1 00:00:22,522 --> 00:00:25,218 SIX MORAL TALES 2 00:00:56,356 --> 00:00:59,757 1ST PROLOGUE - HAYDEE 3 00:02:03,356 --> 00:02:07,258 2ND PROLOGUE - DANIEL 4 00:02:08,161 --> 00:02:10,459 We must all realize our full potential. 5 00:02:10,663 --> 00:02:14,064 Those who don't are like the people in Versailles, 6 00:02:14,267 --> 00:02:16,565 who surround those who do. 7 00:02:17,804 --> 00:02:22,173 Those who do are inevitably surrounded and aggressive. 8 00:02:23,877 --> 00:02:26,869 This, for instance, is perfect. 9 00:02:29,716 --> 00:02:31,445 It couldn't be better. 10 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:37,448 It's painting. 11 00:02:38,191 --> 00:02:41,285 It's thought encircled... 12 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:45,429 by razor blades. I'm bleeding. 13 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:49,559 That is to say, 14 00:02:50,803 --> 00:02:52,794 it's unique... 15 00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:56,475 taking nothing as its cause. 16 00:03:01,047 --> 00:03:04,778 Encircled by its own thought, as if by razor blades. 17 00:03:06,386 --> 00:03:08,320 Impossible to hold. 18 00:03:08,755 --> 00:03:10,245 Here's proof. 19 00:03:11,124 --> 00:03:12,989 It was done on purpose. 20 00:03:16,796 --> 00:03:19,560 Not your cut. But that was done on purpose. 21 00:03:22,001 --> 00:03:24,094 I'd like other people to get cut, not you. 22 00:03:24,304 --> 00:03:26,431 You like people to get cut on art? 23 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,869 Other people, yes. But not you. 24 00:03:30,910 --> 00:03:34,846 You're sharp. You shouldn't get cut. That bothers me. 25 00:03:35,615 --> 00:03:37,776 I don't mind getting cut. 26 00:03:38,918 --> 00:03:40,408 Doesn't it hurt? 27 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:43,555 I surround myself with dangerous people. 28 00:03:44,857 --> 00:03:48,850 You remind me of elegant people in the 18th century 29 00:03:49,062 --> 00:03:51,394 who were very concerned with their appearance 30 00:03:51,598 --> 00:03:53,998 and the effect they had on others. 31 00:03:54,934 --> 00:03:58,131 That was already a creation, the beginning of the Revolution. 32 00:03:58,338 --> 00:04:01,569 The distance, established by elegance, 33 00:04:01,774 --> 00:04:04,572 from those who aren't elegant is crucial. 34 00:04:04,777 --> 00:04:08,838 It creates a kind of void around the person, 35 00:04:09,449 --> 00:04:11,849 and it's that void around the person 36 00:04:12,051 --> 00:04:15,282 that you create, with your objects too. 37 00:04:15,488 --> 00:04:19,185 But you could just as well do without your objects. 38 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:23,486 You yourself are the can of paint surrounded by razor blades, 39 00:04:23,696 --> 00:04:25,186 as was Saint-Just. 40 00:04:25,398 --> 00:04:27,764 Razor blades are words. 41 00:04:27,967 --> 00:04:29,798 They could be silence. 42 00:04:30,003 --> 00:04:32,028 They could also be elegance... 43 00:04:32,772 --> 00:04:34,706 a certain yellow. 44 00:04:35,842 --> 00:04:39,676 3RD PROLOGUE: ADRIEN 45 00:04:41,481 --> 00:04:44,245 Perhaps style is more important than beauty. 46 00:04:44,450 --> 00:04:47,681 But in love, the notion of beauty is essential. 47 00:04:47,887 --> 00:04:50,048 We love someone because we find him handsome. 48 00:04:50,256 --> 00:04:52,554 No, we find him handsome because we love him. 49 00:04:55,495 --> 00:04:58,896 Yes, a man may be ugly yet have immense charm. 50 00:04:59,332 --> 00:05:02,995 If he's loved, his ugliness is transformed into beauty. 51 00:05:05,872 --> 00:05:08,397 For me an ugly man has no charm. 52 00:05:08,608 --> 00:05:11,236 Nothing's possible. It's over immediately. 53 00:05:11,577 --> 00:05:13,442 What's over? 54 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,116 Anything. Even the most superficial relationship. 55 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:19,717 Even to have a drink for five minutes. I can't. 56 00:05:19,919 --> 00:05:21,511 If he's ugly, I leave. 57 00:05:21,721 --> 00:05:26,488 Can you be friends with someone you find ugly? 58 00:05:27,460 --> 00:05:31,226 Ugliness and beauty don't enter into my friendships. 59 00:05:31,431 --> 00:05:36,061 I don't see my friends as either ugly or handsome. 60 00:05:38,137 --> 00:05:40,697 But friendship doesn't happen in five minutes. 61 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:42,907 It takes several encounters. 62 00:05:43,109 --> 00:05:45,942 How do you manage that with someone you find ugly? 63 00:05:46,145 --> 00:05:47,976 I run. It's impossible. 64 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:49,978 It's not a question of ugliness. 65 00:05:50,183 --> 00:05:55,621 Among crowds of beautiful people, I'm only interested 66 00:05:55,822 --> 00:05:59,087 in those who possess something more than beauty. 67 00:05:59,325 --> 00:06:02,385 Someone of absolute beauty would bore me. 68 00:06:03,129 --> 00:06:05,597 I'm not talking about Greek beauty. 69 00:06:05,798 --> 00:06:08,028 Absolute beauty doesn't exist. 70 00:06:08,234 --> 00:06:10,031 To find someone handsome, 71 00:06:10,403 --> 00:06:12,667 sometimes the tiniest thing is enough. 72 00:06:12,872 --> 00:06:16,740 Perhaps something between the nose and mouth. 73 00:06:19,445 --> 00:06:21,811 So anyone has a chance of appealing to you. 74 00:06:22,548 --> 00:06:23,845 At least a chance. 75 00:06:24,050 --> 00:06:27,577 No, that's the problem. I find very few people handsome. 76 00:06:27,787 --> 00:06:31,188 And it really hampers my relationships terribly, 77 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:33,951 because if I'm repelled, I never see that person again. 78 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,923 And since many people repel me - 79 00:06:36,129 --> 00:06:38,791 You never change your mind? 80 00:06:38,998 --> 00:06:42,399 The first thing I say if I'm asked to dinner 81 00:06:42,602 --> 00:06:46,060 isn't "What does he do?" But "Is he handsome?" 82 00:06:46,706 --> 00:06:49,766 And ugly ones are always doomed? 83 00:06:49,976 --> 00:06:51,466 To the ovens. 84 00:06:53,146 --> 00:06:54,636 They deserve it. 85 00:06:54,881 --> 00:06:56,815 Ugliness is an insult to others. 86 00:06:57,016 --> 00:06:59,610 One's responsible for one's looks. 87 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:03,117 For instance, a nose moves or ages 88 00:07:03,322 --> 00:07:06,257 according to how one thinks or speaks. 89 00:07:06,459 --> 00:07:09,622 Besides, I'm not talking about static beauty. 90 00:07:09,829 --> 00:07:13,026 One's movements, expressions, gait - 91 00:07:13,332 --> 00:07:15,527 all that counts, doesn't it? 92 00:07:41,627 --> 00:07:43,686 How long will you stay in London? 93 00:07:44,030 --> 00:07:45,793 At least five weeks. 94 00:07:45,998 --> 00:07:48,364 Your modeling won't take up all that time. 95 00:07:48,601 --> 00:07:51,069 No, but I have lots of friends to see. 96 00:07:51,270 --> 00:07:53,761 And I love London in July. 97 00:07:55,641 --> 00:07:57,836 Why not come to the Riviera? 98 00:07:59,378 --> 00:08:01,243 Rodolphe is lending me his villa. 99 00:08:01,447 --> 00:08:03,938 I have lots of things to do. 100 00:08:07,553 --> 00:08:10,852 Earlier you said you didn't. Come for a few days at least. 101 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:14,289 It's not worth it. Why don't you come to London? 102 00:08:14,494 --> 00:08:16,894 What would I do there? 103 00:08:17,096 --> 00:08:19,690 What will you do all alone on the Riviera? 104 00:08:19,899 --> 00:08:21,992 I have business meetings. 105 00:08:22,568 --> 00:08:26,698 What business? I've never really believed in your so-called business. 106 00:08:30,309 --> 00:08:33,437 I have to go to a sale, track down a silent partner, 107 00:08:33,646 --> 00:08:36,137 a collector of Chinese antiques. 108 00:08:37,049 --> 00:08:39,483 He's financing a gallery for me. 109 00:08:40,052 --> 00:08:43,852 Don't you think you'd make better contacts in London? 110 00:08:45,658 --> 00:08:48,923 I see only serious people and do only serious things. 111 00:08:49,128 --> 00:08:50,561 Come along, you'll see. 112 00:08:50,763 --> 00:08:52,993 - No, I'm not coming. - Why not? 113 00:08:53,332 --> 00:08:56,392 Because from time to time, 114 00:08:56,602 --> 00:09:00,003 one of us has to do something serious. 115 00:09:00,206 --> 00:09:01,833 But I am serious. 116 00:09:02,041 --> 00:09:05,204 Why do you always dash off when we could be together? 117 00:09:05,411 --> 00:09:07,174 I'd like you to come. 118 00:09:08,047 --> 00:09:09,708 I'd like it very much. 119 00:09:09,916 --> 00:09:11,941 Why don't you come to London? 120 00:09:12,151 --> 00:09:14,016 I already told you: I can't. 121 00:09:14,220 --> 00:09:16,450 Well, in that case - 122 00:11:26,385 --> 00:11:29,752 END OF PROLOGUES 123 00:11:34,193 --> 00:11:37,754 No sooner had I arrived than Daniel told me the bad news. ; 124 00:11:38,130 --> 00:11:40,860 A girl was staying here at Rodolphe's invitation. 