1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:10,009 --> 00:00:14,012 A FILM BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY 4 00:00:14,096 --> 00:00:15,847 But what is it? 5 00:00:15,931 --> 00:00:17,640 Well, it's the look. 6 00:00:18,475 --> 00:00:20,601 But it's normal. 7 00:00:20,686 --> 00:00:23,479 Yes, but there's something strange in all this. 8 00:00:39,747 --> 00:00:43,333 I don't know, we've got to think of something. 9 00:00:48,047 --> 00:00:49,714 It's the story of a guy. 10 00:00:56,013 --> 00:00:57,805 Do I turn right here? 11 00:00:58,182 --> 00:00:59,974 No. 12 00:01:00,434 --> 00:01:02,185 - Yes, go right. - Okay. 13 00:01:02,936 --> 00:01:04,103 And this guy... 14 00:01:04,521 --> 00:01:06,939 hears from another guy. 15 00:01:08,859 --> 00:01:11,611 This other guy is his father. 16 00:01:19,620 --> 00:01:21,204 - It's there. - OK, I'll reverse. 17 00:01:28,087 --> 00:01:29,253 I hope it'll be all right. 18 00:01:36,053 --> 00:01:38,679 You have to turn right then go straight. 19 00:01:38,806 --> 00:01:39,906 All right. 20 00:01:44,019 --> 00:01:46,896 Then we turn right again and then... 21 00:01:48,732 --> 00:01:50,108 we go straight ahead. 22 00:01:50,984 --> 00:01:53,194 We have to go all the way around. 23 00:01:56,532 --> 00:01:58,907 Around the question. 24 00:01:58,991 --> 00:02:01,035 Around the question! 25 00:02:03,872 --> 00:02:06,916 A guy hears from someone else, 26 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,876 of whom he'd asked nothing. 27 00:02:10,587 --> 00:02:13,297 And this other guy tells him about a woman. 28 00:02:20,764 --> 00:02:23,891 My father wrote to me the other day. 29 00:02:23,976 --> 00:02:25,601 I thought he didn't have your address. 30 00:02:28,021 --> 00:02:29,439 He does. 31 00:02:29,982 --> 00:02:32,066 I decided to send it to him. 32 00:02:36,697 --> 00:02:39,240 What did he want? 33 00:02:39,324 --> 00:02:40,867 Nothing special, really. 34 00:02:43,954 --> 00:02:45,246 He talked about his job, 35 00:02:45,330 --> 00:02:48,374 the problems he's having, his newspaper... 36 00:02:52,212 --> 00:02:53,754 None of that interests me anymore. 37 00:02:56,884 --> 00:02:59,886 He just lives for his work. 38 00:03:02,097 --> 00:03:05,516 Not everyone's like that, so everything's OK. Isn't it? 39 00:03:05,601 --> 00:03:08,478 Yes. That's right. 40 00:03:08,562 --> 00:03:12,148 A woman with whom he had had relations at work. 41 00:03:13,233 --> 00:03:16,068 - Did you say to go right? - Right at the lights. 42 00:03:37,090 --> 00:03:38,424 Are you scared? 43 00:03:40,010 --> 00:03:41,385 A bit. 44 00:03:43,305 --> 00:03:45,473 You know... 45 00:03:45,557 --> 00:03:47,934 I've never screwed a girl like you before. 46 00:03:52,147 --> 00:03:53,940 What's different about me? 47 00:03:56,860 --> 00:03:58,444 You don't talk much. 48 00:04:03,075 --> 00:04:05,451 I'm as bad as your dad, then! 49 00:04:05,536 --> 00:04:08,120 No! 50 00:04:08,205 --> 00:04:10,915 You see, in your gestures... 51 00:04:10,999 --> 00:04:13,251 there are words. 52 00:04:15,671 --> 00:04:17,922 But in the form of silence. 53 00:04:18,882 --> 00:04:20,716 And I really like that silence. 54 00:04:23,512 --> 00:04:25,179 Turn right. 55 00:04:26,807 --> 00:04:29,058 This guy writes to his son 56 00:04:29,142 --> 00:04:32,103 that he's communicated with a woman 57 00:04:32,187 --> 00:04:35,147 where they both work. 58 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:38,734 I'm turning right. 59 00:04:44,283 --> 00:04:46,576 Sure you wouldn't rather go to my place? 60 00:04:48,412 --> 00:04:50,121 Yes, I'm sure. 61 00:04:54,167 --> 00:04:58,296 He communicated with a woman and had a relationship. 62 00:04:58,380 --> 00:05:00,298 A production relationship. 63 00:05:01,383 --> 00:05:02,842 Are you ready? 64 00:05:04,177 --> 00:05:06,304 Yes, we can start. 65 00:05:07,180 --> 00:05:08,806 Go on! 66 00:05:20,944 --> 00:05:22,862 My comrades and I 67 00:05:22,946 --> 00:05:25,531 had decided to make a little video, 68 00:05:25,741 --> 00:05:28,784 to show at cell meetings in the Paris area, 69 00:05:28,869 --> 00:05:32,371 on the newspaper and its printing plant. 70 00:05:32,456 --> 00:05:35,458 Odette and I were assigned the task of producing it. 71 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,795 Odette was a former union representative 72 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,757 who had worked in computing at Crédit Lyonnais Bank. 73 00:05:43,675 --> 00:05:46,260 Every evening after work, 74 00:05:46,345 --> 00:05:48,137 we met in the basement 75 00:05:48,221 --> 00:05:50,890 to watch what we had done. 76 00:05:51,933 --> 00:05:53,351 We said jokingly 77 00:05:53,435 --> 00:05:56,354 it'd be the first real film of the Union of the Left. 78 00:05:57,064 --> 00:05:59,357 Everything went smoothly at first. 79 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,748 What happened? 80 00:06:15,832 --> 00:06:17,958 We cut here. 81 00:06:18,043 --> 00:06:20,294 What do you mean? 82 00:06:20,379 --> 00:06:22,713 We've decided to cut here. 83 00:06:22,798 --> 00:06:26,050 Who's we? Who decided to cut it here? 84 00:06:26,134 --> 00:06:28,219 Look, we cut here. 85 00:06:28,303 --> 00:06:31,138 But something happens after! Can't we see it? 86 00:06:32,349 --> 00:06:33,599 We cut here! 87 00:06:33,684 --> 00:06:37,019 I don't believe this. Talk about democracy! 88 00:06:37,104 --> 00:06:38,771 I want to see it all, 89 00:06:38,855 --> 00:06:41,857 then we'll decide if we cut here or not. 90 00:06:42,275 --> 00:06:44,402 Let me see the whole thing! 91 00:06:45,028 --> 00:06:46,404 We cut here! 92 00:06:46,488 --> 00:06:49,490 I'd like to see the whole thing, then we'll decide. 93 00:06:49,950 --> 00:06:53,077 OK then, if you want to see it all! 94 00:06:53,161 --> 00:06:54,578 Go on! 95 00:07:10,137 --> 00:07:13,472 The Central Committee was happy with my initiative. 96 00:07:13,557 --> 00:07:14,909 It was the time of the newspaper strikes. 97 00:07:14,933 --> 00:07:17,768 The print workers faced 98 00:07:17,853 --> 00:07:20,604 violent attacks by the newspaper bosses. 99 00:07:35,537 --> 00:07:38,873 So it was important to show how the media functioned 100 00:07:38,957 --> 00:07:40,708 in Communist hands. 101 00:07:42,794 --> 00:07:45,087 Information. 102 00:07:45,172 --> 00:07:49,383 Hands and eyes were going to be given a hard time. 103 00:07:49,468 --> 00:07:52,762 And all because of a simple photo of Portugal, 104 00:07:52,846 --> 00:07:54,638 which the paper had published, 105 00:07:54,723 --> 00:07:57,641 and an accompanying text that I had written 106 00:07:57,726 --> 00:07:59,935 about the situation over there. 107 00:08:01,021 --> 00:08:04,398 How does Portugal come out of it? 108 00:08:04,483 --> 00:08:06,692 How does it go from entry to exit? 109 00:08:06,777 --> 00:08:09,904 We could at least ask ourselves that. 110 00:08:12,657 --> 00:08:15,159 Our power as journalists 111 00:08:15,243 --> 00:08:16,786 isn't somewhere else. 112 00:08:16,870 --> 00:08:20,456 It isn't in Portugal or France, but in between. 113 00:08:46,525 --> 00:08:50,152 Well, it seemed to interest you since you turned round. 114 00:08:50,237 --> 00:08:52,363 There was a noise. 115 00:08:54,449 --> 00:08:56,867 Everyone does that when they hear a noise. 116 00:08:57,619 --> 00:09:00,454 And noise has nothing to do with information? 117 00:09:04,918 --> 00:09:07,878 When Vietnam made a noise, no one turned round. 118 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,925 Yes, but that's simply a work dispute. 119 00:09:13,844 --> 00:09:15,678 As a union representative, 120 00:09:15,762 --> 00:09:18,305 you've no right to say that a work dispute is simple. 121 00:09:19,099 --> 00:09:20,850 What was happening was, 122 00:09:20,934 --> 00:09:23,352 a text on Portugal was being dictated at speed. 123 00:09:23,436 --> 00:09:27,690 Speed has something to do with the way news is presented. 124 00:09:27,774 --> 00:09:29,984 In a daily newspaper, anyway. 125 00:09:31,111 --> 00:09:34,572 I've had enough of this! Let's watch the rest. 126 00:09:41,079 --> 00:09:43,581 And work too, it's daily. 127 00:09:56,553 --> 00:09:58,429 You see, son, 128 00:09:58,513 --> 00:10:02,433 even if I haven't seen you since you moved out of Paris, 129 00:10:02,517 --> 00:10:05,144 I thought this would interest you. 130 00:10:06,897 --> 00:10:08,480 You in particular, 131 00:10:08,565 --> 00:10:10,524 as you've always preferred manual work. 132 00:10:13,612 --> 00:10:17,031 As for me, I'm beginning to see 133 00:10:17,115 --> 00:10:20,659 that the trouble with manual work today 134 00:10:20,744 --> 00:10:23,078 is that it's primarily intellectual. 