1 00:00:44,997 --> 00:00:47,581 L'HOMME OISEAU: Yes, you're right, it's impossible. 2 00:00:47,665 --> 00:00:50,206 We must accept our lot in life. 3 00:00:50,289 --> 00:00:53,289 Life isn't beautiful, but it can be pretty. 4 00:00:53,373 --> 00:00:55,873 Great passions only last one night, 5 00:00:55,955 --> 00:00:58,997 the nicest breasts only come in pairs 6 00:00:59,081 --> 00:01:01,790 and the most charming are the least known. 7 00:01:01,873 --> 00:01:02,873 -[AUDIENCE LAUGHS] -[BELLS RINGING] 8 00:01:02,955 --> 00:01:04,498 The bells are ringing, 9 00:01:04,581 --> 00:01:06,623 -the lamps are lit... -[FESTIVE MUSIC PLAYING] 10 00:01:06,706 --> 00:01:08,331 Here comes the music, 11 00:01:09,081 --> 00:01:11,915 and the party will begin again. 12 00:01:14,331 --> 00:01:16,331 -[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING] -[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING] 13 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:19,289 AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: Bravo! 14 00:01:19,373 --> 00:01:20,665 AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: Bravo! 15 00:01:20,748 --> 00:01:21,831 AUDIENCE MEMBER 3: Bravo! 16 00:01:26,456 --> 00:01:27,289 [MUSIC STOPS] 17 00:01:27,373 --> 00:01:31,206 LE NAIN: Don't leave your seats. We have a surprise for you. 18 00:01:33,706 --> 00:01:37,039 [MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING] 19 00:01:37,122 --> 00:01:38,498 Mr. Pagnol. 20 00:01:38,581 --> 00:01:40,748 [FOOTSTEPS THUDDING] 21 00:01:40,831 --> 00:01:42,039 Mr. Pagnol! 22 00:01:42,122 --> 00:01:44,748 -[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING] -[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING] 23 00:01:44,831 --> 00:01:46,414 Where is he? 24 00:01:46,498 --> 00:01:49,665 [FOOTSTEPS THUDDING] 25 00:01:49,748 --> 00:01:51,331 Oh! He is here! 26 00:01:51,414 --> 00:01:53,498 This way, monsieur. 27 00:01:53,581 --> 00:01:55,122 They're expecting you. 28 00:01:59,955 --> 00:02:01,164 [AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING] 29 00:02:01,247 --> 00:02:04,122 Ladies and gentlemen, the author of Fabien, 30 00:02:04,206 --> 00:02:05,997 Mr. Marcel Pagnol! 31 00:02:06,081 --> 00:02:07,581 AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: Bravo! AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: Bravo! 32 00:02:07,665 --> 00:02:08,872 [AUDIENCE APPLAUDING] 33 00:02:12,498 --> 00:02:15,997 L'HOMME OISEAU: The Suez Canal crisis, people are struggling to find petrol. 34 00:02:16,081 --> 00:02:18,164 We'll do better tomorrow. 35 00:02:18,247 --> 00:02:19,498 [ENGINE REVVING] 36 00:02:24,289 --> 00:02:27,581 MARCEL: You can't blame everything on the oil crisis. 37 00:02:27,665 --> 00:02:30,706 I guess this old Pagnol doesn't interest people anymore. 38 00:02:31,331 --> 00:02:33,748 How dare you even say such a thing? 39 00:02:33,831 --> 00:02:37,247 It's the youth that drive the world, Pierre. 40 00:02:37,331 --> 00:02:41,539 Leave your father alone, Frédéric. Come. Fernandel has a surprise for you. 41 00:02:43,373 --> 00:02:45,581 By the time you finished smoking that pipe, 42 00:02:45,665 --> 00:02:47,081 the youth will have swept us 43 00:02:47,164 --> 00:02:48,539 -under the carpet. -Hmm. 44 00:02:48,623 --> 00:02:49,997 And who could blame them? 45 00:02:50,665 --> 00:02:52,830 We did the same in our time. 46 00:02:52,914 --> 00:02:56,373 Gone are the times of accordion waltzes, amusement parks, 47 00:02:56,456 --> 00:02:57,498 mahogany pipes. 48 00:02:57,581 --> 00:03:01,122 Mr. Lazareff, one has to know when to bow out. 49 00:03:01,206 --> 00:03:04,122 Never! I will not let you give up writing. 50 00:03:04,206 --> 00:03:05,456 My dear Hélène, 51 00:03:06,581 --> 00:03:10,331 what's the point of writing things that people no longer wish to read? 52 00:03:10,414 --> 00:03:13,872 Marcel, you do know the ladies magazine I'm in charge of, don't you? 53 00:03:13,955 --> 00:03:15,748 The magazine Elle. 54 00:03:15,830 --> 00:03:16,997 Elle? 55 00:03:17,081 --> 00:03:21,039 As it happens, my readers love your work. And they want to know all about you. 56 00:03:21,748 --> 00:03:24,289 -Your childhood, early romances... -[SERENE MUSIC PLAYING] 57 00:03:24,373 --> 00:03:28,665 So, for instance, we could imagine somehow serializing it in episodes. 58 00:03:28,748 --> 00:03:30,373 -[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION] -[VOICE FADING] Possibly, say, 59 00:03:30,456 --> 00:03:31,997 -on a monthly basis? -[ALL LAUGHING] 60 00:03:32,081 --> 00:03:33,414 Just a suggestion. 61 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:35,039 MARCEL: Elle... 62 00:03:35,122 --> 00:03:36,456 [KNOCKING AT DOOR] 63 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:38,122 Marcel? 64 00:03:38,748 --> 00:03:40,581 Still on that machine of yours? 65 00:03:41,581 --> 00:03:44,247 The Academy called again. I'm out of excuses. 66 00:03:44,331 --> 00:03:45,997 Well, my darling, you can tell them 67 00:03:46,081 --> 00:03:49,872 that one of their members is on the brink of inventing perpetual motion. 68 00:03:50,581 --> 00:03:53,789 It's freezing in here. You'd be warmer in your study. 69 00:03:53,872 --> 00:03:56,872 My study is full of paper thirsting for ink. 70 00:03:56,955 --> 00:04:00,581 At least here, French literature bloody well leaves me in peace. 71 00:04:02,830 --> 00:04:04,122 I have to go. 72 00:04:04,206 --> 00:04:06,081 I told the maid you'd be up here. 73 00:04:11,914 --> 00:04:13,914 [WISTFUL MUSIC PLAYING] 74 00:04:15,247 --> 00:04:17,289 [WHIRRING] 75 00:04:17,373 --> 00:04:18,498 [CLINKING] 76 00:04:24,081 --> 00:04:25,456 [WHIRRING CONTINUES] 77 00:04:26,289 --> 00:04:27,997 [CLINKING CONTINUES] 78 00:04:29,289 --> 00:04:31,373 [WHIRRING SLOWING DOWN] 79 00:04:31,456 --> 00:04:33,039 [CLINKING SLOWING DOWN] 80 00:04:36,747 --> 00:04:37,955 [CLINKING STOPS] 81 00:04:38,498 --> 00:04:39,623 [THUDS] 82 00:04:39,706 --> 00:04:41,331 -[SIGHS WEARILY] -[KNOCKING AT DOOR] 83 00:04:41,414 --> 00:04:42,623 What is it? 84 00:04:44,039 --> 00:04:48,081 Sir, there's a young man outside, who's here to pick up a manuscript. 85 00:04:48,747 --> 00:04:49,872 A manuscript? 86 00:04:49,955 --> 00:04:52,498 For the magazine Elle. 87 00:04:52,581 --> 00:04:53,955 [GASPS] 88 00:04:56,747 --> 00:04:58,456 [PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] 89 00:04:59,122 --> 00:05:00,997 LA BONNE: What should I say to him? 90 00:05:01,081 --> 00:05:03,581 You can say, uh... [INHALES SHARPLY] don't know. 91 00:05:03,665 --> 00:05:06,665 Tell him he'll have chapter one in half an hour. 92 00:05:06,747 --> 00:05:10,830 I wasn't aware, sir, you'd started writing your memoirs. 93 00:05:10,914 --> 00:05:13,789 -Memoirs? You'd need memory for that. -Oh. 94 00:05:16,247 --> 00:05:17,623 Wait a minute. 95 00:05:18,456 --> 00:05:20,289 His wheel is buckled. 96 00:05:21,331 --> 00:05:24,789 You'll bring him tea, and biscuits, and these pliers. 97 00:05:24,872 --> 00:05:28,414 I'll have at least three hours before he gets his wheel straightened out. 98 00:05:28,498 --> 00:05:31,247 Three hours is a bit long to fix a wheel. 99 00:05:31,331 --> 00:05:32,914 For most people, I would agree. 100 00:05:32,997 --> 00:05:36,164 But this young lad doesn't seem very good with his hands. 101 00:05:36,247 --> 00:05:40,122 If I'm right, in three hours, his wheel will be square. 102 00:05:43,955 --> 00:05:46,498 [WISTFUL MUSIC CONTINUES] 103 00:05:54,414 --> 00:05:55,247 Pencil case 104 00:06:01,122 --> 00:06:02,206 [SIGHS SOFTLY] 105 00:06:03,164 --> 00:06:04,456 LE MAINATE: Pagnol! 106 00:06:05,498 --> 00:06:08,039 Pagnol! Pagnol! 107 00:06:08,122 --> 00:06:09,414 Pagnol! 108 00:06:09,498 --> 00:06:10,705 Quicker! 109 00:06:11,581 --> 00:06:13,664 Easy for you to say. 110 00:06:13,747 --> 00:06:17,081 -[MEOWING, PURRING] -[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 111 00:06:18,122 --> 00:06:20,997 I'm sorry, my friends. That doesn't help much. 112 00:06:22,914 --> 00:06:24,830 Pagnol, quicker! 113 00:06:25,705 --> 00:06:28,039 MARCEL: "I was born..." 114 00:06:30,622 --> 00:06:32,289 "I was born..." 115 00:06:32,872 --> 00:06:34,498 Well, yes, I was born. 116 00:06:34,581 --> 00:06:37,498 -But they'll likely want to know more. -[MUSIC ENDS] 117 00:06:38,247 --> 00:06:41,247 [SIGHS SOFTLY] What came over me to commit to this? 118 00:06:41,331 --> 00:06:44,122 YOUNG BOY: You've never been able to say no to a woman. 119 00:06:44,206 --> 00:06:45,206 Frédéric? 120 00:06:45,289 --> 00:06:47,331 Why are you not in school? 121 00:06:48,039 --> 00:06:49,206 What? Son? 122 00:06:49,955 --> 00:06:51,039 Is that you? 123 00:06:51,122 --> 00:06:52,456 Whoa! Easy now! 124 00:06:55,872 --> 00:06:57,331 Marcel? 125 00:06:59,039 --> 00:07:00,039 Marcel? 126 00:07:01,872 --> 00:07:04,705 -[SIGHS SOFTLY] -[YOUNG MARCEL LAUGHING] 127 00:07:05,373 --> 00:07:07,247 What are you playing at? 128 00:07:07,331 --> 00:07:09,955 Why have you come back, Marcel? 129 00:07:15,539 --> 00:07:17,456 I must have changed, eh? 130 00:07:17,539 --> 00:07:19,081 So, how old are we now? 131 00:07:19,164 --> 00:07:20,289 Sixty-one. 132 00:07:20,373 --> 00:07:22,622 Crikey, that's a shedload! 133 00:07:25,331 --> 00:07:27,081 What are you here for, Marcel? 134 00:07:27,164 --> 00:07:28,997 Well, with stirring up our memories, 135 00:07:29,081 --> 00:07:31,539 you've only gone and knocked me off the shelf. 136 00:07:31,622 --> 00:07:33,914 And I don't just want you rambling on about us, 137 00:07:33,997 --> 00:07:36,664 because everywhere you've been, I've been too. 138 00:07:36,747 --> 00:07:39,081 I'll have to invent some of it. 139 00:07:39,164 --> 00:07:43,289 My memory is like some very old tape recording that has been half erased. 140 00:07:43,373 --> 00:07:47,498 Do you still believe it's possible, a machine that will never stop? 141 00:07:47,580 --> 00:07:49,164 I don't know. 142 00:07:49,247 --> 00:07:51,872 But it helps me get up in the morning. 143 00:07:52,789 --> 00:07:54,705 You don't sound too well. 144 00:07:54,789 --> 00:07:56,664 You don't understand. 145 00:07:56,747 --> 00:07:59,498 Old folks are like chimpanzees, 146 00:07:59,580 --> 00:08:04,206 swinging from branch to branch in constant pursuit of their memories. 147 00:08:04,872 --> 00:08:06,373 [INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING] 148 00:08:06,456 --> 00:08:08,247 [CLACKING] 149 00:08:08,331 --> 00:08:10,414 What are you doing? 150 00:08:10,498 --> 00:08:12,705 Giving you a leg up. 151 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:19,331 [CLACKING] 152 00:08:22,914 --> 00:08:25,289 [THUDDING] 153 00:08:28,747 --> 00:08:30,664 -Grandpa? -Hmm? 154 00:08:31,289 --> 00:08:32,830 What's it like to be old? 155 00:08:32,914 --> 00:08:36,081 That's some question to ask, my lad. 156 00:08:36,164 --> 00:08:38,622 When I grow up, I want to be old like you, 157 00:08:38,705 --> 00:08:40,955 and carve stones like you do. 158 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:43,580 It's not your trade that'll matter. 159 00:08:43,664 --> 00:08:47,747 What matters is that you work well, and that your craft is beautiful. 160 00:08:47,830 --> 00:08:50,622 Because all that is beautiful is true. 161 00:08:50,705 --> 00:08:54,789 And all that is true has earned the respect of the divine. 162 00:08:55,705 --> 00:08:58,289 JOSEPH: Your grandfather hated preachers with a passion, 163 00:08:58,373 --> 00:09:00,664 and here he is, sounding like a prophet. 164 00:09:00,747 --> 00:09:04,538 I opine that respect is a very good thing, 165 00:09:04,622 --> 00:09:06,538 but it needn't come from the divine. 166 00:09:06,622 --> 00:09:10,955 Our Republic respects its children just as much as any god 167 00:09:11,039 --> 00:09:13,914 whose existence has yet to be proven by science. 168 00:09:13,997 --> 00:09:15,373 You can tell that to people 169 00:09:15,455 --> 00:09:17,955 -who are educated, like you. -[COOING] 170 00:09:18,039 --> 00:09:21,580 But those less clever, well, God is enough for them. 171 00:09:21,664 --> 00:09:24,122 Furthermore, this Republic of yours 172 00:09:24,206 --> 00:09:26,664 has never been proven by science either. 173 00:09:26,747 --> 00:09:28,747 -Well, you don't say! -[ALL LAUGHING] 174 00:09:29,914 --> 00:09:31,081 [BABY GERMAINE COOING] 175 00:09:32,039 --> 00:09:33,955 [TABLEWARE CLINKING] 176 00:09:35,830 --> 00:09:38,664 ONCLE JULES: What does Marcel want to be when he grows up? 177 00:09:38,747 --> 00:09:40,289 JOSEPH: I don't know. 178 00:09:40,373 --> 00:09:42,455 AUGUSTINE: You do know, Joseph. 179 00:09:42,538 --> 00:09:46,373 He told you he wanted to become a millionaire and that made you angry. 180 00:09:46,455 --> 00:09:48,914 Augustine, I became angry 181 00:09:48,997 --> 00:09:51,747 because I do not know a single honest millionaire. 182 00:09:51,830 --> 00:09:54,789 That's because you don't know any millionaires in the first place. 183 00:09:54,872 --> 00:09:58,164 My dear Jules, for a tiny minority to get rich, 184 00:09:58,247 --> 00:10:01,122 a huge majority must be pushed into poverty. 185 00:10:01,206 --> 00:10:03,664 It's one of the basic laws of nature. 186 00:10:03,747 --> 00:10:06,538 [SMACKS LIPS] Marcel can be whatever he wants. 187 00:10:06,622 --> 00:10:10,122 He told me he wanted to become an engineer. 188 00:10:10,206 --> 00:10:12,789 In that case, he'll never step out of his workshop, 189 00:10:12,872 --> 00:10:16,247 his complexion will be pallid, he'll have large bags under his eyes, 190 00:10:16,331 --> 00:10:18,664 and he'll die a poor man, addled with consumption. 191 00:10:18,747 --> 00:10:20,705 A poor man, but an honest man. 192 00:10:20,789 --> 00:10:22,497 Exactly my point, Jules. 193 00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:25,830 -A poor man, but an honest man. -[AUGUSTINE CHUCKLES] 194 00:10:33,331 --> 00:10:36,331 I promise you, Mum, one day I shall make you proud. 195 00:10:36,413 --> 00:10:38,372 I am already proud of you. 196 00:10:38,455 --> 00:10:40,455 You write me such lovely poems. 197 00:10:40,538 --> 00:10:44,289 They're nothing. You don't know all the things I can do. 198 00:10:44,372 --> 00:10:46,664 And I can't wait to discover them. 199 00:10:48,664 --> 00:10:50,580 [COUGHING, WHEEZING] 200 00:10:53,747 --> 00:10:55,580 My poor, dear Joseph. 201 00:10:55,664 --> 00:10:57,455 Life is but a tragedy. 202 00:10:57,538 --> 00:10:59,039 [DOOR OPENS] 203 00:11:04,705 --> 00:11:06,413 -[INSECTS TRILLING] -[BIRD HOOTS] 204 00:11:12,372 --> 00:11:15,164 Why doesn't Mum come and say goodnight anymore? 205 00:11:15,247 --> 00:11:17,664 We have to wait for her to get better. 206 00:11:17,747 --> 00:11:19,538 When will she be better? 207 00:11:19,622 --> 00:11:20,914 [BREATH TREMBLES] 208 00:11:22,413 --> 00:11:23,413 Papa? 209 00:11:24,955 --> 00:11:27,039 Did she like my latest poem? 210 00:11:34,289 --> 00:11:36,122 AUGUSTINE: My dear sweet boy, 211 00:11:36,206 --> 00:11:38,247 pay no mind to the naysayers. 212 00:11:38,330 --> 00:11:40,538 Life is not a tragedy at all. 213 00:11:40,622 --> 00:11:43,747 Life is full of beauty, full of light and color. 214 00:11:43,830 --> 00:11:46,997 Like your poems, that make me so happy. 215 00:11:47,830 --> 00:11:51,247 Once I've read them, I spread them around me on the bed. 216 00:11:51,872 --> 00:11:54,122 Promise you'll write me thousands more. 217 00:11:54,206 --> 00:11:57,122 They'll be like a field of flowers to me. 218 00:12:00,455 --> 00:12:02,830 To our Mama 219 00:12:02,914 --> 00:12:04,664 -[MARCEL SNIFFLES] -[CHURCH BELL TOLLING] 220 00:12:09,997 --> 00:12:12,872 -When will Mummy come back? -She'll never come back. 221 00:12:12,955 --> 00:12:16,164 Marcel, what a dreadful thing to say to your sister! 222 00:12:16,247 --> 00:12:17,247 Well, I'm angry! 