All language subtitles for 1969 Femina Ridens 愛的魔力(The Laughing Woman).ENG

THE LAUGHING WOMAN

You really hurt me this time

OK, see you next Friday,
same time, same place

Unheard of...

Nothing like this
has happened in years

I'm sorry but the committee did not
decide in your favor

Didn't they consider my diligence?

In a year, I could repay
the amount I've withdrawn

It's not a question of reimbursing
what you've embezzled

It's a matter of principle

A philanthropic foundation can't use
a manager who stole $100,000

You surely know that

I wonder, sir, if I could lodge
an appeal to the board

The committee's decision
is irrevocable

You should be grateful that this
won't be pursued in court

We don't want a scandal

I thought highly of you once

Good evening

No, I really can't tonight

Yes, we agreed,
but I really can't this time

I'm sorry to let you down
at the last minute

Calm down

But, darling, it's not my fault.
It's just...

I don't feel well

Yes, all of a sudden

It's my liver, that's what it is

Where am I?

At the doctor's.
You know I'd never lie to you

Oh no, of course it's not
a question of money

I'm really not well

I've a fever
and I've got the shivers

I can't...

Let's put it off until Friday

Bye

I'd like to speak to the director

- Miss Ergstrom is here
- Who?

- Miss Ergstrom from the press office
- Let her in

He'll see you now

Ergstrom...

- A Swedish surname, isn't it?
- Yes

- I don't remember you
- I've only been here a month

So, what is it?

I'm sorry to bother you

I need more material for my report
on male sterilization in India

I need specialist journals

I'd gladly give them to you,
but they're at my house

- I can drop by and get them
- I'll bring them on Monday

I hate to insist but I hope to get
the article done this weekend

An odd way to spend your weekend

I seem to concentrate more
on weekends

I can shut myself off from people
and not be distracted

Are you personally
for or against sterilization?

I'm all for it

A man with 2 or 3 children
can certainly be sterilized

Why should women always be
the ones to take precautions?

The pill is harmless,
sterilization is permanent

It's a monstrous barbarity!

I agree that the rise in population
must be curbed

But by means that
don't lessen the man's potential

Like, through modern
educational programs

Through...
a repeated appeal to responsibility

Publication and diffusion
of various methods

And if that isn't enough,
through the use of the pill

It is essential that
the fertility of the man

should remain absolutely intact

- ls that clear?
- My personal opinion apart,

I'll write a report
to your satisfaction

- I sincerely hope so
- May I come for those publications?

Very well, do come

The address is rather hard to find.
I'll expect you at 8.30

Very well, I'll see you later

I don't understand their meaning,
but they're very decorative

They were painted by a missionary

He copied microscopic slides of
many types of bacteria and protozoa

Bubonic plague

Leprosy

Typhus

Cholera

Carbuncles

Tetanus

Diphtheria

Rabies

What's this one?

Trypanosoma gambiense

It causes sleeping sickness

It's the one I like best

Would you like a scotch?

Thank you... No ice

- You like my little collection?
- Yes, it's very interesting

I never thought
you'd have such a hobby

We don't know each other well

All I know about you

is you're a pretty and
very enthusiastic journalist

I know a little bit more about you

You're a philanthropist, a bachelor,

and you've a very impressive
collection of daggers

They're nothing special

A few are valuable

This one, for instance

Florentine, 15th century

It belonged to Giuliano de Medici

It has an inside groove,
for poison

Please untie me

Why?

From an aesthetic point of view,
your position is perfect

You create a long, sinuous line
against the grid's straight bars

Very feminine

You're mad

No, my dear

I'm not mad

You are

You and all other women

You want to rule the world

You're making yourselves
self-sufficient

Socially and sexually
self-sufficient

Can you hear what you're saying?
Stop all this nonsense!

There are specialised units

where the sperm of
the most intelligent men is frozen

So that in 10, 20...

or 50 years, a woman
can pick the child she wants

Blond or dark

Blue-eyed or brown-eyed,
athletic or intellectual

Football fan or music lover

What matter if the father is dead?

What matter if there are
other men living and sexually useful?

It matters not at all

A woman won't need them

She'll only need a tube of sperm
to be chosen from a rack

Like an aperitif or a tonic

Please, I beg you, let me go.
Come to your senses

And you won't even have
the unpleasantness

of seeing your beautiful belly
distorted by pregnancy

Four weeks after fertilization,

you'll deposit the unripe fruit
in a special incubator

Stop it... Please...

Female rabbits have already learnt
how to reproduce by parthenogenesis

All on their own

Without any help from the male

They breed exclusively
female offspring

And you, women, will learn
to reproduce like that

Giving birth to females only.
A world populated by females alone

The tranquillising influence of
the full moon at the moment of birth

channels the onanistic instinct
toward extroversion

Gemini with Mercury ascendant
accentuates masochism and sadism

Those born in the early morning,

will have a tendency
towards masochism

with the sublimation
of sadistic urges

Cancer with the Moon in ascendant
gives rise to necrophilia

However, it'll never be
put into practice

and it'll be replaced by scopophilia

Leo with the sun ascendant
is responsible for pederasty

as a never-accomplished taste,

and for sodomy which is instead
widely practised at an adult age

If the Moon was in the first quarter
at the time of birth,

these tendencies will be manifested
in a rather mild way

You've been listening to:
"Sexual Aberrations and the Stars"

presented by G. Audrey

You have to make love with him

and prove that you enjoy it

Use all your femininity

Hold him. Hold still

Hug him

Come on, hold him tight

Kiss him

On the mouth...
On the mouth!

