1 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,860 Very early in my life it was too late. 2 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,320 At 18 it was already too late. 3 00:02:31,340 --> 00:02:33,100 At 18 I aged. 4 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,380 This aging was brutal. 5 00:02:36,380 --> 00:02:40,780 This aging, I saw it spread over my features one by one. 6 00:02:41,820 --> 00:02:47,960 Instead of being frightened by it, I saw this aging of my face with the same 7 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,940 sort of interest I might have taken, for example, in the reading of a book. 8 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:55,840 That new face, I kept it. 9 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,480 It's kept the same contours, but its matter is destroyed. 10 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,280 I have a destroyed face. 11 00:03:05,820 --> 00:03:07,100 Let me tell you again. 12 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:09,280 I'm fifteen and a half. 13 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,460 It's the crossing of a ferry on the Mekong. 14 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:12,880 Look at me. 15 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:14,660 I'm 15 and a half. 16 00:04:38,140 --> 00:04:39,820 It's the crossing of the river. 17 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:46,780 When I go back to Saigon, it's as though I'm on a journey, especially when I 18 00:04:46,780 --> 00:04:47,780 take the bus. 19 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,120 That day, it's the end of the school holidays. 20 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:53,520 I don't remember which one. 21 00:04:54,340 --> 00:04:59,260 I went to spend it in Sadek with my two brothers, in my mother's tight house 22 00:04:59,260 --> 00:05:04,660 behind the Bush School, in the horror of the Sadek house. 23 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:43,920 The big pieces are mine. 24 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,620 Why yours? 25 00:05:53,820 --> 00:05:55,760 Because that's the way it is. 26 00:05:56,260 --> 00:05:57,580 I wish you'd die. 27 00:07:26,539 --> 00:07:28,100 Paul, come to bed. 28 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:32,400 You mustn't be afraid anymore. 29 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,520 Nor of Pierre, nor of anything. 30 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,460 Never again, you hear? 31 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Never again. 32 00:08:01,390 --> 00:08:02,390 He came back? 33 00:08:03,690 --> 00:08:07,430 He's here on the balcony, sleeping on the mat outside. 34 00:08:08,270 --> 00:08:10,610 He doesn't want to go to his room. He's too scared of Pierre. 35 00:08:13,910 --> 00:08:15,950 Me, it's when he's outside that I'm afraid. 36 00:08:18,590 --> 00:08:21,310 I'm afraid he'll leave like that. He'll get lost. 37 00:08:21,850 --> 00:08:24,030 It can happen with that kind of child. 38 00:08:24,390 --> 00:08:25,390 That's not true. 39 00:08:26,830 --> 00:08:29,130 You're not afraid for Paul. You're only afraid for Pierre. 40 00:08:30,140 --> 00:08:32,500 Why is it that you love him so much and not us? 41 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:39,179 You never... I love all three of my children the same. 42 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,140 That's not true! It's not true! 43 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,880 Answer, why is it that you love him so much and not us? 44 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,560 I don't know why. 45 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,040 to Saigon to ask for Piers' repatriation. 46 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,300 What? I'm sending him back to France. You're happy? 47 00:09:14,020 --> 00:09:15,580 Stole at the open den again. 48 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,060 I can't pay any longer. 49 00:09:21,580 --> 00:09:22,580 It's over. 50 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:27,080 It's not possible anymore. 51 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:19,600 You know how to drive? 52 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:20,640 I already told you. 53 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:22,100 Oh, I forgot. 54 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,380 So that day, I'm going back to Saigon. 55 00:11:43,340 --> 00:11:46,640 I'm wearing my cavalry shoes and my man's hat. 56 00:11:47,530 --> 00:11:53,470 No woman, no young girl wears a man's fedora in that colony in those days. 57 00:11:53,890 --> 00:11:55,530 No native woman either. 58 00:11:56,410 --> 00:11:58,990 That hat, I never leave it. 59 00:11:59,310 --> 00:12:00,490 I have that. 60 00:12:00,850 --> 00:12:01,850 This hat. 61 00:12:02,370 --> 00:12:04,750 That all by itself makes me whole. 62 00:12:05,130 --> 00:12:06,730 I'm never without it. 63 00:13:15,340 --> 00:13:21,040 So it's the crossing of one of the branches of the Mekong, on the ferry 64 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:27,020 between Vinlong and Sadak, in the great plains of mud and rice of southern 65 00:13:27,020 --> 00:13:29,540 Indochina, the plain of the birds. 66 00:15:12,010 --> 00:15:13,970 Excuse me, mademoiselle. Do you smoke? 67 00:15:17,930 --> 00:15:18,930 No, thank you. 68 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:41,940 I'm sorry. 69 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:43,360 It's so surprising. 70 00:15:44,580 --> 00:15:46,880 A young white girl on a native bus. 71 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:54,000 I 72 00:15:54,000 --> 00:16:01,920 like 73 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:02,920 your hat. 74 00:16:03,260 --> 00:16:04,260 It's original. 75 00:16:05,180 --> 00:16:06,960 A man's hat on a young girl. 76 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:13,300 And you're pretty. 77 00:16:13,540 --> 00:16:14,960 You can do anything you like. 78 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:22,800 You're who? 79 00:16:26,660 --> 00:16:28,860 I live in Vinlong. Where in Vinlong? 80 00:16:30,020 --> 00:16:31,020 On the river. 81 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:32,320 Just outside. 