223 00:12:17,330 --> 00:12:18,997 But with whom? 224 00:12:19,081 --> 00:12:21,664 -With God, who made her so delicate. -[GASPS] 225 00:12:21,747 --> 00:12:24,247 With science, which failed to give her strength. 226 00:12:25,705 --> 00:12:28,622 [MOURNERS SOBBING] 227 00:12:36,497 --> 00:12:38,705 What is happening to Marcel, Mum? 228 00:12:38,789 --> 00:12:40,455 He's growing up. 229 00:12:40,538 --> 00:12:42,330 He no longer needs you around. 230 00:12:42,413 --> 00:12:45,413 What of the promise I made you? Who'll keep it now? 231 00:12:45,497 --> 00:12:47,747 What matters is that you made it. 232 00:12:47,830 --> 00:12:49,206 That's not good enough for me. 233 00:12:49,288 --> 00:12:52,288 Believe me, he will keep that promise! 234 00:12:55,705 --> 00:12:59,246 PAUL: "The nanny-goat heard a rustling of leaves behind her. 235 00:12:59,330 --> 00:13:01,081 "She spun around, 236 00:13:01,164 --> 00:13:04,622 "and made out a pair of short, pointy ears in the shadows, 237 00:13:04,705 --> 00:13:06,538 -"eyes that shone in the dark." -[BLEATING] 238 00:13:06,622 --> 00:13:08,830 -[ANIMAL GROWLING] -PAUL: "It was a wolf!" 239 00:13:08,914 --> 00:13:09,747 [MIMICKING ANIMAL GROWL] 240 00:13:09,830 --> 00:13:10,664 THE GOAT 241 00:13:10,747 --> 00:13:12,206 -MARCEL: Paul. -What? 242 00:13:12,288 --> 00:13:14,164 Must you read it out loud? 243 00:13:14,246 --> 00:13:17,413 What about you, how long will you keep writing? 244 00:13:17,497 --> 00:13:19,622 Mum always said you'd wear your eyes out. 245 00:13:19,705 --> 00:13:21,330 Well, you're not Mum. 246 00:13:21,413 --> 00:13:23,122 -[PLAYING HARMONICA] -[GRUNTS IN FRUSTRATION] 247 00:13:25,664 --> 00:13:29,164 What good are your poems, if she's not here to read them? 248 00:13:29,246 --> 00:13:31,413 [SIGHS] Go to sleep, you're talking nonsense. 249 00:13:32,580 --> 00:13:33,997 [PAUL SIGHS SOFTLY] 250 00:13:35,372 --> 00:13:37,789 [MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING] 251 00:13:37,872 --> 00:13:41,330 MARCEL: Just as Our Lady watches over the city of Marseille, 252 00:13:41,413 --> 00:13:44,122 I know Augustine watches over us. 253 00:13:44,205 --> 00:13:46,164 [BABY RENÉ COOING] 254 00:13:55,955 --> 00:13:57,039 [JOSEPH SIGHS] 255 00:14:03,288 --> 00:14:05,872 JOSEPH: Madeleine is right. Poetry is not a profession. 256 00:14:06,497 --> 00:14:08,955 -Why on earth not? -I just know, and that is final! 257 00:14:09,039 --> 00:14:10,455 You always know better than everyone! 258 00:14:10,538 --> 00:14:13,789 Marcel, at age 16, one knows nothing of life. 259 00:14:13,872 --> 00:14:16,580 Adult-sized feet notwithstanding! 260 00:14:16,664 --> 00:14:17,747 [LAUGHTER] 261 00:14:17,830 --> 00:14:19,997 My feet are big enough to kick your Madeleine's arse! 262 00:14:20,081 --> 00:14:21,580 -Marcel! -[GASPS] 263 00:14:21,664 --> 00:14:23,872 -[SOBBING] -Marcel! 264 00:14:26,122 --> 00:14:27,747 [GRUNTING] 265 00:14:28,914 --> 00:14:30,955 Oh, easy now, boyo. 266 00:14:31,039 --> 00:14:33,872 Leave the anger in the locker room, I told ya. 267 00:14:33,955 --> 00:14:34,872 -[BLOW THUMPS] -[GRUNTS] 268 00:14:35,538 --> 00:14:38,580 Ya don't enter a ring to settle your scores. 269 00:14:38,664 --> 00:14:40,413 I told you already. 270 00:14:43,955 --> 00:14:47,121 You have to leave your anger in the locker room. 271 00:14:50,413 --> 00:14:53,121 I shall be your schoolmaster 272 00:14:53,205 --> 00:14:56,121 until the summer holidays of 1922. 273 00:14:56,205 --> 00:14:59,121 Please note, for those whom I haven't met yet, 274 00:14:59,205 --> 00:15:00,288 my name is... 275 00:15:00,372 --> 00:15:02,039 MARCEL: Mr. Pagnol. 276 00:15:02,121 --> 00:15:05,039 And I shall be your Latin teacher. 277 00:15:07,455 --> 00:15:10,288 Now... [IN LATIN] What is my wife's name? 278 00:15:12,081 --> 00:15:13,121 -[IN ENGLISH] Sir? -MARCEL: Yes? 279 00:15:14,372 --> 00:15:16,664 -[IN LATIN] Schubert. -[STUDENTS LAUGHING] 280 00:15:16,747 --> 00:15:20,872 [IN ENGLISH] The question is, "What is my wife's name?" 281 00:15:20,955 --> 00:15:22,288 Me, sir, I know! 282 00:15:22,789 --> 00:15:25,538 [IN LATIN] Her name is Simone. 283 00:15:25,622 --> 00:15:27,580 -[STUDENTS GASPING] -Correct. 284 00:15:28,205 --> 00:15:29,372 Great. 285 00:15:31,413 --> 00:15:33,955 [PLAYING NOTES ON PIANO] 286 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,288 Oh, boy! There's no getting famous at this rate. 287 00:15:40,163 --> 00:15:43,246 -[KNOCKING AT DOOR] -Answer the door, darling. 288 00:15:45,163 --> 00:15:46,205 [DOOR CLOSES] 289 00:15:47,789 --> 00:15:48,789 -MARCEL: [SHOUTING] Simone! -[GASPS] 290 00:15:48,872 --> 00:15:51,121 At last, I got my Paris transfer! 291 00:15:51,205 --> 00:15:53,830 -You'll turn it down though, won't you? -Why would I? 292 00:15:53,914 --> 00:15:55,538 All of your colleagues have. 293 00:15:55,622 --> 00:15:57,121 Paris, Simone! 294 00:15:57,205 --> 00:15:59,872 We're off to Paris, where everything is possible! 295 00:15:59,955 --> 00:16:01,872 That'll be all for today, Jeannette. 296 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,622 Have you thought what your father will have to say? 297 00:16:05,705 --> 00:16:07,497 Who cares what he has to say! 298 00:16:07,580 --> 00:16:09,997 He hasn't even spoken to me since our wedding. 299 00:16:14,121 --> 00:16:15,121 [CRYING] 300 00:16:15,205 --> 00:16:17,330 MARCEL: You can still give lessons in Paris. 301 00:16:17,413 --> 00:16:19,246 -[SIMONE CRYING LOUDLY] -[SIGHS] 302 00:16:20,372 --> 00:16:21,580 YOUNG MARCEL: Paris! 303 00:16:21,664 --> 00:16:23,997 Paris, here we come! 304 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,080 [SNEEZES] 305 00:16:25,580 --> 00:16:26,497 [FESTIVE MUSIC PLAYING] 306 00:16:26,580 --> 00:16:29,830 [MAN READING] 307 00:16:29,914 --> 00:16:32,497 -Its chic and friendly society. -[HEELS CLACKING] 308 00:16:32,580 --> 00:16:35,038 Its warm and attentive waiters. 309 00:16:35,121 --> 00:16:36,080 Its artists, 310 00:16:36,163 --> 00:16:37,955 -restrained and sophisticated. -[WHIPLASH] 311 00:16:38,038 --> 00:16:39,330 -Paris is a charm. -[SINGING] 312 00:16:39,413 --> 00:16:40,914 Paris is a party. 313 00:16:40,997 --> 00:16:42,580 -Paris is love. -[HISSES] 314 00:16:42,664 --> 00:16:44,996 -Paris will always be Paree! -[LAUGHING] 315 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,038 A mere 15 hours from Marseille, 316 00:16:48,121 --> 00:16:52,038 thanks to the new Paris-Lyon-Marseille express train. 317 00:16:52,121 --> 00:16:53,246 Paris awaits you! 318 00:16:53,330 --> 00:16:56,330 -[BRAKES HISSING] -So, Paris awaits us? 319 00:16:56,413 --> 00:16:59,330 For the time being, it's rather us waiting for Paris. 320 00:16:59,413 --> 00:17:01,205 -[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] -Excuse me. 321 00:17:01,288 --> 00:17:03,789 The train's been stopped in Lyon for two hours. 322 00:17:03,872 --> 00:17:05,580 When will it leave for Paris? 323 00:17:05,664 --> 00:17:07,330 Quite the comedian, eh? 324 00:17:08,163 --> 00:17:09,622 What's written on that wall? 325 00:17:09,705 --> 00:17:11,914 LYON STATION 326 00:17:11,996 --> 00:17:13,246 Uh, "Lyon Station." 327 00:17:13,330 --> 00:17:15,664 And where's Lyon Station situated? 328 00:17:15,747 --> 00:17:17,705 Well, Lyon Station is in Lyon. 329 00:17:17,789 --> 00:17:19,622 Ah! No, it ain't, my dear sir. 330 00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:22,330 Lyon Station is situated in Paris. 331 00:17:22,413 --> 00:17:25,580 -[WHISTLE BLOWS] -CONTRÔLEUR: Peasants! 332 00:17:27,830 --> 00:17:29,830 PARIS-LYON STATION 333 00:17:30,954 --> 00:17:32,038 [SIMONE HUFFS] 334 00:17:32,622 --> 00:17:34,497 Well done, Pagnol! 335 00:17:34,580 --> 00:17:36,580 -[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING] -[RAIN PATTERING] 336 00:17:38,038 --> 00:17:40,497 LYON STATION 337 00:17:44,789 --> 00:17:45,954 [WATER SPLASHING] 338 00:17:47,372 --> 00:17:50,288 NO VACANCIES 339 00:17:53,372 --> 00:17:55,830 no vacancies! 340 00:17:55,914 --> 00:17:57,580 [TIRES SCREECHING] 341 00:17:57,664 --> 00:17:59,121 Outta the way, you mop! 342 00:17:59,205 --> 00:18:02,413 -Beg your pardon, sir. -Bloody bumpkins! 343 00:18:02,497 --> 00:18:04,622 We're fully booked. 344 00:18:04,705 --> 00:18:06,330 [SIGHS WEARILY] This place too? 345 00:18:06,413 --> 00:18:09,622 How 'bout that? We can't be sleeping under a bridge. 346 00:18:09,705 --> 00:18:11,538 [MOCKINGLY] "How 'bout that?" 347 00:18:11,622 --> 00:18:13,954 What do you want me to do about it? 348 00:18:14,038 --> 00:18:17,954 "Fully booked" means fully booked. 349 00:18:18,038 --> 00:18:21,330 What possessed you to come to Paris anyway? 350 00:18:21,413 --> 00:18:26,038 What with the housing crisis and all, you're better off down South. 351 00:18:26,121 --> 00:18:28,038 Paris, Marcel, Paris. 352 00:18:28,121 --> 00:18:30,080 "Where everything's possible"! Hmm? 353 00:18:30,163 --> 00:18:33,205 Oh. Go on, luv, don't be a misery guts. 354 00:18:33,288 --> 00:18:35,246 Give them room 67. 355 00:18:35,330 --> 00:18:37,246 What about Bertha? 356 00:18:37,330 --> 00:18:41,163 Off to the countryside, to nurse herself back to health. 357 00:18:41,246 --> 00:18:44,747 Not bloody likely to be back soon, the state she's in. 358 00:18:44,830 --> 00:18:46,038 LE CONCIERGE: Top floor, 359 00:18:46,121 --> 00:18:48,246 -all the way down the hall. -[BELL DINGS] 360 00:18:48,330 --> 00:18:49,705 Thank you, madame. 361 00:18:50,913 --> 00:18:54,455 Welcome to Paree, you couple of lovebirds! 362 00:18:55,830 --> 00:18:58,121 SIMONE: This Paris of yours is just shit. 363 00:18:58,205 --> 00:19:00,455 But there's an energy here. 364 00:19:00,538 --> 00:19:02,246 It's hard to describe, really. 365 00:19:02,330 --> 00:19:05,080 Like a force that swells up from the ground. 366 00:19:05,163 --> 00:19:07,163 Good job something comes from the ground. 367 00:19:07,246 --> 00:19:09,580 'Cause from the sky, it's all water! 368 00:19:09,664 --> 00:19:11,288 Look at this. Look! 369 00:19:11,372 --> 00:19:12,288 [BLOWS AIR] 370 00:19:13,205 --> 00:19:15,705 You'd never see that in Marseille. 371 00:19:15,789 --> 00:19:17,372 Things are gonna get better. 372 00:19:18,664 --> 00:19:20,288 That's a promise. 373 00:19:20,372 --> 00:19:22,372 [INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING] 374 00:19:31,497 --> 00:19:33,580 CONDORCET HIGH SCHOOL 375 00:19:33,664 --> 00:19:34,705 [HORNS HONKING] 376 00:19:36,829 --> 00:19:38,664 [PIGEON COOING] 377 00:19:42,497 --> 00:19:45,246 My wife 378 00:19:45,330 --> 00:19:48,080 [PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING] 379 00:19:48,163 --> 00:19:49,954 Impromptu No. 3 with Variations, Op. 142 (1st Part) - (Schubert) 380 00:19:50,038 --> 00:19:50,913 [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 381 00:19:54,205 --> 00:19:55,705 This way, sir! 382 00:19:57,455 --> 00:19:58,829 -Quickly! -[GRUNTS] 383 00:19:59,455 --> 00:20:00,789 Whoa there, my lad! 384 00:20:02,996 --> 00:20:04,664 -Paul? -Hmm? 385 00:20:04,747 --> 00:20:07,538 -Paul Nivoix! I never! -Pagnol! 386 00:20:07,622 --> 00:20:09,664 -My word! -What are you doing here? 387 00:20:09,747 --> 00:20:11,913 -I live in Paris. -Around here? 388 00:20:11,996 --> 00:20:13,954 No, it's that little lad brought me here. 389 00:20:14,038 --> 00:20:16,330 He kept telling me he'd lost his way. 390 00:20:17,705 --> 00:20:20,038 Hey, what did you do with your accent? 391 00:20:20,121 --> 00:20:22,372 PAUL: Left it back home in Marseille. 392 00:20:22,455 --> 00:20:24,664 I was afraid it would get rusty in the rain. 393 00:20:24,747 --> 00:20:25,996 [MARCEL LAUGHS] 394 00:20:28,038 --> 00:20:30,080 -[WINGS FLAPPING] -[PIGEONS COOING] 395 00:20:30,163 --> 00:20:34,038 Paul will introduce us, Simone, to intellectuals, the theater crowd. 396 00:20:34,121 --> 00:20:35,497 The theater crowd? 397 00:20:35,580 --> 00:20:37,913 A right bunch of hussies and alcoholics! 398 00:20:37,996 --> 00:20:39,996 [LAUGHS HEARTILY] 399 00:20:40,829 --> 00:20:42,080 -[CLATTERING OVERHEAD] -[PIGEONS COOING] 400 00:20:42,163 --> 00:20:45,788 And those filthy pigeons! I can't stand them anymore! 401 00:20:48,664 --> 00:20:50,664 [MACHINE CLACKING] 402 00:20:52,829 --> 00:20:55,664 [BANGING AT DOOR] 403 00:20:55,746 --> 00:20:58,372 -[MUSIC PLAYING OVER GRAMOPHONE] -[DOOR OPENS] 404 00:20:58,455 --> 00:20:59,664 What do you want? 405 00:20:59,746 --> 00:21:03,038 Turn down that racket, or I'll be sending for the coppers! 406 00:21:03,121 --> 00:21:05,622 -Oh, Pagnol! -[GRUNTS] 407 00:21:06,205 --> 00:21:07,746 Now the party can start. 408 00:21:09,829 --> 00:21:13,622 Marcel Pagnol, you'll be hearing that name, old fart. 409 00:21:13,705 --> 00:21:14,746 [HUFFS] 410 00:21:15,746 --> 00:21:16,746 [DOOR CLOSES] 411 00:21:16,829 --> 00:21:18,664 [MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING] 412 00:21:23,163 --> 00:21:24,871 This is where it happens. 413 00:21:24,954 --> 00:21:28,829 Allow me to introduce Orane Demazis, an immense actress. 414 00:21:28,913 --> 00:21:30,664 But not in size! 415 00:21:31,871 --> 00:21:34,372 -[KISSES] -What's that? Do I look like the pope? 416 00:21:34,455 --> 00:21:36,497 Marcel is from my home town, darling. 417 00:21:36,580 --> 00:21:39,829 And what does he do for a living, this home-grown Marcel? 418 00:21:39,913 --> 00:21:41,788 -He is a teacher of Lat... -I am a writer. 419 00:21:41,871 --> 00:21:43,413 I love how he said that. 420 00:21:43,497 --> 00:21:45,455 Such a good little boy. 421 00:21:46,622 --> 00:21:50,704 Here now, this will grow you some more, home-grown Marcel. 422 00:21:52,288 --> 00:21:53,288 [MUSIC STOPS] 423 00:21:53,372 --> 00:21:54,704 My dear Marcel, 424 00:21:54,788 --> 00:21:58,246 no one gives a hoot about your ancient Greece-inspired tragedies. 425 00:21:58,330 --> 00:21:59,246 [ALL GASPING] 426 00:22:00,913 --> 00:22:02,538 And you're quite right. 427 00:22:03,121 --> 00:22:06,788 Catullus be damned, and Ulysses, and Nausicaa! 428 00:22:06,871 --> 00:22:08,163 [ALL LAUGHING] 429 00:22:08,246 --> 00:22:11,497 MARCEL: Paul, you and I will co-write a vaudeville. 430 00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:13,954 Now you've decided to upset your father. 431 00:22:14,038 --> 00:22:15,913 Here's to Marcel Pagnol, 432 00:22:15,996 --> 00:22:20,288 the picture-perfect little boy who finally tells his daddy to get stuffed. 433 00:22:20,372 --> 00:22:22,288 ALL: Get stuffed, Daddy! 434 00:22:22,871 --> 00:22:24,497 [BOTH LAUGH] 435 00:22:28,622 --> 00:22:30,121 You no longer like it? 436 00:22:30,205 --> 00:22:32,580 "Jojo," the title itself is ludicrous. 437 00:22:32,663 --> 00:22:36,246 What were we even thinking? It's a sheer vulgarity. 438 00:22:36,330 --> 00:22:38,080 So you fear your father's reaction? 439 00:22:38,163 --> 00:22:41,538 Not at all. I just want nothing to do with this drivel. 440 00:22:42,413 --> 00:22:44,080 You can claim sole authorship. 441 00:22:45,829 --> 00:22:46,829 Too late. 442 00:22:47,663 --> 00:22:49,497 It's registered at the Writers' Guild. 443 00:22:49,580 --> 00:22:51,622 Your name is now Castro. 444 00:22:52,746 --> 00:22:54,163 Why Castro? 445 00:22:54,246 --> 00:22:57,580 Uh, I just chose him a pseudonym. 446 00:22:57,663 --> 00:23:01,121 -It's short and, well, it's dignified. -You find it dignified? 447 00:23:01,205 --> 00:23:04,455 Corneille, "El Cid," Guillén de Castro. 448 00:23:04,538 --> 00:23:06,580 I'll confess, it's just what came to mind. 449 00:23:06,663 --> 00:23:08,497 Some mind! [SCOFFS] 450 00:23:12,163 --> 00:23:13,621 -[YOUNG MARCEL LAUGHING] -[PIGEON COOING] 451 00:23:15,121 --> 00:23:16,621 [CLATTERING OVERHEAD] 452 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,455 The pigeons. 453 00:23:19,538 --> 00:23:22,913 Jojo played 20 straight nights in Marseille. 