1 00:03:10,347 --> 00:03:14,408 Sometimes he speaks in a kind of tender dialect... 2 00:03:14,451 --> 00:03:17,682 of the death which causes repentance... 3 00:03:17,721 --> 00:03:21,179 of the unhappy men who certainly exist... 4 00:03:21,224 --> 00:03:25,251 of painful tasks and heartrending departures. 5 00:03:26,863 --> 00:03:28,694 In the hovels where we got drunk... 6 00:03:28,732 --> 00:03:32,190 he wept looking at those who surrounded us... 7 00:03:32,235 --> 00:03:35,033 a cattle of poverty. 8 00:03:35,071 --> 00:03:38,404 He lifted up drunks in the black streets. 9 00:03:38,441 --> 00:03:41,672 He had the pity a bad mother has for small children. 10 00:03:41,711 --> 00:03:45,875 He moved with the grace of a little girl at catechism. 11 00:03:45,915 --> 00:03:48,475 He pretended to know about everything... 12 00:03:48,518 --> 00:03:52,511 business, art, medicine. 13 00:03:53,990 --> 00:03:56,117 I followed him. 14 00:03:56,159 --> 00:03:57,990 I had to. 15 00:04:11,207 --> 00:04:14,665 Someone for you, sir. Over there. 16 00:04:14,711 --> 00:04:16,178 Do I know her? 17 00:04:18,715 --> 00:04:20,706 She gave me her card. 18 00:04:42,238 --> 00:04:44,706 Please... 19 00:04:44,741 --> 00:04:46,231 Please sit down. 20 00:04:48,244 --> 00:04:50,712 Has Andre been looking after you? 21 00:04:50,747 --> 00:04:54,205 Can I get you something to drink? 22 00:04:54,250 --> 00:04:55,740 No, thank you. 23 00:04:57,253 --> 00:04:58,743 Please. 24 00:05:04,194 --> 00:05:06,162 It's really a business matter... 25 00:05:06,196 --> 00:05:08,858 I want to discuss with you, Mr. Verlaine. 26 00:05:13,703 --> 00:05:16,672 This was published a few months ago... 27 00:05:16,706 --> 00:05:22,110 an unauthorized selection of my brother's poems. 28 00:05:22,145 --> 00:05:24,170 My mother and I are anxious to prevent... 29 00:05:24,214 --> 00:05:26,739 anything like this from happening again. 30 00:05:26,783 --> 00:05:29,013 We thought you might be able to help us. 31 00:05:29,052 --> 00:05:31,213 I? How? 32 00:05:31,254 --> 00:05:33,688 I understand you have a large number... 33 00:05:33,723 --> 00:05:35,953 of my brother's manuscripts. 34 00:05:35,992 --> 00:05:37,687 I have some, yes. 35 00:05:37,727 --> 00:05:40,924 My mother and I would be very grateful... 36 00:05:40,964 --> 00:05:42,955 if you would return them. 37 00:05:44,968 --> 00:05:48,062 I've always tried to use the utmost discretion... 38 00:05:48,104 --> 00:05:49,901 in everything concerning your brother. 39 00:05:49,939 --> 00:05:54,103 I think I can say I've always defended his interests. 40 00:05:54,143 --> 00:05:56,373 Sometimes I wonder why, since in many ways... 41 00:05:56,412 --> 00:05:58,380 they're diametrically opposed to my own. 42 00:05:58,414 --> 00:06:00,041 I don't see how. 43 00:06:00,083 --> 00:06:04,144 It took many years for his work to be understood... 44 00:06:04,187 --> 00:06:06,655 but once his name began to be known... 45 00:06:06,689 --> 00:06:10,147 it soon became clear that our ways were numbered. 46 00:06:10,193 --> 00:06:14,391 The music of old-fashioned verse was no longer enough. 47 00:06:14,430 --> 00:06:16,398 He swept us away. 48 00:06:16,432 --> 00:06:19,333 Not that I mind, you understand. 49 00:06:19,369 --> 00:06:22,202 I know I was once a good writer. 50 00:06:23,673 --> 00:06:27,507 I didn't know his name was so well-known. 51 00:06:27,544 --> 00:06:31,674 Yes. The young understand him now. 52 00:06:31,714 --> 00:06:34,205 He's the voice of the future. 53 00:06:39,222 --> 00:06:40,689 What matters to me most... 54 00:06:40,723 --> 00:06:43,214 is that we did our best work together. 55 00:06:45,228 --> 00:06:47,219 Both of us. 56 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:05,667 Morning! 57 00:08:07,176 --> 00:08:10,145 I'm looking for Paul Verlaine. 58 00:08:10,179 --> 00:08:12,147 Are you Monsieur Rimbaud? 59 00:08:12,181 --> 00:08:13,648 Yes. 60 00:08:13,683 --> 00:08:16,151 Monsieur Verlaine is not with you, then? 61 00:08:16,185 --> 00:08:17,584 No. 62 00:08:17,620 --> 00:08:19,747 He went to the station to meet you. 63 00:08:19,789 --> 00:08:22,189 He doesn't know what I look like, does he? 64 00:08:22,225 --> 00:08:24,659 I am Mrs. Maute de Fleurville... 65 00:08:24,694 --> 00:08:26,753 Monsieur Verlaine's mother-in-law, 66 00:08:26,796 --> 00:08:29,697 and this is my daughter... Mrs. Verlaine. 67 00:08:40,843 --> 00:08:43,437 How did you get from the station? 68 00:08:43,479 --> 00:08:44,946 Walked. 69 00:08:44,981 --> 00:08:47,279 Perhaps you'd like a wash. 70 00:08:52,055 --> 00:08:53,716 No. 71 00:08:53,756 --> 00:08:55,451 You're even younger than we imagined. 72 00:08:55,491 --> 00:08:57,959 How old are you? 73 00:08:57,994 --> 00:09:01,452 Darling, it's not polite to ask people their ages. 74 00:09:01,497 --> 00:09:03,055 I need a piss. 75 00:09:07,170 --> 00:09:10,139 How old are you, if you don't mind? 76 00:09:10,173 --> 00:09:12,141 He does. 77 00:09:12,175 --> 00:09:14,803 Sixteen. 78 00:09:14,844 --> 00:09:18,075 You did say in your letter you were twenty-one. 79 00:09:18,114 --> 00:09:20,810 I noticed you at the station... 80 00:09:20,850 --> 00:09:23,148 but I didn't think it could be you. 81 00:09:23,186 --> 00:09:24,483 Likewise. 82 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,488 Those poems you sent me... 83 00:09:26,522 --> 00:09:31,550 were remarkable for someone of twenty-one. 84 00:09:31,594 --> 00:09:34,256 For someone of sixteen, they're unprecedented. 85 00:09:34,297 --> 00:09:36,663 That's why I told you I was twenty-one. 86 00:09:36,699 --> 00:09:39,167 I didn't want you to feel patronizing... 87 00:09:39,202 --> 00:09:41,193 before you'd read them. 88 00:09:42,939 --> 00:09:47,000 Of course. I hope your mother isn't too angry with me. 89 00:09:47,043 --> 00:09:49,102 Once she'd found out you'd sent the fare... 90 00:09:49,145 --> 00:09:50,612 she seemed quite happy. 91 00:10:03,159 --> 00:10:06,424 You come from the Ardennes, don't you, Monsieur Rimbaud? 92 00:10:06,462 --> 00:10:08,657 Yes. 93 00:10:08,698 --> 00:10:11,098 Pleasant town, Charleville, isn't it? 94 00:10:11,134 --> 00:10:12,897 Last place on God's earth. 95 00:10:12,935 --> 00:10:15,904 What does your father do? 96 00:10:15,938 --> 00:10:17,872 Drinks mostly, I believe. 97 00:10:17,907 --> 00:10:19,431 We haven't seen him for ten years. 98 00:10:19,475 --> 00:10:21,102 I'm sorry. 99 00:10:21,144 --> 00:10:23,738 No need. He's very well out of it. 100 00:10:27,383 --> 00:10:30,284 Perhaps you'd like to read something to us after dinner. 101 00:10:30,319 --> 00:10:32,549 No. I don't think so. 102 00:10:32,588 --> 00:10:34,783 - Why not? - Don't want to. 103 00:10:34,824 --> 00:10:36,655 I never read out my poetry. 104 00:10:36,692 --> 00:10:38,785 All the other poets do. 105 00:10:38,828 --> 00:10:41,092 I'm not interested in what they do. 106 00:10:41,130 --> 00:10:43,121 We have soirees. 107 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:47,833 And you think poets can learn from one another? 