125 00:11:41,067 --> 00:11:43,194 She would surely disturb us. 126 00:11:46,572 --> 00:11:47,596 Maite? 127 00:11:47,807 --> 00:11:48,933 Haydee. 128 00:11:49,141 --> 00:11:50,904 Doesn't ring a bell. 129 00:11:51,110 --> 00:11:55,240 Besides, all those girls leave me cold. 130 00:11:56,315 --> 00:11:59,079 Well, it's only for 24 days. 131 00:11:59,285 --> 00:12:00,877 What type? 132 00:12:02,121 --> 00:12:04,521 A dumb bunny. Round face. 133 00:12:05,057 --> 00:12:07,457 Close-cropped hair. Charming. 134 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:09,525 She lives here? 135 00:12:09,729 --> 00:12:11,060 In principle, yes. 136 00:12:11,263 --> 00:12:14,664 She panhandles here and there. Brings guys here sometimes. 137 00:12:17,770 --> 00:12:20,238 That's just like Rodolphe. 138 00:12:20,439 --> 00:12:23,931 He surrounds himself with the plainest people. 139 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:29,704 Anyway, if they bother us, we'll kick them all out, including her. 140 00:12:30,483 --> 00:12:32,542 I wanted to be by myself, 141 00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:35,482 but Daniel's presence was no problem. 142 00:12:36,255 --> 00:12:38,746 Since I lived all year without fixed hours or dates, 143 00:12:38,958 --> 00:12:40,949 I decided to set some rules for myself. 144 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,890 The monastic feel of my room helped. 145 00:12:57,476 --> 00:12:59,103 First, I'd get up early. 146 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:07,009 I'd always backed into the dawn after having stayed up all night. 147 00:13:07,686 --> 00:13:10,746 Now I'd live mornings in the right order, 148 00:13:11,690 --> 00:13:15,421 and associate them, as most people do, 149 00:13:15,628 --> 00:13:18,597 with the idea of awakening and beginning. 150 00:13:18,964 --> 00:13:22,832 The idea was both invigorating and oppressive. 151 00:13:30,176 --> 00:13:33,612 I had to shift my schedule back a third of a day 152 00:13:33,813 --> 00:13:38,807 so that by evening I'd be too tired to be tempted to go out. 153 00:13:39,718 --> 00:13:41,879 And what did I intend to do? 154 00:13:42,087 --> 00:13:44,521 Precisely nothing. 155 00:13:45,591 --> 00:13:48,560 For once I'd take a real vacation, 156 00:13:48,761 --> 00:13:51,696 because my real work had always begun when others' stopped. ; 157 00:13:51,897 --> 00:13:56,197 at parties, on weekends, at the beach, in the mountains. 158 00:13:56,535 --> 00:14:00,631 But this year only one thing interested me. ; my art gallery. 159 00:14:00,973 --> 00:14:02,668 Nothing else mattered. 160 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:05,867 And since all preparations had been completed, 161 00:14:06,078 --> 00:14:07,909 all I could do was wait. 162 00:14:14,453 --> 00:14:18,219 Having nothing to do for the first time in 10 years, 163 00:14:18,424 --> 00:14:21,120 I undertook to really do nothing. 164 00:14:21,327 --> 00:14:26,697 That is, to take inactivity to a level I'd never before reached. 165 00:14:44,149 --> 00:14:46,208 I even tried not to think. 166 00:14:47,152 --> 00:14:49,620 I was alone face to face with the sea, 167 00:14:49,822 --> 00:14:52,450 far from cruises and beaches, 168 00:14:52,658 --> 00:14:55,024 fulfilling a childhood dream 169 00:14:55,227 --> 00:14:57,957 put off year after year. 170 00:15:03,335 --> 00:15:07,135 I wanted my gaze of the sea to be as empty as possible, 171 00:15:07,773 --> 00:15:11,368 void of any painterly or botanical curiosity. 172 00:15:11,744 --> 00:15:14,304 For if I'd followed earlier inclinations, 173 00:15:14,513 --> 00:15:17,539 I might have been an art collector or botanist. 174 00:15:25,124 --> 00:15:27,354 I lost myself completely 175 00:15:27,559 --> 00:15:29,550 in the play of shadow and light, 176 00:15:29,762 --> 00:15:32,925 sinking into a lethargy heightened by the water. 177 00:15:33,732 --> 00:15:37,600 That state of passivity, of complete availability, 178 00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:41,204 promised to last much longer than the euphoria 179 00:15:41,407 --> 00:15:44,843 of one's first summer dip in the ocean. 180 00:15:45,144 --> 00:15:49,945 I could easily see myself spending a whole month this way. 181 00:16:26,885 --> 00:16:31,117 That's why I couldn't bear the idea of seeing anyone but Daniel. 182 00:16:31,924 --> 00:16:35,917 The only woman I would have liked to have with me was far away. 183 00:16:36,862 --> 00:16:38,625 I'd resigned myself to it 184 00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:41,664 and dismissed without much difficulty - 185 00:16:41,867 --> 00:16:44,893 forever, I suspected- the thought of her. 186 00:16:45,571 --> 00:16:48,335 But I wasn't ready to tolerate another, 187 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:52,874 especially not one of Rodolphe's pathetic little protegees. 188 00:16:57,783 --> 00:17:00,650 The world belongs to those who get up early. 189 00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:04,990 I intend to swim every morning at sunrise. 190 00:17:06,191 --> 00:17:07,783 And I at noon. 191 00:17:37,523 --> 00:17:39,218 Are you reading this? 192 00:17:39,425 --> 00:17:41,416 No, you can take it. 193 00:17:49,468 --> 00:17:52,232 In that quest for nothing, for emptiness, 194 00:17:52,438 --> 00:17:54,497 Daniel had his own way, 195 00:17:54,706 --> 00:17:57,197 more direct and brutal than mine. 196 00:17:57,409 --> 00:17:59,877 I almost considered him my mentor on the subject. 197 00:18:00,379 --> 00:18:01,846 - Nothing? - Nothing. 198 00:18:02,047 --> 00:18:03,014 Nothing at all? 199 00:18:03,215 --> 00:18:06,616 Absolutely, positively nothing. 200 00:18:07,386 --> 00:18:10,355 I've done absolutely nothing since I arrived, 201 00:18:10,556 --> 00:18:12,717 and I actually do less every day. 202 00:18:13,158 --> 00:18:15,126 I want to reach absolute zero. 203 00:18:16,395 --> 00:18:18,090 It's very difficult. 204 00:18:18,397 --> 00:18:21,195 It takes enormous effort and care. 205 00:18:21,533 --> 00:18:25,060 It comes to me naturally. It's my nature. 206 00:18:25,571 --> 00:18:29,098 But it's more tiring to follow one's nature than to fight it. 207 00:18:29,308 --> 00:18:32,141 Besides, you're reading. That's doing something. 208 00:18:32,344 --> 00:18:34,312 If I didn't read, I'd think, 209 00:18:34,513 --> 00:18:39,382 and thinking is the hardest, most demanding thing of all. 210 00:18:42,087 --> 00:18:44,146 I think people think too much. 211 00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:47,482 The main thing is to be absorbed, 212 00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:51,629 and a book forces me to think its way. 213 00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:54,890 What I don't want is to think my own way. 214 00:18:55,100 --> 00:18:56,567 I want to be led. 215 00:18:56,768 --> 00:18:59,896 Like an Arab. In a street, he feels the street, 216 00:19:00,105 --> 00:19:01,697 while we think about the goal. 217 00:19:01,907 --> 00:19:06,037 It was an Arab who said, "One is the first figure of an endless number." 218 00:19:08,347 --> 00:19:10,747 An idea is a flash. 219 00:19:10,949 --> 00:19:13,884 We have just three or four original ideas in our lifetime. 220 00:19:14,186 --> 00:19:16,916 People who are always thinking don't exist. 221 00:19:17,356 --> 00:19:20,484 Look at Dali's "melted watches," for example. 222 00:19:21,393 --> 00:19:24,021 It's true. I'm looking for nothing. 223 00:19:24,930 --> 00:19:27,728 If I come across Rousseau, I read Rousseau. 224 00:19:27,933 --> 00:19:30,333 I could just as well read Don Quixote. 225 00:19:31,236 --> 00:19:34,933 If a pretty girl fell in my arms, I'd take her, 226 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:39,167 though at the moment I have no desire to get involved. 227 00:19:40,045 --> 00:19:42,013 What if Haydee crawled into your bed? 228 00:19:42,214 --> 00:19:43,909 You mean that girl? 229 00:19:44,116 --> 00:19:46,209 Did she crawl into yours? 230 00:19:46,485 --> 00:19:48,953 No, she's always got someone. 231 00:19:49,288 --> 00:19:52,280 But that's the strategist in her. 232 00:19:52,491 --> 00:19:54,083 That doesn't matter. 233 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,387 She hasn't reached that point yet. 234 00:19:56,595 --> 00:20:01,692 For 24 to 48 hours, she can even be remarkably faithful. 235 00:20:05,737 --> 00:20:08,535 Three or four days after I arrived, 236 00:20:08,740 --> 00:20:10,173 at 2.;00 a. M... 237 00:20:50,182 --> 00:20:54,744 Coming back from my swim, I saw her with a boy her age. 238 00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:11,234 A little later, they came down into the yard. 239 00:21:11,536 --> 00:21:13,834 From what Daniel had told me, 240 00:21:14,039 --> 00:21:17,372 I'd expected another girl whom I'd seen at Rodolphe's, 241 00:21:17,576 --> 00:21:19,567 a repulsive pest. 242 00:21:19,778 --> 00:21:21,609 Let's kill a chicken. 