... 48 00:04:08,457 --> 00:04:10,792 immediately upon his death, quote... 49 00:04:11,293 --> 00:04:13,795 The presses will be dismantled and liquefied. 50 00:04:14,004 --> 00:04:16,548 The editorial offices will be vacated and sold. 51 00:04:16,714 --> 00:04:19,885 The staff will be paid ample bonuses and released from their contracts... 52 00:04:20,052 --> 00:04:23,055 and the publication of the magazine will permanently cease. 53 00:04:23,847 --> 00:04:24,848 Thus... 54 00:04:25,307 --> 00:04:29,186 the publisher's obituary will also serve as that of this publication. 55 00:04:30,729 --> 00:04:33,774 All home delivery readers will, of course, be refunded, pro rata... 56 00:04:33,941 --> 00:04:36,818 for the unfulfilled portion of their subscriptions. 57 00:04:39,446 --> 00:04:42,407 His epitaph will be taken verbatim from the stenciled shingle... 58 00:04:42,574 --> 00:04:44,826 fixed above the door of his inner office. 59 00:04:44,993 --> 00:04:46,703 Berensen's article. The Concrete Masterpiece. 60 00:04:46,870 --> 00:04:48,539 Three dangling participles, two split infinitives... 61 00:04:48,705 --> 00:04:50,582 and nine spelling errors in the first sentence alone. 62 00:04:50,749 --> 00:04:52,584 Some of those are intentional. 63 00:04:53,502 --> 00:04:55,546 The Krementz story, Revisions to a Manifesto. 64 00:04:55,712 --> 00:04:58,340 We asked for 2,500 words, and she came in at 14,000... 65 00:04:58,507 --> 00:05:00,717 plus footnotes, endnotes, a glossary, and two epilogues. 66 00:05:00,884 --> 00:05:02,553 It's one of her best. 67 00:05:03,846 --> 00:05:05,722 -Sazerac? -Impossible to fact-check. 68 00:05:05,889 --> 00:05:08,851 He changes all the names and only writes about hobos, pimps, and junkies. 69 00:05:09,017 --> 00:05:10,561 These are his people. 70 00:05:11,895 --> 00:05:12,896 How about Roebuck Wright? 71 00:05:13,063 --> 00:05:14,982 His door's locked, but I could hear the keys clacking. 72 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:16,149 Don't rush him. 73 00:05:17,234 --> 00:05:18,485 The question is, who gets killed? 74 00:05:18,652 --> 00:05:20,821 There's one piece too many even if we print another double-issue... 75 00:05:20,988 --> 00:05:22,990 which we can't afford under any circumstances. 76 00:05:25,492 --> 00:05:28,412 A message from the foreman. One hour to press. 77 00:05:29,246 --> 00:05:30,372 You're fired. 78 00:05:31,456 --> 00:05:32,457 Really? 79 00:05:33,125 --> 00:05:35,169 Don't cry in my office. 80 00:05:42,467 --> 00:05:45,929 Shrink the masthead, cut some ads, and tell the foreman to buy more paper. 81 00:05:46,305 --> 00:05:48,223 I'm not killing anybody. 82 00:05:49,808 --> 00:05:52,102 Good writers. He coddled them. 83 00:05:52,269 --> 00:05:55,022 He coaxed them. He ferociously protected them. 84 00:05:55,772 --> 00:05:56,982 What do you think? 85 00:05:57,232 --> 00:05:58,233 For myself? 86 00:05:59,234 --> 00:06:01,361 I would start with Mr. Sazerac. 87 00:06:01,904 --> 00:06:03,780 These were his people. 88 00:06:21,548 --> 00:06:24,384 Ennui rises suddenly on a Monday. 89 00:06:51,119 --> 00:06:53,372 Through the time machine of poetic license... 90 00:06:53,539 --> 00:06:55,290 let us take a sight-seeing tour. 91 00:06:55,457 --> 00:06:59,419 A day in Ennui over the course of 250 years. 92 00:06:59,628 --> 00:07:03,173 The great city began as a cluster of tradesman's villages. 93 00:07:03,549 --> 00:07:05,968 Only the names remain unchanged. 94 00:07:06,385 --> 00:07:08,470 The Bootblack District. 95 00:07:11,473 --> 00:07:13,433 The Bricklayer's Quarter. 96 00:07:16,395 --> 00:07:18,021 The Butcher's Arcade. 97 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,735 Pick-pocket Cul-de-Sac. 98 00:07:26,738 --> 00:07:28,657 On this site, a fabled market... 99 00:07:28,824 --> 00:07:31,535 vending all forms of victuals and comestibles... 100 00:07:31,702 --> 00:07:35,622 under a single vast, glass-and-cast-iron canopy... 101 00:07:35,789 --> 00:07:37,875 later demolished, as you can see... 102 00:07:38,041 --> 00:07:42,171 in favor of a multi-level shopping center and parking structure. 103 00:07:43,213 --> 00:07:44,631 Like every living city... 104 00:07:44,798 --> 00:07:48,552 Ennui supports a menagerie of vermin and scavengers. 105 00:07:50,512 --> 00:07:53,640 The rats which colonized its subterranean railroad. 106 00:07:54,641 --> 00:07:58,270 The cats which colonized its slanty rooftops. 107 00:07:59,313 --> 00:08:02,900 The anguillettes which colonized its shallow drainage canals. 108 00:08:05,068 --> 00:08:07,779 After receiving the Host, marauding choirboys... 109 00:08:07,946 --> 00:08:11,325 half-drunk on the Blood of Christ, stalk unwary pensioners... 110 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:13,160 and seek havoc. 111 00:08:14,953 --> 00:08:17,664 In the Flop Quarter, students. 112 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:20,542 Hungry, restless, reckless. 113 00:08:21,251 --> 00:08:22,544 In the Hovel District... 114 00:08:22,711 --> 00:08:24,004 old people. 115 00:08:27,883 --> 00:08:30,636 Old people who have failed. 116 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:35,140 The automobile. 117 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,518 A mixed blessing. On the one hand... 118 00:08:37,683 --> 00:08:40,687 the honking, skidding, speeding, sputtering, and backfiring. 119 00:08:40,854 --> 00:08:44,191 The emission of toxic fumes and filthy exhaust-pollution... 120 00:08:44,358 --> 00:08:47,819 the dangerous accidents, the constant traffic, the high... 121 00:08:48,529 --> 00:08:49,530 Fuck! 122 00:08:50,405 --> 00:08:52,115 Department of Local Statistics. 123 00:08:52,366 --> 00:08:55,494 Average rainfall, 750 millimeters. 124 00:08:55,661 --> 00:08:59,373 Average snowfall, 190,000 flakes. 125 00:08:59,540 --> 00:09:02,960 Eight-point-two-five bodies are pulled from the Blasé river each week. 126 00:09:03,126 --> 00:09:06,004 A figure which remains consistent despite population growth... 127 00:09:06,171 --> 00:09:08,215 and advances in health and hygiene. 128 00:09:09,216 --> 00:09:12,386 As the sun sets, a medley of unregistered streetwalkers... 129 00:09:12,553 --> 00:09:16,515 and gigolos replaces the day's delivery boys and shopkeepers... 130 00:09:16,682 --> 00:09:20,269 and an air of promiscuous calm saturates the hour. 131 00:09:21,770 --> 00:09:24,147 What sounds will punctuate the night? 132 00:09:24,940 --> 00:09:27,317 And what mysteries will they foretell? 133 00:09:28,277 --> 00:09:31,029 Perhaps the doubtful old maxim speaks true. 134 00:09:34,241 --> 00:09:36,034 All grand beauties... 135 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:39,204 withhold their deepest secrets. 136 00:09:43,917 --> 00:09:47,004 "Rats, vermin, gigolos, streetwalkers." 137 00:09:47,212 --> 00:09:49,798 You don't think it's almost too seedy this time? 138 00:09:49,965 --> 00:09:51,633 -No, I don't. -For decent people. 139 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,343 It's supposed to be charming. 140 00:09:53,510 --> 00:09:56,346 "Pick-pockets, dead bodies, prisons, urinals..." 141 00:09:56,597 --> 00:09:58,432 You don't want to add a flower shop... 142 00:09:58,599 --> 00:09:59,766 -or an art museum? -No, I don't. 143 00:09:59,933 --> 00:10:01,393 A pretty place of some kind? 144 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:03,228 I hate flowers. 145 00:10:07,733 --> 00:10:11,028 You could cut the second half of the second paragraph, by the way. 146 00:10:11,445 --> 00:10:13,447 You already repeat it later. 147 00:10:14,198 --> 00:10:15,782 Okay. 148 00:12:40,552 --> 00:12:43,430 We take as the subject of tonight's lecture... 149 00:12:43,597 --> 00:12:45,974 the great painter at the vanguard... 150 00:12:46,183 --> 00:12:48,602 and heart of the French Splatter-school Action-group... 151 00:12:48,769 --> 00:12:51,063 Mr. Moses Rosenthaler. 152 00:12:51,230 --> 00:12:53,190 Widely celebrated, as you know... 153 00:12:53,357 --> 00:12:57,486 for the bold dramatic style, and colossal scale of his middle-period... 154 00:12:57,653 --> 00:13:01,281 in particular, of course, the polyptych-tableaux known as... 155 00:13:01,949 --> 00:13:05,035 Ten Reinforced Cement Aggregate Load-Bearing Murals. 156 00:13:05,202 --> 00:13:07,996 He remains, in my opinion, the most eloquent... 157 00:13:08,163 --> 00:13:13,794 and certainly, the loudest artistic voice of his rowdy generation. 158 00:13:14,503 --> 00:13:17,381 How does this pivotal piece come to find its way... 159 00:13:17,589 --> 00:13:20,843 into its unique position as a permanent installation here... 160 00:13:21,009 --> 00:13:22,678 at the Clampette Collection? 161 00:13:23,762 --> 00:13:26,181 The story begins in a mess hall. 162 00:13:30,435 --> 00:13:33,230 The exhibition, Ashtrays, Pots, and Macramé... 163 00:13:33,397 --> 00:13:36,066 a group show of handicrafts by amateur artisans... 164 00:13:36,233 --> 00:13:39,319 incarcerated in the lunatic section of the Ennui Prison-Asylum... 165 00:13:39,486 --> 00:13:42,739 might, perhaps, have been omitted from the annals of art history... 166 00:13:42,906 --> 00:13:46,535 had it not been for the inclusion in its number of a small painting... 167 00:13:46,702 --> 00:13:49,288 by Mr. Rosenthaler, who was, at that time... 168 00:13:49,454 --> 00:13:52,332 serving a 50-year sentence for the crime of double homicide... 169 00:13:52,499 --> 00:13:55,460 and the observation of that work by a fellow inmate... 170 00:13:55,627 --> 00:13:58,463 the Levantine art dealer Mr. Julian Cadazio... 171 00:13:58,630 --> 00:14:00,674 who, by fateful coincidence, happened to be imprisoned... 172 00:14:00,841 --> 00:14:04,344 in the adjoining annex on a charge of second-degree sales tax evasion. 173 00:14:05,345 --> 00:14:06,471 Guard. 174 00:14:11,018 --> 00:14:12,895 Who painted this picture? 175 00:14:18,358 --> 00:14:20,444 Citizen 7524. 176 00:14:21,403 --> 00:14:25,908 I believe that unit designates maximum security for the demented and deranged. 177 00:14:26,074 --> 00:14:28,911 Are you able to provide me an escort and a Friendly Visit Stamp... 178 00:14:29,077 --> 00:14:30,704 for immediate use? 179 00:14:53,268 --> 00:14:55,771 Simone, Naked, Cell Block J, Hobby Room. 180 00:14:56,230 --> 00:14:57,397 I wanna buy it. 181 00:14:58,315 --> 00:14:59,316 Why? 182 00:14:59,816 --> 00:15:01,026 Because I like it. 183 00:15:02,027 --> 00:15:03,403 It's not for sale. 184 00:15:03,737 --> 00:15:04,738 Yes, it is. 185 00:15:06,114 --> 00:15:07,616 -No, it isn't. -Yes, it is. 186 00:15:07,824 --> 00:15:09,034 -No, it isn't. -Yes, it is. 187 00:15:09,201 --> 00:15:10,702 -No, it isn't. -It is, yes. It is. 188 00:15:10,869 --> 00:15:13,872 All artists sell all their work. It's what makes you an artist. 189 00:15:14,039 --> 00:15:17,042 Selling it.If you don't wish to sell it, don't paint it. 190 00:15:17,459 --> 00:15:19,795 Question is, what's your price? 191 00:15:22,881 --> 00:15:24,383 50 cigarettes. 192 00:15:24,550 --> 00:15:26,260 Actually, make it 75. 193 00:15:27,594 --> 00:15:29,638 Why do you keep looking at that guard? 194 00:15:35,435 --> 00:15:36,895 She's Simone. 195 00:15:46,488 --> 00:15:48,407 I don't want to buy this important piece for 50 cigarettes. 196 00:15:48,574 --> 00:15:50,701 -75. -Or 75 of prison currency. 197 00:15:50,868 --> 00:15:53,954 I want to pay you 250,000 francs in legal French tender. 198 00:15:54,121 --> 00:15:55,539 Do we agree on the sale? 199 00:16:02,921 --> 00:16:04,798 I can only offer a deposit of... 200 00:16:05,215 --> 00:16:08,594 83 centimes, one candied chestnut, and four cigarettes. 201 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,804 Everything I have at this present moment in time. 202 00:16:10,971 --> 00:16:13,223 However, if you'll accept my signatory voucher, I assure you... 203 00:16:13,390 --> 00:16:14,725 a check for the outstanding balance 204 00:16:14,808 --> 00:16:16,351 will be remitted to your account within 90 days. 205 00:16:16,518 --> 00:16:17,895 Where do you bank? 206 00:16:18,437 --> 00:16:20,272 Never mind. 207 00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:44,922 How'd you learn to do it, by the way? 208 00:16:45,172 --> 00:16:46,507 Paint this kind of picture. 