1 00:00:39,625 --> 00:00:48,625 WINNER, GOLDEN LION VEN ICE FILM FESTIVAL 1961 2 00:01:51,042 --> 00:01:54,333 Cross corridors leading in turn to empty rooms, 3 00:01:54,417 --> 00:01:57,708 rooms heavily laden with a décor from the past. 4 00:01:58,750 --> 00:02:01,917 Silent rooms where the sound of footsteps 5 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,292 is absorbed by carpets so heavy, so thick, 6 00:02:05,375 --> 00:02:08,500 that all sound escapes the ear. 7 00:02:08,583 --> 00:02:12,625 As if the very ear of him walks on, once again, 8 00:02:12,708 --> 00:02:16,125 along these corridors and through these rooms, 9 00:02:16,208 --> 00:02:19,417 in this building that belongs to the past. 10 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:23,208 This huge, luxurious, baroque and dismal hotel 11 00:02:23,292 --> 00:02:25,750 where corridor follows corridor. 12 00:02:27,833 --> 00:02:31,125 Silent, deserted corridors heavily laden 13 00:02:31,208 --> 00:02:34,833 with woodwork and paneling, 14 00:02:34,917 --> 00:02:38,583 with marble, mirrors, pictures, and darkness, 15 00:02:38,667 --> 00:02:44,958 pillars, alcoves, and rows of doorways. 16 00:02:45,042 --> 00:02:50,583 Cross corridors leading in turn to empty rooms, 17 00:02:50,667 --> 00:02:53,500 rooms heavily laden with a décor from the past. 18 00:02:54,375 --> 00:02:57,500 Silent rooms where the sound of footsteps 19 00:02:57,583 --> 00:03:00,042 is absorbed by carpets so thick 20 00:03:00,125 --> 00:03:03,500 that all sound escapes the ear. 21 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,292 As if the ear itself were very far from the ground, 22 00:03:10,083 --> 00:03:12,500 far from this empty décor, 23 00:03:12,583 --> 00:03:18,167 far from this intricate frieze with its branches and garlands 24 00:03:18,250 --> 00:03:20,333 like classical foliage. 25 00:03:20,417 --> 00:03:23,708 As if the ground were still sand and gravel 26 00:03:23,792 --> 00:03:28,667 and stone paving which I crossed once again. 27 00:03:29,917 --> 00:03:33,750 Along these corridors and through these rooms, 28 00:03:33,833 --> 00:03:37,708 in this building that belongs to the past, 29 00:03:37,792 --> 00:03:42,250 this huge, luxurious, baroque and dismal hotel 30 00:03:42,333 --> 00:03:45,333 where endless corridors... 31 00:04:11,542 --> 00:04:15,875 Silent rooms where the sound of footsteps is absorbed 32 00:04:15,958 --> 00:04:18,292 by carpets so heavy, so thick, 33 00:04:18,375 --> 00:04:21,417 that all sound escapes the ear. 34 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:25,750 As if the very ear of him walks on, once again, 35 00:04:25,833 --> 00:04:28,625 along these corridors, 36 00:04:28,708 --> 00:04:32,667 through these rooms in this building... 37 00:04:54,083 --> 00:04:59,208 ...alcoves, and rows of doorways. 38 00:04:59,292 --> 00:05:04,167 Cross corridors leading in turn to empty rooms, 39 00:05:04,250 --> 00:05:07,500 rooms heavily laden with a décor from the past. 40 00:05:08,292 --> 00:05:11,625 Silent rooms, where the sound of footsteps 41 00:05:11,708 --> 00:05:15,333 is absorbed by carpets so heavy, so thick, 42 00:05:15,417 --> 00:05:18,000 that all sound escapes the ear. 43 00:05:37,583 --> 00:05:42,125 ...and stone paving which I crossed once again. 44 00:05:43,125 --> 00:05:47,208 Along these corridors and through these rooms, 45 00:05:47,292 --> 00:05:51,417 in this building that belongs to the past, 46 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:54,750 this huge, luxurious, baroque, and dismal hotel 47 00:05:54,833 --> 00:05:57,625 where corridor follows corridor. 48 00:05:58,417 --> 00:06:00,458 Silent, deserted corridors 49 00:06:00,542 --> 00:06:06,125 heavily laden with woodwork and paneling, 50 00:06:06,208 --> 00:06:09,833 with marble, mirrors, pictures, and darkness, 51 00:06:09,917 --> 00:06:15,583 pillars, alcoves, and rows of doorways. 52 00:06:17,333 --> 00:06:21,500 Cross corridors leading in turn to empty rooms... 53 00:07:07,542 --> 00:07:12,000 ...with woodwork, rows of doorways. 54 00:07:12,083 --> 00:07:17,250 Cross corridors leading in turn to empty rooms, 55 00:07:17,333 --> 00:07:20,958 rooms heavily laden with a décor from the past. 56 00:07:22,125 --> 00:07:25,208 Silent rooms, where the sound of footsteps 57 00:07:25,292 --> 00:07:28,333 is absorbed by carpets so heavy, so thick, 58 00:07:28,417 --> 00:07:31,458 that all sound escapes the ear. 59 00:07:32,042 --> 00:07:37,167 As if the ear itself were very far from the ground, 60 00:07:37,250 --> 00:07:39,833 far from this empty décor, 61 00:07:39,917 --> 00:07:45,542 far from this intricate frieze with its branches and garlands 62 00:07:45,625 --> 00:07:47,167 like classical foliage. 63 00:07:47,667 --> 00:07:50,583 As if the ground were still sand and gravel 64 00:07:51,083 --> 00:07:55,667 and stone paving, which I crossed once again 65 00:07:56,167 --> 00:07:58,250 on my way to meet you. 66 00:07:58,333 --> 00:08:04,042 Between these walls laden with woodwork, 67 00:08:04,125 --> 00:08:08,667 with pictures and framed engravings through which I made my way... 68 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,833 amongst which I was already... 69 00:08:15,083 --> 00:08:16,625 waiting for you. 70 00:08:17,875 --> 00:08:23,042 Very far from the setting where I find myself now... 71 00:08:24,042 --> 00:08:27,750 as you still wait for someone who will not come... 72 00:08:28,875 --> 00:08:30,583 someone who may never come... 73 00:08:31,833 --> 00:08:33,333 to separate us again... 74 00:08:34,667 --> 00:08:36,167 to take you away from me. 75 00:08:38,417 --> 00:08:40,292 Are you coming? 76 00:08:40,375 --> 00:08:42,625 We must wait a little. 77 00:08:42,708 --> 00:08:46,125 A few minutes, a few seconds more. 78 00:08:46,208 --> 00:08:49,708 A few seconds, as if you were still in doubt 79 00:08:49,792 --> 00:08:52,375 about parting with him and yourself, 80 00:08:52,458 --> 00:08:55,917 as if his fading figure might even now reappear-- 81 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,875 Here where he appeared to you too vividly, 82 00:08:59,333 --> 00:09:01,750 too fearfully, too hopefully. 83 00:09:01,833 --> 00:09:04,083 Frightened of losing this bond-- 84 00:09:04,167 --> 00:09:08,167 No. This hope no longer has a purpose. 85 00:09:08,875 --> 00:09:13,667 The fear of losing such a suffocating bond is over. 86 00:09:14,417 --> 00:09:18,417 This story is already over. 87 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:21,583 In a few seconds, it will freeze forever. 88 00:09:21,667 --> 00:09:27,083 Into a marble past, like these statues worked in stone. 89 00:09:27,542 --> 00:09:30,917 Like this very hotel, filled with emptiness, 90 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,458 these static silent characters long since dead, 91 00:09:35,958 --> 00:09:41,333 standing guard in the corridors as I made my way toward you. 92 00:09:41,417 --> 00:09:44,458 Between two rows of frozen faces, 93 00:09:44,542 --> 00:09:47,875 watching, forever indifferent faces. 94 00:09:47,958 --> 00:09:50,292 As I came toward you, in your doubt, 95 00:09:50,375 --> 00:09:53,250 still watching the threshold of this garden. 96 00:09:57,125 --> 00:09:58,417 Here I am. 97 00:10:01,333 --> 00:10:02,542 Now... 98 00:10:05,250 --> 00:10:06,875 I am yours. 99 00:10:37,917 --> 00:10:42,792 It must have been in '28 or '29. 100 00:10:51,583 --> 00:10:53,917 Really? It seems incredible. 101 00:10:55,458 --> 00:10:58,167 We already met in the past. 102 00:11:37,708 --> 00:11:44,167 ...a kind of relation has no relation... 103 00:11:47,458 --> 00:11:52,292 ...and impossible weather. We could not get out at all for months, 104 00:11:52,375 --> 00:11:54,375 and at the least-expected time-- 105 00:11:57,875 --> 00:11:59,500 You saw it yourself? 106 00:11:59,583 --> 00:12:01,458 No, but a friend told me. 107 00:12:01,542 --> 00:12:04,208 Oh, if he told you... 108 00:12:20,417 --> 00:12:24,375 Don't worry about what the others think. 