82 00:16:32,820 --> 00:16:34,240 The big house with the terraces. 83 00:16:34,580 --> 00:16:35,660 The blue stone one? 84 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:37,600 Yes. 85 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:39,120 It's a Chinese house. 86 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:41,300 I am. 87 00:16:41,860 --> 00:16:42,860 Chinese. 88 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:45,080 Chinese. 89 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:50,760 He's from that financial minority that owns all the popular housing of the 90 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:51,760 colony. 91 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,380 He's back from Paris, where he undertook some business studies. 92 00:16:56,460 --> 00:17:01,560 He's the one who was crossing the Mekong that day towards Saigon. 93 00:17:03,420 --> 00:17:06,640 If you want, I can drive you to Saigon. 94 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:45,560 Do you know her? 95 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:47,760 She's the administrator's wife. 96 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:49,120 Mrs. Stretter. 97 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:50,560 Anne -Marie. 98 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:54,300 Do you want one? 99 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:56,180 Yes, thank you. 100 00:18:08,740 --> 00:18:09,760 Is it true? 101 00:18:10,020 --> 00:18:12,720 The story about the young man who killed himself for her? 102 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Don't know? 103 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,200 Yes, it's true. 104 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:31,920 On the marketplace at Luang Prabang, the day she left, he was her lover. 105 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,320 doesn't bother you. 106 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:15,520 I mean in here. 107 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:17,480 No, not at all. 108 00:19:35,580 --> 00:19:36,980 You're at Tycoon High School? 109 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:39,400 Yes, but I sleep elsewhere. 110 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,860 At the Liotty boarding house. 111 00:19:43,370 --> 00:19:44,370 You like studying? 112 00:19:44,750 --> 00:19:46,390 Yes, I find it interesting. 113 00:19:50,950 --> 00:19:52,310 What grade are you in? 114 00:19:52,670 --> 00:19:53,670 Eleventh. 115 00:19:54,330 --> 00:19:55,330 And you're? 116 00:19:57,030 --> 00:19:58,030 Seventeen. 117 00:19:58,830 --> 00:19:59,830 And you? 118 00:20:01,270 --> 00:20:02,270 Thirty -two. 119 00:20:02,730 --> 00:20:03,790 And jobless. 120 00:20:04,810 --> 00:20:06,290 And Chinese, what's more? 121 00:20:09,550 --> 00:20:10,550 What's more? 122 00:20:11,390 --> 00:20:12,390 Yes. 123 00:20:15,820 --> 00:20:17,600 You look so beautiful when you say that. 124 00:20:37,420 --> 00:20:41,340 Since my mother's death, my father has lived on his cot. He never leaves his 125 00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:44,140 open pipe, and he nearly doesn't eat anymore. 126 00:20:45,550 --> 00:20:47,010 I never guessed the depth of his fondness. 127 00:20:48,190 --> 00:20:52,150 There it's been ten years that he's taken care of his business like that. 128 00:20:52,370 --> 00:20:53,370 From his bed. 129 00:20:53,670 --> 00:20:55,170 He stares at the river. 130 00:20:55,530 --> 00:20:56,530 You see? 131 00:20:56,710 --> 00:20:57,710 I see. 132 00:21:01,130 --> 00:21:02,770 Yes, I miss Paris. 133 00:21:03,650 --> 00:21:04,650 The parties. 134 00:21:05,030 --> 00:21:07,030 The evenings in Montparnasse. 135 00:21:07,550 --> 00:21:08,630 The cupola. 136 00:21:10,450 --> 00:21:11,790 Do you know the cupola? 137 00:21:12,620 --> 00:21:15,680 I went to France once. It was in the north, near the Belgian border. 138 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:17,700 I only know here. 139 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:18,960 The Mekong. 140 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:20,600 Saigon. You like Saigon? 141 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,080 Yes. I like Saigon. 142 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:24,340 I like Saigon, too. 143 00:21:24,860 --> 00:21:25,860 Chollon, I've been to before. 144 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:28,880 Chollon. It's like China. 145 00:24:37,420 --> 00:24:38,420 That's it. 146 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:24,280 Goodbye. 147 00:26:13,050 --> 00:26:15,170 You got here earlier than usual. 148 00:26:16,550 --> 00:26:19,470 I met someone on the ferry who drove me here. 149 00:26:20,050 --> 00:26:21,050 A Chinaman. 150 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,680 Ellen is the only other white girl in the boarding house. 151 00:26:31,940 --> 00:26:33,660 Ellen, she is immodest. 152 00:26:34,420 --> 00:26:35,680 She doesn't realize. 153 00:26:36,420 --> 00:26:38,600 She walks naked in the dormitory. 154 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:41,440 She doesn't know that she's very beautiful. 155 00:26:42,380 --> 00:26:45,580 She's innocent, lingering on in youth. 156 00:26:52,970 --> 00:26:56,670 There was a girl. The assistant mistresses found her. She was a 157 00:26:56,670 --> 00:26:58,290 evening. Behind the wall. 158 00:26:58,490 --> 00:26:59,670 Nobody noticed anything. 159 00:27:00,330 --> 00:27:01,670 Who? Alice. 160 00:27:02,470 --> 00:27:04,750 Alice? Who's she going with like that? 161 00:27:05,010 --> 00:27:06,510 Anybody. People walking by. 162 00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:11,230 It's always appealed to me. 163 00:27:11,970 --> 00:27:12,970 What? 164 00:27:14,190 --> 00:27:15,670 To go with men you don't know. 165 00:27:16,390 --> 00:27:17,790 You don't even see them. 166 00:27:18,830 --> 00:27:20,910 Nothing. You'll never know their face. 167 00:27:23,310 --> 00:27:24,590 Do you think we're all like that? 168 00:27:25,070 --> 00:27:26,070 Yes. 169 00:27:26,630 --> 00:27:28,190 The assistant mistresses, too. 170 00:27:28,930 --> 00:27:29,930 Every woman. 171 00:27:31,850 --> 00:27:34,410 Actually, I'd rather be a prostitute than take care of lepers. 172 00:27:36,910 --> 00:27:38,490 What are you talking about again? 