More passion

More passion, I said

Understand?

You won't consume and destroy him
as you do other men

Very gently, mind you.
With a touch of gracefulness

Especially between the toes

Pay very special attention

Good girl.
Now, further up

Ankles take more energy

Haven't you any strength
in your arms?

That's better

Now, the other foot

There

Obey my orders promptly
and do everything with diligence

You must be aware
that you're my slave

I can do with you whatever I want

Even kill you, if I feel like it

Understood?

Understood?

Yes

Please, take me back to town.
I swear I won't tell anyone

No one will ever know
what happened here

I've done everything
you wanted me to

I can't stand it anymore.
Let me go

But why? Why me?

I'm not sexy.
I'm just like other girls

Why you?
It happened by chance

Nothing but chance

You were a last minute substitute
for someone else

The poor girl felt sick.
A liver attack

I needed a woman for the weekend

and I took advantage of the fact
that you were there

And available

You can drink it.
It's not drugged

It's too soon to kill me, isn't it?

You've not had enough fun with me.
It'd be a pity to waste me

Eventually...

I've sworn that I won't say a word.
That I'll forget all this forever

But you don't want believe me

I get it, why take the risk?

It's so much simpler to kill me.
And much more exciting

It can't be the first time

This is just another
of your fun weekends

How many women
have you dragged here...

tortured and killed,
then disposed of?

You may as well admit it,
for all the difference it will make

Talk. Say something

At least have the courage to
look me in the eye

Coward!

Why don't you kill me now?
Here I am

Kill me!

What are you waiting for,
you murderer!

Please, get my cigarettes

They're in a box, on the sideboard

Well? My cigarettes?

Corning

You thought I was so foolish?

You're such a fool

I set a little trap for you
and you walked right into it

You need to cool off a little

Turn around

Come closer

You can't imagine the pleasure
it gives me to look closely

at a woman gripped by fear

It would be wonderful to feel
what's going on inside you right now

The adrenal glands
are working overtime

The adrenaline is contracting the
blood vessels, slowing the circulation

and producing

that livid pallor in your face

At the same time, your blood pressure
and cardiac rhythm are intensifying

Your heart is pounding,

and an aching emptiness
fills your stomach

The sweat glands are over-active

Your hands are soaked in cold sweat

But the saliva glands
seem to be blocked

Your mouth is dry

Your throat is hoarse and raspy

Your tongue...

Your tongue is glued to the palate,

as you taste
the bitter tang of terror

Your personality no longer exists

You're ready to obey blindly

I can give you any order
and you'll obey me, right?

To have under one's eye

a woman prisoner

who knows she's at death's door

is a fascinating spectacle

But it's even more exciting to know
that, in her brain,

despite the gnawing terror,

there's still a grain of hope

That's where the pleasure comes,
from nurturing that hope of salvation

And then,

just when the victim is under
the delusion her life is saved,

you crush her under foot

- How many women have you killed?
- Quite a few, I suppose

You have sex with your victims?

I kill them at the moment of climax

Have you always had sex this way?

Always

You're not tired of it yet?

You're not here to do an interview

Don't worry, I won't use this
for a news article

I only wondered if you're ready
to try another game

What do you mean?

Stop it while there's still time

Until now, you've escaped the law
but it won't last long

The same tortures,
the same screaming...

In the long run, all the victims
end up looking alike

And blood is still only blood

I'm sure you no longer
get the same thrills

Even if that were true,

- I have no alternative
- You do, think about it

You're handsome, rich,
an intelligent man

You can have any woman you want

You can have hundreds of them
with the least effort

You could make them yearn for you

Make them suffer or cry,
even drive them to suicide

You don't have to torture and kill
to satisfy your sadistic drives

There are erotic techniques that are
as enjoyable and much less risky

- Interesting
- It is...

One day, you'll discover you like
a woman in a new, special way

She'll become the woman of your life

You'll be happy. You'll be cured

So you want to cure me?

Admit that you only want
to save yourself

No, I want to cure you
of your sickness

I'm not afraid of death.
I believe in reincarnation

Hindu or Pythagorean?

- Hindu
- That's interesting

You must get over it

You must free yourself from
your complexes and fears

Have faith in your virility.
Think how exciting that could be

The satisfaction of dominating
a woman with your male strength

With your manly appeal

Try to imagine the beauty
of making love freely

In a field,
on a beach, in the high grass,

in the water

It can be wonderful in the water!

- When do we begin this cure?
- Right now

It's a summer night,
a scent of flowers fills the garden

The gate leads into
a dark, deserted park

I'm waiting for the man I love

I'm shivering from excitement.
I'm so happy

He's coming up to me
and he's smiling at me

I can feel his strong arms
holding me tight

I'm tingling all over

I'm light as a feather,
as if I've blotted out the world

Enough

The role of a romantic girl
doesn't suit you

You're acting it very badly

You must find a sexier character

More dynamic. More...

