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I just want to be one of them.
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I would like to sit down
with them and have a drink,
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and talk about anything.
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I'd like for them
to give me some tobacco,
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a glass of wine, or even just ask me,
"How are you today?"
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And I would answer,
and we would talk.
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And from time to time,
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I'd make a sketch
of one of them as a gift.
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They would accept it, maybe,
and keep it somewhere.
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And a woman
would smile at me and ask,
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"Are you hungry? Would you
like something to eat?
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A piece of ham, some cheese,
or maybe a fruit?"
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Look at me.
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Please.
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Oui.
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Some of them were going to be
in my group show. They let me down.
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You know him, don't you?
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Yes, I have some of
his paintings in the gallery.
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- I'm Paul Gauguin, by the way.
- I know.
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- You're Vincent, Theo's brother.
- Yes.
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I saw your paintings at the cafeteria.
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- You did? You must've been the only one.
- Yes.
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But if you did, it was worth it.
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There were a couple good ones in there,
but it was hard to see.
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It was a difficult space.
And too many works.
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My idea was a group show.
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I thought it could be a community
of artists, like a family.
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When the other artists didn't participate,
I had to do it by myself.
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I filled it with everything I had
in my studio.
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Yeah, it looked like it.
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Those people, you don't
want them to be your family.
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Who needs a family like that?
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You can't pick your family,
but you can pick your friends.
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I love my brother.
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Then you're lucky.
But more importantly, he loves you.
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I know he's very good to you.
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I want to get as far away
from these people as possible.
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I'm going to Madagascar.
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Madagascar? But what about Japan?
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No, no, Madagascar.
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It's an island, a big one.
In between Africa and India.
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Or even further, some remote island
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where they've never heard about painting,
about Paris or schools.
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Somewhere where I can create a new vision,
a new way of painting,
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far away from all systems and theories.
Real freedom.
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I'd like to be calm
and take my time, alone,
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forget about the rest
of the world, and just...
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Paint this. Here.
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Slowly.
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What comes to me, nothing else.
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That sounds good.
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I hate the fog. I'm tired
of this gray light.
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I'd like to find a new light,
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for paintings that we haven't yet seen.
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Bright paintings, painted in sunlight.
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Go south, Vincent.
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What are you reading today? The Bible?
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Uh, no, Shakespeare.
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- How did you say?
- Shakespeare. William Shakespeare.
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He's an English writer.
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Do you know him?
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No, he lived a long time ago.
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- Is he any good?
- Oh, yes.
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- What does he write about?
- About everything.
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About men and women,
gods and kings, about love and hate.
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What are you reading right now?
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It's a, uh, theater play
called Richard Ill.
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- Who is that, Richard?
- A king, a king of England.
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- A good king?
- Oh, no,
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he was considered a real bastard.
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- Did he kill people?
- Oh, yes, a lot.
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- You shouldn't read a bastard's story.
- Why not?
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- Does he write well at least?
- Oh, yes, very well.
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Some of the lines
aren't very clear, but...
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- I like that.
- Why?
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Because I like mystery,
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and Shakespeare is more mysterious
than any other writer.
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Well, when I read a book,
I like to understand what's written.
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What kind of books do you read?
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Mmm...
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Mostly novels. Modern novels.
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And short stories in the papers.
Sad stories.
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I don't know why,
I like a story to be sad.
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If I had more free time, I would...
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Wait a minute. I'll be right back.
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- I have a book for you.
- Thank you.
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There's nothing written in it.
In fact, it's blank.
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But I thought you could use the paper.
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Thank you.
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Excuse me, I've been meaning to ask you...
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Is there a place,
or do you have a storeroom,
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or a room where I could paint? It's...
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It's sometimes difficult
with this weather, the mistral.
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The yellow house next door
has been empty for months.
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Maybe he could use it?
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Yes... Perhaps we could make
an arrangement with your brother?
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It is a bit run down,
but Gaby can help you clean it up.
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That would be perfect for me.
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Maybe I can...
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uh, make a painting... of you someday.
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Me?
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Yes.
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If you want, sir, thank you.
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Have you received
the money for this month?
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You still owe me for last month.
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When it arrives... I'll pay you.
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Your brother, he must be rich.
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Well, he... He's not.
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He's a merchant. He sells paintings.
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Your paintings?
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Not yet.
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You should wash yourself sometimes.
At least once a week.
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- Do I look dirty?
- You smell terrible.
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You're not bad looking.
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If you just cleaned up a little,
you might even be handsome.
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If I was clean,
would you find me attractive?
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Maybe.
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Would you stay with me here
if I gave you 50 francs?
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You don't have 50 francs.
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See you tomorrow, Vincent.
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- Why do you paint this?
- What?
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- These flowers. Why do you paint them?
- Don't you find them beautiful?
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Well, they are beautiful flowers,
no doubt.
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More beautiful than what you paint.
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- You think so?
- Oh, yes.
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Maybe you're right.
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But these flowers will wither
and fade. All flowers do.
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I know, everybody knows that.
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But mine will resist.
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Are you sure?
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At least they'll have a chance.
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You should make a painting of me.
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Why not?
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If you paint me,
I would stay young forever, maybe.
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I can even make you look younger.
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No, it wouldn't be fair.
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When facing a flat landscape,
I see nothing but eternity.
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Am I the only one to see it?
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Existence can't be without reason.
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Oh.
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Go away! Go away!
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Go away! Leave me alone!
Leave me alone!
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Go away!
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Go away!
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Theo.
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Theo, come here.
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They told me what happened. Please...
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Tell me, how do you feel?
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I feel so well with you next to me.
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So well... I'd like to die like this.
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When we were little, I used to climb
into bed with you, remember?
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Yes, you did.
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When it was getting cold.
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How long will you stay?
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Just today, I'm sorry.
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I have to get back to Paris.
So many things to do.
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And they told me you were in a hospital,
and I took the first train.
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Can't you stay any longer?
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I can't, I'm sorry.
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It took one day and a night to get here.
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- And I'm a married man now.
- I know you are.
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I'm very happy for Jo and you.
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Vincent...
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Why did they put you here?
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I have no idea, Theo. I swear to you.
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There must be a reason.
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From time to time, I...
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I feel like I'm losing my mind.
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Yes, my mind goes out of me,
I'm telling you. It goes out of me.
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What do you mean?
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They say that I scream
in the streets, that I cry,
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that I put black paint on my face
to scare the children.
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But... I don't remember anything.
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Anything except...
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the darkness and anxiety,
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so they sent me here.
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With really insane people.
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Do you drink a lot?
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I must tell you...
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Don't-don't tell it to the doctors...
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Theo, sometimes I have visions.
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- What do you see?
- It's hard to say.
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- Ghosts?
- I don't know.
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Flowers, sometimes...
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and also angels, human beings.
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It's confusing.
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Sometimes they talk to me.
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- What do they say?
- I don't understand them.
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But it's frightening.
They aren't always very nice.
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I will talk to the doctors
and see what can be done.
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When I get like this...
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I don't know what I'm capable of.
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Maybe I could kill...
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and throw myself off a cliff.
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Dear Paul,
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I know you've been in correspondence
with my brother Vincent,
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and he is very much looking forward
to your arrival in Arles,
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which I know has been postponed
due to financial concerns.