109 00:12:24,458 --> 00:12:27,625 - You know that-- - You only pretended to listen to me. 110 00:12:32,875 --> 00:12:34,250 I'm listening. 111 00:12:34,333 --> 00:12:37,708 So listen to my complaints. You make my role unbearable. 112 00:12:37,792 --> 00:12:42,167 You confine me in a whispering silence worse than death-- 113 00:12:42,250 --> 00:12:44,208 Lower your voice. 114 00:12:44,292 --> 00:12:47,375 These whispers worse than silence that you imprison me in, 115 00:12:48,125 --> 00:12:51,875 these days worse than death that we're living through, side by side, you and I, 116 00:12:52,417 --> 00:12:56,875 like coffins buried side by side in a frozen garden. 117 00:12:56,958 --> 00:12:58,417 Be quiet. 118 00:12:59,458 --> 00:13:03,083 A reassuringly tidy garden with clipped hedges, 119 00:13:03,167 --> 00:13:07,208 with geometrical paths down which we walk together, 120 00:13:07,292 --> 00:13:11,625 day after day, almost hand in hand. 121 00:13:11,708 --> 00:13:13,167 Be quiet. 122 00:13:19,958 --> 00:13:21,417 It's unbelievable. 123 00:13:25,417 --> 00:13:26,833 I don't quite remember. 124 00:13:27,958 --> 00:13:32,833 It must have been in '28 or '29. 125 00:13:33,458 --> 00:13:37,667 In the summer of '29, it froze for a week. 126 00:13:42,750 --> 00:13:44,167 A handsome woman. 127 00:13:47,083 --> 00:13:48,625 Too much imagination. 128 00:14:09,917 --> 00:14:14,125 You confine me in a silence worse than death. 129 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,625 Like these days that we live through, side by side, 130 00:14:19,708 --> 00:14:24,708 and almost hand in hand, but never getting closer one to another. 131 00:14:24,792 --> 00:14:26,792 - Our mouths forever apart. - Be quiet. 132 00:14:26,875 --> 00:14:30,792 Fingers that never entwine, eyes that do not see you, 133 00:14:30,875 --> 00:14:34,542 for they are forced to look away toward these walls 134 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:40,708 laden with carvings, crystal mirrors, and outmoded pictures. 135 00:14:40,792 --> 00:14:42,583 Fake cornices. 136 00:14:42,667 --> 00:14:46,375 False doors and deceiving views. 137 00:14:46,458 --> 00:14:47,625 False exits. 138 00:14:49,208 --> 00:14:50,333 Extraordinary! 139 00:14:50,417 --> 00:14:53,000 Not so extraordinary as all that. 140 00:14:53,083 --> 00:14:57,500 He set the whole thing up himself, you know. 141 00:14:57,583 --> 00:15:00,125 - So he knew all the outcomes. - Now it makes sense. 142 00:15:02,375 --> 00:15:04,667 Wings as feathery as a swan's. 143 00:15:05,667 --> 00:15:06,917 You've been here long? 144 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,792 No. But I've been before. 145 00:15:08,875 --> 00:15:10,417 You like this place? 146 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:14,583 Not much. We just come here. 147 00:15:14,667 --> 00:15:17,500 - My father was to get a post. - Yes, indeed. 148 00:15:17,583 --> 00:15:20,333 - Nearby. - Influence peddling. 149 00:15:20,417 --> 00:15:22,083 A shoe with a broken heel. 150 00:15:24,417 --> 00:15:26,417 From which there is no escape? 151 00:15:27,250 --> 00:15:29,417 From which there is no escape. 152 00:15:31,458 --> 00:15:33,000 Don't you know the story? 153 00:15:33,667 --> 00:15:35,500 Last year, it was all we talked about. 154 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:40,375 Frank told her that her father had sent him to look after her. 155 00:15:41,292 --> 00:15:44,167 An odd way of doing so. 156 00:15:44,250 --> 00:15:46,417 She realized that later 157 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:50,500 when, one night, he tried to get into her room 158 00:15:50,583 --> 00:15:55,042 pretending he wanted to explain a picture to her... 159 00:15:55,125 --> 00:15:58,625 Having a German passport doesn't prove much. 160 00:15:58,708 --> 00:16:02,917 But his presence has no connection. Absolutely no connection. 161 00:16:14,667 --> 00:16:17,833 I suggest a different game, 162 00:16:17,917 --> 00:16:20,375 a game at which I always win. 163 00:16:20,458 --> 00:16:23,792 If you can't lose, it's not a game. 164 00:16:23,875 --> 00:16:27,000 I can lose, but I always win. 165 00:16:28,750 --> 00:16:29,958 Let's try. 166 00:16:30,667 --> 00:16:31,833 Two play. 167 00:16:32,875 --> 00:16:35,792 The cards are laid out like this. 168 00:16:41,833 --> 00:16:42,792 Seven. 169 00:16:46,292 --> 00:16:47,125 Five. 170 00:16:50,583 --> 00:16:51,583 Three. 171 00:16:53,958 --> 00:16:54,958 One. 172 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,708 Each player, in turn, picks up cards-- 173 00:17:00,542 --> 00:17:04,458 As many as he likes-- but only from one row at a time. 174 00:17:05,375 --> 00:17:08,917 The one who picks up the last card loses. 175 00:17:10,417 --> 00:17:11,625 Will you begin? 176 00:17:40,542 --> 00:17:44,917 You haven't changed. I feel I left you only yesterday. 177 00:17:45,583 --> 00:17:47,167 What have you been doing? 178 00:17:47,708 --> 00:17:50,667 Nothing. I'm still the same. 179 00:17:52,042 --> 00:17:53,750 - Not married? - No, no. 180 00:17:54,250 --> 00:17:55,583 A pity. It's fun. 181 00:17:55,667 --> 00:17:56,875 I like to be free. 182 00:17:56,958 --> 00:17:59,042 - Here? - Why not here? 183 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:00,750 It's an odd place. 184 00:18:00,833 --> 00:18:02,667 To be free in, you mean? 185 00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:04,625 That, amongst other things. 186 00:18:04,708 --> 00:18:06,208 You're still the same. 187 00:18:08,542 --> 00:18:10,333 You're still the same. 188 00:18:33,958 --> 00:18:36,250 But you hardly seem to remember. 189 00:18:42,667 --> 00:18:45,208 Yet you're familiar with the setting, 190 00:18:45,917 --> 00:18:47,708 this hand holding a bunch of grapes. 191 00:18:48,583 --> 00:18:52,208 Behind the hand, you see the almost-living foliage 192 00:18:52,292 --> 00:18:53,875 in a garden that would be ours. 193 00:18:56,292 --> 00:18:57,875 You've never noticed? 194 00:18:58,375 --> 00:19:00,875 I've never had such a good guide. 195 00:19:01,583 --> 00:19:04,667 "As the compass said to the ship," goes the proverb. 196 00:19:07,583 --> 00:19:11,583 I can show you a lot more here, if you wish. 197 00:19:12,375 --> 00:19:13,583 With pleasure. 198 00:19:15,167 --> 00:19:17,375 Has this hotel so many secrets? 199 00:19:18,042 --> 00:19:19,125 So many. 200 00:19:21,042 --> 00:19:22,458 How strange. 201 00:19:30,875 --> 00:19:32,583 Why do you look at me like that? 202 00:19:38,625 --> 00:19:40,958 You hardly seem to remember me. 203 00:20:26,042 --> 00:20:30,458 I first saw you in the gardens in Frederiksbad. 204 00:20:31,292 --> 00:20:33,500 You were alone, apart from the others, 205 00:20:34,083 --> 00:20:36,208 standing by a balustrade, 206 00:20:36,292 --> 00:20:40,083 resting your hand on it, your arm half outstretched. 207 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:44,167 You were half facing the wide central path. 208 00:20:44,708 --> 00:20:46,417 You did not see me coming. 209 00:20:47,208 --> 00:20:51,375 My footsteps on the gravel finally drew your attention. 210 00:20:52,583 --> 00:20:54,167 Then you turned your head. 211 00:20:55,708 --> 00:20:58,000 It was not me. 212 00:20:58,083 --> 00:20:59,375 You must be mistaken. 213 00:21:01,250 --> 00:21:02,375 Remember. 214 00:21:05,042 --> 00:21:07,458 We were near a stone statue... 215 00:21:08,750 --> 00:21:10,458 that rested on a tall pedestal-- 216 00:21:11,625 --> 00:21:13,708 A man and woman in classical dress. 217 00:21:14,750 --> 00:21:19,042 Their pose seemed to represent something definite. 218 00:21:20,833 --> 00:21:23,000 You asked me who they were. 219 00:21:23,792 --> 00:21:26,000 I said I didn't know. 220 00:21:27,292 --> 00:21:32,500 You tried to guess. I said they might as well be you and I. 221 00:21:33,708 --> 00:21:35,417 Then you began to laugh. 