243 00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:27,675 The only similarity was the haircut. 244 00:21:27,886 --> 00:21:30,753 I couldn't make out her face at that distance, 245 00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:33,584 and I'm not very good at faces anyway. 246 00:21:34,493 --> 00:21:38,088 Anyway, I could already tell I'd give this girl as well 247 00:21:38,297 --> 00:21:41,266 little chance of getting along with me. 248 00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:21,299 She'd recognized me as the man who'd entered her room 249 00:22:21,506 --> 00:22:23,701 at Rodolphe's country place two weeks earlier. 250 00:22:23,909 --> 00:22:26,241 Haydee, have you met Adrien? 251 00:22:26,611 --> 00:22:27,942 I think so. 252 00:22:28,613 --> 00:22:31,480 We must have met at Rodolphe's. 253 00:22:34,586 --> 00:22:36,053 Ah, right. 254 00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:38,046 I see. 255 00:22:38,657 --> 00:22:41,182 It's a pity Rodolphe isn't here this year. 256 00:22:41,393 --> 00:22:43,725 I know he hates traveling. 257 00:22:44,229 --> 00:22:46,060 Charlie. 258 00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:50,130 I know boats. My father's in the business. 259 00:22:50,335 --> 00:22:52,530 He invented the first yacht made of plastic. 260 00:22:54,106 --> 00:22:55,869 And what do you do? 261 00:22:56,074 --> 00:22:57,200 What? 262 00:22:57,409 --> 00:22:59,001 I mean for work. 263 00:22:59,945 --> 00:23:02,607 - I'm a doctor. - A regular doctor? 264 00:23:02,814 --> 00:23:04,907 No, an eye specialist. 265 00:23:05,117 --> 00:23:08,644 And I see you can barely stand daylight. 266 00:23:10,455 --> 00:23:12,616 Are you serious? 267 00:23:14,326 --> 00:23:17,818 My first impressions are always correct. 268 00:23:21,299 --> 00:23:23,096 Let me see your glasses. 269 00:23:28,306 --> 00:23:29,603 Prescription? 270 00:23:29,808 --> 00:23:31,867 No, just sunglasses I bought in a store. 271 00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:35,240 It's dangerous to buy any old junk. 272 00:23:35,447 --> 00:23:40,248 Junk! I paid 150 francs for them. They're Polaroid. 273 00:23:42,888 --> 00:23:46,051 Polarization is like extrapolation, 274 00:23:46,258 --> 00:23:48,488 an already obsolete theory. 275 00:23:50,095 --> 00:23:53,087 Today we're coming back to the old idea: 276 00:23:53,298 --> 00:23:56,631 That the only protection from the sun 277 00:23:56,835 --> 00:23:59,633 is color, and vice versa. 278 00:24:00,439 --> 00:24:02,930 Look at the ones I prescribed for Daniel. 279 00:24:06,344 --> 00:24:08,904 Two colors: Blue and magenta. 280 00:24:09,114 --> 00:24:12,345 Both are effective against harmful rays. 281 00:24:12,551 --> 00:24:14,781 What's magenta? 282 00:24:30,402 --> 00:24:32,529 The racket started again the next night. 283 00:24:34,406 --> 00:24:36,931 I decided it would be the last time. 284 00:24:47,886 --> 00:24:49,877 Quiet, young lady! 285 00:25:08,306 --> 00:25:11,070 I'm afraid you have to leave, buddy. 286 00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:15,108 Who are you? I don't know you. 287 00:25:17,482 --> 00:25:20,007 You disturbed my rest, sir. 288 00:25:23,021 --> 00:25:24,579 It's a pity. 289 00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:29,351 Might is right. 290 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,527 Okay, I'll go. 291 00:25:39,804 --> 00:25:42,796 My father won't be back for a week. Come to my house? 292 00:25:43,575 --> 00:25:46,544 You're not staying with these jerks. - Yes, I am. 293 00:26:06,398 --> 00:26:09,367 A newly docile Haydee brought no more guests to the house. 294 00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:12,799 She settled for phone calls around 8.;00 p.m. 295 00:26:13,004 --> 00:26:15,564 Take the path. The house is 200 yards away. 296 00:26:15,774 --> 00:26:17,969 Not the road, the path. 297 00:26:20,378 --> 00:26:22,278 Tell me about it later. 298 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,675 Okay, see you later. Kisses. 299 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:07,423 She usually came home at dawn, when I was getting up. 300 00:27:15,066 --> 00:27:19,093 It wasn't always the same boy who'd picked her up the night before. 301 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,674 Since she spent her days sleeping, we saw very little of her. 302 00:27:34,786 --> 00:27:37,846 Then one evening, in need of a ride, she asked me. 303 00:27:38,056 --> 00:27:40,422 Is Werner there, please? 304 00:27:41,426 --> 00:27:43,690 Do you know when he'll be back? 305 00:27:45,196 --> 00:27:47,630 Tell him Haydee called. 306 00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:51,893 H-a-y-d-e-e. 307 00:27:56,141 --> 00:27:57,904 Can you give me a ride? 308 00:27:58,576 --> 00:28:00,737 - What for? - I have a date. 309 00:28:00,945 --> 00:28:03,243 - Who? - You don't know him. 310 00:28:03,448 --> 00:28:05,848 Make sure the next one has a car. 311 00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:11,155 - So you can't? - I can, but I don't want to. 312 00:28:16,861 --> 00:28:19,830 Darling, you lack any sense of propriety. 313 00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:22,022 Look at Daniel and me. 314 00:28:22,233 --> 00:28:25,669 We've found happiness in virtue and the simple life. 315 00:28:31,910 --> 00:28:33,844 You find happiness where you can. 316 00:28:34,045 --> 00:28:36,411 Come for a swim tomorrow at 7:00? 317 00:28:36,614 --> 00:28:38,138 Okay. 318 00:29:11,282 --> 00:29:15,309 Haydee took me up on my offer, which, I must say, I rather liked. 319 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,886 The situation had been cleared up. 320 00:29:18,389 --> 00:29:20,983 Like Daniel, she would be part of my solitude. 321 00:29:21,192 --> 00:29:23,820 Since she was there, better to assimilate her. 322 00:29:24,162 --> 00:29:26,460 I made our relationship clear at once. ; 323 00:29:26,664 --> 00:29:28,495 simple friendship. 324 00:29:32,504 --> 00:29:35,905 I knew she would have liked exactly the opposite. ; 325 00:29:36,641 --> 00:29:40,304 a courtship of equal parts insolence and devotion. 326 00:29:41,746 --> 00:29:43,771 That was my style. 327 00:29:44,048 --> 00:29:46,380 With any other girl, that is. 328 00:30:19,951 --> 00:30:24,251 In any case, for several days, we all got along quite pleasantly, 329 00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:28,255 each engrossed in his own pursuits, 330 00:30:28,459 --> 00:30:30,552 as well as chores around the house, 331 00:30:30,762 --> 00:30:33,731 to which we purposely attached exaggerated importance. 332 00:30:44,142 --> 00:30:49,341 Haydee proved quite compatible and able to follow our lead, 333 00:30:49,547 --> 00:30:52,414 without imitating our quirks too much. 334 00:31:08,499 --> 00:31:13,266 Nevertheless, I could sense a hitch somewhere, 335 00:31:13,471 --> 00:31:16,099 although Haydee very cleverly hid the game that, 336 00:31:16,307 --> 00:31:19,504 rightly or wrongly, I suspected she was playing. 337 00:31:20,378 --> 00:31:23,711 It was precisely this reserved quality that bothered me. 338 00:31:24,949 --> 00:31:26,883 So I decided to take a risk, 339 00:31:27,085 --> 00:31:29,485 afraid of settling for the easy way out, 340 00:31:29,687 --> 00:31:31,746 and force the issue. 341 00:31:31,956 --> 00:31:33,617 Shall we sit here? 342 00:31:34,325 --> 00:31:35,792 Catch. 343 00:31:58,950 --> 00:32:01,282 The worst thing around here is the wine. 344 00:32:01,486 --> 00:32:03,044 It's disgusting. 345 00:32:03,521 --> 00:32:05,113 I don't drink it anymore. 346 00:32:05,690 --> 00:32:08,454 It's wrong to drink something one doesn't like, 347 00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:11,151 to accept things one dislikes, 348 00:32:11,362 --> 00:32:13,387 see people one dislikes... 349 00:32:14,866 --> 00:32:17,096 caress a girl one dislikes. 350 00:32:17,302 --> 00:32:19,702 It's the height of immorality. 351 00:32:21,372 --> 00:32:25,274 My greatest defect is to try to confirm my first impressions. 352 00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:31,412 For example, I know if I don't like a girl's nose, her legs will leave me cold. 353 00:32:31,683 --> 00:32:33,207 Then don't touch them. 354 00:32:34,052 --> 00:32:35,679 Besides - 355 00:32:36,754 --> 00:32:38,153 What? 356 00:32:38,356 --> 00:32:41,018 Listen, I don't like you running after me. 357 00:32:41,225 --> 00:32:42,522 I'm not. 358 00:32:42,727 --> 00:32:45,958 Yes, you are. I can tell when a girl's interested. 359 00:32:46,164 --> 00:32:48,496 Under other circumstances, you could have me. 360 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,930 I'm too weak and accommodating. 361 00:32:53,638 --> 00:32:55,663 One must know when to be moral. 