All language subtitles for So.Long.Marianne.2024.S01E04.720p

# And I'm doing the morning I'll
kiss...

Jesus.

I'm out here, my love.

What is wrong with you people?
Who? Jesus.

No men. What the fuck is wrong
with men?

Well, how much time do you have?

What happened?

First, watching over the mistress

to the father of my baby.

And then he tells me that
he has transferred the ownership

to his car to me, because he owes
the Greek government money.

And now I have to drive
the car back to Norway.

Well, how long does it take
to drive there?

Uh, two weeks.

You know, two weeks is really not
very long.

I think we could do that easy.

We?

I'm coming with you, of course.

How much money do you have?

Um. Uh, 200. But why would you do
that?

Why would... You don't have to...
Well, I'm in love with you.

I have, um, 200 or so.

I think 200 plus 200 is 400.

And that should get us there with
gas and food.

And you know, that would only
take us one way.

Oh, no. But I'm very good at oral
sex. That's the whole thing.

That was part of the deal.

I would be turning tricks on the
street,

which I was very good
at doing in Canada.

Thank you.

You all right?

Anything I can do?

Get me out of here.

Okay. Where are we?

Well, we're still in Albania.

I think.

There should be a village.

A few miles ahead, so maybe
we can stop.

And I can find a phone.

Because he should have landed
by now.

I just need to...

It's fine.

And you?

I want to get drunk.

Great.

I can help with that.

# Hey, baby baby, don't you go.

# You going to leave me with
a ragged soul? #

Okay, so it's five more miles
to the village.

All right, we'll drive into town.

We'll find something to eat.

Find some place to sleep.

We can't afford that?

No, no.

So we either, um, eat at a
restaurant, get some nice food

and sleep in the car, or we eat
bread for the rest of our life

and we sleep in a motel.

I vote for restaurant and car.

Yes, boss.

Thank you.

Did you finish yours already?

Yeah.
Wow.

I think it's an aperitif.

Well, you know, if it was an
aperitif,

they should have served it before
the food came on the table.

I come from a very strict home and
if they serve it after the food,

it's a shot.

How strict is your home, really?

I think I was seven or something,

and my mother wanted
to teach me table manners.

So she made me sit at the table
with our finest porcelain plates

under my arms, so that I wouldn't
put my elbows on the table

while we ate.

It's true.

It's so strange.

Like I can't remember the last time
I just sat like this,

knowing that no one is waiting for
me.

What was your mother like?

She's very much alive.

Very unpredictable.

I wouldn't want to give a paltry
diagnosis, but I think she's, um,

maybe a manic depressive.

What was that like?

It was terrific.

Oh, it had its ups and downs.

No.

No joking. Just what was that like?

Well, she's refugee, so I think
childhood was very complicated.

The contradiction of Monday mornings
crying on the floor, the fits

and the Monday evenings baking
of a cake was awfully confusing

for a young, burgeoning man.

I think every time you walk in the
door, it's something different.

So you learn to adapt, you learn
to read people, you learn to adjust.

No, I love her. It's great.

I'm not saying anything poor of her.

No.
Just complex.

A lot of tears, a lot of laughter.

I don't really think that I ever,
you know, had a home.

My only childhood memories
are from my grandmother,

my grandmother's house.

She was my favourite person
in the whole world.

And my room, my favourite drawer
in the house was her drawer

with all her old stuff.

And it was filled, you know,
with old ladies creams

and jewellery and it was like
a treasure box.

And it all had the smell
of her perfume of, of,

you know, different time.

I felt like a time traveller.

She made me a princess once, made
a beautiful paper crown

and put it on my head.

And she said that only the finest,
purest soul can be reached

by the speech of a golden tongue.

I fit that description.

You think you did, don't you?
Quite golden.

My superhero name.

Oh, really?

Yeah. They call me the Golden
Tongue.

The stars look like they're dancing
to me right now.

They're washing their hair
in the rain.

My maternal grandfather
was named Rabbi Klenicki Klein,

and they had a large moustache
like myself.

He was a very stiff man,
very unhappy fellow.

And he spent his life writing
in a thousand page thesaurus

for the Talmud.

Talmud was a Jewish document,
and it doesn't mean anything to you,

but that's about the most Jewish
thing you could ever do.