173 00:27:39,630 --> 00:27:43,230 That's what everybody says here. They say they want us to study, but it's not 174 00:27:43,230 --> 00:27:46,830 true. They take us into boarding so they can send us to the Lazarus with the 175 00:27:46,830 --> 00:27:49,110 lepers, the plague -stricken, the cholera -ridden. 176 00:27:50,270 --> 00:27:51,690 I'd rather be a prostitute. 177 00:28:00,010 --> 00:28:02,630 They'd be lucky, those men. 178 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,160 on one level shoulder strike. 179 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:00,900 One. 180 00:32:02,260 --> 00:32:03,260 Two. 181 00:32:30,030 --> 00:32:32,630 It happened very quickly that day. A holiday. 182 00:32:32,930 --> 00:32:33,930 A Thursday. 183 00:32:34,470 --> 00:32:39,170 He came that Thursday afternoon to the boarding house. 184 00:32:39,530 --> 00:32:42,270 He came to wait for her with the big black car. 185 00:34:03,150 --> 00:34:06,910 It's early in the afternoon, the time of the siesta. 186 00:34:08,010 --> 00:34:14,270 It's in Shulong, in the alleyways of Shulong, in the smell of soup, roast 187 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:20,889 jasmine, dust, charcoal fire, in the smell of the Chinese town. 188 00:34:56,119 --> 00:34:58,060 I didn't choose furniture. 189 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:05,420 It's my father's work. Young rich Chinese 190 00:35:05,420 --> 00:35:06,700 have mistresses. 191 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,400 And they call this the bachelor's room. 192 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,680 Do you have many mistresses? 193 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,420 Do you like the idea of me having mistresses? 194 00:35:21,380 --> 00:35:22,740 Yes, I do. 195 00:35:30,350 --> 00:35:32,810 So you followed me here, as you would have followed anyone. 196 00:35:34,570 --> 00:35:35,570 I wouldn't know. 197 00:35:36,610 --> 00:35:38,590 I've never followed anyone into a room yet. 198 00:35:45,470 --> 00:35:48,450 I... I'm afraid... 199 00:35:48,450 --> 00:35:53,370 I'm afraid of loving you. 200 00:35:57,430 --> 00:35:59,830 Listen, we'll leave. We'll come back some other time. 201 00:36:00,140 --> 00:36:01,400 Well, I'd rather you didn't love me. 202 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:08,640 I want you to do as you usually do with other women. 203 00:36:12,980 --> 00:36:14,200 Is that what you want? 204 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:21,680 Yes. 205 00:36:53,260 --> 00:36:54,580 I know you'll never love me. 206 00:36:58,780 --> 00:37:01,800 I... I don't know. 207 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,080 I don't want you to talk. 208 00:37:49,260 --> 00:37:50,820 He tore the dress off. 209 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,600 He tore the little white cotton underpants off. 210 00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:00,320 And he carried her like that, naked, to the bed. 211 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,660 Once on the bed, fear overcomes him. 212 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:50,780 He says it's not true, that she's too little, that he can't do such a thing. 213 00:39:11,530 --> 00:39:13,350 So she's the one who does it. 214 00:39:14,510 --> 00:39:21,470 Her eyes closed, she undresses him, button by button, 215 00:39:21,650 --> 00:39:23,530 sleeve by sleeve. 216 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,560 His skin is of a sumptuous softness. 217 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:57,320 His body is hairless, without any virility at all, other than that 218 00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,320 of the sex. 219 00:39:59,420 --> 00:40:01,680 She doesn't look him in the face. 220 00:40:02,820 --> 00:40:04,360 She touches him. 221 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,640 She touches his softness. 222 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:13,220 I still see the place of distress, shipwrecked, the distempered walls, the 223 00:42:13,220 --> 00:42:17,140 slatted shutters giving unto the furnace, the soiling of the blood. 224 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:38,860 I remember well. 225 00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:40,660 The room is dark. 226 00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:47,260 It's surrounded by the never -ending glamour of the town, carried away by the 227 00:42:47,260 --> 00:42:49,640 town, by the flow of the town. 228 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:56,760 My body was in that public noise, this passing by from the outside, exposed. 229 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,460 The sea, I thought. 230 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:04,960 The immense... 231 00:43:24,230 --> 00:43:25,230 They're dead. 232 00:43:38,290 --> 00:43:39,490 Did it die on you? 233 00:43:41,630 --> 00:43:42,630 No. 234 00:43:49,330 --> 00:43:50,410 Are you sad? 235 00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:54,900 Yes, I guess. 236 00:43:55,500 --> 00:43:56,500 A little. 237 00:43:57,420 --> 00:43:58,420 I don't know. 238 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,440 It's because we've made love during the daytime. 239 00:44:08,460 --> 00:44:09,700 In the dead of the heat. 240 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:12,480 No. 241 00:44:13,220 --> 00:44:14,220 It's me. 242 00:44:15,820 --> 00:44:17,100 I'm always a little sad. 243 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,080 I'm like my mother. 244 00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:25,800 When I told her I'd be a writer, she shrugged. 245 00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:29,460 She said it's not work. It's a childish idea. 246 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,340 She wants me to do maths, my mother does. 247 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:34,960 To earn money. 248 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,160 What do you want to write? 249 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:40,480 Books. 250 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:41,720 Novels. 251 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:43,320 About my older brother. 