454 00:23:22,996 --> 00:23:25,163 Daddy Pagnol didn't even know who wrote it. 455 00:23:25,246 --> 00:23:26,288 Goes without saying. 456 00:23:26,372 --> 00:23:30,163 And our dear Mr. Castro here was duly flabbergasted. 457 00:23:30,246 --> 00:23:32,080 And no less overjoyed, I might add. 458 00:23:32,163 --> 00:23:35,163 Mr. Castro received 700 francs in royalties, 459 00:23:35,246 --> 00:23:39,163 which would buy about 150 meals in a restaurant like this. 460 00:23:39,246 --> 00:23:41,704 -Will you be writing another? -We even have a theme. 461 00:23:41,788 --> 00:23:44,413 -And it's highly explosive. -The war! 462 00:23:44,497 --> 00:23:45,579 Well, there's a laugh! 463 00:23:46,497 --> 00:23:48,996 -[PULLEY SQUEAKING] -Cream of Paris is here. 464 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,205 We said "no politicians." They came by the bucketload! 465 00:23:52,288 --> 00:23:55,038 -Members of Parliament! -So what? 466 00:23:55,121 --> 00:23:56,455 So it's the end of us. 467 00:23:57,288 --> 00:23:59,871 You know, my son was a humble sort. 468 00:23:59,954 --> 00:24:02,372 What do you expect from reading his letters? 469 00:24:02,455 --> 00:24:04,121 That he speak like a hero. 470 00:24:04,205 --> 00:24:06,080 I have just the thing for you. 471 00:24:07,121 --> 00:24:09,455 "My friend Thibon, a sergeant like me, 472 00:24:09,538 --> 00:24:12,205 "was killed yesterday, a bullet through the head. 473 00:24:12,288 --> 00:24:14,788 "He died honorably, as a hero, for the motherland." 474 00:24:14,871 --> 00:24:16,621 Oh! Bravo! Bravo! 475 00:24:16,704 --> 00:24:18,372 "What a joke! 476 00:24:18,455 --> 00:24:21,246 "That's the way they trick us. He died, and that's it. 477 00:24:21,330 --> 00:24:24,413 "As for myself, I'm so appalled by this senseless bloodshed 478 00:24:24,497 --> 00:24:27,996 "that I come to envy him. Yes, I would like to be in his shoes." 479 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,621 Started well enough, but the ending stank! 480 00:24:30,704 --> 00:24:32,330 [AUDIENCE GASPING] 481 00:24:33,663 --> 00:24:37,579 And to think that it was less successful than Jojo. 482 00:24:37,663 --> 00:24:40,954 I'm crushed. The reviews were good, but the audience stayed away. 483 00:24:42,038 --> 00:24:44,579 I am convinced that you will make it. 484 00:24:44,663 --> 00:24:46,080 Thank you, madame. 485 00:24:47,455 --> 00:24:50,080 -Do you know that boy? -MARCEL: Which boy? 486 00:24:50,163 --> 00:24:53,455 A little boy who looked like you. With a prettier nose, though. 487 00:24:53,537 --> 00:24:56,330 [LAUGHS] Hmm. 488 00:24:56,413 --> 00:24:58,205 [BELL DINGING] 489 00:25:04,246 --> 00:25:06,038 Goodbye, Castro. 490 00:25:06,121 --> 00:25:08,829 Not "Pagnol"? "Until we meet again"? 491 00:25:08,913 --> 00:25:11,663 Pagnol? I don't know him anymore. 492 00:25:11,746 --> 00:25:13,496 Simone, please don't go. 493 00:25:13,579 --> 00:25:16,496 I've secured unpaid leave from the Education Authority. 494 00:25:16,579 --> 00:25:19,746 If writing doesn't work out, then, I can teach again. 495 00:25:19,829 --> 00:25:23,163 And be miserable with your blackboard for the rest of your life? 496 00:25:23,246 --> 00:25:25,746 I won't live with an embittered country boy, 497 00:25:25,829 --> 00:25:28,455 locked up in his big-city mousehole. 498 00:25:29,663 --> 00:25:30,496 [KISSES] 499 00:25:41,246 --> 00:25:42,246 [SIGHING GRIMLY] 500 00:25:42,330 --> 00:25:44,330 [RAIN PATTERING] 501 00:25:54,788 --> 00:25:57,871 When will you resume teaching at secondary school? 502 00:25:57,954 --> 00:26:01,038 That can wait. I'm writing again. 503 00:26:01,121 --> 00:26:02,579 On my own now. 504 00:26:02,663 --> 00:26:05,080 A literary play. I think you'll like it. 505 00:26:05,163 --> 00:26:07,496 -Let me guess. "Gigi"? -"Gigi"? 506 00:26:07,579 --> 00:26:11,913 Of course. After Jojo, the next logical step should be "Gigi." 507 00:26:11,996 --> 00:26:13,372 -[BOTH LAUGHING] -[THUDS] 508 00:26:13,454 --> 00:26:15,080 "Phaethon"! 509 00:26:15,163 --> 00:26:17,372 The title is "Phaethon." 510 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,871 The Greek mythological figure. 511 00:26:19,954 --> 00:26:23,163 -The son of Helios and Clymene? -Precisely. 512 00:26:23,746 --> 00:26:26,372 -Do you like it? -Well, that is progress. 513 00:26:26,454 --> 00:26:29,205 -At least it has a classical flavor. -[LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING] 514 00:26:30,454 --> 00:26:32,663 -[MUSIC CONTINUES OVER GRAMOPHONE] -Classical. 515 00:26:32,746 --> 00:26:33,954 Classical. 516 00:26:35,954 --> 00:26:37,788 [RHYTHMIC THUMPING] 517 00:26:39,454 --> 00:26:41,121 So you want classical? 518 00:26:46,746 --> 00:26:47,996 All bets are off. 519 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,080 [SPEAKING FRENCH] 520 00:26:50,246 --> 00:26:52,038 [IN ENGLISH] You are a strange man. 521 00:26:52,996 --> 00:26:55,246 Your play is being performed, 522 00:26:55,330 --> 00:26:58,704 and yet here you are, losing your money. 523 00:26:58,788 --> 00:27:01,913 These chips were given to me by the director of the theater. 524 00:27:01,996 --> 00:27:04,663 He couldn't stand me biting my nails backstage. 525 00:27:04,746 --> 00:27:06,496 -[EXHALES] -Fifteen, black... 526 00:27:06,579 --> 00:27:08,871 [CONTINUES IN FRENCH] odd and low bet. 527 00:27:09,746 --> 00:27:12,205 [IN ENGLISH] You're the anxious type, aren't you? 528 00:27:12,288 --> 00:27:15,205 I know plenty of ways to relax a man. 529 00:27:16,621 --> 00:27:19,788 Mr. Pagnol, you must come back, it's almost over. 530 00:27:19,871 --> 00:27:21,080 Place your bets. 531 00:27:23,288 --> 00:27:24,496 All on red. 532 00:27:31,496 --> 00:27:33,537 BLAISE: Oh, my dear friends, 533 00:27:33,621 --> 00:27:35,371 please forgive me. 534 00:27:35,454 --> 00:27:37,788 You are the heart of our bygone heroes, 535 00:27:37,871 --> 00:27:40,829 the highest nobility our world has conceived, 536 00:27:40,913 --> 00:27:43,829 the eternal beauty of life. 537 00:27:43,913 --> 00:27:46,496 For there is only thought. 538 00:27:46,579 --> 00:27:48,080 -[GUNSHOT] -[AUDIENCE GASPING] 539 00:27:48,163 --> 00:27:50,704 -[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] -[ALL APPLAUDING] 540 00:27:55,746 --> 00:27:58,454 Pagnol, it's your lucky day! 541 00:27:58,537 --> 00:28:00,746 Mr. Pagnol, the red! You won! 542 00:28:00,829 --> 00:28:02,746 Call it a lucky streak. 543 00:28:02,829 --> 00:28:04,288 AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: Bravo! AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: Bravo! 544 00:28:04,371 --> 00:28:07,205 You invited your father. Did he enjoy it? 545 00:28:07,288 --> 00:28:09,537 -[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] -Go on, then. 546 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,121 [MIMICKING JOSEPH] "The writing is quite good, 547 00:28:12,205 --> 00:28:13,746 "there's no doubt about that, 548 00:28:13,829 --> 00:28:16,496 "but I do have a nagging little question." 549 00:28:16,579 --> 00:28:17,663 Oh, please. 550 00:28:17,746 --> 00:28:20,121 "How do you manage to make a living?" 551 00:28:20,205 --> 00:28:21,454 -[LAUGHS HEARTILY] -[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 552 00:28:21,537 --> 00:28:23,788 He's only acting that way because he loves you. 553 00:28:23,871 --> 00:28:26,454 [IN NORMAL VOICE] And I am quite fond of him myself. 554 00:28:26,537 --> 00:28:28,746 -Marcel. -Hmm? 555 00:28:29,246 --> 00:28:31,038 Don't you ever miss Marseille? 556 00:28:31,746 --> 00:28:33,704 [SIGHING] You have no idea how much. 557 00:28:33,788 --> 00:28:35,871 So why don't you put your mind to writing a play 558 00:28:35,954 --> 00:28:38,121 that's set back in your home town, then? 559 00:28:38,205 --> 00:28:39,704 Be serious, Orane. 560 00:28:39,788 --> 00:28:42,287 Marseille without the accent wouldn't be Marseille. 561 00:28:42,371 --> 00:28:46,412 But that's the point, you silly old coot! You need to write it like a local. 562 00:28:46,496 --> 00:28:48,788 No one would understand a word. 563 00:28:48,871 --> 00:28:52,954 The Belgians got away with it. If the Belgians can do it, why can't you? 564 00:28:53,038 --> 00:28:56,121 The Belgians? What about the Belgians? 565 00:28:56,205 --> 00:28:57,954 MR. BEULEMANS: [IN THICK ACCENT] He was really kicking at my nose. 566 00:28:58,038 --> 00:29:00,246 Fool me once, you won't fool me again! 567 00:29:00,329 --> 00:29:01,329 SUZANNE: [IN THICK ACCENT] What did he answer? 568 00:29:01,412 --> 00:29:02,454 MR. BEULEMANS: He was tongue-tied. 569 00:29:02,537 --> 00:29:05,579 Finally he says, "Is your lancet uniform not a bit tight about the collar, sir?" 570 00:29:05,663 --> 00:29:08,663 -SUZANNE: What? -"You seem quite red in the face." 571 00:29:08,746 --> 00:29:09,996 [AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 572 00:29:10,954 --> 00:29:12,913 How much for the typewriter? 573 00:29:12,996 --> 00:29:14,579 Oh! Not worth a penny. 574 00:29:14,663 --> 00:29:16,287 -The bell has a mind of its own. -[DINGING] 575 00:29:17,163 --> 00:29:18,454 I'll take it. 576 00:29:18,537 --> 00:29:20,371 Now, my dear, I will teach you 577 00:29:20,454 --> 00:29:23,205 how to chime in the lingo of my beloved Marseille. 578 00:29:23,871 --> 00:29:24,829 [DINGING] 579 00:29:24,913 --> 00:29:26,704 As the curtain rises, 580 00:29:26,788 --> 00:29:29,663 Escartefigue peers down at his cards 581 00:29:29,746 --> 00:29:32,080 and scratches his head... 582 00:29:32,163 --> 00:29:35,496 -I'm currently writing two stage plays. -Oh? Is that all? 583 00:29:35,579 --> 00:29:38,371 Mr. Pagnol has quite an appetite, I see. 584 00:29:38,454 --> 00:29:40,829 Two very different plays. One is set in Paris... 585 00:29:40,913 --> 00:29:42,245 Wait, wait, wait, wait! 586 00:29:42,329 --> 00:29:43,746 Not so fast. 587 00:29:43,829 --> 00:29:45,871 -The title, huh? -Um, 588 00:29:45,954 --> 00:29:48,537 -"Beauty and the Beast." -Not exactly ground-breaking, 589 00:29:48,621 --> 00:29:50,746 but please, do continue. 590 00:29:50,829 --> 00:29:52,913 The other is set in the South of France. 591 00:29:52,996 --> 00:29:54,829 -It doesn't yet have a title. -Ah! 592 00:29:54,913 --> 00:29:57,871 The South of France! Magnificent! 593 00:29:57,954 --> 00:30:01,121 -You've been to Marseille? -I've heard about it. 594 00:30:01,204 --> 00:30:05,579 I saw a revue at the Alcazar, in Marseille, featuring local actors. 595 00:30:05,663 --> 00:30:07,080 And what was your impression? 596 00:30:07,163 --> 00:30:08,038 SERVER: Here's your coffee, sir. 597 00:30:08,121 --> 00:30:09,038 Very peculiar. 598 00:30:09,121 --> 00:30:10,371 Many thanks. 599 00:30:10,454 --> 00:30:12,537 -Peculiar? -Peculiar, yes. 600 00:30:12,621 --> 00:30:16,579 These people are undeniably talented, but their speech is incomprehensible. 601 00:30:17,579 --> 00:30:20,371 -Like the Belgians? -Worse than the Belgians. 602 00:30:20,454 --> 00:30:22,621 Far worse than the Belgians! 603 00:30:22,704 --> 00:30:24,412 [SIGHS WEARILY, CLICKS TONGUE] 604 00:30:24,496 --> 00:30:26,038 It's a silly idea. 605 00:30:26,121 --> 00:30:27,788 It'll never work. 606 00:30:28,704 --> 00:30:30,412 -[DINGING] -[GRUNTS] 607 00:30:32,621 --> 00:30:33,621 [DINGS] 608 00:30:34,579 --> 00:30:35,996 Sorry, my love. 609 00:30:37,287 --> 00:30:38,746 And so long, Marseille. 610 00:30:39,537 --> 00:30:41,704 Spare a thought for your teaching colleagues, 611 00:30:41,788 --> 00:30:45,245 covered in chalk dust from head to toe, slaving at the blackboard. 612 00:30:45,329 --> 00:30:47,496 And you, you're on your way to the beach house 613 00:30:47,579 --> 00:30:49,788 of one of the prettiest women in Paris. 614 00:30:49,871 --> 00:30:52,579 Prettier than her dog, that's for sure. 615 00:30:52,663 --> 00:30:54,412 What breed is it, anyhow? 616 00:30:54,496 --> 00:30:57,162 He's as big as a donkey, with a head like a cow. 617 00:30:57,245 --> 00:31:00,579 She invited us. I couldn't refuse to bring her dog along. 618 00:31:00,663 --> 00:31:03,162 Talking of beauties and beasts, you were on act two. 619 00:31:03,245 --> 00:31:05,996 -[DOG WHIMPERING] -Oh! No, that's revolting! 620 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,704 [LAUGHING] He likes your play. Carry on. 621 00:31:09,663 --> 00:31:10,913 Act two. 622 00:31:10,996 --> 00:31:12,746 -Marcel. -Yes? 623 00:31:12,829 --> 00:31:16,162 The schoolmaster in your play, stiff and incorruptible. 624 00:31:16,245 --> 00:31:17,371 That's your father, yes? 625 00:31:17,454 --> 00:31:19,996 Easy in the bends, the dog's a bit out of sorts. 626 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,329 [DOG WHIMPERING, RETCHES] 627 00:31:23,038 --> 00:31:24,996 That is rather unsafe. 628 00:31:25,871 --> 00:31:27,954 -Go by train? -Go by train. 629 00:31:29,162 --> 00:31:31,871 After all that, I forget where I was in act two. 630 00:31:31,954 --> 00:31:34,746 Towards the end, when Topaze comes to visit his friend. 631 00:31:34,829 --> 00:31:36,913 Topaze? Who's Topaze? 632 00:31:36,996 --> 00:31:39,704 The old teacher who stayed at the boarding school. 633 00:31:39,788 --> 00:31:42,496 -Oh, you mean Tamise? -Yes, of course, Tamise. 634 00:31:43,287 --> 00:31:44,537 What did I say? 635 00:31:45,204 --> 00:31:48,996 MUCHE: From 10:30 this morning, you are no longer part of our teaching staff. 636 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,579 Come on, now, you fool. Come on, I say! 637 00:31:51,663 --> 00:31:52,954 TOPAZE: Headmaster... 638 00:31:53,038 --> 00:31:54,454 PROMPTER: Muche. 639 00:31:54,537 --> 00:31:56,245 TOPAZE: Headmaster Muche! 640 00:31:56,329 --> 00:31:58,788 An actor fluffs his lines, the sets are unfinished, 641 00:31:58,871 --> 00:32:01,079 and the bookings haven't yet started. 642 00:32:01,162 --> 00:32:02,788 Bit of a bad omen, isn't it? 643 00:32:03,454 --> 00:32:06,038 -Do you see this man? -What about him? 644 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,245 He has 40 years of theater in his head, 645 00:32:08,329 --> 00:32:10,537 and let me tell you, he's not often been wrong. 646 00:32:11,245 --> 00:32:13,996 For our purposes, he'll be a fresh eye. 647 00:32:14,704 --> 00:32:15,746 Sir? 648 00:32:15,829 --> 00:32:17,038 Sir? 649 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,038 Wake up now, act one is finished. 650 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,746 [GASPING, STUTTERING] Who's there? Oh, hi. 651 00:32:23,746 --> 00:32:25,663 I believe I'll take myself home now. 652 00:32:25,746 --> 00:32:28,245 I'm not... not feeling very well, I'm afraid. 653 00:32:28,329 --> 00:32:31,204 -That's encouraging! -The fool is obviously drunk as a lord. 654 00:32:31,287 --> 00:32:32,913 We all believe in Topaze. 655 00:32:32,996 --> 00:32:36,913 And one slobbering boozer certainly won't make us change our minds. 656 00:32:36,996 --> 00:32:39,454 Do not lose hope quite yet, my friend. 657 00:32:39,537 --> 00:32:42,996 In the theater, nothing is ever guaranteed. 658 00:32:43,079 --> 00:32:46,245 -Not even a flop. -[GROANS SOFTLY] 659 00:32:46,329 --> 00:32:48,913 [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING] 660 00:32:55,454 --> 00:32:58,079 -Aren't you coming to bed? -In a minute. 661 00:33:07,162 --> 00:33:09,537 I'm looking at you, my handsome, 662 00:33:09,621 --> 00:33:11,412 admired by everyone, 663 00:33:11,496 --> 00:33:13,579 surrounded by beauties. 664 00:33:15,579 --> 00:33:18,621 Never forget why you loved me, Marcel. 665 00:33:18,704 --> 00:33:20,871 Never forget my accent. 666 00:33:20,954 --> 00:33:24,746 That accent is the melody of your childhood. 667 00:33:24,829 --> 00:33:27,287 Your first poems are steeped in it. 668 00:33:27,371 --> 00:33:30,746 Your poems that made my heart beat faster. 