1 00:00:50,175 --> 00:00:56,056 LOVE RITES 2 00:02:05,083 --> 00:02:07,085 This is Nora Nix. 3 00:02:07,252 --> 00:02:08,920 Is that Hugo Arnold? 4 00:02:09,087 --> 00:02:11,173 - The dresses are ready. - I'll be right over. 5 00:02:11,340 --> 00:02:12,966 You'll love them. 6 00:02:13,133 --> 00:02:15,677 They're all Fortuny models, 7 00:02:15,844 --> 00:02:17,387 and very rare, I assure you. 8 00:02:17,554 --> 00:02:19,348 Made of the finest silk, 9 00:02:19,514 --> 00:02:24,645 long, accordeon-pleated tunics that hug the body. 10 00:02:24,811 --> 00:02:26,772 Some are split on the side. 11 00:02:26,938 --> 00:02:30,942 All are decorated with colorful floral designs. 12 00:02:31,109 --> 00:02:35,656 Plunging necklines front and back, sleeveless... 13 00:02:35,822 --> 00:02:38,241 - Sleeveless? - with narrow straps. 14 00:02:38,408 --> 00:02:42,996 To be worn with nothing on underneath. 15 00:02:43,163 --> 00:02:46,875 - You may have to disinfect them. - Disinfect them? 16 00:02:47,042 --> 00:02:49,503 Imagine showing these magnificent gowns 17 00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:52,089 to your selected clientele. 18 00:02:52,255 --> 00:02:56,259 - Is the fabric intact? - Don't worry 19 00:02:56,426 --> 00:02:58,428 you can touch it up... 20 00:04:56,922 --> 00:04:59,633 A charming address 21 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,676 which, before the war, 22 00:05:01,843 --> 00:05:06,348 housed what Larbaud roguishly referred to as. 23 00:05:06,515 --> 00:05:10,519 "The Academy of Harlotry". 24 00:05:10,685 --> 00:05:14,981 An address always given with a sly smile 25 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:16,942 to prove one's savvy. 26 00:05:17,108 --> 00:05:20,153 How ironic that Hugo Arnold 27 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:26,910 is unaware that this famous brothel 28 00:05:27,077 --> 00:05:30,288 was on his street. 29 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:28,805 In Rome and Venice, 30 00:06:28,972 --> 00:06:32,309 the famous "Bocca delta Verita" 31 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:35,604 was a stone lion's head 32 00:06:35,770 --> 00:06:40,233 whose mouth received whispered betrayals. 33 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,694 In Paris, on the other hand, 34 00:06:42,861 --> 00:06:45,322 the subway sewers have "mouths" 35 00:06:45,488 --> 00:06:50,702 that are no more than underground entryways. 36 00:06:50,869 --> 00:06:54,247 But the old metropolitan line has retained 37 00:06:54,414 --> 00:06:57,834 a bit of the mystery of its founding days 38 00:06:58,001 --> 00:07:00,337 some 90 years ago. 39 00:11:53,588 --> 00:11:56,007 It would be cowardly, 40 00:11:56,174 --> 00:11:59,510 if not dishonest, for a red-blooded male 41 00:11:59,677 --> 00:12:06,559 to ignore such an elegant invitation to debauchery. 42 00:13:48,745 --> 00:13:51,289 Everything happens too quickly. 43 00:13:51,456 --> 00:13:55,793 Like the ride from the prison to the guillotine 44 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:00,131 for aristocrats and their ladies 45 00:14:00,298 --> 00:14:05,845 whose fine necks were exposed to the blade. 46 00:15:38,104 --> 00:15:40,022 Madam! 47 00:15:40,189 --> 00:15:43,151 May I please speak to you? 48 00:15:43,317 --> 00:15:45,445 Our platforms are separated 49 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:48,865 by an impenetrable electric barrier. 50 00:15:49,031 --> 00:15:50,575 What a pity. 51 00:15:50,741 --> 00:15:52,743 Was it you watching me 52 00:15:52,910 --> 00:15:58,124 as I played at making up my face in the subway? 53 00:15:58,291 --> 00:15:59,876 My pantomime. 54 00:16:00,042 --> 00:16:02,712 But here, the arched ceiling 55 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:06,090 can carry our voices perfectly, 56 00:16:06,257 --> 00:16:10,636 and spectator. 57 00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:14,724 Parisian theaters. 58 00:16:14,891 --> 00:16:16,142 I speak from experience. 59 00:16:16,309 --> 00:16:19,687 Are you an actress? 60 00:16:19,854 --> 00:16:23,691 In a manner of speaking. 61 00:16:26,194 --> 00:16:29,697 But I don't mind. 62 00:16:29,864 --> 00:16:34,202 Do you happen to know who once said that an actress 63 00:16:34,368 --> 00:16:39,123 was half prostitute and half poet? 64 00:16:39,290 --> 00:16:44,629 I am loath to slander the noble poet 65 00:16:44,795 --> 00:16:47,965 whose art delivers us from darkness. 66 00:16:48,132 --> 00:16:52,887 Thus far, I have been only a spectator in this play. 67 00:16:54,514 --> 00:16:58,518 My ambition now is to share the stage with you. 68 00:16:58,643 --> 00:17:01,687 Would you be so kind...? 69 00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:04,607 My name is Hugo Arnold. 70 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:15,868 Mine is Miriam Gwen. 71 00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:19,705 We need no audience for what we have in mind. 72 00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:24,669 If no one notices us, that's just as well, 73 00:17:24,835 --> 00:17:28,130 or too bad. It makes no difference. 74 00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:31,676 I couldn't agree more. 75 00:17:33,135 --> 00:17:36,013 Still, you surprise me. 76 00:17:36,138 --> 00:17:40,935 Doesn't an actress crave publicity as a panther does flesh? 77 00:17:41,102 --> 00:17:45,648 And isn't publicity her very life's blood? 78 00:17:49,277 --> 00:17:51,529 That is correct. 79 00:17:51,696 --> 00:17:55,241 The poet may despise publicity with all his might, 80 00:17:55,408 --> 00:17:59,203 but the prostitute avoid it like plague. 81 00:18:01,163 --> 00:18:04,709 The lady of the night blooms in the shadows 82 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:08,963 like a pungent desert flower. 83 00:18:09,130 --> 00:18:12,925 Why did you choose to sit and wait for me 84 00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:15,678 under a poster proclaiming 85 00:18:15,845 --> 00:18:19,807 the horrible message: "Everything Must Go"? 