108 00:10:50,606 --> 00:10:52,471 Only if they're bad poets. 109 00:11:01,717 --> 00:11:03,685 You know about this? 110 00:11:03,719 --> 00:11:05,710 I know what it is. 111 00:11:07,723 --> 00:11:09,657 It's the poet's third eye. 112 00:11:11,093 --> 00:11:12,890 Melts glasses. 113 00:11:21,704 --> 00:11:24,332 What do you think of my wife? 114 00:11:24,373 --> 00:11:26,671 I don't know. 115 00:11:27,677 --> 00:11:29,201 What do you think of her? 116 00:11:29,245 --> 00:11:32,840 She's still only a child, of course. 117 00:11:32,882 --> 00:11:34,406 So am I. 118 00:11:41,257 --> 00:11:43,088 Absinthe, two. 119 00:11:45,862 --> 00:11:48,194 You should do something about getting it published. 120 00:11:48,231 --> 00:11:50,256 Why? 121 00:11:50,299 --> 00:11:52,733 Because that's what writers do. 122 00:11:52,768 --> 00:11:54,963 I couldn't care less about being published. 123 00:11:55,004 --> 00:11:57,905 The only thing that matters is the writing itself. 124 00:11:57,940 --> 00:12:00,670 Everything else is literature. 125 00:12:00,710 --> 00:12:03,178 Your last book wasn't good enough. 126 00:12:03,212 --> 00:12:05,180 You don't think so? 127 00:12:05,214 --> 00:12:07,182 Premarital garbage. 128 00:12:07,216 --> 00:12:09,411 No. Love poems. 129 00:12:09,452 --> 00:12:12,182 A lot of people found them very beautiful. 130 00:12:12,221 --> 00:12:14,485 But they're all lies. 131 00:12:14,523 --> 00:12:16,991 They're not lies. I love her. 132 00:12:17,026 --> 00:12:19,426 - Love? - Yes. 133 00:12:19,462 --> 00:12:22,693 - No such thing. - What do you mean? 134 00:12:22,732 --> 00:12:26,361 Whatever binds families and married couples together... 135 00:12:26,402 --> 00:12:28,199 that's not love. 136 00:12:28,237 --> 00:12:30,705 That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. 137 00:12:30,740 --> 00:12:33,208 Love doesn't exist. 138 00:12:33,242 --> 00:12:34,971 You're wrong. 139 00:12:36,746 --> 00:12:38,714 Self-interest exists. 140 00:12:38,748 --> 00:12:41,717 Attachment based on personal gain exists. 141 00:12:41,751 --> 00:12:44,219 Complacency exists. 142 00:12:44,253 --> 00:12:45,743 But not love. 143 00:12:49,492 --> 00:12:51,824 Love has to be reinvented. 144 00:12:54,030 --> 00:12:58,228 Why did he want so much to escape from reality? 145 00:12:58,267 --> 00:13:01,168 There never was a man with such an aim. 146 00:13:01,203 --> 00:13:04,604 Did he perhaps know secrets to change life? 147 00:13:06,208 --> 00:13:08,506 "Sometimes I've seen... 148 00:13:08,544 --> 00:13:11,206 "what people think they've seen." 149 00:13:16,218 --> 00:13:18,709 He's not how I imagined him. 150 00:13:22,725 --> 00:13:25,694 "I've wept too many tears... 151 00:13:25,728 --> 00:13:28,219 "heartbreaking dawns." 152 00:13:32,068 --> 00:13:35,196 I prefer your poems. 153 00:13:35,237 --> 00:13:38,229 I don't really understand that kind of thing. 154 00:13:40,242 --> 00:13:41,732 No. 155 00:13:44,246 --> 00:13:46,407 No. This is something new. 156 00:13:50,753 --> 00:13:54,211 "I've wept too many tears... 157 00:13:54,256 --> 00:13:57,953 "heartbreaking dawns." 158 00:14:58,254 --> 00:14:59,846 What is it? 159 00:14:59,889 --> 00:15:01,356 He's kicking. 160 00:15:15,371 --> 00:15:16,861 You see? 161 00:15:20,443 --> 00:15:22,172 There. 162 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,425 Don't you think it would be more sensible... 163 00:15:39,462 --> 00:15:42,761 to get one of your friends to put him up? 164 00:15:51,907 --> 00:15:54,967 People don't understand him. 165 00:15:55,010 --> 00:15:57,205 I'm the only one who understands him. 166 00:15:57,246 --> 00:16:00,682 Well, Daddy certainly won't understand him. 167 00:16:05,654 --> 00:16:08,919 We had a revolution this year which I supported. 168 00:16:08,958 --> 00:16:10,926 I could have been shot. 169 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,689 If I hadn't been thrown out of my job... 170 00:16:12,728 --> 00:16:16,494 you think I would have accepted your father's damn charity? 171 00:16:36,051 --> 00:16:40,044 For God's sake, all I'm doing is helping a friend! 172 00:16:40,089 --> 00:16:44,685 Why must we go through all this? I'm your husband! 173 00:16:44,727 --> 00:16:46,217 I'm sorry, Paul. 174 00:16:48,964 --> 00:16:50,864 Are you trying to annoy me? 175 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:52,197 No. 176 00:16:52,234 --> 00:16:53,724 Well, don't. 177 00:17:36,011 --> 00:17:38,673 Evening! Everyone's in bed, I'm afraid... 178 00:17:38,714 --> 00:17:41,683 unless you've come to see the old boy. 179 00:17:41,717 --> 00:17:43,412 The old boy? 180 00:17:43,452 --> 00:17:45,886 Maute de Fleurville. A friend of his? 181 00:17:45,921 --> 00:17:47,718 No. 182 00:17:47,756 --> 00:17:51,658 You wouldn't like to buy a crucifix, would you? 183 00:17:51,694 --> 00:17:56,188 I can let you have this one on extremely reasonable terms. 184 00:17:56,232 --> 00:17:58,700 It's made with real pearls, I think. 185 00:17:58,734 --> 00:18:00,634 Who the hell are you? 186 00:18:00,669 --> 00:18:03,137 I might ask you the same question... 187 00:18:03,172 --> 00:18:05,140 except I'd be more polite. 188 00:18:05,174 --> 00:18:07,165 I am Maute de Fleurville. 189 00:18:16,085 --> 00:18:17,643 Then this is your dog I just broke. 190 00:18:17,686 --> 00:18:19,017 What? 191 00:18:20,689 --> 00:18:22,657 Why? 192 00:18:22,691 --> 00:18:24,181 Dogs are all liberals. 193 00:18:36,438 --> 00:18:38,167 Since when have you had the right... 194 00:18:38,207 --> 00:18:41,973 to invite people into this house without my permission? 195 00:18:44,213 --> 00:18:47,182 If I can't put up a guest in my own home... 196 00:18:47,216 --> 00:18:50,708 I might as well live somewhere else. 197 00:18:50,753 --> 00:18:53,551 If you weren't so idle, you could afford to. 198 00:18:53,589 --> 00:18:56,820 - You know very well... - Any excuse. 199 00:18:56,859 --> 00:19:00,158 I don't notice you working your fingers to the bone. 200 00:19:00,195 --> 00:19:02,459 When you next see that hooligan... 201 00:19:02,498 --> 00:19:06,628 kindly ask him to return the objects he's pilfered. 202 00:19:06,669 --> 00:19:09,502 - What are you talking about? - He'll know. 203 00:19:09,538 --> 00:19:12,974 Ask him yourself. 204 00:19:13,008 --> 00:19:15,909 I'm happy to say, he's left the house. 205 00:19:15,944 --> 00:19:17,172 What? 206 00:19:49,745 --> 00:19:50,939 Thank God. 207 00:19:50,979 --> 00:19:53,277 I thought I would never find you. 208 00:19:53,315 --> 00:19:57,183 I don't know what that bastard thought he was doing. 209 00:19:57,219 --> 00:19:58,686 It's his house. 210 00:19:58,721 --> 00:20:00,188 Yes. Come on. 211 00:20:00,222 --> 00:20:02,213 We'll find you somewhere. 212 00:20:33,122 --> 00:20:34,453 It's not much, I'm afraid. 213 00:20:49,938 --> 00:20:51,735 Just for a few days. 214 00:20:51,774 --> 00:20:54,004 It's fine. 215 00:20:59,381 --> 00:21:01,281 So do you love her? 216 00:21:01,316 --> 00:21:05,184 Of course. She's ideal. 