669 00:33:31,746 --> 00:33:33,788 [ACCENTED LIVELY CHATTER] 670 00:33:37,621 --> 00:33:38,995 -[RUMBLING] -[TYPEWRITER DINGS] 671 00:33:39,079 --> 00:33:41,162 Marcel? Are you all right, darling? 672 00:33:41,245 --> 00:33:42,995 Oh, I'm better than all right. 673 00:33:43,496 --> 00:33:44,913 -[TYPEWRITER DINGING] -You may well be in love 674 00:33:44,995 --> 00:33:46,704 with the French navy, 675 00:33:46,788 --> 00:33:50,204 but the French navy is telling you to piss off! 676 00:33:52,037 --> 00:33:57,371 [PANTING] Pagnol, I have some good news for you. 677 00:33:57,454 --> 00:33:58,537 Yes? 678 00:33:58,621 --> 00:34:01,162 -The Fresh Eye is dead. -You call that good news? 679 00:34:01,245 --> 00:34:02,788 Not so fresh after all! 680 00:34:02,871 --> 00:34:04,371 Quite worrisome, you're right. 681 00:34:04,454 --> 00:34:05,621 In other words, we've had 682 00:34:05,704 --> 00:34:07,245 -one single spectator... -[EXHALES] 683 00:34:07,329 --> 00:34:10,329 who saw only half of the first act, but it cost him his life. 684 00:34:10,412 --> 00:34:13,829 -[GROANING] -[RAPID KNOCKING] 685 00:34:14,788 --> 00:34:16,579 When I write... 686 00:34:17,496 --> 00:34:22,037 When I write, I wish to write right. 687 00:34:22,621 --> 00:34:25,871 [CLEARS THROAT] To wuh-rite. 688 00:34:26,537 --> 00:34:29,079 -Ri-guh-tuh. -[AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 689 00:34:29,162 --> 00:34:31,287 Come, child, put some effort into it. 690 00:34:31,371 --> 00:34:34,537 You see, when I wuh-rite, 691 00:34:34,621 --> 00:34:38,079 I wish to wuh-rite ri-guh-tuh! 692 00:34:40,204 --> 00:34:41,704 -[FLOORBOARD CREAKING] -[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 693 00:34:44,746 --> 00:34:46,371 Poor dear Pagnol. [SIGHS] 694 00:34:47,287 --> 00:34:48,829 It's a total flop. 695 00:34:48,912 --> 00:34:51,537 You must come on stage and apologize to the audience. 696 00:34:52,621 --> 00:34:54,995 -That bad, is it? -I'm afraid so. 697 00:34:56,454 --> 00:34:58,621 [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 698 00:35:01,371 --> 00:35:05,496 Ladies and gentlemen, the true culprit has been identified. 699 00:35:05,579 --> 00:35:07,788 Mr. Marcel Pagnol! 700 00:35:07,871 --> 00:35:09,829 AUDIENCE: [CHEERING] Bravo! 701 00:35:11,496 --> 00:35:13,496 This way, Mr. Pagnol. 702 00:35:13,579 --> 00:35:16,746 May I present the original Topaze! 703 00:35:16,829 --> 00:35:18,120 Truly honored. 704 00:35:19,871 --> 00:35:21,162 You cruel bastards, 705 00:35:21,245 --> 00:35:22,995 -you scared the life out of me! -[MEN LAUGH] 706 00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:25,912 Marcel, someone's here to see you. 707 00:35:28,245 --> 00:35:29,287 Father. 708 00:35:31,245 --> 00:35:32,621 Well done, my boy. 709 00:35:34,162 --> 00:35:37,870 What in the world? You delusional child. 710 00:35:37,953 --> 00:35:39,870 Are you completely out of your mind? 711 00:35:39,953 --> 00:35:43,454 You can't imagine for one second that I'll premiere this play here? 712 00:35:43,537 --> 00:35:44,829 Then why did you summon me? 713 00:35:44,912 --> 00:35:46,995 Because this Marius of yours... 714 00:35:47,079 --> 00:35:49,621 [KISSES] ...is a masterpiece! 715 00:35:49,704 --> 00:35:52,663 -But you won't put it on? -Oh, of course I'll put it on! 716 00:35:52,746 --> 00:35:54,079 I will indeed, 717 00:35:54,162 --> 00:35:56,579 but only after 300 shows in Paris. 718 00:35:57,162 --> 00:35:58,995 Did I say 300? 719 00:35:59,079 --> 00:36:01,454 Nay, rather 500! 720 00:36:01,537 --> 00:36:06,245 Have Raimu read it. Panisse is the role that he was born to play. 721 00:36:06,329 --> 00:36:10,329 He's with Léon Volterra's troupe. You know, the owner of the Paris Théâtre. 722 00:36:10,412 --> 00:36:12,788 They're at each other's throats all the time, 723 00:36:12,870 --> 00:36:16,037 but nothing happens on the Paris scene without their say-so. 724 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,329 Raimu is actually playing here tonight. 725 00:36:18,412 --> 00:36:21,579 But be forewarned, this stuff shakes no spears. 726 00:36:23,496 --> 00:36:24,537 -[WHISTLES] -[HIGH-PITCHED] Ooh! 727 00:36:24,621 --> 00:36:26,412 My goodness me, darling! It's you! 728 00:36:26,496 --> 00:36:29,912 Adelaide, what a joy it is to see you again. 729 00:36:30,870 --> 00:36:32,287 -[LAUGHS, KISSES] -[AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 730 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,162 Yes. Our time at the convent seems so far away now! 731 00:36:36,245 --> 00:36:38,120 So whatever happened 732 00:36:38,204 --> 00:36:40,037 -to your two little lovelies? -[CLINKING] 733 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:45,870 Oh, the two little lovelies have grown into two swinging heavies! 734 00:36:45,953 --> 00:36:48,204 [LAUGHS] Well, can you believe it or not, 735 00:36:48,287 --> 00:36:50,787 but mine have remained so perky and sharp 736 00:36:50,870 --> 00:36:53,995 that I need to rub them with sandpaper each morning, 737 00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:56,663 lest they poke holes in my brassiere. 738 00:36:56,746 --> 00:36:57,746 [AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 739 00:37:00,537 --> 00:37:02,828 [IN NORMAL VOICE] What bothers me is that a few years ago, 740 00:37:02,912 --> 00:37:04,953 one of our local companies went to Paris 741 00:37:05,037 --> 00:37:07,663 and they put on a play in the spirit of Marseille. 742 00:37:07,746 --> 00:37:09,537 -What of it? -"What of it?" 743 00:37:09,621 --> 00:37:13,287 Critics dragged them through the mud and the audience booed them offstage. 744 00:37:13,371 --> 00:37:15,371 Well, perhaps the writing wasn't any good. 745 00:37:15,454 --> 00:37:18,245 Hey, it's still a very bad precedent. 746 00:37:18,329 --> 00:37:20,787 Volterra may have forgotten that. 747 00:37:20,870 --> 00:37:23,412 We can always try, if your play's half decent. 748 00:37:23,496 --> 00:37:25,287 But will you tell me one thing? 749 00:37:25,371 --> 00:37:28,704 -This Marius lad, is he handsome? -[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 750 00:37:28,787 --> 00:37:30,412 I'm listening. 751 00:37:30,496 --> 00:37:31,621 I need Raimu. 752 00:37:31,704 --> 00:37:34,745 -[COUGHING] -For the title role. 753 00:37:34,828 --> 00:37:37,745 You know how he is, don't you? He's impossible. 754 00:37:37,828 --> 00:37:39,329 He loves the play. 755 00:37:39,828 --> 00:37:42,120 I don't think he's capable of carrying a comedy. 756 00:37:42,204 --> 00:37:43,537 I trust him completely. 757 00:37:43,621 --> 00:37:46,621 Very well. You want him, you'll have him. 758 00:37:46,704 --> 00:37:50,787 But if you come crying to me later, I shall laugh in your face. 759 00:37:51,828 --> 00:37:52,828 You're leaving? 760 00:37:52,912 --> 00:37:57,079 I'm off to Luna-Park to settle some strife between the giant and the bearded lady. 761 00:37:57,162 --> 00:37:58,995 Consummate ball-breakers both, 762 00:37:59,079 --> 00:38:02,537 but believe you me, they're angels compared to your friend Raimu. 763 00:38:06,162 --> 00:38:08,412 -I saw Charpin in a play. -And? 764 00:38:08,496 --> 00:38:11,037 He's very good. He'd be ideal to play Panisse. 765 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,454 -You spoke to him? -No. 766 00:38:12,537 --> 00:38:14,621 But then how do you know he wants to play Panisse? 767 00:38:14,703 --> 00:38:18,496 -Because I'll play César. -Come now, Jules, César's a tiny role. 768 00:38:18,579 --> 00:38:21,745 -You'll write me more lines. -Please, Jules, you can't be serious. 769 00:38:21,828 --> 00:38:23,953 I want to be the owner of the bar. 770 00:38:24,037 --> 00:38:26,412 I want the play to be set on my turf. 771 00:38:26,496 --> 00:38:30,120 Raimu doesn't go to Charpin, Charpin must come to Raimu! 772 00:38:30,204 --> 00:38:31,995 -[YELLING] What is this? -I'll think about it. 773 00:38:32,079 --> 00:38:34,079 [SOFTLY] But please, could you keep your voice down? 774 00:38:34,162 --> 00:38:35,870 [YELLING] What is this? 775 00:38:38,995 --> 00:38:40,496 What's taking Fresnay so long? 776 00:38:40,579 --> 00:38:45,079 I told you! Hiring an Alsatian to play a Marseillais is heresy. 777 00:38:45,162 --> 00:38:47,953 Our Lady of Marseille likely just broke his legs. 778 00:38:48,037 --> 00:38:50,204 Or his train was simply delayed. 779 00:38:50,287 --> 00:38:53,663 He spent a fortnight in Marseille, in a small tavern on the harbor, 780 00:38:53,745 --> 00:38:57,037 wiping tables and rinsing glasses, so he can chat to the locals. 781 00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,496 Then your Alsatian might've become an alcoholic, 782 00:38:59,579 --> 00:39:01,745 but he certainly didn't become a Marseillais. 783 00:39:01,828 --> 00:39:03,120 You are right, as always. 784 00:39:03,204 --> 00:39:04,828 Let's go. I'll read his lines. 785 00:39:04,912 --> 00:39:07,120 Let's take it from "It's not about the coffee." 786 00:39:07,204 --> 00:39:09,204 It's not about the coffee, it's just wrong. 787 00:39:09,287 --> 00:39:12,037 -What's just wrong? -Draining away my stock while I'm asleep. 788 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,621 If you wanted to insult me, you have. 789 00:39:15,162 --> 00:39:16,454 Insult you? How so? 790 00:39:16,537 --> 00:39:19,745 If at my age, I can't offer a coffee on the house, then what am I? 791 00:39:19,828 --> 00:39:22,120 You're a child, and a child obeys his father. 792 00:39:22,204 --> 00:39:23,870 -At his age? -Yes, m'dear! 793 00:39:23,953 --> 00:39:28,245 I was 32 when me own father kicked me in the pants for the very last time! 794 00:39:28,329 --> 00:39:32,412 That's what family was in my day. There was respect and tenderness. 795 00:39:32,496 --> 00:39:35,329 -Especially in the pants. -[BOTH LAUGHING] 796 00:39:36,621 --> 00:39:40,287 See that, Pagnol? I told you an Alsatian could play a Marseillais. 797 00:39:40,371 --> 00:39:42,828 All he needed was the right scarf. 798 00:39:43,454 --> 00:39:45,912 By the way, I saw you cut the card game. 799 00:39:45,995 --> 00:39:48,953 The play is too long and the card game feels like a skit. 800 00:39:49,037 --> 00:39:50,496 You find it vulgar, don't you? 801 00:39:50,579 --> 00:39:53,620 Let's say it's unworthy of this kind of venue. 802 00:39:53,703 --> 00:39:56,745 You shake the spears. I defer to you. 803 00:39:58,496 --> 00:40:01,620 End of act two, 15-minute intermission. 804 00:40:04,995 --> 00:40:08,287 -I really need a fresh eye. -I'm all ears. 805 00:40:08,371 --> 00:40:10,204 Does this play catch your interest? 806 00:40:10,287 --> 00:40:13,329 Well, I believe I would like it if I understood the actors. 807 00:40:13,412 --> 00:40:15,579 -Are they speaking too softly? -It's not that. 808 00:40:15,662 --> 00:40:17,454 Some phrases are very incorrect, 809 00:40:17,537 --> 00:40:19,953 and that hideous accent corrupting the vowels, it's... 810 00:40:20,037 --> 00:40:21,496 it's just incomprehensible. 811 00:40:21,578 --> 00:40:24,870 [YELLING] Oh! Do not listen to this man's ravings! 812 00:40:24,953 --> 00:40:26,662 He's notoriously stupid! 813 00:40:26,745 --> 00:40:29,995 -Stupid? Me? -You, sir! Indeed! 814 00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:32,912 -I will not take that! -Jules, this is not helpful. 815 00:40:32,995 --> 00:40:36,496 Who allowed this imbecile in here to spy on us? 816 00:40:36,578 --> 00:40:40,204 Draw the curtain until this blind fool removes himself. 817 00:40:40,287 --> 00:40:42,037 Hmm. Blind fool? [STUTTERS] 818 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,912 I've not come here to be insulted. We shall see about that. Yes, we shall. 819 00:40:51,412 --> 00:40:52,953 Oh? 820 00:40:53,037 --> 00:40:55,412 Are you going to spend the interval back here? 821 00:40:55,496 --> 00:40:58,662 It's not getting any laughs. Might as well be a tragedy. 822 00:40:58,745 --> 00:41:01,953 They feel like laughing, but... they don't want to. 823 00:41:02,745 --> 00:41:05,287 Don't worry. We'll bring 'em around in act three. 824 00:41:06,037 --> 00:41:07,454 Well, then? It's your turn. 825 00:41:07,536 --> 00:41:09,703 I'm aware, but I'm hesitating. 826 00:41:09,787 --> 00:41:11,953 D'you plan to hesitate into the wee hours? 827 00:41:12,037 --> 00:41:14,037 Please, Captain, we're waiting. 828 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,995 ESCARTEFIGUE: Well, it's not a trifling matter. 829 00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:17,912 They're at 32, but how much do we have? Thirty. 830 00:41:17,995 --> 00:41:19,662 They have reinstated the card game! 831 00:41:19,745 --> 00:41:21,745 Raimu held secret rehearsals. 832 00:41:21,828 --> 00:41:23,828 He dared to do this to me? 833 00:41:23,912 --> 00:41:25,329 That two-faced toe-rag! 834 00:41:25,412 --> 00:41:27,912 Look at where they took it, though, instead of griping. 835 00:41:27,995 --> 00:41:28,953 -[AUDIENCE LAUGHING] -Oh? 836 00:41:29,037 --> 00:41:31,536 So you're a part of this little conspiracy? 837 00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:33,578 -Shut up, Pagnol! Listen. -[AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 838 00:41:33,662 --> 00:41:35,787 CÉSAR: I'm showing him nothing, I gave nothing away, 839 00:41:35,870 --> 00:41:37,287 I'm as tight as a bank vault! 840 00:41:37,371 --> 00:41:39,454 MR. BRUN: At any rate, table talk is strictly forbidden. 841 00:41:40,162 --> 00:41:44,079 "Parisians have just discovered the picturesque lingo of the Marseillais, 842 00:41:44,162 --> 00:41:48,079 "the sincerity of Orane Demazis, the mastery of Fresnay, 843 00:41:48,162 --> 00:41:52,662 "and the spiritedness of Raimu, who is sure to be one of the greats." 844 00:41:52,745 --> 00:41:56,662 Each night's sold out. It's a dream. Admit you're flabbergasted, Jules. 845 00:41:56,745 --> 00:41:59,703 I'll tell you what I'm flabbergasted by, Léon. 846 00:41:59,787 --> 00:42:02,995 This little piece of wallpaper that I ripped off my dressing room. 847 00:42:03,079 --> 00:42:04,162 How dare you? 848 00:42:04,245 --> 00:42:07,995 It reads as follows, "Mr. Raimu is a genius." 849 00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:11,536 And it is signed Marcel Pagnol. Thank you, my friend. 850 00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:14,120 Some friends you are, right pair of vandals! 851 00:42:14,204 --> 00:42:16,120 Who told you to deface my theater? 852 00:42:16,204 --> 00:42:17,578 By Jove, Volterra! 853 00:42:17,662 --> 00:42:20,578 Don't get your knickers in a twist over a tiny scrap of paper! 854 00:42:20,662 --> 00:42:22,870 Tiny or not, that wallpaper was chosen by me. 855 00:42:22,953 --> 00:42:26,495 Comes as no surprise. It's as unsightly as the ties you wear. 856 00:42:26,578 --> 00:42:29,162 [BOTH LAUGHING] 857 00:42:29,245 --> 00:42:31,995 This success doesn't seem to make you happy, Marcel. 858 00:42:32,079 --> 00:42:35,745 -What's left for me to do now? -Write more plays, you silly man! 859 00:42:35,828 --> 00:42:39,037 But I'll never be able to do better, now that he's kept his promise. 860 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,912 -Who's kept his promise? -A sweet little boy. 861 00:42:41,995 --> 00:42:43,453 What little boy? 862 00:42:44,162 --> 00:42:46,079 It is a long story. 863 00:42:48,079 --> 00:42:50,412 I knew you no longer wanted to write 864 00:42:50,495 --> 00:42:52,703 because theater had become too easy. 865 00:42:52,787 --> 00:42:54,120 Too easy? 866 00:42:54,204 --> 00:42:55,995 No, it's not that. 867 00:42:56,079 --> 00:42:58,204 It's just that I felt cramped. 868 00:42:58,287 --> 00:42:59,787 [SHUSHES] 869 00:43:01,204 --> 00:43:04,870 -[PROJECTOR WHIRRING] -YOUNG MARCEL: Enter the silver screen. 