1 00:00:30,958 --> 00:00:32,041 Three million, 2 00:00:32,041 --> 00:00:34,041 three million two, three million five. 3 00:01:42,541 --> 00:01:43,916 The next bid is 19. 4 00:01:43,916 --> 00:01:45,833 Nineteen million is the next bid. 5 00:01:47,750 --> 00:01:49,500 Merci beaucoup. 6 00:01:55,416 --> 00:01:56,875 Oui. 7 00:02:01,833 --> 00:02:05,458 ...in the room, at 19.5 million. 8 00:04:57,958 --> 00:04:59,541 I remain one of his most 9 00:04:59,541 --> 00:05:01,166 passionate admirers. 10 00:05:01,166 --> 00:05:03,791 Le Corbusier. 11 00:05:03,791 --> 00:05:05,458 An architect must be more 12 00:05:05,458 --> 00:05:06,791 than just a man of knowledge, 13 00:05:06,791 --> 00:05:08,833 but a man of heart. 14 00:05:08,833 --> 00:05:10,625 A scientist... 15 00:05:10,625 --> 00:05:13,208 as well as an artist. 16 00:05:13,208 --> 00:05:15,708 If only he had understood. 17 00:05:18,083 --> 00:05:19,833 Ms. Gray deliberately amended 18 00:05:19,833 --> 00:05:20,916 my modernist mandate 19 00:05:20,916 --> 00:05:23,458 to suit her own willful whims. 20 00:05:23,458 --> 00:05:25,125 She resolutely refused to follow 21 00:05:25,125 --> 00:05:27,333 my five-point plan frame working four. 22 00:05:31,208 --> 00:05:33,958 We'll try to save her house. 23 00:05:33,958 --> 00:05:35,541 If only for the sake of my murals. 24 00:05:37,458 --> 00:05:40,125 But where on earth was the rooftop terrace? 25 00:05:40,125 --> 00:05:41,208 Marie-Louise! 26 00:05:55,125 --> 00:05:56,958 Ah. Well... 27 00:07:21,750 --> 00:07:22,833 It is my intention 28 00:07:22,833 --> 00:07:24,916 to preserve the property and, uh, to... 29 00:07:24,916 --> 00:07:27,500 restore it to its original state. 30 00:07:30,083 --> 00:07:32,083 Mon dieu, no. 31 00:07:32,083 --> 00:07:33,750 That graffiti's got to go. 32 00:07:51,333 --> 00:07:53,250 You have to be joking. 33 00:07:53,250 --> 00:07:54,708 You are joking, right? 34 00:07:54,708 --> 00:07:55,958 Are you telling me 35 00:07:55,958 --> 00:07:58,125 I paid the price for a large luxury yacht 36 00:07:58,125 --> 00:08:00,416 for this dilapidated plant-box? 37 00:08:03,833 --> 00:08:05,416 No! No! 38 00:08:05,416 --> 00:08:06,750 Marie-Louise! 39 00:08:44,291 --> 00:08:48,083 Probably among her least luxurious pieces. 40 00:08:48,083 --> 00:08:50,125 But when I first saw her exhibits 41 00:08:50,125 --> 00:08:53,416 at the Salon des artistes in 1923... 42 00:08:53,416 --> 00:08:55,041 the innovation filled me 43 00:08:55,041 --> 00:08:58,208 with jealousy and awe in equal measure. 44 00:08:58,208 --> 00:09:00,125 Not that we were contemporaries, 45 00:09:00,125 --> 00:09:01,958 Le Corbusier is still a struggling painter, 46 00:09:01,958 --> 00:09:04,333 with architectural ambition was barely born. 47 00:09:04,958 --> 00:09:06,083 Eileen Gray, 48 00:09:06,083 --> 00:09:09,000 the great creator of luxurious interiors 49 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,250 had already arrived. 50 00:09:11,750 --> 00:09:12,833 Our careers 51 00:09:12,833 --> 00:09:14,291 were about to collide. 52 00:10:18,458 --> 00:10:21,333 Jean envied my architectural achievements 53 00:10:21,333 --> 00:10:24,125 our entire adult lives. 54 00:10:24,125 --> 00:10:27,291 But I could never compete with this prodigious advantage 55 00:10:27,291 --> 00:10:28,833 when it came to women. 56 00:10:31,583 --> 00:10:34,041 Which is why my own occasional publication 57 00:10:34,041 --> 00:10:35,833 is dedicated to modern architecture. 58 00:10:37,208 --> 00:10:40,041 Le Corbusier is a regular contributor 59 00:10:40,041 --> 00:10:41,125 to L'Architecture Vivante 60 00:10:41,125 --> 00:10:42,625 And you want a picture? 61 00:10:44,125 --> 00:10:45,125 A picture of you. 62 00:10:46,625 --> 00:10:48,791 All, all your work, I mean to say. 63 00:10:48,791 --> 00:10:52,000 For Wendingen. It's a Dutch publication. 64 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,666 One of the most advanced architecture-- 65 00:10:53,666 --> 00:10:54,875 Yes, I know. 66 00:10:54,875 --> 00:10:58,791 I had a very nice note from J.P Oud at De Stijl. 67 00:10:58,791 --> 00:11:00,833 Well, they would very much like to dedicate 68 00:11:00,833 --> 00:11:02,750 an entire issue to you and your work. 69 00:11:05,291 --> 00:11:06,875 If you'd be so kind as to permit me 70 00:11:06,875 --> 00:11:09,166 to understate the article. 71 00:11:09,166 --> 00:11:11,958 An entire issue of Wendingen? 72 00:11:11,958 --> 00:11:14,000 It's to be an in-depth piece. 73 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,083 And during isolation... 74 00:11:16,083 --> 00:11:18,041 is the price of my freedom. 75 00:11:18,041 --> 00:11:20,166 I immerse myself in my work, you see. 76 00:11:21,083 --> 00:11:23,291 To escape the perils of life... 77 00:11:23,291 --> 00:11:25,208 drowning the people around me. 78 00:11:25,208 --> 00:11:27,750 Well... 79 00:11:27,750 --> 00:11:30,291 Perhaps if we were to find the time to work together. 80 00:11:38,333 --> 00:11:39,333 Ah. 81 00:12:08,875 --> 00:12:11,291 I will... 82 00:12:11,291 --> 00:12:12,833 collaborate on your article. 83 00:12:18,916 --> 00:12:20,791 Would you mind if I asked you something? 84 00:12:20,791 --> 00:12:22,083 If it's not too indiscreet? 85 00:12:22,083 --> 00:12:23,875 Not at all. 86 00:12:23,875 --> 00:12:25,250 I can't promise response. 87 00:12:29,250 --> 00:12:31,458 Is it a self-portrait? 88 00:12:31,458 --> 00:12:33,083 More of a personal piece. 89 00:12:34,041 --> 00:12:35,916 I called it "The Knight... 90 00:12:35,916 --> 00:12:37,791 of the dark days of the war." 91 00:12:39,708 --> 00:12:40,875 It's very beautiful. 