Forget it

You'd best consider your afterlife
now you're so close to it

Think what you'll be
in your new reincarnation

A man? Yellow or black?

A Persian cat or a sewer rat'?

A hyena...
a laughing hyena, perhaps?

No! You'll reincarnate as
a scorpion. Female, naturally

A huge, voracious, deadly
female scorpion

Shut a woman in there, she'll go mad
and die in just a few hours

I haven't tried it yet
but I think it could be amusing

The victim can barely breathe

and can't make
the slightest movement

She can only roll her eyes

From them you can read all the phases
of madness, agony and death

And all in complete silence

In total immobility of the body

No... please, no

Don't be afraid

I don't want you to try it on

I've got another dress for you

Something more comfortable

Do you want to play something?

Let's hear it

Go on. Don't stop

You whore

What's wrong?

Shut up

No, please...
What are you going to do now?

Go ahead, kill me. Kill me!

I'd rather die now than go out of
my mind, waiting to be murdered

Why are you waiting?

I can't stand it anymore.
Do it!

Kill me

Kill me!

Come on, drink

It'll do you good

Another sip

Good girl

You have to move around

Try to walk

Come on

No, don't stop

You must try harder

That's right

Keep walking

Why didn't you let me die?

Don't be silly

- How do you feel?
- Better

I feel a little warm right now

It's all over now.
I won't hurt you anymore

That's what you say now
and you probably believe it

But you'll kill me just as
you killed all those women

I've never killed anyone.
The photos were all staged

The blood was fake

The victims, screaming...
It was all fake

They're professionals.
They do it for money

I spend the weekends
with one of them

so I can indulge in my manias

I lost my head last night

That was the first time
I kidnapped a woman

I had a real victim in my hands

For the first time
it wasn't fiction, it was real

You can't imagine
how exciting it was

I could finally turn
my fantasy into reality

To kill a woman for real

But when...

I raised those scissors...

I knew I wouldn't...

ever be able to do it

You know,

I like you better with short hair

Don't move

Quick

No, please, not here

- You know how scorpions make love'?
- No

Just as they're about to climax,
the female eats the male

I saw it once when I was a boy

I must've been 12 or 13,
I still remember it

I thought they were fighting

My father explained it all to me

It came as a terrible shock.
I picked up a rock...

and I pounded that
greedy female to a pulp

I couldn't get that sight
out of my head

I was convinced that
all women made love like that

Eating the male

Good to see you again, sir

Do you wish to go straight
to your table,

or would the young lady
rather visit the castle first?

I do want to look around a bit

The dwarves slept here.
They were the court jesters

Look

After you

400 years ago, a duke lived here
who suffered from insomnia

So he'd call the dwarves
during the night

They'd come through that passage
and entertain him

Someone might come in

Don't worry,
visitors never come up here

We're lost. It's hard to find the way
out of all these rooms and corridors

- We'd like to go to the restaurant
- Come with me

I love you

Cats like me.
They seem to know me

Maybe they sense I love them

Extraordinary creatures.
So beautiful, sensual, gentle...

And then suddenly they become
aggressive, dangerous

When I was a girl,
maybe 14 or 15,

a cat fell in love with me.
I mean it

He looked at me with that
mysterious desire that cats have

He came running up behind me
and suddenly leapt on my shoulder,

purring and brushing his whiskers
all over my ears

He had long whiskers,

incredibly sensual

Whenever he found me in bed,
he almost made love to me

Don't you believe me?

Don't you believe me?

Yes, of course

He'd press his claws into my tummy,
but softly, without hurting me

He'd nuzzle his little nose
into my breasts, purring

His eyes shut tight,
his whiskers all fingertips

Cats feel with their whiskers,
you know?

Did you know that?

Yes, I know

He'd brush my legs with his tail,

trembling all over

Can I take your order now?
An aperitif, to start with?

Hors d'oeuvres? We have
very fresh oysters from Ostend

For me, eggs tartare
and today's special

Royal pheasant | la Gonzaga

Perfect

And for you, sir?

Try to imagine the beauty
of making love freely

In a field,
on a beach, in the high grass,

in the water

It can be wonderful in the water

Think how exciting that could be

The satisfaction of dominating
a woman with your virility,

with your manly appeal

With your male strength

One day, you'll discover that you
like a woman in a new, special way

She'll become the woman of your life

You'll be happy. You'll be cured

I must get over it

I must free myself
from my complexes and fears

I must have faith
in my male strength

Did things go well?

Without a hitch.
Word for word as you described it

It wasn't playing fair

You knew what would happen to you,
before you even started

It's true, I knew it.
Anyway, our man wasn't tough

Now I've lost one
of my best customers

He was like the rest

Don't worry, you'll find
many more of that kind

They'll pay to beat you up and
humiliate you, just to feel superior

Sad losers

Don't be content with their money

Learn to hit back
and destroy them at their own game

You'll enjoy it.
Goodbye