209 00:16:46,673 --> 00:16:50,135 Also, who'd you murder, and how crazy are you, really? 210 00:16:50,302 --> 00:16:52,888 I need background information so that we can do a book about you. 211 00:16:53,347 --> 00:16:54,806 It makes you more important. 212 00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:57,100 Who are you... 213 00:16:59,019 --> 00:17:01,355 Moses Rosenthaler? 214 00:17:03,690 --> 00:17:07,944 Born rich, the son of a Jewish-Mexican horse rancher... 215 00:17:08,612 --> 00:17:12,241 Miguel Sebastian Maria Moisés de Rosenthaler... 216 00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:16,369 trained at the École des Antiquités at significant family expense. 217 00:17:16,537 --> 00:17:19,122 But, by the end of his youth... 218 00:17:19,373 --> 00:17:20,999 he had shed all the luxuries... 219 00:17:21,165 --> 00:17:24,377 of his comfortable background and replaced them with... 220 00:17:25,253 --> 00:17:26,463 Squalor. 221 00:17:29,174 --> 00:17:30,467 Hunger. 222 00:17:33,303 --> 00:17:34,596 Loneliness. 223 00:17:37,933 --> 00:17:39,351 Physical danger. 224 00:17:44,022 --> 00:17:45,732 Mental illness. 225 00:17:48,443 --> 00:17:49,862 And, of course... 226 00:17:51,655 --> 00:17:52,990 Criminal violence. 227 00:18:13,093 --> 00:18:15,637 He did not pick up a brush during the first decade... 228 00:18:15,804 --> 00:18:17,806 of his long prison sentence. 229 00:19:14,321 --> 00:19:16,782 Permission to sign up for activity privileges, gardienne. 230 00:19:18,408 --> 00:19:19,451 This thing? 231 00:19:28,085 --> 00:19:29,086 What do you mean? 232 00:19:29,169 --> 00:19:30,420 Tell the group about yourself. 233 00:19:30,504 --> 00:19:32,381 -I don't wanna do that. -It's mandatory. 234 00:19:32,464 --> 00:19:34,091 -They know me already. -That's not the point. 235 00:19:34,258 --> 00:19:36,552 -I haven't even prepared a speech. -Say something. 236 00:19:45,060 --> 00:19:49,565 Well, I've been here 3,647 days and nights. 237 00:19:51,608 --> 00:19:55,279 Another 14,603 to go. 238 00:19:55,904 --> 00:19:59,908 I drink 14 pints of mouthwash rations per week. 239 00:20:00,701 --> 00:20:02,452 At that rate... 240 00:20:02,870 --> 00:20:04,913 I think I'm going to poison myself to death... 241 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,749 before I ever get to see the world again, 242 00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:11,461 which makes me feel... 243 00:20:12,296 --> 00:20:13,881 very sad. 244 00:20:14,298 --> 00:20:16,800 I gotta change my program. 245 00:20:16,967 --> 00:20:19,511 I gotta go in a new direction. 246 00:20:19,678 --> 00:20:23,932 Anything I can do to keep my hands busy, I'm gonna do. 247 00:20:25,893 --> 00:20:27,853 Otherwise... 248 00:20:28,896 --> 00:20:31,648 I think maybe it's gonna be a suicide. 249 00:20:38,238 --> 00:20:42,534 And that's why I signed up for clay pottery and basket weaving. 250 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:46,455 My name is Moses. 251 00:20:47,539 --> 00:20:48,957 Take a pew. 252 00:21:02,262 --> 00:21:04,556 What's your name, gardienne? 253 00:21:04,723 --> 00:21:05,849 Simone. 254 00:21:12,689 --> 00:21:15,984 Certain women do gravitate toward incarcerated men. 255 00:21:16,151 --> 00:21:17,903 It's a recognized condition. 256 00:21:18,904 --> 00:21:21,365 Something about the captivity of others... 257 00:21:21,532 --> 00:21:24,701 enhances the experience of their own freedom. 258 00:21:24,993 --> 00:21:26,995 I assure you, it's erotic. 259 00:21:27,538 --> 00:21:29,039 Look at her, by the way. 260 00:21:29,206 --> 00:21:30,958 Born into quasi-serfdom... 261 00:21:31,208 --> 00:21:32,668 16 brothers and sisters. 262 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,711 Illiterate until she was 20. 263 00:21:34,878 --> 00:21:37,130 Now, a woman of considerable property. 264 00:21:37,297 --> 00:21:38,465 Radiant. 265 00:21:38,632 --> 00:21:39,633 Good God. 266 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:40,884 Wrong slide. That's me. 267 00:21:42,761 --> 00:21:47,057 Simone, of course, refused all Rosenthaler's entreaties of marriage... 268 00:21:47,224 --> 00:21:49,351 which, we are told, were frequent... 269 00:21:49,518 --> 00:21:51,770 and marvelously enthusiastic. 270 00:21:52,396 --> 00:21:55,232 I wanna say it as simple as I can. 271 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,901 To try to shape it into words. 272 00:21:58,569 --> 00:22:00,279 The feelings in my heart. 273 00:22:01,113 --> 00:22:02,614 -I don't love you. -I love you. 274 00:22:03,031 --> 00:22:04,032 What? 275 00:22:04,157 --> 00:22:05,576 I don't love you. 276 00:22:06,076 --> 00:22:07,160 Already? 277 00:22:07,327 --> 00:22:08,328 Already what? 278 00:22:08,495 --> 00:22:09,913 Already how do you know that? 279 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,665 How can you be sure? It's so quick. 280 00:22:11,832 --> 00:22:13,166 I'm sure. 281 00:22:14,168 --> 00:22:15,169 Ouch. 282 00:22:15,878 --> 00:22:17,129 That hurts me. 283 00:22:17,296 --> 00:22:20,632 The cruelty of it. The cold-bloodedness. 284 00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:23,510 You said what you wanted to say. I tried to stop you. That's it. 285 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,971 I said part of what I wanted to say. 286 00:22:26,138 --> 00:22:28,348 I was in the middle of it. There's more. 287 00:22:28,682 --> 00:22:29,808 No. 288 00:22:30,642 --> 00:22:32,895 -No what? Will you... -No. 289 00:22:33,061 --> 00:22:34,062 -Will you marry me? -No. 290 00:23:01,089 --> 00:23:02,716 I'm gonna need art supplies. 291 00:23:04,092 --> 00:23:07,012 Canvas, stretchers, brushes, turpentine. 292 00:23:07,179 --> 00:23:08,722 What do you want to paint? 293 00:23:09,056 --> 00:23:10,557 The future. 294 00:23:14,728 --> 00:23:16,396 Which is you. 295 00:23:18,148 --> 00:23:21,026 Widely not considered a great connoisseur... 296 00:23:21,193 --> 00:23:24,112 Julian Cadazio, nevertheless, had an eye for something, 297 00:23:24,279 --> 00:23:27,032 and he did us all a very good turn... 298 00:23:27,199 --> 00:23:29,993 when the hour he was released from prison... 299 00:23:35,541 --> 00:23:38,043 We're done with flowers and fruit bowls. 300 00:23:38,335 --> 00:23:40,671 We're finished with beaches and seascapes. 301 00:23:41,171 --> 00:23:43,757 We're getting out of armor, rugs, and tapestries, too. 302 00:23:44,424 --> 00:23:45,717 I found something new. 303 00:23:56,645 --> 00:23:57,688 Modern art? 304 00:23:57,896 --> 00:24:00,148 Modern art. Our specialty, starting now. 305 00:24:00,315 --> 00:24:01,817 -I don't get it. -Of course you don't. 306 00:24:01,984 --> 00:24:03,068 -Am I too old? -Of course you are. 307 00:24:03,235 --> 00:24:05,279 -Why is this good? -It isn't good. Wrong idea. 308 00:24:05,445 --> 00:24:06,530 That's no answer. 309 00:24:06,697 --> 00:24:08,532 My point. You see the girl in it? 310 00:24:08,740 --> 00:24:09,783 No. 311 00:24:09,950 --> 00:24:11,952 Trust me, she's there. 312 00:24:14,329 --> 00:24:16,665 One way to tell if a modern artist actually knows what he's doing... 313 00:24:16,832 --> 00:24:20,169 is to get him to paint you a horse or a flower or a sinking battleship... 314 00:24:20,335 --> 00:24:22,004 or something that's actually supposed to look like... 315 00:24:22,171 --> 00:24:24,214 the thing that it's actually supposed to look like. 316 00:24:24,590 --> 00:24:26,717 Can he do it? Look at this. 317 00:24:27,509 --> 00:24:29,845 Drawn in 45 seconds right in front of me with a burnt matchstick. 318 00:24:30,053 --> 00:24:32,181 A perfect sparrow. That's excellent. 319 00:24:32,347 --> 00:24:33,348 May I keep it? 320 00:24:33,515 --> 00:24:34,808 Don't be stupid. Of course not. 321 00:24:34,975 --> 00:24:38,020 The point is, he could paint this beautifully if he wanted... 322 00:24:38,187 --> 00:24:40,272 but he thinks this is better. 323 00:24:40,439 --> 00:24:42,399 And I think I sort of agree with him. 324 00:24:43,108 --> 00:24:46,486 Simone, Naked, Cell Block J, Hobby Room is probably a masterpiece... 325 00:24:46,653 --> 00:24:49,656 worth a significant, even exorbitant, sum of money. 326 00:24:50,574 --> 00:24:51,742 But not yet. 327 00:24:52,534 --> 00:24:54,786 The desire must be created. 328 00:24:57,164 --> 00:24:58,707 How long is he in for? 329 00:25:10,260 --> 00:25:11,970 Mr. Rosenthaler... 330 00:25:12,721 --> 00:25:15,098 why should we put you back on the street? 331 00:25:16,225 --> 00:25:18,602 Because it was an accident, Your Honor. 332 00:25:19,561 --> 00:25:21,980 I didn't intend to kill anybody. 333 00:25:22,606 --> 00:25:25,776 You decapitated two bartenders with a meat saw. 334 00:25:30,489 --> 00:25:32,616 The first bartender was an accident. 335 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:35,911 The second one was self-defense. 336 00:25:36,495 --> 00:25:38,956 Well, be that as it may... 337 00:25:39,122 --> 00:25:42,167 what demonstration of genuine remorse, or, at the very least... 338 00:25:42,334 --> 00:25:44,920 regret can you offer for beheading these men? 339 00:25:49,341 --> 00:25:50,759 They had it coming. 340 00:25:51,343 --> 00:25:53,220 -I beg your pardon? -Forgive me. 341 00:25:55,347 --> 00:25:57,266 Is there a part of this ritual where you ask... 342 00:25:57,432 --> 00:26:00,018 if anybody has something to say before it's too late? 343 00:26:00,227 --> 00:26:01,436 Like, at a wedding. 344 00:26:01,603 --> 00:26:03,647 -No. -I'll be brief. 345 00:26:08,151 --> 00:26:10,529 We all know this man is a murderer. 346 00:26:10,696 --> 00:26:14,283 Totally guilty of first-degree homicide, any way you slice it. 347 00:26:14,449 --> 00:26:15,492 That's a given. 348 00:26:15,659 --> 00:26:18,996 However, he's also that rare once-in-a-generation guy... 349 00:26:19,162 --> 00:26:22,666 that you hear about, but never get the chance to discover for yourself. 350 00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:25,752 An artistic genius. 351 00:26:26,503 --> 00:26:27,963 Surely, there ought to be a double standard 352 00:26:28,046 --> 00:26:29,423 for this sort of predicament. 353 00:26:29,756 --> 00:26:33,635 Supposedly, he's a psychotic, by the way. That's not his fault. 354 00:26:33,802 --> 00:26:36,263 Respectfully, I submit... 355 00:26:38,098 --> 00:26:40,809 maybe we could think up some other way to punish him? 356 00:26:41,602 --> 00:26:44,688 Rosenthaler's right to petition for parole was permanently revoked... 357 00:26:44,855 --> 00:26:46,440 for the duration of his sentence. 358 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:49,359 No further questions. 359 00:26:49,860 --> 00:26:53,697 Nevertheless, Cadazio and his uncles were unanimous in their decision... 360 00:26:53,864 --> 00:26:56,700 to promote the artist as his exclusive brokers... 361 00:26:56,867 --> 00:26:58,660 throughout the free world. 362 00:27:01,121 --> 00:27:03,957 Simone travelled far and wide. 363 00:27:05,834 --> 00:27:07,419 The Ennui Salon. 364 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,715 The Royal Exposition. 365 00:27:13,091 --> 00:27:15,928 The International Pavilion at the Liberty, Kansas State Fair... 366 00:27:16,094 --> 00:27:18,222 which was very nearly burned to the ground. 367 00:27:18,722 --> 00:27:21,058 In short, the picture was a sensation. 368 00:27:23,602 --> 00:27:26,104 Even the artist's all but forgotten earlier work... 369 00:27:26,271 --> 00:27:30,025 inspired wildly robust sales on the secondary market. 370 00:27:31,610 --> 00:27:35,322 Meanwhile, Rosenthaler continued to work in confinement. 371 00:27:35,781 --> 00:27:39,284 Strikingly, the artist favored raw materials sourced... 372 00:27:39,451 --> 00:27:42,246 exclusively from within the prison-asylum domain. 373 00:27:42,996 --> 00:27:44,665 Powdered eggs. 374 00:27:45,123 --> 00:27:46,542 Pigeon blood. 375 00:27:47,042 --> 00:27:48,418 Shackle grease. 376 00:27:48,669 --> 00:27:50,462 Coal, cork, and dung. 377 00:27:50,629 --> 00:27:52,089 Fire, of course. 