86 00:18:26,063 --> 00:18:30,276 Because everything must be destroyed, laid to waste! 87 00:18:30,443 --> 00:18:37,491 I chose to wait for you here. 88 00:18:37,658 --> 00:18:41,120 "Everything Must Go". 89 00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:46,584 A fitting title for our little adventure. 90 00:18:46,751 --> 00:18:52,256 "The Brazen One" might better describe your person. 91 00:18:54,133 --> 00:18:56,385 Are you Jewish? 92 00:18:56,552 --> 00:18:58,679 More or less. 93 00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:06,729 Enough to qualify for the ovens, 94 00:19:06,896 --> 00:19:09,023 if that's what you mean. 95 00:19:09,190 --> 00:19:11,942 Think I'd make a good martyr? 96 00:19:12,109 --> 00:19:15,279 But your name sounds Gaelic. 97 00:19:17,657 --> 00:19:22,328 My mother was an Irish beauty. It's her name. 98 00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:26,666 My father refused to give his name to me: 99 00:19:26,832 --> 00:19:29,168 The fruit of a one-night stand. 100 00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:32,672 Did I ever meet him? 101 00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:35,716 I have no idea. 102 00:19:35,883 --> 00:19:39,053 I don't even know his name. 103 00:19:39,220 --> 00:19:44,100 My mother says he was a man of many identities. 104 00:19:44,266 --> 00:19:46,686 A businessman? 105 00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:49,480 More like a gangster. 106 00:19:49,605 --> 00:19:53,442 They say he came to a bad end. 107 00:19:56,570 --> 00:19:58,948 My mother was fond of drinking. 108 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:04,036 The bars' neon signs beckoned to her. 109 00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:07,123 She drank in noisy, backstreet dives. 110 00:20:07,289 --> 00:20:10,668 She hated to drink alone. 111 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:15,506 Then she'd disappear for a day or two. 112 00:20:15,673 --> 00:20:18,759 She'd come home happy and tired, 113 00:20:18,926 --> 00:20:23,097 bringing me leftovers from fancy meals. 114 00:20:23,264 --> 00:20:28,102 When I was 16, I ran away from home, 115 00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:32,565 and that dismal seaport town. 116 00:20:51,041 --> 00:20:55,129 Do you ever hear from your mother? 117 00:20:55,296 --> 00:21:00,509 She never writes. Nor do I. 118 00:21:00,676 --> 00:21:03,929 We see each other even less. 119 00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:07,725 If one of us had money, it'd be different. 120 00:21:07,892 --> 00:21:11,270 The poor one would sponge off the rich. 121 00:21:14,190 --> 00:21:16,317 Think of me what you will. 122 00:21:16,484 --> 00:21:20,196 I don't fear your scorn. 123 00:21:20,362 --> 00:21:22,782 But if you were a gentleman, 124 00:21:22,948 --> 00:21:26,952 you'd cross the barrier separating us, 125 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,206 and join me over here. 126 00:21:30,372 --> 00:21:32,416 Use the overpass. 127 00:21:32,583 --> 00:21:36,378 Don't waste a ticket... you can jump the turnstile 128 00:21:36,545 --> 00:21:43,594 like you did when you were chasing me. 129 00:22:59,461 --> 00:23:01,505 Here I am. 130 00:23:03,632 --> 00:23:07,636 Here you are. 131 00:23:23,611 --> 00:23:26,322 As I was applying my makeup... 132 00:23:26,447 --> 00:23:29,450 Using the mirror you keep in your vanity case... 133 00:23:29,617 --> 00:23:33,871 So you noticed my vanity! 134 00:23:34,038 --> 00:23:37,833 It's one of the few things my mother ever gave me. 135 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,923 Bought in an England shop, though she hated the Brits. 136 00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:47,885 She was full of surprises. 137 00:23:48,052 --> 00:23:50,971 What about you? 138 00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:53,432 So am I. 139 00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:57,770 But my tastes are even more surprising than hers. 140 00:23:57,937 --> 00:24:03,108 I love the luxury of living in poverty. 141 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:05,819 Did you know 142 00:24:05,986 --> 00:24:13,118 that we are not alone in this subterranean world? 143 00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:18,415 Creatures of all kind live down here 144 00:24:18,582 --> 00:24:24,713 in vast, empty tunnels that have never been used. 145 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,218 There are the rats they try to exterminate 146 00:24:29,385 --> 00:24:32,471 without much success, 147 00:24:32,638 --> 00:24:38,352 as they flee from the metro into sewers. 148 00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:44,108 Dogs and cats long lost in the darkness 149 00:24:44,274 --> 00:24:49,029 resurface with blood in their eyes. 150 00:24:49,196 --> 00:24:52,950 Boa constrictors and garden snakes, 151 00:24:53,117 --> 00:24:58,455 and even vipers, set loose by terrorist pranksters. 152 00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:01,333 Not to mention other creatures... 153 00:25:03,794 --> 00:25:07,464 From the time the subway closes, after midnight, 154 00:25:07,631 --> 00:25:10,384 till it opens the next day, 155 00:25:10,551 --> 00:25:15,180 this underground menagerie crawls out of its hiding places. 156 00:25:16,932 --> 00:25:22,646 If you're trying to scare me, you're wasting your breath. 157 00:25:22,813 --> 00:25:27,109 I've always felt at home in the metro. 158 00:25:27,276 --> 00:25:31,572 I fear neither rats nor serpents, 159 00:25:31,739 --> 00:25:37,745 but prefer the latter for their venomous beauty. 160 00:25:39,788 --> 00:25:41,957 Not long ago, 161 00:25:42,124 --> 00:25:47,546 a colony of crows, carrion crows, 162 00:25:47,713 --> 00:25:50,758 escaped from the Bastille station. 