135 00:10:25,874 --> 00:10:27,625 Primarily writing. 136 00:10:39,846 --> 00:10:43,891 It's wrong, all wrong. 137 00:10:44,059 --> 00:10:45,309 What's wrong? 138 00:10:45,435 --> 00:10:48,187 Precisely! What is wrong? 139 00:10:50,065 --> 00:10:52,107 That noise, that's what is wrong. 140 00:10:59,950 --> 00:11:02,993 Those hands typing, that's what is wrong. 141 00:11:05,747 --> 00:11:07,247 I don't understand. 142 00:11:08,625 --> 00:11:12,169 We say, for example, things are fine in Portugal 143 00:11:12,337 --> 00:11:13,754 but not in France. 144 00:11:13,964 --> 00:11:16,298 Or things aren't fine in Portugal 145 00:11:16,466 --> 00:11:17,883 but they are in France. 146 00:11:18,093 --> 00:11:19,802 Or things are fine at home. 147 00:11:19,970 --> 00:11:23,931 But how things really are, for me or for Portugal, 148 00:11:24,099 --> 00:11:25,641 nobody ever says. 149 00:11:27,352 --> 00:11:28,811 I don't understand. 150 00:11:29,229 --> 00:11:33,232 Look, what do we want to say in this film? 151 00:11:34,025 --> 00:11:35,526 I thought it was obvious. 152 00:11:36,152 --> 00:11:37,987 How a newspaper is made. 153 00:11:38,154 --> 00:11:40,030 But not just any newspaper! 154 00:11:40,198 --> 00:11:41,740 Of course not. 155 00:11:42,742 --> 00:11:45,411 We want to show how information is handled 156 00:11:45,578 --> 00:11:46,870 by us Communists. 157 00:11:47,038 --> 00:11:50,165 Maybe to show that, we first need to look a bit. 158 00:11:50,333 --> 00:11:52,209 That's what we're doing! 159 00:11:52,377 --> 00:11:55,462 Is that so? And what do we see here? 160 00:11:55,672 --> 00:11:58,632 A modern printing plant. 161 00:11:59,134 --> 00:12:03,512 Computer programmers. Photocomposition. 162 00:12:04,389 --> 00:12:06,682 Computer processing. 163 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:13,147 A modern newspaper for men and women 164 00:12:13,314 --> 00:12:15,816 who are fighting for an advanced democracy! 165 00:12:16,234 --> 00:12:18,110 Socialism again! 166 00:12:18,278 --> 00:12:21,905 Please! You don't even know what a typewriter is. 167 00:12:22,532 --> 00:12:23,632 Come on! 168 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:26,994 No, we don't know how it works. Not anymore. 169 00:12:30,957 --> 00:12:32,916 A typewriter. 170 00:12:43,428 --> 00:12:46,472 Normal programming on Radio France from midnight. 171 00:12:47,182 --> 00:12:49,600 A seventh government in Portugal soon. 172 00:12:49,768 --> 00:12:53,062 Ministers are refusing to even sit in Parliament. 173 00:12:53,229 --> 00:12:55,773 They feel public pressure is too strong. 174 00:12:59,444 --> 00:13:03,113 What happened was, we started again from scratch. 175 00:13:04,324 --> 00:13:07,701 "Come on, show us how a typewriter works!" 176 00:13:08,536 --> 00:13:10,704 "You don't know what it is." 177 00:13:11,206 --> 00:13:14,541 I don't know, we have to think of something. 178 00:13:15,418 --> 00:13:17,377 Remember when you dictated 179 00:13:17,545 --> 00:13:19,296 your text on Portugal? 180 00:13:19,881 --> 00:13:23,467 - What about it? - Well, we could start with that. 181 00:13:23,635 --> 00:13:25,302 We could do it again. 182 00:13:25,512 --> 00:13:27,387 Do it again? 183 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:30,849 Yes, re-enact it. The two of us. 184 00:13:31,267 --> 00:13:33,060 To see what happened. 185 00:13:53,498 --> 00:13:55,374 Are you ready? 186 00:13:55,542 --> 00:13:56,834 Yes. 187 00:13:57,669 --> 00:14:00,295 "The image of these soldiers in uniform, 188 00:14:00,421 --> 00:14:03,382 "already an army for the people, whistling..." 189 00:14:03,508 --> 00:14:06,760 Let's take it slower, 190 00:14:06,928 --> 00:14:08,262 let's break it down. 191 00:14:08,805 --> 00:14:10,973 Right, "in uniform"... 192 00:14:12,016 --> 00:14:14,184 "...already an army for the people..." 193 00:14:16,813 --> 00:14:18,063 Yes? 194 00:14:18,148 --> 00:14:20,232 "...whistling the Internationale..." 195 00:14:24,821 --> 00:14:25,921 Yes? 196 00:14:25,989 --> 00:14:28,365 "...surrounded by 20,000 protesters... 197 00:14:34,122 --> 00:14:36,957 "...is going to weigh heavily on the process. 198 00:14:43,339 --> 00:14:45,007 "A representative of..." 199 00:14:45,133 --> 00:14:48,051 We can stop there, I reckon. 200 00:14:48,219 --> 00:14:50,179 We see. 201 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:52,264 What do we see? 202 00:14:52,432 --> 00:14:55,100 Well, we see this. 203 00:14:56,394 --> 00:14:58,270 We see this. 204 00:14:59,022 --> 00:15:00,606 We hear too. 205 00:15:05,445 --> 00:15:08,071 We'll have to talk about the noise. 206 00:15:08,448 --> 00:15:12,242 But what we don't see is what's controlling everything. 207 00:15:13,411 --> 00:15:14,578 What's that? 208 00:15:14,746 --> 00:15:17,414 It's the look. 209 00:15:24,923 --> 00:15:26,298 What's that? 210 00:15:26,507 --> 00:15:28,050 It's the look. 211 00:15:28,509 --> 00:15:30,177 That's natural! 212 00:15:30,803 --> 00:15:33,847 Yes, but there's something not right about it. 213 00:15:34,432 --> 00:15:35,532 What? 214 00:15:36,434 --> 00:15:38,393 Read your text. 215 00:15:50,990 --> 00:15:52,741 What about it? 216 00:15:53,201 --> 00:15:57,037 Right, hang on. Let's look at my hands again. 217 00:16:01,626 --> 00:16:05,003 In fact when you look carefully, it's a funny job. 218 00:16:09,926 --> 00:16:12,052 Don't you notice anything special? 219 00:16:12,220 --> 00:16:13,971 With regard to what? 220 00:16:14,138 --> 00:16:17,307 To when you were reading your text. 221 00:16:18,726 --> 00:16:20,894 Right, read it again. 222 00:16:21,062 --> 00:16:22,771 Have you quite finished? 223 00:16:22,981 --> 00:16:25,315 No, come on, we're looking! 224 00:16:25,483 --> 00:16:27,985 Go on, once more. 225 00:16:40,206 --> 00:16:42,207 Your eyes were doing this. 226 00:16:48,339 --> 00:16:51,216 My eyes do the same as your hands! 227 00:16:51,342 --> 00:16:54,720 No, that's my point, my hands do what your eyes do. 228 00:16:54,887 --> 00:16:56,972 And hands aren't made to see, 229 00:16:57,140 --> 00:16:59,266 so I'm working blind. 230 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:13,195 When you look carefully, 231 00:17:13,364 --> 00:17:15,198 it's a funny job. 232 00:17:15,491 --> 00:17:18,618 My hands move in every direction 233 00:17:18,786 --> 00:17:21,079 but within a defined space. 234 00:17:22,081 --> 00:17:23,457 In every direction, 235 00:17:23,624 --> 00:17:26,001 but as if something were leading them. 236 00:17:26,753 --> 00:17:30,213 And the leader is the meaning of a sentence. 237 00:17:32,383 --> 00:17:34,926 Yes, it's as if I were blind 238 00:17:35,094 --> 00:17:38,055 and I were feeling my way along a corridor. 239 00:17:38,222 --> 00:17:39,473 When I hit it, 240 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:41,767 it puts me back on the right path. 241 00:17:45,021 --> 00:17:46,813 And I'm being watched. 242 00:17:47,148 --> 00:17:51,276 "The image of these soldiers in uniform, 243 00:17:51,861 --> 00:17:56,948 "already an army for the people, whistling the Internationale, 244 00:17:57,075 --> 00:18:00,118 "surrounded by 20,000 protesters, 245 00:18:00,370 --> 00:18:03,372 "is going to weigh heavily on the process." 246 00:18:11,089 --> 00:18:14,216 THE IMAGE OF THESE SOLDIERS 247 00:18:16,094 --> 00:18:18,053 IN UNIFORM, 248 00:18:19,722 --> 00:18:22,641 ALREADY AN ARMY FOR THE PEOPLE, 249 00:18:26,062 --> 00:18:28,397 WHISTLING 250 00:18:30,066 --> 00:18:31,775 THE INTERNA... 251 00:18:35,988 --> 00:18:38,448 I walked back to the printing plant. 252 00:18:38,825 --> 00:18:41,827 The lights were still on in Communist Party HQ, 253 00:18:42,203 --> 00:18:45,914 where I had gone to say that things were turning sour. 254 00:18:46,249 --> 00:18:47,916 What's your caption? 255 00:18:48,084 --> 00:18:50,335 I warned them, if nothing changed, 256 00:18:50,503 --> 00:18:53,463 they would end up with a leftist film. 257 00:18:53,631 --> 00:18:57,175 A MODERN PRINTING PLANT AND NEWSPAPER FOR MEN AND WOMEN 258 00:18:57,385 --> 00:18:58,969 STRUGGLING FOR DEMOCRACY 259 00:19:02,014 --> 00:19:04,766 Well, this is what I'd put. 260 00:19:05,351 --> 00:19:09,771 LANGUAGE IS THE PLACE WHERE THE TORTURER TURNS THE VICTIM 261 00:19:09,981 --> 00:19:12,566 INTO ANOTHER TORTURER 262 00:19:31,836 --> 00:19:34,463 Maybe "prints" instead of "turns into". 263 00:19:34,630 --> 00:19:37,883 "The torturer prints on the victim..." 