870 00:43:04,953 --> 00:43:09,120 -[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] -[INAUDIBLE] 871 00:43:17,536 --> 00:43:19,287 [INAUDIBLE] 872 00:43:41,787 --> 00:43:43,079 [INAUDIBLE] 873 00:43:45,953 --> 00:43:47,870 [UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES] 874 00:44:23,162 --> 00:44:24,411 [INAUDIBLE] 875 00:44:29,411 --> 00:44:32,870 Ain't it awful the way they cut out these big stars. 876 00:44:32,953 --> 00:44:35,120 I'll get to you in a minute. 877 00:44:35,204 --> 00:44:37,995 Listen here, Mr. Danfield, you can't cut us out like that. 878 00:44:38,079 --> 00:44:39,536 For we got equity contract! 879 00:44:39,620 --> 00:44:43,411 The house is packed, for the 350th performance, no less. 880 00:44:43,495 --> 00:44:46,411 -Yes, but we're still doomed. -And why is that? 881 00:44:46,495 --> 00:44:50,870 Mr. Pagnol was just in London. He saw a talking picture, three times! 882 00:44:50,953 --> 00:44:51,953 Good grief! 883 00:44:52,037 --> 00:44:53,828 He believes that theaters will close down. 884 00:44:53,912 --> 00:44:58,037 I say, "Fine! In that case, let's just cancel these performances of Marius. 885 00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,870 "They're stupidly theatrical." 886 00:44:59,953 --> 00:45:01,870 You exaggerate, Léon. I never said that. 887 00:45:01,953 --> 00:45:05,328 I'll just pack it in, buy a magic lantern and a phonograph. Oh... 888 00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:08,204 Nonsense! Let me tell you something. 889 00:45:08,287 --> 00:45:10,787 This talking-film business, this thingamabob, 890 00:45:10,870 --> 00:45:12,453 it's a circus attraction. 891 00:45:12,536 --> 00:45:15,495 Get one for your Luna-Park, it'll last you one season. 892 00:45:15,578 --> 00:45:17,953 No, no. Pagnol is right. 893 00:45:18,037 --> 00:45:19,745 Besides, I'm not uninterested. 894 00:45:19,828 --> 00:45:23,453 Because if you perform only once, and I pay you only once, 895 00:45:23,536 --> 00:45:26,411 I still get one or two thousand free showings 896 00:45:26,495 --> 00:45:28,245 from your mug talking on my screen. 897 00:45:28,328 --> 00:45:29,578 Pagnol! 898 00:45:29,662 --> 00:45:32,286 Will you let this crook pillage my work? 899 00:45:32,370 --> 00:45:34,703 What's your talking picture got that I don't? 900 00:45:34,787 --> 00:45:36,828 -I'm listening. -Here we go again. 901 00:45:36,912 --> 00:45:39,453 Jules, thanks to this marvelous invention, 902 00:45:39,536 --> 00:45:42,411 I'll no longer be limited by the dimensions of the stage. 903 00:45:42,495 --> 00:45:44,286 I can film a face 10 inches away, 904 00:45:44,370 --> 00:45:46,286 and see a tear roll down a cheek. 905 00:45:46,370 --> 00:45:48,120 You want me to cry? 906 00:45:48,662 --> 00:45:50,620 I will be able to produce a whispered scene 907 00:45:50,703 --> 00:45:52,828 and I guarantee the audience will hear it perfectly. 908 00:45:52,912 --> 00:45:54,787 You want me to whisper? 909 00:45:54,870 --> 00:45:56,662 Excellent idea, Pagnol! 910 00:45:56,745 --> 00:46:01,079 Jules, thanks to the camera, I can soar up above 911 00:46:01,162 --> 00:46:03,286 and capture a scene from afar, 912 00:46:03,370 --> 00:46:06,370 like a bird might, or a guardian angel. 913 00:46:06,453 --> 00:46:07,745 Or God. 914 00:46:07,828 --> 00:46:09,828 I suggest you cover your bald spot, Jules. 915 00:46:09,912 --> 00:46:11,370 I can picture it from here! 916 00:46:11,453 --> 00:46:13,953 I'll be free to jump over the stage lights, 917 00:46:14,037 --> 00:46:17,204 circle around the scene, and burst open the walls of the theater. 918 00:46:17,286 --> 00:46:19,037 And pull apart the setting! 919 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,411 Or the actor. 920 00:46:20,495 --> 00:46:23,995 Good heavens! Think what your colleagues will say. 921 00:46:24,079 --> 00:46:26,703 You would forsake the theater? You can't be serious! 922 00:46:26,787 --> 00:46:29,244 Wouldn't that be a desertion? 923 00:46:29,328 --> 00:46:31,495 Such cowardice is unfathomable! 924 00:46:31,578 --> 00:46:34,328 Would you not be forever disgraced? 925 00:46:34,411 --> 00:46:36,662 After everything the theater has done for you? 926 00:46:37,411 --> 00:46:40,162 Don't go into cinema unless you want to end up ruined. 927 00:46:40,244 --> 00:46:43,286 The facade alone requires that we replace 500 bulbs per week. 928 00:46:43,370 --> 00:46:44,370 THE LOVE PARADE 929 00:46:44,453 --> 00:46:45,995 That seems an awful lot. 930 00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:49,244 Would you happen to also be an expert on lightbulbs? 931 00:46:49,870 --> 00:46:51,703 Look at this, if you don't believe me. 932 00:46:55,286 --> 00:46:56,495 [RHYTHMIC KNOCKING ON DOOR] 933 00:46:57,328 --> 00:46:59,578 -Ah! Bob, my friend! -Ah. 934 00:46:59,662 --> 00:47:01,703 With the latest from Hollywood. 935 00:47:01,787 --> 00:47:04,870 Bob, let me introduce Marcel Pagnol. 936 00:47:04,953 --> 00:47:07,370 Hey there. How ya doin', pal? 937 00:47:07,453 --> 00:47:08,995 I'm fine. And dandy. 938 00:47:09,079 --> 00:47:10,328 What fun! 939 00:47:10,411 --> 00:47:13,536 A Frenchie who speaks just like I do! 940 00:47:13,620 --> 00:47:17,161 I'm ravenous, Marcel. Shall we find a restaurant? 941 00:47:17,953 --> 00:47:20,370 So, tell me. Do you make the bulbs yourself? 942 00:47:20,995 --> 00:47:22,037 What bulbs? 943 00:47:22,662 --> 00:47:24,828 The ones that you supply to Paramount. 944 00:47:24,912 --> 00:47:26,912 They're absolutely amazing. 945 00:47:26,995 --> 00:47:30,703 If you think I'm a lightbulb salesman, why have you invited me here? 946 00:47:30,787 --> 00:47:33,703 [EXHALES] Because you seemed to me like a good guy. 947 00:47:33,787 --> 00:47:36,286 And I surround myself with good guys. 948 00:47:36,370 --> 00:47:39,953 [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] But seriously now, what's it you do for a living? 949 00:47:40,037 --> 00:47:42,120 MARCEL: Bob practically gave me the keys to his studio. 950 00:47:42,203 --> 00:47:43,203 Paramount Studios 951 00:47:43,286 --> 00:47:45,244 Let me explain how all this works. 952 00:47:45,328 --> 00:47:47,703 At the very top, there's Hollywood, 953 00:47:47,787 --> 00:47:49,370 the mecca of cinema. 954 00:47:49,453 --> 00:47:51,203 Just below that comes Paramount. 955 00:47:51,286 --> 00:47:53,536 Everyone bows down before their totem. 956 00:47:54,912 --> 00:47:58,411 Then you have the executives, big-studio management. 957 00:47:58,495 --> 00:48:01,161 Then, there's the studio doorman, a powerful wizard 958 00:48:01,244 --> 00:48:03,161 who opens the gates for hundreds of people 959 00:48:03,244 --> 00:48:04,995 and slams them on thousands more. 960 00:48:05,079 --> 00:48:06,370 -[PHONES RINGING] -The head of advertising, 961 00:48:06,453 --> 00:48:08,787 who can make three telephone calls at once. 962 00:48:08,870 --> 00:48:11,119 -[CHUCKLES] Impressive! -Confirmed. Please go away. 963 00:48:11,203 --> 00:48:15,037 And Western Electric, who owns the machine that transcribes sound. 964 00:48:15,119 --> 00:48:16,370 -[BLARING] -[YELPS] 965 00:48:16,912 --> 00:48:18,536 MARCEL: The head of processing, 966 00:48:19,079 --> 00:48:20,745 of editing, 967 00:48:20,828 --> 00:48:22,037 of music. 968 00:48:23,620 --> 00:48:25,203 The head of costumes. 969 00:48:26,495 --> 00:48:28,995 Then there's the director, who's all the more respected 970 00:48:29,079 --> 00:48:31,578 when he comes from abroad, like liars do. 971 00:48:31,662 --> 00:48:32,912 Cut! 972 00:48:32,995 --> 00:48:34,578 How was I? 973 00:48:34,662 --> 00:48:36,870 -Amazing! -[SIGHS IN RELIEF] 974 00:48:36,953 --> 00:48:38,953 The director is often a liar himself. 975 00:48:39,578 --> 00:48:42,119 After that comes the review committee. 976 00:48:42,203 --> 00:48:45,078 People who have never written a novel or play in their life, 977 00:48:45,161 --> 00:48:47,745 who carve up and rehash the works of others. 978 00:48:47,828 --> 00:48:50,328 Next in line comes the movie star. 979 00:48:50,411 --> 00:48:52,787 The salary of movie stars should be enormous, 980 00:48:52,870 --> 00:48:55,411 so they end up believing their success and fortune 981 00:48:55,495 --> 00:48:57,161 are due to their talent alone. 982 00:48:57,244 --> 00:49:01,078 Such creatures are generally naïve to a fault. 983 00:49:01,161 --> 00:49:02,703 -[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION] -And finally, 984 00:49:02,787 --> 00:49:05,787 on the very last rung of the ladder, is the writer. 985 00:49:05,870 --> 00:49:08,203 He gets paid, he gets a reception, 986 00:49:08,286 --> 00:49:11,286 he gets to drink to the success of the studio, the film, 987 00:49:11,370 --> 00:49:12,620 the future of cinema. 988 00:49:12,703 --> 00:49:15,037 He smiles, rubs shoulders, he's happy. 989 00:49:16,161 --> 00:49:17,161 Study him carefully, 990 00:49:18,161 --> 00:49:20,745 because you'll never see him in such spirits again. 991 00:49:22,244 --> 00:49:23,119 [GUN CLICKING] 992 00:49:23,203 --> 00:49:24,703 -[THUDS] -BOB: Very well! 993 00:49:24,787 --> 00:49:28,620 I'm buying the rights to Marius. We're gonna make a great film. 994 00:49:28,703 --> 00:49:31,411 -You mean that? -Nah. I don't understand the Frenchies. 995 00:49:31,495 --> 00:49:33,953 They boo the beautiful movies I make for 'em. 996 00:49:34,036 --> 00:49:36,036 MARCEL: That's because sound is no longer a novelty. 997 00:49:36,119 --> 00:49:39,828 Speaking is no longer enough, you have to have something to say. 998 00:49:39,912 --> 00:49:42,578 So... we got a deal? 999 00:49:42,662 --> 00:49:45,536 We certainly do, but with my troupe from Marseille? 1000 00:49:45,620 --> 00:49:48,203 No, no, no. No one knows those guys. 1001 00:49:48,286 --> 00:49:50,370 You can't fake the true accent of Marseille. 1002 00:49:50,453 --> 00:49:53,953 And what exactly is your goddamn accent of Marseille? 1003 00:49:54,036 --> 00:49:56,453 [SIGHING SADLY] Oh, dear, how can I explain it? 1004 00:49:57,787 --> 00:50:01,286 Imagine that your jaw bones flap as if mounted on a coil. 1005 00:50:01,370 --> 00:50:03,870 -On a coil? -Or... springs. 1006 00:50:04,495 --> 00:50:05,662 Okay. 1007 00:50:05,745 --> 00:50:07,912 Now, can you repeat this after me? 1008 00:50:07,994 --> 00:50:11,994 [WITH ACCENT] "Don't look at me like that, you break my soul with your anxiety." 1009 00:50:12,078 --> 00:50:16,328 Don't break my soul with... with your anxiety. 1010 00:50:16,411 --> 00:50:18,787 MARCEL: [ENUNCIATES] Anxiety. 1011 00:50:18,870 --> 00:50:20,994 -BOB: Anxiety. -[BOTH LAUGH] 1012 00:50:21,078 --> 00:50:23,411 BOB: Anxiety! 1013 00:50:23,495 --> 00:50:24,828 Are you okay, sir? 1014 00:50:24,912 --> 00:50:26,203 Yeah, yeah. 1015 00:50:26,286 --> 00:50:29,453 That's the accent. It has to be loud, it has to resonate. 1016 00:50:29,536 --> 00:50:31,036 I can feel that coil. 1017 00:50:31,119 --> 00:50:33,203 That's precisely why we need experts. 1018 00:50:33,286 --> 00:50:35,078 Okay, okay, sold! 1019 00:50:35,161 --> 00:50:38,036 I'll hire the most famous director in the world for this picture, 1020 00:50:38,119 --> 00:50:40,078 fly him in from the States. 1021 00:50:40,161 --> 00:50:42,161 Alexander Korda. 1022 00:50:42,244 --> 00:50:44,244 -He has a passport? -Yeah. He's got about six. 1023 00:50:44,328 --> 00:50:46,036 You think I find that reassuring? 1024 00:50:46,119 --> 00:50:48,870 Marcel! He's Hungarian. 1025 00:50:48,952 --> 00:50:51,912 Uh, a Hungarian to direct a film about Marseille? 1026 00:50:51,994 --> 00:50:54,370 I can hear Raimu's reaction from here. 1027 00:50:54,453 --> 00:50:56,787 Say that again. Raymoo? 1028 00:50:56,870 --> 00:51:00,119 A Tartar from Hollyvoid to capture us on film? 1029 00:51:00,203 --> 00:51:04,328 What? Were there no more Alsatians, so you looked in the Carpathians? 1030 00:51:04,411 --> 00:51:08,119 If you think I'm going to lend my face to Attila the Hun, 1031 00:51:08,203 --> 00:51:10,411 you'll have to find yourself another César! 1032 00:51:10,495 --> 00:51:12,787 It's a big wide world out there! 1033 00:51:12,870 --> 00:51:14,536 And while you're at it, 1034 00:51:14,620 --> 00:51:16,495 why not a bloke from Timbuktu? 1035 00:51:18,036 --> 00:51:21,036 MARCEL: Thank you, Alexander. KORDA: For what, Marcel? 1036 00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:23,994 MARCEL: For letting me direct the actors. It was reassuring for Raimu. 1037 00:51:24,078 --> 00:51:28,286 I've never directed actors who speak, and you've never used a camera. 1038 00:51:28,370 --> 00:51:29,994 Helping each other is key. 1039 00:51:30,078 --> 00:51:31,203 AUDIO SERVICE 1040 00:51:31,286 --> 00:51:33,411 -Uh, Mr. Korda! -What is it now? 1041 00:51:33,495 --> 00:51:36,787 Raimu's voice isn't photogenic. We cannot record him. 1042 00:51:36,870 --> 00:51:40,286 Quite the conundrum for you, because we cannot replace Jules. 1043 00:51:40,370 --> 00:51:41,994 You, we might. 1044 00:51:42,078 --> 00:51:45,244 What's this I hear about replacing Jules? 1045 00:51:45,328 --> 00:51:46,328 Good morning, sir. 1046 00:51:46,411 --> 00:51:48,828 -Ah! You're the sound recordist. -Mm-hmm. 1047 00:51:48,911 --> 00:51:50,703 The one who can't hear my voice? 1048 00:51:50,787 --> 00:51:52,536 -Would you like it louder? -[SHUDDERS] Uh-uh. 1049 00:51:53,536 --> 00:51:54,870 -[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK] -Mr. Brun, 1050 00:51:54,952 --> 00:51:58,370 don't tell anyone that Escartefigue is a cuckold. 1051 00:51:58,453 --> 00:51:59,495 Please, that hurts! 1052 00:51:59,578 --> 00:52:02,620 I repeat, Escartefigue is a cuckold! 1053 00:52:02,703 --> 00:52:04,370 He's splitting my cochlea. 1054 00:52:04,453 --> 00:52:08,536 May I say, your American apparatus doesn't yet master our palates. 1055 00:52:09,286 --> 00:52:11,911 So, come have a pastis at 11:00 sharp. 1056 00:52:11,994 --> 00:52:15,787 To wrap your ears around my trombone, I'll fill them full of fables. 1057 00:52:15,869 --> 00:52:18,745 MARCEL: Would you call this a fable, Jules? 1058 00:52:18,828 --> 00:52:21,952 Who would have believed those poor fools of Parisians 1059 00:52:22,036 --> 00:52:23,745 would turn up in droves to hear 1060 00:52:23,828 --> 00:52:26,119 -stories about Marseillais? -[CHUCKLES] 1061 00:52:26,203 --> 00:52:28,119 -You're breaking my heart. -[AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 1062 00:52:29,119 --> 00:52:31,495 CÉSAR: You're breaking my heart. 1063 00:52:33,203 --> 00:52:34,036 Oy! 1064 00:52:34,119 --> 00:52:35,703 -What? -We playing or what? 1065 00:52:35,787 --> 00:52:37,286 What are we doing here? 1066 00:52:37,370 --> 00:52:40,370 He broke my heart, what about you? What about you, eh? 1067 00:52:40,453 --> 00:52:43,994 -Oh. Very well! Here! -My friend, this film will make you 1068 00:52:44,078 --> 00:52:46,536 -the king of Hollyvoid. -[AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 1069 00:52:46,620 --> 00:52:48,787 [PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING] 1070 00:52:48,869 --> 00:52:51,078 Paramount Studios 1071 00:52:51,787 --> 00:52:54,036 ORANE: Your Americans aren't easy to understand. 1072 00:52:54,119 --> 00:52:56,952 You earn them a fortune, and then they sack you. 1073 00:52:57,036 --> 00:52:58,495 MARCEL: They're like children. 1074 00:52:58,578 --> 00:53:01,453 Pagnol the plaything is no longer entertaining. 1075 00:53:01,536 --> 00:53:02,869 Are you giving up cinema? 1076 00:53:02,952 --> 00:53:05,869 On the contrary. With the returns from Marius, 1077 00:53:05,952 --> 00:53:08,203 I'll build my own studios in Marseille. 1078 00:53:08,286 --> 00:53:11,495 I'll be free to make the films I want with whomever I want. 1079 00:53:12,244 --> 00:53:14,827 But I must get the rights to Fanny back at all costs. 1080 00:53:15,952 --> 00:53:16,952 [ENGINE WHIRRING] 1081 00:53:17,036 --> 00:53:18,827 MARCEL: Paramount doesn't intend to use them? 1082 00:53:18,911 --> 00:53:20,745 Absolutely correct. 