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I am prepared and committed to sending
250 francs each month
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in exchange for one painting
a month of yours, at your discretion.
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It would benefit Vincent greatly
to see you as soon as possible.
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A warm handshake.
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Enthusiastically, Theo van Gogh.
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P.S. Looking forward to your response
and to seeing your latest works.
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Of all the miseries that afflict humanity,
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nothing maddens me more
than the lack of money.
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But not tonight.
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Another round, madame.
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Gaby.
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Some days, I feel like a beggar,
but not today.
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It's so good to see you, Vincent,
and this fine group.
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I'm happy to see you, Paul.
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But really, no one around here
really likes me,
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except Madame and Monsieur Ginoux.
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Sometimes... it's days
before I speak to someone.
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I've been waiting for this moment.
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But you were so indecisive!
I'm glad you made up your mind.
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Is your brother still sending you money?
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- Two hundred and fifty francs a month.
- Not much.
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He does what he can.
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- Did you make an arrangement with him?
- Yeah.
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He pays my expenses here,
and I send him a canvas a month.
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- And you're happy with that?
- It's all right.
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It's acceptable.
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You have such a compelling face.
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Maybe you'd come over to the yellow house
and, uh, pose for me.
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Maybe.
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I'll take that as a yes.
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Why do you always
have to paint from nature?
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I feel lost if I don't have
something to look at.
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I need something to see.
There's so much to see.
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Every time I look, I see something
I've never seen before.
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Yes, but what you paint,
what you do belongs to you.
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- You don't need to copy anything.
- I don't copy.
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I know, but why don't you paint
just what's in your mind?
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What your brain sees?
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Because the essence of nature is beauty.
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What do you mean?
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What do you mean, what do I mean?
Why did you want to go to Madagascar?
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To get away from society, from people.
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That may have been part of it,
but you went there in search of beauty,
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and nature was definitely there.
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And it was different
than what you knew before,
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and it made your paintings look different.
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When I look at nature...
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I see more clearly...
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the tie that unites us all.
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A vibrating energy...
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speaking in God's voice.
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Sometimes it's so intense,
I lose consciousness.
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- Come on.
- I swear to you.
252
00:42:36,596 --> 00:42:41,557
After a while, I wake up and I don't know
where I am or what I'm doing.
253
00:42:41,642 --> 00:42:45,727
It takes me some minutes
to even remember my name.
254
00:42:45,813 --> 00:42:49,147
Listen, Vincent, the time is coming
when painters won't need anymore
255
00:42:49,233 --> 00:42:51,441
to look at models and sit down
in front of nature.
256
00:42:51,527 --> 00:42:52,813
You know why?
257
00:42:52,904 --> 00:42:56,648
Because nature is what we see here
in our heads. Nothing else!
258
00:42:56,741 --> 00:42:58,653
Without our eyes, there's no nature.
259
00:42:58,743 --> 00:43:00,860
And none of us sees the world
around us the same way.
260
00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:03,411
We sit, you and I,
in front of the same landscape,
261
00:43:03,498 --> 00:43:06,115
we don't see the same
mountains, the same trees.
262
00:43:06,209 --> 00:43:08,952
Well, that's what I'm saying.
The trees that I paint are mine.
263
00:43:09,045 --> 00:43:12,083
Even the faces you paint are yours.
264
00:43:12,173 --> 00:43:14,165
And they'll stay because of you.
265
00:43:14,258 --> 00:43:16,375
People will be known
because you painted them,
266
00:43:16,469 --> 00:43:19,052
and how you painted them,
not because of who they are.
267
00:43:19,138 --> 00:43:20,970
- That's good.
- And people will go to museums
268
00:43:21,057 --> 00:43:23,891
to see paintings of people,
not to see people who were painted.
269
00:43:23,976 --> 00:43:27,185
You know, people don't always like
the way they look in my paintings.
270
00:43:28,898 --> 00:43:31,185
We have to start a revolution.
Do you understand?
271
00:43:31,275 --> 00:43:34,814
Yes, we do. Us, our generation.
272
00:43:34,904 --> 00:43:36,816
We have to change entirely
273
00:43:36,906 --> 00:43:40,240
the relation between painting
and what you call nature.
274
00:43:41,244 --> 00:43:42,826
Between painting and reality,
275
00:43:42,912 --> 00:43:46,121
because painted reality
is its own reality.
276
00:43:47,917 --> 00:43:49,158
You're right about that.
277
00:43:49,252 --> 00:43:53,963
The impressionists,
they're out of it, do you agree?
278
00:43:54,048 --> 00:43:56,335
- Uh...
- Come on.
279
00:43:56,425 --> 00:43:58,153
They only paint their babies
in their gardens.
280
00:43:58,177 --> 00:43:59,463
They'll never go any further.
281
00:44:01,055 --> 00:44:03,593
Seurat confounds painting with science.
282
00:44:03,683 --> 00:44:06,300
He's lost himself in optical experiments.
283
00:44:07,562 --> 00:44:11,977
There's nothing more to expect
from Renoir, Degas, Monet...
284
00:44:12,066 --> 00:44:14,419
They repeat themselves.
They've given everything they could give.
285
00:44:14,443 --> 00:44:17,186
You don't mean that.
You like Degas.
286
00:44:18,990 --> 00:44:21,528
You have to say thank you
for the paintings you like.
287
00:44:22,535 --> 00:44:24,743
- Monet's pretty good.
- It's our turn.
288
00:44:25,746 --> 00:44:28,159
We have a huge responsibility.
289
00:44:28,249 --> 00:44:30,115
I still think
Monet's pretty good.
290
00:44:34,005 --> 00:44:35,462
You want to go to Martinique?
291
00:45:00,823 --> 00:45:02,109
It's good to have you here.
292
00:46:23,406 --> 00:46:25,363
Could you put your hand
back how it was?
293
00:47:00,693 --> 00:47:01,693
Thank you.
294
00:47:01,777 --> 00:47:03,359
- Can I go?
- You can go.
295
00:47:24,008 --> 00:47:26,375
You have to plan your paintings slowly.
296
00:47:28,137 --> 00:47:29,173
What's the rush?
297
00:47:30,389 --> 00:47:31,971
Work calmly, slowly.
298
00:47:32,058 --> 00:47:36,473
You're indoors, you're not outside
in the wind and the noise.
299
00:47:36,562 --> 00:47:40,055
Paintings have to be done
in one clear gesture.
300
00:47:48,074 --> 00:47:49,914
Think about the surface
that you're painting on
301
00:47:49,992 --> 00:47:51,483
and how the paint will sit on it.
302
00:47:51,577 --> 00:47:55,287
You're changing things so fast,
you can't even see what you've done.
303
00:47:57,041 --> 00:47:58,577
Paintings have to be painted fast.
304
00:48:39,083 --> 00:48:40,290
The painters I look at...
305
00:48:44,547 --> 00:48:45,708
Frans Hals,
306
00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:54,347
Goya,
307
00:49:02,481 --> 00:49:03,562
Velazquez,
308
00:49:08,404 --> 00:49:09,520
Veronese,
309
00:49:18,914 --> 00:49:19,995
Delacroix.