92 00:12:49,083 --> 00:12:51,291 The world's a very different place since the war. 93 00:12:51,291 --> 00:12:52,500 We were frivolous then. 94 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:55,416 Oh, the folly of our ways. 95 00:12:55,416 --> 00:12:58,083 Now, I find functional form is refined, 96 00:12:58,083 --> 00:13:00,500 and defined as art. 97 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:02,583 It's a question of intention, of function, 98 00:13:03,666 --> 00:13:05,083 what's the use? 99 00:13:06,791 --> 00:13:09,041 How would you use this? 100 00:13:09,041 --> 00:13:11,208 Luxuriously, the bed, for example. 101 00:13:11,208 --> 00:13:13,583 It is not originally designed for any purpose, 102 00:13:13,583 --> 00:13:15,791 but, rather for effect. 103 00:13:20,833 --> 00:13:21,916 Ah. 104 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:27,333 Quite the pose. 105 00:13:27,333 --> 00:13:28,458 Don't you think? 106 00:13:28,458 --> 00:13:32,833 Post-war, those pieces were almost priceless... 107 00:13:32,833 --> 00:13:34,875 preserved of the rich and famous. 108 00:13:34,875 --> 00:13:36,541 I even promoted her myself, 109 00:13:36,541 --> 00:13:39,708 at the expense of my own architectural projects. 110 00:13:39,708 --> 00:13:42,250 The mad musings of a man still struggling 111 00:13:42,250 --> 00:13:44,750 to find himself on the left bank of self-belief, 112 00:13:44,750 --> 00:13:47,208 of the soundness of mind. 113 00:13:47,208 --> 00:13:49,625 Still struggling to find clients 114 00:13:49,625 --> 00:13:52,291 sufficiently courageous to execute my plans. 115 00:13:52,916 --> 00:13:54,583 Le Corbusier 116 00:13:54,583 --> 00:13:56,000 was barely born... 117 00:13:56,750 --> 00:13:58,166 Eileen Gray had arrived. 118 00:14:10,541 --> 00:14:11,666 I was... 119 00:14:12,708 --> 00:14:13,750 delirious... 120 00:14:14,541 --> 00:14:15,708 desirous... 121 00:14:17,625 --> 00:14:19,791 But why women were not for going to bed with? 122 00:14:22,208 --> 00:14:24,583 There is much uncertainty about sex. 123 00:14:24,583 --> 00:14:26,208 Unless it's paid for. 124 00:14:28,041 --> 00:14:30,458 And so much certainty about the work... 125 00:14:31,708 --> 00:14:33,125 even when it isn't. 126 00:15:06,208 --> 00:15:07,458 I long to act... 127 00:15:10,291 --> 00:15:11,333 recklessly. 128 00:15:14,708 --> 00:15:17,833 And I could hear your heart was singing a different symphony. 129 00:16:23,958 --> 00:16:25,916 In art, I can see clearly. 130 00:16:28,166 --> 00:16:30,083 In love, not so well. 131 00:16:30,083 --> 00:16:34,541 To me, they were incompatible and confused. 132 00:16:34,541 --> 00:16:36,291 To you, they seemed... 133 00:16:36,291 --> 00:16:38,833 utterly, intrinsically infused. 134 00:16:38,833 --> 00:16:41,375 Life and art seemed to... 135 00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:42,500 coexist. 136 00:16:50,791 --> 00:16:53,083 Intellect and instinct... 137 00:16:53,083 --> 00:16:55,125 artfully combined, 138 00:16:55,125 --> 00:16:57,250 in a perfect sense of harmony, 139 00:16:57,250 --> 00:17:00,000 setting all their senses at once. 140 00:18:42,375 --> 00:18:44,291 Was there ever... 141 00:18:46,291 --> 00:18:48,291 never, a more... 142 00:18:48,291 --> 00:18:51,250 conventional suitor? 143 00:18:51,250 --> 00:18:53,416 Marriage has never appealed to me. 144 00:18:53,416 --> 00:18:58,125 Or... a non-conventional suitor? 145 00:18:58,125 --> 00:19:00,291 I do tend to distinguish. 146 00:19:01,666 --> 00:19:03,833 I mean... 147 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:09,291 ...a male lover? 148 00:19:09,291 --> 00:19:11,625 I need freedom to think, to... 149 00:19:12,083 --> 00:19:13,125 work. 150 00:19:14,291 --> 00:19:15,458 To create. 151 00:19:16,625 --> 00:19:17,958 "Freedom." 152 00:19:21,791 --> 00:19:23,458 Freedom can be lonely. 153 00:19:37,041 --> 00:19:38,041 Lightly. 154 00:19:50,041 --> 00:19:51,041 There. 155 00:19:53,833 --> 00:19:55,416 Draw down. 156 00:19:55,416 --> 00:19:56,541 Stroke. 157 00:20:11,416 --> 00:20:13,666 Do you know that you have the most beautiful profile. 158 00:20:21,291 --> 00:20:23,166 C'est magnifique. 159 00:21:04,041 --> 00:21:06,875 A triumph of modern living. 160 00:21:06,875 --> 00:21:08,791 It's my piece of value for women. 161 00:21:09,541 --> 00:21:11,291 "Spiritual content, 162 00:21:11,291 --> 00:21:12,875 form, and matter fuse 163 00:21:12,875 --> 00:21:16,041 form a unity of rare delight." 164 00:21:16,041 --> 00:21:19,416 It's fabulously comfortable. 165 00:21:19,416 --> 00:21:21,750 As an indoor and outdoor idea. 166 00:21:22,916 --> 00:21:25,083 I could call it the "transat." 167 00:21:25,083 --> 00:21:27,458 Inspired by our first transatlantic trip. 168 00:21:30,375 --> 00:21:33,666 Her art is on the contrary, cerebral. 169 00:21:34,750 --> 00:21:37,291 It is born of a strong and powerful land. 170 00:21:37,291 --> 00:21:39,208 It shows a willingness 171 00:21:39,208 --> 00:21:42,750 to build purely, ideal spaces. 172 00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:45,375 I often wonder where there's art, there's analysis. 173 00:21:45,375 --> 00:21:47,583 As it's a form of analysis in itself. 174 00:21:57,666 --> 00:21:59,083 What am I looking for? 175 00:22:01,708 --> 00:22:02,916 I'm looking... 176 00:22:07,333 --> 00:22:08,583 I'm looking for love. 177 00:22:19,916 --> 00:22:21,833 Is it drive or desire... 178 00:22:21,833 --> 00:22:24,583 that most motivates the creation of meaningful work? 179 00:22:24,583 --> 00:22:27,250 You're so impassioned by architecture. 