378 00:27:52,631 --> 00:27:54,383 Bright yellow scullery soap. 379 00:27:54,550 --> 00:27:57,427 And fresh cream of millet as a binding agent. 380 00:27:58,804 --> 00:28:01,056 Simone liked to stand still. 381 00:28:01,223 --> 00:28:04,101 Indeed, she was Olympian in her ability... 382 00:28:04,268 --> 00:28:07,354 to hold extremely challenging positions for extended periods of time. 383 00:28:07,688 --> 00:28:11,358 She exhibited very little vulnerability to extremes of heat or cold. 384 00:28:11,483 --> 00:28:14,278 After even the most adverse forms of exposure... 385 00:28:14,444 --> 00:28:18,448 her skin remained unburned, unblemished, un-goose-pimpled. 386 00:28:18,615 --> 00:28:19,658 Another tidbit. 387 00:28:19,825 --> 00:28:22,661 She genuinely enjoyed the smell of turpentine... 388 00:28:22,828 --> 00:28:26,999 and in later years actually wore it in the application of her toilet. 389 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:30,460 She was more than a muse. 390 00:28:35,549 --> 00:28:37,009 Throw the switch. 391 00:28:45,517 --> 00:28:48,562 Throw the switch, you cocksucker. 392 00:28:53,650 --> 00:28:55,903 What's wrong with you? Go back to work. 393 00:28:56,862 --> 00:28:58,572 I can't. 394 00:28:59,031 --> 00:29:00,949 I won't. It's too hard. 395 00:29:02,075 --> 00:29:03,660 It's torture. 396 00:29:04,077 --> 00:29:07,414 I'm literally a tortured artist. 397 00:29:10,375 --> 00:29:11,835 Poor baby. 398 00:29:12,628 --> 00:29:13,629 Get out. 399 00:29:30,854 --> 00:29:31,855 Is that what you want? 400 00:30:09,893 --> 00:30:11,562 What's your problem? 401 00:30:13,188 --> 00:30:14,565 I don't know what to paint. 402 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,942 The French Splatter-school Action group. 403 00:30:59,443 --> 00:31:03,113 A dynamic, talented, lusty, slovenly, alcoholic... 404 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,033 violent pack of creative savages. 405 00:31:07,075 --> 00:31:10,120 They inspired and very often... 406 00:31:10,287 --> 00:31:13,582 personally attacked each other for two decades and more. 407 00:31:13,749 --> 00:31:15,501 I'll have my drink now. 408 00:31:20,464 --> 00:31:23,175 Remember, in those days, as you know... 409 00:31:23,342 --> 00:31:27,346 it was much more socially acceptable for a painter or a sculptor... 410 00:31:27,513 --> 00:31:31,350 to hit another fellow with a chair or even a brick... 411 00:31:31,558 --> 00:31:35,437 or walk around with a black eye or a broken tooth and so on. 412 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,816 Indeed, I'm jumping ahead, but in my own experience... 413 00:31:39,983 --> 00:31:43,529 Rosenthaler could be quite unpredictably impulsive. 414 00:31:43,695 --> 00:31:47,241 Meaning, I refer to the pigment locker beneath his studio... 415 00:31:47,407 --> 00:31:49,409 in the Boulevard des Plombiers, on one occasion... 416 00:31:49,576 --> 00:31:51,745 he grabbed me and put me in there, 417 00:31:51,828 --> 00:31:55,249 and inappropriately, sort of, tried to fuck me... 418 00:31:55,415 --> 00:31:57,584 against the wall in the corner of that pigment locker. 419 00:31:57,751 --> 00:32:01,004 He was crazy. Officially certified. 420 00:32:10,764 --> 00:32:13,892 The Cadazios, of course, represented them all. 421 00:32:24,361 --> 00:32:25,946 It's three years later. 422 00:32:26,154 --> 00:32:27,906 We've made you the most famous painter alive... 423 00:32:28,073 --> 00:32:30,951 based on one small, scribbly, overrated picture. 424 00:32:31,118 --> 00:32:32,494 You're an art school course. 425 00:32:32,661 --> 00:32:34,162 You're an encyclopedia entry. 426 00:32:34,329 --> 00:32:37,124 Even your disciples have won and squandered multiple fortunes... 427 00:32:37,291 --> 00:32:40,002 yet you refuse to show us so much as a sketch or a study... 428 00:32:40,169 --> 00:32:43,297 for a single new piece during this entire, protracted period. 429 00:32:43,463 --> 00:32:44,965 How long are we meant to wait? 430 00:32:45,132 --> 00:32:47,217 Well, don't answer, because we're not asking. 431 00:32:48,051 --> 00:32:50,095 We already printed the invitations. 432 00:32:50,262 --> 00:32:51,555 We're coming in. 433 00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:54,016 All of us. The collectors. The critics. 434 00:32:54,266 --> 00:32:56,685 Even your second-rate imitators we represent who suck up to you... 435 00:32:56,852 --> 00:32:59,438 and smuggle you goodies and probably turn out to be better than you are. 436 00:32:59,771 --> 00:33:01,690 The bribes alone are going to be outrageous, 437 00:33:01,773 --> 00:33:02,983 as these guards can assure you. 438 00:33:03,192 --> 00:33:04,568 But we're gonna pay 'em. 439 00:33:04,818 --> 00:33:06,403 So, finish it, whatever it is. 440 00:33:06,945 --> 00:33:08,780 The show is in two weeks. 441 00:33:16,747 --> 00:33:18,665 She thinks it's ready, by the way. 442 00:33:19,166 --> 00:33:20,250 It's ready. 443 00:33:22,961 --> 00:33:24,796 I could use another year. 444 00:33:27,841 --> 00:33:31,720 My employer, at that time, received the intriguing summons... 445 00:33:31,887 --> 00:33:33,764 by rapid-priority wire. 446 00:33:33,931 --> 00:33:37,559 I refer, of course, to Upshur "Maw" Clampette. 447 00:33:38,810 --> 00:33:40,854 Astute collector of antiquities. 448 00:33:41,021 --> 00:33:42,648 Great friend to the avant-garde. 449 00:33:42,814 --> 00:33:46,109 Her collection, even in its infancy, was well-known and important... 450 00:33:46,276 --> 00:33:49,947 as was her residence, Ingo Steen's first American commission... 451 00:33:50,113 --> 00:33:53,242 informally known as the Doorstop House. 452 00:33:53,951 --> 00:33:58,080 It was my duty, and I may say, my privilege to catalogue... 453 00:33:58,247 --> 00:34:01,583 archive, and advise, although she did whatever the hell she wanted... 454 00:34:01,750 --> 00:34:03,794 no matter what you told her, anyway. 455 00:34:04,461 --> 00:34:08,841 Thus, we began the long journey from Liberty to Ennui. 456 00:34:09,925 --> 00:34:12,803 My dear Mrs. Clampette, Maw, if I may, 457 00:34:12,969 --> 00:34:16,014 please join us for the first display of Mr. Moses Rosenthaler's... 458 00:34:16,181 --> 00:34:17,724 extremely exciting new work, 459 00:34:17,808 --> 00:34:19,851 which I, myself, have not yet been permitted to see. 460 00:34:20,185 --> 00:34:22,813 In order to facilitate the viewing in a timely fashion... 461 00:34:22,980 --> 00:34:24,313 it may prove necessary for us 462 00:34:24,398 --> 00:34:26,567 to surreptitiously gain access to the facility... 463 00:34:26,733 --> 00:34:28,735 where the artist currently resides. 464 00:34:29,027 --> 00:34:31,655 Please rely on my operatives to organize any and all details... 465 00:34:31,822 --> 00:34:33,447 and preparations for your visit. 466 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:37,578 Caution, do not bring matches, lighters, or sharp objects of any kind. 467 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,956 We await your confirmation with cheerful anticipation. 468 00:34:41,123 --> 00:34:45,210 Yours most truly, Cadazio Uncles and Nephew Galerie concern. 469 00:34:48,797 --> 00:34:51,925 The paddy wagon collected us directly after the night's final round... 470 00:34:52,092 --> 00:34:53,135 of working girls and revelers 471 00:34:53,217 --> 00:34:55,971 were delivered to the drunk tank at 3:00 a.m. 472 00:35:42,476 --> 00:35:44,520 Moses, are you here? 473 00:35:47,773 --> 00:35:49,441 Any words of introduction? 474 00:35:49,608 --> 00:35:53,028 Or perhaps, a welcome to our wonderful guests, some of whom... 475 00:35:53,195 --> 00:35:55,614 have traveled a great distance to come see your work, I hope? 476 00:35:55,781 --> 00:35:58,534 Or, alternatively, just, I don't know. 477 00:35:59,201 --> 00:36:00,202 Hello? 478 00:36:03,413 --> 00:36:05,457 Quiet, please! 479 00:36:06,124 --> 00:36:07,709 Quiet, please! 480 00:36:11,630 --> 00:36:13,841 I did it. It's good! This is historic. 481 00:36:14,007 --> 00:36:15,717 Open the champagne! I did it. 482 00:36:15,884 --> 00:36:16,885 Music! 483 00:36:23,308 --> 00:36:24,643 Why are you sitting in a wheelchair like an invalid? 484 00:36:24,810 --> 00:36:26,687 You should be dancing on the tables! It's a triumph! 485 00:36:32,025 --> 00:36:33,443 Do you like it? 486 00:36:34,611 --> 00:36:36,238 Do I like it? 487 00:36:36,613 --> 00:36:37,865 Yes. 488 00:36:44,288 --> 00:36:46,290 Look at Maw, she's mesmerized. 489 00:36:48,750 --> 00:36:50,335 This here's a fresco, t'weren't it? 490 00:36:50,502 --> 00:36:53,255 Precisely. He's a Renaissance master of the highest order. 491 00:36:53,422 --> 00:36:55,299 He mines the same vein as Piperno Pierluigi 492 00:36:55,382 --> 00:36:56,383 when he illuminated... 493 00:36:56,550 --> 00:36:59,636 The Christ Before God's Heavenly Altar in 1565. 494 00:36:59,803 --> 00:37:02,472 Maw, nobody has an eye for things nobody has ever seen... 495 00:37:02,639 --> 00:37:04,641 like Maw Clampette of Liberty, Kansas. 496 00:37:04,808 --> 00:37:07,144 We should be ashamed to even gather in her presence. 497 00:37:07,311 --> 00:37:08,937 Why the fuck did she say fresco? 498 00:37:10,105 --> 00:37:12,774 Are they painted into the walls? 499 00:37:13,483 --> 00:37:15,694 Oh, no. What has he done? 500 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,155 You fucking asshole. 501 00:37:18,363 --> 00:37:19,489 Are you seeing this? Look at this! 502 00:37:19,656 --> 00:37:21,658 -Well, I think it's utterly wonderful. -It's crucial! 503 00:37:21,825 --> 00:37:24,369 It's probably a turning point in the evolution of human pictography. 504 00:37:24,536 --> 00:37:27,706 Scratched and plastered into a reinforced cement aggregate gymnasium. 505 00:37:27,915 --> 00:37:29,333 He even painted onto the radiators! 506 00:37:29,541 --> 00:37:33,170 Maybe one of them restoration fellers out at the Fondazione dell'Arte Classico... 507 00:37:33,337 --> 00:37:35,297 could figure a way to rustle them pictures loose. 508 00:37:35,464 --> 00:37:37,257 We're in a maximum-security prison, Maw. 509 00:37:37,424 --> 00:37:38,425 It's federal property. 510 00:37:38,592 --> 00:37:41,011 Even to begin the bureaucratic nightmare would require years... 511 00:37:41,220 --> 00:37:44,431 of negotiation with a team of highly-paid, arrogant, obnoxious advocates. 512 00:37:44,598 --> 00:37:46,725 I don't even know how you'd peel them off. It's a fresco. 513 00:37:47,226 --> 00:37:50,229 Hey! It's a fresco! 514 00:37:51,188 --> 00:37:52,189 So what? 515 00:37:52,272 --> 00:37:54,775 Can you even begin to fathom the shit-ton of money... 516 00:37:54,942 --> 00:37:57,819 my uncles and I have squandered to get to this point of no return? 517 00:37:58,237 --> 00:37:59,363 Look at them! 518 00:38:00,948 --> 00:38:01,949 You've ruined us! 519 00:38:02,032 --> 00:38:03,492 Does it mean nothing to you? 520 00:38:03,825 --> 00:38:04,910 I thought you liked it. 521 00:38:05,369 --> 00:38:08,080 I think it stinks! 522 00:38:09,289 --> 00:38:10,374 Get out of that wheelchair! 523 00:38:10,541 --> 00:38:13,085 I'm going to kick your ass up and down this hobby room! 524 00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:18,173 Don't growl at me, you convicted murderer. 525 00:38:18,507 --> 00:38:23,095 You homicidal, suicidal, psychopathic, no-talent drunk! 526 00:38:47,661 --> 00:38:49,663 Why didn't you tell me, gardienne? 527 00:38:50,706 --> 00:38:52,833 Because you would've stopped him. 528 00:38:59,715 --> 00:39:01,175 We have to accept it. 529 00:39:01,341 --> 00:39:03,260 His need to fail is more powerful... 530 00:39:03,427 --> 00:39:06,054 than our strongest desires to help him succeed. 531 00:39:06,221 --> 00:39:08,265 I give up. He's defeated us. 532 00:39:08,432 --> 00:39:10,726 -He's defeated us. -Sad, but there it is. 533 00:39:12,311 --> 00:39:16,148 Anyway, at least, he finished the motherfucker. 534 00:39:17,149 --> 00:39:20,485 It is, perhaps, the most interesting contemplation of peripheral vision... 535 00:39:20,652 --> 00:39:22,196 I've ever seen. 536 00:39:30,078 --> 00:39:31,747 Well done, Moses. 