310
00:49:26,505 --> 00:49:31,876
The painters I like all paint fast
in one clear gesture, each stroke.
311
00:49:34,013 --> 00:49:37,051
You've heard of "a stroke of genius"?
Well, that's what it means.
312
00:49:38,934 --> 00:49:42,894
You don't even paint that way.
You paint fast and you overpaint.
313
00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:45,973
Your surface looks
like it's made out of clay.
314
00:49:46,066 --> 00:49:48,228
It's more like sculpture than painting.
315
00:50:00,831 --> 00:50:02,914
You don't even paint like that.
316
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,037
You paint fast and then you overpaint.
317
00:50:05,127 --> 00:50:07,164
Your surface looks
like it's made out of clay.
318
00:50:08,297 --> 00:50:10,414
It's more like sculpture than painting.
319
00:50:45,042 --> 00:50:47,159
I'm telling you,
you have to look inside.
320
00:50:48,462 --> 00:50:51,375
You keep saying "look inside."
I get it, I do.
321
00:50:51,465 --> 00:50:53,582
You keep repeating yourself.
322
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,592
What do you think I'm doing?
323
00:50:56,679 --> 00:50:59,592
I don't invent the picture.
324
00:50:59,682 --> 00:51:02,140
I don't need to invent the picture.
325
00:51:02,226 --> 00:51:06,470
I find it already in nature.
I just have to free it.
326
00:51:06,564 --> 00:51:09,181
All right, I'm just saying,
first think about your surface
327
00:51:09,275 --> 00:51:11,358
and how the paint will sit on it.
328
00:51:11,443 --> 00:51:14,277
Get control over what you're doing.
329
00:51:14,363 --> 00:51:16,025
Maybe you should work inside more.
330
00:51:17,283 --> 00:51:21,243
I've spent all my life alone, in a room.
331
00:51:21,328 --> 00:51:25,993
I need to go out and work
to forget myself.
332
00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:28,333
I want to be out of control.
333
00:51:28,419 --> 00:51:31,082
I need to be in a feverish state.
334
00:51:31,171 --> 00:51:33,163
It's called the act
of painting for a reason.
335
00:51:33,257 --> 00:51:37,001
- All right, calm down.
- I don't want to calm down.
336
00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:39,211
The faster I paint, the better I feel.
337
00:51:39,305 --> 00:51:43,549
- I can't stay here, Vincent.
- What are you saying?
338
00:51:46,729 --> 00:51:48,220
I can't stay in Arles.
339
00:51:49,565 --> 00:51:50,851
I'll go soon.
340
00:51:54,862 --> 00:51:55,862
What?
341
00:51:55,946 --> 00:51:58,814
I've sold some paintings lately.
Maybe your brother told you?
342
00:51:58,907 --> 00:52:00,239
And I have to get back to Paris.
343
00:52:06,915 --> 00:52:07,996
Where are you going?
344
00:52:11,295 --> 00:52:12,295
Vincent!
345
00:52:20,387 --> 00:52:24,256
I've spent
all my life alone, in a room.
346
00:52:24,350 --> 00:52:27,718
- I need to go out and work...
- What are you doing?
347
00:52:27,811 --> 00:52:29,928
...to forget myself.
348
00:52:30,022 --> 00:52:31,291
- I want to be out of control.
- What?
349
00:52:31,315 --> 00:52:34,103
I need to be in a feverish state.
350
00:52:34,193 --> 00:52:36,105
It's called the act of painting
for a reason.
351
00:52:36,195 --> 00:52:38,278
All right, calm down.
352
00:52:38,364 --> 00:52:42,028
I don't want to calm down.
The faster I paint, the better I feel.
353
00:52:46,246 --> 00:52:47,532
Why are you crying?
354
00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:52,663
What did I do? Where did I go wrong?
355
00:52:52,753 --> 00:52:56,246
Nothing. You have nothing to do
with this decision.
356
00:52:58,592 --> 00:53:01,175
Vincent, we can't live side by side.
357
00:53:01,261 --> 00:53:03,878
Our temperaments are incompatible,
you must admit that.
358
00:53:06,350 --> 00:53:08,717
And you have to understand,
359
00:53:08,811 --> 00:53:11,599
my reputation is established now.
360
00:53:11,689 --> 00:53:14,022
I can't live in a country town anymore.
361
00:53:15,526 --> 00:53:18,109
I have to be around people, for now.
362
00:53:21,281 --> 00:53:23,944
Besides, I don't like it here.
363
00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:28,404
You're surrounded by stupid,
wicked, ignorant people.
364
00:53:31,792 --> 00:53:33,579
Come on, why are you
being so dramatic?
365
00:54:00,446 --> 00:54:01,732
Please don't go.
366
00:54:03,073 --> 00:54:04,484
It's great having you here.
367
00:54:05,743 --> 00:54:07,154
I've sold some paintings lately.
368
00:54:07,244 --> 00:54:08,610
Maybe your brother told you?
369
00:54:08,704 --> 00:54:11,742
Don't do it to me! I beg you.
370
00:54:11,832 --> 00:54:13,869
- No!
- Nothing.
371
00:54:13,959 --> 00:54:16,747
You have nothing to do with this decision.
372
00:54:16,837 --> 00:54:18,749
Where are you going?
373
00:54:18,839 --> 00:54:21,422
- Vincent, we can't live side by side.
- Vincent!
374
00:54:21,508 --> 00:54:24,546
Our temperaments are incompatible,
you must admit that.
375
00:54:26,513 --> 00:54:31,725
And you have to understand,
my reputation is established now.
376
00:54:31,810 --> 00:54:34,052
I can't live in a country town anymore.
377
00:54:35,689 --> 00:54:38,523
I have to be around people, for now.
378
00:54:40,152 --> 00:54:41,313
What?
379
00:54:41,403 --> 00:54:44,066
Besides, I don't like it here.
380
00:54:44,156 --> 00:54:48,400
You're surrounded by stupid,
wicked, ignorant people.
381
00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:53,366
Come on,
why are you being so dramatic?
382
00:55:01,507 --> 00:55:02,543
What are you saying?
383
00:55:05,969 --> 00:55:07,551
I can't stay in Arles.
384
00:55:11,850 --> 00:55:13,637
There's something strange about me.
385
00:55:14,645 --> 00:55:19,561
Sometimes I don't know
what I've done or what I've said.
386
00:55:20,901 --> 00:55:25,692
About Gauguin, for instance,
what happened right before he left.
387
00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:28,652
We had some fights...
388
00:55:29,701 --> 00:55:31,693
I...
389
00:55:31,787 --> 00:55:35,656
Maybe I hurt him. I don't know how.
390
00:55:36,708 --> 00:55:37,949
I do know...
391
00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:42,287
that I took a razor...
392
00:55:42,381 --> 00:55:45,249
and I cut off one of my ears, yes.
393
00:55:45,342 --> 00:55:48,631
I cut it off, one of my ears.
Blood all over the place.
394
00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:50,507
No one else did it, I did it.
395
00:55:52,182 --> 00:55:56,392
I wanted to give it to Gauguin
with my apologies.
396
00:55:57,646 --> 00:55:58,727
Why?
397
00:56:00,607 --> 00:56:01,768
God knows.