264 00:19:38,092 --> 00:19:40,093 Drop the philosophy! 265 00:19:40,261 --> 00:19:42,762 He prints his point of view. It's biology! 266 00:19:42,847 --> 00:19:43,947 It's all right! 267 00:19:44,056 --> 00:19:45,432 No, it isn't. 268 00:19:45,558 --> 00:19:47,100 You refuse to see how. 269 00:19:47,268 --> 00:19:49,769 But for Odette, it was something else. 270 00:19:49,937 --> 00:19:53,982 She hated in leftism what related to the Communist Party, 271 00:19:54,233 --> 00:19:57,944 just as you can hate in a kid what comes from his father. 272 00:19:58,070 --> 00:20:00,697 Actually, it's because of her, 273 00:20:00,865 --> 00:20:05,410 yes, because of that, that I started thinking of you again. 274 00:20:35,816 --> 00:20:38,193 We'll have to talk about the noise. 275 00:20:39,028 --> 00:20:43,615 But what we don't see is what's controlling everything. 276 00:20:45,618 --> 00:20:46,868 What's that? 277 00:20:47,203 --> 00:20:49,329 It's the look. 278 00:20:52,291 --> 00:20:56,836 What look did I give you when you came out of your mother's cunt? 279 00:20:59,423 --> 00:21:02,509 We probably never had any relationship. 280 00:21:02,677 --> 00:21:05,095 Or maybe we had a lot. 281 00:21:05,263 --> 00:21:08,765 But after all, between children and their parents, 282 00:21:08,933 --> 00:21:12,352 how and with what love is labor distributed? 283 00:21:33,624 --> 00:21:34,724 In my opinion, 284 00:21:34,834 --> 00:21:37,877 there's not Portugal first 285 00:21:38,004 --> 00:21:40,213 and then the typewriter. 286 00:21:40,381 --> 00:21:43,466 There is a typewriter first 287 00:21:43,634 --> 00:21:45,010 and then a Portugal 288 00:21:45,177 --> 00:21:47,512 which enters this machine. 289 00:21:48,723 --> 00:21:52,851 You say it enters, but it exits too! 290 00:21:53,019 --> 00:21:54,603 All right. 291 00:21:55,688 --> 00:21:57,647 But how does it come out? 292 00:21:57,815 --> 00:22:00,108 How does Portugal come out of it? 293 00:22:00,276 --> 00:22:02,611 How does it go from entry to exit? 294 00:22:02,778 --> 00:22:06,740 We should ask ourselves this: how does it go from entry to exit? 295 00:22:06,907 --> 00:22:10,660 Our power as journalists lies there, not anywhere else! 296 00:22:10,828 --> 00:22:13,913 It isn't in France or Portugal, but in between. 297 00:22:17,001 --> 00:22:18,101 Get my letter? 298 00:22:18,127 --> 00:22:19,961 Yes I did. 299 00:22:20,755 --> 00:22:22,047 Well? 300 00:22:24,342 --> 00:22:26,509 I don't know what to say. 301 00:22:27,219 --> 00:22:28,720 Then don't say anything. 302 00:22:29,263 --> 00:22:31,848 We can communicate with silence, you know. 303 00:22:35,436 --> 00:22:37,187 I'm a bit embarrassed. 304 00:22:38,898 --> 00:22:40,273 By what I wrote? 305 00:22:40,441 --> 00:22:41,941 Yes. 306 00:22:42,109 --> 00:22:44,861 When you talk about my ass like that. 307 00:22:49,033 --> 00:22:51,242 I really don't know what to say. 308 00:22:59,585 --> 00:23:03,505 It isn't easy to use silence to communicate. 309 00:23:08,386 --> 00:23:09,844 You like my silences 310 00:23:10,054 --> 00:23:12,389 because they contain words. 311 00:23:16,394 --> 00:23:19,646 But these words need to make noise, too. 312 00:23:22,066 --> 00:23:24,859 When we talk about work or money. 313 00:23:34,870 --> 00:23:37,038 And I don't know how. 314 00:23:39,458 --> 00:23:43,002 And when we argue, I get the feeling that's the reason. 315 00:23:53,139 --> 00:23:54,597 At work... 316 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:03,356 At work, all day long, it's impossible to talk about love. 317 00:24:06,694 --> 00:24:08,737 And in the evening, 318 00:24:08,904 --> 00:24:12,532 it's something else again that's impossible. 319 00:24:15,786 --> 00:24:17,162 Yes, I'm fine. 320 00:24:17,329 --> 00:24:18,429 What strikes me... 321 00:24:18,497 --> 00:24:21,499 But it isn't always enough to say I'm fine. 322 00:24:21,667 --> 00:24:26,004 ...is the seriousness, the anxiety even, 323 00:24:26,213 --> 00:24:30,633 of the civilian's face. 324 00:24:31,135 --> 00:24:35,805 I get the impression they are in agreement, 325 00:24:35,973 --> 00:24:37,557 but it's a confrontation. 326 00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:39,434 Don't look at me! 327 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,352 And it isn't at all... 328 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,689 It's not like the images we usually see of Portugal, 329 00:24:44,857 --> 00:24:47,484 that we've seen so far, 330 00:24:47,568 --> 00:24:48,668 with crowds... 331 00:24:48,778 --> 00:24:50,487 Who's speaking? 332 00:24:50,780 --> 00:24:54,949 A guy I know. He's a manager at Thompson. 333 00:24:55,075 --> 00:24:57,952 You can see that they're happy to meet. 334 00:24:58,913 --> 00:25:00,622 It seems to me... 335 00:25:01,957 --> 00:25:04,167 these two people are... 336 00:25:04,335 --> 00:25:06,711 It isn't me you should be looking at! 337 00:25:06,962 --> 00:25:08,338 How can I put it? 338 00:25:08,839 --> 00:25:12,884 They're raising their fists at someone who isn't there, 339 00:25:13,052 --> 00:25:16,888 or maybe even at each other. It's hard to tell. 340 00:25:18,891 --> 00:25:21,601 When I look at this photo, 341 00:25:22,186 --> 00:25:24,020 I see a man, 342 00:25:24,188 --> 00:25:27,023 a civilian, with a rather... 343 00:25:27,358 --> 00:25:28,650 violent expression, 344 00:25:31,195 --> 00:25:34,405 making another man raise his fist in front of him. 345 00:25:34,573 --> 00:25:36,157 And who's that? 346 00:25:36,325 --> 00:25:37,826 My neighbor. 347 00:25:37,952 --> 00:25:41,913 And there appears to be 348 00:25:42,039 --> 00:25:43,915 a row of soldiers... 349 00:25:44,083 --> 00:25:45,875 There are a few raised fists. 350 00:25:46,961 --> 00:25:51,214 It doesn't seem very united. 351 00:25:52,508 --> 00:25:53,716 It's in the street. 352 00:25:53,926 --> 00:25:55,301 Your neighbor! 353 00:25:55,511 --> 00:25:58,054 Yes! Don't you have neighbors? 354 00:25:58,597 --> 00:26:00,682 What is their relationship? 355 00:26:01,892 --> 00:26:04,936 I thought Odette's idea wasn't bad: 356 00:26:05,062 --> 00:26:07,605 start with an image, only one, 357 00:26:08,065 --> 00:26:10,149 just as science starts with atoms, 358 00:26:10,609 --> 00:26:14,153 to see how everything fits together. 359 00:26:27,585 --> 00:26:31,004 But she should have asked the workers' council 360 00:26:31,130 --> 00:26:32,672 to work with her, 361 00:26:33,048 --> 00:26:34,757 not outsiders. 362 00:26:44,143 --> 00:26:46,269 I say that, 363 00:26:46,687 --> 00:26:49,439 but I know it's impossible. 364 00:26:49,690 --> 00:26:51,107 A print worker 365 00:26:51,317 --> 00:26:55,236 would never judge a novel that he prints. 366 00:26:56,071 --> 00:26:59,282 Nor would arms factory workers 367 00:26:59,450 --> 00:27:01,951 say anything about 368 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,662 the weapons and ammunition that they make. 369 00:27:04,872 --> 00:27:05,997 So... 370 00:27:10,252 --> 00:27:12,045 What's this all about? 371 00:27:12,630 --> 00:27:17,634 I don't know, there's a kind of dual reality: 372 00:27:20,179 --> 00:27:22,180 solidarity and... 373 00:27:22,348 --> 00:27:26,184 At the time, Odette had wanted to talk about this image, 374 00:27:26,435 --> 00:27:29,020 but the guy dictating wasn't interested. 375 00:27:29,188 --> 00:27:30,605 As usual. 376 00:27:30,814 --> 00:27:34,150 He had to get the 7pm edition out. 377 00:27:34,318 --> 00:27:36,152 So she had rebelled. 378 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,907 And it was this revolt that I'd cut, as if it were not part of the job. 379 00:27:41,075 --> 00:27:43,868 All his violence, all his convictions... 380 00:27:43,994 --> 00:27:46,788 As a matter of fact, it was the job. 381 00:27:48,123 --> 00:27:50,959 It's as if the soldier were a mannequin 382 00:27:51,543 --> 00:27:55,046 and the guy were bringing him to life. 383 00:27:55,214 --> 00:27:56,923 That's a musician. 384 00:27:57,466 --> 00:28:00,218 A piano teacher, I think. 385 00:28:02,304 --> 00:28:04,597 It's all very interesting, 386 00:28:05,099 --> 00:28:06,975 but there are too many silences. 387 00:28:07,935 --> 00:28:09,602 All that should be cut. 388 00:28:10,145 --> 00:28:11,896 That's right, silence silence! 389 00:28:12,064 --> 00:28:13,773 And a barefoot kid. 390 00:28:15,192 --> 00:28:17,360 Silence is embarrassing, isn't it? 391 00:28:31,583 --> 00:28:34,669 So the army has banned all political parties? 