180 00:22:27,250 --> 00:22:30,208 Why don't you work or at least write more? 181 00:22:30,208 --> 00:22:33,541 You could write a new edition of L'Architecture Vivante. 182 00:22:33,541 --> 00:22:35,083 What more could I add? 183 00:22:35,083 --> 00:22:36,750 There's so much more to say. 184 00:22:36,750 --> 00:22:38,458 You could dedicate an entire issue 185 00:22:38,458 --> 00:22:40,166 to local musée for example. 186 00:22:40,166 --> 00:22:42,333 Wouldn't that be more about what is good to say? 187 00:22:44,875 --> 00:22:47,958 I just feel like you're putting away your talent in furniture. 188 00:22:47,958 --> 00:22:49,708 You're 46 years old. 189 00:22:49,708 --> 00:22:51,916 Why don't you build a thing that will last? 190 00:22:51,916 --> 00:22:53,541 A boat? 191 00:22:53,541 --> 00:22:55,500 More of an architectural legacy. 192 00:22:56,416 --> 00:22:58,083 Like a house. 193 00:22:58,083 --> 00:23:00,333 Maybe I can ground an ocean liner. 194 00:23:00,333 --> 00:23:02,458 Not just an interior, a whole house. 195 00:23:03,916 --> 00:23:04,958 Mm-hm. 196 00:23:08,791 --> 00:23:09,958 For you. 197 00:23:13,458 --> 00:23:14,458 For us. 198 00:23:16,208 --> 00:23:18,250 A house by the sea. 199 00:23:18,250 --> 00:23:19,291 Where? 200 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Here. 201 00:23:22,625 --> 00:23:23,708 On this coast. 202 00:24:21,291 --> 00:24:23,625 A perfect site for the perfect house, 203 00:24:24,791 --> 00:24:27,041 as daunting as it was beautiful. 204 00:24:30,291 --> 00:24:32,833 Where it would, all of us come to feel like one, 205 00:24:32,833 --> 00:24:36,041 with... the forces of nature. 206 00:24:58,958 --> 00:25:00,333 Eileen. 207 00:25:19,250 --> 00:25:21,083 Naturally, I assumed, 208 00:25:21,083 --> 00:25:23,250 that my elegant friend and admirer 209 00:25:23,250 --> 00:25:24,875 Jean Badovici would commission me 210 00:25:24,875 --> 00:25:26,791 to design and construct his villa. 211 00:25:26,791 --> 00:25:30,291 And that the independently wealthy Eileen Gray 212 00:25:30,291 --> 00:25:31,291 would pay. 213 00:25:35,833 --> 00:25:37,166 A modern villa. 214 00:25:58,375 --> 00:26:01,541 While he had some architectural ambitions, 215 00:26:01,541 --> 00:26:05,333 he had not an ounce of the experience required 216 00:26:05,333 --> 00:26:07,208 to undertake such a project. 217 00:26:07,208 --> 00:26:08,583 I very much enjoy the work 218 00:26:08,583 --> 00:26:10,083 of incorporating some of the tendance 219 00:26:10,083 --> 00:26:11,458 into my drawings, thus far. 220 00:26:13,791 --> 00:26:15,708 - Which ones? - Well... 221 00:26:15,708 --> 00:26:17,541 the side lines itself very well, 222 00:26:17,541 --> 00:26:19,375 to the erosion of differentiation 223 00:26:19,375 --> 00:26:21,208 between the indoor and outdoor space. 224 00:26:25,208 --> 00:26:26,333 On the contrary, 225 00:26:26,333 --> 00:26:27,458 I think it matters very much. 226 00:26:27,458 --> 00:26:29,833 The external design is integral to the site 227 00:26:29,833 --> 00:26:31,458 which in turn, impacts on the interior. 228 00:26:50,666 --> 00:26:54,250 Surely, so long as it's on structural stilts, 229 00:26:54,250 --> 00:26:55,791 with non-supporting walls, 230 00:26:55,791 --> 00:26:59,083 an open interior with floor to ceiling windows, 231 00:26:59,083 --> 00:27:00,708 an intensive roof terrace, 232 00:27:01,541 --> 00:27:02,750 the plan subscribes. 233 00:27:03,958 --> 00:27:05,666 For me, that's nothing. 234 00:27:05,666 --> 00:27:07,291 Life is everything. 235 00:27:08,625 --> 00:27:11,125 Simultaneously, mind and heart. 236 00:27:14,458 --> 00:27:15,458 Excuse me. 237 00:27:34,250 --> 00:27:36,666 Never for a moment, did I imagine 238 00:27:36,666 --> 00:27:39,625 that the elegant designer of interior, Ms. Eileen Gray, 239 00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:42,041 would have the autodidactic arrogance 240 00:27:42,041 --> 00:27:44,500 to attempt such a project herself. 241 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:46,541 There are buildings which are mute, 242 00:27:46,541 --> 00:27:49,166 buildings which will talk to you and then... 243 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,958 If you prefer Corbusier to design the house that-- 244 00:30:30,958 --> 00:30:32,416 It's a house for us... 245 00:30:33,416 --> 00:30:35,625 Not for him. 246 00:30:35,625 --> 00:30:38,916 And anyway it does reference the five point plan. 247 00:30:38,916 --> 00:30:40,625 It's to be my gift to you. 248 00:30:40,625 --> 00:30:42,833 If we are designing it then-- 249 00:30:42,833 --> 00:30:45,416 We should sign it as us together. 250 00:30:53,958 --> 00:30:56,166 The Gray-Badovici residence. 251 00:30:57,541 --> 00:30:59,416 Maybe just initial it. 252 00:30:59,416 --> 00:31:00,458 How? 253 00:31:01,458 --> 00:31:03,166 Villa B-G? 254 00:31:03,166 --> 00:31:05,291 The Badovici-Gray Villa? 255 00:31:05,291 --> 00:31:08,166 Oh, Gray-Badovici. Villa G-B. 256 00:31:08,166 --> 00:31:09,791 As in Gray Britton? 257 00:31:12,833 --> 00:31:15,208 E-G, J-B. 258 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:17,750 E-G. J-B. 259 00:31:17,750 --> 00:31:19,958 For example Jean Badovici. 260 00:31:21,166 --> 00:31:22,791 J-B, E-G. 261 00:31:22,791 --> 00:31:24,875 Uh, Jean Badovici for example. 262 00:31:24,875 --> 00:31:27,375 Oh, I'm trying to think of something more subtle. 263 00:31:28,833 --> 00:31:30,458 We could use numerical code. 264 00:31:33,458 --> 00:31:36,291 - Ten for "J", two for "B"... - Mm-hm. 265 00:31:36,291 --> 00:31:38,625 "G" is the seventh letter of the alphabet. 266 00:31:38,625 --> 00:31:40,541 What happened to "E" for Eileen? 