All language subtitles for Helas Pour Moi (1993) [720p]_track4_[eng]

When my father's father's father
had a difficult task to accomplish,

he went to a certain place
in the forest,

lit a fire,

and immersed himself
in silent prayer.

And what he had to do
was done.

When my father's father
was confronted with the same task,

- BASED ON A LEGEND
- he went to the same place
in the forest and said:

"We no longer know
how to light the fire,

"but we still know the prayer."

And what he had to do

was done.

Later...

Rachel. The adulteress.

The Spaniard.

He too went into the forest
and said:

"We no longer know
how to light the fire,

"we no longer know
the mysteries of prayer,

"but we still know the exact place
in the forest where it occurred.

"And that should do."

And that did do.

Mom walks in her sleep.
Dad can't even creep!

OH WOE IS ME

I'm looking for someone named Simon.

He went to town.

And another named Rachel.

Rachel.

Madame is absent.
What is it for?

Do they know you?

Will they be long?

Do they know you?

Do they know you?

You should say "Mr." and "Mrs."
No first names. We're not

characters in a novel.

Maybe you are!

I heard they have a story for sale.

Sir, do you buy stories?

Exactly.

Sir?

But when I was faced
with the same task,

I stayed at home and I said:

BOOK ONE

"We no longer know how
to light the fire,

"we no longer know the prayers,

"we don't even know
the place in the forest.

"But we do know
how to tell the story."

No, no, no...

no, no, no...

no,

painters will not reveal the secret

of suffering.

Are you the drawing teacher?

Exactly.
Vaché, Jacques. Book broker.

Daddy says it's essential
that I learn to draw.

Essential for what?

To master the arabesque.

What do you do at the moment, Miss?

I'm in my last year of high school.
Now we're learning history.

1789, 14-18... In October,
we do the Russian Revolution.

Can I borrow this?

Come see me once you've finished
the Russian Revolution, Miss...

Miss...? Miss...?

Marinette Duras.

Can I borrow this?

Raphael again, Delphine?

I would like to know
why Luther's soldiers

tore these paintings
with their spears.

Let me tell you.

They're the least Christian
of all Europeans.

Why would the Church

have chosen Italy,
if not to...

To organize and control.

Exactly.

The drawing teacher...

Or bookseller!

My wife will pay you tomorrow.

Either / Or.

I'll take these two.

89 francs.

Either, or.

But what?

I don't know.

Let me tell you, children.

Painting will not show you the path
that leads from an external

vision of the world...

Look. The Women of Algiers.

...to the almost jealous
contemplation

of the face,
of the human gesture,

in the light one must compose...

to illuminate them...

...with all the harmonies
of the most distant suns

and the most poignant shades.

Hello, Monsieur Rigaut.

So how's life?

Li... li... like
so... so... soap.

Mon... Mons... Monsieur Monod,

it... it... it's melting away.

Is not the voice of friends
sometimes haunted

by an echo of the voices
that preceded us on Earth?

Does the beauty of women
of another age

bear no resemblance
to that of our friends?

It is our duty to understand
that the past exacts redemption,

an infinitesimal part of which
is perhaps within our power.

There is a mysterious encounter
between past generations

and our own.

We were expected on Earth.

Angelica...

Angelica!

(in Latin) I believe
because it is absurd.

It's because
it's the question of origin...

because today,

fear starts up
when faced with the possible.

Our age is in search
of a lost question, weary...

It's because
it's the question of origin...

because today, fear starts up
when faced with the possible.

Our age is in search of

a lost question

weary of all the right answers.

BY THE TRACE OF GOD

Madame!

Shit! For God's sake!

What is it now?

We didn't understand the last class.

What exactly is romanticism?

School is over.

Please, Madame Monod.

It's very important.

Please, Madame Monod.

It's very important...

We beg of you.

We'll leave you alone after.
We give you our word.

The given word.

"Upon his words...

"that made him in his own eyes
like those impeccable men...

Lord Jim!

"...who never fall out of ranks!"

"The inspector's words,
Romantic!

"Romantic!...

"seem to ring over those distances,

THE LAW OF SILENCE

"that will never give him up now
to a world

"indifferent to his failings,

"...and to that ardent
and clinging affection,

"that refuses him the dole of tears

"in the bewilderment
of a great grief,

"of eternal separation."