217 00:21:05,220 --> 00:21:08,246 Eighteen, beautiful, plenty of money... 218 00:21:08,290 --> 00:21:11,316 all the wifely virtues, and she's giving me a baby. 219 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:15,694 - Do you have anything in common? - No. 220 00:21:15,731 --> 00:21:18,757 - Is she intelligent? - No. 221 00:21:18,801 --> 00:21:20,564 Does she understand you? 222 00:21:22,738 --> 00:21:24,296 No. 223 00:21:24,339 --> 00:21:28,935 Then the only thing she can give you is sex. 224 00:21:57,272 --> 00:21:58,864 Hi! 225 00:21:58,907 --> 00:22:01,034 Hey! 226 00:22:10,719 --> 00:22:12,687 Did you find him? 227 00:22:12,721 --> 00:22:14,211 I did. 228 00:22:18,727 --> 00:22:21,753 And did he give you back Daddy's crucifix? 229 00:22:23,499 --> 00:22:26,900 If your father's capable of throwing that boy out... 230 00:22:26,935 --> 00:22:31,167 he's got no right having Christ hanging all over his walls. 231 00:22:37,980 --> 00:22:42,542 You people don't understand what poverty is. 232 00:22:42,584 --> 00:22:44,711 In Charleville, if he wanted a book... 233 00:22:44,753 --> 00:22:46,721 he had to steal it. 234 00:22:46,755 --> 00:22:49,747 That proves what kind of person he is. 235 00:22:59,868 --> 00:23:01,927 I'm sorry. 236 00:23:04,873 --> 00:23:07,171 You shouldn't have said that. 237 00:23:07,209 --> 00:23:08,972 I'm sorry. 238 00:23:09,011 --> 00:23:11,275 - What's going on? - Nothing. 239 00:23:14,917 --> 00:23:17,181 Are you all right, my dear? 240 00:23:17,219 --> 00:23:19,210 Yes, I'm all right. 241 00:23:41,577 --> 00:23:45,206 It was last summer during the war... 242 00:23:45,247 --> 00:23:49,206 one of the many times I ran away from home. 243 00:23:49,251 --> 00:23:53,711 I came down to the river to fill my water bottle... 244 00:23:53,755 --> 00:23:57,589 and there was a Prussian soldier not much older than me... 245 00:23:57,626 --> 00:23:59,753 asleep in the clearing. 246 00:24:03,632 --> 00:24:06,863 I watched him for a long time before I realized... 247 00:24:08,437 --> 00:24:10,166 he wasn't asleep. 248 00:24:10,205 --> 00:24:11,695 He was dead. 249 00:24:15,711 --> 00:24:18,703 And somehow that clarified things for me. 250 00:24:22,217 --> 00:24:24,685 I understood that what I needed... 251 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,689 to become the first poet of this century... 252 00:24:27,723 --> 00:24:30,715 was to experience everything in my body. 253 00:24:33,462 --> 00:24:36,727 It was no longer enough for me to be one person. 254 00:24:40,235 --> 00:24:42,226 I decided to be everyone. 255 00:24:45,741 --> 00:24:48,232 I decided to be a genius. 256 00:24:51,747 --> 00:24:54,238 I decided to originate the future. 257 00:25:17,706 --> 00:25:19,196 Thank you. 258 00:25:28,850 --> 00:25:31,250 The principle is very like photography... 259 00:25:31,286 --> 00:25:33,686 only instead of photographing a man's face... 260 00:25:33,722 --> 00:25:35,690 you photograph his voice. 261 00:25:35,724 --> 00:25:37,692 Then twenty years later... 262 00:25:37,726 --> 00:25:40,695 just as you'd open a photograph album... 263 00:25:40,729 --> 00:25:44,688 you put the relevant cylinder into the paleophone... 264 00:25:44,733 --> 00:25:49,864 and you listen to a poet reading his poems... 265 00:25:49,905 --> 00:25:51,805 or singing his songs. 266 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,866 And you think you could invent... 267 00:25:54,910 --> 00:25:57,879 a machine like that which worked? 268 00:25:57,913 --> 00:25:59,710 For Christ's sake, let's get the fuck out of here. 269 00:25:59,748 --> 00:26:01,909 - We can't. - Why not? 270 00:26:01,950 --> 00:26:05,386 - He's about to read. - Which one? 271 00:26:05,420 --> 00:26:08,184 Aicard. Over there. 272 00:26:08,223 --> 00:26:10,714 I don't think I'll like him very much. 273 00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:13,227 Verlaine showed me some of your poems. 274 00:26:13,261 --> 00:26:14,728 Yes? 275 00:26:14,763 --> 00:26:16,196 Remarkable. Very promising. 276 00:26:16,231 --> 00:26:20,861 Only, it seems all that ingenuity is marred by... 277 00:26:20,902 --> 00:26:22,335 Well, not exactly a juvenile urge to shock... 278 00:26:22,370 --> 00:26:24,338 but something of the sort. 279 00:26:24,372 --> 00:26:27,341 - And were you shocked? - No, I wasn't. 280 00:26:27,375 --> 00:26:30,344 Then why would you suppose I intended you to be? 281 00:26:30,378 --> 00:26:32,346 That's not really the point. 282 00:26:32,380 --> 00:26:33,847 Seems fair enough to me. 283 00:26:33,882 --> 00:26:36,407 I could object to your technical approach. 284 00:26:36,451 --> 00:26:38,919 I could object to your tie. 285 00:26:38,954 --> 00:26:40,922 He doesn't like discussing his poetry. 286 00:26:40,956 --> 00:26:42,446 I see. 287 00:26:44,126 --> 00:26:46,617 A surprise for our friend. 288 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:55,098 Thank you. 289 00:26:55,137 --> 00:26:57,105 Thank you, gentlemen. 290 00:26:57,139 --> 00:27:00,768 Sulfuric acid. 291 00:27:00,809 --> 00:27:03,539 I would ask you to bear this in mind... 292 00:27:03,578 --> 00:27:06,706 although, as with all worthwhile work for children... 293 00:27:06,748 --> 00:27:10,878 it's hoped what is said is of relevance to adults. 294 00:27:10,919 --> 00:27:13,888 The poem is called "Green Absinthe." 295 00:27:13,922 --> 00:27:18,723 Green absinthe is the potion of the damned... 296 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,228 a deadly poison silting up the veins... 297 00:27:21,263 --> 00:27:24,232 while wife and child sit weeping in their slum... 298 00:27:24,266 --> 00:27:25,733 I don't believe it. 299 00:27:25,767 --> 00:27:27,735 ...pours absinthe into his brains. 300 00:27:27,769 --> 00:27:29,236 Shit. 301 00:27:29,271 --> 00:27:31,239 O drunkard, most contemptible of men... 302 00:27:31,273 --> 00:27:34,800 - Shit! - Be quiet. 303 00:27:34,843 --> 00:27:37,073 It's authentic shit! 304 00:27:37,112 --> 00:27:38,511 Please! 305 00:27:38,547 --> 00:27:41,072 ...degraded, fallen, sinful, and obtuse... 306 00:27:41,116 --> 00:27:42,947 I like it! 307 00:27:42,984 --> 00:27:45,077 ...to beat your wife and child... 308 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,588 For trying to deprive you of the juice! 309 00:27:47,622 --> 00:27:49,988 - Get out! - Me? 310 00:27:50,025 --> 00:27:52,858 Yes, you offensive little bastard. Get out. 311 00:27:52,894 --> 00:27:55,829 I think I may be permitted to raise some objection... 312 00:27:55,864 --> 00:27:57,832 against the butchering of French poetry. 313 00:27:57,866 --> 00:28:00,426 No, you may not. Apologize and get out! 314 00:28:00,468 --> 00:28:02,459 Don't come near. 315 00:28:02,504 --> 00:28:04,199 Be careful! 316 00:28:04,239 --> 00:28:07,265 You think you can frighten me with that thing. 