But isn't it strange, though,

that I feel like you can tell
everything to one person

and then nothing to another?

You know, when I was...

A long story short, my father
slapped me and called me a whore.

I left home and I wandered
around the night

and I ended up at my grandmother's
house in the city.

And she told me that Princess. Yes.
She can't be a whore,

But a whore, she can be kind of a
princess.

And after that, you know
I wasn't scared of going home.

Mama? Mew Mew? Mi Mi?

I think I would have liked her a
lot. I would have dated her.

You're Mr Ladies Man.

What did I do? Why am I Mr
Ladies Man?

Saw the way that you were looking
at that waitress,

the way she was flirting with you.

That's just my bad impulse
control.

Right.

I think you should come here.

Why?
Why?

I don't know.

What is this?

This is my bad impulse control.

What's it telling you?

It's telling me.

I should fuck your brains out.

What happened?

I really did cut myself.

You really almost fucked
my brains out.

This is the worst ground
I've ever felt.

I'm so sorry, Lenny.

I really, really, really would still
like to make love to you.

I'm just...
I know, not now.

How are you feeling?
I'm all right.

My lips are a little sore
from kissing you all night.

But other than that, I'm all right.

So are mine.

There you go.

Are you American?

Yeah. You?

No, man, I'm Canadian.

All right, well. It's close enough,
huh?

Well, where are you guys headed?

Uh, Norway.
Really?

Yeah, I was actually stationed
up there for three months.

No, what?
Yeah.

It's beautiful up there.

Landscapes, the fjords, the women.

Oh, well, thank you very much.

I mean everything's perfect up
there.

Well, except for the weather.
Right.

All right. You guys are all set.

If you just stick to the west
side of the city.

It's a little bit, uh, tumultuous
right now.

Okay. Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

I think he was flirting with me.

Oh, yeah.

Well, you're very beautiful.

Do you always drive so recklessly?

Uh, yes.

Okay. What are we getting?

A German Polse.

We have a little bit more
of Germany.

And then after Germany,
we go on to Denmark.

And then, um.

I guess that should lead
into Sweden.

If we find any of them.

And then we're home sweet
home, Norway.

Let's just find a place to sleep.

Oh, no. It's okay, I can.

I can drive through the night.

We can just... We'll just find a
motel.

Okay. Why?

I mean, it's okay.
I just...

I just.

I just don't know if I...

Want this to be over yet.

So...

According to the map,
we're in Russia.

I'm eating.
No.

I didn't know you had that kind
of greed in you, though.

Hold on.
No.

Then there's the ocean.

I have so much more to eat.

# I loved you in the morning.

# Our kisses deep and warm.

# Your hair upon the pillow
like a sleepy golden storm.

# Yes, many loved before us.

# I know you are not
new in city.

# And in forest they smile
like you and me.

We made it out alive.

I was sure that was it.

# Hey, that's no way to say
goodbye. #

Hydra's one place where I...

..when I arrived, I didn't have any
kind of a culture shock.

You know, like, every cup
that I saw,

I knew it would fit
in my hand.

And every table I leaned on,
it was the kind of table

that I always had wanted to lean on.

The 25 cent jug of wine was the kind
of wine

that I'd always wanted
to be drinking.

Well, mostly because of the price,
I guess.

Because of the price.

And then I met silly old you.

You went and ruined everything.

I remember it was, um.

Yeah. Outside Katsikas.

And you had that green-worn
wool sweater and...

Oh, no, that's not when we met.

No, no, we'd met when you were
coming.

You were coming from the port

and you were carrying
too many groceries.

I could barely see your head.

And, yeah, you had jugs of water,
and you were coming up,

and there was a steed walking by,
and it was making a whistling sound.

And there was a cat purring like,

like an angel playing a string,
you know, like Babylon.

And I saw you, and the sun
was shining out from you,

and you were coming
from the monastery.

And I thought, it's Jesus Christ,
the blonde, blue eyed Jesus Christ.

And you completely ignored me,
as I suppose you know Jesus would.

I don't remember.

I know you don't remember, but I do.

I'd never ignore you.

You did.

I'll never forget.

Why did you come to Hydra?

Why? Well, I mean, I was, you know,
Axel.

And I think when I met him,
he was just so different

from everyone and everything I
knew.

And it turned out it was all about
him and not about me or us.