And the Baron de Hulot's:
"Can I take her?"

- Cousin Pons!
- Cousin Bette.

Exactly.

Thank you, Madame.

May I bother your husband?

We need to fix the roof.

Shit! For God's sake!

What makes a house stand,
and its roof strong,

is the truth.

Monsieur Simon,
please call Monsieur Paul.

Oh yeah.

Eric,
Madame Donnadieu

is downstairs.

Anne...

Anne, listen to this for Sunday.

"If France is to know
a resurgence of religion,

"it will be
in the joyous magnification

"of the heavenly instinct

"in everyone."

Making sentences is relatively easy.

It's unmaking them that's troubling.

Clémence, tea.

Yes, Master.

False sentences are dead weights
we carry for years.

You can't fool me, Anne.
That's Mallarmé.

I won't say.
But beware, Eric.

I know you.

No, thank you.

Please.

Please.

Please.

What is it, Madame Donnadieu?

What is it?

Five days ago, I learned
that flesh can be weak.

Who told you such nonsense?

My body.

I didn't know.

What are you talking about?

Shit!

Are you having fun?

No, you're having fun.
I'm working.

Little devil!

What are you talking about?

My husband, my God!

My God...

Your God, Madame,
or your husband?

- HIGH ABOVE
- I don't really know.

Pull yourself together.

Clémence, you offended the Lord.

But Monsieur Monod,
he's the one...

During the chorale, I was

awkward.

- HERE BELOW
- No, Madame.

The Church often says

God's laws are the same
as those of love.

You seem diabolically smarter
than I. Alas, I do not see.

Why not start over?
From the beginning.

WE WERE EXPECTED ON EARTH

Stop acting like an idiot.

Ondine, come on!

Ondine!

Ondine!

Miss?

Sir?

Why not this one?

Why not become the dress,
or something else?

Not this time, Max.

Leave, victim!

Where is this Rachel?

Bastard! Bastard!

Putting yourself out of misery
is no worse

than living on
in humble resignation.

Rachel Donn... adieu!

Simon.

Quick! A doctor!

But I'm the doctor!

I'm the drawing teacher's
new girlfriend.

Or bookseller.

Doctor Vallès. We need a fourth man.
The good soldier left.

Rachel!

Donnadieu.

Simon.

We said the garage, Simon.

Paul said to sign tonight, or never.

- NOW, YES, I MUST GIVE IN,
NOW I AM IN LOVE
- Tomorrow there's Nelly, Mr. Vaché.

- Is 4 free?
- And the hotel in Italy?

The fucking bankers want it.
We have to hurry.

This way, Monsieur Lombard.

Can I do without you?

I have to talk to Rachel.

Are you out of your mind?

I don't know.

You're out of your mind, Simon.

It would never happen to me.

The tennis player.

Sir.

The tennis player.

Max Mercure.

Stefan Elbaum.

The tennis player.

Here for the championship?

I work in communications.

We're progressing like mad.

Employees waste their time
making a living,

and consumers waste their lives

making time.

My name is Abraham Klimt.

I bear the name Abraham Klimt.

The brother and sister.

Let's go.

Yes, Lieutenant.

If there's a war...

My parents named me
Abraham Klimt.

Identifying myself with no one
in this story,

where honor and shame

are very different
from how we conceive them

today,

and placing myself in the realm
of ordinary humanity,

I feel for this reason a strange

loathing of saying crudely

what the spectator has probably
already discovered all alone.

Such disgust may seem ridiculous,

were it not that,

because cinematographic language
is imperfect,

there is always something dirty,

degrading even,

in exposing the naked truth.

But it didn't last.

- Her ass is bigger.
- She's forbidden to speak or write.

Heat up the soup. It's 5 o'clock.

And the preacher knew it!

Rachel came to see him
2 or 3 days after.

- After what?
- After what?

Imagine someone who,
using the only weapon available,

wages war against God.

That person mustn't believe...

In who?

In God.

On the contrary...
where would be the courage?

I'd call it madness.

Madness, if you prefer.

I think it's someone who saw God,

as they say,
"as plain as the nose on your face,"

and thus saw him

in all his simplicity, or even,

his vulgarity.

BOOK TWO

Which one is she?

Get lost.

There she is.

What sloppy work!

Dear friend.

- Simon.
- Forget about it.

A beer.