163 00:25:50,924 --> 00:25:55,471 They must have hatched from eggs laid by a female 164 00:25:55,637 --> 00:26:00,684 who'd sought refuge in this oldest 165 00:26:00,851 --> 00:26:04,980 and most tangled network of tunnels. 166 00:26:05,147 --> 00:26:10,527 - Black birds fleeing the darkness. - That's right. 167 00:26:10,694 --> 00:26:13,238 They ended up settling 168 00:26:13,405 --> 00:26:18,744 in the lime trees, lining the Place des Vosges. 169 00:26:21,663 --> 00:26:24,166 The male crows, 170 00:26:24,333 --> 00:26:26,251 in a springtime frenzy, 171 00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:30,255 ravished the pigeons living there. 172 00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:34,093 And a strange bastard breed now perches awkwardly 173 00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:37,805 atop the statue of Louis XIII. 174 00:26:37,971 --> 00:26:41,058 Think of what those gentle birds went through! 175 00:26:41,225 --> 00:26:43,435 How could they stand it? 176 00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:46,772 Quite willingly, it appears. 177 00:27:26,562 --> 00:27:29,523 Enough, Madam! 178 00:27:30,357 --> 00:27:33,068 We will now kiss with open lips, 179 00:27:33,235 --> 00:27:38,824 and you will surrender your pink-tipped tongue to me. 180 00:27:39,783 --> 00:27:41,326 My lips are yours. 181 00:27:41,493 --> 00:27:46,165 Press them against mine. You heard me! 182 00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:49,334 Your wish is my command. 183 00:28:43,013 --> 00:28:45,974 Let's go in. 184 00:28:46,141 --> 00:28:49,311 I always stop by when I'm in the area. 185 00:28:56,610 --> 00:29:02,950 The architecture of the human body has been the subject of debate 186 00:29:03,116 --> 00:29:07,996 for centuries but only truly exists in the symmetrical forms 187 00:29:08,163 --> 00:29:11,875 of a woman's body. 188 00:29:12,042 --> 00:29:17,422 The twin orbs of her breasts matched by those of her ass. 189 00:29:17,589 --> 00:29:25,589 Isn't entering St Germain-des-Prés with Miriam like entering her very body? 190 00:29:25,973 --> 00:29:30,060 Or like the promise that we'll soon be offered a glimpse, 191 00:29:30,227 --> 00:29:32,938 and invited in? 192 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:43,532 Do you often come here alone? 193 00:29:43,699 --> 00:29:46,952 Alone, yes. Often, no. 194 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:49,079 Dressed like this? 195 00:29:49,246 --> 00:29:53,375 Sometimes. Sometimes not. 196 00:29:53,542 --> 00:29:56,169 You remain alone? 197 00:29:56,336 --> 00:29:59,464 Not often. 198 00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:03,010 Do you talk? 199 00:30:03,176 --> 00:30:06,471 No. This is a holy place. 200 00:30:08,223 --> 00:30:12,102 The first move, the first "nibble" as they say in fishing, 201 00:30:12,269 --> 00:30:15,856 is always timid 202 00:30:16,023 --> 00:30:20,235 barely perceptible... as if by accident. 203 00:30:20,402 --> 00:30:24,740 Nothing like your obvious pick-up in the subway. 204 00:30:24,906 --> 00:30:26,742 Don't you stop them? 205 00:30:26,908 --> 00:30:28,827 No. 206 00:30:28,994 --> 00:30:32,372 I don't move, 207 00:30:32,539 --> 00:30:33,790 I pretend not to notice. 208 00:30:33,957 --> 00:30:37,711 Even when their fingers become more insistent 209 00:30:37,878 --> 00:30:40,797 and wonder above the knee. 210 00:30:40,964 --> 00:30:45,886 It's a scene that I play to perfection. 211 00:30:46,053 --> 00:30:48,221 For me, life is a stage. 212 00:30:48,388 --> 00:30:55,187 That's why I find it normal that "everything must go". 213 00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:57,105 How does the scene end? 214 00:30:57,272 --> 00:31:01,568 After feigning not to notice his advances, 215 00:31:01,735 --> 00:31:05,072 our heroine walks slowly out of the church 216 00:31:05,238 --> 00:31:08,992 so that the man has time to catch up with her. 217 00:31:09,159 --> 00:31:12,079 - Then what? - Then a new scene begins, 218 00:31:12,245 --> 00:31:16,166 just as compelling as the first. 219 00:31:16,333 --> 00:31:21,171 The stage is set, if you'd like to see it. 220 00:31:21,338 --> 00:31:27,094 The first scene's decor was ill-suited to lovemaking. 221 00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:31,431 The stone virgins supporting the church's vaulted ceiling 222 00:31:31,598 --> 00:31:34,643 are robed in discolored plaster, 223 00:31:34,810 --> 00:31:40,399 evidence of last century's regrettable restorations. 224 00:31:44,152 --> 00:31:51,368 You forget the frescos of Hippolyte Flandrin... 225 00:31:55,205 --> 00:31:58,208 A contemporary of Baudelaire. 226 00:32:06,383 --> 00:32:08,969 "The Last Judgment," for example. 227 00:32:09,136 --> 00:32:12,764 That moment when everything must go. 228 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:16,935 Those fatal words that united us. 229 00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:22,107 "Abraham's sacrifice." 230 00:32:22,274 --> 00:32:25,026 A murderous tale with no bloodshed. 231 00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:28,155 Unusual in the Bible. 232 00:32:28,321 --> 00:32:34,703 I wonder if you know Belli's version of the story? 233 00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:40,292 Isaac, worried as he reached the mountaintop where his father 234 00:32:40,459 --> 00:32:46,381 had told him they would sacrifice a large sheep, asked: 235 00:32:48,592 --> 00:32:50,886 "Where is the large sheep?" 236 00:32:51,052 --> 00:32:53,805 And Abraham answered: 237 00:32:56,391 --> 00:32:58,518 "You, my son, are the sheep." 238 00:33:01,146 --> 00:33:02,772 Of course I read Belli, 239 00:33:02,939 --> 00:33:08,987 whose anticlericalism is the work of rebellious angels. 240 00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:14,910 My learning is much deeper than you seem to think, Sire. 241 00:33:16,203 --> 00:33:22,709 Then there was Joseph, who was sold by his brothers. 242 00:33:22,876 --> 00:33:29,841 First, they stripped him of his coat of many colors. 