267 00:31:40,541 --> 00:31:42,583 Ten, two, 268 00:31:42,583 --> 00:31:44,833 "E" for Eileen. Seven. 269 00:31:44,833 --> 00:31:47,000 Ladies first, you know? 270 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,166 "E" then ten. 271 00:31:50,791 --> 00:31:52,208 Two, seven... 272 00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:55,166 ten, twenty-seven. 273 00:31:56,833 --> 00:31:59,125 We are all entangled now. 274 00:31:59,125 --> 00:32:00,541 To adjust. 275 00:32:41,166 --> 00:32:42,208 Mm-hm. 276 00:32:49,750 --> 00:32:51,708 Perhaps proof, if proof were needed 277 00:32:51,708 --> 00:32:54,375 that ornamentation can serve a function. 278 00:32:55,208 --> 00:32:57,500 Always elegant, demure. 279 00:33:00,416 --> 00:33:01,750 And dignified. 280 00:33:04,541 --> 00:33:06,083 Oh, did I detect the look of disdain? 281 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,291 Hm? 282 00:33:21,291 --> 00:33:24,958 I have no objection to a women's touch. 283 00:33:24,958 --> 00:33:28,208 But then again, apparently that cheap. 284 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,500 Machine for living. Machine for living. 285 00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:39,083 Did I rue the day I was required to defend that remark? 286 00:33:45,291 --> 00:33:47,041 But where is a machine? A motor? 287 00:33:47,041 --> 00:33:48,583 Why not a house? 288 00:33:48,583 --> 00:33:50,000 And is it not due call of a house 289 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,041 to make life easy and agreeable? 290 00:33:59,541 --> 00:34:01,583 So what is the world is saying? 291 00:34:01,583 --> 00:34:04,125 That our family roof, the a sacred shelter 292 00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,833 of our household guards 293 00:34:05,833 --> 00:34:08,041 the villa of our relaxation 294 00:34:08,041 --> 00:34:12,125 and the castle of our dreams are all just machines? 295 00:34:35,875 --> 00:34:37,708 Well, for a man with your proclivity to entertain 296 00:34:37,708 --> 00:34:39,916 I can't imagine you alone. 297 00:34:39,916 --> 00:34:41,625 In any event, the guest room is downstairs. 298 00:34:41,625 --> 00:34:44,291 And if desired entirely alone. 299 00:34:46,458 --> 00:34:49,958 I could have caressed her that moment. 300 00:34:51,083 --> 00:34:53,291 In my murderous mind, 301 00:34:53,291 --> 00:34:56,000 the act of love and the making of buildings were... 302 00:34:57,875 --> 00:34:59,666 inextricably bound. 303 00:38:02,875 --> 00:38:03,916 Hm? 304 00:38:07,250 --> 00:38:08,416 It's a manhole. 305 00:38:08,416 --> 00:38:09,625 Circular, rounding off 306 00:38:09,625 --> 00:38:11,291 at the top of the spiral staircase. 307 00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:15,625 This is the fifth. 308 00:38:18,041 --> 00:38:20,625 The only Corbusier terrace you missed. 309 00:38:20,625 --> 00:38:23,458 The gift of a garden to replace what the building stole 310 00:38:23,458 --> 00:38:25,041 I didn't necessarily see the point. 311 00:38:25,041 --> 00:38:27,250 What would you do up here? 312 00:38:27,250 --> 00:38:28,875 It's a roof terrace. 313 00:38:28,875 --> 00:38:30,750 Le Corbusier's fifth tenant, 314 00:38:30,750 --> 00:38:34,250 if one wants to adhere absolute. 315 00:38:34,250 --> 00:38:36,375 I wonder why one would climb up here, 316 00:38:36,375 --> 00:38:38,666 what, with the wonderful terraces below. 317 00:38:38,666 --> 00:38:39,875 Our sentiments exactly. 318 00:38:39,875 --> 00:38:41,666 Nature has its own language. 319 00:38:41,666 --> 00:38:43,791 I found him disquieting on the point, Le Corbusier. 320 00:38:46,208 --> 00:38:49,833 An organic challenge to the spread of formalism 321 00:38:49,833 --> 00:38:51,875 Eileen has personalized the project 322 00:38:51,875 --> 00:38:53,500 in a very particular way. 323 00:38:54,875 --> 00:38:56,791 Much more than advisory. 324 00:38:56,791 --> 00:38:58,875 Let me take you on the tour. 325 00:38:58,875 --> 00:39:00,291 You must come in by the front door 326 00:39:00,291 --> 00:39:01,708 to get the right effect. 327 00:39:03,583 --> 00:39:05,083 Thank you. 328 00:39:32,916 --> 00:39:34,458 And what's this? 329 00:39:38,875 --> 00:39:40,666 Ah. 330 00:39:46,875 --> 00:39:47,875 Ah. 331 00:39:58,958 --> 00:40:02,458 There's also a separate sleeping area... 332 00:40:02,458 --> 00:40:04,583 with a reading lamp, bookshelf, 333 00:40:04,583 --> 00:40:06,125 vide poche. 334 00:40:06,125 --> 00:40:07,750 For the man who likes to read in bed. 335 00:40:07,750 --> 00:40:09,666 For the man who likes to breakfast in bed, 336 00:40:09,666 --> 00:40:11,375 an adjustable side table. 337 00:40:11,375 --> 00:40:12,791 For the modern man, 338 00:40:12,791 --> 00:40:15,500 who like to work, play sport, and entertain. 339 00:40:16,708 --> 00:40:19,333 Designs with independence 340 00:40:19,333 --> 00:40:20,916 and style in mind. 341 00:40:20,916 --> 00:40:22,500 A room of one's own. 342 00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:44,125 I adore you. 343 00:40:45,708 --> 00:40:47,541 I was all for you. 344 00:40:47,541 --> 00:40:48,958 For your amusement, you see. 345 00:43:10,625 --> 00:43:12,375 I meant it at the time. 346 00:43:12,375 --> 00:43:15,333 And on this page, I was thinking... 347 00:43:33,291 --> 00:43:35,250 I should color these in. 348 00:43:35,250 --> 00:43:36,916 I would leave them in black and white. 349 00:43:39,375 --> 00:43:40,500 Mm-hm. 350 00:43:57,166 --> 00:43:58,375 Is that how it's done? 351 00:43:59,583 --> 00:44:01,666 Perhaps you are on the left hand side. 352 00:44:04,375 --> 00:44:05,375 We can print this how we like. 353 00:44:07,166 --> 00:44:08,333 As long as the publisher 354 00:44:08,333 --> 00:44:09,833 and date of publication appears somewhere. 