537 00:39:41,173 --> 00:39:44,843 Well done, Moses. This has a greatness to it. 538 00:39:46,470 --> 00:39:49,097 If you plastered it deep enough, it may last. 539 00:39:50,349 --> 00:39:52,434 We'll come and see it again one day. 540 00:39:52,726 --> 00:39:54,061 God willing. 541 00:39:54,353 --> 00:39:56,772 You'll already still be here, of course. 542 00:39:59,233 --> 00:40:00,901 It's all Simone. 543 00:40:16,041 --> 00:40:19,503 At that moment, they were both aware of Simone's intention... 544 00:40:19,753 --> 00:40:20,838 to leave her position 545 00:40:20,921 --> 00:40:23,048 at the Ennui Prison-Asylum the following day... 546 00:40:23,340 --> 00:40:25,759 endowed with funds provided by the Cadazios... 547 00:40:26,009 --> 00:40:29,930 as compensation for her work as Rosenthaler's model and muse. 548 00:40:31,056 --> 00:40:33,642 She was reunited with the estranged child to whom... 549 00:40:33,851 --> 00:40:35,435 she had given birth in her youth, 550 00:40:35,602 --> 00:40:38,188 and the two never again lived apart. 551 00:40:39,189 --> 00:40:41,900 She and Rosenthaler maintained a regular correspondence... 552 00:40:42,067 --> 00:40:43,861 for the rest of the artist's life. 553 00:40:49,366 --> 00:40:51,827 Mrs. Clampette would like to put the piece on hold. 554 00:40:53,245 --> 00:40:54,246 The half-sticker? 555 00:40:54,413 --> 00:40:55,581 Yes, please. 556 00:40:55,747 --> 00:40:57,249 Should she choose to finalize the sale... 557 00:40:57,416 --> 00:41:00,127 will this amount be acceptable to you and your uncles? 558 00:41:03,881 --> 00:41:05,090 Can we get a deposit? 559 00:41:06,133 --> 00:41:08,927 Maw? An advance against the total sum? 560 00:41:10,721 --> 00:41:13,891 Tell them stingy Frenchmen I ain't making no promises. 561 00:41:14,057 --> 00:41:16,768 Ten Reinforced Cement Aggregate Load-Bearing Murals... 562 00:41:16,935 --> 00:41:19,438 was to remain on hold under the name Upshur Clampette... 563 00:41:19,605 --> 00:41:21,565 for the subsequent 20 years. 564 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:27,321 Which prisoners? 565 00:41:32,201 --> 00:41:34,745 Tell them we don't bribe rapists and pickpockets. It's unethical. 566 00:41:34,912 --> 00:41:37,873 Besides, I didn't bring an additional 6,000,000 francs in small bills. 567 00:41:44,755 --> 00:41:45,923 How'd you get out there? 568 00:41:46,590 --> 00:41:47,883 What do we do? 569 00:41:48,175 --> 00:41:49,384 Lock the door. 570 00:41:58,644 --> 00:42:01,188 In the aftermath, 72 prisoners... 571 00:42:01,355 --> 00:42:03,148 and six members of the French Splatter-school 572 00:42:03,232 --> 00:42:05,817 lay dead or mortally wounded. 573 00:42:05,984 --> 00:42:09,071 Moses Rosenthaler, for acts of extreme valor... 574 00:42:09,238 --> 00:42:13,367 which saved the lives of nine guards, 22 distinguished visitors... 575 00:42:13,534 --> 00:42:15,577 and the Ministers of Culture and Urbanity... 576 00:42:15,744 --> 00:42:19,039 received his freedom with probation for life. 577 00:42:21,166 --> 00:42:24,002 And was decorated in the Order of the Caged Lion. 578 00:42:30,676 --> 00:42:34,471 One score later, as per Maw Clampette's detailed instructions... 579 00:42:34,638 --> 00:42:38,392 Cadazio and his own nephews arranged for the entirety of the hobby room... 580 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:43,438 to be relocated onboard a Goliath aviation 12-engine artillery transport... 581 00:42:43,605 --> 00:42:46,525 directly from Ennui to Liberty. 582 00:42:50,988 --> 00:42:54,283 In this form, the avant-garde assumed its place... 583 00:42:54,449 --> 00:42:56,910 upon the plains of Central Kansas. 584 00:43:09,464 --> 00:43:11,633 "Pencils, pens, erasers, thumbtacks... 585 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,844 "pushpins, typewriter repairman." 586 00:43:14,803 --> 00:43:16,555 Why am I paying for a hotel room 587 00:43:16,638 --> 00:43:18,849 at a beach club on the North Atlantic coast? 588 00:43:19,016 --> 00:43:20,893 Because I had to go there to write it. 589 00:43:21,685 --> 00:43:24,396 "Breakfast, lunch, dinner, laundry, nightcap, midnight snack." 590 00:43:24,646 --> 00:43:28,650 What is wrong with the desk right here in your office? 591 00:43:28,817 --> 00:43:30,110 Courtesy of this magazine. 592 00:43:30,277 --> 00:43:32,988 Don't ask me to be indiscreet about what happened between me and Moses... 593 00:43:33,155 --> 00:43:35,657 at a seaside inn 20 years ago. We were lovers. 594 00:43:35,824 --> 00:43:37,492 I went back to remember. 595 00:43:37,951 --> 00:43:39,203 On my dime. 596 00:43:39,369 --> 00:43:40,495 Yes, please. 597 00:43:42,456 --> 00:43:43,665 Add it up. 598 00:44:05,687 --> 00:44:07,022 March 1st. 599 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,735 Negotiations between undergraduates and the university administration... 600 00:44:11,902 --> 00:44:13,654 break down abruptly in early morning hours... 601 00:44:13,820 --> 00:44:16,490 after clamorous debate, angry name-calling... 602 00:44:16,657 --> 00:44:19,243 and, finally, outright gambling over... 603 00:44:19,993 --> 00:44:24,289 the right of free access to the girl's dormitory for all male students. 604 00:44:24,540 --> 00:44:26,625 The protest which ended in a stalemate... 605 00:44:30,170 --> 00:44:32,381 ...gave the superficial appearance of a vanity exercise... 606 00:44:32,548 --> 00:44:34,800 for the pimple-cream and wet-dream contingent. 607 00:44:38,345 --> 00:44:41,306 But, in fact, the sexes were equally represented. 608 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:42,975 Young lady... 609 00:44:43,725 --> 00:44:44,726 shoes! 610 00:44:46,562 --> 00:44:49,815 And all participants emphasized the basis of their frustration... 611 00:44:49,982 --> 00:44:53,068 a desire, more, a biological need... 612 00:44:53,902 --> 00:44:56,238 for freedom. Full stop. 613 00:44:57,364 --> 00:44:59,157 It has exploded into symbolism... 614 00:44:59,324 --> 00:45:01,076 and everybody's talking about it. 615 00:45:04,454 --> 00:45:05,455 March 5th. 616 00:45:05,956 --> 00:45:07,374 Late supper at the B's. 617 00:45:07,791 --> 00:45:10,377 Eldest boy, 19, not home since yesterday morning. 618 00:45:12,129 --> 00:45:15,340 Father chanced upon him midday, marching alongside his comrades. 619 00:45:15,507 --> 00:45:16,508 Their slogan... 620 00:45:17,217 --> 00:45:19,178 "The children are grumpy." 621 00:45:19,636 --> 00:45:20,637 Thank you. 622 00:45:20,721 --> 00:45:23,265 An additional dinner guest, thus far, fails to appear. 623 00:45:23,432 --> 00:45:24,725 For this, I am grateful. 624 00:45:24,892 --> 00:45:27,102 Had not been informed of his invitation in first place. 625 00:45:27,269 --> 00:45:30,230 We didn't mean to offend you. We're sorry. 626 00:45:30,397 --> 00:45:33,567 We thought you might decline the invitation if we warned you. 627 00:45:33,734 --> 00:45:34,860 -You were right. -Yeah. 628 00:45:35,027 --> 00:45:37,529 Local news reports aggressive crowd-control methods 629 00:45:37,613 --> 00:45:39,740 in use on street today. Quote... 630 00:45:39,907 --> 00:45:42,284 Just give him a chance. He's very intelligent. 631 00:45:42,951 --> 00:45:44,745 So, how long has it been since what's-his-name? 632 00:45:44,912 --> 00:45:45,996 I know you mean well. 633 00:45:46,163 --> 00:45:49,458 "It begins with a prickly tingling of the exposed skin." 634 00:45:54,213 --> 00:45:55,672 I'm not an old maid. 635 00:45:56,298 --> 00:45:57,299 We don't think that. 636 00:45:58,175 --> 00:45:59,176 Of course you're not. 637 00:45:59,259 --> 00:46:02,513 "Then, a reddening and swelling of the orbital muscles." 638 00:46:02,888 --> 00:46:04,097 Take me at my word. 639 00:46:04,556 --> 00:46:06,308 I live by myself on purpose. 640 00:46:06,517 --> 00:46:08,560 I prefer relationships that end. 641 00:46:08,810 --> 00:46:11,688 I deliberately choose to have neither husband nor children. 642 00:46:11,855 --> 00:46:15,984 The two greatest deterrents to any woman's attempt to live by and for writing. 643 00:46:16,693 --> 00:46:18,278 -Why are we crying? -Because it's sad. 644 00:46:18,904 --> 00:46:19,947 We don't want you to be alone. 645 00:46:20,113 --> 00:46:21,532 Loneliness is a kind of poverty. 646 00:46:21,698 --> 00:46:23,075 I'm not sad. My eyes hurt. 647 00:46:23,242 --> 00:46:24,952 There's something wrong with your apartment. 648 00:46:25,118 --> 00:46:28,622 "Finally, a barrage of searing pain as snot pours from the nostrils... 649 00:46:28,789 --> 00:46:30,415 "and the throat spasms and constricts." 650 00:46:30,582 --> 00:46:31,583 Don't breathe. 651 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,056 I'm naked, Mrs. Krementz. 652 00:46:46,890 --> 00:46:48,100 I can see that. 653 00:46:48,267 --> 00:46:50,102 -Why are you crying? -Tear gas. 654 00:46:50,310 --> 00:46:51,353 Also... 655 00:46:52,479 --> 00:46:54,356 I suppose I'm sad. 656 00:46:56,859 --> 00:46:59,152 Please turn away. I feel shy about my new muscles. 657 00:47:03,949 --> 00:47:06,159 Go tell your parents you're home. They're worried. 658 00:47:06,326 --> 00:47:08,287 I'm expected back on the barricades. 659 00:47:08,453 --> 00:47:09,872 I didn't see any barricades. 660 00:47:10,038 --> 00:47:12,457 Well, we're still constructing them. 661 00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:14,543 What are you writing? 662 00:47:14,710 --> 00:47:15,961 A manifesto. 663 00:47:16,128 --> 00:47:18,046 I told them not to invite Paul, by the way. 664 00:47:18,213 --> 00:47:20,674 Maybe you're sad, but you don't seem lonely to me. 665 00:47:20,841 --> 00:47:21,842 Exactly! 666 00:47:22,009 --> 00:47:24,469 I saw you at the protest on top of a bookcase taking notes. 667 00:47:24,845 --> 00:47:27,556 Is there a story in us? For the people of Kansas. 668 00:47:27,931 --> 00:47:28,932 Maybe. 669 00:47:29,016 --> 00:47:30,100 Then you should study our resolutions. 670 00:47:30,267 --> 00:47:33,353 Or, anyway, will you proofread it? My parents think you're a good writer. 671 00:47:35,063 --> 00:47:36,064 Give it to me. 672 00:47:45,532 --> 00:47:46,867 It's a little damp. 673 00:47:48,076 --> 00:47:49,286 Physically or metaphorically? 674 00:47:49,453 --> 00:47:52,080 Both. Based on the cover and the first four sentences. 675 00:47:52,247 --> 00:47:53,916 Don't criticize my manifesto. 676 00:47:54,082 --> 00:47:55,292 Oh, you don't want remarks? 677 00:47:55,459 --> 00:47:56,877 I don't need remarks, do I? 678 00:47:57,044 --> 00:47:58,170 I only asked you to proofread it... 679 00:47:58,337 --> 00:48:00,506 'cause I thought you'd be even more impressed by how good it already is. 680 00:48:00,672 --> 00:48:02,674 Let's start with the typos. 681 00:48:03,342 --> 00:48:06,136 Can the faculty succeed if the students fail? 682 00:48:06,887 --> 00:48:08,388 It remains to be seen. 683 00:48:09,556 --> 00:48:10,849 -Paul Duval. -Lucinda Krementz. 684 00:48:11,016 --> 00:48:12,017 How do you do? 685 00:48:13,268 --> 00:48:14,770 Your beard is scratching me. 686 00:48:15,938 --> 00:48:19,483 Unexpected guest finally arrives. Looks like hell. 687 00:48:19,650 --> 00:48:21,360 Describes odyssey across city. 688 00:48:21,693 --> 00:48:23,195 Stalled trains, stalled buses... 689 00:48:23,362 --> 00:48:26,573 broken windows, paving stones flying in all directions. 690 00:48:27,741 --> 00:48:29,743 Anyway, we're here. 691 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,287 The famous Lucinda. Hello. 692 00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,123 I did not know you were coming. They did not tell me. 693 00:48:35,290 --> 00:48:37,292 This is not an official meeting. 694 00:48:43,340 --> 00:48:44,341 Good evening. 695 00:48:53,809 --> 00:48:54,935 Start without me. 696 00:49:09,074 --> 00:49:12,744 March 10th. City services at a halt, one week and counting. 697 00:49:12,911 --> 00:49:15,122 Public transportation, suspended. 698 00:49:15,289 --> 00:49:18,375 Piles of garbage, uncollected. Schools on strike. 699 00:49:18,542 --> 00:49:20,169 No mail, no milk. 700 00:49:20,335 --> 00:49:21,336 It's me again. 