243 00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:36,890 If they strip you, you command a higher price. 244 00:33:37,057 --> 00:33:42,729 To sell yourself, you must also be laid bare. 245 00:33:42,896 --> 00:33:45,398 Or tied up. 246 00:33:45,524 --> 00:33:51,655 I seem to remember being sold by my brothers. 247 00:33:51,821 --> 00:33:55,492 Like Joseph. 248 00:33:55,659 --> 00:33:58,787 Until I decided to do it myself. 249 00:33:58,954 --> 00:34:03,833 - Do you have any brothers? - I had two brothers: 250 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,086 Rubin and Benjamin. 251 00:34:06,253 --> 00:34:09,631 Born before me, of a different father. 252 00:34:09,798 --> 00:34:14,427 I don't know if they're dead or alive. 253 00:34:14,594 --> 00:34:19,766 I've wiped clean the slate of my past with acid. 254 00:34:19,933 --> 00:34:22,561 I hate families. 255 00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:30,026 But thinking back, 256 00:34:30,193 --> 00:34:33,697 the acid must've been too weak, 257 00:34:33,863 --> 00:34:37,492 as a memory of my adolescence comes back to me. 258 00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:42,664 My brothers and I were playing in the woods. 259 00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:44,749 They grabbed me, 260 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:46,876 and tore my clothes. 261 00:34:47,043 --> 00:34:52,132 Laughing, they tied me to a tree. 262 00:34:52,299 --> 00:34:55,802 Then they stroke me, 263 00:34:55,969 --> 00:34:59,139 and took turn raping me 264 00:34:59,306 --> 00:35:05,437 over and over again, as I begged them to stop. 265 00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:10,317 Later on, 266 00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:15,113 when we returned to town, they sold me to rich men 267 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:21,411 forcing me to submit to their every desire. 268 00:35:21,578 --> 00:35:24,039 Life wasn't a stage, in those days. 269 00:35:24,205 --> 00:35:30,587 That's why I tried to erase all memories of it. 270 00:35:30,754 --> 00:35:33,840 But some remain. 271 00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:43,516 You could write a book. 272 00:35:43,683 --> 00:35:49,147 It might become a best seller. The public loves juicy memoirs. 273 00:35:49,314 --> 00:35:53,777 I'm not poor and don't need to sell my memories. 274 00:35:53,943 --> 00:35:59,115 I wouldn't change my life for a million dollars. 275 00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:01,409 How commendable! 276 00:36:01,576 --> 00:36:04,788 This holy place is too cold for your scanty garb. 277 00:36:04,954 --> 00:36:07,290 Come out in the sun where it's warm. 278 00:36:07,457 --> 00:36:13,254 I'm not as fragile as you think. 279 00:36:33,358 --> 00:36:37,404 Let's go before the faithful arrive. 280 00:36:37,570 --> 00:36:41,324 What have you got against the faithful? 281 00:36:41,491 --> 00:36:42,534 Nothing. 282 00:36:42,701 --> 00:36:45,870 Individually, they're fine. 283 00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:49,958 But I avoid them in flocks, especially if they're singing. 284 00:36:50,125 --> 00:36:53,128 Same with soldiers. 285 00:37:02,011 --> 00:37:03,847 You amaze me! 286 00:37:04,013 --> 00:37:08,810 I can't believe you're really a whore. 287 00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:16,025 But if you are, you sure are a pedantic one! 288 00:37:17,193 --> 00:37:18,736 There's an odd assonance 289 00:37:18,903 --> 00:37:21,489 between "pedant" and "prostitute,” 290 00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:24,325 as in "pedant” and "pederast.” 291 00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:30,623 Even the expression "cultural exhibition" 292 00:37:30,748 --> 00:37:36,171 has sexual overtones. 293 00:37:36,337 --> 00:37:39,549 Today, everything hinges on sex. 294 00:37:39,716 --> 00:37:42,886 You sure think about it a lot. 295 00:37:43,052 --> 00:37:45,972 I'd prefer to be having it. 296 00:37:46,139 --> 00:37:51,895 The day is young, we have plenty of time. 297 00:37:56,357 --> 00:38:00,361 What if I picked up another man 298 00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:04,032 and screwed him while you watched? 299 00:38:04,157 --> 00:38:07,160 - I'd kill you! - Bravo! 300 00:38:07,327 --> 00:38:09,287 But don't forget that in my little play, 301 00:38:09,454 --> 00:38:13,917 I do the Killing, not my partner. 302 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:20,715 Let's go to a hotel! 303 00:38:20,882 --> 00:38:22,550 I have a better idea. 304 00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:26,763 Let me take you to paradise on earth. 305 00:38:26,930 --> 00:38:29,098 Your place? 306 00:38:29,265 --> 00:38:33,269 My friend and mentor Sarah Sand 307 00:38:33,436 --> 00:38:38,733 has a private boudoir she lets me borrow 308 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:42,862 when I entertain men. 309 00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:46,241 Who's Sarah Sand? Where's she live? 310 00:38:46,407 --> 00:38:50,453 The boudoir is by no means her home. 311 00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:55,041 When I use the word "boudoir," I think you know 312 00:38:55,208 --> 00:38:58,253 what I mean. 313 00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:01,172 Let's go. I'll get us a cab. 314 00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:03,341 No, we'll walk. 315 00:39:03,508 --> 00:39:08,137 You mustn't know where we're going. 316 00:39:08,304 --> 00:39:11,849 Avoid looking at street signs. 317 00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:14,936 I forbid you to do so. 318 00:39:15,061 --> 00:39:18,231 No problem, I'm nearsighted. 319 00:39:18,398 --> 00:39:21,943 And my mind's on other things. 320 00:39:22,110 --> 00:39:27,782 It's time we got down to business. 321 00:39:27,949 --> 00:39:31,411 Walk like a blind man. 322 00:39:31,578 --> 00:39:35,748 Look within, and forget what is without. 