252 00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:45,240 To kill him. 253 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,180 To see him in pain. 254 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:48,580 To make him die. 255 00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:52,120 About my younger brother. To save him. 256 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:55,440 And about that? 257 00:44:56,720 --> 00:44:58,000 About my mother's sadness? 258 00:44:58,980 --> 00:45:00,800 About the lack of money? About shame? 259 00:45:02,620 --> 00:45:04,400 I know the bad luck with your mother. 260 00:45:05,020 --> 00:45:06,560 And the tragedy she's lived. 261 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:07,800 How do you know? 262 00:45:08,820 --> 00:45:09,820 Through the servants. 263 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:12,320 Through my driver. 264 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,580 You know everything through the servants. 265 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,500 I know about your elder brother too. 266 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,400 I met him in the opium dens along the riverside. 267 00:45:26,780 --> 00:45:28,220 He smokes too much. 268 00:45:29,740 --> 00:45:30,740 Much too much. 269 00:45:31,980 --> 00:45:33,740 The whites don't know how to smoke. 270 00:45:35,220 --> 00:45:36,220 He's an animal. 271 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,160 He scares me. 272 00:45:39,740 --> 00:45:41,660 He steals from my mother to go smoke. 273 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,220 He steals from the servants. 274 00:45:45,620 --> 00:45:47,160 My mother never says anything. 275 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:48,680 He's her favorite. 276 00:45:51,790 --> 00:45:53,850 Since my father died, there's no money in the house. 277 00:45:56,250 --> 00:45:57,930 My mother lost everything here. 278 00:45:59,810 --> 00:46:01,310 She made all the wrong choices. 279 00:46:04,170 --> 00:46:05,350 So how do you manage? 280 00:46:08,090 --> 00:46:09,470 We do the best we can. 281 00:46:11,230 --> 00:46:12,230 We're shameless. 282 00:46:14,290 --> 00:46:15,390 Do the best we can. 283 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:32,400 I don't know. 284 00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,140 I came because I liked you. 285 00:46:40,340 --> 00:46:42,860 Would you like me if I were poor? 286 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,420 I like you the way you are. 287 00:46:47,420 --> 00:46:48,420 With your money. 288 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,000 too little. 289 00:47:35,660 --> 00:47:39,220 I can't leave my mother and my little brother. Not yet. 290 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:43,800 I 291 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:55,140 had 292 00:47:55,140 --> 00:47:57,020 asked him to do it again and again. 293 00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,140 To do it to me. 294 00:48:00,460 --> 00:48:01,640 He had done it. 295 00:48:03,150 --> 00:48:06,030 He had done it in the arduousness of blood. 296 00:48:08,030 --> 00:48:10,590 I think he's used to it. 297 00:48:11,010 --> 00:48:12,710 This is what he does in life. 298 00:48:12,930 --> 00:48:14,910 Love. Nothing else. 299 00:48:15,670 --> 00:48:16,810 I'm very lucky. 300 00:48:17,710 --> 00:48:20,870 Obviously, it's as if it were a profession he'd have. 301 00:48:22,870 --> 00:48:23,870 He's on me. 302 00:48:24,970 --> 00:48:27,090 He engulfs himself again. 303 00:48:28,190 --> 00:48:29,630 We stay like that. 304 00:48:30,250 --> 00:48:31,250 Nailed. 305 00:48:31,790 --> 00:48:34,200 Mourning in the... glamour of the town. 306 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:55,640 You see, you'll remember this afternoon all your life, 307 00:48:55,740 --> 00:48:59,280 even if you've forgotten Michael. 308 00:49:06,350 --> 00:49:07,450 You think I'll remember the room? 309 00:49:10,210 --> 00:49:11,390 Take a good look at it. 310 00:49:20,930 --> 00:49:21,930 Like anywhere? 311 00:50:04,940 --> 00:50:10,220 I found the strength to go against the forbidden with this calm, this 312 00:50:10,220 --> 00:50:11,220 determination. 313 00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:15,740 I succeeded in going all the way to the end of the idea. 314 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:22,860 How could I have taken so much pleasure for me alone with this unknown man? 315 00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:14,520 My mother, she'd kill me if she finds out the truth. 316 00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:17,180 My brother, he'd kill you. 317 00:51:18,820 --> 00:51:20,880 Imagine, with a China man. 318 00:51:26,580 --> 00:51:32,340 Since I've been little, she tells me that here in the colonies, a girl that 319 00:51:32,340 --> 00:51:34,440 isn't a virgin anymore can no longer find a husband. 320 00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:36,280 Do you think that's true? 321 00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:39,100 Yes. 322 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:40,300 Your mother's right. 323 00:51:41,279 --> 00:51:43,020 It's no longer possible after that. 324 00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:45,420 That dishonor. 325 00:51:46,980 --> 00:51:52,220 For instance, if I wanted to marry you, well, you would not be allowed. 326 00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,380 We can't tolerate the idea of that. 327 00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:56,700 I'm Chinese. 328 00:51:57,180 --> 00:51:58,180 I'm sorry. 329 00:51:59,100 --> 00:52:03,400 Now that you've done that with me, marriage between us would be impossible. 330 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,460 Well, all is for the best, then. 331 00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,500 Chinese. I don't like the Chinese very much. 332 00:52:58,250 --> 00:52:59,250 come into your bed? 333 00:52:59,270 --> 00:53:00,910 No. Not now. 334 00:53:03,590 --> 00:53:04,810 I'll tell you about it tomorrow. 335 00:57:48,650 --> 00:57:51,170 Don't be bashful. It's a wonderful report. 336 00:58:00,370 --> 00:58:01,550 She's the sole heiress. 337 00:58:01,930 --> 00:58:03,210 And I'm the sole heir. 338 00:58:03,970 --> 00:58:05,490 The date has been set for years. 