It's him.

Something's up. I smell a storm.

No, Simon.

Careful.

It's not your fault.

What do I do?

Sit in a corner.

Anyway, you're in all of them.

Learn their lines.

- It's tough being a human.
- Oh woe is me.

"...of certain things,
the existence of which

"is neither demonstrable
nor plausible,

"but which, because pious
and conscientious men

"treat them as if they existed,

"approach being,

"and the possibility of being born..."

Does she kiss him?

Listen, as far as I can see,

he saws her ass in half.

Yes, but does she kiss him?

Listen, as far as I can see,

he swallows her breasts.

Yes, but does she kiss him?

Listen, as far as I can see,

she takes his head in her hands,

puts her mouth near his...

but it may be not to kiss him.

We are not able to free ourselves.

There is no doubt about it.

And we call that "democracy."

The Communist Manifesto
was published the same year

as Alice in Wonderland.

The Ascension is an old idea.

It existed 2000 years before Christ.

And Baghdad.

During the war, everyone,

Russians, Americans,
French, Germans, Chinese,

they all forgot the 32 temples.

The ziggurats.

Exactly.

Are they prettier than the pyramids?

We are not in Egypt, Miss.
They're not tombs...

but stairs for the Gods,
so they can come back down to Earth.

What erudition!

Erudition is not the acquisition
of knowledge, but an adventure.

Another red.

No more red.

Tomorrow night.

I have to be in Calcutta Saturday.

Get your priorities straight!

"With the communists, I'll go to
my death, but not one step further."

Gentlemen.

What are you looking at?

I'm looking at them.

Before, in Russia,
they were called souls.

And if the stairs are destroyed,
the Gods won't come down?

No.

Good evening,
Madame Donnadieu.

Good evening, Monsieur Monod.

Angelica.

Angelica.

She's dead.

Her image may not be,

oh woe is me!

Benjamin, tell him to beat it.

Get going, sir.

It was a Vivian Romance movie.

- Sir.
- Sir.

Sir.

Madame.

How are you, Rachel?

You're early.

Quarter finals.

The eye is not satisfied
with what it sees.

The ear is not satiated
by what it hears.

What has been,
will be.

A big blonde,
like in a Peter Cheyney.

Nelly Deblue.

It's me.

The bank agreed.

Great.

Quarterfinal. Semifinal.

Beat it!

Abraham Klimt. Publisher.

Tell me what happened late

in the afternoon on July 23, 1989.

I'm not sure
it can be considered a story,

BOOK THREE

- but it happened here.
- Your drawing teacher spied!

Or bookseller.

God bless his soul.

What happened to him?

He was a communist,
so he was iced.

I think I got it. It was...

I remember.

Or I recall...

Wasn't it the day I met Stefan?

When I said "farewell"
instead of "hello"?

Exactly, honey.

The fucker!

He compared Rachel's ass
to the minister's wife's.

It's Rachel who interests me.

But the book is missing pages.

It's my job to look for them.

She was your friend?

I remember.

We were early.

Madame Monod too.

Rachel was on the platform.

Not at all. She swam in.

Not true...
She was walking in the water.

Sir?

You sell images.

THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD

You should know whether some things
are impossible to see.

Stefan, stop.

- IT HASN'T EVEN PAST YET
- Nothing special happened?

Invisible?

Impossible to see.

What's your book, exactly?

Neither the content, nor the form.

I formed the impression that Simon
loved Rachel less than she loved him.

Sir.

Sir.

I don't think you can say it
exactly like that.

I don't think I'm coming.

An occasion like this!
Don't be an idiot, Simon.

Tonight I have to ask Rachel.

We had other plans.

Tonight.

Why not tomorrow, Paul?

Tonight.

I don't know.

Take Rachel.
She'll be with Josette.

How are you, Rachel?

You're early.

Rachel, when from the Lord!

ALL IS IN ONE

I wanted it to be a surprise.

What's more,
it'll be 5 in the morning.

Not sure.

As a first assistant,
you're the pits, Max.

If she goes too,

I'm screwed.

Trust me, sir. You don't want
a woman like the others.

The surprise is awful.
You're leaving.

Why desire,
if you need a body?

This is our first little war.
We've expected it.

I'll tell the poppies.
They'll blush with emotion.

They'll blush with shame.
Because Simon is leaving Rachel.