355 00:44:28,625 --> 00:44:29,833 It's us. 356 00:44:58,583 --> 00:45:00,000 As you wish. 357 00:45:05,208 --> 00:45:06,791 Your road or the high road. 358 00:45:08,666 --> 00:45:09,958 And so it began. 359 00:45:09,958 --> 00:45:12,458 By signing his name to the editorial. 360 00:45:12,458 --> 00:45:13,916 Technically attributing 361 00:45:13,916 --> 00:45:16,250 authorship of the article to himself 362 00:45:16,250 --> 00:45:18,875 as was his moral right. 363 00:45:18,875 --> 00:45:22,250 He failed to specify the architectural credit due to her. 364 00:45:24,083 --> 00:45:26,708 So we threw a party to celebrate publication, 365 00:45:26,708 --> 00:45:29,333 my publisher promoting her designs 366 00:45:29,333 --> 00:45:30,958 over my architecture. 367 00:45:30,958 --> 00:45:33,500 And for what? For the price of the villa on Le Corbusier. 368 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:37,166 Designed, as if in my name and registered in his. 369 00:45:37,166 --> 00:45:40,250 Yes, it was his house, her gift to him, but... 370 00:45:40,250 --> 00:45:42,958 his misattribution whether it was intentional or not. 371 00:45:42,958 --> 00:45:45,041 It was a magnificent omission. 372 00:47:19,875 --> 00:47:23,333 I'm not sure which of you flatters me the most. 373 00:47:26,625 --> 00:47:28,708 I can't imagine whether you find the position... 374 00:47:31,708 --> 00:47:33,666 I think the perfume is gone. 375 00:47:33,666 --> 00:47:35,458 What distracts all sense of smell? 376 00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:39,791 I wonder for which of your many accomplishments 377 00:47:39,791 --> 00:47:41,208 you'd be most remembered. 378 00:47:44,208 --> 00:47:46,750 I gather there's been some dispute 379 00:47:46,750 --> 00:47:47,833 as to whether or not I invented 380 00:47:47,833 --> 00:47:49,875 the first piece of tubular steel furniture. 381 00:47:49,875 --> 00:47:52,958 Marcel Breuer says he was struck by the idea 382 00:47:52,958 --> 00:47:54,625 while riding a bicycle. 383 00:47:54,625 --> 00:47:56,125 Is that so? 384 00:47:56,125 --> 00:47:58,125 The steel handle bars. 385 00:47:58,125 --> 00:48:00,333 The handle bars. 386 00:48:00,333 --> 00:48:02,541 A bicycle. Hmm. 387 00:48:15,333 --> 00:48:17,541 We've been completely ignored by the press. 388 00:48:18,708 --> 00:48:21,125 Darling, well, you are the press. 389 00:48:23,250 --> 00:48:25,458 I suppose it's because of the depression. 390 00:48:25,458 --> 00:48:26,875 Everything is affected. 391 00:48:36,041 --> 00:48:38,125 I'm going to have to close the gallery. 392 00:48:41,416 --> 00:48:42,750 Is it suffering too? 393 00:48:45,458 --> 00:48:47,916 More from neglect and economic crisis. 394 00:48:52,583 --> 00:48:56,125 Oh, we really are just keeping the best of times. 395 00:49:35,083 --> 00:49:36,458 I'm gonna miss you. 396 00:49:48,333 --> 00:49:49,791 Adieu. 397 00:50:50,125 --> 00:50:51,458 Nonsense. 398 00:50:51,458 --> 00:50:53,666 Nobody bought because nobody liked it! 399 00:50:53,666 --> 00:50:55,583 Simply not good enough. 400 00:50:55,583 --> 00:50:56,916 Out it goes. 401 00:51:02,833 --> 00:51:04,750 - Hello. - Hello, sir. 402 00:51:04,750 --> 00:51:05,791 Eileen. 403 00:51:27,416 --> 00:51:29,000 Why don't we take a trip... 404 00:51:30,083 --> 00:51:32,625 just to cheer ourselves up. 405 00:51:32,625 --> 00:51:35,666 Mm. I never peek at everyone else has been doing. 406 00:51:37,125 --> 00:51:39,166 Who? 407 00:51:39,166 --> 00:51:41,791 We could pay a visit to Le Corbusier at Villa Savoye. 408 00:51:41,791 --> 00:51:43,375 See what he's up to. 409 00:51:43,375 --> 00:51:45,958 He still hasn't finished. 410 00:51:45,958 --> 00:51:48,291 The owners have taken the crew to court. 411 00:51:48,291 --> 00:51:50,916 The roof leaks when it rains. 412 00:51:50,916 --> 00:51:52,708 An inconvenience I admit 413 00:51:52,708 --> 00:51:54,500 but hardly a crime. 414 00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:56,250 I still contend we were the first 415 00:51:56,250 --> 00:51:58,791 to commence construction on the modernist villa. 416 00:51:58,791 --> 00:52:00,083 Ah, Le Corbu? 417 00:52:00,083 --> 00:52:01,916 That it was first to complete. 418 00:52:01,916 --> 00:52:03,625 Has he invited us? 419 00:52:03,625 --> 00:52:06,125 He would if he thought of right about it. 420 00:52:06,125 --> 00:52:07,166 Hmm. 421 00:52:07,916 --> 00:52:09,166 Le Corbusier 422 00:52:09,166 --> 00:52:11,083 is not the only architect you could be promoting. 423 00:52:11,083 --> 00:52:12,375 Yes. 424 00:52:12,375 --> 00:52:13,875 I mean, no. 425 00:52:13,875 --> 00:52:16,291 There is something I wanted to show you. 426 00:52:17,625 --> 00:52:19,208 Mies van der Rohe. 427 00:52:19,208 --> 00:52:21,125 It's his pavilion in Barcelona. Look. 428 00:52:22,291 --> 00:52:24,916 He calls it "skin and bones," 429 00:52:25,750 --> 00:52:27,791 skeleton structure. 430 00:52:27,791 --> 00:52:29,458 Less is more. 431 00:52:29,458 --> 00:52:31,583 "God is in the details," he says. 432 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:34,333 Over here. 433 00:52:35,583 --> 00:52:37,375 Photographs... 434 00:52:37,375 --> 00:52:39,291 of Pierre Chareau's glass house. 435 00:52:59,625 --> 00:53:00,750 No? 436 00:54:03,291 --> 00:54:05,208 You were right about her. 437 00:54:05,208 --> 00:54:09,333 Very serviceable, very. 438 00:54:09,333 --> 00:54:11,291 I refuse to be a card carrying member 439 00:54:11,291 --> 00:54:12,458 of this boys only club. 440 00:54:12,458 --> 00:54:13,541 Eileen. 