339 00:58:06,110 --> 00:58:07,870 That's another reason I came back from France. 340 00:58:13,630 --> 00:58:14,630 You love her? 341 00:58:15,330 --> 00:58:16,330 No. 342 00:58:17,170 --> 00:58:18,230 I don't know her. 343 00:58:19,610 --> 00:58:20,610 For us... 344 00:58:21,170 --> 00:58:23,070 Marriages are arranged by the families. 345 00:58:23,830 --> 00:58:29,970 We know that a future together is unthinkable. So we speak of the future 346 00:58:29,970 --> 00:58:33,490 casual manner without any involvement detached. 347 00:58:34,110 --> 00:58:36,710 And the two families got together to hide their wealth away. 348 00:58:38,830 --> 00:58:43,450 It's so much in the customs of ancient or modern China. 349 00:58:45,130 --> 00:58:47,490 We don't think we could do anything any other way. 350 00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:57,380 that if he was poor, it would be terrible. 351 00:58:57,900 --> 00:58:59,660 He'd be much too lazy to work. 352 00:59:00,060 --> 00:59:01,980 It's opium that takes away the strength. 353 00:59:02,780 --> 00:59:03,780 No. 354 00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,200 It's wealth that takes his strength away. 355 00:59:07,060 --> 00:59:08,060 He does nothing. 356 00:59:28,330 --> 00:59:29,330 You still love me. 357 01:00:17,740 --> 01:00:18,740 We are lovers. 358 01:00:19,780 --> 01:00:22,300 Every day we go back to the bachelor's room. 359 01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:24,480 We can't stop loving. 360 01:00:25,740 --> 01:00:28,940 This takes place in the sleazy district of Shulun. 361 01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:30,480 Every evening. 362 01:00:31,540 --> 01:00:36,820 Every evening, the little one comes to receive the pleasure that makes one 363 01:00:36,820 --> 01:00:39,160 scream from this dark man. 364 01:04:18,780 --> 01:04:25,220 Now and then, I go back to the house in Sadek, to the horror of the house in 365 01:04:25,220 --> 01:04:26,220 Sadek. 366 01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:28,820 It's an unbearable place. 367 01:04:29,340 --> 01:04:35,340 It's close to death, a place of violence, of pain, of despair, of 368 01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:40,080 I forbid you to slam doors, do you hear me? 369 01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:44,360 Who drove you back from Saigon? 370 01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:45,980 I told you, a friend. 371 01:04:46,490 --> 01:04:49,090 He lives in Vinlong. He offered to drop me off on his way through. He's a 372 01:04:49,090 --> 01:04:50,090 friend, that's all. 373 01:04:50,270 --> 01:04:51,270 Who in Vinlong? 374 01:04:51,730 --> 01:04:52,790 You wouldn't know him. 375 01:04:54,030 --> 01:04:55,370 He just got back from Paris. 376 01:04:56,010 --> 01:04:57,810 A friend. A rich friend. 377 01:04:58,210 --> 01:04:59,890 Not everybody's lucky enough to be poor. 378 01:05:01,630 --> 01:05:02,630 And this? 379 01:05:04,010 --> 01:05:05,010 What's this? 380 01:05:05,730 --> 01:05:06,870 A piece of blue paper. 381 01:05:07,450 --> 01:05:09,350 It's a telegram from the boarding house. 382 01:05:09,570 --> 01:05:11,370 Where did you sleep Tuesday and Wednesday? 383 01:05:11,690 --> 01:05:13,030 Where did I sleep Tuesday and Wednesday? 384 01:05:13,510 --> 01:05:15,750 Not at the boarding house. The fans were out of order. 385 01:05:17,420 --> 01:05:20,040 I slept with my friend from Vinlong. Is that what you want me to say? 386 01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:21,640 Hit her, Mum. 387 01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:26,880 Don't let her get away with it. But it's in this family's dryness, in its 388 01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:32,160 incredible harshness, that I am the most deeply assured of myself, in the 389 01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,640 deepest of my essential certainties. 390 01:05:35,180 --> 01:05:40,500 Our common history of ruin and shame, of love and hate, is in my flesh. 391 01:05:42,620 --> 01:05:44,280 Daughter looks like a whore. 392 01:05:47,310 --> 01:05:48,730 I am still in this family. 393 01:05:49,270 --> 01:05:54,630 This is, barring all other places where I live. That was your dress, ma 'am, and 394 01:05:54,630 --> 01:05:57,190 the shoes you bought them for me. I've been wearing them for months. 395 01:05:57,490 --> 01:05:58,570 They're on sale, remember? 396 01:05:58,850 --> 01:06:00,430 Final reductions, Rukatina. 397 01:06:00,750 --> 01:06:02,630 I do it on purpose. 398 01:06:04,010 --> 01:06:05,750 See what estate I'm in because of you. 399 01:06:06,390 --> 01:06:07,830 It's as though it makes you happy. 400 01:06:12,810 --> 01:06:15,590 If you don't trust me anymore, just take me out of the boarding house. 401 01:06:19,780 --> 01:06:23,620 Besides, I'm not the one who has to be all alone all year long in Saigon. 402 01:06:24,500 --> 01:06:27,160 The mother can be very, very happy sometimes. 403 01:06:27,500 --> 01:06:28,680 The time to forget. 404 01:06:29,100 --> 01:06:33,100 That of washing the house may suffice for my mother's happiness. 405 01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:39,380 She plays the piano, she swims, she laughs. And everyone thinks that one can 406 01:06:39,380 --> 01:06:45,520 happy in this gutted house. That suddenly becomes a swamp, a field 407 01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,240 river, a ford, a beach. 408 01:08:19,370 --> 01:08:20,430 My respects, madame. 409 01:08:21,210 --> 01:08:22,210 My mother. 410 01:08:24,370 --> 01:08:25,510 My brother Pierre. 411 01:08:27,830 --> 01:08:29,010 And my brother Paul. 412 01:08:36,609 --> 01:08:38,290 On Saturday night, they are busy. 413 01:08:40,890 --> 01:08:42,529 Will you be having a cocktail? 414 01:08:43,210 --> 01:08:45,810 Yes, three Martel Perrier and a bottle of rice wine. 415 01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:05,479 When Sun Yat -sen decreed the republic and my father just sold all his lands to 416 01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:07,779 the Japanese who had already taken over Manchuria. 417 01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:13,859 All the houses, jewels and everything to go down towards the south. 418 01:09:16,399 --> 01:09:20,740 And my mother, she just lie in the road and she can't go on anymore. 