323 00:39:35,915 --> 00:39:41,087 Pretend you're in a trance. 324 00:42:00,768 --> 00:42:05,940 Miriam will soon share his bed. 325 00:42:06,065 --> 00:42:11,404 For lacking a stage career where she could 326 00:42:11,571 --> 00:42:16,743 display her beauty in front of an audience 327 00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:19,537 in dramatic roles, 328 00:42:19,704 --> 00:42:22,331 she makes her living 329 00:42:22,498 --> 00:42:25,710 selling her body to men who buy her favors 330 00:42:25,877 --> 00:42:29,130 for an unspecified amount of time 331 00:42:29,297 --> 00:42:32,842 and at a negotiable price. 332 00:42:53,988 --> 00:42:57,074 This is it. 333 00:42:57,241 --> 00:42:59,827 The door's open. 334 00:43:00,995 --> 00:43:04,332 Watch your step. 335 00:43:10,338 --> 00:43:16,010 Once over this threshold, you're the master of the game, 336 00:43:16,135 --> 00:43:21,265 and I'm your servant, as decreed by Sarah Sand. 337 00:43:23,226 --> 00:43:28,940 She demands that I call you "Master" now. 338 00:43:30,399 --> 00:43:35,238 She'd be proud of the way I've handled you so far. 339 00:43:35,404 --> 00:43:37,657 This is her realm. 340 00:43:37,824 --> 00:43:42,036 We are but actors performing on her stage. 341 00:43:50,962 --> 00:43:54,257 Her boudoir is at the top of the stairs, 342 00:43:54,382 --> 00:43:58,594 behind the third door. 343 00:44:06,394 --> 00:44:08,855 Submission is the rule here. 344 00:44:09,021 --> 00:44:13,192 And Sarah Sand's protégées must not only perform it, 345 00:44:13,359 --> 00:44:17,488 but feel its sting on their flesh. 346 00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:33,254 How like an actress 347 00:44:33,421 --> 00:44:36,465 to suffer on cue. 348 00:44:38,885 --> 00:44:41,053 Actress, harlot, poet 349 00:44:41,220 --> 00:44:44,599 a theatrical trio. 350 00:44:48,185 --> 00:44:49,562 Upstairs, Master. 351 00:44:49,729 --> 00:44:53,065 I'll make love to you as if you were my sister. 352 00:44:53,232 --> 00:44:57,778 If you mean that, leave your shoes behind. 353 00:45:11,292 --> 00:45:16,714 Your friend invited you to use her boudoir today. 354 00:45:16,881 --> 00:45:19,592 But if we hadn't met, 355 00:45:19,759 --> 00:45:21,928 if I hadn't kissed your hand, 356 00:45:22,094 --> 00:45:27,099 you'd have paraded your painted beauty at St Germain, 357 00:45:27,266 --> 00:45:31,854 until you found a man you fancied, 358 00:45:32,021 --> 00:45:36,609 and taken him to your pleasure parlor. 359 00:45:36,776 --> 00:45:38,736 That's right. 360 00:45:38,903 --> 00:45:40,988 You forget one thing: 361 00:45:41,155 --> 00:45:44,951 I might have invited more than one guest. 362 00:45:45,117 --> 00:45:49,205 It's not only ex-jailbirds 363 00:45:49,372 --> 00:45:52,750 and tattooed gentlemen 364 00:45:52,917 --> 00:45:57,630 who notice me at St Germain-des-Prés. 365 00:46:03,427 --> 00:46:07,974 I'm glad you have no illusions about us. 366 00:46:08,140 --> 00:46:12,061 What you might find hard to understand, 367 00:46:12,228 --> 00:46:14,814 is that with you, or any other man, 368 00:46:14,981 --> 00:46:22,738 my actions are controlled entirely by the invisible Sarah Sand. 369 00:46:50,850 --> 00:46:54,854 Let the orgy begin. 370 00:46:56,647 --> 00:46:58,441 Act two. 371 00:48:13,891 --> 00:48:15,309 Get up. 372 00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:34,954 Come here. 373 00:48:40,876 --> 00:48:42,753 Come here! 374 00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:34,823 Come here. 375 00:50:40,913 --> 00:50:42,706 Give me your hands. 376 00:50:55,511 --> 00:50:56,679 Turn around. 377 00:52:55,506 --> 00:52:58,133 Who did that? 378 00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:00,928 My butterfly? 379 00:53:01,095 --> 00:53:03,847 Sarah Sand's slave boy. 380 00:53:04,014 --> 00:53:10,187 He's Cambodian. And mute. 381 00:53:10,354 --> 00:53:12,940 We call him Ping. 382 00:53:13,107 --> 00:53:18,237 When he was taken prisoner in his country's civil war, 383 00:53:18,404 --> 00:53:23,575 his captors cut out his tongue, larynx and vocal cords. 384 00:53:23,742 --> 00:53:26,370 Total ablation. 385 00:53:27,913 --> 00:53:32,668 Sarah met him in Marseilles and fixed him up. 386 00:53:32,835 --> 00:53:39,049 Today he's well, and her devoted slave. 387 00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:43,303 But he's a sex maniac, an insatiable brute. 388 00:53:43,470 --> 00:53:50,394 She keeps him in line by offering him her girls. 389 00:53:50,561 --> 00:53:53,981 He takes them to his garret and abuses them. 390 00:53:54,148 --> 00:53:58,110 - He's had you? - Just once, 391 00:53:58,277 --> 00:54:04,241 but he wants me again. 392 00:54:04,408 --> 00:54:09,538 That horrible gaping mouth, empty of all its organs 393 00:54:09,705 --> 00:54:15,127 endlessly filling with saliva. 394 00:54:15,294 --> 00:54:21,258 And the outrages he forces me to commit! 395 00:54:23,469 --> 00:54:28,140 - I'm sorry I brought it up. - Not at all! 396 00:54:28,307 --> 00:54:33,020 Your story has postponed the slaking of my desire. 397 00:54:33,187 --> 00:54:39,443 And knowing of your past suffering excites me even more. 398 00:54:40,986 --> 00:54:45,365 If Ping is mute, how does he give his orders? 399 00:54:45,532 --> 00:54:49,495 He writes them on a magic slate. 400 00:54:49,661 --> 00:54:53,832 According to the rules, you have to be naked 401 00:54:53,999 --> 00:54:58,545 on bended knee to receive his instructions. 402 00:54:58,712 --> 00:55:01,048 If not, you're tortured. 403 00:55:01,215 --> 00:55:06,220 Sarah knows Ping is cruel, but humors him anyway. 404 00:55:06,386 --> 00:55:09,431 He always leaves the girls in pretty bad shape. 405 00:55:09,598 --> 00:55:12,100 - What about you? - Me? 406 00:55:12,267 --> 00:55:14,394 I play along 407 00:55:14,561 --> 00:55:20,484 and submit passively to his depravity. 408 00:56:03,235 --> 00:56:07,573 That's a Caligo. Sarah imports them from Brazil. 409 00:56:07,739 --> 00:56:10,951 They're exquisite. 