392 00:28:35,045 --> 00:28:37,797 No, it isn't a ban, 393 00:28:37,965 --> 00:28:42,760 but another pact with the parties 394 00:28:43,012 --> 00:28:44,846 to take control 395 00:28:45,055 --> 00:28:48,641 and not obstruct the masses. 396 00:28:48,809 --> 00:28:51,019 For us, they are all equal. 397 00:28:51,603 --> 00:28:55,356 We are not defending any party 398 00:28:56,191 --> 00:28:59,902 nor are we fighting any party. 399 00:29:00,404 --> 00:29:03,322 We are everyone's friend and are loved by all. 400 00:29:04,992 --> 00:29:08,036 So many means to communicate, 401 00:29:08,746 --> 00:29:11,080 but no means to use them. 402 00:29:13,792 --> 00:29:15,752 Power of the radio, 403 00:29:15,919 --> 00:29:17,879 powerlessness of listeners. 404 00:29:18,839 --> 00:29:21,674 And as a result, no labor put into love 405 00:29:21,842 --> 00:29:24,177 because no love put into labor. 406 00:29:25,137 --> 00:29:26,596 Odette was right. 407 00:29:26,805 --> 00:29:29,974 If Portugal concerned us in any way, 408 00:29:30,142 --> 00:29:32,810 we had to say how it concerned us. 409 00:29:34,938 --> 00:29:39,192 The Portuguese third way between socialism and communism. 410 00:30:03,008 --> 00:30:04,759 It's worth mentioning 411 00:30:04,927 --> 00:30:08,054 a dialogue between Mr Kissinger and Mr Brezhnev. 412 00:30:08,222 --> 00:30:10,515 Yesterday, the US warned the USSR 413 00:30:10,724 --> 00:30:13,392 against influencing the situation in Lisbon. 414 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,354 Brezhnev replied, "We will not interfere. 415 00:30:16,522 --> 00:30:19,190 "It's a matter for the Portuguese." 416 00:30:19,358 --> 00:30:22,777 Now for a French reaction to the situation in Portugal. 417 00:30:23,779 --> 00:30:26,072 Measures are to be taken 418 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,575 to stop the wave of anti-communist violence 419 00:30:29,743 --> 00:30:32,453 and dissension in the army. 420 00:30:33,539 --> 00:30:36,374 I get the impression everyone wants to shout 421 00:30:39,086 --> 00:30:40,336 and that... 422 00:30:43,799 --> 00:30:46,342 some people watching do not know... 423 00:31:04,319 --> 00:31:06,946 What I find striking is 424 00:31:07,197 --> 00:31:08,656 the gesture. 425 00:31:09,950 --> 00:31:11,367 There's... 426 00:31:12,536 --> 00:31:14,704 the brutal gesture of the fist, 427 00:31:15,414 --> 00:31:19,667 of the raised fist moving forward, 428 00:31:21,170 --> 00:31:25,631 of the guy who, with his other hand, 429 00:31:26,967 --> 00:31:30,136 grips the soldier's wrist... 430 00:31:36,185 --> 00:31:40,062 I don't know, there's a kind of dual reality: 431 00:31:43,609 --> 00:31:44,709 solidarity and... 432 00:31:44,818 --> 00:31:46,611 "Why the fuck is that photo there?" 433 00:31:47,196 --> 00:31:49,864 She said to me, "Think. Try to remember." 434 00:31:51,116 --> 00:31:53,743 In fact, I remembered perfectly well. 435 00:31:53,911 --> 00:31:56,871 "So why are you asking?" she said. 436 00:32:03,879 --> 00:32:07,340 "It's a photo of Joint Français from four years ago." 437 00:32:07,966 --> 00:32:11,844 "It was circulated widely to help the striking workers." 438 00:32:12,387 --> 00:32:14,388 "What's it got to do with Portugal?" 439 00:32:14,556 --> 00:32:16,515 At first, I couldn't see. 440 00:32:18,310 --> 00:32:20,019 She opened my eyes. 441 00:32:20,437 --> 00:32:22,396 FRANCE - PORTUGAL: 3-0 442 00:32:31,990 --> 00:32:34,951 THREE WHAT? 443 00:32:36,995 --> 00:32:39,538 In fact, something 444 00:32:39,706 --> 00:32:43,417 that Portugal was trying to say had been said in France, 445 00:32:43,752 --> 00:32:45,461 but in another form. 446 00:32:46,004 --> 00:32:49,674 On the same occasion, but in another form. 447 00:32:50,050 --> 00:32:51,217 Form. 448 00:32:51,635 --> 00:32:52,927 Formation. 449 00:32:53,095 --> 00:32:54,428 Information. 450 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,347 FRANCE - PORTUGAL: 3 - 0 451 00:32:56,515 --> 00:32:57,974 THREE WHAT? 452 00:32:58,141 --> 00:33:02,061 LAUGHTER OR TEARS 453 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,285 LAUGHTER OR ARMS 454 00:33:23,917 --> 00:33:26,585 They're fascist commandos. It's different. 455 00:33:26,753 --> 00:33:29,088 The population has problems 456 00:33:29,214 --> 00:33:34,218 which the Portuguese revolution has not yet resolved. 457 00:33:41,435 --> 00:33:44,520 But am I going to shoot? 458 00:33:45,063 --> 00:33:47,106 In a similar situation, 459 00:33:47,274 --> 00:33:49,483 would someone shoot us? 460 00:33:49,651 --> 00:33:51,360 That's the question. 461 00:33:58,075 --> 00:34:00,953 Do you mind if I watch it again? 462 00:34:01,163 --> 00:34:02,263 No. 463 00:34:03,290 --> 00:34:05,124 There's truth in what you say, 464 00:34:06,126 --> 00:34:07,835 but it isn't very clear. 465 00:34:08,211 --> 00:34:10,963 I don't really see what you're getting at. 466 00:34:11,465 --> 00:34:13,966 We already see quite a lot. 467 00:34:14,551 --> 00:34:17,678 Information is printed in a newspaper. 468 00:34:17,763 --> 00:34:18,863 Right? 469 00:34:19,014 --> 00:34:20,556 Yes! 470 00:34:21,224 --> 00:34:23,184 How is it printed? 471 00:34:23,727 --> 00:34:25,478 With machines! 472 00:34:25,729 --> 00:34:28,773 Typewriters. Controlled by who? 473 00:34:28,939 --> 00:34:30,566 By hands! 474 00:34:30,692 --> 00:34:33,277 Workers' hands. 475 00:34:33,445 --> 00:34:34,737 Controlled by what? 476 00:34:34,863 --> 00:34:36,447 Someone's eyes. 477 00:34:41,745 --> 00:34:45,373 In the same way that it happened in Chile... 478 00:34:45,540 --> 00:34:47,750 A look controls everything. 479 00:34:49,211 --> 00:34:51,295 We control through division. 480 00:34:52,756 --> 00:34:55,049 We receive events, 481 00:34:55,217 --> 00:34:57,259 we receive images. 482 00:34:57,427 --> 00:34:58,552 But, in fact, 483 00:34:58,762 --> 00:35:01,180 it's exactly what's happening here. 484 00:35:02,349 --> 00:35:04,016 A look separates things, 485 00:35:04,142 --> 00:35:07,812 just as water separates what we see of an iceberg 486 00:35:07,979 --> 00:35:09,397 from what we don't. 487 00:35:11,483 --> 00:35:13,025 A look is not profound. 488 00:35:13,193 --> 00:35:15,277 What is profound is the extent 489 00:35:15,487 --> 00:35:18,072 of the link between the known and the unknown. 490 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:20,199 When you look at something, 491 00:35:20,367 --> 00:35:23,702 this photo of Portugal, for instance, 492 00:35:24,037 --> 00:35:25,496 your eyes scan it. 493 00:35:25,664 --> 00:35:27,623 You go up and down, 494 00:35:27,791 --> 00:35:30,918 you go from side to side. Your eyes wander. 495 00:35:32,546 --> 00:35:34,839 So what? 496 00:35:35,298 --> 00:35:39,343 If we had to define what your head is doing, 497 00:35:39,511 --> 00:35:41,929 it would be rather like drawing. 498 00:35:44,433 --> 00:35:45,850 So what? 499 00:35:46,309 --> 00:35:49,979 Well, the thing is, your hands don't draw 500 00:35:50,605 --> 00:35:53,274 since they always move in the same direction. 501 00:35:56,236 --> 00:35:58,446 Don't you think that's philosophy? 502 00:35:58,613 --> 00:36:01,365 No, not necessarily. 503 00:36:03,660 --> 00:36:07,037 What you're saying is, I do this... 504 00:36:09,291 --> 00:36:11,000 To look at this photo. 505 00:36:12,461 --> 00:36:13,961 And like this... 506 00:36:15,422 --> 00:36:17,298 To say what is in it. 507 00:36:17,799 --> 00:36:19,508 But you don't actually say. 508 00:36:19,676 --> 00:36:22,094 You're influenced by the hands 509 00:36:22,262 --> 00:36:24,054 that you put on the machine. 510 00:36:24,222 --> 00:36:26,098 You forget what you've seen. 511 00:36:27,142 --> 00:36:28,267 No I don't! 512 00:36:28,435 --> 00:36:31,353 Well, you don't rely on it to think. 513 00:36:33,982 --> 00:36:35,441 To think. 514 00:36:36,568 --> 00:36:37,943 I began to see why 515 00:36:38,111 --> 00:36:40,738 she insisted on juxtaposing these two photos. 516 00:36:41,573 --> 00:36:43,491 Simply to think. 517 00:36:44,367 --> 00:36:47,745 Simply to compare two simple images. 518 00:36:47,954 --> 00:36:50,498 Simple because they show simple people, 519 00:36:50,665 --> 00:36:53,459 but who, because they dare to rebel, 520 00:36:53,668 --> 00:36:55,294 start something complex. 521 00:36:58,089 --> 00:37:02,635 Here, it was clear that hope was still searching for words, 522 00:37:03,428 --> 00:37:07,306 that despair had already found them elsewhere. 523 00:37:08,433 --> 00:37:11,602 We began to think that, with our pencils, 524 00:37:11,770 --> 00:37:15,898 we had probably erased more than we had written. 