317 00:28:07,309 --> 00:28:09,470 Careful! Careful, I say! 318 00:28:13,048 --> 00:28:14,538 Get out! 319 00:28:14,583 --> 00:28:16,073 Come on. 320 00:28:21,323 --> 00:28:24,019 Now you, you fucking... 321 00:28:24,059 --> 00:28:26,050 Come here! 322 00:28:26,094 --> 00:28:29,291 Come here! 323 00:28:29,331 --> 00:28:32,061 In the days of Francois I... 324 00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:35,228 wise and benevolent giants roamed the countryside... 325 00:28:35,270 --> 00:28:37,568 and one of their primary functions... 326 00:28:37,606 --> 00:28:40,507 was to rid the world of pedants... 327 00:28:40,542 --> 00:28:45,673 fools... and writers of no talent... 328 00:28:45,714 --> 00:28:47,545 by pissing on them from a great height. 329 00:29:10,839 --> 00:29:13,774 How to make your way in the literary world. 330 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,548 The depressing thing about this city... 331 00:29:21,583 --> 00:29:23,710 is that the artists are even more bourgeois... 332 00:29:23,752 --> 00:29:25,982 than the fucking bourgeoisie. 333 00:30:09,264 --> 00:30:10,993 We should make a bargain. 334 00:30:12,701 --> 00:30:16,728 You help me, and I'll help you. 335 00:30:16,771 --> 00:30:18,204 If we go away together... 336 00:30:18,239 --> 00:30:21,367 I'm sure you'll be able to do good work again. 337 00:30:21,409 --> 00:30:26,540 And when we've taken as much as we can from each other... 338 00:30:26,581 --> 00:30:29,607 we simply split up and move on. 339 00:30:29,651 --> 00:30:33,314 And how would we live? 340 00:30:33,355 --> 00:30:35,880 You have some money, don't you? 341 00:30:40,929 --> 00:30:42,897 I understand. 342 00:30:42,931 --> 00:30:45,798 I help you by supporting you... 343 00:30:45,834 --> 00:30:49,702 and you help me by renewing my rusty old inspiration. 344 00:30:49,738 --> 00:30:51,797 Is that it? 345 00:31:06,688 --> 00:31:08,656 Not altogether. 346 00:31:41,089 --> 00:31:43,683 Where have you been? 347 00:31:43,725 --> 00:31:48,128 I thought I'd probably just get in the way. 348 00:31:48,163 --> 00:31:50,131 Don't shout. 349 00:31:50,165 --> 00:31:52,292 You'll wake the baby. 350 00:32:02,343 --> 00:32:04,106 Is it a boy? 351 00:32:04,145 --> 00:32:06,079 Yes. 352 00:32:15,023 --> 00:32:17,218 Funny-looking little bugger. 353 00:32:22,330 --> 00:32:23,592 Don't. 354 00:32:23,631 --> 00:32:26,122 All right. 355 00:32:26,167 --> 00:32:28,362 All right. 356 00:32:49,090 --> 00:32:50,751 Thank you. 357 00:32:55,530 --> 00:32:57,498 Thank you. 358 00:33:07,942 --> 00:33:09,739 Please. 359 00:33:12,113 --> 00:33:14,809 Why not? 360 00:33:17,018 --> 00:33:19,452 The baby was born. 361 00:34:04,265 --> 00:34:07,564 - Isabelle! - I didn't know you were coming. 362 00:34:07,602 --> 00:34:10,070 Where is the mouth of darkness? 363 00:34:10,104 --> 00:34:13,073 Mother? She's in the fields with Vitalie. 364 00:34:13,107 --> 00:34:16,008 - Do you want to see her? - No. 365 00:34:43,238 --> 00:34:44,728 Thanks. 366 00:34:51,813 --> 00:34:53,713 Are you back for good? 367 00:34:55,650 --> 00:34:57,618 For good I don't know. 368 00:34:57,652 --> 00:34:59,483 For better or worse. 369 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:04,219 There's work to be done in the fields. 370 00:35:04,259 --> 00:35:05,692 There's work to be done here. 371 00:35:05,727 --> 00:35:09,254 I thought you were getting on well in Paris. 372 00:35:09,297 --> 00:35:11,822 Verlaine's wife started to make trouble. 373 00:35:11,866 --> 00:35:13,800 What kind of trouble? 374 00:35:13,835 --> 00:35:16,269 Threatening a divorce. 375 00:35:16,304 --> 00:35:18,966 She thought we were spending too much time together. 376 00:35:19,007 --> 00:35:21,202 Spoiled rich girl, I suppose. 377 00:35:21,242 --> 00:35:23,335 That's right. 378 00:35:25,513 --> 00:35:27,811 This work you're doing... 379 00:35:27,849 --> 00:35:30,977 is it the kind of thing that will lead to anything? 380 00:35:31,019 --> 00:35:34,420 I don't know. 381 00:35:34,455 --> 00:35:37,049 Nevertheless, it's the kind of work I do. 382 00:36:36,117 --> 00:36:39,883 I don't suppose Paris ever gets as exciting as this. 383 00:38:03,871 --> 00:38:08,069 You look like a fucking saint. 384 00:38:23,124 --> 00:38:27,060 Except you haven't got your halo. 385 00:38:34,001 --> 00:38:36,868 I'll give you your halo. 386 00:39:26,087 --> 00:39:28,783 He's back, isn't he? 387 00:39:34,595 --> 00:39:36,961 I can't leave Mathilde at the moment. 388 00:39:36,998 --> 00:39:38,488 She's not very well. 389 00:39:38,533 --> 00:39:42,025 I'm not surprised if you keep setting fire to her. 390 00:39:42,069 --> 00:39:45,436 I haven't set fire to her since Thursday. 391 00:39:52,613 --> 00:39:54,604 No, it's not very funny. 392 00:40:05,126 --> 00:40:07,651 It's pathetic. 393 00:40:07,695 --> 00:40:11,096 Your acts of violence are always curiously disgusting. 394 00:40:11,132 --> 00:40:13,191 What do you mean? 395 00:40:15,136 --> 00:40:17,627 They're not clean. 396 00:40:17,672 --> 00:40:20,869 You're always in some sort of a drunken stupor. 397 00:40:20,908 --> 00:40:24,241 Then you start apologizing and groveling. 398 00:40:24,278 --> 00:40:26,246 I don't like hurting people. 399 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,248 Then don't. 400 00:40:28,282 --> 00:40:31,251 But if you do, do it coolly. 401 00:40:31,285 --> 00:40:35,187 Don't insult your victims by feeling sorry afterwards. 402 00:40:38,559 --> 00:40:40,527 I love her, you see. 403 00:40:40,561 --> 00:40:43,029 You can't possibly. 404 00:40:43,064 --> 00:40:44,998 I love her body. 405 00:40:47,969 --> 00:40:49,800 There are other bodies. 406 00:40:53,174 --> 00:40:55,734 I love Mathilde's body. 407 00:40:55,776 --> 00:40:59,371 But not her soul? 408 00:40:59,413 --> 00:41:02,507 I think it's less important to love the soul. 409 00:41:02,550 --> 00:41:05,018 After all, the soul may be immortal. 410 00:41:05,052 --> 00:41:08,021 We have plenty of time for the soul... 411 00:41:08,055 --> 00:41:11,252 but flesh rots. 412 00:41:11,292 --> 00:41:16,628 It's my love of flesh which keeps me faithful. 413 00:41:16,664 --> 00:41:19,827 Faithful. 414 00:41:19,867 --> 00:41:21,061 What do you mean? 415 00:41:21,102 --> 00:41:25,004 I'm faithful to all my lovers... 416 00:41:25,039 --> 00:41:27,098 because once I love them... 417 00:41:27,141 --> 00:41:31,168 I will always love them... 418 00:41:31,212 --> 00:41:33,112 and when I'm alone in the evening... 419 00:41:33,147 --> 00:41:35,115 or in the early morning... 420 00:41:35,149 --> 00:41:37,344 I close my eyes... 421 00:41:37,385 --> 00:41:40,354 and I celebrate them all. 422 00:41:40,388 --> 00:41:45,325 That's not faithfulness. That's nostalgia. 423 00:41:45,359 --> 00:41:47,350 If you don't want to leave Mathilde... 424 00:41:47,395 --> 00:41:49,260 it's not because you're faithful. 