362 00:32:55,873 --> 00:32:58,603 And when I think of you as a girl I might sleep with, 363 00:32:58,810 --> 00:33:01,074 all I see is your faults. 364 00:33:02,780 --> 00:33:04,873 Though you must have some good qualities. 365 00:33:05,083 --> 00:33:06,448 You think so? 366 00:33:07,085 --> 00:33:09,315 Why not go after Daniel? 367 00:33:09,921 --> 00:33:12,253 Of course, he's far superior to you as a person, 368 00:33:12,457 --> 00:33:15,119 but his morals are less rigid than mine. 369 00:33:19,731 --> 00:33:22,928 You're not the only two men around, you know. 370 00:33:24,335 --> 00:33:27,395 I know, Haydee. You're too attractive. 371 00:33:27,605 --> 00:33:29,869 We both carry the same cross. 372 00:33:33,444 --> 00:33:36,242 My tactic apparently hadn't worked. 373 00:33:36,748 --> 00:33:39,876 But the feeling left in both of us by my blundering 374 00:33:40,084 --> 00:33:41,881 poisoned our relationship. 375 00:34:17,922 --> 00:34:19,890 But this little game of hide-and-seek, 376 00:34:20,091 --> 00:34:23,254 far from protecting my cherished solitude, 377 00:34:23,461 --> 00:34:26,862 introduced an element of drama and uncertainty into it. 378 00:34:27,665 --> 00:34:30,964 It forced me to focus more and more on her. 379 00:34:32,303 --> 00:34:35,101 And Daniel proved a bad counselor on this point, 380 00:34:35,306 --> 00:34:39,265 his own mysterious attitude adding to my concerns. 381 00:34:39,477 --> 00:34:42,002 Haydee went looking for you at the beach. 382 00:34:42,213 --> 00:34:44,773 Really? What for? 383 00:34:45,149 --> 00:34:48,710 I don't know. I can't imagine what she wants with you. 384 00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:51,983 Listen. 385 00:34:55,059 --> 00:34:56,686 Do me a favor. 386 00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:58,759 I'm ready to kick her out. 387 00:34:59,030 --> 00:35:00,622 That's not it. 388 00:35:02,033 --> 00:35:03,660 Daniel, take her. 389 00:35:06,170 --> 00:35:08,297 Take her yourself and leave me alone. 390 00:35:08,506 --> 00:35:10,940 I'm asking a favor of you. 391 00:35:13,811 --> 00:35:17,907 No, my friend. I don't do that kind of favor for anyone. 392 00:35:18,583 --> 00:35:22,610 Sleep with her. In fact, if I were you, I'd charge ahead. 393 00:35:22,820 --> 00:35:24,720 Then go ahead and charge. 394 00:35:26,290 --> 00:35:29,054 I've no desire to make the slightest effort. 395 00:35:29,260 --> 00:35:31,524 And even if I wanted to, 396 00:35:31,729 --> 00:35:34,027 I'm not sure I'd succeed. 397 00:35:34,232 --> 00:35:38,191 You can't tell me you'd have trouble laying that tart. 398 00:35:38,402 --> 00:35:39,767 Yes, I would. 399 00:35:39,971 --> 00:35:43,634 I decided long ago not to run after any girl. 400 00:35:43,841 --> 00:35:45,706 It tires me out. 401 00:35:46,077 --> 00:35:49,672 But since she's after you, take her. 402 00:35:49,881 --> 00:35:52,645 She's quite delightful. - That's just it. 403 00:35:53,784 --> 00:35:57,880 I'm fed up with these silly girls everyone goes crazy over 404 00:35:58,222 --> 00:36:00,452 and passes around freely. 405 00:36:01,058 --> 00:36:02,525 It depresses me. 406 00:36:02,727 --> 00:36:07,994 Oh, perversity still holds it attractions, but not with that kind of ugly duckling. 407 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:10,265 Please! 408 00:36:10,701 --> 00:36:12,328 She wouldn't have me. 409 00:36:13,571 --> 00:36:14,936 Be serious, Daniel. 410 00:36:15,139 --> 00:36:16,902 I am serious. 411 00:36:17,475 --> 00:36:19,807 The more girls a guy has, the more suspicious I am. 412 00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:24,243 Better to turn them off than turn them on. It feeds my ego. 413 00:36:24,448 --> 00:36:26,541 I'm happy not to be part of her collection. 414 00:36:26,751 --> 00:36:28,412 Her guys aren't so bad. 415 00:36:28,619 --> 00:36:31,520 Maybe, but it doesn't matter. 416 00:36:31,722 --> 00:36:35,180 I don't give a damn whether a girl likes me or not. 417 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,255 So you really won't do it for me? 418 00:36:37,461 --> 00:36:39,486 That's enough! 419 00:36:40,298 --> 00:36:43,563 Daniel, my friend, I just don't get you. 420 00:36:45,269 --> 00:36:47,499 Screw her, old man! 421 00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:55,243 Despite my temporary status as a hermit, 422 00:36:55,446 --> 00:36:58,279 I hadn't totally cut myself off from the world. 423 00:37:03,154 --> 00:37:06,180 I accepted an invitation to dinner one night, 424 00:37:06,591 --> 00:37:10,755 well aware that this outing, though justified from a business viewpoint, 425 00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:13,931 sounded the death knell for my prior noble resolutions. 426 00:37:14,432 --> 00:37:16,593 It clarified my thoughts immensely, 427 00:37:16,801 --> 00:37:20,259 and I began to grasp the enormity of my blunder. 428 00:37:22,173 --> 00:37:24,073 The quarrel, if there was one, 429 00:37:24,275 --> 00:37:27,836 wasn't between the girl and me but me and Daniel, 430 00:37:28,045 --> 00:37:32,641 who was racking up points attacking our irony and our poses. 431 00:37:38,723 --> 00:37:42,557 Coming home at dawn, I sensed the game had been rigged, 432 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,320 that a crucial card was missing from the deck, 433 00:37:45,529 --> 00:37:48,430 a fact to be made only too clear 434 00:37:48,633 --> 00:37:52,125 that very moment. 435 00:38:14,158 --> 00:38:17,286 In the morning, Daniel treated the girl sullenly, 436 00:38:17,495 --> 00:38:20,464 less to throw me off track, since he guessed that I knew, 437 00:38:20,665 --> 00:38:22,394 than to surprise me. 438 00:38:27,338 --> 00:38:32,833 This new assault hurt her even more than my own recent attacks, 439 00:38:33,044 --> 00:38:34,841 which bothered me. 440 00:38:48,793 --> 00:38:51,318 On the outs with both of us, 441 00:38:51,529 --> 00:38:55,659 she was forced to resume her nocturnal escapades. 442 00:38:57,201 --> 00:38:58,600 I'm coming. 443 00:39:01,539 --> 00:39:03,598 You're heading downhill. 444 00:39:05,242 --> 00:39:06,766 No, uphill. 445 00:39:11,349 --> 00:39:14,045 A period of open hostility ensued 446 00:39:14,251 --> 00:39:16,776 during which our respective talents - 447 00:39:16,987 --> 00:39:18,784 hers and ours - 448 00:39:18,989 --> 00:39:21,048 found their greatest expression. 449 00:39:22,259 --> 00:39:24,557 I found a label for Haydee. 450 00:39:24,762 --> 00:39:26,730 She's a collector. 451 00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:31,495 Haydee, if you sleep around with no plan at all, 452 00:39:32,470 --> 00:39:34,870 you're on the lowest rung of the human ladder: 453 00:39:35,139 --> 00:39:37,232 The revolting ingenue. 454 00:39:42,146 --> 00:39:45,172 Now, if you collected in some consistent way, 455 00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:48,580 putting your mind to it, plotting things out, 456 00:39:48,786 --> 00:39:50,845 that would change everything. 457 00:39:51,055 --> 00:39:53,216 Yes, but she's a lousy collector. 458 00:39:54,925 --> 00:39:57,155 I'm not a collector. 459 00:39:58,596 --> 00:40:00,689 Don't say that. It's all you've got going for you. 460 00:40:01,465 --> 00:40:04,025 You're completely mistaken. I'm searching. 461 00:40:04,802 --> 00:40:07,293 I'm trying to find something. 462 00:40:08,172 --> 00:40:10,197 I might make mistakes. 463 00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:12,842 She doesn't collect. She takes what she finds. 464 00:40:13,043 --> 00:40:15,705 She doesn't know what "distance" means. 465 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,311 No, I make the most of things, maybe anything. 466 00:40:19,517 --> 00:40:22,748 The main thing is that I get something from it. 467 00:40:22,953 --> 00:40:24,944 No, you scrape the barrel, 468 00:40:25,156 --> 00:40:27,420 and you end up with nothing but a pile 469 00:40:27,625 --> 00:40:29,354 that collapses 'cause it has no substance. 470 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,393 - You scrape the barrel too. - I'm a barbarian! 471 00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:35,258 If I slept with you, it was without the slightest thought. 472 00:40:35,766 --> 00:40:39,497 You make no sense. You criticize me for taking anything, 473 00:40:39,703 --> 00:40:41,637 but you brag about doing it yourself. 474 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,232 You're not a barbarian. You've got no right to behave like one. 475 00:40:46,577 --> 00:40:47,976 But I do! 476 00:40:48,179 --> 00:40:51,148 A barbarian must always be killing something. 477 00:40:51,348 --> 00:40:54,806 Whether I slept with you or not changes nothing. 478 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:57,986 I slept with you the minute I saw you. 479 00:40:58,189 --> 00:40:59,952 Where was that? 480 00:41:00,157 --> 00:41:02,421 She was dancing. And you? 481 00:41:02,626 --> 00:41:04,253 She was making love. 482 00:41:04,628 --> 00:41:07,222 Physically, that is. 483 00:41:07,431 --> 00:41:09,524 In bed with some guy. 484 00:41:10,067 --> 00:41:12,865 I thought the room was empty. 