398
00:56:03,652 --> 00:56:06,611
And I thought
she would know where Paul was,
399
00:56:06,697 --> 00:56:09,861
so I gave my ear to the girl
at the bar, to Gaby.
400
00:56:09,950 --> 00:56:11,657
She was scared, all the blood...
401
00:56:11,743 --> 00:56:14,577
I think she thought
I was going to kill her.
402
00:56:14,663 --> 00:56:18,703
So, she called the police
and they put me here.
403
00:56:21,211 --> 00:56:23,828
And what would you have done,
as a police officer?
404
00:56:25,340 --> 00:56:27,502
You can leave. It's all right.
405
00:56:34,433 --> 00:56:35,640
I...
406
00:56:38,186 --> 00:56:39,552
This is a small town, Vincent.
407
00:56:39,646 --> 00:56:42,730
Everybody's watching what you're doing,
even more in a small town.
408
00:56:43,734 --> 00:56:45,100
You're a stranger here.
409
00:56:46,612 --> 00:56:48,524
You drink too much.
Much too much.
410
00:56:50,157 --> 00:56:52,194
Then you get hysterical, out of control,
411
00:56:52,284 --> 00:56:55,072
and yes, one night you cut off
one of your ears.
412
00:56:56,622 --> 00:56:57,863
Can you tell me why?
413
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,083
My friend was about to leave me.
414
00:57:03,337 --> 00:57:04,873
He was about to leave.
415
00:57:06,089 --> 00:57:09,002
And cutting one of your ears
was a way to keep him next to you?
416
00:57:10,928 --> 00:57:12,214
That doesn't make sense.
417
00:57:17,351 --> 00:57:20,014
Was it a kind of gift,
or a sacrifice or what?
418
00:57:22,189 --> 00:57:25,102
- What were you trying to achieve?
- I don't know.
419
00:57:26,735 --> 00:57:28,226
It might help to talk about it.
420
00:57:29,488 --> 00:57:30,854
Try to tell me. I...
421
00:57:32,449 --> 00:57:34,236
I've never seen anything like this before.
422
00:57:36,036 --> 00:57:37,618
But I'd like to help you.
423
00:57:39,665 --> 00:57:41,998
There's something inside me.
I don't know what it is.
424
00:57:47,714 --> 00:57:50,331
What I see, nobody else sees
and sometimes it frightens me.
425
00:57:50,425 --> 00:57:52,337
I think I'm losing my mind.
426
00:57:52,427 --> 00:57:55,841
But then I say to myself,
427
00:57:57,849 --> 00:58:02,719
"I'll show what I see
to my human brothers who can't see it."
428
00:58:02,813 --> 00:58:06,352
It's a privilege.
I can give them hope and consolation.
429
00:58:09,277 --> 00:58:11,143
You're confusing people.
430
00:58:11,238 --> 00:58:13,855
You're confusing yourself
with your paintings.
431
00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:16,782
I am my paintings.
432
00:58:20,288 --> 00:58:22,530
What do you mean
by consolation and hope?
433
00:58:24,835 --> 00:58:26,701
You might be asking too much of people.
434
00:58:26,795 --> 00:58:31,586
I'd like to share my vision with people
who can't see what I see the way I see.
435
00:58:31,675 --> 00:58:32,882
Yes, but why?
436
00:58:34,845 --> 00:58:39,306
Because my vision is closer
to the reality of the world.
437
00:58:39,391 --> 00:58:44,056
I can make people feel
what it's like to be alive.
438
00:58:45,897 --> 00:58:49,686
- Do you feel like they don't feel alive?
- Yes, I do.
439
00:58:54,072 --> 00:58:56,815
And you think you can make them
feel that through painting?
440
00:58:56,908 --> 00:59:00,276
Yes. Yes, absolutely.
441
00:59:01,580 --> 00:59:02,741
Yes.
442
00:59:05,250 --> 00:59:09,585
Gaby said your ear
was wrapped in this,
443
00:59:09,671 --> 00:59:12,459
and she was supposed to give it to Paul.
444
00:59:14,509 --> 00:59:16,922
"Remember me,"
what did you mean by that?
445
00:59:22,809 --> 00:59:25,496
Maybe you were trying to show him
what he meant to you through that act,
446
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:27,762
but that was something you couldn't see.
447
00:59:31,193 --> 00:59:36,109
I didn't want him to leave.
It was a way to get him back.
448
00:59:36,198 --> 00:59:39,612
Jesus said, "If thy hand offend thee,
cut it off."
449
00:59:40,869 --> 00:59:42,280
So you cut off your ear
450
00:59:42,370 --> 00:59:45,113
because you couldn't bear
to hear what Paul was saying?
451
00:59:46,124 --> 00:59:49,458
I believe I have
a menacing spirit around me.
452
00:59:50,462 --> 00:59:51,998
An invisible being.
453
00:59:54,716 --> 00:59:56,708
I feel it, I don't see it.
454
00:59:58,095 --> 01:00:00,553
He speaks to me and threatens me.
455
01:00:00,639 --> 01:00:04,349
And all he wants to do
is plunge a knife into my heart.
456
01:00:04,434 --> 01:00:08,053
I saw him and I tried to cut him
out of myself.
457
01:00:08,146 --> 01:00:10,934
So that's the reason
why you cut off your ear.
458
01:00:15,570 --> 01:00:18,313
Your vision of the world, as you say,
is quite frightening.
459
01:00:19,324 --> 01:00:22,863
- Isn't it?
- Yes.
460
01:00:22,953 --> 01:00:25,411
I'm terrified he'll come back.
461
01:00:26,915 --> 01:00:29,908
I see.
462
01:00:31,962 --> 01:00:33,294
So, listen to me.
463
01:00:34,339 --> 01:00:36,331
We'll send you to Saint-Remy.
464
01:00:36,424 --> 01:00:38,381
- Where?
- Saint-Remy.
465
01:00:38,468 --> 01:00:40,960
A very nice place.
466
01:00:41,054 --> 01:00:44,297
The best we have around here.
You'll be very well-treated.
467
01:00:44,391 --> 01:00:47,008
- Is it a jail?
- No, not at all.
468
01:00:47,102 --> 01:00:48,638
It's a voluntary asylum.
469
01:00:49,771 --> 01:00:54,061
It's your choice, but you'll be subjected
to their rules and methods of care.
470
01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:57,644
I do think you can find
some peace there.
471
01:00:58,989 --> 01:01:02,357
And when you're less overexcited,
you can even paint there.
472
01:01:02,450 --> 01:01:03,941
Without painting, I can't live.
473
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:06,327
I believe you.
474
01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:15,162
Will you... will you come and see me?
475
01:01:15,255 --> 01:01:18,544
Of course.
At least once a week.
476
01:01:18,633 --> 01:01:21,876
And you're sure that, um, I'll be allowed
to paint there? You're sure?
477
01:01:22,888 --> 01:01:24,004
Yes.
478
01:01:25,098 --> 01:01:28,557
But first, when you get there, you'll have
to stop drinking and take some medicine.
479
01:01:31,771 --> 01:01:32,771
For how long?
480
01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:35,147
That will depend on you.
481
01:01:38,486 --> 01:01:40,523
Will you do as I say?
May I count on you?
482
01:01:44,910 --> 01:01:45,950
Can you stay for a minute?