419 01:09:22,660 --> 01:09:25,420 The mother and the brothers mustn't know a thing. 420 01:09:25,899 --> 01:09:27,740 It is set by principle. 421 01:09:28,490 --> 01:09:32,830 that he's at my feet, that I'm with him for the money, that I can't love him. 422 01:09:33,330 --> 01:09:36,590 This because he's Chinese, because he's not white. 423 01:09:37,090 --> 01:09:42,210 My brothers devour and don't speak a word to him. I don't speak a word to him 424 01:09:42,210 --> 01:09:43,210 either. 425 01:09:43,330 --> 01:09:48,370 In my family's presence, he ceases to be my lover. He doesn't cease to exist, 426 01:09:48,550 --> 01:09:50,109 but he's nothing to me anymore. 427 01:09:50,410 --> 01:09:56,090 He becomes a burned -out place, an unacceptable scandal, a reason to be 428 01:09:56,090 --> 01:09:58,200 of. That has to be hidden. 429 01:10:11,480 --> 01:10:12,940 So what are we waiting for? 430 01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:17,940 I'd like to have a drink at La Cascade. 431 01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,360 We'd like to go to La Cascade to drink and dance. 432 01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:21,720 What makes you laugh? 433 01:11:22,020 --> 01:11:23,420 That I'm dancing with your sister? 434 01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:25,700 I'm sorry you're so badly paired. 435 01:11:26,980 --> 01:11:28,520 Don't pay attention, sir. 436 01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:29,860 He's drunk, that's all. 437 01:11:30,340 --> 01:11:32,480 What? Can't I laugh or what? 438 01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:36,500 Do you want to fight? 439 01:11:38,140 --> 01:11:39,360 Take care, little buddy. 440 01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:42,740 It'll take two of you to do the job. 441 01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:44,560 Oh, no. 442 01:11:44,900 --> 01:11:46,160 A lot more than that. 443 01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:48,840 Four of me. 444 01:11:50,570 --> 01:11:52,930 You have no idea how weak I am. 445 01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:43,880 We should leave. 446 01:12:45,260 --> 01:12:46,720 Forgive us, sir. 447 01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:48,040 Forgive us. 448 01:12:48,860 --> 01:12:51,160 I've not brought my children up well. 449 01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:54,500 I've paid for it. 450 01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,000 How much is what we did worth? 451 01:15:50,900 --> 01:15:54,120 In a brothel, how much does it cost to do what you just did to me? 452 01:15:58,440 --> 01:15:59,440 How much do you need? 453 01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:03,540 My mother needs 500 chiastros. 454 01:16:41,740 --> 01:16:42,740 I've got your money. 455 01:16:44,660 --> 01:16:48,420 Thank you, Arthur. 456 01:16:49,820 --> 01:16:56,660 You see, we have to let her go free in the 457 01:16:56,660 --> 01:16:57,660 evening. 458 01:16:57,980 --> 01:16:59,860 Not tell her what time to be in. 459 01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:04,100 We mustn't force her to go on trips with the boarders either. 460 01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:06,600 She's always been a free child. 461 01:17:07,060 --> 01:17:08,220 Otherwise she'd run away. 462 01:17:10,020 --> 01:17:11,700 Even I can't do a thing about that. 463 01:17:13,260 --> 01:17:16,980 She's always worked very well at school, even being so free. 464 01:17:18,940 --> 01:17:22,680 The headmistress accepted because I'm white, and that's what the boarding 465 01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:23,680 house's reputation. 466 01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:27,180 Amongst all the half -castes, there must be a few whites. 467 01:17:27,420 --> 01:17:30,660 She let me live in the boarding house as if it were a hotel. 468 01:17:33,020 --> 01:17:35,900 Other than my French teacher, nobody speaks to me at school. 469 01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:38,040 It's because of you. 470 01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:41,360 That's your imagination. 471 01:17:42,180 --> 01:17:43,180 No. 472 01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:45,500 There have been some complaints from families. 473 01:17:46,100 --> 01:17:50,180 They say I'm a slut who goes to the shady part of town to have her body 474 01:17:50,180 --> 01:17:51,180 by a Chinaman. 475 01:17:52,580 --> 01:17:53,580 It's nothing. 476 01:18:50,410 --> 01:18:52,110 One day you're going to go back to France. 477 01:18:54,310 --> 01:18:55,390 I can't take that. 478 01:19:03,750 --> 01:19:05,150 When are you going back to France? 479 01:19:06,550 --> 01:19:07,790 At the end of the school year. 480 01:19:08,490 --> 01:19:09,490 But it's not sure. 481 01:19:10,190 --> 01:19:12,390 My mother has a lot of difficulty in leaving here. 482 01:19:30,250 --> 01:19:31,610 The stone belonged to my mother. 483 01:19:33,370 --> 01:19:34,370 Take it. 484 01:20:05,230 --> 01:20:07,650 I don't know. 485 01:21:08,340 --> 01:21:09,340 Father. 486 01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:24,900 I 487 01:21:24,900 --> 01:21:31,740 came back to 488 01:21:31,740 --> 01:21:32,740 see you today. 489 01:21:34,260 --> 01:21:35,820 I think you already know... 490 01:21:36,970 --> 01:21:38,310 I've met a French girl. 491 01:21:41,550 --> 01:21:44,370 I admit I'm always with her. 492 01:21:46,210 --> 01:21:48,290 I really can't leave this French girl. 493 01:21:50,350 --> 01:21:51,730 I really love her. 494 01:21:54,730 --> 01:21:55,730 One year. 495 01:21:57,330 --> 01:22:00,390 Please allow us to officially get married. 496 01:22:00,890 --> 01:22:01,890 One year. 497 01:22:03,010 --> 01:22:05,870 One year later, we'll make another plan. 498 01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:08,120 Okay, Dad? 499 01:22:40,610 --> 01:22:42,970 And I said to him that it's too new. 500 01:22:43,790 --> 01:22:44,790 It's too strong. 501 01:22:46,050 --> 01:22:51,450 And I said to him that it is horrible to take you away from my body. 502 01:22:53,490 --> 01:22:59,170 I said to him that he, my father, he should know what it is. 503 01:23:00,790 --> 01:23:01,950 A love like this. 504 01:23:04,460 --> 01:23:07,220 So strong that it'll never happen again in a lifetime. 