441 00:54:13,541 --> 00:54:15,375 And I won't be traveling to Athens. 442 00:54:15,375 --> 00:54:16,916 I don't recall that you are invited. 443 00:54:16,916 --> 00:54:18,541 Exactly. 444 00:54:18,541 --> 00:54:19,958 That's why. 445 00:55:46,541 --> 00:55:47,958 Louise? 446 00:55:47,958 --> 00:55:49,250 Oui? 447 00:55:49,250 --> 00:55:51,250 What's the old French for proverb? 448 00:56:01,208 --> 00:56:02,791 "Figs mature... 449 00:56:02,791 --> 00:56:04,333 in straw, with time." 450 00:56:05,041 --> 00:56:06,583 Time and straw. 451 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,125 Oui. 452 00:56:25,416 --> 00:56:26,500 Really? 453 00:56:42,333 --> 00:56:44,125 Oh. Oui. 454 00:56:44,791 --> 00:56:45,958 Oui. 455 00:59:23,541 --> 00:59:24,875 Please, Eileen. 456 00:59:25,666 --> 00:59:27,041 Some other time. 457 00:59:28,833 --> 00:59:30,500 What's with all the urgency? 458 00:59:30,500 --> 00:59:32,000 You never know I just draw-- 459 00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:33,750 This is an endless exercise of futility. 460 00:59:33,750 --> 00:59:34,958 Open the door. 461 01:00:25,708 --> 01:00:27,291 This is so uncalled for. 462 01:00:32,416 --> 01:00:34,166 Where is the folding chair? 463 01:00:34,791 --> 01:00:35,916 What? 464 01:00:35,916 --> 01:00:37,458 Louise said, that you asked her 465 01:00:37,458 --> 01:00:40,041 to send the "S" shaped transit chair here. 466 01:00:40,041 --> 01:00:42,750 When I had expressly requested that it be thrown out. 467 01:01:37,166 --> 01:01:38,416 I have a perfectly pretty house 468 01:01:38,416 --> 01:01:40,333 of my own now. 469 01:01:40,333 --> 01:01:41,750 It's called Tempe à Paille. 470 01:02:05,666 --> 01:02:07,291 It means everything. 471 01:02:13,541 --> 01:02:15,875 Everything but yours, with time. 472 01:03:43,041 --> 01:03:44,500 You're working too hard. 473 01:03:49,333 --> 01:03:50,458 We never see you. 474 01:03:52,958 --> 01:03:55,083 People go to work when life gets too easy. 475 01:04:10,750 --> 01:04:13,541 L'architecture Vivante has ceased publication. 476 01:04:15,250 --> 01:04:16,541 Morancé shut it down. 477 01:04:19,416 --> 01:04:20,500 I'm out of a job. 478 01:04:22,500 --> 01:04:24,916 You have my sympathy. 479 01:04:24,916 --> 01:04:28,375 But in my view, success requires a life of solitude. 480 01:04:39,166 --> 01:04:41,125 Maybe I should go up to isolate for a time 481 01:04:41,125 --> 01:04:42,291 to think things through. 482 01:04:48,125 --> 01:04:49,958 I've taken an apartment in San Tropez 483 01:04:49,958 --> 01:04:52,041 for the summer to be near Natalie and Roman. 484 01:05:10,541 --> 01:05:11,666 Mm. 485 01:05:30,458 --> 01:05:32,125 There is nothing so urgent 486 01:05:32,125 --> 01:05:33,541 than the charge to commit to canvass. 487 01:05:33,541 --> 01:05:37,500 No more complete rejection than an unsuccessful exhibition. 488 01:05:41,750 --> 01:05:42,958 So from here on in, 489 01:05:42,958 --> 01:05:44,708 we only practice painting privately 490 01:05:44,708 --> 01:05:46,041 on the walls of friends. 491 01:06:13,541 --> 01:06:16,958 Intellectual women are incurably complex addiction 492 01:06:16,958 --> 01:06:19,708 engaging in enormous burden of emotion and effort 493 01:06:19,708 --> 01:06:21,708 in exchange for little in return. 494 01:06:26,125 --> 01:06:28,041 Expressive painting, I find, 495 01:06:28,041 --> 01:06:30,125 provides for some... 496 01:06:30,125 --> 01:06:32,625 sexual relief in recompense. 497 01:07:13,416 --> 01:07:16,625 "I genuinely regret having arrived here too late, 498 01:07:16,625 --> 01:07:19,833 to been able to spend some time with you in your house. 499 01:07:26,541 --> 01:07:28,750 I hope that you will give us the pleasure 500 01:07:28,750 --> 01:07:30,833 of paying us a visit in Paris." 501 01:07:35,250 --> 01:07:37,333 "I would be delighted to relate how much 502 01:07:37,333 --> 01:07:40,250 those few days mainly appreciate the rare spirit 503 01:07:40,250 --> 01:07:42,333 inside and outside." 504 01:08:00,333 --> 01:08:02,958 A rare spirit. 505 01:08:02,958 --> 01:08:07,458 Which has given the modern furniture and installations, 506 01:08:07,458 --> 01:08:10,083 such a dignified, charming, 507 01:08:10,875 --> 01:08:12,416 and witty shape. 508 01:08:13,750 --> 01:08:14,791 Hm? 509 01:08:31,333 --> 01:08:33,333 I would have been the first to raise a glass 510 01:08:33,333 --> 01:08:35,833 were they to reconcile. 511 01:08:35,833 --> 01:08:38,500 But in truth, Jean was drinking himself to death 512 01:08:38,500 --> 01:08:41,958 and his womanizing was more waring than appealing. 513 01:08:41,958 --> 01:08:44,958 Eileen just couldn't cope with his communal lifestyle. 514 01:09:10,375 --> 01:09:13,208 If never either of them understood. 515 01:09:13,208 --> 01:09:16,708 The house with the shell on the land. 516 01:09:16,708 --> 01:09:19,541 His extension, his release, 517 01:09:19,541 --> 01:09:20,958 his emanation. 518 01:09:35,250 --> 01:09:36,333 Hm? 519 01:10:06,416 --> 01:10:07,500 Hm? 520 01:10:25,750 --> 01:10:27,000 Ah. 521 01:10:48,166 --> 01:10:49,458 He was ill prepared 522 01:10:49,458 --> 01:10:51,125 for the manner of her departure. 523 01:10:51,125 --> 01:10:53,166 No drama, she simply left 524 01:10:53,166 --> 01:10:56,458 taking the moral high-ground a little further up the hill. 525 01:10:56,458 --> 01:10:59,541 And equally ill prepared for her reaction 526 01:10:59,541 --> 01:11:02,708 to my wonderful wall murals. 527 01:11:02,708 --> 01:11:04,875 Furious apparently. 528 01:11:09,625 --> 01:11:11,708 It's just such a shock. 