410 00:56:11,118 --> 00:56:18,750 They feed on flowers she soaks in sugar water. 411 00:56:18,917 --> 00:56:24,047 That one's a morpho, also from South America. 412 00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:29,344 He doesn't seem attracted to my juicy snatch. 413 00:56:29,511 --> 00:56:31,388 Maybe he's jealous? 414 00:56:37,477 --> 00:56:39,605 A word to the wise: 415 00:56:39,771 --> 00:56:42,524 Don't stroll naked 416 00:56:42,691 --> 00:56:46,445 through this exotic paradise. 417 00:56:47,696 --> 00:56:52,284 Sarah also collects reptiles. 418 00:56:52,451 --> 00:56:56,455 Poisonous ones. 419 00:56:57,539 --> 00:57:03,045 In addition to butterflies, she loves plants. 420 00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:28,278 Her favorite flower 421 00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:34,159 is the fabulous Night Queen that blooms in the heat of the night. 422 00:57:34,326 --> 00:57:36,328 Its flower opens 423 00:57:36,495 --> 00:57:38,914 with a slow abandon that reminds me 424 00:57:39,081 --> 00:57:40,957 of childbirth. 425 00:57:41,124 --> 00:57:43,919 At daybreak, the flower slowly contracts 426 00:57:44,086 --> 00:57:49,007 in post-orgasmic spasms. 427 00:57:49,174 --> 00:57:50,717 A fabulous flower. 428 00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:53,679 Nicely put, for a whore. 429 00:57:54,930 --> 00:57:57,683 Stop talking 430 00:57:57,849 --> 00:58:03,939 and take a look at the cock that has sprung up for you 431 00:58:04,106 --> 00:58:07,317 like an arrogant mushroom 432 00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:12,698 standing proudly in the middle of a clearing. 433 00:58:12,864 --> 00:58:14,366 "Dog's phallus" 434 00:58:14,533 --> 00:58:17,077 is the name of a mushroom 435 00:58:17,244 --> 00:58:21,915 whose smell is as repugnant as the Night Queen's is sweet. 436 00:58:22,082 --> 00:58:26,586 But it's nothing like the member you've shown me 437 00:58:26,753 --> 00:58:32,426 which looks and smells much more inviting. 438 00:58:34,261 --> 00:58:36,805 Open your mouth. 439 00:58:51,069 --> 00:58:55,323 This way, I can keep an eye out 440 00:58:55,490 --> 00:59:00,495 for any surprise attacks by those reptiles. 441 00:59:00,662 --> 00:59:05,751 Luckily, we don't seem to interest them. 442 00:59:05,917 --> 00:59:11,506 His stiff cock glides into the hilt. 443 00:59:11,673 --> 00:59:15,969 Once again, Miriam is subjected 444 00:59:16,136 --> 00:59:20,307 to the rhythmic hammering of an enormous tool 445 00:59:20,474 --> 00:59:23,602 rammed down her throat. 446 00:59:23,769 --> 00:59:29,733 She is forced to take that throbbing demon 447 00:59:29,900 --> 00:59:35,530 in an orifice located just below the brain 448 00:59:35,697 --> 00:59:39,326 realm of the spirit. 449 00:59:39,493 --> 00:59:44,039 Like a city taken over by an occupying force 450 00:59:44,206 --> 00:59:46,374 that it comes to admire, 451 00:59:46,541 --> 00:59:50,337 Miriam forgets her humiliation 452 00:59:50,504 --> 00:59:54,716 and revels in this familiar pleasure. 453 00:59:54,883 --> 00:59:59,888 With each new thrust, she offers the intruder 454 01:00:00,055 --> 01:00:03,433 the wet caress of practiced tongue. 455 01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:07,479 A rush of emotion fills her soul. 456 01:00:07,646 --> 01:00:11,399 Her heartbeat quickens in rhythm 457 01:00:11,566 --> 01:00:13,902 with his urgent thrusts. 458 01:00:14,069 --> 01:00:17,823 Sensing his strokes tightening, 459 01:00:17,989 --> 01:00:21,243 she matches her cadence. 460 01:00:21,409 --> 01:00:26,873 You've teased me long enough, artful wench. 461 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:29,334 Try as I may, 462 01:00:29,501 --> 01:00:34,256 I can no longer contain the tide of jism rising in me 463 01:00:34,422 --> 01:00:40,762 that you must now drink down. 464 01:01:00,532 --> 01:01:04,661 A professional job. 465 01:01:07,747 --> 01:01:11,751 You've licked my cock, clean as a whistle. 466 01:01:11,918 --> 01:01:16,047 "Carnal knowledge is a fabric of secrets," 467 01:01:16,214 --> 01:01:18,133 as someone once said. 468 01:01:18,300 --> 01:01:21,219 They then added, 469 01:01:21,344 --> 01:01:26,766 "But with a single snag, the fabric unravels." 470 01:01:26,933 --> 01:01:30,395 The ritual is over, 471 01:01:30,562 --> 01:01:34,190 but is there more yet to come? 472 01:01:34,357 --> 01:01:37,986 She sucks dry his mighty cock, 473 01:01:38,153 --> 01:01:41,114 which, as it slowly retracts, 474 01:01:41,281 --> 01:01:44,034 she holds in her mouth like an obedient dog 475 01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:48,371 until her master removes it himself. 476 01:02:00,926 --> 01:02:03,053 Use me as you will, 477 01:02:03,219 --> 01:02:08,350 but I'm a better actress than a whore. 478 01:02:08,516 --> 01:02:14,189 Kneeling here, I've just given my best performance. 479 01:02:14,356 --> 01:02:16,983 For that, I thank you. 480 01:02:17,150 --> 01:02:20,236 That butterfly of yours! 481 01:02:20,403 --> 01:02:24,866 - Won't it fly away? - It can't. 482 01:02:25,033 --> 01:02:27,953 It's part of me. 483 01:02:31,206 --> 01:02:35,460 It watches the comings and goings. 484 01:02:35,627 --> 01:02:40,340 - Open up! - All my doors are wide open. 485 01:02:40,507 --> 01:02:42,676 It's your aim that's off 486 01:02:42,842 --> 01:02:46,805 like that of a bumbling virgin. 487 01:02:46,972 --> 01:02:51,184 My butterfly's scared your cock! 488 01:02:59,526 --> 01:03:02,988 What an amusing thought! 489 01:03:04,614 --> 01:03:09,661 To silence her mockery, he plunges his rigid tongue 490 01:03:09,828 --> 01:03:11,788 into her mouth. 491 01:03:11,955 --> 01:03:16,418 As she lets her tongue slither around his, 492 01:03:16,584 --> 01:03:19,170 her snatch suddenly yields, 493 01:03:19,337 --> 01:03:24,551 and without further ado, 494 01:03:24,718 --> 01:03:31,057 his cock plunges into the hilt 495 01:03:31,224 --> 01:03:37,105 right up to his balls. 