425 00:41:49,296 --> 00:41:50,729 It's because you're weak. 426 00:41:50,765 --> 00:41:55,134 If strength involves brutality, I prefer to be weak. 427 00:41:58,072 --> 00:42:01,269 With you, weakness involves brutality as well. 428 00:42:10,618 --> 00:42:14,349 Don't expect me to be faithful to you. 429 00:42:14,388 --> 00:42:16,822 Why are you so harsh with me? 430 00:42:16,857 --> 00:42:19,018 Because you need it. 431 00:42:19,060 --> 00:42:22,029 Isn't it enough for you to know... 432 00:42:22,063 --> 00:42:24,930 that I love you more than I've ever loved anyone... 433 00:42:24,965 --> 00:42:28,526 and that I will always love you? 434 00:42:28,569 --> 00:42:30,969 Shut up, you sniveling drunk. 435 00:42:31,005 --> 00:42:33,769 - Tell me that you love me. - For God's sake! 436 00:42:33,808 --> 00:42:35,605 Please. 437 00:42:37,745 --> 00:42:39,736 It's important. 438 00:42:39,780 --> 00:42:42,544 Just say it. 439 00:42:46,854 --> 00:42:49,948 You know I'm very fond of you. 440 00:42:57,131 --> 00:42:59,929 - Do you love me? - What? 441 00:43:01,102 --> 00:43:05,505 - Do you love me? - Yes. 442 00:43:05,539 --> 00:43:08,565 Then put your hands on the table. 443 00:43:08,609 --> 00:43:10,076 What? 444 00:43:10,111 --> 00:43:13,171 Put your hand on the table. 445 00:43:16,650 --> 00:43:17,776 Palm upwards. 446 00:44:00,361 --> 00:44:04,263 The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable. 447 00:45:28,649 --> 00:45:29,946 On... 448 00:45:32,253 --> 00:45:33,948 On... 449 00:45:42,429 --> 00:45:44,124 We have to leave. 450 00:45:45,633 --> 00:45:48,067 I don't know. 451 00:45:48,102 --> 00:45:51,094 Yes. It's time. 452 00:45:51,138 --> 00:45:53,606 The happiest days of my life was last year... 453 00:45:53,641 --> 00:45:55,438 when I ran away from home. 454 00:45:57,978 --> 00:46:01,175 Didn't know where I was going. I just carried on. 455 00:46:04,018 --> 00:46:09,012 I've never seen such long and colored days... 456 00:46:09,056 --> 00:46:11,547 and I could never get far enough. 457 00:46:13,093 --> 00:46:15,061 I've never seen the sea. 458 00:46:15,095 --> 00:46:18,360 I wanted to walk to Africa... 459 00:46:18,399 --> 00:46:20,526 and cross the desert. 460 00:46:20,567 --> 00:46:24,435 I wanted the sun. 461 00:46:24,471 --> 00:46:27,099 I wanted the sun. 462 00:46:27,141 --> 00:46:29,735 I want the sun. 463 00:46:29,777 --> 00:46:32,245 Do you understand me? I want the sun! 464 00:46:32,279 --> 00:46:36,375 Where do you want to go? 465 00:46:38,319 --> 00:46:40,514 I don't know. 466 00:46:40,554 --> 00:46:43,022 I don't care. Just away. 467 00:46:43,057 --> 00:46:45,821 I can't leave Mathilde right now. 468 00:46:45,859 --> 00:46:47,520 She's not very well. 469 00:46:47,561 --> 00:46:48,892 Then don't. 470 00:46:48,929 --> 00:46:50,726 What? 471 00:46:50,764 --> 00:46:53,597 Don't leave her. 472 00:48:32,966 --> 00:48:34,593 Wait! 473 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,610 To life. 474 00:49:59,119 --> 00:50:01,053 Come on! 475 00:54:36,062 --> 00:54:38,223 Do you remember happier times? 476 00:54:40,133 --> 00:54:42,465 Why did you leave us? 477 00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:48,599 I had a tip-off I was going to arrested for my work... 478 00:54:48,642 --> 00:54:51,611 in the propaganda press during the Commune. 479 00:54:51,645 --> 00:54:54,113 But that was over a year ago. 480 00:54:54,147 --> 00:54:58,277 Well... the police may be slow... 481 00:54:58,318 --> 00:55:00,809 but they're methodical. 482 00:55:00,854 --> 00:55:03,084 I couldn't bear to go to jail. 483 00:55:04,458 --> 00:55:08,588 I think it's best to stay out of the country for a few months. 484 00:55:08,628 --> 00:55:10,596 With Rimbaud? 485 00:55:12,466 --> 00:55:13,899 Well... 486 00:55:13,934 --> 00:55:17,426 I suppose he's wanted by the police as well. 487 00:55:17,471 --> 00:55:18,870 No. 488 00:55:22,042 --> 00:55:25,068 Why do you prefer him to me? 489 00:55:25,111 --> 00:55:28,046 I don't. 490 00:55:34,054 --> 00:55:36,022 Don't have to get dressed right away, do you? 491 00:55:36,056 --> 00:55:39,822 I told Mummy I'd meet her for breakfast. 492 00:55:39,860 --> 00:55:42,385 - What's she doing here? - She came with me. 493 00:55:45,599 --> 00:55:48,659 That's another thing. 494 00:55:48,702 --> 00:55:53,105 I certainly can't stand living with your parents anymore. 495 00:55:53,139 --> 00:55:56,108 It's not safe anywhere else. 496 00:55:56,142 --> 00:55:58,110 What do you mean? 497 00:55:58,144 --> 00:56:00,203 You know what I mean. 498 00:56:01,648 --> 00:56:04,845 Listen... 499 00:56:04,885 --> 00:56:07,479 I had this idea. 500 00:56:07,521 --> 00:56:09,614 I thought of this idea. 501 00:56:13,093 --> 00:56:15,584 I thought we might emigrate. 502 00:56:17,898 --> 00:56:20,833 Emigrate? Where to? 503 00:56:20,867 --> 00:56:22,266 New Caledonia. 504 00:56:22,302 --> 00:56:27,296 A lot of your friends from the Commune are there. 505 00:56:27,340 --> 00:56:30,309 You'd be able to write. 506 00:56:30,343 --> 00:56:34,279 It would be like it was when we were first married and... 507 00:56:35,282 --> 00:56:36,715 What? 508 00:56:36,750 --> 00:56:38,650 Nothing. 509 00:56:40,654 --> 00:56:42,281 No. Go on. 510 00:56:43,957 --> 00:56:48,087 I was only going to say that you could stop... 511 00:56:48,128 --> 00:56:49,618 If you wanted... 512 00:56:49,663 --> 00:56:54,657 It would be easier for you if you wanted to stop drinking. 513 00:57:05,145 --> 00:57:07,579 You're frightened of me, aren't you? 514 00:57:09,816 --> 00:57:13,752 Don't think that I like getting drunk. 515 00:57:13,787 --> 00:57:15,550 I mean, I do like getting drunk. 516 00:57:15,589 --> 00:57:18,183 I don't like being drunk. 517 00:57:18,224 --> 00:57:21,284 Anyway... 518 00:57:21,328 --> 00:57:23,728 when I hit you... 519 00:57:23,763 --> 00:57:25,492 I feel so terrible all I can think of... 520 00:57:25,532 --> 00:57:28,592 is to get drunk again and forget about it. 521 00:57:28,635 --> 00:57:32,196 Can you see us living in a grass hut? 522 00:57:32,238 --> 00:57:33,705 Why not? 523 00:57:33,740 --> 00:57:35,833 Let's go, for Christ's sake. 524 00:57:35,875 --> 00:57:38,571 Let's go before it's too late. 525 00:57:38,612 --> 00:57:41,706 We can go whenever you like. 526 00:57:52,626 --> 00:57:54,355 Not now! 527 00:57:54,394 --> 00:57:56,362 Why not? 528 00:57:56,396 --> 00:57:59,854 Help me with this. 529 00:57:59,899 --> 00:58:01,526 No. 530 00:58:01,568 --> 00:58:04,002 Help me with this. 531 00:58:04,037 --> 00:58:06,005 Stop! 532 00:58:15,148 --> 00:58:18,606 Why are you doing this to us? 533 00:58:18,652 --> 00:58:20,620 Don't worry. 534 00:58:20,654 --> 00:58:24,112 You can have him back quite soon... 535 00:58:24,157 --> 00:58:27,149 and only slightly damaged. 536 00:58:28,662 --> 00:58:30,653 He's coming back now. 537 00:58:45,178 --> 00:58:47,146 What are you doing here? 538 00:58:47,180 --> 00:58:48,807 What's this? 539 00:58:48,848 --> 00:58:50,782 "My poor Mathilde... 540 00:58:50,817 --> 00:58:52,648 "Don't be upset. Don't cry. 541 00:58:52,686 --> 00:58:54,654 "This is a bad dream. 