1083 00:53:20,827 --> 00:53:22,036 You must be joking. 1084 00:53:22,119 --> 00:53:23,952 Absolutely not. 1085 00:53:24,036 --> 00:53:26,453 -Despite the success of Marius? -Yes. 1086 00:53:26,536 --> 00:53:27,703 [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] And why is that? 1087 00:53:27,787 --> 00:53:30,495 Because Fanny is a sequel to Marius. 1088 00:53:30,578 --> 00:53:33,328 And never before has a sequel been profitable. 1089 00:53:33,411 --> 00:53:35,036 -Ever? -Never. 1090 00:53:37,203 --> 00:53:38,786 Never make a sequel. 1091 00:53:38,869 --> 00:53:42,578 It's a law engraved in gold on the pediment of Hollywood. 1092 00:53:43,662 --> 00:53:45,370 Put that away, I'll pay. 1093 00:53:45,453 --> 00:53:47,745 Sorry, Bob, but paper is paper. 1094 00:53:47,827 --> 00:53:49,036 Sign here, please. 1095 00:53:49,786 --> 00:53:53,203 I'll truly never understand how the French mind works. 1096 00:53:54,536 --> 00:53:56,952 [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 1097 00:53:57,703 --> 00:53:59,578 -Rolling. -[CAMERA WHIRRING] 1098 00:53:59,662 --> 00:54:02,036 AUDIO SERVICE 1099 00:54:02,119 --> 00:54:03,453 And action! 1100 00:54:06,536 --> 00:54:08,495 CÉSAR: He's fine. He's doing fine. Here. 1101 00:54:08,578 --> 00:54:09,952 Read me his letter again. 1102 00:54:10,036 --> 00:54:11,453 Go ahead, darlin'. 1103 00:54:11,536 --> 00:54:12,911 -"My dear father." -Yes? 1104 00:54:12,994 --> 00:54:15,869 "Forgive me, dear Father, for the pain I may have caused you. 1105 00:54:15,952 --> 00:54:18,952 "I know how sad you must be since I sailed off. 1106 00:54:19,036 --> 00:54:21,078 "I think of you every night." 1107 00:54:21,161 --> 00:54:24,578 You think of me every night? And I think of you all day, imbecile. 1108 00:54:24,662 --> 00:54:27,161 -Keep reading, dear. -FANNY: "How do I tell you? 1109 00:54:27,244 --> 00:54:31,036 "How do I explain why I had this urge? I wouldn't know where to begin. 1110 00:54:31,119 --> 00:54:32,911 "But you can ask Fanny, 1111 00:54:32,994 --> 00:54:34,578 -"she knew of my folly." -"Folly"! 1112 00:54:34,662 --> 00:54:37,744 [CHUCKLES] He said that right! Glad to hear he's aware of it. 1113 00:54:37,827 --> 00:54:39,370 [AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 1114 00:54:43,036 --> 00:54:44,869 [PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING] 1115 00:54:44,952 --> 00:54:46,911 [ORANE LAUGHING] 1116 00:54:48,078 --> 00:54:50,495 Mum, I don't think we should disturb 'em. 1117 00:54:50,578 --> 00:54:53,786 They're doing things I don't understand. Things adults do. 1118 00:54:53,869 --> 00:54:55,495 Is he with Orane? 1119 00:54:55,578 --> 00:54:56,952 YOUNG MARCEL: Tonight he is. 1120 00:54:58,370 --> 00:55:00,827 See, Mum, I told you I'd be a millionaire. 1121 00:55:01,827 --> 00:55:03,578 I worry about him. 1122 00:55:03,662 --> 00:55:05,869 I'm afraid success will go to his head. 1123 00:55:05,952 --> 00:55:08,328 That won't happen. I watch over him. 1124 00:55:10,078 --> 00:55:11,370 What're you drawing? 1125 00:55:11,827 --> 00:55:14,827 YOUNG MARCEL: A cicada. The emblem of my studios. 1126 00:55:15,786 --> 00:55:18,702 -Your new toy. -And the whole family can play. 1127 00:55:18,786 --> 00:55:20,994 Germaine and René will have jobs there. 1128 00:55:21,078 --> 00:55:22,078 Even Paul. 1129 00:55:22,702 --> 00:55:26,119 He will never leave the hills. He doesn't care for money. 1130 00:55:26,203 --> 00:55:30,370 Mum, thanks to this money, Paul can afford the operation on his nose. 1131 00:55:30,453 --> 00:55:32,411 Breathing won't be difficult anymore. 1132 00:55:32,495 --> 00:55:35,161 May the Lord hear you, Marcel. 1133 00:55:35,244 --> 00:55:36,620 May the Lord hear you. 1134 00:55:38,036 --> 00:55:40,370 -[MUSIC CONCLUDES] -[WINGS FLAPPING] 1135 00:55:41,536 --> 00:55:43,286 -[PLAYING HARMONICA] -[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 1136 00:55:51,495 --> 00:55:53,203 It was on his bedside table. 1137 00:55:54,578 --> 00:55:56,911 [MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING] 1138 00:55:56,994 --> 00:55:58,578 [MARCEL SOBBING] 1139 00:55:58,661 --> 00:56:01,244 [CICADA BUZZING] 1140 00:56:01,328 --> 00:56:02,495 -[PLAYING HARMONICA] -[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 1141 00:56:04,119 --> 00:56:05,370 PAUL: Marcel. 1142 00:56:06,078 --> 00:56:07,536 Paul! 1143 00:56:07,620 --> 00:56:08,911 This is yours. 1144 00:56:08,994 --> 00:56:11,952 Of the two of us, you've stayed true to our childhood. 1145 00:56:12,036 --> 00:56:13,952 I betrayed you by leaving for Paris. 1146 00:56:14,453 --> 00:56:17,244 Because I stayed in our hills to raise goats? 1147 00:56:17,328 --> 00:56:19,453 I did what I loved to do, just like you. 1148 00:56:19,536 --> 00:56:22,952 And besides, films don't grow in these dry hills. 1149 00:56:23,036 --> 00:56:25,203 -[BUZZING] -Not yet. 1150 00:56:26,869 --> 00:56:28,161 Wanna hold it? 1151 00:56:29,411 --> 00:56:30,619 It's waking up. 1152 00:56:30,702 --> 00:56:32,370 -It tickles! -[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 1153 00:56:33,869 --> 00:56:37,619 Take good care of Papa, and our sister and little René. Will you? 1154 00:56:37,702 --> 00:56:40,994 Little René is now half a head taller than me. 1155 00:56:41,078 --> 00:56:43,370 We'll meet again someday, I promise. 1156 00:56:43,453 --> 00:56:45,786 [CONTINUES BUZZING] 1157 00:56:47,036 --> 00:56:50,536 [SCREAMS] Mr. Pagnol! 1158 00:56:50,619 --> 00:56:54,578 Mr. Pagnol, whose productions for the theater 1159 00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:56,536 were undeniably superior, 1160 00:56:56,619 --> 00:56:59,286 has provided us magnificent proof 1161 00:56:59,370 --> 00:57:02,161 of his ignorance of cinema! 1162 00:57:03,453 --> 00:57:05,661 MARCEL: Thank you, René. Is that all? 1163 00:57:05,744 --> 00:57:07,411 RENÉ: I saved the best till last. 1164 00:57:08,203 --> 00:57:10,702 "Mr. Pagnol, a sly schemer, 1165 00:57:10,786 --> 00:57:13,536 "all boneless nose, protruding eyes, 1166 00:57:13,619 --> 00:57:16,952 -"and baleful set of the mouth..." -Good grief! 1167 00:57:17,036 --> 00:57:19,911 RENÉ: "...brings to mind an anemic anteater. 1168 00:57:19,994 --> 00:57:22,869 "An anemic anteater, itself sucked dry 1169 00:57:22,952 --> 00:57:25,495 "by a horde of ravenous red ants." 1170 00:57:25,577 --> 00:57:26,911 This one's a poet. 1171 00:57:31,203 --> 00:57:32,203 You all right, René? 1172 00:57:32,286 --> 00:57:34,286 Mr. Pagnol! Mr. Pagnol! 1173 00:57:34,370 --> 00:57:35,453 -Which one? 1174 00:57:35,536 --> 00:57:37,619 Mr. Marcel, something terrible has happened! 1175 00:57:37,702 --> 00:57:40,453 -Bad review? -Worse than that! 1176 00:57:40,536 --> 00:57:43,161 Do you remember that little lamb we used in the pastorale? 1177 00:57:43,244 --> 00:57:44,244 What of it? 1178 00:57:44,328 --> 00:57:45,328 LABORATORY NO SMOKING 1179 00:57:45,411 --> 00:57:48,036 BUTCHER: I told you it was only a two-week lease. 1180 00:57:48,119 --> 00:57:50,244 -Getting attached is not a good idea. -[WOMEN WHIMPERING] 1181 00:57:50,328 --> 00:57:53,328 When you look at it, you see a sweet cuddly toy, 1182 00:57:53,411 --> 00:57:55,577 -but what I see are some cutlets. -[WOMEN GASP INDIGNANTLY] 1183 00:57:55,661 --> 00:57:57,370 I'll buy it back at the price of the cutlets. 1184 00:57:57,453 --> 00:57:58,453 How about the shanks? 1185 00:57:58,535 --> 00:58:01,411 The shanks too. We'd prefer him to stay in one piece. 1186 00:58:01,495 --> 00:58:04,869 I'd heard that all of you film folk were a funny lot. 1187 00:58:04,952 --> 00:58:06,244 [LAUGHS HEARTILY] 1188 00:58:06,328 --> 00:58:09,744 Now, look, you. It'll likely cost you a pretty penny. 1189 00:58:09,827 --> 00:58:12,619 If you ever want to make a picture about a bullock. 1190 00:58:12,702 --> 00:58:13,661 [LAUGHS] 1191 00:58:13,744 --> 00:58:14,744 REPORTER: Bullock 1192 00:58:14,827 --> 00:58:18,161 is the name the film-processing girls gave him. 1193 00:58:18,244 --> 00:58:20,869 REPORTER: Bullock devours films, literally. 1194 00:58:20,952 --> 00:58:23,911 He was caught grazing the film stock he sleeps on. 1195 00:58:23,994 --> 00:58:25,994 He is said to have gobbled 90 feet, 1196 00:58:26,078 --> 00:58:28,161 the equivalent of an entire title sequence. 1197 00:58:28,244 --> 00:58:30,661 Fearing he might poison himself, 1198 00:58:30,744 --> 00:58:33,827 we moved him to the carpentry workshop on a bed of wood shavings, 1199 00:58:33,911 --> 00:58:36,078 which instantly became his breakfast. 1200 00:58:36,161 --> 00:58:39,994 At teatime, Bullock the lamb visits the editing rooms, 1201 00:58:40,078 --> 00:58:43,119 where he snacks on pages and pages of scripts. 1202 00:58:43,203 --> 00:58:46,661 He nibbles the straw off chairs, chews on pencils 1203 00:58:46,744 --> 00:58:49,370 -and discarded cigarette butts. -[BLEATING] 1204 00:58:49,453 --> 00:58:51,328 So, this is soundstage three. 1205 00:58:51,411 --> 00:58:53,577 This is where the night scenes are shot. 1206 00:58:54,702 --> 00:58:56,494 [BLEATING, CHOMPING] 1207 00:58:58,328 --> 00:59:00,370 How bizarre. Hmm. 1208 00:59:02,203 --> 00:59:03,952 [ENGINE WHIRRING] 1209 00:59:04,036 --> 00:59:06,702 And what's that contraption exactly? 1210 00:59:06,786 --> 00:59:08,328 That's the Topazette, 1211 00:59:08,411 --> 00:59:10,203 one of my brother's inventions. 1212 00:59:11,036 --> 00:59:12,911 The people's motor car. Three wheels, 1213 00:59:12,994 --> 00:59:14,911 three seats, 1214 00:59:14,994 --> 00:59:16,328 three gears. 1215 00:59:16,827 --> 00:59:18,036 [ENGINE SPUTTERING] 1216 00:59:18,119 --> 00:59:19,494 300 per gallon. 1217 00:59:19,577 --> 00:59:21,952 Test drive ended with three rolls! 1218 00:59:22,036 --> 00:59:24,036 Who could ever resist? 1219 00:59:24,119 --> 00:59:26,078 Save me one of these, will you? Hmm? 1220 00:59:26,161 --> 00:59:28,370 TECHNICIAN: Light is on its way. 1221 00:59:28,452 --> 00:59:29,827 Keep going. 1222 00:59:30,494 --> 00:59:32,161 That's it. 1223 00:59:32,244 --> 00:59:33,744 Keep it steady, now. 1224 00:59:33,827 --> 00:59:36,869 -WOMAN: Come on! [GRUNTS] -[BLEATING] 1225 00:59:36,952 --> 00:59:38,994 [CHUCKLING] What on earth is he doing here? 1226 00:59:39,078 --> 00:59:42,161 He's never seen a blade of grass in his life. [GROANS] 1227 00:59:42,244 --> 00:59:45,411 Here, he's bound to have his fill and more. 1228 00:59:48,827 --> 00:59:50,328 He has grass up to his knees, 1229 00:59:50,410 --> 00:59:52,952 but he prefers munching on tree bark instead. 1230 00:59:53,036 --> 00:59:57,619 Which goes to show that education can change the very nature of a being. 1231 00:59:57,702 --> 00:59:59,452 [ALL LAUGHING] 1232 01:00:01,078 --> 01:00:02,535 MARCEL: Broquier. 1233 01:00:02,619 --> 01:00:03,702 -[MAN SNORING] -Broquier. 1234 01:00:03,786 --> 01:00:04,744 Yes, Marcel? 1235 01:00:05,535 --> 01:00:08,036 I've never been so happy on a film shoot. 1236 01:00:09,370 --> 01:00:13,036 [SIGHS] Back in the dry hills with my childhood friends. 1237 01:00:13,119 --> 01:00:15,370 Like when we were 10 years old. 1238 01:00:15,452 --> 01:00:17,494 Admit it, building this village for the film 1239 01:00:17,577 --> 01:00:19,827 was just a way of coming back home again. 1240 01:00:19,911 --> 01:00:23,827 Here, I can almost forget the troubles that await me in Marseille. 1241 01:00:24,410 --> 01:00:25,952 Enjoy it, Marcel. 1242 01:00:26,036 --> 01:00:28,911 Beautiful things are not meant to last. 1243 01:00:30,286 --> 01:00:31,952 [HAMMERING] 1244 01:00:35,161 --> 01:00:36,952 BROQUIER: Ah! Bullock! 1245 01:00:37,036 --> 01:00:40,494 You crazy beast! You're gonna snuff it! 1246 01:00:41,244 --> 01:00:42,619 What's going on? 1247 01:00:42,702 --> 01:00:46,494 Oh. He's swallowed a pint of plaster. He's plastered up his stomach. 1248 01:00:46,577 --> 01:00:48,744 I don't know! Bring a knife. We have to operate! 1249 01:00:48,827 --> 01:00:49,661 [BLEATING WEAKLY] 1250 01:00:49,744 --> 01:00:53,161 -[THUNDER RUMBLING] -[WOMEN SOBBING] 1251 01:00:56,827 --> 01:01:03,161 -[SPEAKING GERMAN] -[PEOPLE CHEERING] 1252 01:01:04,452 --> 01:01:07,994 MEYERBOOM: [IN ENGLISH] You're not kind. No, you're not kind. 1253 01:01:08,078 --> 01:01:10,911 I slave all day at my desk like a scrounging scrounger. 1254 01:01:10,994 --> 01:01:12,161 SCREENING ROOM 1255 01:01:12,244 --> 01:01:14,119 All day long, I calculate, 1256 01:01:14,203 --> 01:01:17,494 trying to finance my next film. 1257 01:01:17,577 --> 01:01:20,911 Lawyers, poets that they are, wish me to go to jail, 1258 01:01:20,994 --> 01:01:23,369 while you are the real movie makers. 1259 01:01:23,452 --> 01:01:25,244 You play hilarious tricks 1260 01:01:25,327 --> 01:01:27,161 and you never invite me. 1261 01:01:27,244 --> 01:01:28,327 Why? 1262 01:01:29,078 --> 01:01:30,952 We daren't, Mr. Meyerboom, because... 1263 01:01:31,036 --> 01:01:33,203 I mean, because, uh... 1264 01:01:33,286 --> 01:01:36,286 MEYERBOOM: Aye, because I'm old. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 1265 01:01:36,369 --> 01:01:38,577 Do you know when a man becomes old? 1266 01:01:39,286 --> 01:01:41,702 When the youth leave him out. 1267 01:01:41,786 --> 01:01:43,702 When he can call anyone by their first name, 1268 01:01:43,786 --> 01:01:45,286 but no one calls him by his. 1269 01:01:46,036 --> 01:01:47,827 FERNANDEL: Aren't you happy with Heartbeat? 1270 01:01:47,911 --> 01:01:49,494 MARCEL: I am. It's a good picture. 1271 01:01:50,119 --> 01:01:51,827 -Good day, gentlemen. -Good day. 1272 01:01:53,036 --> 01:01:54,911 Who is that charming damsel? 1273 01:01:54,994 --> 01:01:56,285 No idea. 1274 01:01:56,369 --> 01:01:57,786 -Good day. 1275 01:01:58,494 --> 01:02:00,203 So many people here. 1276 01:02:00,285 --> 01:02:02,952 I miss the small warehouse where everything started. 1277 01:02:03,036 --> 01:02:05,119 These studios were intended to give me freedom, 1278 01:02:05,203 --> 01:02:06,869 now they suffocate me. 1279 01:02:06,952 --> 01:02:10,619 Well, if you're suffocating, you need to get some air. 1280 01:02:10,702 --> 01:02:12,661 A glass of anisette in one hand, 1281 01:02:12,744 --> 01:02:14,786 and a steel pétanque ball in the other. 1282 01:02:15,577 --> 01:02:16,452 [THUMPS] 1283 01:02:17,078 --> 01:02:19,577 -I win the point. -Not so fast. 1284 01:02:19,661 --> 01:02:21,285 Pagnol, you can go measure it. 1285 01:02:23,452 --> 01:02:25,952 I'll play your cuckold baker, on second thought. 1286 01:02:26,036 --> 01:02:27,619 So why did you change your mind? 1287 01:02:27,702 --> 01:02:31,702 Because your business needs to be profitable, and I'm your friend. 1288 01:02:31,786 --> 01:02:34,327 I think you just don't want to let Fernandel have the role. 1289 01:02:34,410 --> 01:02:35,911 Foolishness! 1290 01:02:35,994 --> 01:02:40,327 On top of being a cuckold, your baker would have a horse's face. 1291 01:02:40,410 --> 01:02:43,869 Yes! He might well have a horse's face, 1292 01:02:43,952 --> 01:02:48,994 but that's still better than the mug of a tramp from the dry hills. 1293 01:02:49,078 --> 01:02:51,410 [PAINTBRUSH SQUEAKING] 1294 01:02:57,327 --> 01:02:58,869 You're suffocating me, Marcel. 1295 01:02:58,952 --> 01:03:01,994 I can't take any more of your jealousy. You know what? 1296 01:03:02,078 --> 01:03:03,702 I'm leaving! 1297 01:03:03,786 --> 01:03:05,078 MARCEL: No, Josette! 1298 01:03:06,911 --> 01:03:08,994 My friend, reassure me. 1299 01:03:09,078 --> 01:03:12,369 -Tell me that the cuckold baker isn't you. -[GROANS SOFTLY] 1300 01:03:13,285 --> 01:03:16,119 Jules, I'm passionately in love. 1301 01:03:16,202 --> 01:03:18,827 Oh, that's a recipe for suffering, all right. 1302 01:03:18,911 --> 01:03:21,202 So, at my age, I'm not entitled to true love? 1303 01:03:21,285 --> 01:03:22,410 Of course you are. 1304 01:03:22,494 --> 01:03:25,535 But keep spreading yourself thin and you'll end up alone. 