701 00:49:21,461 --> 00:49:22,921 What will normal reality be? 702 00:49:23,005 --> 00:49:26,758 Next week, next month, whenever, if ever, we get the chance to experience it again. 703 00:49:27,342 --> 00:49:28,343 Anyone's guess. 704 00:49:28,468 --> 00:49:29,678 What's this part? 705 00:49:29,845 --> 00:49:31,263 I added an appendix. 706 00:49:31,513 --> 00:49:32,723 -You're joking. -No, I'm not. 707 00:49:32,890 --> 00:49:34,641 You finished my manifesto without me. 708 00:49:34,808 --> 00:49:36,560 I made it sound like you, I think. 709 00:49:36,727 --> 00:49:38,145 Just more clear, more concise... 710 00:49:38,312 --> 00:49:39,646 a bit less poetic. 711 00:49:39,813 --> 00:49:43,442 Put it this way, this isn't the first manifesto I've proofread. 712 00:49:47,779 --> 00:49:49,656 Impossible to imagine these students, 713 00:49:49,823 --> 00:49:52,451 exhilarated, naive, brave in the extreme... 714 00:49:53,869 --> 00:49:56,413 returning to their obedient classrooms. 715 00:50:05,047 --> 00:50:06,215 Who was that? 716 00:50:06,381 --> 00:50:07,841 -Your mother. -My mother. 717 00:50:08,008 --> 00:50:09,635 My mother? 718 00:50:09,801 --> 00:50:11,303 What did she want? Did you tell her I was here? 719 00:50:11,470 --> 00:50:12,930 -Yes. -Why? 720 00:50:13,263 --> 00:50:14,932 Because she asked. I don't lie. 721 00:50:15,599 --> 00:50:16,600 Was she upset? 722 00:50:16,808 --> 00:50:17,809 I don't think so. 723 00:50:17,935 --> 00:50:19,728 -What did she say? -She nodded. 724 00:50:19,895 --> 00:50:20,979 What did you say? 725 00:50:21,146 --> 00:50:23,732 I told her I was working on an article about you and your friends. 726 00:50:24,608 --> 00:50:25,609 So, you are. 727 00:50:25,943 --> 00:50:27,861 I've already written 1,000 words. 728 00:50:28,028 --> 00:50:29,404 I asked to interview her. 729 00:50:29,571 --> 00:50:30,572 Did she agree? 730 00:50:30,656 --> 00:50:31,907 Yes, of course. 731 00:50:34,117 --> 00:50:35,285 Well, I am upset! 732 00:50:35,452 --> 00:50:37,120 I don't know how to feel. 733 00:50:37,579 --> 00:50:39,998 Am I in trouble? Why would my mother be so calm? 734 00:50:40,165 --> 00:50:41,625 Is this proper? 735 00:50:42,042 --> 00:50:45,003 This is all off-the-record. Everything. My whole life. 736 00:50:47,256 --> 00:50:48,841 What am I supposed to do now? 737 00:50:50,259 --> 00:50:52,678 I should maintain journalistic neutrality. 738 00:51:02,271 --> 00:51:04,189 I like how ruthless you are. 739 00:51:04,731 --> 00:51:06,817 It's part of your beauty, I think. 740 00:51:08,735 --> 00:51:11,113 So, you've got 1,000 words already? 741 00:51:13,699 --> 00:51:14,992 The kids did this. 742 00:51:15,158 --> 00:51:19,037 Obliterated 1,000 years of Republican authority in less than a fortnight. 743 00:51:19,413 --> 00:51:21,123 How and why? 744 00:51:21,290 --> 00:51:23,792 Before it began, where did it begin? 745 00:51:29,798 --> 00:51:33,093 It was another time. It was another Ennui. 746 00:51:33,302 --> 00:51:36,889 Must be nearly six months ago, I guess. My sisters were still 12, anyway. 747 00:51:43,228 --> 00:51:45,731 You danced to the Craze and the Lait Chaud. 748 00:51:48,108 --> 00:51:51,820 You wore your hairdo in the Pompidou, the Crouton, or the Fruits-de-Mer. 749 00:51:53,155 --> 00:51:54,531 Your slang mixed bits of Latin 750 00:51:54,615 --> 00:51:57,284 with philosophy jargon and manual signaling. 751 00:51:59,161 --> 00:52:01,747 Devil's advocates bickered and debated perpetually, ad nauseam, 752 00:52:01,914 --> 00:52:03,498 only for the sake of argument. 753 00:52:06,710 --> 00:52:08,170 Every clique had a rival. 754 00:52:11,465 --> 00:52:14,426 The Nuts had the Bolts. The Sticks had the Stones. 755 00:52:14,593 --> 00:52:16,470 The Jocks had us, the Bookworms, 756 00:52:16,553 --> 00:52:18,263 until Mitch-Mitch failed the baccalaureate... 757 00:52:18,430 --> 00:52:20,807 and got sent down to National Duty-obligation. 758 00:52:21,016 --> 00:52:23,101 Three months in the Mustard Region. 759 00:52:58,470 --> 00:53:01,390 He was sent to the Mustard Region for National Duty-obligation. 760 00:53:04,768 --> 00:53:05,769 I'm sorry? 761 00:53:07,396 --> 00:53:10,190 How dare you? Who gave you permission to besmirch our friend? 762 00:53:10,357 --> 00:53:11,358 Does it occur to you... 763 00:53:11,441 --> 00:53:13,694 he's very probably somewhere marching in the middle of the night right now... 764 00:53:13,861 --> 00:53:16,446 carrying a 50-pound sack of gunpowder and peeling stale potatoes... 765 00:53:16,613 --> 00:53:19,199 while he digs a latrine trench in the rain with a tin cup? 766 00:53:19,366 --> 00:53:20,951 He doesn't want to be in the military. 767 00:53:28,584 --> 00:53:32,087 Easy for you to say from the comfort of the Sans Blague. 768 00:53:39,845 --> 00:53:41,597 Mitch-Mitch, what are you doing here? 769 00:53:41,763 --> 00:53:44,057 You're supposed to be in the Mustard Region for another two months. 770 00:53:44,349 --> 00:53:46,435 Five years later, I, myself, translated... 771 00:53:46,602 --> 00:53:51,148 Mitch-Mitch Simca's poetic interpretation of his National Duty-obligation service. 772 00:53:54,776 --> 00:53:57,779 The flashback scene in Act Two of Goodbye, Zeffirelli. 773 00:53:57,946 --> 00:54:00,532 In North Africa, I caught a bullet in the tail. 774 00:54:01,116 --> 00:54:03,368 In South America, I caught a chunk of high-explosive shrapnel 775 00:54:03,452 --> 00:54:04,661 in the left wing. 776 00:54:05,204 --> 00:54:08,415 In East Asia, I picked up a rare, microbial, infectious gut-parasite... 777 00:54:08,582 --> 00:54:12,252 in the lower abdominal cavity, and I've got them all with me right now... 778 00:54:12,419 --> 00:54:13,754 still in my body... 779 00:54:14,630 --> 00:54:17,716 but I don't regret my choice to wear this uniform. 780 00:54:18,383 --> 00:54:21,178 And in 16 years, I'll get my pension. 781 00:54:22,513 --> 00:54:24,806 Well, that's your bedtime story, ladies. Lights out! 782 00:54:24,973 --> 00:54:27,684 Hup! Ho! Hut! Lights out! Covers tucked! Blankets on! 783 00:54:27,851 --> 00:54:29,144 -Pray your prayers! -Sir! 784 00:54:34,316 --> 00:54:36,902 Amen. Amen. Amen. 785 00:54:44,660 --> 00:54:46,495 Psst, Mitch-Mitch. Psst. 786 00:54:46,912 --> 00:54:49,498 Psst, Mitch-Mitch. What do you wanna be? 787 00:54:49,915 --> 00:54:50,916 What? 788 00:54:50,999 --> 00:54:52,709 What do you want to be, Mitch-Mitch? 789 00:54:53,335 --> 00:54:56,129 With my grades, I'll be an assistant pharmacist. 790 00:54:56,296 --> 00:54:57,923 Will that make you be satisfied? 791 00:54:58,507 --> 00:55:01,134 It won't depress me. I should have studied harder. 792 00:55:01,301 --> 00:55:02,636 And you, Robouchon? 793 00:55:02,803 --> 00:55:05,973 I have no choice. I'll work for my father's glass factory. 794 00:55:06,139 --> 00:55:07,724 Someone has to take over. 795 00:55:07,891 --> 00:55:08,892 It's normal. 796 00:55:09,017 --> 00:55:10,686 Vaugirard. What's your plan? 797 00:55:11,019 --> 00:55:13,063 I suppose I'll continue to be an attractive wastrel... 798 00:55:13,230 --> 00:55:14,898 like my cousins on both sides of the family. 799 00:55:15,065 --> 00:55:16,733 -Your cousins are the best. -I love your cousins. 800 00:55:16,900 --> 00:55:18,986 -Yeah. -What about you, Morisot? 801 00:55:20,988 --> 00:55:22,781 Morisot, what do you want to be? 802 00:55:25,367 --> 00:55:26,577 A protestor. 803 00:55:27,911 --> 00:55:28,912 What'd he say? 804 00:55:28,996 --> 00:55:30,539 He said, "A protestor." 805 00:55:30,706 --> 00:55:31,707 What does he mean? 806 00:55:31,790 --> 00:55:32,791 I don't know. 807 00:55:32,916 --> 00:55:36,128 I thought Morisot was supposed to be a professor of geological chemistry. 808 00:55:36,295 --> 00:55:37,421 Morisot's crying. 809 00:55:38,338 --> 00:55:39,423 Who said "shh"? 810 00:55:39,965 --> 00:55:41,091 I won't do it. 811 00:55:42,885 --> 00:55:45,846 It's only eight more weeks, Morisot, before we complete the program. 812 00:55:46,221 --> 00:55:47,890 I don't mean the program. 813 00:55:49,892 --> 00:55:52,895 I mean from when we go home until retirement age. 814 00:55:53,061 --> 00:55:57,399 That 48-year period of my life, I mean. That's what I won't do. 815 00:55:58,442 --> 00:56:02,779 I can no longer envision myself as a grown-up man in our parents' world. 816 00:56:11,622 --> 00:56:14,041 Morisot! He went out the window! 817 00:56:15,834 --> 00:56:17,419 -Is he dead? -I don't know. 818 00:56:17,586 --> 00:56:18,754 How far did he fall? 819 00:56:18,921 --> 00:56:19,922 Five floors with high ceilings. 820 00:56:20,088 --> 00:56:22,758 It rained last night. Maybe the mud's still soft. 821 00:56:22,925 --> 00:56:24,051 He's not moving. 822 00:56:25,677 --> 00:56:27,054 He's still not moving. 823 00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,015 He's still not moving. 824 00:56:31,350 --> 00:56:32,643 He's still not moving. 825 00:56:33,727 --> 00:56:35,103 He's still not moving. 826 00:56:35,938 --> 00:56:37,147 He's still not moving. 827 00:56:38,106 --> 00:56:39,441 He's still not moving. 828 00:57:09,221 --> 00:57:12,724 The next morning, Mitch-Mitch was arrested for Desertion and Desecration, 829 00:57:12,891 --> 00:57:14,393 and the Sans Blague became headquarters... 830 00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,895 for the Movement of Young Idealists for the Revolutionary Overthrow... 831 00:57:17,062 --> 00:57:18,814 of Reactionary Neo-liberal Society. 832 00:57:18,981 --> 00:57:20,023 What are you doing? 833 00:57:22,693 --> 00:57:23,861 They can live together. 834 00:57:24,820 --> 00:57:26,280 Tip-top with Charvet. 835 00:58:07,613 --> 00:58:10,699 There followed, a brisk, unpredictable tit-for-tat... 836 00:58:10,866 --> 00:58:13,118 between Ennui's elders and its youngers. 837 00:58:14,411 --> 00:58:15,954 August. 838 00:58:16,121 --> 00:58:18,999 Community Whisper Campaign denounces student movement. 839 00:58:19,750 --> 00:58:21,001 September. 840 00:58:21,168 --> 00:58:23,837 Sans Blague coffee license revoked by official decree. 841 00:58:25,881 --> 00:58:27,090 October. 842 00:58:27,257 --> 00:58:29,218 Propaganda Committee erects pirate radio tower... 843 00:58:29,384 --> 00:58:31,178 on Physics Department rooftop. 844 00:58:32,596 --> 00:58:33,722 November. 845 00:58:33,889 --> 00:58:36,808 Meal plan blockade of the undergraduate cafeteria. 846 00:58:37,726 --> 00:58:39,019 December. 847 00:58:39,186 --> 00:58:41,522 Check-out protest at the Bibliothèque Principale. 848 00:58:41,688 --> 00:58:43,857 Entire library circulation legally removed... 849 00:58:44,024 --> 00:58:47,736 until five minutes before incur of massive overdue book fines. 850 00:58:47,903 --> 00:58:49,071 January. 851 00:58:49,238 --> 00:58:51,198 Mitch-Mitch released to parental custody. 852 00:58:52,783 --> 00:58:54,159 February. 853 00:58:54,326 --> 00:58:55,994 The girl's dormitory uprising. 854 00:58:57,579 --> 00:58:59,873 It all, in the end, leads to... 855 00:59:00,707 --> 00:59:01,750 March. 856 00:59:01,917 --> 00:59:03,377 The chessboard revolution. 857 01:00:00,809 --> 01:00:02,060 What page you on? 858 01:00:09,484 --> 01:00:10,903 I think so. By definition. 859 01:00:20,329 --> 01:00:22,247 In spite of the purity of their cause... 860 01:00:22,414 --> 01:00:25,167 to create a free, borderless, utopian civilization... 861 01:00:25,334 --> 01:00:26,668 the students, nevertheless... 862 01:00:26,835 --> 01:00:29,671 split into factions before fully uniting in first place. 863 01:00:35,385 --> 01:00:38,639 One thing is now finally clear, they are answering their parents. 864 01:00:39,056 --> 01:00:41,642 What do they want? To defend their illusions. 865 01:00:41,808 --> 01:00:43,268 A luminous abstraction. 866 01:00:50,734 --> 01:00:53,028 I am convinced they are better than we were. 867 01:01:09,628 --> 01:01:12,005 Mrs. Krementz suggested it, actually. The appendix. 868 01:01:14,174 --> 01:01:16,176 Polished it. Certain passages. 869 01:01:32,693 --> 01:01:34,236 I inscribed it to you. 870 01:01:42,870 --> 01:01:45,163 Remind myself, "You are a guest at this manifestation. 871 01:01:45,330 --> 01:01:48,834 "Not my fight. Stay out of it, Lucinda. Keep your mouth shut." 872 01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:50,419 I have to say something. 