542 00:58:54,688 --> 00:58:57,213 "One day, I'll wake up. Love, Paul." 543 00:58:57,257 --> 00:59:00,590 Nice, was it? Scene of conjugal bliss? 544 00:59:00,627 --> 00:59:03,562 I'm going back to Paris with her. 545 00:59:03,596 --> 00:59:05,291 Right. 546 00:59:07,133 --> 00:59:10,694 - Wait! Let me explain. - Why should I? 547 00:59:10,737 --> 00:59:14,434 It's not what you think. It's something else. 548 00:59:14,474 --> 00:59:17,136 She suggested we emigrate to New Caledonia. 549 00:59:17,177 --> 00:59:18,906 It would be a change. A quiet life. 550 00:59:18,945 --> 00:59:21,311 I could stop drinking. It's a good idea. 551 00:59:21,347 --> 00:59:22,939 No. 552 00:59:22,982 --> 00:59:25,644 Don't you care about my happiness? 553 00:59:25,685 --> 00:59:27,050 No, and neither should you. 554 00:59:27,087 --> 00:59:29,419 You don't understand how much I love her. 555 00:59:29,456 --> 00:59:32,050 This morning, she was lying there naked. 556 00:59:32,092 --> 00:59:37,724 She looked so beautiful, so young and so... 557 00:59:37,764 --> 00:59:39,493 What's so funny? 558 00:59:39,532 --> 00:59:40,897 Was she really lying there naked? 559 00:59:40,934 --> 00:59:42,060 Yes. 560 00:59:42,102 --> 00:59:44,627 My estimation for her goes up a long way. 561 00:59:44,671 --> 00:59:45,968 Why? 562 00:59:46,005 --> 00:59:50,635 For realizing what was needed and providing it. 563 00:59:50,677 --> 00:59:52,144 What does it matter? 564 00:59:52,178 --> 00:59:54,646 You love her, right? Go back to her. 565 01:00:45,565 --> 01:00:49,023 All change! 566 01:00:49,068 --> 01:00:50,535 Border patrol! 567 01:00:50,570 --> 01:00:54,062 Please have your passports ready for inspection. 568 01:00:55,575 --> 01:00:57,543 Border patrol! 569 01:00:57,577 --> 01:01:01,513 Please have your passports ready for inspection. 570 01:01:33,213 --> 01:01:34,544 Thank you. 571 01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,028 I'm just going to find a newspaper. 572 01:01:50,063 --> 01:01:51,394 Don't be long. 573 01:02:34,540 --> 01:02:36,030 Look there. 574 01:02:37,210 --> 01:02:39,007 See white? 575 01:02:39,045 --> 01:02:40,535 See? 576 01:02:43,683 --> 01:02:46,049 It's England. 577 01:02:51,891 --> 01:02:55,019 "I became a fabulous opera. 578 01:02:55,061 --> 01:02:59,054 "I saw that all creatures are condemned to happiness." 579 01:03:03,169 --> 01:03:06,036 What's this? Are you going back to rhyme? 580 01:03:06,072 --> 01:03:09,132 "I have researched the magic shapes... 581 01:03:09,175 --> 01:03:11,666 "of the happiness no one escapes." 582 01:03:13,012 --> 01:03:14,206 That's wonderful. 583 01:03:16,983 --> 01:03:20,475 I've often wondered why you chose to write to me. 584 01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,488 You're so far up ahead... 585 01:03:22,522 --> 01:03:25,491 I can never understand the signs you're making. 586 01:03:25,525 --> 01:03:28,494 You make me feel I'm from another century. 587 01:03:30,363 --> 01:03:32,331 "I've researched magic shapes... 588 01:03:32,365 --> 01:03:34,492 of the happiness no one escapes." 589 01:03:34,534 --> 01:03:35,796 It's wonderful. 590 01:03:35,835 --> 01:03:39,202 I chose you for a very good reason. 591 01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:42,530 You see... 592 01:03:44,544 --> 01:03:47,638 I've always known what to say... 593 01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:52,583 but you... you know how to say. 594 01:03:52,618 --> 01:03:55,018 I thought I could learn from you... 595 01:03:55,054 --> 01:03:56,885 and I have. 596 01:04:08,835 --> 01:04:10,666 What's your greatest fear? 597 01:04:13,006 --> 01:04:15,770 I wouldn't like to mislay my balls. 598 01:04:15,808 --> 01:04:18,003 What's your greatest fear? 599 01:04:18,044 --> 01:04:21,445 That other people will see me as I see them. 600 01:04:26,486 --> 01:04:29,478 Getting quite short of money, you know. 601 01:04:29,522 --> 01:04:31,490 So you keep saying. 602 01:04:31,524 --> 01:04:33,685 Perhaps it's time we took a job. 603 01:04:33,726 --> 01:04:35,990 I have no intention of taking a job. 604 01:04:36,029 --> 01:04:37,997 My work is going far too well. 605 01:04:38,031 --> 01:04:40,522 I can't afford to waste time earning money. 606 01:04:48,041 --> 01:04:51,499 I... I had a letter this morning... 607 01:04:51,544 --> 01:04:53,512 from Mathilde's lawyer. 608 01:04:53,546 --> 01:04:55,013 And? 609 01:04:55,048 --> 01:04:58,176 She's applied for legal separation on grounds... 610 01:04:58,217 --> 01:05:01,448 that you and I are indulging in immoral relations. 611 01:05:01,487 --> 01:05:02,954 And? 612 01:05:02,989 --> 01:05:05,958 - Like a hat, sir? - Possibly. 613 01:05:05,992 --> 01:05:08,825 There you are. Take a look. 614 01:05:11,497 --> 01:05:13,624 He wants to know if we're prepared... 615 01:05:13,666 --> 01:05:16,294 to submit to a medical examination. 616 01:05:16,335 --> 01:05:17,802 What? 617 01:05:17,837 --> 01:05:20,431 How can they make such outrageous accusations? 618 01:05:20,473 --> 01:05:22,805 I'm going to write and say as far as I'm concerned... 619 01:05:22,842 --> 01:05:25,140 all of them can look up our asses. 620 01:05:25,178 --> 01:05:26,645 What are you, insane? 621 01:05:26,679 --> 01:05:29,477 They can give her a divorce on desertion alone. 622 01:05:29,515 --> 01:05:32,814 If it's desertion and sodomy, they can throw us both in jail. 623 01:05:32,852 --> 01:05:34,479 I'm not going to jail. 624 01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:38,752 I don't know. Would it be so bad? 625 01:05:50,536 --> 01:05:52,197 Latavia... 626 01:05:52,238 --> 01:05:56,436 I can hear the wind rustling in the palm trees. 627 01:07:08,314 --> 01:07:09,975 What's the matter? 628 01:07:12,985 --> 01:07:16,352 It's so difficult. 629 01:07:16,389 --> 01:07:20,485 Who would have imagined it would be so difficult? 630 01:07:20,526 --> 01:07:22,960 I wrote to the lawyer today. 631 01:07:22,995 --> 01:07:28,126 I explained it's her father who's in the wrong. 632 01:07:28,167 --> 01:07:31,830 How many times have I asked for my things from that house... 633 01:07:31,871 --> 01:07:36,365 and he takes no notice whatsoever? 634 01:07:36,409 --> 01:07:39,469 You're in the wrong. 635 01:07:41,614 --> 01:07:43,582 All right. 636 01:07:43,616 --> 01:07:45,584 All right. I'm in the wrong. 637 01:07:45,618 --> 01:07:48,109 I'm in the wrong, if you say so. 638 01:07:48,154 --> 01:07:49,985 That's established, isn't it? 639 01:07:50,022 --> 01:07:51,785 So... 640 01:07:55,828 --> 01:07:57,921 I don't know. 641 01:07:57,964 --> 01:08:01,092 What... What is it? You seem different. 642 01:08:02,902 --> 01:08:04,233 Yes. 643 01:08:05,571 --> 01:08:07,869 It's the writing. 644 01:08:07,907 --> 01:08:10,068 The writing has changed me. 645 01:08:27,593 --> 01:08:28,890 On. 646 01:08:30,062 --> 01:08:31,393 On. 647 01:08:32,898 --> 01:08:34,058 On. 648 01:09:26,886 --> 01:09:30,014 I suppose you think I've been just lying here... 649 01:09:30,056 --> 01:09:33,856 all these weeks in a state of paralyzed sloth. 