483
01:01:45,994 --> 01:01:48,634
I promised your brother I'd send him
a drawing of what you've done.
484
01:01:50,582 --> 01:01:52,310
Don't move, please.
I'm going to take your bandage off.
485
01:01:52,334 --> 01:01:53,870
No, I can do it.
486
01:03:15,375 --> 01:03:17,833
Beneath skies
that sometimes dazzle
487
01:03:17,919 --> 01:03:21,208
like faceted sapphires or turquoises,
488
01:03:21,298 --> 01:03:23,665
beneath the incessant
and formidable streaming
489
01:03:23,758 --> 01:03:26,341
of every conceivable effect of light.
490
01:03:26,428 --> 01:03:28,545
In heavy, flaming,
burning atmospheres,
491
01:03:28,638 --> 01:03:32,678
there is the disquieting
and disturbing display of strange nature
492
01:03:32,767 --> 01:03:37,182
that is at once entirely realistic,
and yet almost supernatural.
493
01:03:37,272 --> 01:03:40,640
Often excessive nature
where everything,
494
01:03:40,734 --> 01:03:43,898
beings and things, shadows
and lights, forms and colors,
495
01:03:43,987 --> 01:03:46,274
rears and rises up with a raging will
496
01:03:46,364 --> 01:03:48,981
to howl its own essential song
497
01:03:49,075 --> 01:03:53,365
in the most intense and fiercely
high-pitched timbre.
498
01:03:53,455 --> 01:03:56,914
It is matter and all of nature,
frenetically contorted.
499
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,744
It is form becoming nightmare,
color becoming flames,
500
01:04:00,837 --> 01:04:03,295
light turning
into conflagration,
501
01:04:03,381 --> 01:04:05,964
life into burning fever.
502
01:04:06,051 --> 01:04:08,759
Such is the impression
left upon the retina
503
01:04:08,845 --> 01:04:13,806
when it first views the strange, intense
and feverish work of Vincent van Gogh.
504
01:04:13,892 --> 01:04:16,100
How far are we, are we not,
505
01:04:16,186 --> 01:04:19,054
from the beautiful,
great tradition of art?
506
01:04:19,147 --> 01:04:20,604
Never has there been a painter
507
01:04:20,690 --> 01:04:23,273
whose art appeals so directly
to the senses,
508
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:27,070
from the indefinable aroma
of his sincerity to flesh
509
01:04:27,155 --> 01:04:29,238
and the matter of his paint.
510
01:04:29,324 --> 01:04:32,237
This robust and true artist,
Vincent van Gogh,
511
01:04:32,327 --> 01:04:33,818
towers above the rest.
512
01:04:35,121 --> 01:04:37,158
Cafe. Cafe.
513
01:04:40,377 --> 01:04:42,209
- Cafe.
- Put water on him!
514
01:04:51,179 --> 01:04:52,590
You are the painter?
515
01:04:54,557 --> 01:04:55,843
Uh, yes.
516
01:04:57,310 --> 01:04:59,802
Cafe. Cafe.
517
01:04:59,896 --> 01:05:02,434
- Are all the painters crazy?
- Cafe.
518
01:05:02,524 --> 01:05:06,108
Maybe just the good ones.
I really don't know.
519
01:05:08,530 --> 01:05:11,068
- Hmm.
- Cafe.
520
01:05:11,157 --> 01:05:14,616
I'm an army man. I was a soldier.
521
01:05:14,702 --> 01:05:17,069
Are all soldiers crazy?
522
01:05:17,163 --> 01:05:20,952
Oh, no, soldiers are
not crazy, but officers are.
523
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,202
All the officers are insane.
524
01:05:27,382 --> 01:05:32,047
When they made me a sergeant,
I started to feel different.
525
01:05:32,137 --> 01:05:35,096
Cafe. Cafe. Cafe.
526
01:05:35,181 --> 01:05:38,219
And when I became secretary
to the general,
527
01:05:38,309 --> 01:05:41,268
I had all the keys. Can you see it?
528
01:05:42,355 --> 01:05:45,098
- The keys.
- Yes.
529
01:05:45,191 --> 01:05:48,730
The keys to all the dossiers
of all the officers.
530
01:05:49,821 --> 01:05:52,689
And I can tell you, they are all crazy.
531
01:05:52,782 --> 01:05:57,743
They've all killed,
tortured, mutilated, raped.
532
01:05:59,038 --> 01:06:03,499
Cafe. Cafe. Cafe.
533
01:06:03,585 --> 01:06:05,542
Where were you stationed?
534
01:06:05,628 --> 01:06:09,872
Oh, it's a faraway place.
It's called Tonkin.
535
01:06:12,510 --> 01:06:17,881
And years ago, during the war...
536
01:06:17,974 --> 01:06:21,934
there were many...
many tunnels were dug.
537
01:06:25,273 --> 01:06:28,892
And I knew a Tonkinese girl
who was born in a tunnel.
538
01:06:29,903 --> 01:06:32,111
Cafe. Cafe.
539
01:06:32,197 --> 01:06:36,988
She didn't see the daylight
for the first 12 years of her life.
540
01:06:37,076 --> 01:06:39,568
Twelve years, gone.
541
01:06:47,462 --> 01:06:50,205
Can you imagine
that you were a painter...
542
01:06:52,634 --> 01:06:54,546
not seeing the snow...
543
01:06:56,471 --> 01:07:00,590
not knowing what it was,
what it meant?
544
01:07:00,683 --> 01:07:01,890
Twelve years.
545
01:07:03,019 --> 01:07:06,103
Cafe. Cafe. Cafe.
546
01:07:06,189 --> 01:07:07,725
Oh...
547
01:07:07,815 --> 01:07:10,899
Hey, shut up, shut up. Shut up!
548
01:07:14,531 --> 01:07:15,988
What do you paint?
549
01:07:18,618 --> 01:07:19,825
Sunlight.
550
01:10:42,488 --> 01:10:43,604
Look at me.
551
01:10:44,949 --> 01:10:46,110
Please.
552
01:10:58,880 --> 01:10:59,880
Oui.
553
01:11:25,740 --> 01:11:26,740
Oui.
554
01:11:48,471 --> 01:11:49,712
No...
555
01:13:03,129 --> 01:13:04,495
My dear Vincent,
556
01:13:05,506 --> 01:13:09,045
I've looked most attentively
at your works since we parted.
557
01:13:09,135 --> 01:13:13,300
First at your brother's place,
and then at Independence Exhibition.
558
01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:18,180
It's above all at this latter place
that one can properly judge what you do.
559
01:13:18,269 --> 01:13:21,433
Either because of things
positioned beside each other,
560
01:13:21,522 --> 01:13:23,309
or because of neighboring works.
561
01:13:25,067 --> 01:13:27,855
I offer you my sincere compliments.
562
01:13:27,945 --> 01:13:31,564
And for many artists, you are
the most remarkable in the exhibition.
563
01:13:32,909 --> 01:13:35,401
With things from nature,
you're the only one there who thinks.
564
01:13:37,246 --> 01:13:38,908
I've talked about it with your brother,
565
01:13:38,998 --> 01:13:40,893
and there's one that I would like
to exchange with you
566
01:13:40,917 --> 01:13:42,328
for one thing of your choice.