222 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,417 I love-- 223 00:21:40,667 --> 00:21:44,375 I already loved to hear you laugh. 224 00:21:48,875 --> 00:21:51,458 The others had come near us. 225 00:21:51,958 --> 00:21:54,625 Someone had put a name to the statue. 226 00:21:55,458 --> 00:21:57,667 They were figures from mythology, 227 00:21:57,750 --> 00:22:00,833 or perhaps gods or heroes of ancient Greece. 228 00:22:01,458 --> 00:22:05,833 Either that or some allegory or something of this kind. 229 00:22:06,750 --> 00:22:08,667 You weren't listening. 230 00:22:08,750 --> 00:22:11,000 You seemed far away. 231 00:22:12,083 --> 00:22:15,375 Your eyes had become solemn and empty again. 232 00:22:16,958 --> 00:22:21,542 You half turned away to look at the main path again. 233 00:22:25,667 --> 00:22:29,417 One, two, three, four, 234 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:32,500 five, six, seven. 235 00:22:33,375 --> 00:22:38,042 One, two, three, four, five. 236 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,833 One, two... 237 00:22:41,833 --> 00:22:43,167 three. 238 00:22:43,250 --> 00:22:44,250 One. 239 00:22:44,833 --> 00:22:48,750 And, once again, we found ourselves separated. 240 00:23:19,125 --> 00:23:20,208 It's impossible. 241 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,958 Come, let's go walk in the garden. 242 00:23:28,042 --> 00:23:29,542 Frank is not here yet. 243 00:23:29,625 --> 00:23:33,083 You know the proverb: "As the compass said to the ship." 244 00:23:59,708 --> 00:24:01,708 What if you played first? 245 00:24:08,917 --> 00:24:13,083 And, once again, I made my way alone... 246 00:24:14,167 --> 00:24:15,958 along these same corridors, 247 00:24:16,583 --> 00:24:18,708 through these same deserted rooms, 248 00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:23,917 past these pillars and windowless galleries, 249 00:24:24,458 --> 00:24:26,458 through these same doorways, 250 00:24:27,042 --> 00:24:32,500 making my way at random in the labyrinth around me. 251 00:24:46,250 --> 00:24:47,792 And, once again, 252 00:24:48,542 --> 00:24:53,167 everything was empty and deserted in this huge hotel. 253 00:24:54,542 --> 00:24:57,208 Empty rooms, corridors, 254 00:24:57,917 --> 00:25:00,208 rooms and doors, 255 00:25:00,292 --> 00:25:02,417 doors and rooms, 256 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:04,958 empty chairs, deep armchairs, 257 00:25:05,917 --> 00:25:08,458 stairways, steps, 258 00:25:08,542 --> 00:25:10,583 more and more. 259 00:25:11,125 --> 00:25:14,167 Glass, empty glasses. 260 00:25:14,250 --> 00:25:17,458 A falling glass, a glass partition. 261 00:25:17,542 --> 00:25:20,417 Letters. A lost letter. 262 00:25:21,208 --> 00:25:23,375 Keys hanging on their rings. 263 00:25:23,458 --> 00:25:25,375 Numbered room keys: 264 00:25:25,833 --> 00:25:30,667 309, 307, 305, 303. 265 00:25:31,167 --> 00:25:32,417 Chandeliers. 266 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:35,875 Chandeliers and mirrors. 267 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:38,958 Empty corridors as far as the eye can see. 268 00:25:45,125 --> 00:25:48,417 Like everything else, the garden was deserted. 269 00:25:55,208 --> 00:25:58,625 It was last year. Have I changed so much? 270 00:25:59,375 --> 00:26:01,542 Or are you pretending not to know me? 271 00:26:02,583 --> 00:26:05,125 One year. Maybe more. 272 00:26:06,125 --> 00:26:08,042 At least you haven't changed. 273 00:26:08,833 --> 00:26:10,917 You still have the same faraway eyes, 274 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:14,417 the same smile, the same sudden laugh, 275 00:26:15,083 --> 00:26:18,208 the same way of putting out your arm 276 00:26:18,292 --> 00:26:20,333 to ward off something in the way, 277 00:26:20,917 --> 00:26:23,500 of raising your hand to your shoulder. 278 00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:28,417 You're wearing the same perfume. 279 00:26:29,792 --> 00:26:30,792 Remember. 280 00:26:31,333 --> 00:26:33,583 It was in the gardens in Frederiksbad. 281 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,667 You were standing alone. 282 00:26:39,542 --> 00:26:42,958 You were leaning on a stone balustrade, 283 00:26:43,417 --> 00:26:47,500 resting your hand on it, your arm half outstretched. 284 00:26:53,250 --> 00:26:55,208 You were looking down the central path. 285 00:26:56,542 --> 00:26:58,333 I came toward you... 286 00:26:59,375 --> 00:27:03,792 but I stopped some way off and looked at you. 287 00:27:05,750 --> 00:27:07,792 You were now facing me. 288 00:27:11,458 --> 00:27:13,542 Yet you didn't seem to see me. 289 00:27:14,292 --> 00:27:17,833 I was watching you. You did not move. 290 00:27:18,792 --> 00:27:20,750 I told you how real you seemed. 291 00:27:21,458 --> 00:27:24,042 You just smiled. 292 00:27:24,875 --> 00:27:27,333 I talked about the statue. 293 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,958 I told you that the man wanted to stop the woman from going any further. 294 00:27:32,458 --> 00:27:35,833 He must have seen some danger 295 00:27:36,417 --> 00:27:38,667 and was motioning his friend to stop. 296 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:43,833 You replied that she was the one who had seen something 297 00:27:44,292 --> 00:27:49,417 and that she was pointing out something breathtaking. 298 00:27:50,792 --> 00:27:52,500 Both explanations were possible. 299 00:27:53,208 --> 00:27:58,042 The couple had left home and had been walking for days. 300 00:27:59,083 --> 00:28:02,167 They've just come to the edge of a cliff. 301 00:28:02,833 --> 00:28:06,667 He holds her back to keep her from the edge 302 00:28:06,750 --> 00:28:10,417 while she points to the sea, which stretches to the horizon. 303 00:28:11,625 --> 00:28:14,583 Then you asked me their names. 304 00:28:15,583 --> 00:28:17,958 I replied that it didn't matter. 305 00:28:18,792 --> 00:28:22,708 You didn't agree and started naming them 306 00:28:23,542 --> 00:28:25,250 without much thought. 307 00:28:26,083 --> 00:28:29,583 So I said they might as well be you and me. 308 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,583 Or just anyone. 309 00:28:42,042 --> 00:28:45,750 Don't name them. They may have had other adventures. 310 00:28:45,833 --> 00:28:49,125 You're forgetting the dog. Why do they have a dog with them? 311 00:28:49,875 --> 00:28:53,333 He's not theirs. He just happened to run by. 312 00:28:54,708 --> 00:28:57,083 But he's with his mistress. 313 00:28:57,167 --> 00:28:58,542 She's not his mistress. 314 00:28:58,625 --> 00:29:01,667 He's close because the pedestal is narrow. 315 00:29:02,875 --> 00:29:06,208 The same couple have no dog in that other statue. 316 00:29:06,292 --> 00:29:09,958 Now they face each other. She reaches out a hand to his lips. 317 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:12,458 Closer, you can see she looks away. 318 00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:14,167 - Are you coming? - No. 319 00:29:14,250 --> 00:29:15,958 I don't want to. It's too far. 320 00:29:17,083 --> 00:29:19,208 Follow me. Please. 321 00:29:20,208 --> 00:29:21,417 Please. 322 00:29:24,542 --> 00:29:28,500 It's impossible. I've never been to Frederiksbad. 323 00:29:28,583 --> 00:29:30,917 Perhaps it was elsewhere. 324 00:29:32,083 --> 00:29:35,167 In Karlstadt or Marienbad... 325 00:29:36,333 --> 00:29:37,458 or in Baden-Salsa... 326 00:29:38,667 --> 00:29:40,250 or even in this room. 327 00:29:41,375 --> 00:29:43,875 You followed me here so I could show you... 328 00:29:45,792 --> 00:29:47,000 this picture. 329 00:29:48,875 --> 00:29:51,083 The man's movements are clear, 330 00:29:51,583 --> 00:29:53,917 and so is the woman's arm. 331 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:58,167 But you must be on the other side to see that the man 332 00:29:58,875 --> 00:30:01,333 wants to stop the woman from going any further. 