650 01:09:33,893 --> 01:09:36,054 Well, not necessarily. 651 01:09:38,064 --> 01:09:39,827 Well, I have. 652 01:09:41,567 --> 01:09:43,728 But bubbling beneath the surface... 653 01:09:43,769 --> 01:09:46,397 and rising slowly through the layers of indifference... 654 01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:48,532 has come a new system... 655 01:09:48,574 --> 01:09:52,135 harden up, reject romanticism... 656 01:09:52,178 --> 01:09:54,078 abandon rhetoric... 657 01:09:55,581 --> 01:09:57,549 Get it right. 658 01:09:57,583 --> 01:10:00,211 And finally I've seen where my attempt... 659 01:10:00,252 --> 01:10:02,345 to conquer the world has led me. 660 01:10:02,388 --> 01:10:04,754 Where has it led you? 661 01:10:11,597 --> 01:10:13,087 Here. 662 01:10:15,267 --> 01:10:19,260 My search for universal experience has led me here... 663 01:10:21,273 --> 01:10:27,075 to live an idle, pointless life of poverty... 664 01:10:27,113 --> 01:10:32,574 as the minion of a bald, ugly... 665 01:10:32,618 --> 01:10:36,076 aging, drunken lyric poet... 666 01:10:36,122 --> 01:10:42,584 who clings to me because his wife won't take him back. 667 01:10:42,628 --> 01:10:45,096 How can you bring yourself to say a thing like that? 668 01:10:45,131 --> 01:10:49,090 It's easy. It's the truth. 669 01:10:49,135 --> 01:10:52,434 You're here living like this because you have to... 670 01:10:52,471 --> 01:10:56,134 drink and sex and a kind of complacent melancholy... 671 01:10:56,175 --> 01:10:59,269 and enough money to soak yourself oblivious every night. 672 01:10:59,311 --> 01:11:03,008 But me... l'm here because I choose to be. 673 01:11:03,048 --> 01:11:05,016 Yes? 674 01:11:05,050 --> 01:11:07,143 Yes. 675 01:11:12,291 --> 01:11:14,782 And why exactly? 676 01:11:16,629 --> 01:11:19,792 Why did you choose to come to London with me? 677 01:11:21,300 --> 01:11:25,259 No doubt you regarded it as another stage in your odyssey... 678 01:11:25,304 --> 01:11:29,138 only by plunging ever deeper, if I may mix my myths... 679 01:11:29,175 --> 01:11:33,009 will you gain the right to graze on the slopes of Parnassus. 680 01:11:36,148 --> 01:11:39,049 Of course there are less subtle reasons... 681 01:11:39,084 --> 01:11:40,574 for putting up with me. 682 01:11:40,619 --> 01:11:43,110 Such as? 683 01:11:43,155 --> 01:11:45,646 Such as the fact that I support you. 684 01:11:51,997 --> 01:11:55,489 Your mind is almost as ugly as your body. 685 01:12:10,783 --> 01:12:12,648 Where are you going? 686 01:12:25,898 --> 01:12:27,798 - Are they fresh? - Yes. 687 01:12:33,973 --> 01:12:35,463 This one. 688 01:12:52,491 --> 01:12:54,186 God, you look such a cunt. 689 01:13:06,672 --> 01:13:08,333 Where are you going? 690 01:13:08,374 --> 01:13:11,104 Where are you going? 691 01:13:13,679 --> 01:13:15,738 Wait! 692 01:13:15,781 --> 01:13:17,248 Paul, wait! 693 01:13:26,959 --> 01:13:28,290 Move! 694 01:13:32,731 --> 01:13:34,426 Don't go! 695 01:13:34,466 --> 01:13:36,263 Come back! 696 01:13:36,302 --> 01:13:38,293 Don't leave me! 697 01:13:40,139 --> 01:13:42,630 Come back! 698 01:13:42,675 --> 01:13:44,575 I'm sorry! 699 01:13:48,514 --> 01:13:50,482 I'm sorry! 700 01:13:54,353 --> 01:13:57,447 How am I supposed to live? 701 01:13:57,489 --> 01:14:00,049 Come back. 702 01:14:00,092 --> 01:14:03,789 Please come back. You're my only friend. 703 01:14:03,829 --> 01:14:05,057 I promise you I'll behave myself. 704 01:14:05,097 --> 01:14:07,395 It was only a stupid joke. 705 01:14:07,433 --> 01:14:08,900 Sir? 706 01:14:08,934 --> 01:14:12,392 I can't tell you how sorry I am. 707 01:14:12,438 --> 01:14:16,101 When I called you, why didn't you get off the boat? 708 01:14:16,141 --> 01:14:19,941 We lived together for two years to finish like this? 709 01:14:21,947 --> 01:14:25,906 Think back to what you were before you met me. 710 01:14:25,951 --> 01:14:28,419 Listen to your heart. 711 01:14:28,454 --> 01:14:30,786 Yours for always. 712 01:15:07,926 --> 01:15:10,417 I'll go back to Paris tomorrow. 713 01:15:18,771 --> 01:15:22,400 Look... 714 01:15:22,441 --> 01:15:26,138 it won't happen again. 715 01:15:26,178 --> 01:15:28,908 I'll never walk out on you again, I promise. 716 01:15:28,947 --> 01:15:31,313 No, you won't. 717 01:15:31,350 --> 01:15:34,751 I'm not going to give you the chance. 718 01:15:34,787 --> 01:15:37,915 What was I supposed to do in London with no money? 719 01:15:37,956 --> 01:15:40,948 I'm sorry. I was very hot. 720 01:15:40,993 --> 01:15:44,360 For God's sakes, why? 721 01:15:44,396 --> 01:15:47,331 I've said far worse things to you than that. 722 01:15:58,210 --> 01:16:00,906 You really did look like a cunt. 723 01:16:40,953 --> 01:16:42,944 Where have you been? 724 01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:49,650 Out. 725 01:16:50,662 --> 01:16:52,562 I went to the Spanish embassy again... 726 01:16:52,598 --> 01:16:55,431 to see if they'd change their minds, but they wouldn't. 727 01:16:55,467 --> 01:16:57,435 It's fucking ridiculous. 728 01:16:57,469 --> 01:17:00,905 "I'm willing to fight and die for your cause. 729 01:17:00,939 --> 01:17:02,463 "You can't afford to turn away volunteers." 730 01:17:02,508 --> 01:17:05,204 They said they weren't taking on any foreigners. 731 01:17:05,244 --> 01:17:07,644 Then I said, "You deserve to lose the fucking war... 732 01:17:07,679 --> 01:17:09,704 "and I hope you do." 733 01:17:09,748 --> 01:17:12,376 You were at the Spanish embassy all morning? 734 01:17:12,417 --> 01:17:13,748 No. 735 01:17:15,420 --> 01:17:16,887 You're drunk. 736 01:17:16,922 --> 01:17:19,914 I have, yes, had a few drinks. 737 01:17:22,594 --> 01:17:24,061 What are you doing? 738 01:17:24,096 --> 01:17:25,961 Packing. 739 01:17:25,998 --> 01:17:27,556 Where are you going? 740 01:17:27,599 --> 01:17:30,067 I'm going back home to Roche. 741 01:17:30,102 --> 01:17:33,333 I'm going to finish my book and have it published. 742 01:17:33,372 --> 01:17:35,897 Oh, publish. 743 01:17:35,941 --> 01:17:38,739 I thought you were far too important for that. 744 01:17:38,777 --> 01:17:42,235 Anyway, I've decided. We're going back to London. 745 01:17:42,281 --> 01:17:44,306 We're not going back to London. 746 01:17:44,349 --> 01:17:46,613 It's by far the best idea. 747 01:17:46,652 --> 01:17:48,916 Then why did you go to the Spanish embassy? 748 01:17:48,954 --> 01:17:50,216 I didn't. 749 01:17:52,124 --> 01:17:55,423 Don't go. Think it over. 750 01:17:55,460 --> 01:17:57,121 I've thought it over. 751 01:18:06,905 --> 01:18:09,237 Do you know what day it is tomorrow? 752 01:18:09,274 --> 01:18:11,071 Friday. 753 01:18:12,244 --> 01:18:15,042 It's my wedding anniversary... 754 01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:17,674 and I haven't seen her, my wife... 755 01:18:17,716 --> 01:18:21,049 since we made love here in Brussels nearly a year ago. 756 01:18:21,086 --> 01:18:23,111 She won't answer my letters. 