1305 01:03:25,619 --> 01:03:27,786 Instead of your passionate love affairs, 1306 01:03:27,869 --> 01:03:31,744 you'd best bank on modest love that consumes itself slowly. 1307 01:03:32,410 --> 01:03:34,494 Believe me. Solitude at our age 1308 01:03:34,577 --> 01:03:37,119 is the worst thing that can happen to a man. 1309 01:03:38,078 --> 01:03:40,744 That's right. So right. 1310 01:03:40,827 --> 01:03:44,577 Come on! Are we shooting this film or not? What are you waiting for? 1311 01:03:44,661 --> 01:03:47,535 For your fake tree to melt under the spotlights? 1312 01:03:48,577 --> 01:03:50,285 AIMABLE CASTANIER: Look who's here. 1313 01:03:50,369 --> 01:03:53,619 Look at her! You see her slinking back in? 1314 01:03:53,702 --> 01:03:56,243 Pomponette. Eh? 1315 01:03:56,327 --> 01:03:58,078 You whore. 1316 01:03:58,160 --> 01:03:59,327 Trollop. 1317 01:03:59,410 --> 01:04:01,119 Dirty wench. 1318 01:04:01,911 --> 01:04:04,535 Finally wandered home, eh? 1319 01:04:04,619 --> 01:04:07,285 What about poor old Tomcat? 1320 01:04:07,369 --> 01:04:09,160 He worried himself sick yesterday. 1321 01:04:09,243 --> 01:04:12,202 JOSETTE: So I can't leave for just three days without you making a scene! 1322 01:04:12,285 --> 01:04:15,036 -I was at a girlfriend's. -Of course. 1323 01:04:15,119 --> 01:04:18,452 [GROANING] I can't breathe, Marcel! Hitler's invaded Poland... 1324 01:04:18,535 --> 01:04:19,661 Leave Hitler out of it! 1325 01:04:19,744 --> 01:04:22,160 We're at war! And instead of comforting me, 1326 01:04:22,243 --> 01:04:24,952 all you can think about is locking me up in Marseille. 1327 01:04:25,036 --> 01:04:26,535 [GROANING] I'm so bored here. 1328 01:04:26,619 --> 01:04:30,494 I'm an actress, I live for my work, and your studios are shut. 1329 01:04:30,577 --> 01:04:32,577 My staff have all been enlisted. 1330 01:04:32,661 --> 01:04:33,661 [GROANING] I'm losing my mind! 1331 01:04:33,744 --> 01:04:35,285 Calm down. 1332 01:04:35,369 --> 01:04:38,661 I've thought of a role for you, for when Fernandel is back on leave. 1333 01:04:38,744 --> 01:04:40,786 A role? What role? 1334 01:04:42,036 --> 01:04:43,160 And cut! That's a wrap. 1335 01:04:43,243 --> 01:04:45,869 AUDIO SERVICE 1336 01:04:45,952 --> 01:04:47,744 [KISSES] Well done. 1337 01:04:47,827 --> 01:04:50,036 MAN: [ON RADIO] The front on River Somme has yielded... 1338 01:04:50,118 --> 01:04:51,535 -[RADIO STATIC] -[MAN CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY] 1339 01:04:51,619 --> 01:04:53,285 The army's been routed. 1340 01:04:53,369 --> 01:04:56,702 Before long, we'll be seeing the Krauts marching through Marseille. 1341 01:04:56,786 --> 01:04:58,535 Should we continue shooting the film? 1342 01:04:58,619 --> 01:05:01,827 Keep your head on, Marcel, don't get carried away. 1343 01:05:01,911 --> 01:05:04,369 Imagine the worst were to happen. 1344 01:05:04,452 --> 01:05:08,577 Doesn't moral duty dictate we continue fearlessly doing our job? 1345 01:05:09,535 --> 01:05:13,535 Our ancestors, the Gauls... Our ancestors. 1346 01:05:13,619 --> 01:05:15,744 [WHIRRING] 1347 01:05:15,827 --> 01:05:16,661 EARTH 1348 01:05:16,744 --> 01:05:17,994 [HIGH-PITCHED WHISTLING] 1349 01:05:18,078 --> 01:05:20,285 [DISTANT EXPLOSION] 1350 01:05:20,369 --> 01:05:22,285 OLD WOMAN: [SHOUTING IN ITALIAN] Oh, my! 1351 01:05:22,369 --> 01:05:24,494 Oh, my! 1352 01:05:25,202 --> 01:05:29,952 [IN ENGLISH] But why is Mussolini killing our children? 1353 01:05:30,036 --> 01:05:32,994 They are the flesh and blood of Italy, 1354 01:05:33,077 --> 01:05:35,077 just like him! 1355 01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,285 [IN ITALIAN] Monster! 1356 01:05:37,369 --> 01:05:39,535 Monster! 1357 01:05:41,952 --> 01:05:45,118 PÉTAIN: [IN ENGLISH] It is with a heavy heart that I tell you today 1358 01:05:45,202 --> 01:05:47,369 that we must cease combat. 1359 01:05:47,452 --> 01:05:50,285 I spoke last night to our adversary, 1360 01:05:50,369 --> 01:05:53,869 asking him if he is prepared to seek with me, 1361 01:05:53,952 --> 01:05:57,952 soldier-to-soldier, the battlefield honorably appeased, 1362 01:05:58,036 --> 01:06:00,661 a means of putting an end to hostilities. 1363 01:06:01,786 --> 01:06:03,702 -I ask that all Frenchmen... -[GRUNTS] 1364 01:06:03,786 --> 01:06:05,702 ...unite around the government over which I preside 1365 01:06:06,327 --> 01:06:09,827 during these trying times, and allay their fears, 1366 01:06:09,911 --> 01:06:13,952 heeding only their faith in the future of our nation. 1367 01:06:14,035 --> 01:06:16,535 [SCREAMING] This is intolerable! 1368 01:06:16,619 --> 01:06:19,452 The instructions you were given were to include sentiments 1369 01:06:19,535 --> 01:06:21,494 in keeping with our National Revolution. 1370 01:06:21,577 --> 01:06:24,243 Marshal Pétain is not the bogeyman, for God's sake. 1371 01:06:24,327 --> 01:06:27,410 He's not hell-bent on making the French cry! 1372 01:06:28,118 --> 01:06:31,077 It seems to me he would've painted her head even larger. 1373 01:06:32,077 --> 01:06:33,619 What is this? 1374 01:06:33,702 --> 01:06:36,535 They're no longer selling The Well-Digger's Daughter, 1375 01:06:36,619 --> 01:06:39,410 they're selling "Snow White and the Two Dwarves"! 1376 01:06:39,494 --> 01:06:41,202 Careful now, Pagnol. 1377 01:06:41,285 --> 01:06:45,160 It's said that love is blind. In your case, it's already shortsighted. 1378 01:06:45,911 --> 01:06:47,869 RENÉ: The film is doing well in the Free Zone. 1379 01:06:47,952 --> 01:06:50,243 But in Paris, the Germans simply banned it. 1380 01:06:50,993 --> 01:06:53,993 Mr. Pagnol, a German is asking for you. 1381 01:06:54,744 --> 01:06:56,118 [WHIMPERING] 1382 01:06:57,911 --> 01:07:00,786 -Nothing good can come of this. -He does like dogs, though. 1383 01:07:00,869 --> 01:07:02,410 MARCEL: Hitler loves dogs too. 1384 01:07:03,243 --> 01:07:04,869 This way, gentlemen. 1385 01:07:04,952 --> 01:07:06,160 OFFICE 1386 01:07:06,243 --> 01:07:07,911 Pagnol! 1387 01:07:07,993 --> 01:07:10,869 -You are a true love of mine. -Is that so? 1388 01:07:10,952 --> 01:07:13,993 I speak of my literary and poetic love. 1389 01:07:14,077 --> 01:07:15,452 I certainly hope as much. 1390 01:07:15,993 --> 01:07:18,452 Come now, do you not recognize me? 1391 01:07:18,535 --> 01:07:20,661 Alfred, Alfred Greven. 1392 01:07:20,744 --> 01:07:24,535 We were in Berlin in '31 for the 200th performance of Marius. 1393 01:07:24,619 --> 01:07:25,911 You do remember? 1394 01:07:25,993 --> 01:07:27,619 To what do I owe your visit? 1395 01:07:27,702 --> 01:07:31,452 I am director of German cinema for Europe at large. 1396 01:07:31,535 --> 01:07:34,369 French cinema is no longer controlled by the Jews. 1397 01:07:34,452 --> 01:07:35,869 They have all departed. 1398 01:07:36,744 --> 01:07:39,911 You and me are going to reinvent the cinema of France. 1399 01:07:39,993 --> 01:07:42,619 And for that to happen, you will leave your studios 1400 01:07:42,702 --> 01:07:45,077 and come to Paris to manage our studios. 1401 01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:47,118 MARCEL: I'm sorry, I can't leave Marseille. 1402 01:07:47,202 --> 01:07:48,827 I can't abandon my staff. 1403 01:07:50,369 --> 01:07:52,077 What a pity that is. 1404 01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:56,035 Once you have changed your mind, come and see me in Paris. 1405 01:07:56,702 --> 01:07:57,577 [SEAGULL SQUAWKING] 1406 01:07:57,661 --> 01:07:59,535 WOMAN: The Jerries are sure to lose the war! 1407 01:07:59,619 --> 01:08:02,494 I give a year before they're all kaput. 1408 01:08:02,577 --> 01:08:03,827 Hey, do you hear that? 1409 01:08:03,911 --> 01:08:07,327 She may be an expert on fish, but that's about it. 1410 01:08:07,410 --> 01:08:09,702 The Reich claims victory after victory. 1411 01:08:09,786 --> 01:08:13,077 If you don't want to work for Greven, you best go into hiding. 1412 01:08:13,869 --> 01:08:15,327 I'd rather die! 1413 01:08:15,410 --> 01:08:16,452 And cut! 1414 01:08:16,535 --> 01:08:19,077 [GROANING] What's the problem now? 1415 01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:20,619 Film perforations are off. 1416 01:08:20,702 --> 01:08:22,993 It's the only stock I could find. You'll have to make do! 1417 01:08:23,077 --> 01:08:25,786 And the lights and the sound rigs hardly work at all. 1418 01:08:25,869 --> 01:08:27,869 Well, then you'll have to fix them as best you can. 1419 01:08:27,951 --> 01:08:29,661 Tell me when I'm on. 1420 01:08:29,744 --> 01:08:31,661 Yes, dear, it shouldn't be long. 1421 01:08:31,744 --> 01:08:32,744 [CRASHING] 1422 01:08:34,077 --> 01:08:37,327 If everything has to be fiddled with, we'll be in such deep shit. 1423 01:08:37,410 --> 01:08:40,077 The shit, René, gets deeper if we stop shooting. 1424 01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:41,869 -Mr. Pagnol. -What now? 1425 01:08:41,951 --> 01:08:42,951 Mr. Greven. 1426 01:08:46,369 --> 01:08:47,951 MARCEL: I would love to give you my pictures, 1427 01:08:48,035 --> 01:08:49,661 but you won't be able to screen them, 1428 01:08:49,744 --> 01:08:50,910 the film is damaged. 1429 01:08:50,993 --> 01:08:53,661 I would like to see a reel of "Prayer to the Stars," 1430 01:08:53,744 --> 01:08:55,160 if you will permit me. 1431 01:08:55,243 --> 01:08:58,494 Very well. I can show you 20 reels, if that's what you want. 1432 01:08:59,327 --> 01:09:01,202 [SOFTLY] Bring me the worst of the lot. All right? 1433 01:09:01,868 --> 01:09:04,452 [DISTORTED] Well, we can lead her to believe we are engaged. 1434 01:09:04,535 --> 01:09:06,452 She'll give us a detailed account of our past, 1435 01:09:07,077 --> 01:09:09,035 wish us much happiness and many children. 1436 01:09:09,118 --> 01:09:10,661 FLORENCE: Yes, yes. Thank you. 1437 01:09:11,243 --> 01:09:13,118 [GROANS, RETCHES] 1438 01:09:14,285 --> 01:09:15,993 We can't carry on like this. 1439 01:09:20,243 --> 01:09:21,910 [BREATHING HEAVILY] 1440 01:09:21,993 --> 01:09:23,410 YOUNG MARCEL: Why don't you leave Pagnol alone? 1441 01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:31,577 -[IN GERMAN] Who are you? -I am Marcel! 1442 01:09:33,243 --> 01:09:34,327 Marcel Pagnol! 1443 01:09:34,410 --> 01:09:35,327 [GUNSHOT] 1444 01:09:36,619 --> 01:09:37,786 What is happening? 1445 01:09:37,868 --> 01:09:38,910 Mr. Greven? 1446 01:09:46,243 --> 01:09:47,910 [IN ENGLISH] At times you hate me, Florence. 1447 01:09:49,243 --> 01:09:50,744 And I cannot fathom why. 1448 01:09:52,619 --> 01:09:55,285 How can one love somebody who doesn't love back? 1449 01:09:56,327 --> 01:09:59,160 How can one be loved by somebody you don't love? 1450 01:10:00,577 --> 01:10:02,452 PIERRE FLORENT: It's the cruelest of mysteries. 1451 01:10:05,993 --> 01:10:07,369 [CLATTERING] 1452 01:10:08,410 --> 01:10:11,369 Mr. Bailiff, sir, write up your report. 1453 01:10:13,369 --> 01:10:14,661 "Prayer to the Stars." 1454 01:10:14,744 --> 01:10:17,369 "Prayer to the Stars" will never be German! 1455 01:10:17,951 --> 01:10:18,993 [MARCEL GRUNTS] 1456 01:10:24,369 --> 01:10:26,410 Do you know about Josette? 1457 01:10:26,494 --> 01:10:28,035 What, Josette again? 1458 01:10:28,118 --> 01:10:29,118 She left me. 1459 01:10:30,452 --> 01:10:33,535 She couldn't bear the fact that I destroyed her film. 1460 01:10:33,619 --> 01:10:34,744 Her film. 1461 01:10:37,619 --> 01:10:38,951 [SIGHS SADLY] 1462 01:10:40,369 --> 01:10:42,702 You need to call Gaumont. We're selling. 1463 01:10:42,785 --> 01:10:43,826 Are you sure? 1464 01:10:43,910 --> 01:10:45,077 I'm sure. 1465 01:10:56,743 --> 01:10:58,410 CONCIERGE: Something wrong, Mr. Pagnol? 1466 01:10:59,535 --> 01:11:00,868 [MARCEL SIGHING IN EXHAUSTION] 1467 01:11:02,285 --> 01:11:04,743 YOUNG MARCEL: That's when I stopped following you. 1468 01:11:04,826 --> 01:11:07,035 MARCEL: And that's when I lost myself. 1469 01:11:08,118 --> 01:11:10,535 In the midst of a war that was dragging on, 1470 01:11:10,619 --> 01:11:12,035 I would have needed a miracle. 1471 01:11:12,702 --> 01:11:14,118 But I'd given up hope. 1472 01:11:15,743 --> 01:11:17,661 [WISTFUL MUSIC PLAYING] 1473 01:11:19,285 --> 01:11:22,327 MARCEL: And time went by, spinning the wheel of life 1474 01:11:22,410 --> 01:11:24,535 like water spins the mill. 1475 01:11:24,619 --> 01:11:27,285 Is it fixed? Well done, Pagnol boys! 1476 01:11:27,369 --> 01:11:28,868 And that's not all. 1477 01:11:34,118 --> 01:11:36,577 The mill is finally going to have electricity. 1478 01:11:36,661 --> 01:11:38,910 -Are you serious? -You don't believe me? 1479 01:11:38,993 --> 01:11:39,993 Come. 1480 01:11:42,661 --> 01:11:43,785 This way. 1481 01:11:45,285 --> 01:11:47,826 Jacqueline, you do the honors. 1482 01:11:48,701 --> 01:11:49,701 [CLICKS] 1483 01:11:50,951 --> 01:11:53,993 As of now, you can read without straining your eyes. 1484 01:11:56,285 --> 01:11:57,951 -Does it work? -MARCEL: Mm-hmm. 1485 01:11:59,035 --> 01:12:00,243 [RADIO STATIC] 1486 01:12:00,327 --> 01:12:01,826 MAN: [ON RADIO] ...since dawn this morning, 1487 01:12:01,910 --> 01:12:04,785 the Allied troops have freed the city of Bayeux 1488 01:12:04,868 --> 01:12:07,118 and are now headed for Caen. 1489 01:12:07,202 --> 01:12:10,826 Normandy is currently the theater of a colossal landing, 1490 01:12:10,910 --> 01:12:13,868 which will determine France's future. 1491 01:12:13,951 --> 01:12:15,785 [BIRDS CHIRPING] 1492 01:12:16,785 --> 01:12:19,494 [PLANES DRONING OVERHEAD] 1493 01:12:22,868 --> 01:12:25,202 That sound makes my blood run cold. 1494 01:12:25,285 --> 01:12:27,743 It's the sound of freedom, Jacqueline. 1495 01:12:27,826 --> 01:12:30,660 What will we do when all this is over? 1496 01:12:30,743 --> 01:12:33,160 You'll get on with your young, budding life, 1497 01:12:33,243 --> 01:12:35,160 and become a great actress. 1498 01:12:35,243 --> 01:12:36,743 And you? 1499 01:12:36,826 --> 01:12:39,868 MARCEL: I'll get on with my old, waning life. 1500 01:12:39,951 --> 01:12:43,577 You say you're old, Marcel, but the gleam in your eyes betrays your youth. 1501 01:12:43,660 --> 01:12:46,619 So we'll both get on with our young lives together. 1502 01:12:47,452 --> 01:12:48,660 I'd stopped believing. 1503 01:12:49,327 --> 01:12:50,868 That the war would end? 1504 01:12:50,951 --> 01:12:52,369 That I'd find you. 1505 01:12:54,535 --> 01:12:56,494 [PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING] 1506 01:12:59,243 --> 01:13:01,826 -[CHEERFUL FRENCH SONG PLAYING] -[PEOPLE CHEERING] 1507 01:13:04,285 --> 01:13:06,743 [CHEERING] 1508 01:13:06,826 --> 01:13:09,118 [PEOPLE LAUGHING, CHEERING] 1509 01:13:11,369 --> 01:13:13,494 [ALL LAUGHING] 1510 01:13:15,910 --> 01:13:17,577 [SIGHING GRIMLY] 1511 01:13:18,243 --> 01:13:20,410 MARCEL: [IN ENGLISH] Very well, gentlemen. You want some heads to roll. 1512 01:13:20,494 --> 01:13:21,577 SOCIETY OF DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND COMPOSERS 1513 01:13:21,660 --> 01:13:25,535 But to judge and sentence your neighbor, you must be faultless yourselves. 1514 01:13:25,618 --> 01:13:28,868 Would those amongst you who rescued Jews please raise your hands? 1515 01:13:33,285 --> 01:13:35,035 Hmm. I rest my case. 1516 01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:38,618 This Liberation is off to a pitiful start. 1517 01:13:38,701 --> 01:13:41,285 France has signed a trade agreement with the Americans. 1518 01:13:41,369 --> 01:13:42,993 Where's the harm in that? 1519 01:13:43,077 --> 01:13:45,910 The French government are trying to obtain corn and petrol. 1520 01:13:45,993 --> 01:13:47,160 It's quite commendable. 1521 01:13:47,243 --> 01:13:48,369 But in exchange, 1522 01:13:48,452 --> 01:13:51,576 they are now letting Hollywood productions invade our cinemas. 