333 00:30:01,875 --> 00:30:04,833 He's seen some danger probably. 334 00:30:05,583 --> 00:30:07,542 He motions her to stop. 335 00:30:16,417 --> 00:30:21,875 I think I can give you a little more accurate information. 336 00:30:24,542 --> 00:30:28,458 The statue is of Charles ll I and his wife. 337 00:30:29,208 --> 00:30:31,375 It's not of the period, of course. 338 00:30:32,750 --> 00:30:36,375 It shows the Oath before the Diet. 339 00:30:38,583 --> 00:30:42,208 The classical costumes are completely conventional. 340 00:31:36,667 --> 00:31:38,083 You were waiting for me. 341 00:31:42,958 --> 00:31:45,958 No. Why should I be? 342 00:31:50,042 --> 00:31:52,042 I've waited a long time for you. 343 00:31:53,542 --> 00:31:54,750 In your dreams? 344 00:31:59,333 --> 00:32:01,875 You're running away again. 345 00:32:02,875 --> 00:32:04,292 What do you mean? 346 00:32:04,917 --> 00:32:06,917 I don't understand a word you say. 347 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,208 If it were a dream, why should you be afraid? 348 00:32:13,833 --> 00:32:16,542 Tell me how our story continues. 349 00:32:18,167 --> 00:32:21,083 We met again that very afternoon. 350 00:32:21,167 --> 00:32:23,000 By chance, I suppose? 351 00:32:25,042 --> 00:32:26,208 I don't know. 352 00:32:27,125 --> 00:32:29,458 Where was it this time? 353 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,125 Where? 354 00:32:38,542 --> 00:32:40,250 That does not matter. 355 00:32:41,917 --> 00:32:45,625 You were with a group of friends whom you had run into, 356 00:32:45,708 --> 00:32:48,083 people I hardly knew. 357 00:32:48,167 --> 00:32:50,083 I don't think you did either. 358 00:32:51,083 --> 00:32:55,958 They were talking about some current event or other. 359 00:33:03,458 --> 00:33:06,167 You probably knew more about it than I did. 360 00:33:07,667 --> 00:33:09,000 I was watching you. 361 00:33:14,083 --> 00:33:17,667 Your sparkling conversation seemed forced. 362 00:33:18,583 --> 00:33:21,792 I felt these people didn't know who you were. 363 00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:24,417 I alone did. 364 00:33:25,375 --> 00:33:27,208 You didn't know yourself. 365 00:33:28,667 --> 00:33:31,167 You kept avoiding my glance. 366 00:33:31,250 --> 00:33:34,125 You were clearly doing it on purpose, 367 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,625 with extreme thoroughness. 368 00:33:47,083 --> 00:33:50,000 I waited. I had the time. 369 00:33:51,458 --> 00:33:53,333 I've always thought I've had time. 370 00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:03,292 When your eyes looked my way, it was as if I didn't exist. 371 00:34:04,875 --> 00:34:08,083 Finally, to make you look, I spoke, 372 00:34:08,667 --> 00:34:13,542 breaking into the conversation with some remark 373 00:34:14,208 --> 00:34:16,625 designed to draw your attention. 374 00:34:17,792 --> 00:34:19,625 I've forgotten what it was. 375 00:34:23,417 --> 00:34:26,083 You answered me in the sudden silence 376 00:34:26,625 --> 00:34:29,542 with an ironic comment about what I'd just said. 377 00:34:31,333 --> 00:34:33,333 The others remained silent. 378 00:34:34,458 --> 00:34:37,667 And again, I felt no one understood. 379 00:34:39,875 --> 00:34:42,708 Perhaps I was the only one to hear. 380 00:35:07,542 --> 00:35:12,292 Then someone spoke of the evening's entertainment. 381 00:35:12,958 --> 00:35:16,000 Perhaps it was for the next day. 382 00:35:16,917 --> 00:35:19,833 I forgot what we said next. 383 00:35:59,333 --> 00:36:01,458 You didn't like walking in the park 384 00:36:01,542 --> 00:36:04,958 because of the gravel, uncomfortable with your high heels. 385 00:36:06,708 --> 00:36:10,333 One day, later on, I think, 386 00:36:10,417 --> 00:36:12,458 you broke one of your high heels. 387 00:36:13,250 --> 00:36:16,333 You had to take my arm 388 00:36:16,417 --> 00:36:18,333 while you took off your shoe. 389 00:36:19,333 --> 00:36:24,208 The heel was almost broken off except for a strand of leather. 390 00:36:25,417 --> 00:36:27,583 You looked at it for a moment. 391 00:36:28,458 --> 00:36:31,583 Your bare foot scarcely touched the ground. 392 00:36:31,667 --> 00:36:35,625 It hovered in front of your other foot, like a dancer's pose. 393 00:36:36,667 --> 00:36:39,000 I offered to fetch another pair. 394 00:36:39,750 --> 00:36:41,167 You refused. 395 00:36:41,667 --> 00:36:45,042 Then I said I could carry you back. 396 00:36:45,875 --> 00:36:50,042 You just laughed, without replying, as though... 397 00:36:52,167 --> 00:36:55,167 But that day, you carried your shoes back. 398 00:36:55,250 --> 00:36:57,208 You walked to the hotel over the gravel. 399 00:37:11,083 --> 00:37:12,625 I saw you again. 400 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,792 You never seemed to be waiting. 401 00:37:19,958 --> 00:37:22,208 But we met at every turn... 402 00:37:24,333 --> 00:37:25,875 behind every shrub... 403 00:37:28,625 --> 00:37:30,208 at the foot of every statue... 404 00:37:32,625 --> 00:37:34,167 by every fountain... 405 00:37:36,917 --> 00:37:39,417 as though, in all this garden... 406 00:37:41,333 --> 00:37:42,750 there was only you and me. 407 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:48,542 We talked about anything at all-- 408 00:37:50,042 --> 00:37:51,208 The statues' names... 409 00:37:52,583 --> 00:37:54,000 the shapes of the bushes... 410 00:37:56,833 --> 00:37:58,250 the water in the fountains... 411 00:38:00,958 --> 00:38:04,042 Sometimes we remained silent. 412 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,458 At night, especially, you did not like to talk. 413 00:38:18,292 --> 00:38:21,208 One night, I went up to your room. 414 00:40:13,875 --> 00:40:15,750 These walls were always there... 415 00:40:17,125 --> 00:40:18,708 surrounding me. 416 00:40:20,458 --> 00:40:24,750 Even, smooth, glazed walls. 417 00:40:24,833 --> 00:40:26,333 These walls were always there. 418 00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:28,958 The silence, too. 419 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,167 I never heard a voice raised in this hotel. 420 00:40:35,250 --> 00:40:36,500 Not a single voice. 421 00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:40,042 Conversations took place in a vacuum, 422 00:40:40,125 --> 00:40:42,500 as if the words meant nothing, 423 00:40:42,583 --> 00:40:44,917 as though they could have no meaning. 424 00:40:45,958 --> 00:40:48,833 A sentence would be suspended in space, 425 00:40:48,917 --> 00:40:50,250 frozen in its flight... 426 00:40:52,167 --> 00:40:56,167 and then could resume its journey there or elsewhere. 427 00:40:59,167 --> 00:41:00,917 It did not matter. 428 00:41:01,708 --> 00:41:04,375 The same conversations, 429 00:41:05,250 --> 00:41:06,833 the same missing voices. 430 00:41:08,667 --> 00:41:10,542 The servants were mute. 431 00:41:11,458 --> 00:41:14,125 The games were silent, of course. 432 00:41:15,458 --> 00:41:17,083 It was a place of rest. 433 00:41:18,083 --> 00:41:22,250 No business was done. No conspiracies were bred. 434 00:41:23,333 --> 00:41:27,083 No words were spoken to arouse emotion. 435 00:41:30,708 --> 00:41:32,833 There were signs everywhere. 436 00:41:33,583 --> 00:41:34,917 "Silence." 437 00:41:36,042 --> 00:41:37,375 "Silence." 438 00:42:12,542 --> 00:42:15,583 - Yes, I think I remember. - It seems hard to believe. 439 00:42:15,667 --> 00:42:16,917 You saw it? 440 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,500 - No, but a friend told me. - Oh, "told you" -- 441 00:42:19,583 --> 00:42:23,875 It's an easy thing to verify. You can check the weather reports. 442 00:42:23,958 --> 00:42:25,500 Let's go to the library. 443 00:42:42,125 --> 00:42:43,875 Do you know what I heard? 444 00:42:45,417 --> 00:42:47,167 This time last year, 445 00:42:48,292 --> 00:42:52,292 it was so cold that the fountains froze. 