3 or 4 hours, little lady.
Make up your minds.

I don't think Rachel
really loves you.

Did he say war? Or whore?

So?

I've always wanted
to tell the world I love my husband.

To shout it.

As one shouts a mission,
or a crime.

A crime?

Now it's done.

Go, Simon. Hurry.

There may be women waiting for you.

Come and see.

No, it's your idea.

What is that face thinking?

To kiss that mouth.

Run, Simon. Fast.

Tomorrow, when you wake me,
I'll be blushing with pleasure.

A MAN IS THE SHADOW OF GOD
FOR THE WOMAN WHO LOVES HIM

I found this for you.
And this for your husband.

- The Law of Silence.
- If we hated each other,

I'd be happy to see you off.

It's not too bad a title
for I Confess.

I'll take the Lancia.

Paul will beat you.

3rd place in Monte Carlo.

These cars have won the 1000/1000.

BOOK FOUR

Something's wrong.

There's no lizard.

Hello, Monsieur Benjamin.
Anything new?

A batch of horror films.

Is it true that Rachel and Simon
fought for the first time?

Monsieur Straub
always makes two negatives.

I want the one where a lizard
crosses the frame at 18 minutes.

Mommy, what's a negative?

When life begins, you get
the positive. The rest is up to you.

Is it true a man
with the color of your eyes, Madame,

spoke of the sky,

and of clouds?

Clouds, sometimes.

All is in One,
and the Other is in One.

These are the three persons.

And the Other in One.

Goodbye, Jacquot,
Rachel, Nelly, Madame Monod.

Hello, Vallès.

I didn't know we said farewell
to say hello.

And goodbye,

Madame Donnadieu.

- Because...
- It's always because!

Because this territory
belonged to the Dukes of Savoy.

Nothing really changes.

Everything changes.
As a drawing teacher...

Or bookseller, Madame Monod.

The sky changes too.

But its variations
are less pronounced

than those of trees and water.

OH WOE IS ME

Clouds sometimes

form maps.

But it is usually a dome

of mixed hues, with blue dominating.

During the day,
the blue becomes pale,

turning white,
joining the blue of the earth.

After sunset,
the horizon will turn orange,

melting upwards
into a tender violet.

But deep down, the blue persists.
And the night preserves it.

The stars hang like lamps
in the immense vault.

The distance between them
and the vault is nothing

when one considers what is beyond.

This depth,
which surpasses all color,

will be, in the end,

delivered from the blue.

I'm going home.

Let's play tea party again
on Sunday.

I'll swim a little with Rachel.

A slight detour
by way of fear and despair

is perhaps the best path
for our presence in the world,

he murmured.

He murmured...

THUS, SLOWLY, THE PAST
COMES BACK INTO THE PRESENT,

BY WAY OF THE IMAGINARY
MISE EN SCÈNE OF A VISUAL EXPERIENCE

WHICH ALWAYS ENTICES
SEVERAL REGARDS

Wild Orgy!

They want to bear
the burden of the world,

but not the burden of their sins.

Cannibal Man.

For evil to exist,
the creature is necessary.

The one God created in his image.

Devil Girl.

I don't think

it's so simple.

There are images

and icons.

Did you say ice cream cones?

Let's go. Close up, Benjamin.

You'll publish a nice book.

Pages will be missing
in all the right places.

The name parents
give their children,

which corresponds
to no objective knowledge,

is the only trace which still exists

of divine language

in the simple language of mortals.

- AND THE OTHER
- To create his own destiny...

- AND THE OTHER IS
- from the name he bears.

AND THE OTHER IS IN

AND THE OTHER IS IN ONE

- I received your letter.
- I'll be back.

Benjamin told me about you.

The boy from the video store.

Oh yes, the banana.

I've stayed friends with him.
The others disgust me.

And Ludovic died in Dubrovnik.

Did you know Bosnia backwards
gives you "I sob" and "S.O.B."?

Obviously.

Aude, I'm going to City Hall.

Don't forget the flowers.

Rest assured.

In your letter,
you said you saw something.

Amiel. You're a relative of...

the famous author of the Journal.
Exactly.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

No one knows the entire path.

The slightest step can blind us.

I don't have much time.
There are the flowers.

This is what I know:

A man was there. I saw him.

Two men, my God.