505 01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:09,320 Never. 506 01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:23,800 I want this marriage with this young girl I've never seen. 507 01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,420 He shows no mercy for me. 508 01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:34,500 Chose none for anyone. 509 01:23:37,360 --> 01:23:38,360 And you? 510 01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:40,040 Do you want this marriage? 511 01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:48,160 The question is not of wanting or not wanting. 512 01:24:00,660 --> 01:24:02,440 I'm nothing without my father's will. 513 01:24:07,020 --> 01:24:08,020 He told me. 514 01:24:11,220 --> 01:24:15,380 I'd rather see you dead than know you were with a white girl. 515 01:24:16,740 --> 01:24:17,740 But he's right. 516 01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:20,040 He's right because anyhow I'll leave. 517 01:24:20,940 --> 01:24:22,100 And I have no love for him. 518 01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:43,160 You see? 519 01:24:43,580 --> 01:24:44,580 It's here. 520 01:24:46,540 --> 01:24:51,320 My mother, when I was little, wanted to erect a dam to protect her good growing 521 01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:52,320 land. 522 01:24:54,220 --> 01:24:55,980 She wanted to become rich for us. 523 01:24:59,160 --> 01:25:02,020 She put all the savings left after my father's death into it. 524 01:25:06,220 --> 01:25:07,440 People lied to her. 525 01:25:09,070 --> 01:25:12,310 The land register agent sold her flood lands just to earn that premium. 526 01:25:14,510 --> 01:25:15,670 Saltwater covered everything. 527 01:25:16,570 --> 01:25:18,030 She lost everything, everything. 528 01:25:20,410 --> 01:25:23,810 It took her years to believe that it was possible for people to steal all her 529 01:25:23,810 --> 01:25:27,490 savings and then never acknowledge her again to throw her out. 530 01:25:29,610 --> 01:25:31,310 She would scream she had fits. 531 01:25:31,990 --> 01:25:35,150 People started to say that she was crazy, to not believe what she said 532 01:25:35,150 --> 01:25:37,590 money anymore, to say that she was lying. 533 01:25:41,390 --> 01:25:43,430 We never saw another white person for years. 534 01:25:44,970 --> 01:25:46,470 The whites were ashamed of us. 535 01:25:48,690 --> 01:25:52,490 She had to give everything up. The upper ice paddy, she gave it to the servants. 536 01:25:54,090 --> 01:25:56,450 Along with the bungalow and all the furniture. 537 01:26:03,370 --> 01:26:06,830 We used to sit here with my mother and my little brother. 538 01:26:07,750 --> 01:26:09,470 And we'd watch the sky of Siam. 539 01:26:10,090 --> 01:26:11,530 Over there behind the mountain. 540 01:26:24,030 --> 01:26:25,230 You feel cold? 541 01:26:26,350 --> 01:26:27,350 A little. 542 01:26:59,660 --> 01:27:01,140 That evening I know it. 543 01:27:02,260 --> 01:27:03,640 I know only that. 544 01:27:05,060 --> 01:27:08,140 Later, I will write my mother's life. 545 01:27:09,520 --> 01:27:15,380 How she was killed by the land register agents, robbed by the government 546 01:27:15,380 --> 01:27:16,380 officials. 547 01:27:18,380 --> 01:27:19,380 To write. 548 01:27:20,780 --> 01:27:27,100 That's what I see beyond the moment, in that great desert, under the features of 549 01:27:27,100 --> 01:27:29,460 which I see the extent of my life. 550 01:27:50,380 --> 01:27:51,380 Is she beautiful? 551 01:27:52,060 --> 01:27:53,060 She's rich. 552 01:27:57,080 --> 01:27:59,680 The family chose her also because of that. 553 01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:08,600 She's covered with gold, jade, and diamonds. 554 01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,300 Did you ever sleep with a white girl before me? 555 01:28:34,759 --> 01:28:41,580 Why? Here, other than French prostitutes, it's impossible 556 01:28:41,580 --> 01:28:42,740 to have white women. 557 01:28:45,740 --> 01:28:46,740 Totally impossible. 558 01:29:20,460 --> 01:29:22,160 I want you to say it to me once. 559 01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:30,000 You came here so that I give you money. 560 01:29:32,300 --> 01:29:35,220 I came here so that you give me money? 561 01:29:41,620 --> 01:29:42,780 Repeat after me. 562 01:29:45,900 --> 01:29:47,840 I was thinking about money. 563 01:29:49,450 --> 01:29:50,490 Only about money. 564 01:29:51,770 --> 01:29:53,830 From the moment I saw you on the ferry. 565 01:29:55,570 --> 01:29:57,350 I was thinking about money. 566 01:29:57,650 --> 01:29:58,970 And only about money. 567 01:29:59,370 --> 01:30:01,190 From the moment I saw you on the ferry. 568 01:30:06,850 --> 01:30:07,850 You're a whore. 569 01:30:09,810 --> 01:30:10,970 You're a whore. 570 01:30:15,950 --> 01:30:17,530 I don't find that disgusting. 571 01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:20,760 On the contrary. 572 01:31:07,790 --> 01:31:08,790 Without strength. 573 01:31:41,480 --> 01:31:42,700 I want someone who doesn't love. 574 01:32:56,780 --> 01:32:57,780 Do you know what that's worth? 575 01:32:59,080 --> 01:33:02,180 You want to have us believe he just gave it to you for your pretty face? 576 01:33:06,720 --> 01:33:08,500 Why did he give you such a diamond? 577 01:33:09,140 --> 01:33:10,140 Why? 578 01:33:10,580 --> 01:33:11,580 Because he's rich. 579 01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:13,020 Your daughter's whoring. 580 01:33:18,260 --> 01:33:19,520 Take it! Sell it! 581 01:33:19,740 --> 01:33:21,020 See if I care about that ring. 582 01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:24,420 You slept with him. I'm sure of it. Just take a look at her. 583 01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:26,000 She's a disgrace. 584 01:33:26,670 --> 01:33:29,790 What? You've got to do something, Mum. What do you think? Me? 585 01:33:30,390 --> 01:33:31,490 With the China man? 586 01:33:32,130 --> 01:33:33,410 Nothing happened. Nothing. 587 01:33:33,930 --> 01:33:35,030 Not even a kiss. 588 01:33:41,330 --> 01:33:43,450 It smells of Chinese. 589 01:33:48,110 --> 01:33:49,270 You slept with him? 590 01:33:50,310 --> 01:33:51,310 Huh? 591 01:36:39,340 --> 01:36:40,880 My child wouldn't come anymore. 592 01:36:42,240 --> 01:36:43,560 I took a rickshaw. 