873 01:01:51,170 --> 01:01:53,255 You're a very bright girl, Juliette. 874 01:01:53,839 --> 01:01:56,466 If you put away your powder puff for one minute, forgive me... 875 01:01:56,633 --> 01:01:58,677 and think for yourself for one minute, forgive me... 876 01:01:58,886 --> 01:02:01,013 you might realize you're all in this together. 877 01:02:01,180 --> 01:02:02,598 Even the riot police. 878 01:02:10,731 --> 01:02:11,732 Our move. 879 01:02:17,070 --> 01:02:19,031 That was impolite. Of me. 880 01:02:19,406 --> 01:02:21,158 I withdraw the remark. 881 01:02:23,994 --> 01:02:25,162 I beg your pardon. 882 01:02:27,497 --> 01:02:28,498 I'm sorry. 883 01:02:30,584 --> 01:02:31,585 Thank you. 884 01:02:32,794 --> 01:02:33,962 You're sure? 885 01:02:39,468 --> 01:02:41,011 Sure you're not a child? 886 01:02:43,472 --> 01:02:46,475 Then learn to accept an apology. That's important. 887 01:02:52,481 --> 01:02:53,524 Grown-ups. 888 01:02:56,610 --> 01:02:58,237 Our move. The mayor's waiting. 889 01:03:19,174 --> 01:03:21,510 Kindly leave me my dignity. 890 01:03:22,928 --> 01:03:25,389 She's not an old maid. She's not in love with me. 891 01:03:25,556 --> 01:03:27,182 She's our friend. I'm her friend. 892 01:03:27,349 --> 01:03:29,184 She's confused. She wants to help us. 893 01:03:29,810 --> 01:03:32,229 She's angry. She's a very good writer. 894 01:03:33,730 --> 01:03:36,275 It's a lonely life, isn't it? 895 01:03:37,776 --> 01:03:39,069 Sometimes. 896 01:03:40,362 --> 01:03:43,365 It's true. I should maintain journalistic neutrality... 897 01:03:43,574 --> 01:03:44,867 if it exists. 898 01:03:46,869 --> 01:03:49,538 Please excuse me, Mrs. Krementz. 899 01:04:15,564 --> 01:04:17,191 It's just fireworks. 900 01:04:17,858 --> 01:04:19,318 She's the best of them. 901 01:04:19,902 --> 01:04:22,529 Stop bickering. Go make love. 902 01:04:27,409 --> 01:04:29,703 Me, too. Except for Mrs. Krementz. 903 01:04:30,954 --> 01:04:32,164 I thought so. 904 01:04:45,177 --> 01:04:46,428 March 15th. 905 01:04:50,098 --> 01:04:53,810 Discover on flyleaf of my composition book a hasty paragraph. 906 01:04:54,645 --> 01:04:57,022 Not sure when Zeffirelli had the chance to write it. 907 01:04:57,272 --> 01:04:59,233 Late that night while I slept? 908 01:04:59,858 --> 01:05:03,820 Poetic, not necessarily in a bad way. Reads as follows... 909 01:05:07,991 --> 01:05:10,244 Post script to a burst appendix. 910 01:05:10,410 --> 01:05:12,829 An invincible comet speeds on its guided arc... 911 01:05:12,996 --> 01:05:16,208 toward the outer reaches of the galaxy in cosmic space-time. 912 01:05:16,583 --> 01:05:18,293 What was our cause? 913 01:05:20,504 --> 01:05:22,464 Recollection of two memories. 914 01:05:22,714 --> 01:05:25,133 You. Soap scent of drugstore shampoo... 915 01:05:25,300 --> 01:05:28,136 ashtray of stale cigarettes, burnt toast. 916 01:05:29,137 --> 01:05:31,265 Her. Perfume of cheap gasoline... 917 01:05:31,431 --> 01:05:34,768 coffee on the breath, too much sugar, cocoa butter skin. 918 01:05:35,477 --> 01:05:37,020 Where does she spend her summers? 919 01:05:38,730 --> 01:05:40,858 They say it's the smells you finally don't forget. 920 01:05:41,024 --> 01:05:42,526 The brain works that way. 921 01:05:43,652 --> 01:05:45,404 I've never read my mother's books. 922 01:05:45,571 --> 01:05:48,699 I'm told my father was really quite remarkable during the last war. 923 01:05:48,866 --> 01:05:50,242 Best parents I know. 924 01:05:51,952 --> 01:05:53,453 The girls' dormitory. 925 01:05:53,996 --> 01:05:57,749 First time I've come inside, except to vandalize it during demonstrations. 926 01:05:58,333 --> 01:06:02,254 I said, "Don't criticize my manifesto." She said... 927 01:06:04,506 --> 01:06:06,383 I feel shy about my new muscles. 928 01:06:07,634 --> 01:06:10,929 Her large, stupid eyes watched me pee. 929 01:06:14,725 --> 01:06:16,351 A thousand kisses later... 930 01:06:16,518 --> 01:06:19,897 will she still remember the taste of my tool on the tip of her tongue? 931 01:06:21,899 --> 01:06:25,444 Apologies, Mrs. Krementz. I know you despise crude language. 932 01:06:31,867 --> 01:06:33,493 Additional sentence at bottom of page... 933 01:06:33,660 --> 01:06:36,663 completely indecipherable due to poor penmanship. 934 01:06:41,668 --> 01:06:46,006 "Revisions to a Manifesto. Page four, asterisk one. 935 01:06:48,050 --> 01:06:49,343 "The promotion of..." 936 01:07:09,238 --> 01:07:10,322 I'll be right back. 937 01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:19,623 Zeffirelli! 938 01:07:49,486 --> 01:07:52,656 He is not an invincible comet speeding on its guided arc... 939 01:07:52,823 --> 01:07:56,076 toward the outer reaches of the galaxy in cosmic space-time. 940 01:07:59,371 --> 01:08:01,915 Rather, he is a boy who will die young. 941 01:08:03,625 --> 01:08:05,627 He will drown on this planet... 942 01:08:06,211 --> 01:08:08,881 in the steady current of the deep, dirty, magnificent river... 943 01:08:09,047 --> 01:08:13,218 that flows night and day through the veins and arteries of his own ancient city. 944 01:08:15,429 --> 01:08:17,764 His parents will receive a telephone call at midnight... 945 01:08:17,930 --> 01:08:21,643 dress briskly, mechanically, and hold hands in the silent taxi... 946 01:08:21,810 --> 01:08:24,313 as they go to identify the body of their cold son. 947 01:08:26,857 --> 01:08:29,902 His likeness, mass-produced and shrink-wrap packaged... 948 01:08:30,068 --> 01:08:32,571 will be sold like bubblegum to the hero-inspired... 949 01:08:32,738 --> 01:08:35,573 who hope to see themselves like this. 950 01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,202 The touching narcissism of the young. 951 01:08:54,718 --> 01:08:56,094 March 30th. 952 01:09:00,807 --> 01:09:03,143 Across the street, a glaring metaphor. 953 01:09:03,519 --> 01:09:07,773 Bell rings, pupils scamper inside back to their obedient classrooms. 954 01:09:13,237 --> 01:09:16,448 A creaky swing sways in the deserted schoolyard. 955 01:09:28,042 --> 01:09:29,044 Come in! 956 01:10:18,051 --> 01:10:21,722 Someone told me you have a photographic memory. 957 01:10:21,889 --> 01:10:24,391 -Is that true? -That is false. 958 01:10:24,558 --> 01:10:26,768 I have a typographic memory. 959 01:10:26,935 --> 01:10:30,355 I recollect the written word with considerable accuracy and detail. 960 01:10:30,522 --> 01:10:35,068 In other spheres, my powers of retention are distinctly impressionistic. 961 01:10:35,235 --> 01:10:38,322 I'm known to my intimates as a most forgetful man. 962 01:10:38,488 --> 01:10:41,033 Yet you remember every word you ever wrote. 963 01:10:41,491 --> 01:10:43,827 The novels, the essays, the poems, the plays... 964 01:10:43,994 --> 01:10:46,830 The unrequited valentines. Sadly, I do. 965 01:10:47,664 --> 01:10:48,957 May I test you? 966 01:10:49,124 --> 01:10:50,292 If you must. 967 01:10:50,459 --> 01:10:52,961 Unless we try the patience of your viewership... 968 01:10:53,504 --> 01:10:57,257 or the esteemed spokesmen for Gemini tooth powder? 969 01:10:57,966 --> 01:11:00,219 My favorite piece is the one about the cook... 970 01:11:00,385 --> 01:11:02,221 where the kidnappers get poisoned. 971 01:11:02,387 --> 01:11:05,057 "Do students of the table dream in flavors? 972 01:11:05,224 --> 01:11:08,685 "That was the first of the questions a reporter for this magazine... 973 01:11:08,852 --> 01:11:11,146 "had diligently prepared in advance of his encounter... 974 01:11:11,313 --> 01:11:13,023 "with Lieutenant Nescaffier... 975 01:11:13,315 --> 01:11:16,568 "ranking chef at District Headquarters on the narrow river-peninsula... 976 01:11:16,735 --> 01:11:19,321 "known as the Rognure d'Ongle. 977 01:11:19,738 --> 01:11:21,657 "All such queries were to remain unanswered in... 978 01:11:21,823 --> 01:11:23,784 "the course of that eventful evening." 979 01:11:25,035 --> 01:11:26,703 Shall I carry on? 980 01:11:27,412 --> 01:11:28,497 Please. 981 01:11:33,752 --> 01:11:35,254 I'd arrived insufficiently early. 982 01:11:37,673 --> 01:11:39,508 Though the suite of rooms on the penultimate floor... 983 01:11:39,675 --> 01:11:42,928 of the grand edifice was hypothetically indicated on a floorplan... 984 01:11:43,095 --> 01:11:44,847 provided on the back of the carte de dégustation... 985 01:11:47,975 --> 01:11:51,770 ...it was nigh impossible to locate, at least for this reporter. 986 01:11:51,937 --> 01:11:53,772 A weakness in cartography. 987 01:11:54,273 --> 01:11:56,108 The curse of the homosexual. 988 01:12:01,488 --> 01:12:03,740 Monsieur Nescaffier made his name and reputation. 989 01:12:03,907 --> 01:12:07,035 He is fanatically celebrated among cooks, cops, and capitaines... 990 01:12:07,202 --> 01:12:09,663 not to mention squealers, stoolies, and snitches... 991 01:12:10,163 --> 01:12:12,541 as the great exemplar of the mode of cuisine... 992 01:12:12,708 --> 01:12:15,419 known as Gastronomie Gendarmique. 993 01:12:20,174 --> 01:12:23,552 "Police cooking" began with the stake-out picnic and paddy-wagon snack... 994 01:12:23,719 --> 01:12:26,138 but has evolved and codified into something refined... 995 01:12:26,305 --> 01:12:29,308 intensely nourishing, and, if executed properly... 996 01:12:29,516 --> 01:12:31,226 marvelously flavorful. 997 01:12:32,603 --> 01:12:33,604 Fundamentals... 998 01:12:33,770 --> 01:12:35,731 highly portable, rich in protein... 999 01:12:35,898 --> 01:12:37,733 eaten with the non-dominant hand only... 1000 01:12:37,900 --> 01:12:40,569 the other being reserved for firearms and paperwork. 1001 01:12:48,368 --> 01:12:51,246 Most dishes are served pre-cut. Nothing crunchy. 1002 01:12:51,663 --> 01:12:52,748 Quiet food. 1003 01:12:55,709 --> 01:12:58,670 Sauces are dehydrated and ground to a powder to avoid spillage... 1004 01:12:58,837 --> 01:13:00,881 and the risk of the tainting of a crime scene. 1005 01:13:02,799 --> 01:13:05,761 Diners are expected to provide their own fourchettes de poche... 1006 01:13:05,969 --> 01:13:07,763 often engraved with the arcane mottoes... 1007 01:13:07,930 --> 01:13:10,390 and off-color sayings of their respective precincts. 1008 01:13:37,209 --> 01:13:39,753 How are you planning to kill me? 1009 01:13:43,090 --> 01:13:44,633 I believe this to be... 1010 01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:47,094 a case of mistaken identity. 1011 01:13:50,973 --> 01:13:54,518 Have you been in the chicken coop for a very long while? 1012 01:14:01,692 --> 01:14:03,443 I beg your pardon. 1013 01:14:17,249 --> 01:14:19,585 Monsieur Nescaffier, even during his apprenticeship... 1014 01:14:19,751 --> 01:14:21,253 in a provincial fire department, 1015 01:14:21,420 --> 01:14:23,338 aspired to a lofty perch... 1016 01:14:23,505 --> 01:14:25,924 and there can be no higher position in the métier than that of... 1017 01:14:26,091 --> 01:14:28,427 Chef Cuisinier for the private dining room of the... 1018 01:14:28,594 --> 01:14:31,013 Commissaire de la Police Municipale. 1019 01:14:40,147 --> 01:14:42,065 Forgive my tardiness. 1020 01:14:44,067 --> 01:14:45,903 No, not at all. Not at all. 1021 01:14:48,906 --> 01:14:50,699 Mr. Wright, may I present my mother... 1022 01:14:50,866 --> 01:14:53,243 Louise de la Villatte. You can call her Maman. 1023 01:14:53,410 --> 01:14:54,536 We all do. 1024 01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,372 This is my oldest friend, Chou-fleur. 1025 01:14:57,539 --> 01:15:00,542 When I met him, he was a girlish little schoolboy... 1026 01:15:00,709 --> 01:15:03,170 with ringlets and a full set of teeth. 1027 01:15:03,504 --> 01:15:05,881 Now, he looks like a corpse. 1028 01:15:06,632 --> 01:15:08,800 In the corner, Patrolman Maupassant. 1029 01:15:08,967 --> 01:15:10,469 He'll be serving. 1030 01:15:11,094 --> 01:15:12,262 Cocktails. 1031 01:15:16,642 --> 01:15:19,728 And this is my son, Gigi, in the crime-lab smock. 1032 01:15:19,895 --> 01:15:22,814 What are you stealing from my personal records? 1033 01:15:23,315 --> 01:15:24,858 Unsolved cases. 1034 01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:27,194 Well, say hello to Mr. Wright. 