That's no help.
I know about the blue-eyed man.

He doesn't count.

Simon and his Lord.

Sir,

do you know
the 10 historical propositions

about the Old Testament?

No.

The Sholem text affirms

that a tradition exists
concerning truth,

and that this tradition
is transmissible.

I'm laughing, because the truth
that concerns us now

has all kinds of aspects,

but being transmissible
isn't one of them.

I don't see what you mean.

That's very well put:
"I don't see."

And yet I saw it.

No, heard it.
I'd put it that way.

But you weren't alone.
There was Ludo.

Please...

Excuse me. You're right.

I was already.

That probably explains it.

I was sitting there.

No, a little farther.

Another voice test, sir.

The usual psalm.

All is in One,

and the Other in One.

Not bad. Once more.

All is in One,

and the Other in One.

And those are the three persons.

And the hair, Max?

...Or church hymns from around 1700.

The human ear

heard back then
accents that no science...

Do you know these hymns, Aude?

Quiet, I'm listening to something.

She is touched by the power
of words. No irony in your eyes.

And no sense of vengeance.

He is a simple man.

He likes the lake,
with its 32 kinds of wind,

a little money,
but nothing extravagant.

Not even a Mercedes.
An old Lancia, I think.

You think it's good?

Man of little faith!

Oh, excuse me, Max.

The raincoat, for God's sake!

BOOK FIVE

We're not asking you

to live a real life,

to fuel real passions,

to be what this woman is:
a truth.

Poor woman.

Five o'clock is a little short.

Your French is excellent, sir.

Prolong the night, Max.

On Earth, the night belongs
to everyone. It accepts no orders.

It's democracy's sole success.

Tonight, we'll improvise.

God keep you!

Lorelei.

Lorelei.

I have to

find a girl too.

You can leave now.

Monsieur and Madame are not dining?

Monsieur won't be here.

Thank you, Madame. Goodbye.

Is someone there?

It's me, Simon.

Why are you here?

Did you buy the hotel?

I'm going back. Paul's waiting.

AND THESE ARE

I wanted to kiss you.

- AND THESE ARE THE THREE PERSONS
- It's done, Simon.

Why are you so proud?

Rachel.

No.

Proud, if I compare myself.
Humble, if I judge myself.

Frankly.

Something is wrong.

Tell me what's wrong, Simon.

You're annoying me!

Sorry.

Everything's fine.

I'm waiting for you,
but you can't see that.

It's irksome.

You said tomorrow morning.

I expected you tomorrow morning.
You're upsetting everything.

Kissing isn't the end of the world.

It's done, again.

Differently.

I can't do it differently,

because I'm waiting for you,
and you shouldn't be here.

Listen, honey...

What's that word?

Are you sick?

No.

When I left,
something went wrong.

We flubbed up the scene.

To tell you the truth, it was your
"Simon is leaving Rachel."

No one bought it.

Ask them.

You were glaring,
looking off into the blue.

Your voice didn't even quiver.

Your voice didn't even quiver.

Not even.

Not into the blue.

Into the sea.

My Simon.

And now I'm quivering.
And before too.

The water was wrong too.

It should have been deep blue.

Afterwards, you spoke
of the exact color.

You hadn't left.

You were listening.

We have to do the scene over.

I'll take you

in my arms.

Don't give me orders.

My love is present.

Can't you understand
I'm waiting for you?

I promise I'm waiting.

My God, buy the hotel in Italy.
Fast.

I'm going to sleep.

Continue.

- NEITHER CREATURE
- What?

Saying "My God."

NOR CREATOR

You eat candy now?

My God,
you're like another Simon.

Exactly.

I don't want another Simon.

I am your lover.

I have no lover.

You have one lover,
and he is here.

I have a husband,
and he's not here.

I'm waiting for him.
I'm tired, so I'm going to sleep.

I can easily be

your lover.

Impossible.

Why?

I can't see.

I can't see much, Miss.

Keep open an indefinite margin.

And a vision can't be questioned.

The image may come, sir,

once the redemption has occurred.

Saint Paul.

According to you,
there's no possible image.

Not concerning this.

I told you I saw nothing.

Or just medieval imagery.

Look at our poor television.

Not even.

I'm tired.

I fear sleep,
like a great black hole,

full of a vague horror,

leading who knows where.

Where am I?

They all say that.