485 00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:24,043 See that? You have slept with her. Every man has, the slut. 486 00:41:24,248 --> 00:41:27,342 The collector is such a miserable specimen, 487 00:41:27,551 --> 00:41:29,781 interested only in numbers. 488 00:41:29,987 --> 00:41:32,387 He'll never be happy with one object. 489 00:41:32,590 --> 00:41:36,686 In his search for a truly unique object, 490 00:41:36,894 --> 00:41:38,885 he inevitably ends up with a whole set. 491 00:41:39,096 --> 00:41:40,893 A far cry from purity. 492 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,630 Elimination is crucial here. 493 00:41:46,837 --> 00:41:49,897 The idea of collecting is the opposite of purity. 494 00:41:52,376 --> 00:41:55,004 The feeling Haydee aroused in me those days 495 00:41:55,212 --> 00:41:57,271 was at least one of curiosity. 496 00:41:57,481 --> 00:42:01,110 She became, in fact, the center of my interest. 497 00:42:01,318 --> 00:42:04,981 That girl, finally accepted as part of the furnishings, 498 00:42:05,189 --> 00:42:09,626 became the focus as she slowly relegated Daniel to the background. 499 00:42:17,835 --> 00:42:19,700 You're not going out tonight? 500 00:42:20,137 --> 00:42:21,570 No, as you can see. 501 00:42:21,772 --> 00:42:23,706 Want to go out with me? 502 00:42:24,174 --> 00:42:25,436 You're going out? 503 00:42:26,243 --> 00:42:27,403 If you want to. 504 00:42:31,615 --> 00:42:33,583 Shall we all go out? 505 00:42:35,319 --> 00:42:36,980 Come on, Daniel. 506 00:42:38,989 --> 00:42:40,547 I'm high. 507 00:42:41,325 --> 00:42:42,690 I'm staying here. 508 00:42:43,661 --> 00:42:45,151 You two go out. 509 00:42:47,531 --> 00:42:48,691 All right. 510 00:42:50,367 --> 00:42:51,299 Let's go. 511 00:42:52,536 --> 00:42:53,764 Okay. 512 00:42:59,243 --> 00:43:01,074 After an uneventful night, 513 00:43:01,278 --> 00:43:04,714 in which the other girls I met only acted as foils to Haydee, 514 00:43:04,915 --> 00:43:07,349 prompted by insomnia and the lateness of the hour, 515 00:43:07,551 --> 00:43:09,985 I decided to rush things a bit. 516 00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:13,788 Young lady, they tell me your name is Fanchon. 517 00:43:13,991 --> 00:43:15,583 That's right. 518 00:43:15,793 --> 00:43:16,817 Pretty name. 519 00:43:17,027 --> 00:43:19,495 You're from Paris? - That's right. 520 00:43:19,697 --> 00:43:21,392 So my information is correct. 521 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:23,123 Yes, it's true. 522 00:43:23,467 --> 00:43:25,059 Nice harbor. 523 00:43:25,269 --> 00:43:27,134 Yes, but I'm a bit cold. 524 00:43:27,338 --> 00:43:29,806 But it's so warm. 525 00:43:30,007 --> 00:43:33,101 Adrien, would you get my jacket? 526 00:43:51,996 --> 00:43:53,327 It's beautiful. 527 00:43:54,431 --> 00:43:56,797 Very beautiful. - Very, very beautiful. 528 00:43:57,501 --> 00:43:58,661 Shall we go? 529 00:43:58,869 --> 00:44:00,268 Yes, let's. 530 00:44:02,740 --> 00:44:07,473 Since we weren't sleepy, I suggested a drive up the mountain. 531 00:44:11,515 --> 00:44:15,576 If she was following a plan, she was doing a good job of it. 532 00:44:15,786 --> 00:44:19,017 If she was trying to add me to her collection, 533 00:44:19,223 --> 00:44:21,748 she was handling things perfectly. 534 00:44:22,359 --> 00:44:25,692 One might even argue that her entire behavior 535 00:44:25,896 --> 00:44:28,364 ever since we met, 536 00:44:28,565 --> 00:44:33,468 including her affair with Daniel, had been the surest way 537 00:44:33,671 --> 00:44:36,970 to arouse my interest in her. 538 00:44:37,441 --> 00:44:41,207 If this was indeed true, she'd succeeded, 539 00:44:41,412 --> 00:44:43,972 a fact I readily admitted. 540 00:45:00,030 --> 00:45:03,989 On the way back, we decided to swim at our usual spot. 541 00:45:04,501 --> 00:45:09,461 I intended to test the soundness of my hypothesis, despite the risk. 542 00:45:21,585 --> 00:45:25,544 You know, it would be easy to get Daniel back. 543 00:45:25,756 --> 00:45:27,690 He doesn't interest me anymore. 544 00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:32,224 He's far better than anyone else you've met. 545 00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:35,054 Maybe. For around here. 546 00:45:35,599 --> 00:45:37,965 Anyway, that's my business. 547 00:45:38,168 --> 00:45:41,137 But it bothers me that you're on bad terms. 548 00:45:42,940 --> 00:45:45,374 This kind of situation amuses me. 549 00:45:46,343 --> 00:45:48,470 Unmitigated happiness bores me. 550 00:45:49,213 --> 00:45:53,047 For once you have a chance at an exceptional guy. 551 00:45:53,250 --> 00:45:55,013 Mind your own business. 552 00:45:55,219 --> 00:45:59,246 I came here for peace and quiet, and you're disturbing it. 553 00:45:59,456 --> 00:46:02,983 If everyone minded his own business, I wouldn't disturb anybody. 554 00:46:08,866 --> 00:46:10,697 Haydee, let's make peace. 555 00:46:10,901 --> 00:46:12,960 - We're not at war. - Yes, we are. 556 00:46:13,170 --> 00:46:15,604 It's you who keeps stirring up trouble. 557 00:46:16,940 --> 00:46:21,502 I think you're mistaking a friendly attitude for a hostile one. 558 00:46:22,112 --> 00:46:24,342 I think you're doing the same. 559 00:46:26,683 --> 00:46:28,514 Then there's no problem. 560 00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:32,348 I don't see any. You just love to get all worked up. 561 00:46:32,556 --> 00:46:36,322 Maybe 'cause I can't fully bring myself to like you. 562 00:46:36,527 --> 00:46:38,688 We're both indifferent, and that's fine. 563 00:46:38,896 --> 00:46:41,023 It doesn't mean we can't live together. 564 00:46:58,182 --> 00:47:01,083 I've often wondered what your smile meant. 565 00:47:03,020 --> 00:47:04,385 Nothing. 566 00:47:04,588 --> 00:47:06,351 That's what I thought. 567 00:47:19,169 --> 00:47:23,469 She certainly wouldn't risk any moves in my direction now. 568 00:47:23,674 --> 00:47:27,474 She was forcing me bit by bit to compromise my position. 569 00:48:26,536 --> 00:48:28,697 How about a swim? 570 00:48:30,407 --> 00:48:31,874 I'm sleepy. 571 00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:33,542 You coming? 572 00:49:07,244 --> 00:49:11,772 But she and Daniel as a couple made me uneasy. 573 00:49:12,616 --> 00:49:15,380 Their complicity seemed artificial. 574 00:49:15,585 --> 00:49:19,180 But was the game they were playing for their benefit or mine? 575 00:49:19,389 --> 00:49:22,415 If the latter, I was back to my first theory. 576 00:49:25,996 --> 00:49:28,897 Why would such an easy girl waste time 577 00:49:29,099 --> 00:49:31,067 going after me in such a roundabout way, 578 00:49:31,268 --> 00:49:33,896 when my rashness had left her a direct route? 579 00:49:41,078 --> 00:49:44,013 But those were the least of my worries. 580 00:49:44,214 --> 00:49:47,012 I had much bigger concerns. 581 00:49:47,651 --> 00:49:52,350 I had to organize a meeting with my antique collector, 582 00:49:52,556 --> 00:49:57,289 who was also a likely backer for the gallery I wanted to open. 583 00:49:58,295 --> 00:50:02,561 Preparations for all this went surprisingly quickly. 584 00:50:29,092 --> 00:50:30,855 What do you think? 585 00:50:32,629 --> 00:50:34,756 It's a very rare Chinese vase. 586 00:50:34,965 --> 00:50:36,865 I've been after it for three years. 587 00:50:37,067 --> 00:50:39,399 It looks more Hindu or Siamese. 588 00:50:39,603 --> 00:50:41,366 It's the elephants. 589 00:50:42,773 --> 00:50:45,298 It's a Song vase from the tenth century. 590 00:50:45,509 --> 00:50:48,444 Just before elephants disappeared from China, 591 00:50:48,912 --> 00:50:51,142 before the people rose up. 592 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,684 What about that one? 593 00:51:06,596 --> 00:51:08,564 It looks more Chinese. 594 00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:11,863 That's 'cause it's Japanese. 595 00:51:12,569 --> 00:51:14,901 Satsuma. 19th century. 596 00:51:15,105 --> 00:51:18,006 Worthless. I got it as a bonus. 597 00:51:18,208 --> 00:51:19,800 It's yours. 598 00:51:20,177 --> 00:51:22,077 Thanks. I'll take it. 599 00:51:34,191 --> 00:51:37,683 Things were deteriorating quickly between Daniel and Haydee. 600 00:51:37,894 --> 00:51:40,260 Each wanted the upper hand in breaking up, 601 00:51:40,464 --> 00:51:42,432 which explained all the games. 602 00:51:42,632 --> 00:51:47,296 Daniel took the lead and brought down the curtain in his inimitable style. 603 00:52:44,528 --> 00:52:46,018 Stop it. 604 00:52:56,473 --> 00:52:57,667 Stop it! 605 00:53:15,258 --> 00:53:17,021 That's enough. 606 00:53:19,663 --> 00:53:21,756 Will this go on much longer? 607 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,067 I've never seen a bigger jerk. 608 00:53:26,269 --> 00:53:28,999 What in the world am I doing here? 609 00:53:29,472 --> 00:53:32,873 Shut up, you little bitch! You have no right to talk. 610 00:53:34,411 --> 00:53:37,608 You were lucky to have both of us interested in you. 611 00:53:37,814 --> 00:53:39,611 Adrien's right. 612 00:53:39,816 --> 00:53:42,751 You're made for those stupid jerks who screw you. 613 00:53:42,953 --> 00:53:46,252 For a moment I thought you had something inside 614 00:53:46,456 --> 00:53:49,550 that might counter your pitiful insignificance. 615 00:53:49,759 --> 00:53:53,092 That's what fascinated me: Your insignificance. 616 00:53:53,296 --> 00:53:55,264 I don't even think you're ugly, 617 00:53:55,465 --> 00:54:00,562 but what attracted me were flashes of ugliness in your face. 618 00:54:01,338 --> 00:54:03,329 At least then you could move me a bit. 619 00:54:03,540 --> 00:54:06,600 But when you're pretty, when you're lovely - 620 00:54:06,810 --> 00:54:09,040 what a laugh! 621 00:54:09,246 --> 00:54:14,206 You represent the lowest, most degraded and mindless type of beauty. 622 00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:20,389 Listen to me. 623 00:54:21,024 --> 00:54:25,393 Every ray of light has its strongest and weakest point. 624 00:54:26,429 --> 00:54:28,420 You have to catch it just right. 625 00:54:28,632 --> 00:54:30,600 You can't put it to use in a vacuum. 626 00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:32,597 You can make it fall in a straight line, 627 00:54:32,802 --> 00:54:36,033 reflect or deflect it, gather it in or spread it out, 628 00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,230 make it round as a bubble, 629 00:54:38,441 --> 00:54:40,432 make it shine or block it out. 630 00:54:40,644 --> 00:54:44,045 At its weakest point, it's darkness. 631 00:54:46,883 --> 00:54:49,647 You're definitely beyond all hope. 632 00:54:49,853 --> 00:54:54,051 Maybe an Impressionist could do something, but even then... 633 00:54:55,158 --> 00:54:57,922 Anyway, I haven't wasted that much time on you. 634 00:54:58,128 --> 00:55:00,119 I can't afford to waste any. 635 00:55:00,330 --> 00:55:02,958 End of speech. Good night. 636 00:55:05,935 --> 00:55:09,803 I'm leaving tomorrow. I've been invited to the Seychelles. 637 00:55:11,007 --> 00:55:12,474 Too bad. 638 00:55:12,676 --> 00:55:15,577 My friend Sam, the collector I told you about, 639 00:55:15,779 --> 00:55:17,940 is coming tomorrow. 640 00:55:30,860 --> 00:55:33,693 That guy's completely crazy. 641 00:55:33,897 --> 00:55:36,365 I wasted enough time on him too. 642 00:55:36,566 --> 00:55:39,262 I'm fed up with these phony nonconformists. 643 00:55:39,469 --> 00:55:42,495 I'm not staying here another minute. 644 00:55:55,251 --> 00:55:57,378 Is Felix there, please? 645 00:55:58,922 --> 00:56:01,049 That's all right. I'll call later. 646 00:56:04,928 --> 00:56:07,829 If you have somewhere to go, I can drive you. 647 00:56:27,951 --> 00:56:29,919 I'm not leaving. 648 00:56:31,621 --> 00:56:34,351 This house is as much mine as it is yours. 649 00:56:36,826 --> 00:56:39,488 I'll write Rodolphe to get you to leave. 650 00:56:39,996 --> 00:56:43,898 You think Rodolphe will care one whit what you say? 651 00:57:09,859 --> 00:57:14,125 You can be sure Daniel spent all afternoon planning his little speech. 652 00:57:14,831 --> 00:57:19,825 Did you believe all that? - True or not, it's all the same to me. 653 00:57:20,637 --> 00:57:22,832 I detest that kind of scene. 654 00:57:23,406 --> 00:57:25,271 Anyway, it's over. 655 00:57:25,642 --> 00:57:30,602 I'm staying, but I'm not talking to either of you. 656 00:57:31,681 --> 00:57:34,479 I'll take the front room. 657 00:57:35,952 --> 00:57:37,613 As you wish. 658 00:57:43,726 --> 00:57:46,286 Okay, we've been real bastards. 659 00:58:06,883 --> 00:58:10,944 Your thing with Daniel is none of my business, but why are you mad at me? 660 00:58:11,154 --> 00:58:14,351 You put those stupid ideas in his head. 661 00:58:14,557 --> 00:58:16,957 What ideas? I don't have any ideas. 662 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:19,892 I've said nothing but nice things about you. 663 00:58:22,999 --> 00:58:25,399 I can do my own advertising. 664 00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,601 The only thing I might criticize you for 665 00:58:34,811 --> 00:58:37,746 is having so little sense of humor. 666 00:58:39,349 --> 00:58:41,749 I only criticize people I like. 667 00:58:41,951 --> 00:58:45,318 If I really didn't like you, I wouldn't say a word. 668 00:58:48,758 --> 00:58:51,192 Let's drink to our reconciliation. 669 00:59:00,603 --> 00:59:02,594 Forgive me. I've been a real bastard. 670 00:59:02,805 --> 00:59:03,794 No, you haven't. 671 00:59:04,007 --> 00:59:08,137 Yes, you bring out the worst in me, and I can't help but take the bait. 672 00:59:11,915 --> 00:59:13,883 What bothers me about you 673 00:59:14,083 --> 00:59:15,880 isn't at all what you think. 674 00:59:16,085 --> 00:59:17,450 I don't think anything. 675 00:59:17,654 --> 00:59:22,057 You don't know what you want. It took me a long time to see it. 676 00:59:22,258 --> 00:59:24,886 Maybe I don't have what I want, 677 00:59:25,094 --> 00:59:27,426 but I do know what it is I want. 678 00:59:27,830 --> 00:59:29,559 And what's that? 679 00:59:29,766 --> 00:59:32,963 To have normal relationships with people. 680 00:59:33,169 --> 00:59:36,627 Somehow I always mess things up. 681 00:59:37,674 --> 00:59:40,609 I seldom get what I want. 682 00:59:41,210 --> 00:59:43,906 Actually, I've never had it. 683 00:59:44,113 --> 00:59:46,377 Did you want Daniel? 684 00:59:46,583 --> 00:59:50,349 He was okay. I don't really call that wanting. 685 00:59:50,553 --> 00:59:53,181 I'd have liked to be his friend. 686 00:59:53,389 --> 00:59:55,550 Maybe yours too. 687 00:59:58,261 --> 01:00:00,388 You could be my friend. 688 01:00:00,597 --> 01:00:03,862 I do like you in my own way. A lot. 689 01:00:04,067 --> 01:00:07,867 You keep picking on me, and Daniel follows your lead. 690 01:00:08,304 --> 01:00:10,864 He's old enough to think for himself. 691 01:00:11,074 --> 01:00:13,474 Besides, right from the start 692 01:00:13,676 --> 01:00:15,610 you brought those horrid guys here. 693 01:00:15,812 --> 01:00:18,940 - I never brought anyone here. - What about that first guy? 694 01:00:19,148 --> 01:00:21,844 - Oh, that guy. - And the ones who come get you? 695 01:00:22,051 --> 01:00:25,612 If they're stupid enough to come get me, that's their problem. 696 01:00:25,822 --> 01:00:27,619 I haven't gone out in two weeks. 697 01:00:27,824 --> 01:00:31,157 And I've said nothing in two weeks. I said nothing tonight. 698 01:00:31,361 --> 01:00:33,056 You didn't stand up for me. 699 01:00:33,262 --> 01:00:35,025 I'm just lazy. 700 01:00:35,231 --> 01:00:37,358 You'd be glad if I left. 701 01:00:37,567 --> 01:00:39,626 Not at all. You're quite charming. 702 01:00:39,836 --> 01:00:42,930 - You think I'm ugly. - I never said that. 703 01:00:43,473 --> 01:00:46,772 I just said you weren't my type. 704 01:00:46,976 --> 01:00:49,069 But for your type, you're perfect. 705 01:00:49,278 --> 01:00:51,508 Would that be an inferior type? 706 01:00:51,714 --> 01:00:53,773 Somewhere in between. 707 01:00:53,983 --> 01:00:56,417 Besides, my taste isn't necessarily the best. 708 01:00:56,919 --> 01:00:58,079 Hypocrite. 709 01:00:58,287 --> 01:01:01,085 It's not hypocrisy. It's charm. 710 01:01:01,958 --> 01:01:03,983 Don't think I look down on you. 711 01:01:04,193 --> 01:01:08,061 Far from it. You're far superior to all your lovers. 712 01:01:08,264 --> 01:01:11,358 They're not my lovers. I have no lovers. 713 01:01:11,567 --> 01:01:14,161 And if I did, it wouldn't be them. 714 01:01:14,370 --> 01:01:16,895 Besides, I'm free to see whomever I wish. 715 01:01:17,106 --> 01:01:19,597 No, you're not free. 716 01:01:19,809 --> 01:01:22,903 Just like I'm not free to go after some ugly girl. 717 01:01:23,112 --> 01:01:24,272 Me? 718 01:01:25,748 --> 01:01:27,340 Your case is entirely different. 719 01:01:27,550 --> 01:01:31,452 Girls like you have generally been a waste of my time. 720 01:01:31,654 --> 01:01:33,713 But you're an exception. 721 01:01:33,923 --> 01:01:37,689 I sense that with you it might not be entirely a waste of time. 722 01:01:37,894 --> 01:01:40,920 In short, you're a dangerous girl. 723 01:01:41,698 --> 01:01:43,325 Don't you think? 724 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,561 I can't understand how you believed for a moment... 725 01:01:49,806 --> 01:01:51,706 that I didn't like you. 726 01:01:52,775 --> 01:01:56,108 Enough for tonight. I'm sleepy. 727 01:01:58,114 --> 01:02:00,082 Shall we go to bed? 728 01:02:00,349 --> 01:02:04,479 What a great feeling to be through with both of you. 729 01:02:04,687 --> 01:02:06,848 You never started with me. 730 01:02:08,357 --> 01:02:10,086 Yes, I did. 731 01:02:32,982 --> 01:02:35,815 It was baked at a relatively low temperature: 732 01:02:36,352 --> 01:02:38,286 570 to 750 degrees. 