446 00:42:55,250 --> 00:42:56,833 It must be a mistake. 447 00:43:04,167 --> 00:43:07,917 What do you want? You know it's impossible. 448 00:43:09,333 --> 00:43:13,500 One night, I went up to your room. 449 00:43:15,458 --> 00:43:16,792 You were alone. 450 00:43:21,875 --> 00:43:24,542 Leave me alone. I beg you. 451 00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:27,042 Leave me alone. 452 00:43:27,625 --> 00:43:29,042 It was almost summer. 453 00:43:30,750 --> 00:43:32,750 Yes, you're right. 454 00:43:33,667 --> 00:43:37,125 There couldn't have been any ice. 455 00:43:39,917 --> 00:43:43,708 It's time for the concert. May I go with you? 456 00:44:21,458 --> 00:44:22,875 Are you going to the concert? 457 00:44:24,875 --> 00:44:26,625 I'll see you at dinner. 458 00:44:36,625 --> 00:44:39,875 This story is already over. 459 00:44:40,583 --> 00:44:46,792 In a few moments, it will freeze forever into a marble past 460 00:44:46,875 --> 00:44:49,958 like these statues, this garden carved in stone, 461 00:44:50,042 --> 00:44:52,958 like this hotel with its now-empty rooms. 462 00:46:06,042 --> 00:46:08,958 Leave me alone. I beg you. 463 00:48:04,083 --> 00:48:06,083 You never seemed to be waiting for me. 464 00:48:07,917 --> 00:48:10,708 But we met at every turn... 465 00:48:11,958 --> 00:48:13,500 behind every shrub... 466 00:48:14,500 --> 00:48:15,917 at the foot of every statue... 467 00:48:16,917 --> 00:48:18,333 by every fountain's edge. 468 00:48:19,667 --> 00:48:22,000 As though in all this garden... 469 00:48:23,458 --> 00:48:24,875 there was only you and me. 470 00:48:27,458 --> 00:48:29,458 We talked about anything at all-- 471 00:48:30,125 --> 00:48:32,042 The statues' names, 472 00:48:32,125 --> 00:48:35,833 the bushes, the water in the fountains, 473 00:48:36,792 --> 00:48:38,208 the color of the sky. 474 00:48:39,292 --> 00:48:41,292 Sometimes we remained silent. 475 00:49:18,083 --> 00:49:21,458 But you always maintained a certain distance... 476 00:49:22,667 --> 00:49:24,083 as if on the brink... 477 00:49:25,417 --> 00:49:29,542 at the door of a dark, unknown place. 478 00:49:34,042 --> 00:49:35,458 Come here. 479 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000 Come nearer. 480 00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:04,500 Leave me alone, please. 481 00:50:10,958 --> 00:50:13,833 Once again these walls, once again these corridors, 482 00:50:13,917 --> 00:50:15,333 once again these doors. 483 00:50:16,208 --> 00:50:18,542 And still more beyond. 484 00:50:19,583 --> 00:50:22,125 In order to reach you, in order to join you... 485 00:50:23,208 --> 00:50:25,708 you don't know the paths I've taken. 486 00:50:28,083 --> 00:50:31,292 Now you are here, where I took you. 487 00:50:32,250 --> 00:50:35,375 You still try to escape, but you are here in this garden, 488 00:50:35,458 --> 00:50:38,375 within my reach, within my voice, 489 00:50:38,458 --> 00:50:41,458 within my sight, within my reach. 490 00:50:45,500 --> 00:50:46,583 Who are you? 491 00:50:47,042 --> 00:50:48,250 You know. 492 00:50:50,083 --> 00:50:51,583 What's your name? 493 00:50:52,167 --> 00:50:54,583 That doesn't matter. 494 00:50:55,917 --> 00:50:57,875 "That doesn't matter." 495 00:51:00,458 --> 00:51:02,083 You're like some phantom... 496 00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:05,708 waiting for me to come. 497 00:51:08,167 --> 00:51:09,500 Leave me alone. 498 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,125 Leave me alone. Leave me alone. 499 00:51:20,708 --> 00:51:22,833 It's already too late. 500 00:51:25,292 --> 00:51:27,208 You asked me not to see you. 501 00:51:28,792 --> 00:51:30,292 But, of course, we met... 502 00:51:31,292 --> 00:51:35,667 the day after or the next or the day after that. 503 00:51:37,500 --> 00:51:39,125 Perhaps it was by accident. 504 00:51:40,333 --> 00:51:42,708 I insisted on your leaving with me. 505 00:51:43,875 --> 00:51:47,208 You said it was impossible, of course. 506 00:51:48,417 --> 00:51:52,000 But now you know it's the only thing left... 507 00:51:53,083 --> 00:51:54,292 for you to do. 508 00:51:55,333 --> 00:51:57,542 Yes, perhaps. 509 00:51:59,750 --> 00:52:01,875 But, no, I don't know. 510 00:52:03,625 --> 00:52:06,958 But why me? Why must it be me? 511 00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:08,708 You were waiting for me. 512 00:52:10,042 --> 00:52:14,500 No, I wasn't. I was waiting for no one. 513 00:52:14,583 --> 00:52:18,375 Waiting for nothing, as though you were dead. 514 00:52:20,125 --> 00:52:23,958 It's not true. You're still alive. 515 00:52:25,250 --> 00:52:28,042 You're here. I can see you. 516 00:52:30,667 --> 00:52:31,875 Do you remember? 517 00:52:35,583 --> 00:52:38,208 It's probably not true. 518 00:52:39,375 --> 00:52:41,000 You've already forgotten. 519 00:52:43,458 --> 00:52:46,167 It's not true. It's not true. 520 00:52:46,250 --> 00:52:49,417 You're leaving. Your door is open. 521 00:52:49,500 --> 00:52:52,708 Why? What are you hoping to do with me? 522 00:52:53,292 --> 00:52:56,292 What other life would you have me live? 523 00:52:56,375 --> 00:52:58,000 I don't mean another life! 524 00:52:59,667 --> 00:53:02,667 It's a question of your life. At last. 525 00:53:05,208 --> 00:53:06,417 Remember. 526 00:53:08,125 --> 00:53:11,000 One evening, the last, I think. 527 00:53:12,292 --> 00:53:13,792 It was almost dark. 528 00:53:14,917 --> 00:53:18,958 A thin shadow slowly advanced through the dusk. 529 00:53:20,583 --> 00:53:23,667 Long before I could distinguish your features... 530 00:53:25,125 --> 00:53:26,708 I knew it was you. 531 00:53:28,583 --> 00:53:30,958 When you recognized me, you stopped. 532 00:53:32,042 --> 00:53:35,000 We stood there, a few yards apart... 533 00:53:36,500 --> 00:53:37,833 without saying a word. 534 00:53:39,125 --> 00:53:42,167 You were standing in front of me... 535 00:53:43,292 --> 00:53:44,750 waiting, perhaps... 536 00:53:46,375 --> 00:53:49,500 unable to move either forward or back. 537 00:53:53,208 --> 00:53:55,167 You stood there, 538 00:53:55,250 --> 00:53:58,792 very straight, motionless... 539 00:54:00,667 --> 00:54:02,250 your arms at your sides. 540 00:54:05,542 --> 00:54:06,958 You were looking at me... 541 00:54:08,750 --> 00:54:11,750 your eyes open even wider, 542 00:54:12,250 --> 00:54:15,792 your lips parted, as though to speak 543 00:54:15,875 --> 00:54:18,458 or groan or cry out. 544 00:54:19,417 --> 00:54:20,833 You are afraid. 545 00:54:21,667 --> 00:54:24,292 You open your mouth a little more. 546 00:54:24,375 --> 00:54:26,042 Your eyes get wider. 547 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:31,708 You hold your hand forward, uncertainly, as if waiting... 548 00:54:33,042 --> 00:54:36,667 appealing, or perhaps in defense. 549 00:54:37,792 --> 00:54:39,500 Your fingers tremble. 550 00:54:40,667 --> 00:54:42,083 You are afraid. 551 00:54:58,917 --> 00:55:00,125 Who is it? 552 00:55:01,917 --> 00:55:04,667 Your husband? Maybe. 553 00:55:06,750 --> 00:55:11,125 He was looking for you, or maybe just passing by. 554 00:55:13,375 --> 00:55:15,083 He was already nearing you. 555 00:55:17,333 --> 00:55:22,000 But you remained rigid, as if you were not there. 556 00:55:24,083 --> 00:55:26,750 He didn't quite seem to recognize you. 557 00:55:28,125 --> 00:55:29,833 So he stepped forward. 558 00:55:30,833 --> 00:55:32,792 Something about you escaped him. 559 00:55:33,917 --> 00:55:35,500 One step further. 560 00:55:37,250 --> 00:55:39,042 You looked through him. 561 00:55:41,958 --> 00:55:43,583 He chose to leave. 562 00:55:45,250 --> 00:55:50,083 And now, you still stare into the empty space. 563 00:55:51,583 --> 00:55:53,333 You still see him-- 564 00:55:55,125 --> 00:55:56,667 His gray eyes... 565 00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:00,875 his gray shape... 566 00:56:03,417 --> 00:56:04,833 and his smile. 