Where am I, my God?

Your flesh is very white.

As if all the blood sought refuge

in your hair.

Where am I, I said.

In the arms of thy lover.
That's where.

How awful.

I'm sorry, Simon.

Thy? Are you crazy?

Thou art in my house.
I fixed it up to look like thine.

It was like beginning
to see something,

but identical from all sides,

as if what was almost revealed

hesitated to make its appearance.

It is summer.
Nights are short.

Max had warned me
I had no chance.

But it's night, Rachel.
Don't be mistaken.

Even if I turn on the daylight.

Every object seemed to cast forth

a dim shadow in all directions,

with no light
to explain it as shadow,

with no emanation
to justify its being visible.

Moreover, it was not even visible.

I am in every one of you.

I had a little boy.

He died for you.

All of you.

All of you?

You're in this ant too?

Theoretically.

Last night,
I sought refuge in Simon.

Why Simon?

Because he is weak.

And you are strong. At least,
I hope so.

I'm often wrong.

Now I'm asking: Who,

no, where are you talking from?

When you woke up 5 minutes ago,
you said my name.

What name?
I don't understand, my God!

You see?

With a possessive.

And in the kitchen too.

I am thus yours.

Simon, I'm begging you.
What's going on?

Sir, please.
What happened?

This is my story.

You slept with me.

EVERYTHING WAS ASLEEP,

AS IF THE UNIVERSE
WERE A VAST MISTAKE

This is my story.

In one week,
I invented everything.

On the seventh day, I rested.

That's what you learned
at Sunday school.

But you're not taught that while
I was sleeping, someone else came,

the eternal...

that he touched everything,
that mayhem set in,

that Monday
everything had to be done again.

Since then,
there is war everywhere.

Do you know Leopardi?

- The Italian poet?
- Exactly.

He spoke very well of this.

What happened with me?

You went

upstairs.

Yes.

You undressed.

Yes.

So did I.

I don't know.

I think so.

You looked at the lights outside.

You breathed deeply.

Exactly.

You murmured something.

Probably.

That a slight detour
by way of fear and despair

let you maintain
your position in the world.

Exactly.

I was downstairs.

I stepped onto the veranda.

Into the veranda.

And I came in here.

Simon came in and I fainted.
And nothing happened.

And it's daytime, and Simon,
you're killing me.

I'll explain again.

It is nighttime.

Things must be clear between us.

I come back in this room.

So I'll start over too.

I don't understand.

Having a lover. This disgust.

I think a lover only wants love,

not the other, in front of him.

And I like windows wide open,
and fresh sheets.

Lord, did you think of Simon?

No, you didn't think of him.

True, I didn't think of him.

That's not very courageous.

It was written that I should be
loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

I don't understand sentences
like that.

Of course it's not a world
where things come easily.

If your head's not round,
who'll compliment you?

It's nice to love everyone.
And me in particular.

To be in everyone's heart.

This is my body.

But in the meantime,

it's Simon's body.
What about him now?

Once I thought it wise
to confuse comedy and tragedy.

If the Word is your specialty,
then lies...

Now I wish I could tell them apart.

God protect us from actors.
Visions can't be seen.

God is not a character. Nor you,
nor me. No one. Just figures.

Be sure to have used up
all that communicates...

And him?

- SIMON WILL NOT HAVE LOVED YOU
FOR NOTHING
- Why is he here? In another?

The innovation of Christianity

- I WILL NOT HAVE
- is the resurrection of the body.

But bodies have a sex.

- LOVED YOU FOR NOTHING
- Exactly.

There is possible in impossible.

And why me?

There should be.

I'm average-looking.

That is true.

But I only like faithful women.

You like difficulties, I see.

You're out of luck.

For faithfulness,
I beat all the records.

On the other hand,
I can only manage easy things.

Look at my marriage with Simon.

Because I try no one else,

everything seems possible for me.

People expect miracles from me.

One day I will be put to the test.

But I'm average there too.
I'm never put to the test.

Someday.
But that day is today.

Everything is fast.
Everything is slow.

The first creatures on Earth
to become aware of time,

were the first creatures to smile.

No page is missing, sir.

- I DO NOT SEE
- There is nothing to see.

An event is that which happens.
That which has a meaning.

Be in my image.

The commandment to mankind means

"Let me sanctify myself in you,
and sanctify you after."