525 00:37:16,566 --> 00:37:18,651 Worse still, we erased 526 00:37:18,944 --> 00:37:22,154 even as we thought we were writing. 527 00:37:28,578 --> 00:37:30,746 "And do you remember this, too?" 528 00:37:31,706 --> 00:37:34,291 Her pretty blue eyes shone with indignation. 529 00:37:36,294 --> 00:37:39,713 It's what people said during the Joint Français strike. 530 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:45,594 But if you look carefully, behind all these slogans, 531 00:37:45,845 --> 00:37:49,139 that mouth did seem to be laughing. 532 00:37:50,016 --> 00:37:52,601 But if you look carefully, 533 00:37:52,769 --> 00:37:56,397 if you remove the strikers' dream... 534 00:37:56,731 --> 00:38:00,192 THERE'S JOY IN STRIKING 535 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,662 When your courage is exhausted, 536 00:38:11,955 --> 00:38:14,707 you should still have the courage to say 537 00:38:14,833 --> 00:38:18,836 that it wasn't courage but weakness. 538 00:38:38,315 --> 00:38:41,233 Odette asks if I can read between the lines. 539 00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:43,861 I reply, "Not very well." 540 00:38:44,237 --> 00:38:46,155 She says it's a serious flaw 541 00:38:46,364 --> 00:38:50,618 because the counter-revolution was very good at it. 542 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,746 It slipped between our words, 543 00:38:54,205 --> 00:38:57,166 just like in phone conversations 544 00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:00,210 where, to double the traffic, 545 00:39:00,378 --> 00:39:03,672 the engineers place the words of one conversation 546 00:39:03,798 --> 00:39:05,799 in the silences of another. 547 00:39:06,051 --> 00:39:08,802 THE IMAGE OF THESE SOLDIERS IN UNIFORM, 548 00:39:08,970 --> 00:39:12,181 AN ARMY FOR THE PEOPLE, WHISTLING THE INTERNATIONALE 549 00:39:28,615 --> 00:39:31,033 Instead of spending fifty years shouting, 550 00:39:31,242 --> 00:39:32,701 "Down with Fascism!", 551 00:39:32,869 --> 00:39:34,536 you should have studied 552 00:39:34,704 --> 00:39:36,914 Shannon's model instead. 553 00:39:38,833 --> 00:39:41,168 "There's a problem with this text." 554 00:39:41,711 --> 00:39:44,046 She added, "How did that happen?" 555 00:39:46,758 --> 00:39:48,133 On Wednesday, 556 00:39:48,468 --> 00:39:50,052 I told Marianne off. 557 00:39:50,637 --> 00:39:52,680 She kept making mistakes. 558 00:39:53,890 --> 00:39:55,641 Here's what she wrote... 559 00:39:56,976 --> 00:40:01,355 "But how come?" you wondered, "She's a capable girl." 560 00:40:03,316 --> 00:40:05,651 Because she was trying to decide 561 00:40:05,860 --> 00:40:07,736 if she should keep her baby 562 00:40:08,238 --> 00:40:09,738 or get an abortion. 563 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,074 And it was her sixth week. 564 00:40:12,242 --> 00:40:16,328 This urgent decision combined with your edition to be finished. 565 00:40:16,496 --> 00:40:18,247 And this was the result. 566 00:40:18,415 --> 00:40:20,749 Her hands were getting mixed up. 567 00:40:21,334 --> 00:40:25,295 It's an image that "weighs heavily on the process". 568 00:40:25,505 --> 00:40:29,133 THE IMAG4 OF THESE SOLDERS IN UNIFORM, AR2 FOR THE... 569 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:35,055 If she could have seen the image and relied on it to think, 570 00:40:35,223 --> 00:40:36,890 she'd have made fewer mistakes 571 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:40,728 for herself and for you, you rotten journalist! 572 00:40:43,231 --> 00:40:46,567 For Odette, objectivity had become a crime. 573 00:40:47,902 --> 00:40:50,988 It was a crime to be paid to give news of others 574 00:40:51,156 --> 00:40:52,448 and not speak of them. 575 00:40:53,408 --> 00:40:58,245 It was a crime to speak of others and not use their voice. 576 00:41:08,298 --> 00:41:10,674 A strike is primarily silence. 577 00:41:11,217 --> 00:41:12,801 I knew that. 578 00:41:12,886 --> 00:41:15,012 So why when I had talked about 579 00:41:15,513 --> 00:41:19,767 the Joint Français strike did I not first go on silence strike? 580 00:41:25,899 --> 00:41:27,775 "Why? Because, in fact, 581 00:41:28,401 --> 00:41:30,778 "you used others' words to sell your own. 582 00:41:33,198 --> 00:41:37,826 "Your crime was to keep your position while taking the position of others. 583 00:41:43,082 --> 00:41:47,878 "Your crime was to keep your position while taking the position of others, 584 00:41:48,087 --> 00:41:49,838 "you rotten journalist!" 585 00:41:51,174 --> 00:41:53,008 Rotten journalist! 586 00:42:06,481 --> 00:42:08,190 It's true that the speed 587 00:42:08,358 --> 00:42:12,653 with which my desire had represented another's desire... 588 00:42:13,696 --> 00:42:15,989 ended up causing a commotion. 589 00:42:17,158 --> 00:42:19,243 We speak of a wall of sound, 590 00:42:19,911 --> 00:42:24,164 but there's a wall of images, too. It turns into a wall of silence. 591 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,668 Sound of silence. 592 00:42:29,295 --> 00:42:31,255 Silence before the storm. 593 00:42:31,965 --> 00:42:33,966 Storm in the night. 594 00:42:36,511 --> 00:42:38,679 Fascist night. 595 00:42:47,981 --> 00:42:50,440 Deformation, information. 596 00:42:50,848 --> 00:42:54,814 IN THE AGE OF DARKNESS, WILL SONGS STILL BE SUNG? 597 00:42:55,014 --> 00:42:57,481 I didn't know how to answer that question. 598 00:42:58,575 --> 00:43:02,661 "Then say that all you know is, in the age of darkness, 599 00:43:02,829 --> 00:43:04,538 "the Song will be sung." 600 00:43:12,630 --> 00:43:15,299 "What about the words?" "Just look!" 601 00:43:33,192 --> 00:43:35,527 It is never either/or. 602 00:43:35,820 --> 00:43:38,947 There is never one problem and two solutions. 603 00:43:42,744 --> 00:43:45,329 But always two problems and one solution. 604 00:43:52,545 --> 00:43:56,965 There must never be equal work for equal pay, 605 00:43:57,425 --> 00:44:01,845 On the contrary, there must always be unequal work 606 00:44:03,348 --> 00:44:05,057 for equal pay. 607 00:44:06,184 --> 00:44:08,518 A couple does not have a problem, 608 00:44:08,686 --> 00:44:10,020 but two problems. 609 00:44:10,188 --> 00:44:13,190 A male problem and a female problem. 610 00:44:17,278 --> 00:44:19,029 And one solution. 611 00:44:19,656 --> 00:44:21,031 One solution. 612 00:44:22,283 --> 00:44:23,742 One solution. 613 00:44:28,873 --> 00:44:32,209 There is a photo problem and a text problem. 614 00:44:32,627 --> 00:44:35,629 And the solution is one newspaper, 615 00:44:36,130 --> 00:44:37,714 one type of information. 616 00:44:38,466 --> 00:44:41,385 You cannot choose between day and night. 617 00:44:41,761 --> 00:44:44,805 Nor can you choose to live or to die. 618 00:44:45,807 --> 00:44:49,017 The only choice is, there is not any choice. 619 00:44:57,819 --> 00:45:00,946 - He seems to be crying. - Yes, he's crying. 620 00:45:02,782 --> 00:45:04,992 The other guy is near to tears. 621 00:45:37,150 --> 00:45:40,277 DOWN WITH FASCISM! 622 00:45:48,953 --> 00:45:50,954 I read Fascism. 623 00:45:51,998 --> 00:45:54,875 And if I am Chile, for instance, 624 00:45:55,460 --> 00:45:57,711 then I am also Fascism. 625 00:45:57,837 --> 00:45:59,504 The two go together. 626 00:46:04,427 --> 00:46:06,011 Because you saw nothing. 627 00:46:06,137 --> 00:46:09,347 You saw nothing in May '68 or at Hiroshima. 628 00:46:09,557 --> 00:46:12,559 Because your hands control your eyes. 629 00:46:12,810 --> 00:46:14,644 Because it is written. 630 00:46:14,812 --> 00:46:17,439 You don't see Vietnam, you read Vietnam. 631 00:46:17,565 --> 00:46:20,692 You don't see unemployment, you don't see women. 632 00:46:21,611 --> 00:46:24,321 Your eyes do what your hands should be doing. 633 00:46:24,572 --> 00:46:27,783 The tragic thing is, it isn't even manual work. 634 00:46:30,870 --> 00:46:32,454 Marianne, on getting home, 635 00:46:32,622 --> 00:46:35,082 will even be happy to do the laundry 636 00:46:35,249 --> 00:46:37,417 or the washing-up, or touch her kid. 637 00:46:37,585 --> 00:46:40,545 At least her hands escape and find a meaning. 638 00:46:40,713 --> 00:46:43,423 Not a great one, but it's something. 639 00:46:43,591 --> 00:46:44,966 Not you, though. 640 00:46:45,134 --> 00:46:47,803 You're a journalist, but you can't see. 641 00:46:47,970 --> 00:46:49,763 You don't want to see. 642 00:46:49,889 --> 00:46:52,265 Even if you wanted to, you couldn't. 643 00:46:58,231 --> 00:47:00,107 How is it printed on the mind? 644 00:47:00,274 --> 00:47:01,900 And what will it do? 645 00:47:02,151 --> 00:47:05,821 It will control your life, always in the same way. 646 00:47:05,988 --> 00:47:10,033 In fact, you're afraid to see. This photo of Portugal scares you. 647 00:47:10,201 --> 00:47:12,577 This guy looks a bit crazy. 