529 01:11:11,708 --> 01:11:14,791 Why would he do such a deliberate thing? 530 01:11:14,791 --> 01:11:18,083 A fellow architect, a man I have admired for years. 531 01:11:18,083 --> 01:11:20,708 There's got to be something you can do legally. 532 01:11:20,708 --> 01:11:22,166 After all it is your house. 533 01:11:22,166 --> 01:11:24,708 Technically, actually, it's Jean's house. 534 01:11:24,708 --> 01:11:27,416 I registered it in his name at the time of building... 535 01:11:28,125 --> 01:11:30,375 as my gift to us. 536 01:11:30,375 --> 01:11:31,833 But, darling, 537 01:11:36,250 --> 01:11:38,500 So arrogant and I minded of you. 538 01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:41,750 But you're intellectual property rights 539 01:11:41,750 --> 01:11:43,958 have been utterly undenied. 540 01:11:43,958 --> 01:11:46,250 Not just your right to the property title, 541 01:11:46,250 --> 01:11:48,958 but also you are more right to be recognized 542 01:11:48,958 --> 01:11:50,833 as just the architect of your work. 543 01:11:52,708 --> 01:11:55,458 You should take up residence again. 544 01:11:55,458 --> 01:11:57,583 I can't imagine I could ever go back now. 545 01:12:01,208 --> 01:12:02,458 Why would she ever again 546 01:12:02,458 --> 01:12:04,666 spend a night in the house? 547 01:12:04,666 --> 01:12:06,625 But then war did intervene. 548 01:12:06,625 --> 01:12:07,750 Is it late? 549 01:12:09,208 --> 01:12:11,291 Or is she? 550 01:17:39,833 --> 01:17:41,541 How was Vézelay? 551 01:17:41,541 --> 01:17:43,958 As good a place to sit out the war as any. 552 01:17:45,375 --> 01:17:47,791 Corbusier was kind, um... 553 01:17:47,791 --> 01:17:50,875 of torturous. 554 01:17:50,875 --> 01:17:55,250 Didn't he pass some time in Vichy? 555 01:17:55,250 --> 01:17:58,791 There are some who say, he might have collaborated. 556 01:17:58,791 --> 01:18:01,375 He played the Pétain card for a while. 557 01:18:01,375 --> 01:18:03,291 But, you know, Le Corbusier doesn't have a political bone 558 01:18:03,291 --> 01:18:05,541 in his body beyond self-interest. 559 01:18:08,333 --> 01:18:10,291 We're all communists in Vézelay. 560 01:18:13,875 --> 01:18:15,333 What will you do now? 561 01:18:17,208 --> 01:18:18,833 I've been appointed 562 01:18:18,833 --> 01:18:21,916 adjunct chief architect of reconstruction. 563 01:18:21,916 --> 01:18:23,833 In Maubeuge and Solesmes. 564 01:18:23,833 --> 01:18:25,541 But that's marvelous. 565 01:18:29,791 --> 01:18:31,125 Well, 566 01:18:31,125 --> 01:18:33,916 if I had any actual experience in architecture. 567 01:18:33,916 --> 01:18:35,125 Hmm. 568 01:18:38,500 --> 01:18:40,541 I was rather wondering 569 01:18:40,541 --> 01:18:43,416 if you would work with me on some of my proposals? 570 01:18:45,875 --> 01:18:47,958 Unless you have other plans. 571 01:18:50,458 --> 01:18:52,875 I need to rebuild... 572 01:18:52,875 --> 01:18:54,708 like everyone else in Europe. 573 01:19:44,125 --> 01:19:47,583 I should be taking sole credit for this project. 574 01:19:47,583 --> 01:19:49,125 Perhaps you'd like to participate. 575 01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:51,166 Just a little. 576 01:19:55,041 --> 01:19:56,625 Just say the word. 577 01:19:59,666 --> 01:20:01,416 I need your eyes on this. 578 01:20:02,625 --> 01:20:04,791 No, you don't. 579 01:20:04,791 --> 01:20:06,791 No one needed my eye or anything. 580 01:20:11,083 --> 01:20:12,458 Sure I do. 581 01:20:15,916 --> 01:20:18,500 I'm going blind... 582 01:20:18,500 --> 01:20:20,791 and I'd like to see the house before I do. 583 01:20:35,458 --> 01:20:36,791 Let me go first. 584 01:20:39,291 --> 01:20:41,458 I was thinking, of taking a trip south... 585 01:20:44,500 --> 01:20:46,708 just to see how the house has survived. 586 01:21:51,333 --> 01:21:52,458 I'm coming. 587 01:21:52,458 --> 01:21:54,125 Ah. 588 01:23:34,166 --> 01:23:36,375 - Right? - Cobu... 589 01:24:49,291 --> 01:24:51,166 Is that a Helen O'Riley? 590 01:24:51,833 --> 01:24:52,875 Mm-hm. 591 01:24:54,500 --> 01:24:56,208 "The Badovici 592 01:24:56,208 --> 01:25:00,791 and Helen G-r-e-y house 593 01:25:00,791 --> 01:25:02,291 at Cap-Martin. 594 01:25:02,291 --> 01:25:03,875 Mirrors free of charge." 595 01:25:05,083 --> 01:25:08,333 No more periodicals, do you hear me? 596 01:25:08,333 --> 01:25:10,458 I wish the Germans had burned the whole lot of them. 597 01:25:12,375 --> 01:25:14,291 Well, at least if the Italians had just... 598 01:25:15,041 --> 01:25:16,500 painted over it. 599 01:25:24,958 --> 01:25:26,500 And the attribution 600 01:25:26,500 --> 01:25:28,125 remained uncorrected. 601 01:25:28,125 --> 01:25:29,416 As time went on, 602 01:25:29,416 --> 01:25:32,041 the ownership, authorship, and architectural credit 603 01:25:32,041 --> 01:25:33,333 further confused the points. 604 01:25:33,333 --> 01:25:36,000 So that over the years the world perception was of a house 605 01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:39,375 called Villa Badovici, built by Le Corbusier. 606 01:25:41,291 --> 01:25:43,583 Constructing the Cabanon here, right beside it 607 01:25:43,583 --> 01:25:45,750 probably contributed. 608 01:25:45,750 --> 01:25:48,625 As I catch the plane, 45 minutes. 609 01:25:48,625 --> 01:25:51,000 A low cost masterpiece for minimal lodging 610 01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:54,500 in honor of my wife's innocence 611 01:25:54,500 --> 01:25:56,208 and simplicity. 612 01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,416 Good architecture combine with art and nature 613 01:26:17,416 --> 01:26:19,416 in equal measure 614 01:26:19,416 --> 01:26:21,583 is the perfect medicine. 