It's what lovers say.

Excuse me.

Seeing the invisible
is exhausting.

And now

it's day, I guess.

And now it is day, I guess.

You are deaf.

Rachel.

Cruel.

But I have what I wanted.

You have nothing at all.
To love, you need a body.

Without Simon, you don't exist.

You can't just barge in like that.

That is not exact.

This is exact:

In 1932 a Dutchman named Jan Oort
studied the stars

which move away from the Milky Way.

As was calculated,

gravity pulls them behind.

Studying the position and the speed
of these repatriated stars,

Oort calculated
the mass of our galaxy.

How surprised he was

to discover
that visible matter represented

only 50% of the mass necessary

to deploy
such a gravitational force.

What happened to

the other half of the universe?

Phantom matter was born.

Omnipresent,

but invisible.

Though wise men at their end

know dark is right,

Because their words had forked
no lightning,

Do not go gentle into that

good night.

Grave men, near death,

who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze
like meteors...

Rage, rage,
against the dying of the light.

And you, my father,
here on the sad height, curse,

bless me now
with your fierce tears...

Do not go gentle
into that good night.

You mean when I love Simon,
I overshadow him?

And he overshadows you,
when he loves you.

When I put my arms
around Simon's neck.

Yes.

I do say "Simon."

Yes, yes, Rachel.

Do these two extended arms,

closing together in an embrace,

until...

Until?

until the two hands join,

the fingers clasping together,

isn't this act of love...

Yes, Rachel?

...the act of prayer?

4 o'clock in the morning.

5 o'clock in the morning.

Now it's Act Three.

Simon is not here.

I'll wait 15 minutes.

Maybe he went straight to the café.

All is One,

and One in the Other.

These are the three persons.

I'll ask the minister.

What is your husband's name?

Are you angry?

You tricked me,
but I'm used to that.

How about friendship?

What's that?
I don't know that word.

It's used pretty often.

You're annoying me.

What do you mean?

It seems to me
it runs deeply through all of us

and brings together different people

making them perfectly equal.

Pierre. Marie.

You see, there is no luck,

little lady.

No, I don't believe so.

Yes, maybe...
I do believe.

What we believe
is an image of the truth.

I told you. I am touched
by the power of words.

I have no experience, no burden.

No ambition at all.

This man's battle is not for me.

I'm going.

Events are that which happens.
That which

has a meaning.

A story exists only by the act
of its being told.

But which curtain-rise warrants

our depriving ourselves
of our dreams?

How can we dare dream
of bringing them to light,

or into the light?

Everyone is surrounded
by the invisible dreams.

Music carries us all
to that ray of light

gushing
from under the curtain

while an orchestra
tunes its violins.

Our hands slide and part,

our bodies brush cautiously
against one another.

Each person avoids waking the other
from the dream,

avoids making him
return to darkness.

Leaving the night of night
which is not day.

As we love one another.

You know everyone.

LOVED FOR NOTHING

It's my job.

All my senses tell me
nothing happened.

Because of you, since yesterday,
I have but one word in my mouth.

The word "love."

Oh woe is me.

Don't ask me to say it to you.

My God, I want to suffer
like everyone else, even more so,

but I don't want to be resigned.

Resignation is sad.

How can one resign oneself
to God's will?

Do we resign ourselves
to being loved?

Love the world in me, if you will,
but not me in the world.

Please. Please.

You really don't want
to become immortal?

Immortal? What on Earth for?

I was told everyone wanted to.

What will I do if I don't die?
Life will stop.

I'm not like everyone.

Proud and arrogant...

Proud, if I compare myself.

Humble, if I judge myself.

You told me that before.

Yes, but I didn't know it was you.

I thought it was Simon
who was here.

It's our first little war,
and I love you.

How do you know it's not me?

Rachel.

Me.

Simon.

Okay, let's go.

Yes, Ludo.

If there is war...

We'll be late.

Oh, my God.

I'll be back late.
Don't expect me for dinner.

No.

Come on.

Every man for himself.

Nothing escapes representation
more than...

Yugoslavia.

THE SKY DIGS HOLES
AMID THE LEAVES OF GOLD

When you increased the cruelty
of their lives,

you deprived them of the courage
to refuse it.

Only certain things.

Goodbye, Ludo.
Are you off to war?