496 01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:40,942 He keeps stroking her creamy cunt, 497 01:03:41,109 --> 01:03:45,113 as she submits to his slow rhythm. 498 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:52,495 Like a nymph taken by Jupiter, 499 01:03:52,662 --> 01:03:59,461 she will obey her master's desires 500 01:03:59,627 --> 01:04:04,090 so as to retain her beauty and eternal youth, 501 01:04:04,257 --> 01:04:07,677 the most precious gifts for a demigoddess. 502 01:04:07,844 --> 01:04:10,305 To control his senses 503 01:04:10,472 --> 01:04:16,478 and to tame the volcano about to erupt in his loins, 504 01:04:16,644 --> 01:04:20,023 Hugo stops. 505 01:04:20,190 --> 01:04:24,402 His manly lava, forcing its way 506 01:04:24,569 --> 01:04:29,949 up the volcano about to explode, 507 01:04:30,116 --> 01:04:33,286 finally shoots out. 508 01:04:33,453 --> 01:04:36,247 During those eight to 10 thrusts, 509 01:04:36,414 --> 01:04:40,460 he revels in the sensation of the secretion coming out 510 01:04:40,627 --> 01:04:44,964 through his swollen prostate, 511 01:04:45,131 --> 01:04:48,802 to find refuge in Miriam Gwen's warm, moist insides. 512 01:04:48,968 --> 01:04:51,888 The sensation is different from the passive pleasure 513 01:04:52,055 --> 01:04:56,184 earlier given by his submissive beauty. 514 01:04:56,351 --> 01:04:59,187 Feeling especially virile 515 01:04:59,354 --> 01:05:04,567 and not eager to put an end to his escapade, 516 01:05:04,734 --> 01:05:09,697 he keeps coming and going inside the gooey receptacle. 517 01:05:13,535 --> 01:05:17,747 For you own sake, be quiet! 518 01:05:30,635 --> 01:05:35,014 Not a word, or you're dead! 519 01:06:42,498 --> 01:06:48,546 Isn't it ironic that love making requires a "hard" member 520 01:06:48,713 --> 01:06:51,883 that tenderness would render impotent? 521 01:06:52,050 --> 01:06:58,389 The words "tender'" and "hard'" are thus ill-suited to the language of love. 522 01:06:58,556 --> 01:07:03,436 An interesting paradox. 523 01:07:17,951 --> 01:07:19,244 His cock stirs 524 01:07:19,410 --> 01:07:23,122 and stiffens inside her. 525 01:07:23,289 --> 01:07:26,125 The feminine orifice grips him 526 01:07:26,292 --> 01:07:29,921 as if the victim were trying to help him 527 01:07:30,046 --> 01:07:33,132 enter her again 528 01:07:33,299 --> 01:07:39,430 and perform anew the love sacrifice. 529 01:07:39,597 --> 01:07:44,811 But to what unnamed divinity? 530 01:07:52,151 --> 01:07:53,486 Wait here. 531 01:07:53,653 --> 01:07:55,321 Don't move! 532 01:07:56,572 --> 01:07:58,574 No wisecracks! 533 01:07:58,741 --> 01:08:01,828 I should warn you that this boudoir 534 01:08:01,995 --> 01:08:07,208 is equipped with cameras and microphones. 535 01:08:11,254 --> 01:08:14,090 Everything you've done or said 536 01:08:14,215 --> 01:08:20,388 has been recorded and can be used against you. 537 01:09:03,139 --> 01:09:06,726 My subservience is history now! 538 01:09:06,893 --> 01:09:10,521 Sarah Sand has no pity for men 539 01:09:10,688 --> 01:09:17,695 who refuse to relinquish their male pride. 540 01:09:17,862 --> 01:09:23,534 Once they've served their purpose, 541 01:09:23,701 --> 01:09:29,082 we throw them out, sullied and shamed. 542 01:09:29,248 --> 01:09:35,338 But we're not through with you yet. 543 01:09:35,505 --> 01:09:39,050 This is no act. I only told you it was 544 01:09:39,217 --> 01:09:42,553 to lure you up here. 545 01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:45,848 SO we could use you. 546 01:09:51,562 --> 01:09:54,232 With Ping the slave, 547 01:09:54,399 --> 01:09:56,192 you'd be in for harder times 548 01:09:56,359 --> 01:09:59,362 from start to finish. 549 01:10:00,488 --> 01:10:05,785 Lucky for you, I'm afraid to call him. 550 01:10:05,952 --> 01:10:08,913 That's right, lover boy, 551 01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:13,543 the worst is yet to come. 552 01:10:13,709 --> 01:10:16,504 Don't move! 553 01:10:16,671 --> 01:10:19,382 I'm the one who calls the shots 554 01:10:19,549 --> 01:10:22,427 and changes roles. 555 01:10:22,593 --> 01:10:26,556 Put up your hands. Higher! 556 01:10:26,722 --> 01:10:29,225 Higher! 557 01:10:29,392 --> 01:10:33,938 Hurry up, or you'll be sorry! 558 01:10:35,273 --> 01:10:38,067 Rip me apart! 559 01:10:40,194 --> 01:10:42,405 Make me burn! 560 01:11:11,684 --> 01:11:16,689 Your prick is as limp as a rag, 561 01:11:16,856 --> 01:11:19,775 a flaccid reminder 562 01:11:19,942 --> 01:11:22,737 of its past glory! 563 01:11:32,622 --> 01:11:36,167 That's right, lover boy, 564 01:11:36,334 --> 01:11:39,587 the worst is yet to come! 565 01:11:39,754 --> 01:11:41,839 Don't move. 566 01:11:43,758 --> 01:11:49,263 I'm the one who calls the shots. 567 01:11:52,016 --> 01:11:53,559 Hands up! 568 01:11:53,726 --> 01:11:55,853 Higher! 569 01:11:56,020 --> 01:11:59,315 You'd better hurry up! 570 01:12:54,453 --> 01:12:58,916 If you were a nobleman, I'd treat you even worse! 571 01:12:59,083 --> 01:13:01,210 Black slaves 572 01:13:01,377 --> 01:13:07,508 would strip you naked and beat you! 573 01:13:07,675 --> 01:13:09,302 You'd tremble beneath me 574 01:13:09,468 --> 01:13:12,471 like a whipped dog! 575 01:13:18,686 --> 01:13:20,688 Stick out your tongue! 576 01:13:20,855 --> 01:13:22,857 Come on! 577 01:13:24,984 --> 01:13:30,031 Open your mouth! Do as I say! 578 01:13:30,197 --> 01:13:33,409 You've got no choice! 579 01:14:42,103 --> 01:14:43,729 Get out of here! 580 01:14:43,854 --> 01:14:47,316 Not a word! Shut up! 581 01:14:47,483 --> 01:14:50,695 Miriam doesn't exist anymore. 582 01:14:50,861 --> 01:14:54,990 Maybe she never did. 583 01:14:55,157 --> 01:14:57,785 Forget my name! 584 01:14:57,952 --> 01:14:59,745 Get out! 585 01:14:59,912 --> 01:15:02,957 You're a bad actor who's being fired 586 01:15:03,124 --> 01:15:05,292 for botching his role. 587 01:15:05,459 --> 01:15:09,171 You live only a semblance of a life. 588 01:15:09,338 --> 01:15:13,384 You're a pitiful excuse for a man. 589 01:15:13,551 --> 01:15:16,470 I can't even despise you. 590 01:15:16,637 --> 01:15:18,639 That's a blessing in disguise. 