567 00:56:13,583 --> 00:56:15,125 And you're afraid. 568 00:56:17,458 --> 00:56:21,292 You dread his return or his presence, already, 569 00:56:22,042 --> 00:56:24,333 when I enter again in your room. 570 00:56:25,333 --> 00:56:28,625 His room was next door, with a sitting room in between. 571 00:56:29,625 --> 00:56:32,083 At this time, he is in the card room. 572 00:56:32,833 --> 00:56:36,083 I had told you I would come. You never answered me. 573 00:56:37,542 --> 00:56:40,083 I found all the doors ajar-- 574 00:56:40,167 --> 00:56:44,500 The hall door, the sitting room door, and yours. 575 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:50,708 I just had to push them open and close them behind me. 576 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:54,458 You know the rest. 577 00:56:58,250 --> 00:57:01,708 No, I don't know the rest. I don't know you. 578 00:57:02,375 --> 00:57:05,833 Or this room, this ridiculous mantelpiece with its mirror. 579 00:57:05,917 --> 00:57:08,458 What mirror? What mantelpiece? 580 00:57:08,542 --> 00:57:10,833 - What are you saying? - Yes. 581 00:57:11,333 --> 00:57:13,167 I don't know anymore. 582 00:57:13,250 --> 00:57:15,083 It's not true. I don't know anymore. 583 00:57:15,167 --> 00:57:17,792 Why should you be here otherwise? 584 00:57:21,833 --> 00:57:23,542 What was the mirror like? 585 00:57:23,625 --> 00:57:25,875 There's no mirror over the mantelpiece. 586 00:57:27,250 --> 00:57:28,458 There's a picture... 587 00:57:29,542 --> 00:57:32,542 a landscape, a snow scene, I think. 588 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:35,750 The mirror's over the chest. 589 00:57:38,125 --> 00:57:40,125 There's also a dressing table... 590 00:57:41,375 --> 00:57:44,000 and other furniture as well. 591 00:57:45,667 --> 00:57:47,000 Of course. 592 00:57:48,125 --> 00:57:49,458 What kind of bed? 593 00:57:50,292 --> 00:57:52,000 A big one, probably. 594 00:57:52,958 --> 00:57:54,667 What could you see from the windows? 595 00:57:55,792 --> 00:57:58,333 I don't know the bedroom you mention. 596 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:04,042 I've never been in any bedroom with you. 597 00:58:04,125 --> 00:58:05,458 You don't want to remember. 598 00:58:06,167 --> 00:58:07,375 Because you're afraid. 599 00:58:08,542 --> 00:58:11,458 Don't you recognize this photo either? 600 00:58:12,917 --> 00:58:13,958 Yes. 601 00:58:15,292 --> 00:58:17,917 No, I don't know. I don't remember. 602 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:20,833 You know very well who took it and where! 603 00:58:20,917 --> 00:58:24,000 It was last year. You didn't want me to. 604 00:58:24,083 --> 00:58:26,250 You said it would upset you. 605 00:58:27,208 --> 00:58:28,292 That's true. 606 00:58:29,208 --> 00:58:30,042 I was right. 607 00:58:31,375 --> 00:58:33,167 As for me, 608 00:58:33,250 --> 00:58:35,208 I remember this room perfectly. 609 00:58:36,208 --> 00:58:37,625 You were waiting for me. 610 00:58:38,792 --> 00:58:42,667 Yes, there was a mirror over the chest. 611 00:58:43,583 --> 00:58:46,000 I first saw you in the mirror 612 00:58:46,583 --> 00:58:49,375 when I pushed the door open. 613 00:58:50,417 --> 00:58:54,958 You were sitting in a sort of negligee. 614 00:58:55,708 --> 00:59:00,250 You were all in white and wearing this ring. 615 00:59:00,792 --> 00:59:03,417 You're making it up. I'm sure you're making it up. 616 00:59:03,875 --> 00:59:05,875 I've never had a white dressing gown. 617 00:59:06,958 --> 00:59:08,542 It was someone else. 618 00:59:10,250 --> 00:59:11,958 As you wish. 619 00:59:12,042 --> 00:59:16,875 But I remember well these white feathers where you were lying on the big bed. 620 00:59:16,958 --> 00:59:18,042 No! 621 00:59:18,667 --> 00:59:22,125 Please be quiet. You're mad. 622 00:59:23,125 --> 00:59:25,667 "No, no, please!" 623 00:59:27,708 --> 00:59:29,708 It's your voice I hear from last year. 624 00:59:31,625 --> 00:59:33,750 You were already afraid. 625 00:59:33,833 --> 00:59:35,458 You were already afraid. 626 00:59:36,333 --> 00:59:40,750 You had always been afraid, but I loved your fear that night. 627 00:59:43,292 --> 00:59:47,333 I watched you as you protested a little. 628 00:59:48,542 --> 00:59:49,875 I loved you. 629 00:59:50,792 --> 00:59:52,042 I loved you. 630 00:59:52,875 --> 00:59:54,750 There was something in your eyes. 631 00:59:55,250 --> 00:59:57,625 You were... alive. 632 00:59:58,667 --> 00:59:59,875 Finally. 633 01:00:00,750 --> 01:00:01,833 At first... 634 01:00:03,958 --> 01:00:05,375 Do you remember? 635 01:00:07,708 --> 01:00:09,000 No. 636 01:00:10,833 --> 01:00:12,708 You were sincere. 637 01:00:19,042 --> 01:00:21,208 But only you know. 638 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,208 What's wrong? 639 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,000 Nothing. 640 01:01:22,250 --> 01:01:25,958 - Are you tired? - A little. I think-- 641 01:01:26,625 --> 01:01:29,000 - It's-- - It's the sun, all of a sudden. 642 01:01:30,458 --> 01:01:33,208 Let's go back in if you like. 643 01:01:35,125 --> 01:01:36,542 If you like. 644 01:03:28,042 --> 01:03:30,333 That was the day I photographed you. 645 01:03:32,167 --> 01:03:34,917 And you asked me to give you a year. 646 01:03:36,833 --> 01:03:39,042 Perhaps to test me... 647 01:03:40,917 --> 01:03:45,125 perhaps to wear me down, or so you could forget. 648 01:03:47,208 --> 01:03:50,542 But time is unimportant. 649 01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,250 I have come back for you now. 650 01:03:56,958 --> 01:03:57,958 No. 651 01:03:59,375 --> 01:04:01,250 No, no. 652 01:04:02,417 --> 01:04:04,292 No, it's impossible. 653 01:04:04,375 --> 01:04:07,708 No, no. It's impossible. 654 01:04:09,833 --> 01:04:10,875 Of course. 655 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,750 But you know that it is possible. 656 01:04:14,625 --> 01:04:17,458 You know you are ready to leave. 657 01:04:19,375 --> 01:04:21,208 What makes you so sure? 658 01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,417 Where would we go? 659 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,708 Anywhere. I don't know. 660 01:04:27,042 --> 01:04:31,000 You see? It is better to part ways forever. 661 01:04:32,375 --> 01:04:35,708 Last year-- No, it's impossible. 662 01:04:37,750 --> 01:04:39,417 You'll leave alone. 663 01:04:40,958 --> 01:04:43,375 - And forever we'll be-- - It's not true. 664 01:04:44,667 --> 01:04:48,750 Why should we be lonely and have to wait forever? 665 01:04:49,375 --> 01:04:50,583 It's not true. 666 01:04:52,958 --> 01:04:54,292 But you're afraid. 667 01:04:55,417 --> 01:04:56,417 No! 668 01:05:02,667 --> 01:05:05,167 But it's too late now. 669 01:05:06,375 --> 01:05:07,458 No! 670 01:05:11,833 --> 01:05:13,375 He had just left your room. 671 01:05:14,625 --> 01:05:18,625 You had just had a violent argument with him a moment before. 672 01:05:57,792 --> 01:06:00,417 From your window, you can see the garden. 673 01:06:01,208 --> 01:06:05,167 But you hadn't seen him leave. That might have calmed you. 674 01:06:06,917 --> 01:06:08,458 Then you went back to the bed. 675 01:06:09,042 --> 01:06:11,667 Hesitant at first, not knowing where to go, 676 01:06:12,375 --> 01:06:15,583 you went back to the bed and sat on it. 677 01:06:17,250 --> 01:06:19,958 Then you let yourself fall back. 678 01:06:22,375 --> 01:06:24,083 You went back to the bed... 679 01:06:28,417 --> 01:06:33,083 after a few seconds, a few minutes even of indecision, 680 01:06:33,167 --> 01:06:37,917 not knowing what to do, staring in front of you. 681 01:06:43,625 --> 01:06:45,667 And you went back to the bed. 682 01:06:48,667 --> 01:06:52,083 Listen to me. Try to remember. 683 01:06:53,958 --> 01:06:55,667 Please listen to me. 684 01:06:57,542 --> 01:06:59,250 Yes, there was-- 685 01:07:00,583 --> 01:07:04,333 It's true. There was a big mirror. 