648 00:47:12,745 --> 00:47:15,539 If he were a rock star, 649 00:47:15,748 --> 00:47:18,917 you would accept his mouth and his gestures, 650 00:47:19,085 --> 00:47:22,254 which are slightly dumb but still quite beautiful. 651 00:47:24,340 --> 00:47:27,217 If you told a worker to strike, would you dare 652 00:47:27,593 --> 00:47:30,137 to dance with him for obeying you? 653 00:47:33,182 --> 00:47:37,144 Why won't you say what this photo reminds you of, 654 00:47:37,311 --> 00:47:38,520 not someone else? 655 00:47:38,729 --> 00:47:42,941 I, the reader, who receive it from you, the journalist, 656 00:47:43,067 --> 00:47:45,527 need the text, if there is one, 657 00:47:45,695 --> 00:47:48,280 to help me see where I am. 658 00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:51,408 You're afraid to see where you are. 659 00:47:51,576 --> 00:47:56,037 We're afraid to see when we're afraid of losing our position. 660 00:47:56,622 --> 00:47:58,206 Maybe wanting Fascism 661 00:47:58,374 --> 00:48:00,625 is being afraid of losing our position. 662 00:48:01,085 --> 00:48:03,837 So we say nothing. We close our eyes. 663 00:48:22,857 --> 00:48:25,275 That's the really distressing thing 664 00:48:25,443 --> 00:48:27,444 about Portugal... 665 00:48:29,822 --> 00:48:32,657 It proves how quickly things can change... 666 00:48:36,621 --> 00:48:37,996 Because... 667 00:48:40,416 --> 00:48:43,627 The people behind the bar, just look at their faces. 668 00:48:43,878 --> 00:48:48,298 They don't appear to be in communion, united. 669 00:48:48,466 --> 00:48:49,841 It doesn't seem... 670 00:48:50,009 --> 00:48:51,109 It's aggressive. 671 00:48:51,177 --> 00:48:53,261 It's very aggressive. 672 00:48:53,512 --> 00:48:55,013 You can't tell if... 673 00:48:55,181 --> 00:48:56,640 Independent look. 674 00:48:58,476 --> 00:49:00,143 Or absent look. 675 00:49:01,771 --> 00:49:05,023 Present on a sheet of paper, which splits two truths 676 00:49:05,191 --> 00:49:08,443 rather than uniting them and making them embrace. 677 00:49:15,368 --> 00:49:18,703 Lights were still on in the Central Committee, 678 00:49:18,913 --> 00:49:21,081 where I'd got a dressing-down. 679 00:49:23,918 --> 00:49:27,671 I walked back to the office, thinking of that German writer 680 00:49:27,838 --> 00:49:29,089 who once said, 681 00:49:29,257 --> 00:49:30,840 "What is wrong 682 00:49:31,008 --> 00:49:34,010 "is not that the world's sad, but that it's big." 683 00:49:50,278 --> 00:49:51,653 It's a photo. 684 00:49:51,946 --> 00:49:55,031 Of Portugal. 685 00:49:55,825 --> 00:49:58,702 And there's a text around it. 686 00:49:58,953 --> 00:50:01,997 I did what I was told, you see. 687 00:50:02,206 --> 00:50:04,624 I made up an excuse 688 00:50:04,917 --> 00:50:07,252 to call a meeting of the workers' council, 689 00:50:07,461 --> 00:50:10,547 to try to put Odette in the minority. 690 00:50:10,715 --> 00:50:14,301 Why can't we run pictures without words in the newspaper? 691 00:50:14,593 --> 00:50:18,430 I would like us to discuss that right now. 692 00:50:20,141 --> 00:50:22,851 Does a photo without words mean anything? 693 00:50:22,935 --> 00:50:24,436 Yes. 694 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,771 I soon realized it wouldn't be easy. 695 00:50:26,939 --> 00:50:30,942 The guys were bowled over by what she had done. 696 00:50:33,029 --> 00:50:36,489 They didn't get it, but something had moved them. 697 00:50:38,993 --> 00:50:40,869 Maybe Odette had a screw loose, 698 00:50:41,037 --> 00:50:43,580 but it had loosened them up. 699 00:50:43,956 --> 00:50:45,623 And it got me thinking. 700 00:50:45,791 --> 00:50:50,378 If we want to play on the link between the soldiers and the people, 701 00:50:50,588 --> 00:50:53,131 the guy who represents the people 702 00:50:53,299 --> 00:50:54,924 looks kind of hostile... 703 00:50:55,092 --> 00:50:58,303 But there's solidarity too, 704 00:50:58,471 --> 00:51:00,805 the raised fist and then... 705 00:51:01,390 --> 00:51:03,767 That isn't the question. For once, 706 00:51:03,934 --> 00:51:06,728 it isn't about seeing what's in this photo, 707 00:51:06,896 --> 00:51:09,105 but about trying to see why 708 00:51:09,273 --> 00:51:14,235 the photo is just as ambiguous with or without the text. 709 00:51:14,445 --> 00:51:17,489 To avoid any ambiguity, the photo needs a text 710 00:51:17,656 --> 00:51:19,115 because in itself... 711 00:51:19,283 --> 00:51:21,034 The text doesn't explain. 712 00:51:21,202 --> 00:51:23,828 It says, "The image of these soldiers... 713 00:51:23,996 --> 00:51:25,997 "whistling the Internationale... 714 00:51:26,165 --> 00:51:27,874 "will weigh heavily..." 715 00:51:28,042 --> 00:51:30,794 You're right, it doesn't explain the photo. 716 00:51:30,961 --> 00:51:33,380 Your caption says, "Porto, September 11. 717 00:51:33,547 --> 00:51:34,839 "2,000 soldiers 718 00:51:35,007 --> 00:51:37,634 "joined 10,000 protesters on the streets." 719 00:51:38,010 --> 00:51:42,222 The photo has nothing to do with this text. 720 00:51:42,390 --> 00:51:45,225 The writer put it there for another reason. 721 00:51:45,726 --> 00:51:49,604 And there's no explanation for it. 722 00:52:10,793 --> 00:52:12,794 Without a text. 723 00:52:12,962 --> 00:52:14,337 With a certain type of text, 724 00:52:14,505 --> 00:52:18,425 which could easily be shortened or summarized in a sentence. 725 00:52:18,592 --> 00:52:21,344 You'd reconstruct it according to the photo? 726 00:52:23,681 --> 00:52:28,101 If you just put photos, and they moved, it'd be cinema. 727 00:52:28,269 --> 00:52:29,644 It's funny. 728 00:52:30,229 --> 00:52:33,356 I was struck at once by the guys' sincerity 729 00:52:33,524 --> 00:52:35,442 and their immense stupidity. 730 00:52:37,570 --> 00:52:38,820 It isn't their fault, 731 00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,907 but when they expressed an idea, they didn't really see. 732 00:52:45,369 --> 00:52:47,370 No, it isn't their fault. 733 00:52:47,496 --> 00:52:49,747 They shouldn't have watched TV, 734 00:52:49,915 --> 00:52:52,292 listened to the radio or read the papers, 735 00:52:52,543 --> 00:52:56,254 not even ours. So it was actually their fault. 736 00:52:57,923 --> 00:53:00,258 After a while, I stopped listening. 737 00:53:00,426 --> 00:53:03,887 I looked at photographs published by the Left and the Right, 738 00:53:04,054 --> 00:53:06,723 which Odette had collected for the project. 739 00:53:07,308 --> 00:53:09,225 Why do we never use them? 740 00:53:09,393 --> 00:53:12,770 But a photo must condense several meanings. 741 00:53:12,938 --> 00:53:18,151 If it conveys so little that it needs a lengthy explanation 742 00:53:18,319 --> 00:53:20,195 then it isn't worth using. 743 00:53:20,362 --> 00:53:22,989 A photo is supposed to summarize 744 00:53:23,407 --> 00:53:26,367 a text that would be too long to develop. 745 00:53:26,535 --> 00:53:28,411 If it's the reverse, 746 00:53:28,579 --> 00:53:33,249 if a text has to summarize a photo that is not enough on its own, 747 00:53:33,375 --> 00:53:35,460 then there's no point using it. 748 00:53:35,669 --> 00:53:38,129 You should work your text and your photo 749 00:53:38,297 --> 00:53:39,923 in a way that's related. 750 00:53:40,090 --> 00:53:41,424 That's right. 751 00:53:41,592 --> 00:53:43,051 Totally related. 752 00:53:44,803 --> 00:53:47,180 Relationships between men 753 00:53:47,348 --> 00:53:50,475 are determined by their relationship to women. 754 00:53:52,061 --> 00:53:54,938 If your photo is commenting on the text, 755 00:53:55,105 --> 00:53:57,065 say it is commenting on it 756 00:53:57,233 --> 00:53:59,901 and then talk about this commentary 757 00:54:00,069 --> 00:54:02,862 or about the way it happens to comment. 758 00:54:03,030 --> 00:54:05,281 Won't the reader comment on the photo 759 00:54:05,449 --> 00:54:08,952 even if the text is slightly different? 760 00:54:10,829 --> 00:54:11,929 What do you mean? 761 00:54:12,039 --> 00:54:16,918 One day I entered a corridor: your mother's cunt. 762 00:54:17,086 --> 00:54:21,047 And a few months later, you came out of this corridor. 763 00:54:21,215 --> 00:54:23,800 This tunnel. This canal. 764 00:54:24,718 --> 00:54:27,262 There was an input and an output. 765 00:54:27,846 --> 00:54:30,390 And your mother had received a signal. 