You can play anything.

It doesn't even have to be a song.

You can just whatever you feel
like.

My voice is very ragged.

I've been drinking and my nails
are dirty.

And I'm ugly and I'm hunchback.

You're beautiful.
And I'm Jewish.

That's all the ingredients you need
for to make a song.

Okay.
Yes. It's perfect.

# Oh, the Sisters of Mercy.

# They are not departed or gone.

# They are waiting for me

# when I thought that I just can't
go on.

# And they brought me their comfort.

# And later they brought me this
song.

There's nothing like your body.

# Well, I hope you run into them.

# You who've been travelling so
long.

# Yes, you must leave everything
that you cannot control.

# It begins with your family.

# And soon it comes round to your
soul.

# Well, I've been where
you're hanging.

# I think I can see how you're
pinned.

# When you're not feeling holy.

# Your loneliness says that you've
sinned.

Where are we?

I'm not exactly sure.

I think we're somewhere in Denmark.

We should be in Oslo by tonight,
though.

What kind of mother would rather
sleep in a car, then go home

to her own child?

Did you know that when I, um...

When I, after I had given
birth to him and I...

I left the clinic, I just
I wanted to...

I wanted to leave him behind.

I wanted to leave my own child
behind

because I felt like I wasn't ready

and I wasn't ready,

but that was because I knew
that with Axel

it was all just ruined way, way
before.

But I just I just pretended
and I just pretended

and I just pretended because I knew
that I would have no husband

and I would have no father
for my child to be with.

And I just wanted to be me.

And the thing is that with you,
I feel like I am me.

And so I just don't want to,
I, I don't know, I don't know, I...

No one is born a mother.

Nobody.

You're a fantastic mother.
I've seen you.

No, I'm not.
You're fantastic.

It's true.
No.

When you look at each other,
it's like, uh...

There's no sea, there's
no land, there's nothing.

Just the two of you.

See the birds?

They just fly without thinking.

That's you too.

The thing is, you and I,
that car is a moon vessel.

You know, it's temporary.
That's why it works.

Because we know it's not
going to last forever.

And so every minute becomes
valuable.

But after a while, you would miss...

You'd miss Axel, and you'd miss
being a mother,

and you'd take
it out on me.

I know that, you think my
stories are old and worn.

Just like every relationship ever.

I mean, that's the problem
with this kind of love,

is that sooner or later,
the other person becomes habit.

And I'm not being pedagogical.

I'm saying that...

From my side of the scene
where I am,

there's nothing more pure, loving
and large.

There's nothing more special
than what you have.

And we have a lot of things. We
don't have that.

One more night.

Oh, one more night's not
gonna do it.

Two more nights is not gonna do it.

It's gonna go on and on until it
stops, you know.

I will never grow tired of your
stories or let you become a habit.

It's a promise you can't make.

A promise I can't make either.

# Going home to fight.

# What I can't win.

# My heart is torn.

# That's where the light gets in.

# I'm feeling you in everything
I find.

# What can I keep?

# What can I leave behind.

Yes. He's sleep.

Baby.

This is Leonard.

My mother.
Hello.

Heard so much about you.

I'm meeting a celebrity.

I don't know what this is.

Do you like it?
It's like matzo.

Matzo ball.
Yeah. It's a...

Okay.
Potato. Yeah.

Right. This is the best meal we've
had in a long time.

That's Norwegian.
That's Norwegian.

Very Norwegian.

Mother was just saying,

she thinks you're a bit too skinny
and that you have to eat more.

Sounds like my mother.

You know, Jesus always said,
it's more important

what comes out of your mouth than
what goes in it.

Mother understands English.

She just doesn't speak it.

Oh, sorry.

Dear diary, that was a car crash.

Really?

She hates...

..me.

No, she likes you.
She likes you.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, she loves me.
No.

She hates me, possibly.

Axel, he didn't even make
it through the hall downstairs.

You sat at her dinner table.

I'm flattered.

You should be.

Oh, my goodness, this is cracked.

Bad luck for seven years.

This is how I always see myself.

Broken.

# And no way to say goodbye.

Eggs and homemade bread.

That brings me right back home.

Oh, she asks, where are you from?

I'm from Montreal, Canada.

His family and relatives,
his mother are there.

Condolences.

Oh, okay.