1523 01:13:51,660 --> 01:13:52,701 And so? 1524 01:13:53,951 --> 01:13:56,660 MARCEL: So that seals the fate of our film industry. 1525 01:13:57,701 --> 01:14:00,202 MINISTER: Fancy words for a simple trade agreement! 1526 01:14:01,660 --> 01:14:05,660 Minister, the Americans wish to Americanize France. 1527 01:14:05,743 --> 01:14:08,327 If we're to be flooded with American films, 1528 01:14:08,410 --> 01:14:10,410 10 years from now, our people 1529 01:14:10,494 --> 01:14:12,494 -will idolize Hollywood actors. -[SPURS CLINKING] 1530 01:14:12,576 --> 01:14:15,077 Those picture-perfect gumchewers, 1531 01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:17,327 slapping and slugging left, right and center, 1532 01:14:17,410 --> 01:14:20,285 will soon be role models for our children. 1533 01:14:22,202 --> 01:14:25,743 -And then, they'll think like Americans... -[MAN SINGING ROCK SONG] 1534 01:14:25,826 --> 01:14:27,701 ...they'll love like Americans, 1535 01:14:28,369 --> 01:14:30,160 -they'll dress like Americans. -[GASPS] 1536 01:14:30,243 --> 01:14:31,410 Hey! All right! 1537 01:14:32,826 --> 01:14:35,452 -They'll eat like Americans... -[EXCLAIMS] 1538 01:14:36,035 --> 01:14:37,993 ...they'll speak like Americans... 1539 01:14:38,077 --> 01:14:39,452 [SINGING GROWS DISCORDANT, DISTORTED] 1540 01:14:39,534 --> 01:14:41,576 And once they've lost their own language... 1541 01:14:41,660 --> 01:14:43,077 [SINGING FADES] 1542 01:14:43,202 --> 01:14:44,452 [WIND WHISTLES] 1543 01:14:44,534 --> 01:14:46,701 Tell me, then, what should we do? 1544 01:14:47,618 --> 01:14:49,285 [ENGINE WHIRRING] 1545 01:14:54,285 --> 01:14:57,160 MARCEL: We shall tax American films to finance ours. 1546 01:14:57,243 --> 01:15:00,118 French cinema has bought itself some time. 1547 01:15:00,202 --> 01:15:02,243 Will you start shooting again? 1548 01:15:02,327 --> 01:15:04,160 Give me one good reason why I should. 1549 01:15:04,243 --> 01:15:05,410 You love me. 1550 01:15:05,493 --> 01:15:07,160 An excellent reason. 1551 01:15:07,243 --> 01:15:09,452 And you'll soon have one reason more. 1552 01:15:10,369 --> 01:15:11,369 No! 1553 01:15:12,077 --> 01:15:14,243 [COOING] 1554 01:15:14,327 --> 01:15:16,035 My dear little Frédéric. 1555 01:15:17,285 --> 01:15:18,743 -[FRÉDÉRIC COOING] -[KISSES] 1556 01:15:19,327 --> 01:15:22,202 We wish you the warmest of welcomes, my boy. 1557 01:15:26,785 --> 01:15:29,077 -[SIGHING SADLY] -[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 1558 01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:30,701 MARCEL: Farewell, my friend. 1559 01:15:30,785 --> 01:15:33,660 HERE LIES JULES MURAIRE KNOWN AS RAIMU 1883 - 1946 1560 01:15:36,910 --> 01:15:38,202 [WIND WHISTLING] 1561 01:15:39,993 --> 01:15:42,369 RAIMU: Don't mope, you silly sod. 1562 01:15:42,452 --> 01:15:43,868 You still have my films. 1563 01:15:43,951 --> 01:15:48,451 I'll keep my place on the silver screen, making crowds laugh and cry. 1564 01:15:48,534 --> 01:15:51,493 I'll just carry on bravely doing my job. 1565 01:15:52,285 --> 01:15:54,285 And you'll do just the same. 1566 01:15:54,369 --> 01:15:56,701 You can be grateful, Marcel. 1567 01:15:56,785 --> 01:15:58,493 Grateful to this magic lantern, 1568 01:15:58,576 --> 01:16:00,618 lighting lost geniuses anew, 1569 01:16:00,701 --> 01:16:03,451 bringing deceased dancers back to the dance, 1570 01:16:03,534 --> 01:16:05,410 and returning to our affections 1571 01:16:05,493 --> 01:16:07,785 the smiles of long-lost friends. 1572 01:16:12,118 --> 01:16:14,118 JACQUELINE: Darling, a registered letter for you. 1573 01:16:14,202 --> 01:16:17,202 Well, well, what's this now? [GRUNTS] 1574 01:16:17,826 --> 01:16:21,077 Likely the Roux brothers again, selling their new color process. 1575 01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:22,993 There is mention of green. 1576 01:16:23,077 --> 01:16:24,243 Green-breasted jacket! 1577 01:16:24,327 --> 01:16:25,785 Green? 1578 01:16:25,868 --> 01:16:27,951 -[EXCLAIMING] Oh, Marcel! -[BOTH LAUGH] 1579 01:16:28,910 --> 01:16:31,118 MARCEL: Good thing Raimu isn't around to see this. 1580 01:16:31,202 --> 01:16:34,409 -JACQUELINE: Really, why? -He really would've taken the piss. 1581 01:16:34,493 --> 01:16:35,993 [MIMICKING RAIMU] "Mr. Know-it-all! 1582 01:16:36,077 --> 01:16:38,910 "All you were missing was the green outfit. 1583 01:16:38,993 --> 01:16:41,785 "Congratulations, you overblown pompous arse! 1584 01:16:41,868 --> 01:16:44,534 "You're now officially an old geezer." 1585 01:16:44,618 --> 01:16:46,118 Your father dreamt of this. 1586 01:16:46,202 --> 01:16:48,951 Remember how he strove to obtain the Academic Palms. 1587 01:16:49,035 --> 01:16:50,118 Think how proud he is. 1588 01:16:52,785 --> 01:16:55,285 TCHERNIA: You are now what we call an "immortal." 1589 01:16:55,369 --> 01:16:59,160 MARCEL: Oh. Well, it's all relative. More Academy members 1590 01:16:59,243 --> 01:17:01,369 are pushing up daisies than gracing these halls. 1591 01:17:01,451 --> 01:17:05,409 Given the choice, I'd much rather be immortal whilst I'm alive. 1592 01:17:05,493 --> 01:17:08,743 After the war, you didn't plan on coming back to film work. 1593 01:17:08,826 --> 01:17:10,534 And yet I did. 1594 01:17:10,618 --> 01:17:14,493 First of all, there was Naïs, released in 1945. 1595 01:17:15,118 --> 01:17:17,327 If Frédéric can leave here 1596 01:17:17,409 --> 01:17:19,035 without being hurt... 1597 01:17:19,118 --> 01:17:20,493 Mummy! 1598 01:17:20,576 --> 01:17:23,327 And if you want me, I'll be yours. 1599 01:17:23,409 --> 01:17:26,327 Naïs, if I want you how? 1600 01:17:26,409 --> 01:17:28,660 -As a wife? -Well, as whatever you like. 1601 01:17:28,743 --> 01:17:31,993 You then directed La Belle Meunière, 1602 01:17:32,077 --> 01:17:34,868 a film that struggled to find its audience. 1603 01:17:34,951 --> 01:17:37,327 I wanted to make a film in color, 1604 01:17:37,409 --> 01:17:40,035 using a French process, the Rouxcolor, 1605 01:17:40,118 --> 01:17:43,202 to avoid paying a fortune to Technicolor, who held the monopoly. 1606 01:17:44,493 --> 01:17:47,826 It was such a momentous failure that it's best left unmentioned. 1607 01:17:47,910 --> 01:17:50,743 Then please tell me about your latest success, 1608 01:17:50,826 --> 01:17:52,202 Manon des Sources. 1609 01:17:52,285 --> 01:17:53,368 [SIGHING] Oh, Manon... 1610 01:17:54,285 --> 01:17:55,993 I wrote it for my wife. 1611 01:17:56,077 --> 01:17:59,451 She'd just given me the greatest gift a man can receive from a woman. 1612 01:17:59,534 --> 01:18:01,826 A godsend by the name of Estelle. 1613 01:18:01,910 --> 01:18:03,701 They're as like as two peas in a pod. 1614 01:18:03,785 --> 01:18:05,951 I've studied the soil composition. 1615 01:18:06,035 --> 01:18:09,660 If we dig right here, then I assure you we will find uranium. 1616 01:18:09,743 --> 01:18:11,368 Uranium, you say? 1617 01:18:11,451 --> 01:18:13,660 Or crude oil, if we dig even deeper. 1618 01:18:14,826 --> 01:18:16,368 It's water you're digging for. 1619 01:18:16,451 --> 01:18:19,910 I'm not letting you dig up our patch of paradise for anything else. 1620 01:18:21,493 --> 01:18:23,160 Marcel, I'm warning you! 1621 01:18:23,951 --> 01:18:26,576 Strong-minded woman you got yourself there. 1622 01:18:26,660 --> 01:18:28,993 You'd be well-advised to find her that wellspring. 1623 01:18:30,576 --> 01:18:33,493 JACQUELINE: [LAUGHING] Very good, Frédéric. 1624 01:18:33,576 --> 01:18:35,826 -[FRÉDÉRIC LAUGHING] -Oh, Estelle. 1625 01:18:37,576 --> 01:18:41,077 UGOLIN: Don't be afraid, Manon. I won't come near you again. 1626 01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:43,826 I love you. It's the truth, I love you. 1627 01:18:43,910 --> 01:18:45,993 MANON: [ON FILM] That makes me sick! 1628 01:18:46,077 --> 01:18:48,202 I don't believe you. You're just being stubborn! 1629 01:18:48,284 --> 01:18:50,202 You're as headstrong as one of your goats! 1630 01:18:50,284 --> 01:18:52,534 But I mean what I say, I love you! 1631 01:18:52,618 --> 01:18:55,284 I'm the one who howls into the vale every night! 1632 01:18:55,368 --> 01:18:57,534 Please stop, it frightens me. 1633 01:18:57,618 --> 01:19:00,534 Have you ever considered writing novels? 1634 01:19:00,618 --> 01:19:02,160 I would be at a loss. 1635 01:19:02,243 --> 01:19:04,993 I tell all my stories through the filter of dialogue. 1636 01:19:05,785 --> 01:19:07,243 Papa, Papa! 1637 01:19:07,326 --> 01:19:10,534 MARCEL: [LAUGHING] Estelle, my precious little elf. 1638 01:19:10,618 --> 01:19:12,326 Are you cutting the olive tree? 1639 01:19:12,409 --> 01:19:15,618 What in the world? It's 2,000 years old. 1640 01:19:15,701 --> 01:19:17,534 Jesus could have tasted its olives. 1641 01:19:17,618 --> 01:19:18,951 Who's Jesus? 1642 01:19:19,035 --> 01:19:21,160 Jesus is the neighbor's cat. 1643 01:19:21,242 --> 01:19:24,576 Oh, yes, cats really like olives. 1644 01:19:24,660 --> 01:19:28,202 [CHUCKLES] You two! I'd be well inspired to hire you as dialogue writers. 1645 01:19:28,951 --> 01:19:31,534 TCHERNIA: What about children's books? 1646 01:19:31,618 --> 01:19:35,576 Oh, I doubt very much that my stories about cuckolds and unwed mothers 1647 01:19:35,660 --> 01:19:38,576 would be of great interest to little boys and girls. 1648 01:19:38,660 --> 01:19:42,326 My daughter, however, she loves when I write her poems. 1649 01:19:42,409 --> 01:19:45,160 Tell me about the film you're currently making. 1650 01:19:45,242 --> 01:19:47,118 -Ah! "Les Lettres de mon moulin." -Mm-hmm. 1651 01:19:47,202 --> 01:19:48,618 MARCEL: I'm going back to the South this evening. 1652 01:19:48,701 --> 01:19:49,701 And cut! 1653 01:19:49,785 --> 01:19:51,701 I can't wait to join my crew. 1654 01:19:52,534 --> 01:19:53,576 See here... 1655 01:19:53,660 --> 01:19:55,493 Mr. Pagnol, a telegram for you. 1656 01:19:56,284 --> 01:19:57,284 Oh. 1657 01:20:01,201 --> 01:20:03,451 Is something wrong, Marcel? 1658 01:20:03,534 --> 01:20:05,618 My daughter is in hospital. 1659 01:20:05,701 --> 01:20:07,160 I must go home to Monaco. 1660 01:20:13,284 --> 01:20:14,493 Doctor. 1661 01:20:15,201 --> 01:20:18,035 She has suffered a severe ketosis attack. 1662 01:20:18,118 --> 01:20:19,743 But she's going to get better? 1663 01:20:20,701 --> 01:20:22,201 [SIGHING SADLY] 1664 01:20:22,284 --> 01:20:23,284 JACQUELINE: [SOBBING] No! 1665 01:20:24,451 --> 01:20:26,284 No! [SCREAMS ECHOING] 1666 01:20:29,826 --> 01:20:31,993 MARCEL: It occurred to me that the stars above 1667 01:20:32,077 --> 01:20:34,618 had never heard the song of the cicadas. 1668 01:20:34,701 --> 01:20:38,618 If I'd been able to catch you one, I would have brought it to your room. 1669 01:20:39,409 --> 01:20:42,785 Leaning out of your window, into the dead of night, 1670 01:20:42,868 --> 01:20:44,910 I would have tickled its belly, 1671 01:20:45,618 --> 01:20:48,534 and the sky itself would have started to dance. 1672 01:20:48,618 --> 01:20:51,451 [MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING] 1673 01:21:00,118 --> 01:21:02,159 [TINKLING] 1674 01:21:02,242 --> 01:21:06,368 -[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] -[VEHICLE HORNS HONKING] 1675 01:21:08,201 --> 01:21:09,284 MOVERS 1676 01:21:09,368 --> 01:21:10,409 [MEN GRUNT] 1677 01:21:13,368 --> 01:21:14,493 Put the desk here. 1678 01:21:16,035 --> 01:21:18,868 Now I have to give this piece of furniture a purpose. 1679 01:21:21,409 --> 01:21:22,910 [SIGHS HEAVILY] 1680 01:21:24,660 --> 01:21:26,868 L'HOMME OISEAU: Life can be a monstrosity. 1681 01:21:27,951 --> 01:21:30,201 But you do have to keep on living. 1682 01:21:30,993 --> 01:21:33,701 LE NAIN: Ladies and gentlemen, the author of Fabien, 1683 01:21:33,785 --> 01:21:35,576 Mr. Marcel Pagnol! 1684 01:21:35,660 --> 01:21:37,201 [APPLAUDING] 1685 01:21:38,451 --> 01:21:39,826 YOUNG MARCEL: It's stopped. 1686 01:21:40,326 --> 01:21:41,618 MARCEL: Not to worry. 1687 01:21:41,701 --> 01:21:43,868 Because this up here has started again. 1688 01:21:43,951 --> 01:21:45,117 Here we go, Marcel. 1689 01:21:46,743 --> 01:21:47,910 I'm listening. 1690 01:21:47,993 --> 01:21:51,951 -I was born... -I was born in the town of Aubagne, 1691 01:21:52,035 --> 01:21:54,451 under the goat-scattered Garlaban, 1692 01:21:54,534 --> 01:21:56,951 in the days of the last great herds. 1693 01:21:57,035 --> 01:22:00,576 Garlaban is an enormous tower of blue rock, 1694 01:22:00,660 --> 01:22:02,743 crowned by the Eagle's Plateau. 1695 01:22:03,993 --> 01:22:06,534 MARCEL: My father was the fifth child of a stonemason 1696 01:22:06,618 --> 01:22:09,201 from Valréas, near Orange. 1697 01:22:09,284 --> 01:22:13,159 As soon as he had a day off, that is five or six times a year, 1698 01:22:13,242 --> 01:22:15,284 he took the family to picnic on the grass. [VOICE FADES] 1699 01:22:18,701 --> 01:22:20,117 My Father's Glory 1700 01:22:20,201 --> 01:22:21,660 My Mother's Castle 1701 01:22:21,743 --> 01:22:23,409 The Time of Love 1702 01:22:23,493 --> 01:22:25,326 The Time of Secrets 1703 01:22:25,409 --> 01:22:28,951 [SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES] 1704 01:22:36,201 --> 01:22:37,826 FUNERAL COMMENTATOR: Massed on the side of the road, 1705 01:22:37,910 --> 01:22:40,826 the people of Marseille have come to pay a final tribute 1706 01:22:40,910 --> 01:22:43,242 -to the tremendous author. -[SOBBING] 1707 01:22:43,326 --> 01:22:47,493 FUNERAL COMMENTATOR: Marcel Pagnol shall rest in the small cemetery of La Treille, 1708 01:22:47,576 --> 01:22:51,618 alongside his parents, his brother Paul, and his daughter Estelle. 1709 01:22:52,409 --> 01:22:55,284 On his tombstone, he had the Latin engraved, 1710 01:22:55,368 --> 01:22:58,743 "Fontes, amicos uxorem delixit." 1711 01:22:59,368 --> 01:23:03,076 He loved springs, his friends and his wife. 1712 01:23:03,159 --> 01:23:04,326 [SCREEN CRACKLING] 1713 01:23:04,409 --> 01:23:06,868 -[BIRDS CHIRPING] -[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 1714 01:23:06,951 --> 01:23:10,284 Ah! There you are! Everyone's waiting, Marcel. 1715 01:23:12,701 --> 01:23:15,534 They found it, your perpetual motion. 1716 01:23:19,910 --> 01:23:24,409 MARCEL: You see, a man who writes is a man who consoles himself. 1717 01:23:24,493 --> 01:23:26,701 "What of?" you might ask. 1718 01:23:26,785 --> 01:23:28,868 Not having someone to talk to. 1719 01:23:28,951 --> 01:23:31,076 So, I talk to my quill pen. 1720 01:23:32,117 --> 01:23:34,076 I can't help it. 1721 01:23:34,159 --> 01:23:37,284 And as soon as I start talking to my quill pen, well, 1722 01:23:37,368 --> 01:23:39,117 I'm suddenly in good company. 1723 01:23:41,076 --> 01:23:44,284 I speak to my loved ones, the living and the dead, 1724 01:23:44,368 --> 01:23:45,951 to all those I've loved. 1725 01:23:46,785 --> 01:23:50,242 They're there, by my side, in the flesh, 1726 01:23:50,326 --> 01:23:54,076 down to the faintest smile, the slightest intonation. 1727 01:23:54,159 --> 01:23:55,368 Pencil case 1728 01:23:55,451 --> 01:23:57,117 Often I laugh with them, 1729 01:23:57,201 --> 01:23:59,117 at times I even weep. 1730 01:24:00,576 --> 01:24:03,368 And don't you say I'll soon be 80 years of age. 1731 01:24:03,451 --> 01:24:05,743 No. I am a boy of 12. 1732 01:24:05,826 --> 01:24:08,368 I've been in secondary school for a year, 1733 01:24:08,451 --> 01:24:10,618 with my whole life ahead of me. 1734 01:24:15,910 --> 01:24:17,326 [MUSIC ENDS] 1735 01:24:17,409 --> 01:24:19,409 [PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING] 1736 01:26:07,826 --> 01:26:08,743 [MUSIC ENDS] 1737 01:26:08,826 --> 01:26:10,825 [WISTFUL FRENCH SONG PLAYING] 1738 01:26:34,785 --> 01:26:37,825 [MAN SINGING IN FRENCH] 1739 01:31:01,867 --> 01:31:03,034 [SONG ENDS]