766 00:54:30,766 --> 00:54:32,684 How does she communicate it? 767 00:54:33,435 --> 00:54:36,479 How does it go from the entry to the exit? 768 00:54:37,773 --> 00:54:39,482 Of the reproduction machine. 769 00:54:39,984 --> 00:54:41,901 The copying machine. 770 00:54:42,236 --> 00:54:43,861 You are a copy of me. 771 00:54:45,155 --> 00:54:48,366 But maybe your mother made mistakes when copying. 772 00:54:49,243 --> 00:54:52,620 Maybe, even surely, she transmitted information 773 00:54:53,122 --> 00:54:55,290 that she shouldn't have. 774 00:54:59,837 --> 00:55:02,505 He could explain why he took it. 775 00:55:04,592 --> 00:55:05,758 No one does that. 776 00:55:05,926 --> 00:55:08,803 Yes, I agree. That's why I told you I agreed 777 00:55:08,971 --> 00:55:11,973 or rather that I understood your reasoning. 778 00:55:12,141 --> 00:55:14,517 But when I look at this photo, 779 00:55:14,685 --> 00:55:18,354 which was taken by someone in Portugal, 780 00:55:18,522 --> 00:55:21,649 I want him to talk about the moment it was taken 781 00:55:21,817 --> 00:55:24,944 and why he took this photo and not another. 782 00:55:25,321 --> 00:55:27,572 Well, to achieve that, 783 00:55:27,740 --> 00:55:32,118 I think it can only be achieved if, rather than starting 784 00:55:32,244 --> 00:55:37,373 with the person who took the photo in Portugal, 785 00:55:37,499 --> 00:55:41,419 you start with the person who is looking at this photo. 786 00:55:41,629 --> 00:55:43,880 The first text must be from his perspective 787 00:55:44,089 --> 00:55:47,634 and tell us where he is looking from. 788 00:55:49,553 --> 00:55:51,888 Information. Deformation. 789 00:55:52,056 --> 00:55:53,306 Fascism. 790 00:55:56,268 --> 00:56:00,271 "The incredible energy unleashed by rock is revolutionary." 791 00:56:04,026 --> 00:56:07,487 "An image that many Germans dream about every night." 792 00:56:16,622 --> 00:56:20,625 "An image that many Germans dream about every night." 793 00:56:30,552 --> 00:56:34,305 "An image that many Germans dream about every night." 794 00:56:42,731 --> 00:56:45,233 He sees nothing because he doesn't want to, 795 00:56:45,359 --> 00:56:48,945 because one could perfectly well see nothing. 796 00:56:55,119 --> 00:56:57,745 SUCK OFF YOUR BOSS 797 00:57:03,752 --> 00:57:07,296 What changes the use of a photo like this 798 00:57:07,464 --> 00:57:11,259 is the reader's relationship to the reading of the paper. 799 00:57:13,387 --> 00:57:16,514 You don't account for the reader here. 800 00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:21,144 The reader doesn't even think that he has an opinion. 801 00:57:21,937 --> 00:57:24,313 He thinks that he has but he hasn't. 802 00:57:26,358 --> 00:57:29,318 It's more to do with the reader. 803 00:57:29,528 --> 00:57:32,155 How had my text deformed my image? 804 00:57:32,489 --> 00:57:34,365 How had I deformed you? 805 00:57:37,077 --> 00:57:41,914 The receiver doesn't even give his own reasons anymore. 806 00:57:42,499 --> 00:57:45,918 He doesn't even realize that he has become 807 00:57:46,336 --> 00:57:49,255 a receiver. He was a transmitter when he worked, 808 00:57:49,465 --> 00:57:52,675 but he doesn't work anymore. No one reads the papers. 809 00:57:54,011 --> 00:57:57,513 No one watches TV anymore. We just switch it on. 810 00:58:00,267 --> 00:58:01,367 So the idea 811 00:58:01,393 --> 00:58:04,645 is to slow down at a certain point. 812 00:58:04,813 --> 00:58:06,564 But people don't want to. 813 00:58:06,732 --> 00:58:11,360 The people who complain that everything's going too fast... 814 00:58:11,737 --> 00:58:14,864 I don't know of any newspaper journalist 815 00:58:14,990 --> 00:58:17,658 who hasn't complained everything's too fast. 816 00:58:18,285 --> 00:58:19,385 You say to him, 817 00:58:19,578 --> 00:58:22,288 "Don't write 40,000 words, just write three. 818 00:58:22,456 --> 00:58:24,165 "You'll have more time." 819 00:58:26,543 --> 00:58:29,545 He refuses. It's more tiring. "Which three?" 820 00:58:29,713 --> 00:58:32,965 Yes, show relationships, as opposed to truths. 821 00:58:33,175 --> 00:58:35,176 Spain '36, do not say, 822 00:58:35,677 --> 00:58:37,804 "Don't live on your knees." 823 00:58:37,930 --> 00:58:39,222 To clean up the blood 824 00:58:39,431 --> 00:58:41,307 shed by Franco, 825 00:58:41,517 --> 00:58:45,144 Spain will have to get on its knees like a cleaning lady. 826 00:58:45,395 --> 00:58:46,495 THE KING IN UNIFORM 827 00:58:46,605 --> 00:58:48,105 Spain 75, 828 00:58:48,273 --> 00:58:49,857 the uniform is king. 829 00:58:50,025 --> 00:58:53,110 A waste of time chopping off their heads in '89! 830 00:58:55,697 --> 00:58:59,700 Thanks to ITT, the uniform is king in Chile, too. 831 00:59:04,706 --> 00:59:09,126 Algeria '56, if the Communists abstain from voting to send troops, 832 00:59:09,628 --> 00:59:14,048 say they abstain from commenting on this image and say so now. 833 00:59:39,032 --> 00:59:42,577 Yes, a few words. Which ones? 834 00:59:43,287 --> 00:59:45,663 Hi. How's it going? 835 00:59:46,748 --> 00:59:48,916 How is it not going? 836 00:59:49,710 --> 00:59:50,877 Step by step. 837 00:59:51,587 --> 00:59:55,172 Controlling my life. How is it printed on the mind? 838 00:59:55,883 --> 00:59:57,466 In which printing plant? 839 00:59:58,468 --> 01:00:00,428 Rotten journalist! 840 01:00:07,311 --> 01:00:09,604 It's true, as a printer, I had become 841 01:00:09,771 --> 01:00:11,397 the king of real things, 842 01:00:11,732 --> 01:00:15,109 instead of saying and showing how things really are. 843 01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,249 I have told a few stories in my time, 844 01:00:30,626 --> 01:00:34,921 but never said how I was part of the story. This was the result. 845 01:00:52,356 --> 01:00:55,191 A TALE OF RESISTANCE 846 01:01:12,626 --> 01:01:15,711 How does it go from one place to another? 847 01:01:16,088 --> 01:01:19,215 How does a page 2 follow on? 848 01:01:20,217 --> 01:01:23,177 A strike at the Renault factory. 849 01:01:23,387 --> 01:01:28,432 The 373 press operators who went on strike on March 21 850 01:01:28,642 --> 01:01:29,742 provoked a reaction. 851 01:01:29,893 --> 01:01:33,521 He prints his point of view. It's biology, not philosophy! 852 01:01:33,730 --> 01:01:35,189 It's all right! 853 01:01:35,607 --> 01:01:39,527 No, it isn't all right. You refuse to see what's wrong. 854 01:01:39,695 --> 01:01:43,197 From Renault to Palestine. From day to night. 855 01:01:43,365 --> 01:01:45,825 How does an event occur? 856 01:01:45,993 --> 01:01:49,412 From day to night, from love to labor. 857 01:01:51,498 --> 01:01:54,041 Where does all this happen? Among us. 858 01:02:17,149 --> 01:02:20,192 This "us" definitely exists 859 01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:25,114 when I take it upon myself to write that Portugal concerns "us". 860 01:02:44,384 --> 01:02:47,511 Odette had filmed the discussion 861 01:02:47,679 --> 01:02:52,600 and we watched it with a feeling it was the end of something. 862 01:02:54,019 --> 01:02:55,436 Or the beginning. 863 01:02:56,104 --> 01:02:57,980 Or both. 864 01:03:08,116 --> 01:03:10,493 I suddenly decided to back up Odette 865 01:03:10,660 --> 01:03:12,828 and face the Political Bureau, 866 01:03:13,038 --> 01:03:16,290 which, as I knew from a Central Committee friend, 867 01:03:16,458 --> 01:03:20,961 had decided to do its utmost to put an end to our little project. 868 01:03:21,129 --> 01:03:24,715 Little? Maybe not that little. 869 01:03:25,008 --> 01:03:29,136 After all, what was she saying, Odette, 870 01:03:29,304 --> 01:03:31,222 with this little video? 871 01:03:32,265 --> 01:03:34,767 That TV and the press were corrupt, 872 01:03:35,143 --> 01:03:39,438 and since we were looking at them and reading them, 873 01:03:39,606 --> 01:03:41,982 our eyes were corrupt too, 874 01:03:42,359 --> 01:03:44,777 and our mouths and our hands. 875 01:03:46,363 --> 01:03:48,781 In short, we had cancer, 876 01:03:48,949 --> 01:03:52,368 us especially, and we weren't saying anything. 877 01:03:53,537 --> 01:03:55,871 We didn't say so because we didn't know. 878 01:03:56,123 --> 01:03:58,541 We didn't know because we didn't want to. 879 01:03:58,708 --> 01:04:01,669 We didn't want to because we couldn't. 880 01:04:01,837 --> 01:04:05,381 We couldn't because we didn't show. 881 01:04:05,882 --> 01:04:08,425 We didn't show because we didn't want to. 882 01:04:16,143 --> 01:04:18,394 We agreed to show an ad that said, 883 01:04:18,562 --> 01:04:22,314 "There's always something happening at Galeries Lafayette." 