615 01:27:09,916 --> 01:27:11,416 Of course, I had. 616 01:27:30,833 --> 01:27:33,583 "Come, I won't be well. 617 01:27:34,875 --> 01:27:37,625 Liver cancer. 618 01:27:37,625 --> 01:27:40,416 Happy to see you before treatment. 619 01:27:40,416 --> 01:27:41,916 Jean." 620 01:28:37,333 --> 01:28:39,625 I was on my way to Dubrovnik 621 01:28:41,041 --> 01:28:43,250 and got as far as Venice. 622 01:28:45,041 --> 01:28:47,416 They brought me back on a stretcher. 623 01:28:48,416 --> 01:28:50,083 And what did the doctor say? 624 01:28:51,291 --> 01:28:52,750 He'll operate. 625 01:28:54,375 --> 01:28:56,916 And then two to three months, if I'm lucky... 626 01:29:11,458 --> 01:29:13,791 I need to put my affairs in order. 627 01:29:13,791 --> 01:29:15,250 Of course. 628 01:29:17,291 --> 01:29:19,875 I want to put back the house into your name... 629 01:29:20,458 --> 01:29:21,458 quickly. 630 01:29:22,583 --> 01:29:23,916 Can you arrange it for me? 631 01:29:23,916 --> 01:29:26,250 Don't fuss about that now. 632 01:29:26,250 --> 01:29:28,291 There be time for that later. 633 01:29:30,958 --> 01:29:32,875 I always say that word. 634 01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,125 And I need to make a will. 635 01:29:48,833 --> 01:29:50,458 So much to do. 636 01:30:01,458 --> 01:30:03,416 She has the keys to the house. 637 01:35:29,291 --> 01:35:33,250 I painted that, free of charge, for the original owner. 638 01:35:34,916 --> 01:35:37,500 I'll prove from political right, wherever I can. 639 01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:40,125 Chirst it hurts! 640 01:35:40,125 --> 01:35:43,375 That after 40 years of architectural excellence, 641 01:35:43,375 --> 01:35:46,416 I do not possess the purchase price of the house! 642 01:35:48,208 --> 01:35:50,875 No. No. 643 01:36:09,708 --> 01:36:13,083 It was I who protected her 644 01:36:13,083 --> 01:36:17,041 priceless pieces of art, like music. 645 01:36:17,041 --> 01:36:20,541 Each a unique act of love invested with her 646 01:36:20,541 --> 01:36:22,666 signature sensuality. 647 01:36:24,125 --> 01:36:27,750 My murals for all their diversion, 648 01:36:27,750 --> 01:36:29,916 my mode of self-expression, 649 01:36:31,041 --> 01:36:32,958 fresco's of my sexual... 650 01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:35,333 obsessions. 651 01:36:52,541 --> 01:36:55,875 The legacy of my work, they say, 652 01:36:55,875 --> 01:36:58,833 was to fundamentally alter 653 01:36:58,833 --> 01:37:01,583 the way in which we live in the world. 654 01:37:06,416 --> 01:37:08,666 The legacy of her work, 655 01:37:08,666 --> 01:37:11,791 was that the world in which I worked 656 01:37:11,791 --> 01:37:14,625 was fundamentally altered 657 01:37:14,625 --> 01:37:17,083 by the gift of this house. 658 01:37:19,958 --> 01:37:23,083 The house that I and Gray... 659 01:37:23,833 --> 01:37:25,291 built... 660 01:37:27,375 --> 01:37:30,250 here I have truly lived. 661 01:37:31,208 --> 01:37:34,583 Here I have loved. 662 01:37:37,125 --> 01:37:39,250 And died. 663 01:37:39,250 --> 01:37:42,916 Never shedding lights on the shadow I cast 664 01:37:42,916 --> 01:37:45,958 over her legacy in the past. 665 01:37:49,291 --> 01:37:52,666 I remain one of his most passionate admirers, 666 01:37:52,666 --> 01:37:54,500 Le Corbusier. 667 01:37:54,500 --> 01:37:57,166 If only he had understood. 668 01:37:58,541 --> 01:38:00,416 There is a road which leads upward 669 01:38:00,416 --> 01:38:02,791 and there is a road which leads downward. 670 01:38:04,250 --> 01:38:07,458 Both are one and the same. 671 01:38:14,041 --> 01:38:15,625 Whoa, why don't you... 672 01:38:28,750 --> 01:38:30,875 This is Bruce Chatwin, Eileen. 673 01:38:30,875 --> 01:38:32,541 The Australian writer I mentioned. 674 01:38:32,541 --> 01:38:34,791 He'd like to interview you about the auction. 675 01:38:34,791 --> 01:38:37,333 Congratulations, Madame Gray. 676 01:38:37,333 --> 01:38:39,458 One hundred and seventy-six thousand francs. 677 01:38:39,458 --> 01:38:41,625 - Phenomenal achievement. - Thank you. 678 01:38:41,625 --> 01:38:44,833 It doesn't necessarily mean it was a good piece. 679 01:38:44,833 --> 01:38:46,791 Just that it was expensive, that's all. 680 01:38:48,916 --> 01:38:51,541 So, what do you think of it? 681 01:38:51,541 --> 01:38:53,208 I'd really need to sit in it. 682 01:38:53,208 --> 01:38:54,208 Please. 683 01:39:15,500 --> 01:39:17,125 Lift one centimeter here. 684 01:39:18,125 --> 01:39:19,750 - Okay. - And... 685 01:39:26,500 --> 01:39:28,458 Hmm. 686 01:39:28,458 --> 01:39:30,875 Three centimeters, at least, 687 01:39:30,875 --> 01:39:32,166 - here and here. - Okay. 688 01:39:46,375 --> 01:39:48,125 Sorry, um... 689 01:39:49,083 --> 01:39:50,583 what is this? 690 01:39:52,083 --> 01:39:54,250 It's a place I've always wanted to go. 691 01:39:54,875 --> 01:39:56,250 A map? 692 01:39:56,250 --> 01:39:57,666 Of where? 693 01:39:57,666 --> 01:39:58,791 Pategonia. 694 01:40:01,458 --> 01:40:02,666 You should go there. 695 01:40:02,666 --> 01:40:05,625 - Nah, I'm too old to travel. - Hm. 696 01:40:06,666 --> 01:40:09,083 Why don't you go for me? 697 01:41:28,208 --> 01:41:29,416 Poppycock. 698 01:42:54,083 --> 01:42:56,083 To create... 699 01:42:56,083 --> 01:42:58,625 one must first question everything. 700 01:43:01,625 --> 01:43:04,500 The future projects light. 701 01:43:04,500 --> 01:43:07,291 The past only shadows. 702 01:43:10,291 --> 01:43:11,958 The value of a thing 703 01:43:11,958 --> 01:43:14,458 is determined by how much love was invested 704 01:43:14,458 --> 01:43:15,666 in the creation of it.