686 01:07:04,417 --> 01:07:07,167 You didn't dare go near it. 687 01:07:07,792 --> 01:07:09,208 It seemed to frighten you. 688 01:07:12,208 --> 01:07:14,958 You're determined not to believe me. 689 01:07:15,750 --> 01:07:18,250 Where are you? Where have you gone? 690 01:07:18,875 --> 01:07:22,500 Why try to run away? It's too late. 691 01:07:22,583 --> 01:07:24,667 It was too late even then. 692 01:07:25,792 --> 01:07:27,417 The door was closed. 693 01:07:27,917 --> 01:07:29,208 No! The door was closed! 694 01:07:36,875 --> 01:07:40,375 Listen to me. What more proof do you want? 695 01:07:42,750 --> 01:07:46,125 I had kept a photo of you taken that afternoon in the park 696 01:07:46,208 --> 01:07:47,833 just before you left. 697 01:07:48,917 --> 01:07:52,500 You said the photo didn't prove a thing. 698 01:07:53,292 --> 01:07:57,167 Anyone could have taken it 699 01:07:58,042 --> 01:08:00,792 in any garden, any garden at all. 700 01:08:02,667 --> 01:08:06,000 I should have shown you the white feathers. 701 01:08:06,708 --> 01:08:08,875 Your body a sea of feathers. 702 01:08:10,083 --> 01:08:13,375 But bodies and negligees are all alike. 703 01:08:13,833 --> 01:08:16,333 Hotels, statues, and gardens are alike. 704 01:08:18,125 --> 01:08:21,958 But for me, this garden was unique. 705 01:08:22,625 --> 01:08:25,542 Every day, I met you there. 706 01:08:34,167 --> 01:08:37,917 One afternoon, the next day, probably... 707 01:08:40,958 --> 01:08:43,250 I told you we were leaving. 708 01:08:43,333 --> 01:08:45,208 No. You weren't laughing. 709 01:08:46,208 --> 01:08:49,625 We'll leave tomorrow and never return. While he-- 710 01:08:51,250 --> 01:08:53,500 No. That wasn't it. 711 01:08:54,583 --> 01:08:57,292 Yes. We were in your room. 712 01:08:58,042 --> 01:09:00,375 We had already decided to leave. 713 01:09:00,875 --> 01:09:03,792 You had agreed, somewhat unwillingly. 714 01:09:04,833 --> 01:09:06,417 I was in your room. 715 01:09:08,083 --> 01:09:10,583 From the doorway, you see the bed... 716 01:09:12,042 --> 01:09:14,375 but not the dressing table. 717 01:09:15,500 --> 01:09:18,500 You were probably by the window, 718 01:09:18,583 --> 01:09:20,417 looking down at the garden, I think. 719 01:09:21,458 --> 01:09:22,958 I'm not quite sure. 720 01:09:24,292 --> 01:09:26,667 I had met him coming down the stairs. 721 01:09:27,250 --> 01:09:28,875 He'd just left your room. 722 01:09:30,083 --> 01:09:31,625 Was it another day? 723 01:09:33,833 --> 01:09:36,625 That evening, everything was vacant. 724 01:09:37,708 --> 01:09:38,750 The stairs... 725 01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:41,208 the corridors... 726 01:09:42,375 --> 01:09:43,583 the stairs. 727 01:10:40,667 --> 01:10:41,667 No. 728 01:10:42,583 --> 01:10:45,500 No. I don't remember anymore. 729 01:10:46,667 --> 01:10:48,292 I don't remember myself. 730 01:10:51,583 --> 01:10:53,167 I don't remember. 731 01:11:01,375 --> 01:11:03,583 Didn't you hear me knock? 732 01:11:04,792 --> 01:11:07,292 Yes. I told you to come in. 733 01:11:07,750 --> 01:11:08,667 Oh, all right. 734 01:11:11,542 --> 01:11:13,167 You must have spoken softly. 735 01:11:41,625 --> 01:11:43,083 What's this photograph? 736 01:11:44,375 --> 01:11:47,917 - An old one of me. - Yes. 737 01:11:50,417 --> 01:11:51,750 When was it taken? 738 01:11:51,833 --> 01:11:53,958 I don't know. Last year. 739 01:11:56,250 --> 01:11:57,583 Who took it? 740 01:11:58,083 --> 01:12:00,625 I don't know. Frank, perhaps. 741 01:12:02,125 --> 01:12:05,333 Last year? Frank wasn't here last year. 742 01:12:13,375 --> 01:12:15,750 Perhaps it wasn't here. 743 01:12:17,250 --> 01:12:19,667 Perhaps it was in Frederiksbad. 744 01:12:21,667 --> 01:12:23,292 Perhaps someone else took it. 745 01:12:23,833 --> 01:12:25,167 Yes, perhaps. 746 01:12:28,583 --> 01:12:30,208 How did you spend the afternoon? 747 01:12:31,125 --> 01:12:33,208 I just read a little. 748 01:12:36,125 --> 01:12:39,250 I looked for you. Were you outside? 749 01:12:39,333 --> 01:12:42,667 No. I was in the green room next door to the music room. 750 01:12:42,750 --> 01:12:43,958 Ah, all right. 751 01:12:45,417 --> 01:12:46,833 I looked there, though. 752 01:12:48,208 --> 01:12:50,750 - Did you have something to tell me? - No. 753 01:12:58,375 --> 01:12:59,792 You seem worried. 754 01:13:01,250 --> 01:13:02,667 I'm a little tired. 755 01:13:02,750 --> 01:13:04,250 You must rest. 756 01:13:04,917 --> 01:13:06,833 Don't forget that's what we're here for. 757 01:13:11,750 --> 01:13:12,958 You're going out? 758 01:13:13,917 --> 01:13:16,208 I may go to the gun room. 759 01:13:16,292 --> 01:13:19,042 - At this hour? - Yes. Why not? 760 01:13:21,667 --> 01:13:23,583 Anderson's arriving tomorrow. 761 01:13:23,667 --> 01:13:27,667 We'll have lunch with him... if you've no other plans. 762 01:13:30,292 --> 01:13:33,000 Of course not. What other plans? 763 01:13:33,708 --> 01:13:35,125 Until tonight, then. 764 01:13:44,417 --> 01:13:45,833 After the door closed, 765 01:13:45,917 --> 01:13:49,333 you listened for his footsteps in the sitting room between your rooms. 766 01:13:49,917 --> 01:13:51,417 But you heard none. 767 01:13:51,500 --> 01:13:54,792 You didn't even hear other doors closing. 768 01:13:56,250 --> 01:14:01,042 The way to the gun room was along the terrace behind the hotel. 769 01:14:01,792 --> 01:14:06,458 But unless you open the window, you can't see the terrace. 770 01:14:07,792 --> 01:14:10,417 You listened for his footsteps on the gravel. 771 01:14:10,500 --> 01:14:13,458 With the window closed, it was impossible to hear. 772 01:14:14,250 --> 01:14:16,875 Besides, there's probably no gravel just there. 773 01:14:55,667 --> 01:14:59,625 One arm reaching up to your hair. 774 01:15:00,208 --> 01:15:03,667 An outstretched forefinger to your lips... 775 01:15:05,375 --> 01:15:07,000 as if to stifle a cry. 776 01:15:13,792 --> 01:15:15,750 Now you're here again. 777 01:15:20,583 --> 01:15:23,542 No, this is not the proper ending. 778 01:15:23,625 --> 01:15:25,417 I need you alive. 779 01:15:27,667 --> 01:15:30,417 Alive, as you were already, 780 01:15:30,500 --> 01:15:34,167 every evening for weeks and for months. 781 01:15:39,125 --> 01:15:41,708 I've never stayed anywhere for so long. 782 01:15:42,333 --> 01:15:44,500 Yes, I know. 783 01:15:53,667 --> 01:15:58,417 It's all the same to me, during days and days. 784 01:16:03,375 --> 01:16:09,000 Why do you still not want to remember anything? 785 01:16:11,500 --> 01:16:12,750 You're mad. 786 01:16:14,500 --> 01:16:18,083 I'm tired. Leave me be. 787 01:18:59,875 --> 01:19:02,667 - This game's absurd. - One has to know it. 788 01:19:02,750 --> 01:19:06,500 - You must take an odd number. - I am sure there are rules. 789 01:19:06,583 --> 01:19:08,333 The one who begins, loses. 790 01:19:08,417 --> 01:19:11,917 Frank used to play last year. Yes, I am sure. 791 01:19:12,708 --> 01:19:15,625 You need to take the complement of seven each time. 792 01:19:15,708 --> 01:19:16,917 In which row? 793 01:19:18,750 --> 01:19:20,792 Please begin. 794 01:19:21,708 --> 01:19:23,125 With pleasure. 795 01:19:23,792 --> 01:19:25,417 Which one shall I take? 796 01:19:29,917 --> 01:19:30,917 This one. 797 01:19:31,583 --> 01:19:32,792 Very well. 798 01:19:51,208 --> 01:19:54,083 So, I've lost. 799 01:20:58,292 --> 01:20:59,792 No. No! 800 01:20:59,875 --> 01:21:00,875 No! 801 01:21:02,042 --> 01:21:05,625 It's not true. You were sincere. 802 01:21:07,042 --> 01:21:08,250 Remember. 803 01:21:09,500 --> 01:21:13,542 For days and days, night after night. 804 01:21:14,333 --> 01:21:19,042 All bedrooms are the same, you'll say. 805 01:21:19,125 --> 01:21:21,042 But for me, that room was different. 806 01:21:21,625 --> 01:21:25,042 There were no doors, no corridors. 807 01:21:25,208 --> 01:21:27,875 No hotel. No garden. 808 01:21:28,417 --> 01:21:30,250 Not even the garden. 809 01:22:14,417 --> 01:22:18,333 In the middle of the night, the hotel slept. 