567
01:13:44,378 --> 01:13:46,085
I hesitated greatly to write to you,
568
01:13:46,172 --> 01:13:48,505
knowing that you had just had
a rather long crisis.
569
01:13:49,508 --> 01:13:52,842
So, please don't reply to me
until you feel completely strong.
570
01:13:52,929 --> 01:13:55,216
Let's hope that, with the warm weather
that will return,
571
01:13:55,306 --> 01:13:57,218
you're going to get well at last.
572
01:13:57,308 --> 01:13:59,140
"The winter
is always dangerous to you.
573
01:14:00,811 --> 01:14:04,054
Cordially, ever yours, Paul Gauguin."
574
01:15:07,044 --> 01:15:08,205
Van Gogh!
575
01:15:09,213 --> 01:15:10,329
Van Gogh!
576
01:15:12,633 --> 01:15:13,965
Not here, there.
577
01:15:15,386 --> 01:15:16,752
There. There.
578
01:15:38,534 --> 01:15:39,741
Follow me.
579
01:16:18,574 --> 01:16:20,065
- Here he is.
- Thank you.
580
01:16:21,744 --> 01:16:23,076
Please help me take it off.
581
01:16:38,594 --> 01:16:39,755
Thank you.
582
01:16:42,181 --> 01:16:44,047
- Better?
- Yes.
583
01:16:44,141 --> 01:16:46,133
Come, sit with me. Talk to me.
584
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:48,931
Please.
585
01:16:57,613 --> 01:16:59,445
I suppose you know why you're here.
586
01:17:02,243 --> 01:17:04,610
Talking to you now?
587
01:17:06,956 --> 01:17:09,243
To get better.
588
01:17:09,333 --> 01:17:12,041
Or because I walked out of the asylum.
589
01:17:14,046 --> 01:17:15,912
What happened on the road to Arles?
590
01:17:17,258 --> 01:17:18,590
I don't remember.
591
01:17:19,969 --> 01:17:21,505
You did walk out of the asylum.
592
01:17:23,556 --> 01:17:25,263
I wanted to go out.
593
01:17:30,521 --> 01:17:33,138
The townspeople of Arles have signed
a petition against you.
594
01:17:33,232 --> 01:17:36,600
- They don't want you to come back there.
- Yes, I know.
595
01:17:42,533 --> 01:17:44,866
- Did you ever molest a child?
- No. Never.
596
01:17:49,957 --> 01:17:54,622
Did you cut off one of your ears
to give it to a prostitute? Is that true?
597
01:17:54,712 --> 01:17:57,546
Yes, I did. But Gaby's not a prostitute.
598
01:17:58,716 --> 01:18:00,673
Why did you do that?
599
01:18:00,759 --> 01:18:04,218
I wanted her to give it
to a friend of mine.
600
01:18:05,431 --> 01:18:06,638
And she did?
601
01:18:08,017 --> 01:18:09,303
I don't know.
602
01:18:12,271 --> 01:18:14,137
And that was a strange offer, wasn't it?
603
01:18:17,151 --> 01:18:18,642
Do you feel angry sometimes?
604
01:18:22,781 --> 01:18:24,238
Yes.
605
01:18:26,660 --> 01:18:28,151
And what do you do then?
606
01:18:29,330 --> 01:18:35,042
I go out and look at a blade of grass
or a branch of a fig tree
607
01:18:35,127 --> 01:18:36,618
in order to calm down.
608
01:18:37,671 --> 01:18:41,460
- And it works?
- Yes.
609
01:18:41,550 --> 01:18:45,715
I feel God is nature
and nature is beauty.
610
01:18:53,103 --> 01:18:54,969
I've seen you in the garden, painting.
611
01:18:56,357 --> 01:18:58,690
And I've heard from others
that you say you were a painter.
612
01:19:00,903 --> 01:19:02,314
Yes, that's what I am.
613
01:19:04,698 --> 01:19:05,984
Why do you say that?
614
01:19:07,326 --> 01:19:09,568
- Do you have a gift for painting?
- Yes.
615
01:19:11,622 --> 01:19:13,488
Where does this gift come from?
616
01:19:15,292 --> 01:19:18,376
Would you say that God gave you
the gift of painting?
617
01:19:18,462 --> 01:19:20,954
Yes, He did. It's the only gift
He gave me.
618
01:19:33,102 --> 01:19:36,595
- Did you paint this?
- Yes, I did.
619
01:19:38,107 --> 01:19:40,975
- And you call it a painting?
- Yes, of course.
620
01:19:41,068 --> 01:19:43,731
Tell me frankly,
because I'd like to understand.
621
01:19:43,821 --> 01:19:45,187
Why do you say you're a painter?
622
01:19:46,198 --> 01:19:50,112
Because I paint.
I love painting. I have to paint.
623
01:19:50,202 --> 01:19:53,286
I've always been a painter.
That, I know.
624
01:19:54,290 --> 01:19:57,954
- A born painter?
- Yes.
625
01:19:59,044 --> 01:20:00,080
How do you know?
626
01:20:02,923 --> 01:20:06,007
Because I can't do anything else.
And believe me, I've tried.
627
01:20:14,268 --> 01:20:16,851
So, God gave you a gift
so you could paint this?
628
01:20:18,522 --> 01:20:19,808
Yes.
629
01:20:22,985 --> 01:20:25,568
But don't you see...
630
01:20:26,613 --> 01:20:29,026
Now look, carefully. Please.
631
01:20:30,993 --> 01:20:35,078
I don't want to hurt your feelings,
but don't you see that this painting is...
632
01:20:37,207 --> 01:20:39,199
How can I say...
633
01:20:41,420 --> 01:20:44,458
Unpleasant. It's ugly.
634
01:20:46,050 --> 01:20:50,465
Why would God give me a gift to paint
ugly and disturbing things?
635
01:20:55,059 --> 01:20:56,266
Sometimes I...
636
01:20:58,562 --> 01:21:00,645
feel so far away from everything.
637
01:21:06,028 --> 01:21:09,396
- Does anybody buy your paintings?
- No.
638
01:21:09,490 --> 01:21:12,107
- So, you're poor?
- Yes, rather poor.
639
01:21:14,578 --> 01:21:15,910
How do you live?
640
01:21:17,664 --> 01:21:21,749
Well, my brother, Theo,
pays for me to be here.
641
01:21:21,835 --> 01:21:23,997
But he's not a rich man either.
642
01:21:27,633 --> 01:21:31,001
So, you believe
that God gave you this gift
643
01:21:31,095 --> 01:21:33,382
because He wants to keep you in misery?
644
01:21:34,390 --> 01:21:35,597
Huh.
645
01:21:36,892 --> 01:21:38,633
I never thought about it that way.
646
01:21:40,187 --> 01:21:41,644
And which way do you think?
647
01:21:44,191 --> 01:21:46,774
Sometimes I think...
648
01:21:46,860 --> 01:21:49,773
- Yes?
- Maybe, maybe...
649
01:21:51,365 --> 01:21:54,699
- Go on.
- Maybe He chose the wrong time.
650
01:21:57,287 --> 01:21:58,556
What do you mean the wrong time?
651
01:21:58,580 --> 01:22:02,164
Maybe God made me a painter for people
who aren't born yet.
652
01:22:05,838 --> 01:22:07,374
Possibly.
653
01:22:07,464 --> 01:22:11,174
It is said, "Life is for sowing.
The harvest is not here."
654
01:22:15,305 --> 01:22:18,173
I paint with my qualities and faults.
655
01:22:27,526 --> 01:22:30,109
So, you think
God could've been mistaken?
656
01:22:33,157 --> 01:22:38,448
I think of myself as an exile,
a pilgrim on this earth.
657
01:22:40,038 --> 01:22:42,906
Jesus said, "Turn your heart away
from things visible
658
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:46,289
and turn yourself to things invisible."
659
01:22:48,755 --> 01:22:51,623
- Indeed. But...
- And Jesus also
660
01:22:51,717 --> 01:22:54,881
was totally unknown
when He was alive.
661
01:22:57,890 --> 01:23:00,382
- How do you know that?
- My father was a pastor.
662
01:23:00,476 --> 01:23:02,388
I've been around religion all my life.
663
01:23:04,396 --> 01:23:06,103
Really? A pastor?
664
01:23:06,190 --> 01:23:10,309
Yes, and before I realized
I was a painter...
665
01:23:11,361 --> 01:23:16,902
I tried myself to be a man of God,
so I learned quite a bit about the topic.
666
01:23:18,410 --> 01:23:19,776
So you know the Gospels?
667
01:23:19,870 --> 01:23:21,702
Not only the Gospels,
668
01:23:21,788 --> 01:23:25,077
I can tell you that Jesus
wasn't discovered
669
01:23:25,167 --> 01:23:28,126
until 30 or 40 years after he died.
670
01:23:28,212 --> 01:23:31,080
When he was alive,
nobody talked about him.
671
01:23:31,173 --> 01:23:36,544
There's not even a letter from a Roman
centurion to his wife in Rome
672
01:23:36,637 --> 01:23:39,675
saying that a man named Jeshua
673
01:23:39,765 --> 01:23:42,348
was crucified in Jerusalem
with some other criminals.
674
01:23:42,434 --> 01:23:44,050
Not a word, nothing.
675
01:23:52,778 --> 01:23:56,818
You know, this is my job to decide
if you're well enough to leave this place.
676
01:24:05,666 --> 01:24:08,329
This reminds me of Jesus on the terrace.
677
01:24:09,836 --> 01:24:10,952
Which terrace?
678
01:24:11,046 --> 01:24:13,379
Speaking to Pilate,
679
01:24:13,465 --> 01:24:17,004
who definitively, if you
believe what was written,
680
01:24:17,094 --> 01:24:21,054
didn't want to crucify him.
It was the people.
681
01:24:21,139 --> 01:24:25,725
Yes. We could have a real discussion
about this theory some other time.
682
01:24:25,811 --> 01:24:28,269
Pilate didn't want to crucify Jesus,
683
01:24:28,355 --> 01:24:32,474
but everything Christ said
incriminated him, so...
684
01:24:35,946 --> 01:24:36,982
I, too...
685
01:24:39,116 --> 01:24:42,450
have to be careful
with what I say to you.
686
01:24:46,164 --> 01:24:47,496
I can understand that.
687
01:24:51,670 --> 01:24:55,380
Listen, come see me again
if you feel like.
688
01:24:56,633 --> 01:24:58,499
And share some other ideas with me.
689
01:25:01,513 --> 01:25:04,972
In the meantime, Dr. Rey
is here waiting for you.
690
01:25:05,058 --> 01:25:08,096
- He came to take you home.
- I'm free to go?
691
01:25:11,940 --> 01:25:14,102
I think we've done
all we can for you here.
692
01:25:19,114 --> 01:25:20,321
I hope I'm ready.
693
01:25:22,576 --> 01:25:23,862
I hope so, too.
694
01:25:56,276 --> 01:25:58,643
Please return these things
695
01:25:58,737 --> 01:26:00,524
to Madame and Monsieur Ginoux.
696
01:26:01,531 --> 01:26:04,365
- They've been real friends.
- Sure, I will.
697
01:26:04,451 --> 01:26:06,363
And give them that book.
Tell them thank you.
698
01:26:44,074 --> 01:26:45,565
- Hello.
- Bonjour.
699
01:26:48,495 --> 01:26:49,576
This is very important.
700
01:26:49,663 --> 01:26:51,620
Make sure Madame Ginoux receives it.
701
01:26:51,707 --> 01:26:54,950
It is from the painter Vincent van Gogh.
He apologizes for the delay.
702
01:27:06,430 --> 01:27:08,672
A bundle of towels,
703
01:27:08,765 --> 01:27:12,475
a ledger,
and two empty olive boxes.
704
01:28:24,382 --> 01:28:27,466
My work's all here.
You didn't sell anything.
705
01:28:27,552 --> 01:28:31,091
Not yet, but Aurier's review
was excellent, really wonderful.
706
01:28:31,181 --> 01:28:34,765
That review was absurd. I don't deserve
anything that man said.
707
01:28:34,851 --> 01:28:36,808
- Far from it.
- Yes, you do.
708
01:28:36,895 --> 01:28:38,636
The review will help.
709
01:28:42,150 --> 01:28:43,357
I think...
710
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:50,657
I'm beyond caring
what anyone thinks, but...
711
01:28:52,410 --> 01:28:54,197
I care what you think, Theo.
712
01:28:55,288 --> 01:28:57,245
Tell me, I want to know the truth.
713
01:28:58,250 --> 01:28:59,786
Am I a good painter?
714
01:28:59,876 --> 01:29:02,869
You're not a good painter,
Vincent. You're a great painter.
715
01:29:02,963 --> 01:29:04,124
Are you sure?
716
01:29:04,214 --> 01:29:06,001
Of course, I'm sure.
Why would I lie to you?
717
01:29:06,091 --> 01:29:09,255
I mean, you're my brother.
You're my brother.
718
01:29:09,344 --> 01:29:11,210
Just to please me.
719
01:29:12,931 --> 01:29:16,140
- I wouldn't do that.
- No, Theo would never do that.
720
01:29:17,727 --> 01:29:23,098
People say that I don't know how to draw,
how to paint.
721
01:29:23,191 --> 01:29:28,607
They say my paintings are clumsy, ugly.
722
01:29:28,697 --> 01:29:31,656
I used to care what people thought.
723
01:29:31,741 --> 01:29:33,733
But not anymore.
724
01:29:33,827 --> 01:29:36,194
I have no choice.
725
01:29:36,288 --> 01:29:39,872
If I couldn't paint,
I would murder someone.
726
01:29:39,958 --> 01:29:42,075
That's why I send you
money for your paintings
727
01:29:42,168 --> 01:29:44,535
because I really believe
you are a great painter.
728
01:29:44,629 --> 01:29:47,838
And I'm a businessman.
I'm a business man, after all.
729
01:29:47,924 --> 01:29:50,712
So, you paint,
and leave the rest to us.
730
01:29:50,802 --> 01:29:53,169
You paint
and let us do the rest.
731
01:29:53,263 --> 01:29:55,380
Gauguin sent me this letter.
732
01:29:55,473 --> 01:29:57,243
- Yes, I knew he wrote to you.