1035 01:15:27,402 --> 01:15:28,403 Hello, Mr. Wright. 1036 01:15:28,654 --> 01:15:30,030 Hello, Gigi. 1037 01:15:31,156 --> 01:15:34,409 Full name, Isadore Sharif de la Villatte. 1038 01:15:36,620 --> 01:15:38,539 The Commissaire and his only son... 1039 01:15:38,705 --> 01:15:41,708 widowered and motherless, left the colony where the boy was born, 1040 01:15:41,875 --> 01:15:44,044 cemented together by their shared grief. 1041 01:15:44,211 --> 01:15:45,838 Gigi was six. 1042 01:15:46,797 --> 01:15:49,800 His schoolrooms were the station house and the squad car. 1043 01:15:51,134 --> 01:15:54,847 He was educated by forensic tutors in the traditions of law enforcement. 1044 01:15:56,390 --> 01:16:00,018 His first drawings were facial composites based on eyewitness testimony. 1045 01:16:02,938 --> 01:16:05,816 His first words were in Morse code. 1046 01:16:06,066 --> 01:16:09,152 It was, I suppose, wonderfully obvious. 1047 01:16:09,236 --> 01:16:12,281 He was brought up to succeed the Commissaire himself. 1048 01:16:14,199 --> 01:16:16,410 Yes, I've read you. In the magazine. 1049 01:16:17,828 --> 01:16:19,621 To your satisfaction? 1050 01:16:20,038 --> 01:16:21,874 Of course. Of course. 1051 01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:23,292 Good writer. 1052 01:16:25,878 --> 01:16:28,797 I trust you are already familiar with this genius. 1053 01:16:28,964 --> 01:16:30,591 At least by reputation. 1054 01:16:30,757 --> 01:16:32,217 Lieutenant Nescaffier. 1055 01:16:32,384 --> 01:16:33,594 I surely am. 1056 01:16:47,024 --> 01:16:49,902 The drink, a milky, purplish aperitif... 1057 01:16:50,068 --> 01:16:54,281 ferociously fragrant, overtly medicinal, ever so faintly anesthetizing... 1058 01:16:54,448 --> 01:16:57,409 and cooled to a glacial viscosity in a miniature version... 1059 01:16:57,576 --> 01:16:58,869 of the type of vacuum-flask 1060 01:16:58,952 --> 01:17:01,622 normally associated with campsites and schoolrooms... 1061 01:17:01,955 --> 01:17:03,207 cast a spell... 1062 01:17:03,373 --> 01:17:05,834 which, during the subsequent 60-second interval... 1063 01:17:06,001 --> 01:17:07,920 was to be mortally broken. 1064 01:17:08,086 --> 01:17:10,422 On three overlapping dramatic timelines... 1065 01:17:10,589 --> 01:17:12,674 the following events came to pass. 1066 01:17:16,428 --> 01:17:17,638 One. 1067 01:17:18,764 --> 01:17:21,433 Monsieur Nescaffier began his mysterious ritual. 1068 01:17:21,975 --> 01:17:25,395 I can neither comprehend nor describe what occurs behind a kitchen door. 1069 01:17:25,562 --> 01:17:27,523 I have always been content to enjoy the issue... 1070 01:17:27,689 --> 01:17:30,317 of an artist's talent without unveiling the secrets of the chisel... 1071 01:17:30,526 --> 01:17:32,069 or the turpentine. 1072 01:17:33,195 --> 01:17:34,321 Two. 1073 01:17:39,826 --> 01:17:41,286 Patrolman Maupassant... 1074 01:17:41,453 --> 01:17:43,622 responding to an infrequently illuminated signal... 1075 01:17:43,789 --> 01:17:45,582 delivered a telephone to his superior. 1076 01:17:53,257 --> 01:17:54,258 Go ahead. 1077 01:17:59,221 --> 01:18:01,265 As you know by now, we have kidnapped your son... 1078 01:18:01,431 --> 01:18:04,184 and absconded to a secure location which you will never discover. 1079 01:18:04,351 --> 01:18:06,395 Release or execute the Abacus... 1080 01:18:06,562 --> 01:18:08,897 and the little boy will be safely returned to your custody. 1081 01:18:09,106 --> 01:18:12,860 Failure to do so by sun-up will result in your son's violent death. 1082 01:18:19,950 --> 01:18:21,243 Three. 1083 01:18:21,535 --> 01:18:23,161 The skylight window of the makeshift nursery... 1084 01:18:23,328 --> 01:18:26,456 which occupies the attic quarters jimmied ajar. 1085 01:19:00,782 --> 01:19:03,702 The getaway and eventual motor pursuit was rendered vividly... 1086 01:19:03,869 --> 01:19:05,829 if, perhaps, a bit fancifully, in a comic strip... 1087 01:19:05,996 --> 01:19:07,664 published the following week. 1088 01:19:42,491 --> 01:19:44,493 Though the infamous Ennui gang war... 1089 01:19:44,660 --> 01:19:48,247 "Winter Crimewave" had eradicated a healthy number of thugs and hooligans... 1090 01:19:48,413 --> 01:19:50,082 it had also claimed the lives... 1091 01:19:50,249 --> 01:19:53,001 of a disgraceful proportion of innocent citizens. 1092 01:19:54,962 --> 01:19:57,422 Due to the surprise capture of the racketeering accountant... 1093 01:19:57,589 --> 01:20:01,093 Albert "the Abacus", in possession of a valise containing payroll stubs... 1094 01:20:01,260 --> 01:20:03,804 for all three of the city's major syndicates... 1095 01:20:03,971 --> 01:20:06,723 the law-abiding community's hopes for an accelerated resolution... 1096 01:20:06,890 --> 01:20:09,017 to the crisis had been renewed. 1097 01:20:14,147 --> 01:20:17,192 However, this turn of events had forcefully rattled the cages... 1098 01:20:17,359 --> 01:20:19,695 of the denizens of the criminal underworld. 1099 01:20:25,909 --> 01:20:28,912 For myself, I had failed to recognize the Abacus... 1100 01:20:29,162 --> 01:20:31,832 but as it happened, I knew the chicken coop. 1101 01:20:31,999 --> 01:20:33,667 This is not in the article, by the way. 1102 01:20:33,834 --> 01:20:36,003 If I refer to Mr. Howitzer, do you know who I mean? 1103 01:20:36,170 --> 01:20:37,754 Of course. Arthur Howitzer, Jr. 1104 01:20:37,921 --> 01:20:39,840 Founder and editor of The French Dispatch. 1105 01:20:40,048 --> 01:20:43,343 It was my first week in Ennui when I suffered the misfortune... 1106 01:20:43,510 --> 01:20:46,138 of being arrested in a drinking establishment... 1107 01:20:46,305 --> 01:20:48,307 on the fringes of the Flop Quarter... 1108 01:20:48,515 --> 01:20:51,894 along with a number of newly-found companions. 1109 01:20:52,060 --> 01:20:53,645 What was the charge? 1110 01:20:54,062 --> 01:20:55,480 Love. 1111 01:20:56,315 --> 01:20:58,650 You see, people may or may not be mildly threatened... 1112 01:20:58,859 --> 01:21:01,320 by your anger, your hatred, your pride... 1113 01:21:01,486 --> 01:21:03,780 but love the wrong way... 1114 01:21:03,947 --> 01:21:06,158 and you will find yourself in great jeopardy. 1115 01:21:06,867 --> 01:21:10,037 In this case, a chicken coop jail cell for six days straight. 1116 01:21:10,495 --> 01:21:13,665 I had no one who cared to rescue me, and no one who cared to scold me. 1117 01:21:14,166 --> 01:21:18,003 And the only local number committed to my typographic memory was... 1118 01:21:18,629 --> 01:21:20,714 Printer's District 9-2211. 1119 01:21:20,881 --> 01:21:24,551 While I regret we are unable to publish either of these specific pieces... 1120 01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:27,804 I would be very pleased to consider other submissions in the future. 1121 01:21:27,971 --> 01:21:30,098 Or if you find yourself in Ennui... 1122 01:21:35,938 --> 01:21:37,356 I'd never met the man. 1123 01:21:37,981 --> 01:21:41,235 I knew how to reach him only because I wanted a job. 1124 01:21:59,878 --> 01:22:01,380 Let's see here. 1125 01:22:02,548 --> 01:22:05,509 High school newspaper, poetry club, drama society. 1126 01:22:05,717 --> 01:22:08,554 Wrote the school song. Words and music. 1127 01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:11,932 Junior researcher, cub reporter, assistant editor. 1128 01:22:12,140 --> 01:22:13,225 Fires and murders. 1129 01:22:13,392 --> 01:22:14,601 That's how I started. 1130 01:22:14,768 --> 01:22:16,645 My father owned the paper, of course. 1131 01:22:16,979 --> 01:22:19,565 Bit of sports, bit of crime, bit of politics. 1132 01:22:19,731 --> 01:22:21,942 Shortlisted twice, Best Essays. 1133 01:22:22,109 --> 01:22:24,570 Deep South, Midwest, East Coast. 1134 01:22:24,736 --> 01:22:26,029 Vast country. 1135 01:22:26,822 --> 01:22:28,615 Haven't been there in 20 years. 1136 01:22:29,324 --> 01:22:32,828 Not now. I'm conducting a job interview. 1137 01:22:33,287 --> 01:22:36,164 Your writing samples are good. I re-read them in the taxi. 1138 01:22:36,331 --> 01:22:37,833 Have you ever done any book reviews? 1139 01:22:39,126 --> 01:22:40,210 Never. 1140 01:22:40,377 --> 01:22:43,338 You're gonna be in there another few hours before they process you out. 1141 01:22:45,507 --> 01:22:47,342 Read this. Give me 300 words. 1142 01:22:48,635 --> 01:22:52,222 I'll pay you 500 francs minus the 250 I advanced for your bail... 1143 01:22:52,431 --> 01:22:55,559 but I'll re-advance that against cost of living. 1144 01:22:55,767 --> 01:22:58,228 Bring me a first draft tomorrow morning... 1145 01:22:58,395 --> 01:23:00,689 and however you go about it, Mr. Wright... 1146 01:23:00,856 --> 01:23:03,859 try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose. 1147 01:23:12,159 --> 01:23:13,410 Thank you. 1148 01:23:15,954 --> 01:23:17,414 No crying. 1149 01:23:25,506 --> 01:23:27,841 It came to be known as the "Night of a Thousand Slugs." 1150 01:23:28,008 --> 01:23:29,218 I'm reciting again. 1151 01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:32,721 How the Commissaire and his elite team of experts and analysts... 1152 01:23:32,888 --> 01:23:36,475 succeeded so swiftly in determining the location of the kidnappers' lair... 1153 01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:41,480 Well... 1154 01:23:45,817 --> 01:23:47,486 I just don't know. 1155 01:23:50,864 --> 01:23:53,075 The tools of the trade, I suppose. 1156 01:23:59,873 --> 01:24:01,959 But succeed they did. 1157 01:24:36,451 --> 01:24:37,786 Who were they? 1158 01:24:39,621 --> 01:24:41,039 It was later revealed. 1159 01:24:42,165 --> 01:24:45,419 A hired crew of bandits and gunmen imported by the ranking bosses... 1160 01:24:45,586 --> 01:24:49,173 of the Ennui rackets and their network of underworld middlemen. 1161 01:24:50,966 --> 01:24:54,761 Chauffeur Joe Lefèvre, a once almost promising instrumentalist. 1162 01:24:55,929 --> 01:24:58,473 Stetson, Spinster, and Hieronymus Von Altman, 1163 01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:00,142 Dutch masterminds. 1164 01:25:00,726 --> 01:25:04,188 Marconi Brutelli, the Mediterranean anarchist. 1165 01:25:05,355 --> 01:25:08,108 A pair of hooligans, estranged cousins. 1166 01:25:09,443 --> 01:25:12,613 A trio of showgirls, all junkies. 1167 01:25:14,656 --> 01:25:16,658 Plus one small, resourceful prisoner... 1168 01:25:16,825 --> 01:25:20,204 determined to free himself and reduce taxpayer expense. 1169 01:25:31,089 --> 01:25:32,591 What's that noise? 1170 01:25:34,092 --> 01:25:37,012 Air bubbles in the radiator pipes. It's pressurized. 1171 01:25:37,179 --> 01:25:38,805 Sounds like Morse code. 1172 01:25:40,224 --> 01:25:42,017 Vaguely, maybe. 1173 01:25:43,810 --> 01:25:46,313 I'm Gigi, by the way. What's your name? 1174 01:25:46,522 --> 01:25:49,107 I'm not gonna tell you that. This is a felony. 1175 01:25:50,234 --> 01:25:53,445 You're not a criminal. You're just a mixed-up showgirl. 1176 01:25:53,779 --> 01:25:56,114 -Ha. -Ha, yourself. 1177 01:25:56,740 --> 01:25:57,991 Shut up. 1178 01:25:58,867 --> 01:26:00,160 What color eyes do you have? 1179 01:26:00,410 --> 01:26:01,662 Blue? 1180 01:26:11,129 --> 01:26:12,256 Hello. 1181 01:26:13,924 --> 01:26:15,133 Hello. 1182 01:26:19,429 --> 01:26:21,181 Sing me a lullaby. 1183 01:26:21,348 --> 01:26:22,766 I'm scared. 1184 01:26:52,045 --> 01:26:53,964 Are you asleep? 1185 01:27:00,012 --> 01:27:03,265 The Commissaire adored Gigi with all his voluminous heart. 1186 01:27:03,432 --> 01:27:06,768 However, his mind, that exceptional machine for the detection... 1187 01:27:06,935 --> 01:27:08,979 and investigation of criminal activity, 1188 01:27:10,606 --> 01:27:12,274 had been whirring since dinnertime. 1189 01:27:15,986 --> 01:27:18,989 And he was in a condition of dire calorific depletion. 1190 01:27:21,575 --> 01:27:25,412 Nescaffier, back in the field for the first time in six years... 1191 01:27:25,579 --> 01:27:27,706 came prepared to dazzle. 1192 01:27:32,002 --> 01:27:34,755 The change was instantaneous. 1193 01:27:42,471 --> 01:27:43,680 Nescaffier. 