591 01:15:18,806 --> 01:15:20,725 Get out. 592 01:15:22,184 --> 01:15:24,478 Get out! 593 01:15:24,645 --> 01:15:27,940 I never said I was an actor. 594 01:15:28,107 --> 01:15:31,569 Let alone a bad one. 595 01:15:31,736 --> 01:15:37,366 That was no act I put on for you! 596 01:15:39,410 --> 01:15:42,496 I'm just a man 597 01:15:42,663 --> 01:15:44,540 a simple man. 598 01:15:44,665 --> 01:15:48,711 I was wrong to take you for an actor. 599 01:15:48,878 --> 01:15:51,088 You're no poet either. 600 01:15:51,255 --> 01:15:54,925 You have no place in my little game. 601 01:15:55,092 --> 01:15:59,764 Get out while you still can! 602 01:15:59,930 --> 01:16:02,600 The doors are wide open. 603 01:16:02,767 --> 01:16:07,188 Unless Sarah has locked them, which I doubt. 604 01:16:07,354 --> 01:16:13,527 Downstairs, turn right and walk straight ahead. 605 01:16:14,779 --> 01:16:16,989 Go towards the river. 606 01:16:17,156 --> 01:16:20,534 Once there, you'll be given a new life. 607 01:16:20,701 --> 01:16:26,248 The Seine will wash you clean of your past 608 01:16:26,415 --> 01:16:29,168 as it has for others. 609 01:16:29,335 --> 01:16:31,170 Get out. 610 01:16:31,337 --> 01:16:33,088 Leave all that. 611 01:16:33,255 --> 01:16:36,175 Ping collect such things, 612 01:16:36,342 --> 01:16:40,721 tokens left in haste by occupying forces. 613 01:16:40,888 --> 01:16:46,060 He also collects watches. Hand yours over. 614 01:16:46,227 --> 01:16:49,438 You should've done so before 615 01:16:51,065 --> 01:16:54,401 out of respect for Miriam. 616 01:16:54,568 --> 01:16:57,655 But it was clear from the start 617 01:16:57,822 --> 01:17:01,158 you were a cad. 618 01:17:07,331 --> 01:17:10,793 A simple man, you say? 619 01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:15,005 "Vulgar" is more like it! You're a spiritual cripple! 620 01:17:15,172 --> 01:17:22,680 You'll never know the thrill of playing life's game 621 01:17:22,847 --> 01:17:26,892 right to the bitter end! 622 01:17:27,059 --> 01:17:31,939 A quick fuck and a bottle of wine 623 01:17:32,106 --> 01:17:35,818 that's all you care about! Now clear out, 624 01:17:35,985 --> 01:17:40,281 before Ping robs you of more than just your watch. 625 01:17:40,447 --> 01:17:44,243 Namely, your cock! 626 01:17:47,872 --> 01:17:51,917 Go! I offer you a reprieve. 627 01:17:52,084 --> 01:17:55,921 Go down to the river 628 01:17:56,088 --> 01:17:58,966 and wash yourself clean. 629 01:18:00,968 --> 01:18:04,555 No small task, I admit. 630 01:18:04,722 --> 01:18:08,475 What the future holds in store 631 01:18:08,642 --> 01:18:13,772 is beyond your wildest imaginings. 632 01:18:28,329 --> 01:18:31,832 Go back to your Fortuny gowns 633 01:18:31,999 --> 01:18:38,547 that you prefer to the women who wore them! 634 01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:40,007 Get out! 635 01:18:40,174 --> 01:18:43,928 You pathetic fool! 636 01:22:45,294 --> 01:22:47,671 Thank you. 637 01:22:47,838 --> 01:22:51,550 I'm Meriem Ben Saada. Who are you? 638 01:22:53,302 --> 01:22:54,803 Hugo Arnold... I think. 639 01:22:54,970 --> 01:22:58,557 I'm no longer sure. Where are you from? 640 01:22:58,724 --> 01:23:00,684 A land near the river Jordan 641 01:23:00,851 --> 01:23:04,688 on whose banks I offered up my naked body 642 01:23:04,855 --> 01:23:07,816 - to men passing by. - You were a prostitute? 643 01:23:07,983 --> 01:23:09,943 - Not another one! - I was forced to obey 644 01:23:10,110 --> 01:23:12,654 my father and brothers. 645 01:23:12,821 --> 01:23:17,284 Besides, I enjoyed giving men pleasure. 646 01:23:17,451 --> 01:23:22,331 - When was this? - Too long ago to be certain. 647 01:23:22,497 --> 01:23:26,668 But uncertainty leads us closer to the truth. 648 01:23:28,337 --> 01:23:30,589 - You're bleeding. - I almost died. 649 01:23:30,756 --> 01:23:34,885 "It's best to die before dying." 650 01:23:35,052 --> 01:23:37,679 That's what happened. 651 01:23:37,846 --> 01:23:42,017 The water has cleansed you, body and soul. 652 01:23:45,062 --> 01:23:47,022 The poet Ghazali said, 653 01:23:47,189 --> 01:23:51,568 "I'm a bird, and this body is my cage."” 654 01:23:51,735 --> 01:23:56,365 This is something women and poets understand. 655 01:23:56,531 --> 01:24:00,786 My wallet, identity papers and gold watch 656 01:24:00,953 --> 01:24:06,166 have all vanished into a mysterious boudoir. 657 01:24:07,668 --> 01:24:12,297 The only vestige of my former life 658 01:24:12,464 --> 01:24:15,968 is this key. 659 01:24:16,134 --> 01:24:19,805 The key to my apartment. 660 01:24:22,015 --> 01:24:23,600 Watch this! 661 01:24:27,604 --> 01:24:31,233 Your destiny is in your hands. 662 01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:36,613 Answer "yes' to every question you'll be asked." 663 01:24:36,780 --> 01:24:40,784 A simple "yes" will designate you 664 01:24:40,951 --> 01:24:44,913 as the nameless author of the ultimate crime. 665 01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:50,544 Your life will henceforth be in the hands of the State. 666 01:24:50,711 --> 01:24:55,966 Such shall be your fate... and your salvation. 667 01:25:24,911 --> 01:25:26,621 She's dead? 668 01:25:26,788 --> 01:25:29,875 - You killed her? - That's right, Officer. 669 01:25:30,042 --> 01:25:31,251 Yes. 670 01:25:31,418 --> 01:25:34,546 - With what? - He stabbed her in the chest. 671 01:25:34,713 --> 01:25:36,882 Yes. 672 01:25:37,007 --> 01:25:42,512 He plunged the knife in to the hilt. 673 01:25:42,679 --> 01:25:46,641 He killed her. 674 01:25:46,808 --> 01:25:50,771 I saw him do it! 675 01:25:50,937 --> 01:25:54,649 He pulled out a knife 676 01:25:54,816 --> 01:25:56,610 and ripped open her dress. 677 01:25:56,777 --> 01:25:58,987 Lock him up! 678 01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:01,865 Killers like him should be put away! 679 01:26:02,032 --> 01:26:04,534 It's all over now. 680 01:26:04,701 --> 01:26:07,579 Kill him! 681 01:26:07,746 --> 01:26:10,207 Kill the bastard!