884 01:04:23,316 --> 01:04:25,025 But we didn't say what 885 01:04:25,777 --> 01:04:28,904 because we had sold our silence too. 886 01:04:29,156 --> 01:04:30,948 And as a result, 887 01:04:31,116 --> 01:04:34,785 your love letters don't convey anything anymore. 888 01:04:35,078 --> 01:04:38,998 Your love is as blind as my holiday postcards. 889 01:04:45,297 --> 01:04:49,091 Do you remember that Czech hand writing, 890 01:04:49,259 --> 01:04:53,637 "The chains of mankind are made out of red tape"? 891 01:05:11,198 --> 01:05:12,489 And today's technique 892 01:05:13,450 --> 01:05:16,160 is the violent activity of knowledge. 893 01:05:34,554 --> 01:05:36,305 "The image of these soldiers 894 01:05:36,473 --> 01:05:38,349 "in uniform." 895 01:05:46,483 --> 01:05:48,651 Read it again. 896 01:05:48,818 --> 01:05:50,569 Have you quite finished? 897 01:05:50,737 --> 01:05:53,155 No, come on, we're looking! 898 01:05:53,323 --> 01:05:55,658 Go on, once more. 899 01:06:07,295 --> 01:06:09,380 Your eyes were doing this. 900 01:06:15,387 --> 01:06:18,264 My eyes do the same as your hands! 901 01:06:18,431 --> 01:06:21,850 No, that's my point, my hands do what your eyes do. 902 01:06:22,018 --> 01:06:26,438 And hands aren't made to see, so I'm working blind. 903 01:06:31,486 --> 01:06:34,905 When you look carefully, it's a funny job. 904 01:06:35,782 --> 01:06:38,867 My hands move in every direction 905 01:06:39,035 --> 01:06:41,328 but within a defined space. 906 01:06:42,330 --> 01:06:43,664 In every direction, 907 01:06:43,832 --> 01:06:46,292 but as if something were leading them. 908 01:06:47,002 --> 01:06:50,713 And the leader is the meaning of a sentence. 909 01:06:52,632 --> 01:06:55,134 Yes, it's as if I were blind 910 01:06:55,302 --> 01:06:58,304 and feeling my way along a straight corridor. 911 01:06:58,471 --> 01:07:01,098 When I hit it, it puts me back on the path. 912 01:07:02,017 --> 01:07:03,600 And I'm being watched. 913 01:07:08,273 --> 01:07:09,940 And I'm being watched. 914 01:07:11,276 --> 01:07:15,154 And the leader is the meaning of a sentence. 915 01:07:18,783 --> 01:07:19,992 Yes? 916 01:07:23,621 --> 01:07:24,721 Yes? 917 01:07:24,831 --> 01:07:28,334 FROM THE DIRECTOR OF "THE PLEASURE PUSSIES" 918 01:07:30,211 --> 01:07:31,462 Yes? 919 01:07:54,944 --> 01:07:56,695 Sobibor. 920 01:07:57,155 --> 01:08:00,824 The first death camp he ran before Treblinka. 921 01:08:01,534 --> 01:08:03,994 He doesn't see because he doesn't want to, 922 01:08:04,162 --> 01:08:07,915 because one could perfectly well see nothing. 923 01:08:09,084 --> 01:08:12,378 Business kills daily. 924 01:08:17,175 --> 01:08:18,674 The meaning of a sentence. 925 01:08:18,885 --> 01:08:20,844 Work brings freedom. 926 01:08:21,888 --> 01:08:25,723 We have the right to work. We have the right to freedom. 927 01:08:26,101 --> 01:08:28,894 Meaning breaks down. No one recovers. 928 01:08:32,523 --> 01:08:36,527 Maybe that's why news is said to "break" when it happens. 929 01:08:39,030 --> 01:08:43,200 Spain, Vietnam, Chile, Palestine. 930 01:08:43,284 --> 01:08:44,384 And behind, 931 01:08:45,078 --> 01:08:46,703 always you and me. 932 01:08:46,830 --> 01:08:50,665 Informed, disguised, deformed 933 01:08:50,834 --> 01:08:54,044 by the same old news again. 934 01:08:54,421 --> 01:08:57,004 And not unhappy about it either. 935 01:08:57,590 --> 01:09:02,636 Except when it becomes Vietnam, Chile, Palestine, Ireland. 936 01:09:04,556 --> 01:09:07,433 While our co-workers argued before the vote, 937 01:09:07,599 --> 01:09:09,560 we sat in the adjacent office. 938 01:09:10,603 --> 01:09:14,147 Two people would definitely vote to continue the video. 939 01:09:14,315 --> 01:09:17,234 Michel, that's me, and Odette. 940 01:09:18,236 --> 01:09:19,695 What about the others? 941 01:09:20,613 --> 01:09:22,071 Paul, maybe. 942 01:09:22,740 --> 01:09:24,283 Isabelle, definitely not. 943 01:09:24,576 --> 01:09:29,120 Christine. Odette said no and I said yes. 944 01:09:29,789 --> 01:09:31,248 Claude, probably yes. 945 01:09:31,416 --> 01:09:33,750 Jean-Pierre, no. 946 01:09:34,126 --> 01:09:36,211 Paul, impossible to know. 947 01:09:36,379 --> 01:09:41,008 José, no. Francis, no. Mario, yes or no. 948 01:09:41,468 --> 01:09:43,051 Hector, yes. 949 01:09:43,386 --> 01:09:45,220 Jacques, no. 950 01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:48,140 Evening fell. And, in the end, 951 01:09:48,266 --> 01:09:51,518 the workers' council decided unanimously 952 01:09:51,728 --> 01:09:53,353 to complete the video 953 01:09:53,480 --> 01:09:56,440 and then fight for its distribution. 954 01:09:58,067 --> 01:10:02,362 Are you happy now? Everything has worked out well. 955 01:10:05,158 --> 01:10:06,700 What's wrong? 956 01:10:07,202 --> 01:10:08,952 You look glum. 957 01:10:09,537 --> 01:10:13,582 The final decision lies with the big bosses 958 01:10:13,750 --> 01:10:15,751 and they're bound to say no. 959 01:10:16,336 --> 01:10:20,214 Think about what we've tried to say with this video. 960 01:10:21,591 --> 01:10:22,691 Never mind. 961 01:10:23,343 --> 01:10:26,678 Anyway, I'm sure it'll be rejected. 962 01:10:28,515 --> 01:10:30,349 It won't. 963 01:10:38,274 --> 01:10:42,444 I'm telling you that it will. I know them, they'll overrule it. 964 01:10:43,738 --> 01:10:46,740 No, they won't. There's no need to worry. 965 01:10:53,540 --> 01:10:55,207 It'll be accepted. 966 01:11:04,384 --> 01:11:06,552 It'll be accepted, end of story. 967 01:11:09,347 --> 01:11:11,765 Yes, it'll be like Fascism. 968 01:11:13,393 --> 01:11:15,811 What do you mean? 969 01:11:17,146 --> 01:11:19,856 Remember what happened with Fascism. 970 01:11:21,317 --> 01:11:22,901 It will never be accepted! 971 01:11:31,619 --> 01:11:33,370 Come on, lads! Move it! 972 01:12:13,453 --> 01:12:14,953 Evening fell. 973 01:12:16,331 --> 01:12:18,624 A lad from the Central Committee 974 01:12:18,833 --> 01:12:21,418 brought their decision. 975 01:12:22,295 --> 01:12:24,171 A resounding 'no'. 976 01:12:24,881 --> 01:12:28,675 Odette sneered and I tried to discuss it. 977 01:12:28,843 --> 01:12:32,054 As expected, besides Francis and Juliette, 978 01:12:32,221 --> 01:12:34,222 everyone chickened out. 979 01:12:50,907 --> 01:12:53,909 A long, industrious silence fell in the office 980 01:12:54,535 --> 01:12:56,536 after everyone left. 981 01:12:59,791 --> 01:13:02,084 Odette took a few more notes. 982 01:13:02,835 --> 01:13:06,088 I suggested we go eat to get our strength back. 983 01:13:06,255 --> 01:13:07,547 And I invited her. 984 01:13:08,216 --> 01:13:10,050 It was just the beginning. 985 01:13:11,344 --> 01:13:12,886 But she declined. 986 01:13:13,137 --> 01:13:14,471 It was the holidays. 987 01:13:14,639 --> 01:13:18,934 She had to pack her daughter's bag for her school ski trip. 988 01:13:36,244 --> 01:13:38,370 She'd see me after the holidays. 989 01:13:38,538 --> 01:13:40,872 She needed to have a good think. 990 01:13:41,541 --> 01:13:44,501 Maybe we'd finish our little film elsewhere 991 01:13:44,669 --> 01:13:46,753 because here, despite the fine talk, 992 01:13:46,921 --> 01:13:48,880 it was evidently impossible. 993 01:13:50,133 --> 01:13:52,926 Then I never saw her again. 994 01:14:33,426 --> 01:14:35,635 Hey, turn the radio down! 995 01:14:35,803 --> 01:14:37,304 What's up, Nancy? 996 01:14:37,472 --> 01:14:40,515 The neighbor's moaning about the radio. 997 01:14:40,683 --> 01:14:43,059 We've the right to listen to the news! 998 01:14:43,227 --> 01:14:45,812 You should give your own news 999 01:14:46,022 --> 01:14:48,482 instead of receiving others' news. 1000 01:14:48,608 --> 01:14:52,611 What's wrong? 1001 01:14:53,446 --> 01:14:56,907 Franco died at 5:30 this morning. 1002 01:14:58,659 --> 01:15:01,244 You refuse to see what's wrong. 1003 01:15:06,834 --> 01:15:10,462 The flag outside the Caudillo's window... 1004 01:15:10,755 --> 01:15:13,757 You refuse to see how things really are. 1005 01:15:13,925 --> 01:15:16,426 And that's what is wrong. 1006 01:15:17,887 --> 01:15:22,015 At 11:30, escorted by members of the armed forces, 1007 01:15:22,183 --> 01:15:25,227 Franco's coffin left La Paz. 1008 01:15:28,231 --> 01:15:30,315 The huge crowd fell silent. 1009 01:15:30,483 --> 01:15:34,861 No shouting, no applause, just a few women in tears. 1010 01:15:41,327 --> 01:15:43,411 An immense sadness. 1011 01:15:43,496 --> 01:15:47,833 A FILM BETWEEN THE ACTOR AND THE SPECTATOR 1012 01:16:11,858 --> 01:16:18,613 A FILM BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY