1 00:01:57,702 --> 00:01:59,078 A beggar woman. 2 00:01:59,162 --> 00:02:01,706 - Mad? - Yes. 3 00:02:04,125 --> 00:02:06,085 Ah, yes. I remember. 4 00:02:07,587 --> 00:02:09,130 She follows the rivers. 5 00:02:10,799 --> 00:02:12,425 Comes from Burma. 6 00:02:35,365 --> 00:02:39,577 Not Indian. She comes from Savannakhét. 7 00:02:41,037 --> 00:02:42,580 Born there. 8 00:02:45,291 --> 00:02:47,001 Walking 9 00:02:47,502 --> 00:02:49,420 for ten years. 10 00:02:51,297 --> 00:02:54,717 And one day, in front of her, the Ganges. 11 00:02:56,219 --> 00:02:59,764 - Yes. - She stays. 12 00:03:00,682 --> 00:03:02,475 That's right. 13 00:03:07,730 --> 00:03:10,733 Twelve children dead while she walked towards Bengal? 14 00:03:10,817 --> 00:03:12,151 Yes. 15 00:03:12,986 --> 00:03:15,947 She leaves them. Sells them, forgets them. 16 00:03:19,576 --> 00:03:22,245 On the way to Bengal, she goes barren. 17 00:03:31,379 --> 00:03:36,175 - Savannakhét, Laos? - Yes. 18 00:03:38,136 --> 00:03:39,429 At 17. 19 00:03:39,971 --> 00:03:42,974 Pregnant, 17, 20 00:03:44,893 --> 00:03:47,979 thrown out by her mother, goes away, 21 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,025 asks the way to get lost. 22 00:03:54,152 --> 00:03:55,904 No one knows. 23 00:04:25,558 --> 00:04:29,020 In Calcutta they were together. 24 00:04:30,563 --> 00:04:33,775 - She and the white woman? - Yes. 25 00:04:35,193 --> 00:04:37,195 During the same years... 26 00:05:56,107 --> 00:05:59,152 - He had followed her to India. - Yes. 27 00:06:01,237 --> 00:06:02,989 For her, he left everything. 28 00:06:03,531 --> 00:06:05,116 Overnight. 29 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:08,327 - The night of the ball? - Yes. 30 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:16,502 Michael Richardson was engaged to a girl from S. Thala, 31 00:06:17,670 --> 00:06:20,298 Lola Valérie Stein. 32 00:06:25,595 --> 00:06:28,222 They were to marry in the autumn. 33 00:06:29,807 --> 00:06:31,684 Then, the ball. 34 00:06:32,894 --> 00:06:34,896 The ball at S. Thala. 35 00:06:36,939 --> 00:06:39,400 She arrived late, 36 00:06:40,902 --> 00:06:42,528 in the middle of the night, 37 00:06:44,113 --> 00:06:46,074 in black. 38 00:06:49,827 --> 00:06:51,829 That ball, such love, 39 00:06:52,663 --> 00:06:54,457 such desire. 40 00:07:01,255 --> 00:07:03,049 That light? 41 00:07:03,591 --> 00:07:05,051 The monsoon. 42 00:07:07,011 --> 00:07:08,429 That dust? 43 00:07:09,222 --> 00:07:11,099 Central Calcutta. 44 00:07:19,107 --> 00:07:21,192 What is that scent of flowers? 45 00:07:22,693 --> 00:07:24,070 Leprosy. 46 00:07:29,283 --> 00:07:30,993 Where are we? 47 00:07:35,331 --> 00:07:39,544 The French embassy, in India. 48 00:07:43,131 --> 00:07:46,008 - That murmur? - The Ganges. 49 00:07:56,269 --> 00:08:00,731 When she died, he left India? 50 00:08:01,357 --> 00:08:02,608 Yes. 51 00:08:05,278 --> 00:08:07,905 Her grave is in the English cemetery? 52 00:08:09,365 --> 00:08:10,658 Yes. 53 00:08:18,457 --> 00:08:22,253 - She died out there? - On the islands. 54 00:08:25,339 --> 00:08:28,676 Found dead one night. 55 00:08:42,106 --> 00:08:44,567 A black Lancia 56 00:08:45,818 --> 00:08:48,446 speeds along the road to Chandernagore. 57 00:08:52,366 --> 00:08:56,245 It was there that she first... 58 00:08:58,372 --> 00:08:59,624 Yes. 59 00:09:30,780 --> 00:09:32,490 What are you afraid of? 60 00:09:58,099 --> 00:10:00,059 Anne-Marie Stretter. 61 00:10:45,104 --> 00:10:48,816 They would dance in the evening. 62 00:10:51,569 --> 00:10:53,237 They're dancing. 63 00:11:25,227 --> 00:11:27,438 What are you crying about? 64 00:11:38,449 --> 00:11:39,950 I love you 65 00:11:40,868 --> 00:11:42,536 to the point of not seeing, 66 00:11:44,246 --> 00:11:45,956 not hearing, 67 00:11:47,166 --> 00:11:48,292 dying. 68 00:12:48,686 --> 00:12:53,149 Lepers burst like sacks of dust, you know. 69 00:12:54,442 --> 00:12:59,155 - Don't suffer? - No, feel nothing. 70 00:13:33,731 --> 00:13:36,901 She's there by the Ganges, under the trees. 71 00:13:38,777 --> 00:13:40,488 She has forgotten. 72 00:14:44,843 --> 00:14:48,597 - The French vice-consul from Lahore. - Yes. 73 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,101 Sent to Calcutta in disgrace. 74 00:15:39,690 --> 00:15:41,609 He's come back to the grounds? 75 00:15:42,568 --> 00:15:43,902 Yes. 76 00:15:45,237 --> 00:15:47,698 He comes every night. 77 00:16:09,470 --> 00:16:11,430 The tennis court, deserted. 78 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,111 Anne-Marie Stretter's red bicycle. 79 00:16:58,727 --> 00:17:00,813 Where is the one in black? 80 00:17:01,939 --> 00:17:04,149 Out driving. 81 00:17:04,233 --> 00:17:08,529 She comes back with the night. 82 00:17:12,616 --> 00:17:16,412 The black Lancia has just entered the grounds. 83 00:17:59,246 --> 00:18:03,292 She hunts at night in the depths of the Ganges. 84 00:18:04,168 --> 00:18:06,211 For food. 85 00:19:22,204 --> 00:19:24,248 Dead on the islands. 86 00:19:26,834 --> 00:19:31,964 - Her eyes pierced with light, dead. - Yes. 87 00:19:32,506 --> 00:19:34,716 Beneath that stone. 88 00:19:35,551 --> 00:19:39,137 Around her, a bend in the Ganges. 89 00:20:23,473 --> 00:20:27,352 Four o'clock. Darkest night. 90 00:20:29,688 --> 00:20:32,733 - No one's asleep? - No one. 91 00:20:36,194 --> 00:20:38,196 What heat! 92 00:20:39,197 --> 00:20:40,866 Impossible. 93 00:20:41,658 --> 00:20:43,327 Terrible. 94 00:20:45,412 --> 00:20:47,497 Another storm 95 00:20:48,123 --> 00:20:50,792 coming to Bengal. 96 00:20:51,543 --> 00:20:53,587 Coming from the islands. 97 00:20:54,463 --> 00:20:58,550 From the estuaries, inexhaustible. 98 00:21:08,435 --> 00:21:10,020 What's that sound? 99 00:21:11,146 --> 00:21:13,565 Her, crying. 100 00:21:17,069 --> 00:21:20,697 - She isn't suffering, is she? - No. 101 00:21:21,657 --> 00:21:24,993 Leprosy. Leprosy of the heart. 102 00:22:36,148 --> 00:22:40,944 - Can't bear it? - No, can't bear it. 103 00:22:41,570 --> 00:22:44,281 India, can't bear it. 104 00:22:57,085 --> 00:22:58,587 She's sleeping. 105 00:23:11,391 --> 00:23:13,810 He loved her more than anything in the world. 106 00:23:14,519 --> 00:23:16,271 More than that. 107 00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:24,946 Michael Richardson set up a marine insurance business 108 00:23:25,030 --> 00:23:28,450 in Bengal, to stay with her in India. 109 00:23:37,501 --> 00:23:38,710 Listen. 110 00:23:40,921 --> 00:23:42,589 The Ganges fishermen. 111 00:23:59,773 --> 00:24:01,817 What a night! 112 00:24:04,319 --> 00:24:06,363 What heat! 113 00:24:07,364 --> 00:24:08,490 All-embracing... 114 00:24:10,575 --> 00:24:12,119 deathly. 115 00:24:18,834 --> 00:24:22,754 From behind the plants in the bar she watches them. 116 00:24:24,381 --> 00:24:26,299 Only at dawn... 117 00:24:28,301 --> 00:24:31,805 when the lovers went toward the door of the ballroom, 118 00:24:33,181 --> 00:24:36,434 did Lola Valérie Stein utter a cry. 119 00:24:39,980 --> 00:24:42,190 Didn't hear anything else. 120 00:24:42,899 --> 00:24:44,985 Didn't see anything else. 121 00:24:45,944 --> 00:24:48,029 This crime in her past. 122 00:24:48,947 --> 00:24:50,323 Yes. 123 00:24:57,831 --> 00:24:59,541 Rain. 124 00:24:59,624 --> 00:25:01,168 Yes. 125 00:25:01,251 --> 00:25:03,253 Cool. 126 00:25:24,107 --> 00:25:27,152 Her music, that was Venice. 127 00:25:28,361 --> 00:25:30,655 A promising artist. 128 00:25:34,784 --> 00:25:38,163 - Never gave up playing? - Never. 129 00:25:50,717 --> 00:25:54,137 Ana Maria Guardi. 130 00:25:54,221 --> 00:25:55,472 Yes. 131 00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:07,192 The first marriage? 132 00:26:07,984 --> 00:26:12,113 - The first post? - Savannakhét, Laos. 133 00:26:13,949 --> 00:26:18,578 To a French colonial civil servant. She's 18. 134 00:26:20,997 --> 00:26:22,916 Oh, yes, a river. 135 00:26:24,626 --> 00:26:26,670 Already, 136 00:26:26,753 --> 00:26:29,256 she's sitting by a river, 137 00:26:29,339 --> 00:26:31,007 and she's looking. 138 00:26:31,675 --> 00:26:33,468 The Mekong. 139 00:26:35,303 --> 00:26:39,474 - She's silent? Crying? - Yes. 140 00:26:39,557 --> 00:26:42,602 They say, "She won't get used to it. 141 00:26:42,686 --> 00:26:44,729 She'll have to be sent back to Europe." 142 00:26:45,730 --> 00:26:49,985 - She couldn't bear it, already? - Already. 143 00:26:51,903 --> 00:26:54,364 Caught behind gates. 144 00:26:54,948 --> 00:26:57,742 The government house grounds. 145 00:26:58,868 --> 00:27:01,871 - Those sentries? - The guard. 146 00:27:04,582 --> 00:27:07,877 - Already couldn't bear it. - No. 147 00:27:12,590 --> 00:27:16,511 One day, a government launch stops. 148 00:27:17,595 --> 00:27:21,725 Monsieur Stretter is inspecting the Mekong posts. 149 00:27:23,226 --> 00:27:27,647 - Takes her away to Savannakhét? - Yes, takes her with him. 150 00:27:28,857 --> 00:27:32,819 For 17 years, through the capitals of Asia. 151 00:27:33,945 --> 00:27:38,116 You find her in Peking, again in Mandalay. 152 00:27:39,242 --> 00:27:42,620 In Bangkok. You find her in Bangkok. 153 00:27:43,413 --> 00:27:46,082 In Rangoon. In Sydney. 154 00:27:47,167 --> 00:27:49,461 You find her in Lahore. 155 00:27:49,544 --> 00:27:51,546 Seventeen years. 156 00:27:53,089 --> 00:27:55,592 She's in Calcutta. 157 00:27:56,176 --> 00:27:57,469 Calcutta. 158 00:27:58,219 --> 00:27:59,888 She dies. 159 00:28:06,311 --> 00:28:09,272 - Who's the other man? - A friend passing through. 160 00:28:10,106 --> 00:28:12,192 A friend of the Stretters. 161 00:28:13,943 --> 00:28:16,112 Whoever wants her, has her. 162 00:28:16,821 --> 00:28:19,115 He gives her. 163 00:28:20,325 --> 00:28:23,119 - Love. - Yes. 164 00:28:25,372 --> 00:28:27,040 Splendor. 165 00:28:29,501 --> 00:28:33,505 "Anne-Marie Stretter" written on the grave? 166 00:28:35,006 --> 00:28:38,259 "Ana Maria Guardi," 167 00:28:38,927 --> 00:28:40,762 but worn away. 168 00:28:55,443 --> 00:28:57,487 Every night... 169 00:28:59,614 --> 00:29:01,449 looks at her. 170 00:29:03,952 --> 00:29:07,872 - Has never spoken to her? - Never. 171 00:29:09,457 --> 00:29:12,085 Never approached any woman. 172 00:29:16,172 --> 00:29:19,759 - The male virgin of Lahore. - Yes. 173 00:30:18,860 --> 00:30:23,031 - Those gleams over there? - The burning ghats. 174 00:30:25,533 --> 00:30:28,161 Burning those who died of hunger? 175 00:30:28,661 --> 00:30:30,121 Yes. 176 00:30:34,417 --> 00:30:36,294 It's dawn. 177 00:30:45,428 --> 00:30:47,430 He had fired a gun in Lahore. 178 00:30:47,514 --> 00:30:50,808 One night, from his balcony, 179 00:30:50,892 --> 00:30:54,062 he fired on the lepers of the Shalimar Gardens. 180 00:30:56,105 --> 00:30:58,775 - Couldn't bear it? - No. 181 00:31:00,151 --> 00:31:02,904 - India, couldn't bear it? - No. 182 00:31:04,405 --> 00:31:06,115 What about India? 183 00:31:08,826 --> 00:31:10,453 The idea. 184 00:31:27,679 --> 00:31:32,225 There was a reception at the French embassy? 185 00:31:32,308 --> 00:31:33,726 Yes. 186 00:31:52,870 --> 00:31:55,248 The park stretches down to the Ganges. 187 00:31:56,124 --> 00:32:01,254 The offices are on this side. You see? Those gray buildings. 188 00:32:02,046 --> 00:32:06,217 Farther away, the tennis courts, deserted during the monsoon. 189 00:32:07,719 --> 00:32:09,971 Almost no one is dancing? 190 00:32:10,597 --> 00:32:13,433 In this heat, how could you? 191 00:32:14,267 --> 00:32:17,478 The only remedy, immobility. 192 00:32:17,562 --> 00:32:20,898 Slowness. Slow down the blood. 193 00:32:20,982 --> 00:32:24,193 The smell of mud. Insipid. 194 00:32:25,028 --> 00:32:28,031 The Ganges, low tide. 195 00:32:53,473 --> 00:32:55,642 The new Austrian attaché. 196 00:32:56,684 --> 00:32:58,394 Been here a month. 197 00:32:59,562 --> 00:33:03,524 - He can't get used to India. - His first time here? 198 00:33:04,317 --> 00:33:05,568 Yes. 199 00:33:06,944 --> 00:33:08,738 He'll come again. 200 00:33:09,364 --> 00:33:12,700 - He'll go to the islands. - How can you tell? 201 00:33:14,285 --> 00:33:16,913 The anguish in his eyes. 202 00:33:18,206 --> 00:33:20,792 She can't bear people who get used to India. 203 00:33:21,334 --> 00:33:25,046 The ambassador asks people to the islands for his wife. 204 00:33:27,340 --> 00:33:28,883 She goes alone to the islands. 205 00:33:29,425 --> 00:33:32,053 The ambassador goes hunting in Nepal. 206 00:33:32,553 --> 00:33:34,639 They say her lovers are English, 207 00:33:34,722 --> 00:33:38,893 don't mix with the embassies, and that the ambassador knows. 208 00:33:45,817 --> 00:33:47,902 A friend of the Stretters'. 209 00:33:48,778 --> 00:33:50,738 Unknown in Calcutta. 210 00:34:09,048 --> 00:34:12,343 With this humidity the pianos are detuned. 211 00:34:16,848 --> 00:34:20,351 The French vice-consul has just entered the park. 212 00:34:21,060 --> 00:34:24,981 At the last minute she sent him a card, "Come." 213 00:34:26,232 --> 00:34:28,192 Just what did he do? 214 00:34:29,110 --> 00:34:32,739 The worst. Killed. 215 00:34:33,281 --> 00:34:36,409 - In Lahore. - The official version? 216 00:34:37,201 --> 00:34:40,705 Nerves gave way. Often happens. 217 00:34:41,456 --> 00:34:44,000 - Easy to say. - Yes. 218 00:34:47,837 --> 00:34:51,382 His face, as if grafted. 219 00:34:52,216 --> 00:34:54,844 Very pale. 220 00:34:57,346 --> 00:34:59,932 She could have spared us his presence. 221 00:35:00,892 --> 00:35:03,394 An outcast in Lahore too? 222 00:35:04,228 --> 00:35:05,730 There too. 223 00:35:05,813 --> 00:35:08,524 He just escaped being dismissed. 224 00:35:09,358 --> 00:35:12,195 The ambassador intervened. 225 00:35:14,447 --> 00:35:18,659 Closed circles in India make me think of leprosy. 226 00:35:30,588 --> 00:35:32,423 Perhaps he drank? 227 00:35:32,507 --> 00:35:34,008 No. 228 00:35:34,091 --> 00:35:37,178 Drunkenness is the same for us all here. 229 00:35:37,762 --> 00:35:39,514 We talk about going home. 230 00:35:40,973 --> 00:35:42,850 No, he didn't drink. 231 00:35:45,728 --> 00:35:48,564 The ambassador asked the young attaché 232 00:35:48,648 --> 00:35:52,068 to have a word with him. 233 00:35:52,735 --> 00:35:54,445 He tries. 234 00:35:55,238 --> 00:35:58,866 He turns away. Can't bear it. 235 00:35:59,575 --> 00:36:01,953 Any of it. 236 00:36:06,541 --> 00:36:08,251 He laughs. 237 00:36:09,001 --> 00:36:12,088 As if he were suddenly mad with joy. 238 00:36:12,630 --> 00:36:14,674 Look... 239 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:20,304 Perhaps he's just seen Madame Stretter. Perhaps. 240 00:36:21,931 --> 00:36:26,686 - You mean-- - I wonder. Perhaps. 241 00:36:32,942 --> 00:36:35,653 Did he talk about Lahore? 242 00:36:36,529 --> 00:36:39,907 Only to her. Near dawn. 243 00:36:43,077 --> 00:36:46,539 He fired at night, on the Shalimar Gardens. 244 00:36:47,331 --> 00:36:50,042 On lepers, dogs. 245 00:36:51,502 --> 00:36:56,382 But they found bullets in the mirrors in his house in Lahore too. 246 00:36:58,092 --> 00:37:00,511 Shooting at himself... 247 00:37:03,639 --> 00:37:07,560 Roses arrived every day from Nepal. 248 00:37:09,020 --> 00:37:12,356 She gave them out at the end of the ball. 249 00:37:16,736 --> 00:37:20,364 After lunch, people sink. Heavy sleep. 250 00:37:20,448 --> 00:37:23,868 Yet everyone waits for something like that. 251 00:37:23,951 --> 00:37:28,915 Storms are expected. Just a hole in the sky. 252 00:37:29,832 --> 00:37:31,876 It fills in straightaway. 253 00:37:41,093 --> 00:37:43,137 How white she is! 254 00:37:43,220 --> 00:37:45,556 How white they are, the women of Calcutta! 255 00:37:47,391 --> 00:37:50,102 For six months, out only in the evening. 256 00:37:50,603 --> 00:37:52,271 Fleeing the sun. 257 00:37:59,153 --> 00:38:02,156 Seems imprisoned in a kind of suffering. 258 00:38:06,118 --> 00:38:09,288 No one really knows what goes on behind these walls. 259 00:38:09,914 --> 00:38:11,749 What she does. 260 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,544 Cycling very early in the morning, 261 00:38:15,628 --> 00:38:17,171 in the grounds. 262 00:38:17,755 --> 00:38:21,342 Playing tennis, she reads, they say. 263 00:38:22,134 --> 00:38:25,054 Parcels of books come from Venice for her. 264 00:38:26,973 --> 00:38:28,849 She goes to the islands. 265 00:38:28,933 --> 00:38:30,851 Appearances. 266 00:38:50,329 --> 00:38:54,417 Only one person sees him. The director of the European club. 267 00:38:55,001 --> 00:38:56,585 A drunkard. 268 00:38:58,838 --> 00:39:03,342 All he said to the director was repeated to the ambassador. 269 00:39:03,426 --> 00:39:06,053 - It's horrid! - You don't understand. 270 00:39:06,804 --> 00:39:11,726 He knew it would be repeated. That's why he spoke to the director. 271 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,731 A way to reach her, this woman. 272 00:39:20,568 --> 00:39:24,530 He said he was entitled to Madame Stretter's attentions, 273 00:39:25,031 --> 00:39:27,158 to her love, 274 00:39:27,241 --> 00:39:29,410 as much as the others. 275 00:39:30,953 --> 00:39:33,372 Her lovers from Calcutta. 276 00:39:38,544 --> 00:39:41,839 At night, near the tennis courts, 277 00:39:42,965 --> 00:39:44,884 this bicycle, 278 00:39:46,510 --> 00:39:50,389 he says, "A thing she had touched." 279 00:39:53,350 --> 00:39:54,518 No, 280 00:39:55,853 --> 00:39:58,272 that can't be repeated. 281 00:40:08,616 --> 00:40:11,660 Of this passion, she said nothing. 282 00:40:12,369 --> 00:40:13,954 Nothing. 283 00:40:20,377 --> 00:40:24,673 He said he regretted not making a convincing report of Lahore. 284 00:40:26,092 --> 00:40:27,468 Convincing? 285 00:40:28,886 --> 00:40:30,721 I remember the word. 286 00:40:31,806 --> 00:40:35,392 - What's known of his background? - Lived in Neuilly. 287 00:40:35,893 --> 00:40:38,104 Father worked in a bank. 288 00:40:40,272 --> 00:40:43,109 Mother left the father, then died. 289 00:40:43,192 --> 00:40:47,780 Expelled from various schools. At 15, a disciplinary school. 290 00:40:49,281 --> 00:40:51,450 An aunt writes sometimes. 291 00:40:55,704 --> 00:40:57,957 Look at his eyes. 292 00:40:58,791 --> 00:41:00,376 He's crying. 293 00:41:01,794 --> 00:41:03,629 He seems unaware of it. 294 00:41:05,464 --> 00:41:08,342 He seems to be in a state 295 00:41:09,593 --> 00:41:11,220 of tears. 296 00:42:13,115 --> 00:42:14,909 What do you want? 297 00:42:16,202 --> 00:42:17,786 To talk to you. 298 00:42:18,412 --> 00:42:20,289 What about? 299 00:42:21,332 --> 00:42:23,584 Your next post. 300 00:42:24,460 --> 00:42:28,255 The voice is toneless, as if he was trying not to shout. 301 00:42:29,006 --> 00:42:31,425 You can't get used to it either? 302 00:42:33,010 --> 00:42:34,011 No. 303 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,513 The heat, of course, 304 00:42:38,432 --> 00:42:40,017 but also the monotony. 305 00:42:41,268 --> 00:42:42,853 The light, 306 00:42:43,812 --> 00:42:45,189 no color. 307 00:42:51,028 --> 00:42:54,073 But you, before Lahore-- 308 00:42:55,950 --> 00:42:58,118 Would you have preferred something else? 309 00:42:59,328 --> 00:43:00,371 No. 310 00:43:01,622 --> 00:43:03,582 Lahore was what I wanted. 311 00:43:07,086 --> 00:43:08,754 Come to the bar. 312 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,217 What are you afraid of? 313 00:43:17,096 --> 00:43:19,181 They say you'd like Bombay. 314 00:43:20,724 --> 00:43:22,685 I wish to stay in Calcutta. 315 00:43:23,936 --> 00:43:26,188 I don't think that's possible. 316 00:43:27,022 --> 00:43:29,400 Then leave it to the Consular Service. 317 00:43:31,527 --> 00:43:33,320 They can send me where they like. 318 00:43:35,739 --> 00:43:38,659 Bombay is less crowded. The climate is better. 319 00:43:39,326 --> 00:43:41,495 The nearness of the sea is an advantage. 320 00:43:45,791 --> 00:43:48,627 I haven't asked to see my file. 321 00:43:51,297 --> 00:43:52,548 What does it say? 322 00:43:54,341 --> 00:43:56,135 That Lahore-- 323 00:43:57,219 --> 00:43:59,096 What you did in Lahore... 324 00:44:01,473 --> 00:44:06,895 people can't understand, no matter how hard they try. 325 00:44:07,730 --> 00:44:09,106 No one. 326 00:44:11,775 --> 00:44:12,901 No one? 327 00:44:24,413 --> 00:44:27,499 What are you doing? Come along. 328 00:44:31,170 --> 00:44:33,130 I'm listening to "India Song." 329 00:44:41,472 --> 00:44:44,183 I came to India because of "India Song." 330 00:44:51,690 --> 00:44:53,942 That tune makes me want to love. 331 00:45:06,663 --> 00:45:08,207 I have never loved. 332 00:45:11,210 --> 00:45:13,212 I had never loved anyone. 333 00:45:39,530 --> 00:45:43,867 He saw himself photographed, in a rocking chair by the Gulf of Oman. 334 00:45:45,702 --> 00:45:47,037 Then, one morning, 335 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,542 on the way to his office, he saw her in the park, 336 00:45:52,042 --> 00:45:53,752 by the tennis courts, 337 00:45:54,878 --> 00:45:56,004 in white. 338 00:45:56,088 --> 00:45:59,133 What a story! What passion! 339 00:45:59,216 --> 00:46:01,677 He left everything for her. 340 00:46:04,263 --> 00:46:07,266 Some close friends stayed after the reception. 341 00:46:10,144 --> 00:46:12,062 The passion sometimes... 342 00:46:12,855 --> 00:46:16,150 Those European suicides that increase with the hunger 343 00:46:16,233 --> 00:46:17,609 that they never suffer. 344 00:46:18,277 --> 00:46:22,781 In its internal law, that culpability of the West... 345 00:46:24,950 --> 00:46:26,743 It is absurd, clearly. 346 00:46:28,495 --> 00:46:31,457 Shanghai, did you see the photos of the bombing? 347 00:46:32,374 --> 00:46:35,836 The first attempt in Savannakhét, 348 00:46:37,421 --> 00:46:39,506 because of a dead baby, 349 00:46:39,590 --> 00:46:42,968 abandoned by its mother, a beggar from the north, 350 00:46:43,051 --> 00:46:45,554 in the government house grounds 351 00:46:46,597 --> 00:46:47,931 outside her room. 352 00:46:56,982 --> 00:46:59,568 No woman in Lahore knew him enough 353 00:47:01,278 --> 00:47:03,363 to shed any light on... 354 00:47:03,864 --> 00:47:06,575 - No woman. - How terrible! 355 00:47:08,785 --> 00:47:11,455 No one has ever visited him in Lahore. 356 00:47:12,498 --> 00:47:15,876 That's how he wanted to be, a virgin alone, 357 00:47:17,544 --> 00:47:19,213 waiting for love. 358 00:47:27,221 --> 00:47:31,183 Death all around you, never quite reaching you. 359 00:47:31,975 --> 00:47:33,602 What are you talking about? 360 00:47:34,228 --> 00:47:37,314 The vice-consul who is looking for Madame Stretter. 361 00:47:40,651 --> 00:47:42,945 She has been leaving receptions 362 00:47:43,028 --> 00:47:45,155 more and more often. 363 00:48:29,074 --> 00:48:31,618 It was bound to happen. Look. 364 00:48:32,411 --> 00:48:35,414 He is going over to Madame Stretter. 365 00:48:38,292 --> 00:48:39,835 Did you see? 366 00:48:40,335 --> 00:48:41,628 How subtle! 367 00:48:42,713 --> 00:48:45,340 How cleverly he saved his wife. 368 00:48:46,592 --> 00:48:50,178 - Where are they going? - Into the second drawing room. 369 00:48:50,262 --> 00:48:54,433 Sooner or later the ambassador had to talk with him. 370 00:48:54,516 --> 00:48:56,268 So you see... 371 00:48:59,605 --> 00:49:01,481 He's asked for champagne. 372 00:49:09,740 --> 00:49:12,868 If I've got it right, you'd like Bombay? 373 00:49:14,661 --> 00:49:17,956 But in Bombay you couldn't have the same job as Lahore. 374 00:49:19,791 --> 00:49:21,293 It's still too soon. 375 00:49:23,587 --> 00:49:27,883 If you stay here for a while, people will forget. 376 00:49:31,345 --> 00:49:33,555 Or I can keep you in Calcutta. 377 00:49:34,556 --> 00:49:35,724 Yes. 378 00:49:37,476 --> 00:49:41,146 A strange thing, a career. 379 00:49:41,647 --> 00:49:45,400 If you forget Lahore, so will others. 380 00:49:45,484 --> 00:49:47,110 I won't forget Lahore. 381 00:49:52,532 --> 00:49:54,576 There are remedies 382 00:49:55,827 --> 00:49:58,288 for this sort of nervousness, 383 00:49:59,998 --> 00:50:01,249 as it is called. 384 00:50:02,459 --> 00:50:04,795 - You know. - No! 385 00:50:08,548 --> 00:50:11,093 At the beginning, everyone, myself included, 386 00:50:11,677 --> 00:50:13,512 we feel the same. 387 00:50:14,971 --> 00:50:17,182 It's a question of finding, 388 00:50:18,058 --> 00:50:19,309 inventing, 389 00:50:20,852 --> 00:50:22,854 a way of looking at things. 390 00:50:24,898 --> 00:50:26,149 I haven't. 391 00:50:28,819 --> 00:50:30,070 I see nothing. 392 00:50:32,114 --> 00:50:33,407 Go back to Paris. 393 00:50:34,157 --> 00:50:35,367 No. 394 00:50:35,867 --> 00:50:37,244 It's impossible. 395 00:50:55,721 --> 00:50:58,598 The Mekong, at Savannakhét, 396 00:50:58,682 --> 00:51:02,352 flowing yellow between forest and rice fields. 397 00:51:04,271 --> 00:51:07,524 In those days the launches were slow. 398 00:51:07,607 --> 00:51:09,359 It took days. 399 00:51:11,069 --> 00:51:15,490 At sunset, the mosquitoes-- We couldn't see a thing. 400 00:51:15,991 --> 00:51:18,785 Black clusters on the netting. 401 00:51:18,869 --> 00:51:21,496 The ambassador wrote poetry. 402 00:51:21,580 --> 00:51:25,876 - It's said she discouraged it. - The banks can't be seen when it rains. 403 00:51:26,877 --> 00:51:28,545 The sky is low. 404 00:51:29,921 --> 00:51:31,256 The water, muddy. 405 00:51:33,550 --> 00:51:37,429 When he met her, she was so young and he, already... 406 00:51:39,097 --> 00:51:41,391 They're great friends. 407 00:51:43,018 --> 00:51:45,812 He took her away from Savannakhét? 408 00:51:46,313 --> 00:51:48,106 No one knows. 409 00:51:48,648 --> 00:51:51,568 She courted death in Savannakhét. 410 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:53,570 So young. 411 00:51:53,653 --> 00:51:55,864 You must come with us to the islands. 412 00:51:57,657 --> 00:51:59,993 The embassy villa was built a long time ago. 413 00:52:00,494 --> 00:52:01,912 It's worth seeing. 414 00:52:02,871 --> 00:52:05,290 And also the islands of the delta. 415 00:52:05,373 --> 00:52:07,375 I'd be pleased to come. 416 00:52:15,258 --> 00:52:20,597 Perhaps what she did was music 417 00:52:22,390 --> 00:52:23,892 behind those walls. 418 00:52:23,975 --> 00:52:27,813 Prisoner of that suffering, so old. 419 00:52:28,897 --> 00:52:30,232 Painless. 420 00:52:31,650 --> 00:52:33,485 A leprosy of the heart. 421 00:52:37,155 --> 00:52:41,535 Yet sometimes, in the grounds, those tears... 422 00:52:43,578 --> 00:52:45,789 The light of the monsoon, 423 00:52:47,123 --> 00:52:49,000 so harsh... 424 00:52:49,835 --> 00:52:53,004 and her eyes so clear that tears... 425 00:53:10,605 --> 00:53:12,065 Tell me about her. 426 00:53:13,483 --> 00:53:14,901 Irreproachable. 427 00:53:15,485 --> 00:53:17,153 Here that means 428 00:53:18,613 --> 00:53:21,157 nothing that you can see. 429 00:53:27,455 --> 00:53:30,500 After Venice, she gave no more concerts? 430 00:53:31,793 --> 00:53:33,795 No, never. 431 00:53:46,850 --> 00:53:48,059 Have they met? 432 00:53:51,104 --> 00:53:53,481 They must have seen each other in the grounds. 433 00:54:03,450 --> 00:54:05,243 What is he looking at? 434 00:54:05,327 --> 00:54:08,538 Madame Stretter, dancing with the young attaché. 435 00:54:30,727 --> 00:54:34,856 Listen carefully to her voice, the accent. 436 00:54:37,567 --> 00:54:40,445 Perhaps that's what makes her seem distant. 437 00:54:40,528 --> 00:54:45,283 - That origin. - Yes, maybe that too. 438 00:54:50,747 --> 00:54:52,749 I wish I were you, 439 00:54:53,667 --> 00:54:57,337 arriving here for the first time, with the rains. 440 00:55:00,090 --> 00:55:01,675 You aren't bored? 441 00:55:03,176 --> 00:55:05,345 What do you do in the evenings? 442 00:55:06,137 --> 00:55:07,681 On Sundays? 443 00:55:09,182 --> 00:55:10,934 I read, sleep. 444 00:55:11,726 --> 00:55:13,436 I don't really know. 445 00:55:15,146 --> 00:55:18,525 Boredom, of course, is so personal. 446 00:55:18,608 --> 00:55:20,485 It's hard to give advice. 447 00:55:22,237 --> 00:55:24,030 I don't think I'm bored. 448 00:55:25,865 --> 00:55:29,953 Then again, it may not be as serious as they say. 449 00:55:33,373 --> 00:55:37,585 Thank you for sending the parcels of books up so promptly. 450 00:55:38,670 --> 00:55:40,255 A pleasure. 451 00:55:43,633 --> 00:55:48,680 You know, one could say 452 00:55:49,514 --> 00:55:51,474 almost nothing is possible in India. 453 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,310 What do you mean? 454 00:55:57,022 --> 00:55:58,356 Nothing. 455 00:55:59,190 --> 00:56:01,609 That this general despondency... 456 00:56:04,821 --> 00:56:08,658 it's neither painful nor pleasant to live in India. 457 00:56:09,325 --> 00:56:11,870 Neither easy nor difficult. 458 00:56:13,163 --> 00:56:14,330 It's nothing. 459 00:56:15,165 --> 00:56:16,791 You see? Nothing. 460 00:56:23,298 --> 00:56:25,383 You mean it's impossible? 461 00:56:27,177 --> 00:56:30,513 Well, perhaps, yes. 462 00:56:31,639 --> 00:56:35,518 But then, you know it's probably an oversimplification. 463 00:56:39,814 --> 00:56:42,317 The vice-consul is looking at you. 464 00:56:45,195 --> 00:56:47,405 He's been doing so all evening. 465 00:56:49,699 --> 00:56:51,242 You didn't notice? 466 00:56:53,995 --> 00:56:56,623 Where is he hoping to be posted? 467 00:56:58,625 --> 00:57:00,085 Here in Calcutta. 468 00:57:01,753 --> 00:57:02,837 Really? 469 00:57:05,924 --> 00:57:07,967 I thought you knew already. 470 00:57:24,901 --> 00:57:26,611 They say you're Venetian. 471 00:57:29,364 --> 00:57:33,243 My father was French. My mother was from Venice. 472 00:57:33,326 --> 00:57:34,953 I kept her name. 473 00:57:36,871 --> 00:57:39,249 At first, I would have said English. 474 00:57:40,166 --> 00:57:41,793 That happens. 475 00:57:45,171 --> 00:57:48,383 Are there any who never get used to it? 476 00:57:53,888 --> 00:57:55,932 Almost everyone does. 477 00:58:08,695 --> 00:58:11,906 Did my husband mention the islands? 478 00:58:14,159 --> 00:58:15,702 I'd be pleased to come. 479 00:58:18,746 --> 00:58:20,456 You write, I believe? 480 00:58:23,126 --> 00:58:26,004 I once thought I could. 481 00:58:27,172 --> 00:58:28,423 Did someone tell you? 482 00:58:29,424 --> 00:58:31,342 Yes, but I would have guessed. 483 00:58:32,677 --> 00:58:34,637 Your way of being silent. 484 00:58:36,222 --> 00:58:37,765 I gave it up. 485 00:58:39,475 --> 00:58:41,603 Monsieur Stretter used to write? 486 00:58:43,271 --> 00:58:46,566 He used to, yes. He too, and then... 487 00:58:47,942 --> 00:58:49,277 And you? 488 00:58:50,486 --> 00:58:52,113 I never tried. 489 00:58:54,490 --> 00:58:56,826 You think it's not worth it, don't you? 490 00:58:59,162 --> 00:59:02,582 Well, yes, if you like. 491 00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:06,252 You play music? 492 00:59:08,713 --> 00:59:10,215 Sometimes. 493 00:59:10,924 --> 00:59:12,800 Less, in the last few years. 494 00:59:13,676 --> 00:59:14,802 Why? 495 00:59:18,723 --> 00:59:20,308 Hard to put into words. 496 00:59:23,686 --> 00:59:25,396 Tell me. 497 00:59:27,774 --> 00:59:31,611 A sort of pain is linked to music 498 00:59:31,694 --> 00:59:34,489 for some time now, for me. 499 00:59:37,909 --> 00:59:41,371 In Venice already, very young, 18 years old, 500 00:59:42,413 --> 00:59:45,792 music, to the point of madness. 501 00:59:45,875 --> 00:59:50,755 Until a sort of suicide, already. 502 00:59:51,965 --> 00:59:55,385 She says she no longer knows how to play. 503 00:59:57,387 --> 00:59:59,097 What's happening? 504 00:59:59,764 --> 01:00:03,518 The vice-consul is dancing with the Spanish ambassador's wife. 505 01:00:03,601 --> 01:00:05,270 He's talking of leprosy. 506 01:00:10,024 --> 01:00:11,943 Will you have to dance with him? 507 01:00:14,404 --> 01:00:16,447 I don't have to do anything, but... 508 01:00:20,201 --> 01:00:21,995 But he was here tonight 509 01:00:22,829 --> 01:00:24,247 near the tennis courts. 510 01:00:25,540 --> 01:00:27,000 He sleeps badly. 511 01:00:28,251 --> 01:00:31,087 - She broke away from him. - What happened? 512 01:00:31,170 --> 01:00:33,172 Something he said 513 01:00:34,090 --> 01:00:35,591 must have frightened her. 514 01:00:36,384 --> 01:00:38,094 What do people fear? 515 01:00:38,177 --> 01:00:41,472 Repulsion is a feeling you know nothing about. 516 01:00:44,767 --> 01:00:46,269 I don't understand. 517 01:00:47,478 --> 01:00:49,397 What do you mean? 518 01:00:51,190 --> 01:00:52,400 Horror. 519 01:00:59,407 --> 01:01:01,367 Come to the bar. 520 01:01:02,118 --> 01:01:04,412 I'm an old friend of Madame Stretter. 521 01:01:04,495 --> 01:01:06,706 We've not met. George Crown. 522 01:01:07,415 --> 01:01:09,250 Help yourselves. 523 01:01:10,126 --> 01:01:11,753 There's no one at the bar. 524 01:01:12,587 --> 01:01:16,758 - His words are a diversion. - Ready to flee. 525 01:01:18,009 --> 01:01:19,510 And yet... 526 01:01:20,261 --> 01:01:22,263 He's still looking at you. 527 01:01:22,764 --> 01:01:25,391 Seems she doesn't dare go out in the park. 528 01:01:28,311 --> 01:01:31,022 What is he talking about with that man from the club? 529 01:01:31,105 --> 01:01:34,901 Childhood. And her, the French ambassador's wife. 530 01:01:35,401 --> 01:01:37,737 Why is he waiting to leave? 531 01:01:37,820 --> 01:01:40,365 To be thrown out, probably. 532 01:01:42,825 --> 01:01:46,162 - The mad beggar woman. - The one who laughs. 533 01:01:46,662 --> 01:01:48,581 It is said she's from Laos. 534 01:01:49,374 --> 01:01:51,751 It doesn't seem possible. 535 01:01:52,251 --> 01:01:55,963 - A beggar woman is in the grounds. - I know. 536 01:01:56,464 --> 01:01:58,633 The one who sings. Don't you know her? 537 01:01:59,801 --> 01:02:02,178 But no, you're new to Calcutta. 538 01:02:04,430 --> 01:02:08,393 She sings, I believe, a song from Savannakhét. 539 01:02:09,727 --> 01:02:11,062 In Laos. 540 01:02:12,688 --> 01:02:14,107 She intrigues us. 541 01:02:15,900 --> 01:02:18,903 I keep thinking it can't be possible. 542 01:02:18,986 --> 01:02:22,365 We're thousands of miles from Indochina. 543 01:02:23,658 --> 01:02:24,951 How could she? 544 01:02:27,870 --> 01:02:31,958 I've heard her in the avenue, early in the morning. 545 01:02:34,252 --> 01:02:35,962 It's a happy song. 546 01:02:36,796 --> 01:02:38,756 Children sing it over there. 547 01:02:41,801 --> 01:02:44,429 She must have come down the river valleys. 548 01:02:46,806 --> 01:02:50,435 But how did she manage to cross the Cardamoms? 549 01:02:52,603 --> 01:02:54,272 She's completely mad. 550 01:02:56,232 --> 01:02:58,151 Yes, but she's alive. 551 01:03:00,570 --> 01:03:02,572 She comes to the islands sometimes. 552 01:03:03,281 --> 01:03:04,615 How? 553 01:03:05,741 --> 01:03:07,326 No one knows. 554 01:03:08,744 --> 01:03:10,746 Perhaps she follows you. 555 01:03:11,706 --> 01:03:13,082 Follows the whites. 556 01:03:14,959 --> 01:03:17,962 That happens. For food. 557 01:05:10,491 --> 01:05:13,411 - Where is he? - By the bar. 558 01:05:13,494 --> 01:05:16,247 Drinks too much. It'll end badly. 559 01:05:21,544 --> 01:05:24,839 We could see him at night through the window of his room. 560 01:05:24,922 --> 01:05:26,507 Pacing. 561 01:05:26,591 --> 01:05:28,801 Pacing day and night. 562 01:05:29,844 --> 01:05:32,305 Day and night. 563 01:05:34,390 --> 01:05:37,143 He'd call down death on Lahore. 564 01:05:37,226 --> 01:05:38,269 And fire. 565 01:05:39,103 --> 01:05:41,063 He shouted too. 566 01:05:41,147 --> 01:05:42,857 Disconnected words. 567 01:05:44,358 --> 01:05:45,610 And laughed. 568 01:05:52,533 --> 01:05:57,580 Isn't there in each of us a chance, just one, 569 01:05:57,663 --> 01:05:59,915 of being like him in Lahore? 570 01:06:00,583 --> 01:06:04,503 But one knows about leprosy before coming. One knows. 571 01:06:32,031 --> 01:06:35,284 Perhaps he thought the gardens were empty. 572 01:06:35,368 --> 01:06:36,994 In that light, 573 01:06:37,078 --> 01:06:38,913 that fog... 574 01:06:42,083 --> 01:06:45,544 Look at the sky. Sick. 575 01:06:46,253 --> 01:06:51,717 That thickness, that dirt, throughout the night. 576 01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:55,096 He said he wanted leprosy. 577 01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:57,515 He is anger itself. 578 01:06:58,224 --> 01:07:00,976 Against whom? Against what? 579 01:07:01,060 --> 01:07:03,604 Doesn't need a reason. 580 01:07:16,826 --> 01:07:19,036 They're dancing. Look. 581 01:07:19,954 --> 01:07:22,123 She's always loved dancing. 582 01:07:26,293 --> 01:07:31,549 Some months ago, in Chandernagore, they were found in a cheap hotel. 583 01:07:32,174 --> 01:07:34,051 Trying to die together. 584 01:07:39,473 --> 01:07:41,308 Hard to believe. 585 01:07:44,353 --> 01:07:46,814 An ambulance back to Calcutta. 586 01:07:47,565 --> 01:07:49,483 The truth came out in the end. 587 01:07:52,486 --> 01:07:54,697 For no reason, they say. 588 01:07:55,781 --> 01:07:57,908 "Indifference to life." 589 01:07:59,910 --> 01:08:01,537 Or the opposite. 590 01:08:03,247 --> 01:08:04,582 People confuse things. 591 01:08:05,708 --> 01:08:09,462 No. There's a definite equivalence. 592 01:08:10,546 --> 01:08:12,548 The same appearances. 593 01:08:26,854 --> 01:08:29,690 People always talked about her 594 01:08:30,900 --> 01:08:31,984 a great deal. 595 01:08:33,068 --> 01:08:34,612 About that love. 596 01:08:36,197 --> 01:08:38,282 And the islands. 597 01:08:39,617 --> 01:08:41,368 The delta islands. 598 01:08:43,329 --> 01:08:46,332 That's all they'll miss of India. 599 01:08:47,374 --> 01:08:49,668 What would they have done without them? 600 01:08:51,921 --> 01:08:53,547 About heat. 601 01:08:55,049 --> 01:08:56,425 About fear. 602 01:08:57,551 --> 01:08:59,762 Leprosy and hunger. 603 01:09:02,765 --> 01:09:05,267 About the vice-consul from Lahore, 604 01:09:06,352 --> 01:09:07,728 those dead, 605 01:09:09,396 --> 01:09:11,148 about that sweetness. 606 01:09:11,857 --> 01:09:13,359 We wondered, 607 01:09:14,777 --> 01:09:16,445 all those books, 608 01:09:17,905 --> 01:09:20,991 those sleepless nights in the delta. 609 01:09:22,827 --> 01:09:24,370 Those tears? 610 01:09:30,793 --> 01:09:32,294 "India Song." 611 01:09:35,256 --> 01:09:38,884 On his way to the office, he whistled "India Song." 612 01:09:44,014 --> 01:09:46,308 He said to the club director, 613 01:09:46,392 --> 01:09:51,397 "At home in Neuilly, in the drawing room, there's a black piano. 614 01:09:51,480 --> 01:09:54,358 India Song is on the music rest. 615 01:09:54,441 --> 01:09:56,819 My mother played it. 616 01:09:56,902 --> 01:09:59,071 The score has been there since she died." 617 01:10:01,991 --> 01:10:04,577 Day already. No one leaves. 618 01:10:05,494 --> 01:10:07,079 They seem to be waiting. 619 01:10:09,248 --> 01:10:11,041 The tennis courts were deserted. 620 01:10:11,792 --> 01:10:13,836 A bicycle was there. 621 01:10:15,254 --> 01:10:17,131 I noticed they were deserted 622 01:10:18,215 --> 01:10:19,884 after she'd gone. 623 01:10:20,384 --> 01:10:22,720 The air was torn apart. 624 01:10:24,305 --> 01:10:26,891 Her skirt, against the trees. 625 01:10:28,684 --> 01:10:30,060 She looked at me. 626 01:11:11,936 --> 01:11:14,313 I didn't know you existed. 627 01:11:20,569 --> 01:11:23,656 Calcutta has become a form of hope for me. 628 01:12:22,423 --> 01:12:24,174 I love Michael Richardson. 629 01:12:24,925 --> 01:12:27,511 I'm not free of that love. 630 01:12:29,263 --> 01:12:30,723 I know. 631 01:12:32,641 --> 01:12:36,353 I love you like that, in that love. 632 01:12:37,229 --> 01:12:38,856 It doesn't matter. 633 01:12:43,569 --> 01:12:44,903 I sound odd. 634 01:12:46,572 --> 01:12:48,073 Do you hear my voice? 635 01:12:49,783 --> 01:12:51,535 It frightens them. 636 01:12:52,619 --> 01:12:53,954 Yes. 637 01:12:54,663 --> 01:12:56,165 Whose is she? 638 01:13:00,836 --> 01:13:03,630 I shot myself in Lahore, but didn't die. 639 01:13:06,425 --> 01:13:10,429 The others separate me from Lahore. I don't. 640 01:13:12,222 --> 01:13:13,432 Lahore is me. 641 01:13:15,976 --> 01:13:17,311 You understand too? 642 01:13:20,147 --> 01:13:21,732 Yes. Don't shout. 643 01:13:24,109 --> 01:13:25,277 Yes. 644 01:13:28,113 --> 01:13:30,699 You are with me, with Lahore. 645 01:13:31,700 --> 01:13:32,868 I know it. 646 01:13:34,745 --> 01:13:36,080 You are in me. 647 01:13:39,249 --> 01:13:41,001 I'll take you away inside me. 648 01:13:43,754 --> 01:13:46,715 We shall fire on the Shalimar lepers. 649 01:13:46,799 --> 01:13:48,217 You can't avoid it. 650 01:13:54,389 --> 01:13:58,268 I didn't need to dance with you to know you. 651 01:13:59,353 --> 01:14:00,896 And you know it. 652 01:14:04,608 --> 01:14:05,901 I know it. 653 01:14:09,279 --> 01:14:13,575 There's no need for us to go on. 654 01:14:19,414 --> 01:14:21,542 We have nothing to say to each other. 655 01:14:23,252 --> 01:14:24,628 We are the same. 656 01:14:29,424 --> 01:14:31,677 I believe that. 657 01:14:34,429 --> 01:14:38,100 Have love affairs with others. 658 01:14:39,893 --> 01:14:41,562 We don't need that. 659 01:14:48,819 --> 01:14:51,780 I wanted to know the smell of your hair. 660 01:14:53,365 --> 01:14:56,160 That explains why I... 661 01:15:03,041 --> 01:15:06,211 After the reception, your friends will stay on. 662 01:15:07,087 --> 01:15:09,548 I wish I could stay with you once. 663 01:15:13,051 --> 01:15:14,553 There's no chance. 664 01:15:18,765 --> 01:15:20,392 They'd throw me out. 665 01:15:21,643 --> 01:15:24,897 Yes. You are someone they have to forget. 666 01:15:27,316 --> 01:15:28,525 Like Lahore. 667 01:15:29,610 --> 01:15:30,736 Yes. 668 01:15:32,613 --> 01:15:33,989 What will become of me? 669 01:15:36,700 --> 01:15:39,328 You'll be posted far from Calcutta. 670 01:15:40,078 --> 01:15:42,039 That's what you want? 671 01:15:44,041 --> 01:15:45,334 Yes. 672 01:15:48,337 --> 01:15:49,922 Very well. 673 01:15:51,882 --> 01:15:53,675 When will it end? 674 01:15:56,929 --> 01:15:58,972 With your death, I believe. 675 01:16:03,644 --> 01:16:05,646 What's this pain? My pain? 676 01:16:09,733 --> 01:16:10,984 Intelligence. 677 01:16:12,236 --> 01:16:13,320 About you? 678 01:16:17,824 --> 01:16:20,911 I'll ask them to let me stay tonight. 679 01:16:22,371 --> 01:16:24,373 Do what you like. 680 01:16:26,333 --> 01:16:30,337 To make something happen between you and me. 681 01:16:32,923 --> 01:16:34,424 A public incident. 682 01:16:35,300 --> 01:16:37,094 All I know how to do is shout. 683 01:16:39,221 --> 01:16:42,266 Let them know love can be shouted. 684 01:16:44,476 --> 01:16:46,478 They'll be uncomfortable. 685 01:16:48,897 --> 01:16:51,108 Then start talking again. 686 01:17:01,827 --> 01:17:05,414 I even know you'll tell no one you agreed. 687 01:17:44,995 --> 01:17:46,663 Let me stay! 688 01:17:49,875 --> 01:17:55,005 I'm going to stay here tonight! With her! 689 01:17:55,505 --> 01:17:58,592 Just once, with her! 690 01:17:59,426 --> 01:18:01,303 Do you hear? 691 01:18:02,095 --> 01:18:05,098 - What is it? - Better do something. 692 01:18:07,934 --> 01:18:09,353 Bound to happen. 693 01:18:11,897 --> 01:18:13,607 I'm staying! 694 01:18:14,733 --> 01:18:18,862 I'm going to stay in the French embassy! 695 01:18:21,782 --> 01:18:24,910 I'm going to the islands with her! 696 01:18:26,453 --> 01:18:29,331 I beg you! 697 01:18:30,165 --> 01:18:34,920 I beg you! Let me stay! 698 01:18:37,339 --> 01:18:40,217 - Dreadful! - It's terrible. 699 01:18:42,177 --> 01:18:43,762 And she just stands still. 700 01:18:46,264 --> 01:18:49,017 Once! 701 01:18:50,018 --> 01:18:52,396 Just once! 702 01:18:54,606 --> 01:18:59,403 I've never loved anyone but her! 703 01:19:00,821 --> 01:19:03,490 Do go home. You've had too much to drink. 704 01:19:14,668 --> 01:19:16,962 He did it deliberately. 705 01:19:17,629 --> 01:19:19,548 No sense of... 706 01:19:21,133 --> 01:19:22,509 What happened? 707 01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,140 How strange. 708 01:19:29,558 --> 01:19:31,351 Indecent. 709 01:19:31,435 --> 01:19:32,936 Impossible to understand. 710 01:19:34,146 --> 01:19:35,647 It's terrible. 711 01:19:43,530 --> 01:19:44,739 How dreadful! 712 01:19:47,325 --> 01:19:48,577 They've got him. 713 01:19:49,703 --> 01:19:51,079 He's not resisting. 714 01:19:59,880 --> 01:20:02,674 He's outside. Locked out. 715 01:20:07,679 --> 01:20:09,973 Laughing and crying. Did you see? 716 01:20:15,312 --> 01:20:17,189 He's forcing the gate. 717 01:20:20,525 --> 01:20:22,319 The beggars are afraid. 718 01:20:28,950 --> 01:20:30,327 He's gone. 719 01:20:37,292 --> 01:20:39,753 - Now all is clear. - What? 720 01:20:39,836 --> 01:20:41,087 Lahore. 721 01:20:43,215 --> 01:20:44,674 He's still shouting. 722 01:20:47,594 --> 01:20:48,929 Where is she? 723 01:20:50,138 --> 01:20:52,891 - In the drawing room. - With him. 724 01:20:56,811 --> 01:20:59,523 In a way, everyone should cry. 725 01:21:00,023 --> 01:21:02,817 - Don't you think? - But-- 726 01:21:02,901 --> 01:21:04,569 It's a manner of speaking. 727 01:31:44,709 --> 01:31:47,336 Is that the vice-consul of France shouting? 728 01:31:47,920 --> 01:31:50,882 Yes. Still shouting. 729 01:31:52,884 --> 01:31:55,469 After the trip to the islands, he drops out of sight. 730 01:31:57,471 --> 01:31:59,515 He tenders his resignation. 731 01:32:00,600 --> 01:32:02,602 The file ends with his resignation. 732 01:32:03,769 --> 01:32:05,313 Soon after? 733 01:32:06,480 --> 01:32:07,857 A few days. 734 01:32:16,532 --> 01:32:18,075 What's he saying? 735 01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:22,330 Her Venetian name in deserted Calcutta. 736 01:32:24,665 --> 01:32:27,710 The whole night he shouted that name. 737 01:32:50,274 --> 01:32:52,985 That sound of wings, of birds? 738 01:32:54,570 --> 01:32:55,780 Day. 739 01:32:58,449 --> 01:33:00,159 Sunrise, here. 740 01:33:00,826 --> 01:33:01,827 There 741 01:33:02,828 --> 01:33:03,996 and beyond. 742 01:33:05,623 --> 01:33:09,377 The air smells of mud. And leprosy. 743 01:33:10,002 --> 01:33:11,379 And fire. 744 01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:15,883 - Not a breath of air? - No. 745 01:33:17,218 --> 01:33:19,095 Only very small movements, 746 01:33:20,263 --> 01:33:22,181 very slow wafts 747 01:33:23,557 --> 01:33:24,600 of odor. 748 01:33:41,951 --> 01:33:43,369 The sun. 749 01:33:44,537 --> 01:33:47,665 What light! Awful! 750 01:33:49,667 --> 01:33:52,295 Yes. Exile. 751 01:33:54,922 --> 01:33:56,340 She's listless. 752 01:33:57,717 --> 01:34:00,803 Yes. Deeply absent. 753 01:34:06,767 --> 01:34:08,811 The heat is rust-colored. 754 01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:12,481 Above, smoke. 755 01:34:13,024 --> 01:34:14,233 The factories. 756 01:34:23,451 --> 01:34:26,746 This continent, suspended? 757 01:34:26,829 --> 01:34:30,541 The monsoon. Below, Bengal. 758 01:34:32,376 --> 01:34:33,586 Further. 759 01:34:34,378 --> 01:34:35,504 Lower. 760 01:34:36,255 --> 01:34:37,923 Beneath the sky. 761 01:34:38,507 --> 01:34:39,717 Look. 762 01:34:42,636 --> 01:34:44,221 In a bend of the Ganges. 763 01:34:45,306 --> 01:34:46,766 That whiteness. 764 01:34:47,850 --> 01:34:48,893 Over there. 765 01:34:50,978 --> 01:34:52,646 The English cemetery. 766 01:35:07,620 --> 01:35:10,456 A car is speeding along the straight roads, 767 01:35:10,539 --> 01:35:11,957 by the Ganges. 768 01:35:12,750 --> 01:35:14,794 They've left for the islands. 769 01:35:26,138 --> 01:35:28,516 - Those junks? - Rice. 770 01:35:29,100 --> 01:35:32,144 On the slopes, those dark patches? 771 01:35:32,728 --> 01:35:34,063 People. 772 01:35:34,146 --> 01:35:36,690 The highest density in the world. 773 01:35:44,824 --> 01:35:49,453 - Those dark mirrors, thousands of them? - The rice fields of India. 774 01:36:00,423 --> 01:36:02,633 The black Lancia has stopped. 775 01:36:03,634 --> 01:36:04,718 The rain. 776 01:36:05,302 --> 01:36:06,887 The roads are flooded. 777 01:36:08,472 --> 01:36:10,683 They took shelter in a sala. 778 01:36:12,101 --> 01:36:14,311 There, the young attaché said, 779 01:36:14,395 --> 01:36:16,897 "I saw the vice-consul before I left." 780 01:36:16,981 --> 01:36:21,068 He was still shouting in the streets. He asked if I was going to the islands. 781 01:36:21,152 --> 01:36:25,072 I said I was going to Nepal with the ambassador. 782 01:36:27,324 --> 01:36:29,910 Did she approve of the lie? 783 01:36:32,997 --> 01:36:36,292 She hardly ever mentioned the man from Lahore. 784 01:36:56,145 --> 01:36:57,855 That green color. 785 01:36:59,315 --> 01:37:00,941 It's growing larger. 786 01:37:01,025 --> 01:37:02,067 The ocean. 787 01:37:10,367 --> 01:37:11,911 The islands. 788 01:37:13,037 --> 01:37:14,622 Which one is it? 789 01:37:15,414 --> 01:37:16,874 The largest. 790 01:37:17,541 --> 01:37:18,876 The central island. 791 01:37:20,211 --> 01:37:21,712 They've arrived. 792 01:37:23,881 --> 01:37:25,591 That white palace? 793 01:37:26,592 --> 01:37:28,260 The Prince of Wales, 794 01:37:29,136 --> 01:37:30,471 an international hotel. 795 01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:43,567 The sea is rough. There's been a storm. 796 01:37:49,198 --> 01:37:51,867 In front, the piers. 797 01:37:53,077 --> 01:37:55,746 Those ships sail the South Pacific. 798 01:37:56,747 --> 01:37:59,291 Behind, berths for yachts. 799 01:38:00,584 --> 01:38:03,587 Through the trees, the same flat horizon. 800 01:38:04,588 --> 01:38:06,632 The islands are alluvial. 801 01:38:07,591 --> 01:38:09,134 The mud of the Ganges. 802 01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:14,390 Where's the French embassy villa? 803 01:38:14,473 --> 01:38:18,060 Beyond the hotel, facing the ocean. 804 01:38:21,105 --> 01:38:23,440 She wanted to swim when she arrived? 805 01:38:23,983 --> 01:38:24,984 Yes. 806 01:38:25,943 --> 01:38:28,320 It was late, the sea rough. 807 01:38:29,029 --> 01:38:31,365 It was impossible to swim. 808 01:38:31,448 --> 01:38:34,577 Just let the warm waves break over her. 809 01:38:35,244 --> 01:38:36,745 She bathed with him. 810 01:38:38,872 --> 01:38:41,208 Those nets everywhere in the sea? 811 01:38:42,626 --> 01:38:44,545 Against the delta sharks. 812 01:38:57,141 --> 01:38:58,267 Where is she? 813 01:38:59,602 --> 01:39:01,020 She'll come. 814 01:39:02,104 --> 01:39:03,355 She's coming. 815 01:39:07,484 --> 01:39:12,114 - That evening, was she the same? - Smiling. 816 01:39:13,198 --> 01:39:14,617 Dressed in white. 817 01:39:35,429 --> 01:39:37,306 Who comes to the hotel? 818 01:39:38,265 --> 01:39:39,933 White India. 819 01:39:56,367 --> 01:39:57,868 I can't quite remember. 820 01:39:58,827 --> 01:40:00,913 Didn't she go to the embassy villa? 821 01:40:02,873 --> 01:40:04,416 She only slept there. 822 01:40:05,501 --> 01:40:08,712 She dined at the Prince of Wales, when she went to the islands. 823 01:40:10,839 --> 01:40:13,717 She had the villa's servants 824 01:40:14,468 --> 01:40:16,053 sent back to Calcutta. 825 01:40:17,888 --> 01:40:21,225 - How long ago? - A few weeks. 826 01:40:56,385 --> 01:40:59,388 - India Song. - Yes. 827 01:41:26,582 --> 01:41:30,586 - There's dancing in the lounge. - Tourists from Ceylon. 828 01:41:35,299 --> 01:41:36,717 These birds? 829 01:41:37,760 --> 01:41:40,220 Prisoners of the island, because of the storm. 830 01:41:41,513 --> 01:41:43,182 They're in the mango trees. 831 01:41:43,766 --> 01:41:45,100 They strip them. 832 01:41:46,310 --> 01:41:48,020 They'll fly at dawn. 833 01:41:57,362 --> 01:42:00,282 This sudden smell of death? 834 01:42:01,116 --> 01:42:02,242 Incense. 835 01:42:27,226 --> 01:42:29,770 He had come on the last boat? 836 01:42:30,687 --> 01:42:33,273 Yes, the seven o'clock boat. 837 01:42:36,151 --> 01:42:38,445 He hadn't been home all day. 838 01:42:39,696 --> 01:42:41,657 He never went back to Calcutta. 839 01:43:33,041 --> 01:43:36,587 When the mist came, the wind dropped. 840 01:43:46,930 --> 01:43:48,849 She had the blinds raised. 841 01:43:55,689 --> 01:43:58,483 She wants to see the ocean, the sky 842 01:43:59,526 --> 01:44:01,028 above the estuaries. 843 01:44:03,196 --> 01:44:06,700 They are very tired, after last night. 844 01:44:08,869 --> 01:44:10,746 She is looking outside. 845 01:44:13,123 --> 01:44:14,708 I remember 846 01:44:15,292 --> 01:44:18,253 a wall of mist comes in toward the islands. 847 01:44:18,337 --> 01:44:19,504 Yes. 848 01:44:20,756 --> 01:44:22,925 She says something about Venice. 849 01:44:25,052 --> 01:44:27,095 Venice in the winter. 850 01:44:28,013 --> 01:44:29,306 Yes, that's right. 851 01:44:30,807 --> 01:44:33,143 - Venice? - Yes. 852 01:44:34,937 --> 01:44:37,481 Perhaps certain winter evenings, 853 01:44:38,065 --> 01:44:41,109 in Venice, the same mist. 854 01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:46,990 She's saying the name of a color. 855 01:44:47,491 --> 01:44:48,909 Violet. 856 01:44:50,160 --> 01:44:51,995 The color of the delta mist. 857 01:45:09,429 --> 01:45:11,848 It was a September evening... 858 01:45:13,850 --> 01:45:15,519 during the summer monsoon... 859 01:45:19,898 --> 01:45:21,400 on the islands... 860 01:45:26,446 --> 01:45:28,281 in 1937. 861 01:45:34,621 --> 01:45:38,500 In China, the war went on. 862 01:45:40,085 --> 01:45:42,045 Shanghai had just been bombed. 863 01:45:43,463 --> 01:45:45,924 The Japanese were still advancing. 864 01:45:48,010 --> 01:45:50,804 In Spain, 865 01:45:50,887 --> 01:45:53,098 they were still fighting. 866 01:45:54,725 --> 01:45:56,560 The republic is strangled. 867 01:45:58,687 --> 01:46:02,357 In Russia, the revolution is betrayed. 868 01:46:05,610 --> 01:46:09,197 The Congress of Nuremberg had just taken place. 869 01:46:12,451 --> 01:46:17,205 Already, the beggar woman was hunting in the warm waters of the delta. 870 01:46:55,368 --> 01:46:59,122 Michael Richardson and the young guest 871 01:46:59,206 --> 01:47:01,124 had gone across the beach to the villa. 872 01:47:07,631 --> 01:47:10,258 The other two had gone sailing. 873 01:47:22,687 --> 01:47:24,481 She had wanted to go back alone, 874 01:47:25,690 --> 01:47:27,567 along the inland paths. 875 01:47:31,530 --> 01:47:34,783 Behind her, the vice-consul of Lahore. 876 01:47:41,540 --> 01:47:43,416 He followed her to the park. 877 01:47:50,298 --> 01:47:55,095 Michael Richardson and the young guest had arrived after her. 878 01:48:03,353 --> 01:48:05,856 She had gone to meet them in the park. 879 01:48:09,693 --> 01:48:11,820 They move toward one another. 880 01:48:12,404 --> 01:48:13,780 They meet. 881 01:48:19,494 --> 01:48:21,204 They seem to be talking. 882 01:48:25,876 --> 01:48:27,836 They go toward the villa. 883 01:49:06,208 --> 01:49:07,792 Once they had tried... 884 01:49:09,878 --> 01:49:11,755 to die together 885 01:49:13,381 --> 01:49:14,758 without succeeding. 886 01:49:16,426 --> 01:49:18,178 In a brothel, 887 01:49:19,346 --> 01:49:20,680 in Chandernagore, 888 01:49:22,390 --> 01:49:24,017 they'd been discovered. 889 01:49:46,539 --> 01:49:50,418 At one point in the night, she brings them champagne. 890 01:49:52,212 --> 01:49:53,255 Glasses. 891 01:49:54,339 --> 01:49:55,465 She serves them. 892 01:50:35,422 --> 01:50:36,715 It's still night 893 01:50:37,507 --> 01:50:40,510 when Michael Richardson takes away the young guest. 894 01:50:41,636 --> 01:50:43,680 Tears himself away from that place. 895 01:50:44,723 --> 01:50:46,349 Leaves her there. 896 01:51:16,755 --> 01:51:18,340 Later, 897 01:51:18,423 --> 01:51:22,510 music was heard around the embassy villa. 898 01:52:43,049 --> 01:52:46,845 The lovers of the Ganges had promised to let each other be free, 899 01:52:46,928 --> 01:52:51,808 if ever either of them decided to die. 900 01:55:14,993 --> 01:55:19,205 The young guest came back to the villa during the night. 901 01:55:20,331 --> 01:55:23,251 Yes. He saw her. 902 01:55:25,295 --> 01:55:27,005 She was lying in the park, 903 01:55:27,797 --> 01:55:29,173 leaning on one elbow. 904 01:55:29,257 --> 01:55:30,300 He said, 905 01:55:30,383 --> 01:55:34,762 "She stretched out her arm and put her head on it. 906 01:55:38,975 --> 01:55:41,519 The vice-consul of Lahore was ten yards away. 907 01:55:43,021 --> 01:55:44,772 They didn't speak to each other." 908 01:55:46,357 --> 01:55:49,902 She must have stayed there a long time. Till daylight. 909 01:55:51,571 --> 01:55:53,406 Then she must have taken the path. 910 01:55:58,202 --> 01:56:00,955 On the beach they found the dressing gown. 911 01:56:08,129 --> 01:56:10,965 And the heat was once more the heat of Calcutta.