810 01:22:19,542 --> 01:22:23,542 We met each other outside, as before. 811 01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:27,083 You stopped when you recognized me. 812 01:22:28,292 --> 01:22:31,792 We stood there in silence. 813 01:22:34,042 --> 01:22:36,750 You stood waiting, 814 01:22:37,750 --> 01:22:40,458 unable to move either forward or back. 815 01:22:42,667 --> 01:22:46,667 You stood motionless, 816 01:22:46,750 --> 01:22:48,292 your arms by your sides. 817 01:22:48,833 --> 01:22:53,000 You wore a long, dark cape. 818 01:22:54,083 --> 01:22:55,708 I think it was black. 819 01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:01,875 Listen to me, for pity's sake. 820 01:23:01,958 --> 01:23:04,333 We can't turn back the past. 821 01:23:04,917 --> 01:23:06,333 Oh, no. No. 822 01:23:06,417 --> 01:23:08,750 Only wait a little longer. 823 01:23:09,375 --> 01:23:13,583 Next year, here-- the same day, the same hour. 824 01:23:13,667 --> 01:23:15,292 I'll follow you. 825 01:23:15,375 --> 01:23:17,583 Why wait now? 826 01:23:17,667 --> 01:23:20,500 Please. We must wait. 827 01:23:21,875 --> 01:23:24,917 - A year's not long. - No. 828 01:23:26,917 --> 01:23:28,625 For me, it's nothing. 829 01:23:28,708 --> 01:23:29,917 But listen. 830 01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:33,000 How long must we put it off? Until when? 831 01:23:33,375 --> 01:23:35,250 - Until when? - I'm telling you. 832 01:23:35,333 --> 01:23:38,458 - I've waited too long. - Not so loud, please. 833 01:23:38,542 --> 01:23:42,042 But what do you hope to achieve? 834 01:23:42,875 --> 01:23:45,083 Do you think it's so easy? 835 01:23:48,125 --> 01:23:49,333 I don't know. 836 01:23:51,875 --> 01:23:53,167 Perhaps... 837 01:23:55,375 --> 01:23:57,250 I'm not very brave. 838 01:23:59,792 --> 01:24:01,917 I can't put it off. 839 01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:03,625 Oh, no. 840 01:24:03,708 --> 01:24:06,542 A few hours is all I ask. 841 01:24:09,875 --> 01:24:11,083 A few months, 842 01:24:11,958 --> 01:24:14,625 a few hours, a few minutes... 843 01:24:15,625 --> 01:24:17,250 or a few seconds. 844 01:24:18,458 --> 01:24:23,000 It's as though you couldn't decide to leave him... 845 01:24:24,500 --> 01:24:26,500 as if it meant parting with yourself. 846 01:24:27,750 --> 01:24:29,250 As if his shape-- 847 01:24:29,333 --> 01:24:33,292 Someone's coming! Be quiet, I beg you. 848 01:24:47,125 --> 01:24:49,792 Go away if you love me! 849 01:25:38,458 --> 01:25:41,833 You must have felt faint. 850 01:25:42,542 --> 01:25:44,750 Yes. It's nothing. 851 01:25:46,125 --> 01:25:48,458 - You're better already. - Yes. 852 01:25:49,208 --> 01:25:50,625 I'll go upstairs. 853 01:25:50,708 --> 01:25:53,250 - Shall I come with you? - No. 854 01:25:54,583 --> 01:25:56,208 I'd rather go alone. 855 01:25:57,542 --> 01:25:58,625 I'm going. 856 01:26:20,167 --> 01:26:24,542 And again I made my way along these corridors, 857 01:26:25,083 --> 01:26:27,917 walking for days and months, 858 01:26:28,458 --> 01:26:31,208 walking for years, toward you. 859 01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:35,833 There can be no rest within these walls. 860 01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:40,667 I shall leave tonight and take you with me. 861 01:26:49,250 --> 01:26:51,917 Had this story begun last year... 862 01:26:53,333 --> 01:26:57,042 with us waiting for each other... 863 01:26:58,458 --> 01:26:59,875 one year ago... 864 01:27:01,083 --> 01:27:06,333 you couldn't have gone on living in this setting, 865 01:27:07,167 --> 01:27:09,417 among these mirrors and pillars... 866 01:27:10,625 --> 01:27:12,583 surrounded by these swinging doors... 867 01:27:13,708 --> 01:27:15,250 these giant stairways... 868 01:27:16,333 --> 01:27:18,458 in this ever-open room. 869 01:27:31,417 --> 01:27:33,583 Where are you, my lost love? 870 01:27:35,583 --> 01:27:38,458 Here. I am here. 871 01:27:39,458 --> 01:27:41,875 Here with you, in this room. 872 01:27:42,375 --> 01:27:43,583 But no. 873 01:27:44,250 --> 01:27:45,917 Already it's no longer true. 874 01:27:49,583 --> 01:27:52,833 Help me. Please help me. 875 01:27:55,375 --> 01:27:56,708 Give me your hand. 876 01:27:56,792 --> 01:27:58,583 You were feeling better. 877 01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:02,625 - Hold my hand tightly. - Yes, now you'll sleep. 878 01:28:04,833 --> 01:28:09,625 And later, you will be all better to meet Ackerson or Paterson, 879 01:28:10,667 --> 01:28:12,917 whom you're supposed to lunch with. 880 01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:14,208 Don't let me go. 881 01:28:15,208 --> 01:28:16,833 You know it's too late. 882 01:28:19,167 --> 01:28:22,000 Tomorrow, I'll be alone. 883 01:28:23,458 --> 01:28:25,958 Your room will be empty. 884 01:28:26,042 --> 01:28:27,125 No! 885 01:28:27,667 --> 01:28:30,208 I'm cold. No. 886 01:28:32,458 --> 01:28:34,375 You need nothing. 887 01:28:35,750 --> 01:28:38,833 You don't know what happened just now in the great lounge. 888 01:28:40,250 --> 01:28:42,875 You don't remember what happened very well. 889 01:28:44,917 --> 01:28:48,125 You hope you didn't cause a scandal when you screamed. 890 01:28:53,667 --> 01:28:56,458 When this man, who maybe is your husband, had gone-- 891 01:28:57,250 --> 01:28:59,167 This man you may even love, 892 01:28:59,250 --> 01:29:03,042 whom you'll leave forever tonight-- 893 01:29:04,042 --> 01:29:08,583 You packed your things and prepared a change of clothes. 894 01:29:09,875 --> 01:29:12,083 We were to leave that night. 895 01:29:12,958 --> 01:29:17,833 You wanted to give him a final chance, the man who was still holding you. 896 01:29:18,833 --> 01:29:21,667 I don't know. I accepted. 897 01:29:22,625 --> 01:29:26,167 He could have come to take you back. 898 01:29:28,833 --> 01:29:31,000 The hotel was deserted. 899 01:29:32,125 --> 01:29:35,917 Everyone was at the play, announced a long time before. 900 01:29:36,458 --> 01:29:38,583 Your fainting spell gave you an excuse not to go. 901 01:29:39,708 --> 01:29:43,667 I can't remember the title. 902 01:29:44,833 --> 01:29:47,375 It was due to finish late. 903 01:29:48,583 --> 01:29:51,875 After he'd left you lying on your bed, 904 01:29:51,958 --> 01:29:54,167 he went to the theater. 905 01:29:54,250 --> 01:29:56,375 He sat with a group of friends. 906 01:29:57,542 --> 01:30:02,292 If he really wanted to keep you, he would have to leave before the end. 907 01:30:07,542 --> 01:30:09,458 You were dressed, ready to go. 908 01:30:10,250 --> 01:30:13,167 You sat waiting for him, alone, 909 01:30:13,833 --> 01:30:18,792 in a sort of lounge that one had to cross to reach your suite. 910 01:30:20,333 --> 01:30:23,500 You'd asked me to leave you alone until midnight. 911 01:30:25,833 --> 01:30:28,250 Were you hoping he would come? 912 01:30:29,167 --> 01:30:32,875 I thought you might have told him everything 913 01:30:33,500 --> 01:30:35,708 and fixed a time for him to come. 914 01:30:37,042 --> 01:30:41,583 Or perhaps you thought I might not come myself. 915 01:30:47,792 --> 01:30:50,667 I came at the appointed time. 916 01:33:00,250 --> 01:33:04,417 The grounds of the hotel were symmetrically arranged... 917 01:33:05,583 --> 01:33:10,542 without trees or flowers or plants of any kind. 918 01:33:11,917 --> 01:33:15,750 The gravel, the stone, and the marble, 919 01:33:15,833 --> 01:33:20,042 and straight lines marked out rigid spaces, 920 01:33:20,125 --> 01:33:22,167 surfaces without mystery. 921 01:33:23,708 --> 01:33:27,500 At first sight, it seemed impossible to lose your way. 922 01:33:28,333 --> 01:33:29,792 At first sight. 923 01:33:30,583 --> 01:33:36,042 Along these stone paths and amid these statues... 924 01:33:37,167 --> 01:33:40,792 where you were already, 925 01:33:41,333 --> 01:33:44,958 losing your way forever 926 01:33:45,750 --> 01:33:47,458 in the still night, 927 01:33:48,083 --> 01:33:50,208 alone with me.