733 01:02:38,488 --> 01:02:40,956 - You think so? - I know so. 734 01:02:42,125 --> 01:02:46,585 Everyone knows it's characteristic of vases of that era. 735 01:02:48,765 --> 01:02:50,392 What I like is the ears. 736 01:03:06,415 --> 01:03:10,442 I'd like a car at the Bertaud residence, Ramatuelle Road. 737 01:03:11,287 --> 01:03:14,723 How long? Five minutes? Thanks. 738 01:03:17,026 --> 01:03:18,323 I can drive you. 739 01:03:18,528 --> 01:03:19,790 That's all right. 740 01:03:32,275 --> 01:03:34,038 This is Sam. 741 01:03:36,012 --> 01:03:37,707 This is your collector? 742 01:03:41,050 --> 01:03:44,383 I find collectors completely uninteresting. 743 01:03:44,954 --> 01:03:47,047 Since I rarely meet one, 744 01:03:47,256 --> 01:03:49,816 let me tell you how ridiculous you are. 745 01:03:50,026 --> 01:03:51,823 That's enough, Daniel. 746 01:03:53,830 --> 01:03:55,695 I hate collectors. 747 01:03:55,898 --> 01:03:58,423 I can't bear the sight of them. 748 01:03:58,634 --> 01:04:01,432 I refuse to get mixed up in your schemes, Adrien. 749 01:04:01,671 --> 01:04:05,004 I don't have to flatter people, especially not these types. 750 01:04:10,746 --> 01:04:13,214 Come with me. I have to talk to you. 751 01:04:18,254 --> 01:04:20,552 He just wanted to make a scene. 752 01:04:29,832 --> 01:04:32,027 Actually, he's angry at the girl. 753 01:04:32,235 --> 01:04:33,964 She's lovely. 754 01:04:34,904 --> 01:04:36,633 Is she his girlfriend? 755 01:04:38,875 --> 01:04:41,776 Yours? - Not mine either. 756 01:04:42,211 --> 01:04:44,008 She lives here, 757 01:04:44,213 --> 01:04:46,681 sleeps around a bit. 758 01:04:46,883 --> 01:04:48,680 Actually, a lot. 759 01:04:48,885 --> 01:04:51,012 She's a collector. 760 01:04:51,487 --> 01:04:53,114 A collector? 761 01:04:57,493 --> 01:04:59,688 We have something in common. 762 01:05:00,396 --> 01:05:02,660 Are you a part of her collection? 763 01:05:05,134 --> 01:05:06,624 You should be. 764 01:05:08,170 --> 01:05:09,797 Do you want to be? 765 01:05:10,006 --> 01:05:11,997 - Me? - Why not? 766 01:05:13,009 --> 01:05:15,273 She's the easiest girl in the world. 767 01:05:15,478 --> 01:05:18,038 I like them hard to get. 768 01:05:19,916 --> 01:05:22,316 Sam, admit you like her. 769 01:05:22,752 --> 01:05:24,583 That's not the question. 770 01:05:25,187 --> 01:05:27,246 The question is, does she like me? 771 01:05:27,456 --> 01:05:29,424 Don't give it another thought. 772 01:05:29,625 --> 01:05:31,752 She does everything I tell her to do. 773 01:05:33,496 --> 01:05:36,693 There's always that Machiavellian side to you. 774 01:05:41,971 --> 01:05:44,462 You only say that 'cause she left with the other guy. 775 01:05:44,674 --> 01:05:47,541 No, she couldn't have. 776 01:05:49,979 --> 01:05:51,913 Are you sure? 777 01:06:02,091 --> 01:06:06,824 Before leaving, I went to apprise Haydee of the situation. 778 01:06:09,999 --> 01:06:11,296 May I? 779 01:06:13,869 --> 01:06:18,101 He insists we spend the night at his place. 780 01:06:18,441 --> 01:06:22,673 I can't. I have an important appointment in the morning. 781 01:06:25,948 --> 01:06:27,711 But you could go. 782 01:06:28,617 --> 01:06:30,676 I'll pick you up the day after tomorrow. 783 01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:40,228 What exactly am I supposed to do with him? 784 01:06:40,429 --> 01:06:42,124 Whatever you like. 785 01:06:45,468 --> 01:06:49,666 But he'll be offended if you refuse, especially after Daniel's scene. 786 01:06:50,973 --> 01:06:53,498 In short, I'm the bonus for the vase. 787 01:06:53,709 --> 01:06:55,404 It's not just the vase. 788 01:06:56,612 --> 01:06:59,172 I'm involved in a big project with him, 789 01:06:59,382 --> 01:07:01,782 financing a gallery. 790 01:07:03,319 --> 01:07:06,516 In business you have to create a certain climate. 791 01:07:07,556 --> 01:07:09,387 A favorable climate. 792 01:07:09,592 --> 01:07:13,426 I love doing those kinds of favor. Especially for you. 793 01:07:13,929 --> 01:07:17,456 Besides, I feel safer with him than with you. 794 01:07:17,666 --> 01:07:20,191 That could be taken two ways. 795 01:07:20,403 --> 01:07:22,268 I only see one. 796 01:07:29,145 --> 01:07:32,171 Of course, this plot was all a bluff on my part, 797 01:07:32,381 --> 01:07:35,782 and on Sam's, who loved this kind of joke. 798 01:07:35,985 --> 01:07:37,953 And also on Haydee's, 799 01:07:38,154 --> 01:07:40,622 whose readiness to obey delighted me 800 01:07:40,823 --> 01:07:45,055 and united us far better than our trumped-up secrets of the night before. 801 01:08:38,948 --> 01:08:41,416 The evening was uneventful, 802 01:08:41,617 --> 01:08:44,677 and when the moment came, we all played our parts with great care. 803 01:08:47,690 --> 01:08:49,453 It's time to go. 804 01:08:50,559 --> 01:08:53,426 I have an important appointment this morning in Nice. 805 01:08:53,629 --> 01:08:56,655 Stay. I have a spare room. 806 01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:02,027 Thanks, but I hate getting a couple hours' sleep. 807 01:09:02,238 --> 01:09:04,433 I'd prefer to stay up. 808 01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,336 Besides, I have to take our friend home. 809 01:09:08,477 --> 01:09:10,342 Do as you like... 810 01:09:10,846 --> 01:09:12,973 but I'm keeping Haydee. 811 01:09:16,886 --> 01:09:18,717 Do you mind? 812 01:09:19,488 --> 01:09:20,512 Not at all. 813 01:09:20,723 --> 01:09:21,815 Okay, then. 814 01:09:22,358 --> 01:09:26,727 What would you like for breakfast? Eggs or cornflakes? 815 01:09:27,062 --> 01:09:31,658 Fried eggs with grated cheese, and lots of cornflakes. 816 01:09:40,442 --> 01:09:45,209 I slept all morning, after which an errand took me into town, 817 01:09:45,414 --> 01:09:48,474 where I decided to spend the rest of the afternoon. 818 01:10:06,168 --> 01:10:08,864 For the first time since I'd arrived, I was bored, 819 01:10:09,071 --> 01:10:12,563 and I preferred to be bored in town. 820 01:10:17,746 --> 01:10:21,045 I couldn't wait to see Sam and Haydee again, 821 01:10:21,250 --> 01:10:23,480 though I knew not to expect anything, 822 01:10:23,686 --> 01:10:25,779 since nothing was going to happen. 823 01:10:26,222 --> 01:10:29,988 But the pleasure they'd both taken in their roles annoyed me. 824 01:10:30,693 --> 01:10:33,253 They were now the center of the action, 825 01:10:33,462 --> 01:10:36,954 even if the action was nonexistent, and I was on the sidelines. 826 01:10:38,467 --> 01:10:40,958 It made me jealous, 827 01:10:41,170 --> 01:10:43,764 and also aware of how ridiculous I was being. 828 01:10:44,173 --> 01:10:47,199 I was certainly not ready to admit 829 01:10:47,409 --> 01:10:49,775 that I could possibly miss Haydee. 830 01:10:49,979 --> 01:10:52,106 Yet I felt her presence close by, 831 01:10:52,314 --> 01:10:54,942 in stark contrast to the mass of other girls 832 01:10:55,150 --> 01:11:00,588 whom I'd certainly have rejected that night. 833 01:11:18,274 --> 01:11:21,266 When the time came to set out for Sam's villa, 834 01:11:21,477 --> 01:11:23,604 I was on edge, 835 01:11:23,812 --> 01:11:26,474 furious at myself and the rest of the world. 836 01:11:36,759 --> 01:11:38,693 Do you speak English? 837 01:11:39,228 --> 01:11:43,130 What's the best way to get to the sea, please? 838 01:11:46,035 --> 01:11:47,696 That way. 839 01:11:47,903 --> 01:11:50,064 But the sea's that way. 840 01:12:00,349 --> 01:12:05,184 Sam and Haydee welcomed me with a scene meant to cheer me up, 841 01:12:05,387 --> 01:12:08,356 but their complicity irritated me. 842 01:12:17,266 --> 01:12:18,858 Did you have a good time? 843 01:12:19,068 --> 01:12:20,092 Lovely. 844 01:12:24,707 --> 01:12:27,232 Sam hammered away all evening 845 01:12:27,443 --> 01:12:29,741 at what he thought were my weak points. 846 01:12:30,779 --> 01:12:33,748 He meant to humiliate me in front of the girl. 847 01:12:34,917 --> 01:12:38,512 To do nothing, yet think while doing it, is exhausting. 848 01:12:40,189 --> 01:12:42,248 Working's much easier. 849 01:12:42,624 --> 01:12:44,489 You follow a well-trod path. 850 01:12:45,094 --> 01:12:48,825 There's a kind of laziness to work. Work is an escape, 851 01:12:49,031 --> 01:12:51,761 a clear conscience bought on the cheap. 852 01:12:53,001 --> 01:12:56,903 Of course, that makes you the least lazy person I know. 853 01:12:57,106 --> 01:12:59,597 I haven't taken a vacation in 10 years. 854 01:12:59,808 --> 01:13:02,538 Sure. You're on permanent vacation. 855 01:13:03,645 --> 01:13:06,409 Well, yes and no. Not exactly. 856 01:13:07,082 --> 01:13:11,519 It amuses me how you're always trying to justify yourself. 857 01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:15,588 On the contrary. I don't have a guilty conscience. 858 01:13:16,525 --> 01:13:18,516 You're a liar. 859 01:13:18,727 --> 01:13:22,094 You feel guilty because you have no money. 860 01:13:23,065 --> 01:13:27,365 Listen, Sam, I'm sure you've heard of the Tarahumara Indians. 