1194 01:27:43,847 --> 01:27:47,184 Even as the faintest hints of the aromas of the great chef's kitchen... 1195 01:27:47,351 --> 01:27:49,394 ribboned into the Commissaire's nostrils... 1196 01:27:49,561 --> 01:27:53,649 he began to envision and formulate a multi-pronged battle-plan. 1197 01:27:53,815 --> 01:27:54,900 To start... 1198 01:27:55,067 --> 01:27:56,777 Deviled eggs of the precinct canary... 1199 01:27:56,944 --> 01:27:59,029 served in shells of its own meringue. 1200 01:28:01,198 --> 01:28:02,199 Next... 1201 01:28:03,617 --> 01:28:04,868 Kidneys. 1202 01:28:05,035 --> 01:28:07,663 Poached with plums from the mayor's rooftop arbor. 1203 01:28:10,499 --> 01:28:11,500 Then... 1204 01:28:12,709 --> 01:28:15,128 minced lamb bon-bons in pastry wrappers. 1205 01:28:17,422 --> 01:28:18,465 Blasé oyster soup. 1206 01:28:20,676 --> 01:28:22,010 A magnificent city-park pigeon hash. 1207 01:28:22,177 --> 01:28:23,178 Finally... 1208 01:28:24,513 --> 01:28:26,557 ...tabac pudding with quadruple cream. 1209 01:28:29,977 --> 01:28:31,228 May I interrupt with a question? 1210 01:28:31,311 --> 01:28:32,938 -Please. -Forgive me. 1211 01:28:33,021 --> 01:28:34,481 Just permit me to dog-ear the page. Mentally. 1212 01:28:34,648 --> 01:28:35,649 I beg your pardon. 1213 01:28:36,108 --> 01:28:39,111 You've written about the American negro, the French intellectual... 1214 01:28:39,278 --> 01:28:41,113 -the Southern romantic... -And the anti-negro. 1215 01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:42,281 The anti-negro. 1216 01:28:43,156 --> 01:28:47,619 Scripture, mythology, folklore, true crime, false crime... 1217 01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:50,455 the ghost story, the picaresque, the bildungsroman. 1218 01:28:50,622 --> 01:28:52,583 But more than anything, over all these years... 1219 01:28:52,749 --> 01:28:54,376 you've written about food. 1220 01:28:54,751 --> 01:28:56,086 Why? 1221 01:28:57,296 --> 01:29:00,048 Who? What? Where? When? How? Valid questions... 1222 01:29:00,215 --> 01:29:04,678 but I learned as a cub stringer, never, under any circumstance... 1223 01:29:04,845 --> 01:29:08,140 if it is remotely within your power to resist the impulse... 1224 01:29:08,348 --> 01:29:10,225 never ask a man why. 1225 01:29:11,018 --> 01:29:12,394 It tightens a fellow up. 1226 01:29:13,103 --> 01:29:14,104 I apologize, 1227 01:29:14,229 --> 01:29:15,397 -but I'm gonna hold you to it... -Torture. 1228 01:29:15,731 --> 01:29:16,732 ...if you'll agree. 1229 01:29:16,815 --> 01:29:20,527 Self-reflection is a vice best conducted in private or not at all. 1230 01:29:21,695 --> 01:29:23,113 Well... 1231 01:29:23,864 --> 01:29:26,658 I'll answer your question out of sheer weariness... 1232 01:29:28,577 --> 01:29:31,205 but I truly don't know what I'm about to say. 1233 01:29:34,708 --> 01:29:38,086 There is a particular sad beauty... 1234 01:29:38,921 --> 01:29:42,925 well-known to the companionless foreigner as he walks the streets of his adopted... 1235 01:29:43,091 --> 01:29:46,720 preferably moonlit, city. In my case, Ennui, France. 1236 01:29:47,721 --> 01:29:49,223 I have so often... 1237 01:29:50,224 --> 01:29:53,769 I have so often shared the day's glittering discoveries with... 1238 01:29:56,480 --> 01:29:57,648 no one at all. 1239 01:29:58,565 --> 01:30:01,610 But always, somewhere along the avenue or the boulevard... 1240 01:30:01,777 --> 01:30:04,446 there was a table set for me. 1241 01:30:05,656 --> 01:30:09,701 A cook, a waiter, a bottle, a glass, a fire. 1242 01:30:11,828 --> 01:30:13,956 I chose this life. 1243 01:30:15,916 --> 01:30:19,628 It is the solitary feast that has been very much like a comrade... 1244 01:30:19,795 --> 01:30:22,548 my great comfort and fortification. 1245 01:30:24,466 --> 01:30:27,094 Do you remember where you placed the bookmark? 1246 01:30:27,928 --> 01:30:30,055 Of course, silly goose. "Meanwhile." 1247 01:30:30,556 --> 01:30:32,933 "Meanwhile, across the street..." 1248 01:31:25,819 --> 01:31:29,198 Hold your fire! Hold your fire! 1249 01:31:37,873 --> 01:31:40,584 During a lull in the skirmish, an ancient concierge... 1250 01:31:40,751 --> 01:31:42,961 veteran of two wars, limped across the street... 1251 01:31:43,128 --> 01:31:45,088 to deliver an enigmatic message. 1252 01:31:57,935 --> 01:32:01,897 I'm speaking to the leader of the gang of kidnappers on the top floor. 1253 01:32:02,272 --> 01:32:04,775 Do you have a working kitchen in your lair? 1254 01:32:04,942 --> 01:32:06,610 My son needs a snack. 1255 01:32:06,777 --> 01:32:09,196 Allow us to send in our precinct cook... 1256 01:32:09,404 --> 01:32:11,615 along with some supplies and provisions. 1257 01:32:11,782 --> 01:32:14,284 He will prepare a supper of sufficient proportions... 1258 01:32:14,451 --> 01:32:17,037 to feed you and all your accomplices. 1259 01:32:17,955 --> 01:32:19,540 We already ate. 1260 01:32:26,129 --> 01:32:27,714 Is it an underling... 1261 01:32:28,215 --> 01:32:30,259 or Nescaffier himself? 1262 01:32:58,245 --> 01:32:59,997 Blackbird pie. 1263 01:33:12,384 --> 01:33:14,720 Required, of course, to sample each item... 1264 01:33:15,179 --> 01:33:18,056 the chef ate the deathly poison. 1265 01:33:23,645 --> 01:33:25,397 For the little boy. 1266 01:33:27,232 --> 01:33:28,442 Stop. 1267 01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:31,987 Write down the recipe. 1268 01:33:43,707 --> 01:33:44,833 Help... 1269 01:33:48,003 --> 01:33:49,588 But Nescaffier survived... 1270 01:33:49,755 --> 01:33:51,715 thanks to the extreme fortitude... 1271 01:33:51,882 --> 01:33:56,011 bolstered and braced, season upon season, by the richest, most potent plates... 1272 01:33:56,178 --> 01:33:57,804 pans, and sauce pots... 1273 01:33:57,971 --> 01:34:01,016 of his almost superhuman stomach. 1274 01:34:02,184 --> 01:34:03,602 He knew well, of course... 1275 01:34:03,769 --> 01:34:06,813 Gigi loathed and despised the radish in all its forms... 1276 01:34:06,980 --> 01:34:08,899 with a deep, unbridled passion, 1277 01:34:09,066 --> 01:34:10,776 and had never so much as touched one... 1278 01:34:10,943 --> 01:34:14,488 or even spoken the word, during his entire young lifetime. 1279 01:34:14,947 --> 01:34:16,823 However, as it happened... 1280 01:34:18,116 --> 01:34:20,536 the chauffeur hated radishes, too. 1281 01:36:25,244 --> 01:36:26,620 Take the wheel! 1282 01:36:50,602 --> 01:36:53,146 Perhaps the most stirring and startling phenomenon witnessed... 1283 01:36:53,313 --> 01:36:56,608 over the trajectory of that protracted dinner date was this... 1284 01:37:09,246 --> 01:37:12,708 A delicious irony. Monsieur Albert... 1285 01:37:12,875 --> 01:37:14,084 accountant to the demi-monde 1286 01:37:14,168 --> 01:37:16,712 and remote cause of the entire spectacular contretemps... 1287 01:37:16,879 --> 01:37:18,338 had been forgotten in the chicken coop 1288 01:37:18,422 --> 01:37:20,174 from Thursday dinner to Monday breakfast... 1289 01:37:20,340 --> 01:37:22,676 and had very nearly starved in his cell. 1290 01:37:23,051 --> 01:37:25,345 It was only the convalescent Monsieur Nescaffier himself... 1291 01:37:25,512 --> 01:37:27,806 who retained the presence of mind to prepare the prisoner... 1292 01:37:27,973 --> 01:37:30,517 an omelette à la policier, which he delivered warm... 1293 01:37:30,684 --> 01:37:32,936 wrapped in a day-old search warrant. 1294 01:37:34,771 --> 01:37:36,899 The Abacus ate well that morning. 1295 01:37:39,902 --> 01:37:42,070 A word from Gemini tooth powder. 1296 01:37:45,032 --> 01:37:47,034 It was supposed to be an article about a great chef. 1297 01:37:47,117 --> 01:37:48,118 It is in part. 1298 01:37:48,285 --> 01:37:49,703 For the Tastes and Smells section... 1299 01:37:49,870 --> 01:37:52,539 I understand. The assignment was perfectly clear. 1300 01:37:53,540 --> 01:37:56,168 Perhaps, you fail to grasp... 1301 01:37:56,335 --> 01:37:59,755 that I was shot at and hand-grenaded against my will. 1302 01:38:00,422 --> 01:38:02,424 I only asked to be fed, and was, marvelously, 1303 01:38:02,508 --> 01:38:04,343 as I described in some detail. 1304 01:38:05,093 --> 01:38:07,763 Nescaffier only gets one line of dialogue. 1305 01:38:10,224 --> 01:38:14,102 Well, I did cut something he told me. It made me too sad. 1306 01:38:15,062 --> 01:38:16,772 I could stick it back in, if you like. 1307 01:38:18,440 --> 01:38:19,942 What did he say? 1308 01:38:41,171 --> 01:38:42,464 Martin... Martin... 1309 01:38:42,631 --> 01:38:43,882 Guillaume Martin. 1310 01:38:54,017 --> 01:38:55,727 They had a flavor. 1311 01:38:57,688 --> 01:38:59,189 I beg your pardon? 1312 01:39:00,607 --> 01:39:04,736 The toxic salts in the radishes... 1313 01:39:04,903 --> 01:39:06,488 they had a flavor. 1314 01:39:07,573 --> 01:39:10,200 Totally unfamiliar to me. 1315 01:39:10,951 --> 01:39:15,163 Like a bitter, moldy, peppery... 1316 01:39:16,039 --> 01:39:18,917 spicy, oily kind of... 1317 01:39:20,085 --> 01:39:21,420 earth. 1318 01:39:22,296 --> 01:39:25,090 I never tasted that taste in my life. 1319 01:39:26,008 --> 01:39:27,926 Not entirely pleasant... 1320 01:39:28,552 --> 01:39:30,512 extremely poisonous... 1321 01:39:31,013 --> 01:39:33,515 but still, a new flavor. 1322 01:39:34,600 --> 01:39:36,894 That's a rare thing at my age. 1323 01:39:39,062 --> 01:39:41,565 I admire your bravery, Lieutenant. 1324 01:39:42,191 --> 01:39:44,109 I'm not brave. 1325 01:39:44,776 --> 01:39:46,361 I just wasn't... 1326 01:39:46,570 --> 01:39:48,155 in the mood to be... 1327 01:39:48,530 --> 01:39:50,574 a disappointment to everybody. 1328 01:39:52,409 --> 01:39:54,036 I'm a foreigner, you know. 1329 01:39:55,454 --> 01:39:57,706 This city is full of us, isn't it? 1330 01:39:58,707 --> 01:40:00,542 I'm one myself. 1331 01:40:02,669 --> 01:40:04,755 Seeking something missing. 1332 01:40:06,673 --> 01:40:09,009 Missing something left behind. 1333 01:40:12,221 --> 01:40:14,264 Maybe with good luck... 1334 01:40:14,431 --> 01:40:16,683 we'll find what eluded us... 1335 01:40:17,434 --> 01:40:19,937 in the places we once called home. 1336 01:40:28,904 --> 01:40:31,281 That's the best part of the whole thing. 1337 01:40:32,157 --> 01:40:34,493 That's the reason for it to be written. 1338 01:40:36,703 --> 01:40:38,580 I couldn't agree less. 1339 01:40:40,624 --> 01:40:43,836 Well, anyway, don't cut it. 1340 01:41:13,615 --> 01:41:14,908 Are we all here? 1341 01:41:15,701 --> 01:41:18,120 I guess you know. It was a heart attack. 1342 01:41:33,635 --> 01:41:34,845 No crying. 1343 01:41:41,935 --> 01:41:44,104 Is somebody coming to take him away? 1344 01:41:44,271 --> 01:41:46,315 There's a strike at the morgue. 1345 01:41:49,943 --> 01:41:51,028 Who was with him? 1346 01:41:51,195 --> 01:41:52,529 He was alone. 1347 01:41:52,696 --> 01:41:54,364 Reading birthday telegrams. 1348 01:41:57,034 --> 01:41:59,828 Don't light the candles. He's dead. 1349 01:42:00,913 --> 01:42:02,497 I'll have a slice. 1350 01:42:03,081 --> 01:42:04,333 Me, too. 1351 01:42:05,375 --> 01:42:07,920 We need to draft something. Who wants it? 1352 01:42:08,086 --> 01:42:09,087 We've got a file. 1353 01:42:09,213 --> 01:42:10,547 I'm working on the art. 1354 01:42:13,467 --> 01:42:15,093 That's him. 1355 01:42:19,223 --> 01:42:20,974 Let's write it together. 1356 01:42:21,141 --> 01:42:22,142 Write what? 1357 01:42:22,226 --> 01:42:23,894 The obituary. 1358 01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:28,273 Arthur Howitzer, Jr. Born in North Kansas... 1359 01:42:28,440 --> 01:42:31,652 10 miles from the geographical center of the United States. 1360 01:42:31,818 --> 01:42:33,070 Mother died when he was five. 1361 01:42:33,237 --> 01:42:35,739 Son of a newspaper publisher, founder of this magazine. 1362 01:42:35,906 --> 01:42:38,075 The French Dispatch, previously known as Picnic. 1363 01:42:38,242 --> 01:42:42,120 A largely unread Sunday supplement to the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun. 1364 01:42:42,287 --> 01:42:43,747 It began as a holiday. 1365 01:42:43,914 --> 01:42:44,957 Is that true? 1366 01:42:45,123 --> 01:42:46,208 Sort of. 1367 01:42:48,627 --> 01:42:50,254 What happens next?110267