Yes, Madame Donnadieu.

OCTOBER ELECTROSCOPE
SHUDDERED AND SLEPT

Between Denges and Denezy,
a young woman

comes back home.

Gentlemen.

We each manage more or less
on our own.

We each manage more or less
on our own.

What's unbearable,

is when seemingly unmerited ordeals

fall upon others.

Do you mean Madame Donnadieu?

Just a bad dream.

- THE THING IN THE HOLE,
- We all have them.

THAT'S ALL YOU CARE ABOUT

All the perfumes of Arabia
won't rub out an inexistent spot.

No. No!

It works.

You're not reading, Simon.
Are you sorry about the hotel?

A garage is different.

No, Paul. Not at all.

It's your fault. You shouldn't have
come back to kiss Rachel.

I met you two hours later.

But it was my fault.

Where do I sign?

Next to your name, Simon.

Our wise church discovered
if you act as if you have faith,

you'll be provided with it for free.

Ludovic.

There are bad Providers.
You say faithful, I say sick.

The deepest human instinct
is to wage war against the truth.

That is, the real.

But the truth can be sad:
your Peguy.

No, Ernest Renan, Doctor.

Axiom 1: A property is positive
if its negation is negative.

Axiom 2:...

Theorem:

There exists an X,
and X resembles God.

- LIKE A NOVEL
- Si-mon-Don-à-dieu...

Rachel.

So I'll see you all in September.

Where are you going on vacation?

I guess

I'll stay here.

- EVERYONE IS SURROUNDED
BY THE INVISIBLE DREAMS
- No homework, Madame?

If you insist.

I'll drop you off.

Count your pages, children.

We are enchanted
by the number of pages read,

then we're horrified
by how few are left.

Only 50 pages left.

There is no sadness
more delicious than that.

Blind, but not deaf, Miss.

"Thus disappeared all the worlds,

"the ports and harbors,

"where the Ariel
had dropped her anchor,

"then cast off to sail the seas..."

"'That was the happiest time
we ever had,' said Frederic.

"'Yes, perhaps, that was
the happiest time we ever had,'

"said Deslauriers."

A Sentimental Education!

"It's all right by me. But

"what do you think will happen
to Mimi, Dorothy and Gilbert now?

"Nothing new.

"They'll go on being
Mimi, Dorothy and Gilbert,

"just as you and I will go on
being us,

"and the Quinns
will go on being the Quinns.

"Murder doesn't round out
anybody's life, except the murdered

"and sometimes the murderer's."

"Probably, said Nora.

"But it is pretty boring."

The Thin Man.

But it ends better in English.

I'll repeat myself:

Everyone has expressed himself
more or less freely,

except you.

Why?

Don't be afraid.

Like the Americans say,
it's off record.

Nothing happened.

And this man, in your image?

There is only one man here: me.

The shadows can invade the self.

Nothing happened.

That's not true.
What happened is not common.

Your wife told you nothing?

It was me. I did a U-turn
and came home.

That's all.

You have to learn to accept love.

I think I love Rachel.

We'll win the 1000/1000
with this car!

We'll win the 1000/1000
with this car!

You see?
Out of the mouths of babes...

Sir.

Sir.

Madame.

This regard chased the futile
thoughts from the students' heads.

There is nothing left to say
concerning Simon and Rachel.

The rest occurs

beyond images,
and beyond stories.

This side of.

What did you say?

Lithuanian caramels, Hungarian bras,
Korean lighters.

No, thank you.

Excuse me, sir.

I read your mind.

Not "beyond,"

but "this side
of images and stories."

This side of.

Maybe you're right.

My God,
let him who never erred...

Cast the first stone!

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At night,

when I get up,

I know it concerns
not what is close, nor far,

nor an event belonging to me,

nor a truth that can be spoken.

It is not a scene,

nor the beginning of something.

An image.

Yes, an instant.

But sterile.

Someone for whom I am nothing,
and who is nothing to me.

A point, and outside

this point, nothing in the world
is foreign to me.

Yes, but devoid of a name.
With no biography,

refusing memory,
not desiring to be told.

Present, but not there.

Absent, but nowhere else.

Completely outside the possible.

If they say
it is linked to the night,

I say, "No,
the night does not know it."

What are you talking about, Miss?

If I am asked, I answer:

"There is no one to ask me."