- Did you see him?
733
01:29:57,267 --> 01:29:58,303
No.
734
01:29:58,393 --> 01:29:59,871
- Gauguin...
- He hasn't asked for me?
735
01:29:59,895 --> 01:30:00,931
...sent me this letter.
736
01:30:01,021 --> 01:30:02,262
Is he here?
737
01:30:02,355 --> 01:30:03,666
I really don't know.
Yes, I knew he wrote to you.
738
01:30:03,690 --> 01:30:06,478
What about Aurier or Bernard?
739
01:30:06,568 --> 01:30:08,935
Do you want to see them?
I know they're in town.
740
01:30:10,572 --> 01:30:12,188
He hasn't asked
for me? Is he here?
741
01:30:12,282 --> 01:30:13,363
I...
742
01:30:13,450 --> 01:30:14,531
Anywhere. Out of Paris.
743
01:30:14,618 --> 01:30:17,907
I want to go somewhere.
I can't stand it here. It's not my place.
744
01:30:17,996 --> 01:30:22,536
I find everything too complicated.
I can't see anybody.
745
01:30:22,626 --> 01:30:24,061
I can't stand it here.
It's not my place.
746
01:30:24,085 --> 01:30:26,122
It's worse since Aurier's article.
747
01:30:27,589 --> 01:30:29,501
Anywhere. Out of Paris.
I can't stand it here.
748
01:30:29,591 --> 01:30:31,048
A little village.
749
01:30:31,134 --> 01:30:34,047
There's a lovely little inn
in Auvers-sur-Oise.
750
01:30:34,137 --> 01:30:37,596
Pissarro knows a doctor there
who knows your work, loves art,
751
01:30:37,682 --> 01:30:41,767
and maybe he can help you
without getting in the way.
752
01:30:41,853 --> 01:30:44,812
- And we could come and see you.
- I'll go there tomorrow?
753
01:30:44,898 --> 01:30:46,514
Let me look into it.
754
01:30:46,608 --> 01:30:49,897
- Pissarro...
- I need to go, Theo.
755
01:30:49,986 --> 01:30:53,024
- I need to go.
- I'll take care of it.
756
01:31:04,918 --> 01:31:07,877
- May I talk?
- Yes, but don't move too much.
757
01:31:13,510 --> 01:31:14,546
Why do you paint?
758
01:31:18,223 --> 01:31:19,223
I paint...
759
01:31:24,062 --> 01:31:26,429
as a matter of fact, to stop thinking.
760
01:31:28,775 --> 01:31:31,392
A sort of meditation.
761
01:31:33,446 --> 01:31:38,032
- When I paint, I stop thinking.
- About what?
762
01:31:40,453 --> 01:31:42,035
I stop thinking...
763
01:31:43,039 --> 01:31:44,371
and I feel...
764
01:31:45,375 --> 01:31:51,121
that I'm a part of everything
outside and inside of me.
765
01:31:59,347 --> 01:32:00,383
I wanted...
766
01:32:01,599 --> 01:32:03,591
so much to share what I see.
767
01:32:05,478 --> 01:32:06,514
An artist...
768
01:32:09,691 --> 01:32:10,727
Yes?
769
01:32:13,236 --> 01:32:15,944
I thought an artist...
770
01:32:18,033 --> 01:32:21,697
had to teach how to look at the world.
But I don't think that anymore.
771
01:32:23,788 --> 01:32:26,906
Now I just think
about my relationship to eternity.
772
01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:30,952
What do you call eternity?
773
01:32:32,422 --> 01:32:35,836
- Time to come.
- Hmm.
774
01:32:37,844 --> 01:32:41,963
Maybe what you are saying is
that your gift to the world is painting.
775
01:32:44,893 --> 01:32:47,727
If not, what good is an artist?
776
01:32:49,022 --> 01:32:50,513
You're happy
when you're painting?
777
01:32:51,566 --> 01:32:54,400
Most of the time, except when I fail.
778
01:32:56,321 --> 01:32:58,278
You look sad sometimes.
779
01:33:00,700 --> 01:33:06,537
There's a lot of destruction and failure
at the door of a successful picture.
780
01:33:14,798 --> 01:33:17,415
I find joy in sorrow.
781
01:33:17,509 --> 01:33:19,967
And sorrow is greater than laughter.
782
01:33:20,053 --> 01:33:21,169
You know...
783
01:33:22,847 --> 01:33:26,716
an angel is not far
from those who are sad.
784
01:33:27,852 --> 01:33:30,640
And illness
can sometimes heal us.
785
01:33:36,319 --> 01:33:37,730
It's the normal state...
786
01:33:39,405 --> 01:33:40,737
that gives birth to painting.
787
01:33:43,201 --> 01:33:45,193
You feel that way?
788
01:33:46,204 --> 01:33:49,948
Sometimes I hate the idea
of regaining my health.
789
01:33:50,041 --> 01:33:52,875
In that case,
you don't need a doctor.
790
01:33:52,961 --> 01:33:56,045
Stop laughing. Stop smiling.
791
01:33:56,131 --> 01:33:57,338
- Please.
- Excuse me.
792
01:33:57,423 --> 01:33:59,039
Go back to your pose.
793
01:34:01,970 --> 01:34:04,383
- Excuse me.
- It's all right.
794
01:34:13,815 --> 01:34:15,727
Sometimes they say I'm mad...
795
01:34:17,986 --> 01:34:20,478
but a grain of madness
is the best of art.
796
01:34:20,572 --> 01:34:22,564
You're not a mad man.
797
01:34:29,998 --> 01:34:31,910
It's good to have a doctor as a friend.
798
01:34:36,713 --> 01:34:38,705
I feel a pain in my stomach.
799
01:34:44,762 --> 01:34:46,719
He was dressed like Buffalo Bill.
800
01:34:50,393 --> 01:34:51,679
Hey, Vincent!
801
01:35:06,743 --> 01:35:08,405
One of them was nicer.
802
01:35:19,672 --> 01:35:22,506
Please! Don't tell our parents.
803
01:37:04,444 --> 01:37:05,444
What happened?
804
01:37:06,446 --> 01:37:07,482
What did you do?
805
01:37:12,327 --> 01:37:14,444
You have a bullet hole in your stomach.
806
01:37:16,539 --> 01:37:17,575
I don't know.
807
01:37:20,418 --> 01:37:24,162
- Did you shoot yourself?
- Maybe.
808
01:37:26,758 --> 01:37:31,469
I don't remember.
Don't blame anyone.
809
01:37:33,306 --> 01:37:36,049
Don't blame anyone.
810
01:37:37,060 --> 01:37:38,060
Do you have a gun?
811
01:37:39,145 --> 01:37:41,558
No. Never.
812
01:37:42,648 --> 01:37:44,105
So how did you do that?
813
01:37:48,738 --> 01:37:50,149
I don't know.
814
01:37:54,911 --> 01:37:55,911
Tell...
815
01:37:58,164 --> 01:37:59,700
Yes?
816
01:38:00,708 --> 01:38:04,577
- Tell my brother to come.
- Oh, I did. He'll be here soon.
817
01:39:15,992 --> 01:39:18,985
Oh, God,
will you receive your son?
63094
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