593 01:36:48,140 --> 01:36:49,380 Did you smoke a lot? 594 01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:52,780 That's all I do. 595 01:36:55,180 --> 01:36:56,920 I have no desire left. 596 01:36:58,880 --> 01:37:00,440 I have no love left. 597 01:37:02,380 --> 01:37:03,460 It's wonderful. 598 01:37:04,580 --> 01:37:07,680 It's as though we'd never met. 599 01:37:09,840 --> 01:37:11,840 As though it left months ago. 600 01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:29,760 When are you getting married? 601 01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:42,020 On the Alexander Duma. 602 01:37:42,540 --> 01:37:43,540 The dwarf. 603 01:37:46,740 --> 01:37:47,760 Look at me. 604 01:37:49,780 --> 01:37:53,000 I'm going to die of love for you. 605 01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:02,640 After your marriage, we'll meet here one time. 606 01:38:03,260 --> 01:38:04,260 Just once. 607 01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:05,600 You remember? 608 01:38:06,400 --> 01:38:07,720 You promised me. 609 01:40:26,860 --> 01:40:28,680 You're also selling the rosewood table? 610 01:40:30,500 --> 01:40:31,500 Yes. 611 01:40:31,980 --> 01:40:33,320 I'm leaving everything. 612 01:40:34,900 --> 01:40:36,520 It's all finished here. 613 01:40:42,580 --> 01:40:45,260 The only thing I'll miss are the metal beds. 614 01:40:46,460 --> 01:40:49,500 In France, the beds are too soft. 615 01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:56,240 What's that hat? 616 01:40:58,830 --> 01:41:00,810 Mom, I've been wearing it for months. 617 01:41:02,650 --> 01:41:04,210 Did I buy that for you? 618 01:41:04,510 --> 01:41:05,510 Who else? 619 01:41:05,950 --> 01:41:07,950 Some days we can make you buy anything we want. 620 01:41:08,730 --> 01:41:09,730 I forgot. 621 01:41:15,030 --> 01:41:18,310 You know, I wasn't like you. 622 01:41:21,610 --> 01:41:23,930 I didn't study as easily as you do. 623 01:41:26,010 --> 01:41:27,010 And I... 624 01:41:32,910 --> 01:41:33,910 I was very serious. 625 01:41:36,870 --> 01:41:37,970 For so long. 626 01:41:38,470 --> 01:41:39,470 Too long. 627 01:41:44,390 --> 01:41:47,010 That's how I lost the feeling of my own pleasure. 628 01:41:52,410 --> 01:41:54,490 He did a really good thing, truly. 629 01:41:55,170 --> 01:41:56,450 Who did a good thing? 630 01:41:57,450 --> 01:41:58,450 Your friend. 631 01:41:58,890 --> 01:42:00,210 Your Chinese friend. 632 01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:03,500 He paid off your brother's debts at the opium den. 633 01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:06,840 He also paid for the trip. 634 01:42:07,500 --> 01:42:08,500 He was wonderful. 635 01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:10,560 Very discreet, too. 636 01:42:11,740 --> 01:42:13,320 I had underestimated him. 637 01:42:13,980 --> 01:42:15,080 I'm sorry about that. 638 01:42:20,940 --> 01:42:22,740 Do you only see him for the money? 639 01:42:27,160 --> 01:42:28,160 Yes. 640 01:46:34,120 --> 01:46:38,940 It was when the boat uttered its first farewell, when the gangway had been 641 01:46:38,940 --> 01:46:45,260 hauled up, and the tugs had started to tow it, to draw it away from the land, 642 01:46:45,420 --> 01:46:46,760 that she had wept. 643 01:46:49,540 --> 01:46:55,060 She'd done it without showing her tears, without showing her mother or her 644 01:46:55,060 --> 01:47:00,960 little brother that she was sad, without showing anything, as was the custom 645 01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:01,960 between them. 646 01:47:52,200 --> 01:47:53,200 He was there. 647 01:47:54,900 --> 01:47:57,020 That was him in the back. 648 01:47:58,060 --> 01:47:59,980 That scarcely visible shape. 649 01:48:01,020 --> 01:48:02,480 That made no movement. 650 01:48:03,480 --> 01:48:04,480 Crushed. 651 01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:15,800 She was leaning on the railing like the first time on the ferry. 652 01:48:17,020 --> 01:48:18,760 She knew he was watching her. 653 01:48:19,480 --> 01:48:21,140 She was watching him too. 654 01:48:44,110 --> 01:48:48,510 She couldn't see him anymore, but she still looked towards the shape of the 655 01:48:48,510 --> 01:48:49,510 black car. 656 01:48:59,730 --> 01:49:02,030 In the end, she didn't see it anymore. 657 01:49:02,770 --> 01:49:06,450 The harbor had faded away, and then the land. 658 01:49:25,710 --> 01:49:31,170 One night, during the crossing of the Indian Ocean, in the main room on the 659 01:49:31,170 --> 01:49:35,330 deck, there had been a sunburst of a waltz by Chopin. 660 01:49:41,630 --> 01:49:47,110 There wasn't a breath of wind, and that night, the music had spread all over the 661 01:49:47,110 --> 01:49:53,230 black liner, like an injunction from heaven, related to something unknown, 662 01:49:53,230 --> 01:49:54,250 an order from God. 663 01:49:54,750 --> 01:49:56,390 whose meaning was inscrutable. 664 01:50:19,190 --> 01:50:23,630 She had wept because she had thought of that man from Shulong. 665 01:50:24,330 --> 01:50:25,330 her lover. 666 01:50:25,770 --> 01:50:31,190 And suddenly she wasn't sure of not having loved him with a love she hadn't 667 01:50:31,190 --> 01:50:37,050 because it had lost itself in the story like water in the sand and that she was 668 01:50:37,050 --> 01:50:42,550 rediscovering it now in this moment of music flung across the sea. 669 01:51:07,180 --> 01:51:12,720 Years after the war, after the marriages, the children, the divorces, 670 01:51:12,960 --> 01:51:15,300 he had come to Paris with his wife. 671 01:51:15,940 --> 01:51:17,280 He had phoned her. 672 01:51:20,060 --> 01:51:21,280 He was intimidated. 673 01:51:22,020 --> 01:51:23,500 His voice trembled. 674 01:51:24,060 --> 01:51:27,780 And with the trembling, it had found the accent of China again. 675 01:51:28,700 --> 01:51:30,820 He knew she'd begun writing books. 676 01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:34,140 He had also heard about the younger brother's death. 677 01:51:34,480 --> 01:51:36,160 He had been sad for her. 678 01:51:37,390 --> 01:51:39,390 And then he had known what to tell her. 679 01:51:41,310 --> 01:51:42,630 And then he told her. 680 01:51:43,530 --> 01:51:45,610 He had told her that it was as before. 681 01:51:46,590 --> 01:51:47,970 That he still loved her. 682 01:51:48,830 --> 01:51:50,710 That he would never stop loving her. 683 01:51:51,530 --> 01:51:53,590 That he would love her until his death.