Um, you have work?

Um, yeah, I am, uh.

Leonard's a poet.

I'm a writer.

I am, I've written a few volumes
of poetry

and I just, I've written
written a novel.

I've written a few novels.

Um, one was, uh, rejected.

Uh, but another one is coming
out soon.

Yeah, hopefully you know in Norway.

And I've been writing some
songs as well.

Guitar?

Yeah.

Why didn't you just tell her what I
did before we got here?

I didn't tell her because I wanted
her to meet you first

and see what kind of person you are
without just judging you

and what you do based on her
impression of Axel.

Leonard, please don't.

Don't pay attention to my mother.

She's just very insecure.
And that's...

Your mother's a lot of things.

I don't know if insecure
is one of them.

It's just her coping mechanism.

And when you...

If you feel like she's judging you,
it's not you. It's all...

She's judging me because she feels
that I am ruining

and wasting my life.

Oh, you're ruining wasting
your life with me.

Okay. Very nice.

No, you know that's not
what I meant at all.

All right.

Let's not get nasty, okay?

Let's just, um. We'll go for a walk.

Yeah. That's a great idea.

Forgive me.

Do you know where your mother put
my shoes?

I don't know, they're probably in
the hall. Go look.

Thank you so much for the letter.

Great news about the book.

For the last two months, I felt
gradually more isolated

from the world and from myself,

so I can't say how much it meant
to me right now.

Unfortunately, we spent
all our money getting to Norway

and Marianne has her son to take
care of. At the same time.

Of course, I agree with you that all
the endless hours of work

I put into it mustn't go to waste.

I don't know how much longer
I can take it.

You know, actually, I was talking
to her this morning and she did say

that we can we can stay
as long as we like.

So I was thinking maybe
I'll find a job.

And, uh...

I was wondering if there is anywhere
else we could stay,

you know, just sleep.

We can sleep under a bridge,
if that's what you want.

No. Just, um, you know, a friend.

I thought you had maybe a friend.

Well, my friends have families
and kids, and, I mean, you...

You could find a job here
as well, you know.

Doing what?

Journalist, maybe.
In Norwegian?

Because I'm so fantastic
at the language.

Pretty good.

You can just stay in and write
like you usually do,

and we will be out of your way.

Do you want to come up or...?

Yeah, I'll be in. I'm just... I need
to finish the cigarette.

Is there really anything
left to cut off?

Sorry.

I mean, isn't that the second time
in a row that you're shaving?

No.

You've been shaving for half an
hour now,

so you can just go for a walk
and it'll make you feel better.

I don't want to offend her.

Well, you won't offend her, because
I'll just tell her

that you had an important
errand to go to.

It's fine, really.

Hey, you look fantastic.

Thank you.

You too.

You shouldn't light
the table on fire.

Where is little...?

My mother took him to the park.

Okay. The invitation was for him as
well.

I know, but I think my mother felt
that it was a little bit

inappropriate to bring a child
here.

Because this place here
is quite, um...

It's an institution, really.

But you do know that this place
is, um, quite expensive.

That's okay, because Irving, um,
Irving's lent me a little money.

Wire came in today.

Amazing.
Yeah.

What?

I love you.

I love you, too.

I'm going to Canada.

When?

Just for a little while.
I, um...

My book has finally come out.

Uh, so they're, uh.

You know, paying my fare
and giving me the whole, uh,

Star Spangled Banner treatment.

Uh, if I go and I promote it.

So, um, I figured I'll, uh, you
know,

just go away for a little while and
make enough money

to send to you and a little micro,

and you all can come to Montreal
and...

..come and enjoy the freezing cold.

I mean, why can't you just why
can't you just stay here

and you can find a job?

Because that's not. I am
I'm not...

I'm not completely well, you know,

I don't know if you can see it in my
eyes, but but...

Every time I shave.

It takes a lot of self control.

Please don't say that.

I just...

I just really don't want
you to leave.

You won't like what I become
if I stay.

So you're going home?

Going to Montreal. Home's wherever
you are.

Marianne. It's not the end.
Okay?

Look at me. It's not the end.

How do you know that?

# Why must I be the one?

# To always be alone.

# My love.

# Oh, why?

# Why can't I be the one?

# To believe that love.

# Will go my way.

# So why?

# Don't you take me along.

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