861 01:13:28,670 --> 01:13:32,731 When they enter a town, they beg from house to house. 862 01:13:34,376 --> 01:13:37,539 They stop at a door, then stand in profile 863 01:13:37,746 --> 01:13:40,112 with an air of haughty contempt. 864 01:13:40,716 --> 01:13:45,176 Whether given alms or not, they leave after a set period of time... 865 01:13:46,522 --> 01:13:48,217 without a thank you. 866 01:13:49,024 --> 01:13:51,492 When I beg, I always turn in profile. 867 01:13:53,962 --> 01:13:56,328 Besides, we're always someone else's slave. 868 01:14:01,737 --> 01:14:04,433 I find less dishonor in living at a friend's house 869 01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,835 than in being on the government payroll. 870 01:14:08,911 --> 01:14:12,745 Most people's work today is useless. 871 01:14:12,948 --> 01:14:16,679 Three quarters of all activity is parasitic. 872 01:14:18,086 --> 01:14:20,077 I'm not the parasite. 873 01:14:21,023 --> 01:14:23,150 It's the bureaucrats and experts. 874 01:14:23,358 --> 01:14:27,294 If I were 6'6" with an eagle's profile, 875 01:14:27,496 --> 01:14:31,296 I'd feel nearer to the gods too. 876 01:14:34,403 --> 01:14:37,964 You're nostalgic for the good old days, 877 01:14:38,173 --> 01:14:41,631 while I'm happy to live in this modern world. 878 01:14:44,346 --> 01:14:46,541 I'm as modern as you are. 879 01:14:46,748 --> 01:14:50,548 But what matters today isn't work but laziness. 880 01:14:51,453 --> 01:14:54,251 Everyone says work is just a means to an end. 881 01:14:54,590 --> 01:14:56,785 We speak of a leisure society. 882 01:14:56,992 --> 01:15:00,325 But when it comes, we won't know what leisure is. 883 01:15:00,762 --> 01:15:04,254 Some people work 40 years for their life of leisure, 884 01:15:04,466 --> 01:15:08,732 but when the time comes, they're lost, and they die. 885 01:15:12,841 --> 01:15:14,308 In all sincerity, 886 01:15:14,510 --> 01:15:18,606 I think I serve mankind better by taking it easy than by working. 887 01:15:20,682 --> 01:15:24,846 It's true. It takes courage to not work. 888 01:15:26,255 --> 01:15:28,883 More courage than going to the moon? 889 01:15:29,291 --> 01:15:32,226 Of course you can go to the moon too. 890 01:15:32,895 --> 01:15:35,261 But that's both fascinating and contemptible. 891 01:15:36,832 --> 01:15:39,926 If I listen to any more of your little monologue, 892 01:15:40,135 --> 01:15:42,626 I'll fall asleep right in this chair. 893 01:15:48,977 --> 01:15:51,468 You're like a small child, 894 01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:56,083 happy as can be with his mediocre life. 895 01:15:59,421 --> 01:16:01,480 Go to the moon, Adrien. 896 01:16:01,690 --> 01:16:03,681 Jupiter too. 897 01:16:03,892 --> 01:16:05,553 Hurry... 898 01:16:05,761 --> 01:16:07,729 and when you get there, 899 01:16:07,930 --> 01:16:10,922 send me a postcard, 900 01:16:11,266 --> 01:16:14,497 if you have the money to buy one. 901 01:16:19,608 --> 01:16:22,008 I've always been sorry I wasn't rich. 902 01:16:22,844 --> 01:16:27,304 But if I were, my dandyism, as you call it, would be too easy... 903 01:16:28,417 --> 01:16:31,011 lacking any heroism whatsoever. 904 01:16:31,219 --> 01:16:34,382 And I can't imagine a dandy not being heroic. 905 01:16:59,548 --> 01:17:02,278 Do you find his metaphysical monologue 906 01:17:02,484 --> 01:17:04,543 as interesting as Tarzan? 907 01:17:04,753 --> 01:17:08,314 Don't mind him. He talks to hear himself talk. 908 01:17:08,523 --> 01:17:10,184 She's right. 909 01:17:22,838 --> 01:17:23,998 Careful! 910 01:17:31,380 --> 01:17:33,007 Very clever! 911 01:17:44,326 --> 01:17:45,987 She's impossible. 912 01:17:51,066 --> 01:17:53,728 Your rooms are on the second floor. 913 01:17:54,936 --> 01:17:56,403 Good night. 914 01:18:09,551 --> 01:18:11,212 And you laugh! 915 01:18:12,087 --> 01:18:14,419 You don't just break a Song vase. 916 01:18:14,623 --> 01:18:17,786 I break whatever I like. Besides, you got your money. 917 01:18:17,993 --> 01:18:20,291 Still, you don't just break a Song vase. 918 01:18:20,495 --> 01:18:22,656 I didn't do it on purpose. 919 01:18:24,032 --> 01:18:26,227 You think it's funny too. 920 01:18:27,169 --> 01:18:29,729 A professional collector would've killed you. 921 01:18:30,772 --> 01:18:33,502 You're impossible. I should have known. 922 01:18:33,709 --> 01:18:35,904 I knew I couldn't take you anywhere. 923 01:18:36,111 --> 01:18:38,341 You shouldn't have left me with him for two days. 924 01:18:38,547 --> 01:18:40,742 - What did he do to you? - Nothing. 925 01:18:41,483 --> 01:18:43,041 Did he bother you? 926 01:18:43,251 --> 01:18:46,414 Not at all. He took me boating. 927 01:18:46,621 --> 01:18:49,818 Last night he took me to the casino. It was lovely. 928 01:18:52,728 --> 01:18:55,322 Are you upset 'cause he didn't try anything? 929 01:18:56,531 --> 01:18:59,762 Would you believe me if I said I slept with him? 930 01:19:00,902 --> 01:19:02,870 I'd believe anything, coming from you. 931 01:19:03,071 --> 01:19:05,972 I know if you say yes, it probably means no 932 01:19:06,174 --> 01:19:08,506 but could just as well mean yes. 933 01:19:20,655 --> 01:19:23,556 You're an immoral little slut. 934 01:19:23,759 --> 01:19:27,286 Well, I certainly wouldn't espouse your moral code. 935 01:19:33,135 --> 01:19:34,659 Neither would I. 936 01:19:34,870 --> 01:19:38,328 Besides, I feel like giving my morals the slip tonight. 937 01:19:39,908 --> 01:19:41,432 I'm sleepy. 938 01:19:42,410 --> 01:19:43,968 Shall we go upstairs? 939 01:19:45,781 --> 01:19:48,045 No, let's go home. 940 01:19:54,523 --> 01:19:56,150 The die was cast. 941 01:19:56,358 --> 01:19:58,588 She'd shown she had the upper hand. 942 01:19:58,794 --> 01:20:01,262 I was back to my pet theory once again. 943 01:20:01,463 --> 01:20:02,794 For three weeks, 944 01:20:02,998 --> 01:20:07,128 it was as if she'd acted with the sole idea of possessing me. 945 01:20:07,702 --> 01:20:11,138 Daniel, Sam, and now the broken vase 946 01:20:11,339 --> 01:20:15,298 were all just stations on the path to conquering precious me. 947 01:20:15,544 --> 01:20:19,844 My protective moral fortress was tumbling down. 948 01:20:20,182 --> 01:20:23,174 Since I'd come to Rodolphe's in search of pleasure, 949 01:20:23,385 --> 01:20:26,513 why not use my one week left 950 01:20:26,721 --> 01:20:29,713 to enjoy my interactions with Haydee to the utmost? 951 01:20:30,358 --> 01:20:33,122 An affair so clearly circumscribed 952 01:20:33,328 --> 01:20:36,593 in time and space met my definition of total adventure. 953 01:20:36,798 --> 01:20:42,327 One week was the ideal length I'd have liked my casual affairs to last, 954 01:20:42,537 --> 01:20:46,530 and not the one-night stands or endless ordeals they'd been till now. 955 01:20:46,741 --> 01:20:48,333 It's Haydee! 956 01:20:50,178 --> 01:20:51,543 Wait a minute. 957 01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:53,775 Want to come with us? 958 01:20:54,282 --> 01:20:56,307 - Where? - Lorenzo's. 959 01:20:56,518 --> 01:20:57,507 In Rome? 960 01:20:57,719 --> 01:20:59,949 No, his villa in San Felice. 961 01:21:00,155 --> 01:21:02,851 - I can't right now. - Take the address. 962 01:21:03,058 --> 01:21:04,047 Wait. 963 01:21:12,300 --> 01:21:14,768 San Felice. 964 01:21:18,573 --> 01:21:20,803 I said I can't right now. 965 01:21:21,009 --> 01:21:22,306 Drop him. 966 01:21:22,510 --> 01:21:24,034 Give me the address. 967 01:21:28,717 --> 01:21:30,947 - Let's go. - I have nothing to wear. 968 01:21:43,798 --> 01:21:47,564 When I started the engine, it was just to clear the road 969 01:21:47,769 --> 01:21:51,170 and perhaps put an end to Haydee's dallying. 970 01:21:52,073 --> 01:21:54,633 But I quickly realized I wasn't going to stop 971 01:21:54,843 --> 01:21:59,007 and that I was making the right decision for the first time. 972 01:22:01,883 --> 01:22:03,908 This is the story of my twists and turns. 973 01:22:04,119 --> 01:22:09,386 The way was finally cleared for the decision of my first days here. 974 01:22:09,591 --> 01:22:14,290 Now I could actually live my vacation dream. 975 01:22:14,496 --> 01:22:17,829 Peace and solitude were at last mine for the taking. 976 01:22:18,033 --> 01:22:20,092 They weren't just handed to me. 977 01:22:20,302 --> 01:22:24,796 I'd gained the right to them by at last asserting my freedom. 978 01:22:25,006 --> 01:22:26,803 I reveled in my victory 979 01:22:27,008 --> 01:22:30,671 and ascribed it to my actions alone, not chance. 980 01:22:31,279 --> 01:22:33,270 I was overwhelmed by a feeling 981 01:22:33,481 --> 01:22:35,039 of exquisite freedom. 982 01:22:35,250 --> 01:22:37,582 Now I could do whatever I wanted. 983 01:23:02,410 --> 01:23:05,607 But once back in the emptiness and silence of the house, 984 01:23:05,814 --> 01:23:09,011 I was seized with anxiety and unable to sleep. 985 01:26:10,231 --> 01:26:12,529 Is this the airport? 986 01:26:12,734 --> 01:26:15,225 When's your next flight to London? 987 01:26:15,770 --> 01:26:17,169 Yes, today.