757 01:18:23,155 --> 01:18:26,522 I wrote her if she didn't come to Brussels within 3 days... 758 01:18:26,558 --> 01:18:29,152 I'd commit suicide, and she didn't even reply. 759 01:18:29,194 --> 01:18:32,027 But then you didn't commit suicide. 760 01:18:33,932 --> 01:18:36,400 I suppose you think that's funny. 761 01:18:36,435 --> 01:18:38,266 No, it's pitiful. 762 01:18:38,303 --> 01:18:41,761 How many people did you tell you were committing suicide? 763 01:18:41,807 --> 01:18:44,935 I'm surprised you didn't send out invitations. 764 01:18:48,847 --> 01:18:52,180 How can you be so callous? 765 01:18:52,217 --> 01:18:56,347 Callous? You abandon me in London... 766 01:18:56,388 --> 01:18:58,549 then summon me to Brussels and expect me to hang around... 767 01:18:58,590 --> 01:19:01,184 while you decide whether to leave your wife... 768 01:19:01,226 --> 01:19:03,694 join the army, or shoot yourself? 769 01:19:03,729 --> 01:19:05,697 Then when you fail to achieve any of these aims... 770 01:19:05,731 --> 01:19:07,323 as you undoubtedly will... 771 01:19:07,366 --> 01:19:09,334 you want me to go back to London with you! 772 01:19:09,368 --> 01:19:11,666 It's not gonna happen! I'm leaving you! 773 01:19:11,703 --> 01:19:14,467 You can't. 774 01:19:14,506 --> 01:19:16,371 You can't! 775 01:19:16,408 --> 01:19:17,875 Look, look. 776 01:19:17,910 --> 01:19:20,378 Look, this summer... 777 01:19:20,412 --> 01:19:23,381 Remember last summer when we set out... 778 01:19:23,415 --> 01:19:25,383 how wonderful it was? 779 01:19:25,417 --> 01:19:26,907 Remember? 780 01:19:28,921 --> 01:19:30,889 Why don't we go south? 781 01:19:30,923 --> 01:19:32,891 Late summer on the Mediterranean... 782 01:19:32,925 --> 01:19:35,393 we could dedicate ourselves to warmth. 783 01:19:35,427 --> 01:19:36,894 Or Africa. 784 01:19:36,929 --> 01:19:39,397 You've always wanted to go to Africa. 785 01:19:39,431 --> 01:19:42,400 Just for a month, then make up your mind. 786 01:19:42,434 --> 01:19:44,231 Look at the sun. 787 01:19:44,269 --> 01:19:45,930 No. 788 01:19:48,440 --> 01:19:50,431 Why not? 789 01:19:53,445 --> 01:19:54,912 I can't. 790 01:19:54,947 --> 01:19:56,915 It's no good. 791 01:19:56,949 --> 01:19:58,917 It's too late. 792 01:19:58,951 --> 01:20:02,114 It's not! 793 01:20:04,957 --> 01:20:07,289 I promise you, it's not. 794 01:20:09,461 --> 01:20:13,420 You know if you leave me, you'll kill me. 795 01:20:13,465 --> 01:20:15,933 I can't bear to be alone. 796 01:20:15,968 --> 01:20:19,426 I don't exist without someone else. 797 01:20:19,471 --> 01:20:25,068 I don't care if you stay with me out of pity, just stay! 798 01:20:27,980 --> 01:20:30,949 - I can't. - Why not? 799 01:20:30,983 --> 01:20:32,951 You don't care. 800 01:20:32,985 --> 01:20:35,453 You have no idea what this means. 801 01:20:35,487 --> 01:20:37,478 For God's sake, stop whining! 802 01:20:41,493 --> 01:20:42,983 It's very hot. 803 01:20:44,229 --> 01:20:46,993 Take off your coat. 804 01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:50,491 I will. 805 01:20:51,837 --> 01:20:54,499 I did some shopping this morning. 806 01:20:56,508 --> 01:20:58,169 I bought a gun. 807 01:21:01,480 --> 01:21:02,708 What for? 808 01:21:02,748 --> 01:21:07,117 For you, for me... for everybody. 809 01:21:11,957 --> 01:21:14,949 I hope you bought plenty of ammunition. 810 01:21:24,936 --> 01:21:28,269 I'm not going to let you go, you know. 811 01:21:28,306 --> 01:21:31,434 This is a rather entertaining number. 812 01:21:31,476 --> 01:21:33,171 We haven't seen this one before. 813 01:21:33,211 --> 01:21:34,542 I'll kill you! 814 01:21:34,579 --> 01:21:36,774 For God's sake, pull yourself together. 815 01:21:36,815 --> 01:21:38,715 I read your letter. 816 01:21:38,750 --> 01:21:41,446 You begged me to come back. 817 01:21:41,486 --> 01:21:44,455 You said you were crying as you wrote it. 818 01:21:44,489 --> 01:21:46,787 I could see your tears on the paper. 819 01:21:49,294 --> 01:21:53,162 That was before I thought of pawning your clothes. 820 01:22:15,954 --> 01:22:19,390 I didn't mean to. 821 01:22:19,424 --> 01:22:21,517 Look what you've done. 822 01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:24,427 I didn't mean to. I'm sorry. 823 01:22:24,463 --> 01:22:25,953 Look. 824 01:22:27,466 --> 01:22:29,934 Oh, my God. Kill me. 825 01:22:29,968 --> 01:22:31,299 Shoot me. 826 01:22:33,805 --> 01:22:35,067 Shoot me! 827 01:22:35,107 --> 01:22:37,439 How can I, you stupid fuck? 828 01:22:37,476 --> 01:22:39,944 You've just blown a hole in my hand. 829 01:22:39,978 --> 01:22:42,469 Oh, God. What have I done? 830 01:22:46,218 --> 01:22:47,913 You missed. 831 01:22:49,054 --> 01:22:50,817 Open up! 832 01:22:53,325 --> 01:22:55,156 Open up in there! 833 01:22:56,595 --> 01:22:59,462 What exactly are you doing in Brussels? 834 01:22:59,498 --> 01:23:02,399 I was hoping my wife might come and join me here... 835 01:23:02,434 --> 01:23:06,336 as she had done on one occasion since our separation. 836 01:23:06,371 --> 01:23:09,397 I fail to see how the departure of a friend... 837 01:23:09,441 --> 01:23:11,238 could have cast you into such despair. 838 01:23:11,276 --> 01:23:13,767 Did there perhaps exist between you and Rimbaud... 839 01:23:13,812 --> 01:23:15,939 other relations besides those of friendship? 840 01:23:15,981 --> 01:23:17,448 No. 841 01:23:18,950 --> 01:23:22,909 This is a suggestion slanderously invented... 842 01:23:22,954 --> 01:23:26,082 by my wife and her family. 843 01:23:50,115 --> 01:23:53,812 Take off your trousers and lie down on this, face down. 844 01:24:04,429 --> 01:24:06,397 Both doctors have testified... 845 01:24:06,431 --> 01:24:08,899 that on the basis of their examination... 846 01:24:08,934 --> 01:24:11,402 they are satisfied you have recently indulged... 847 01:24:11,436 --> 01:24:13,904 in both active and passive sodomy. 848 01:24:13,939 --> 01:24:15,406 Have they? 849 01:24:15,440 --> 01:24:17,408 Do you deny you're a practicing sodomist? 850 01:24:17,442 --> 01:24:19,569 The word is sodomite. 851 01:24:19,611 --> 01:24:23,411 Whatever the word may be, the activity it describes... 852 01:24:23,448 --> 01:24:26,281 is not one which is encouraged in Brussels. 853 01:24:35,193 --> 01:24:38,924 Paul Verlaine, the court finds you guilty... 854 01:24:38,964 --> 01:24:41,933 under Article 399 of the penal code... 855 01:24:41,967 --> 01:24:44,265 of grievous bodily harm and sentences you... 856 01:24:44,302 --> 01:24:50,172 to a fine of two hundred francs and two years imprisonment. 857 01:25:27,445 --> 01:25:29,436 Now what's the matter? 858 01:25:41,926 --> 01:25:43,450 Eat. 859 01:28:58,289 --> 01:29:00,257 God. 860 01:29:41,432 --> 01:29:43,923 What does it mean? 861 01:29:43,968 --> 01:29:46,528 I don't understand what it's supposed to mean. 862 01:29:46,571 --> 01:29:49,870 It means exactly what it says. 863 01:29:49,908 --> 01:29:51,967 Word for word. 864 01:29:52,010 --> 01:29:54,501 No more, no less. 865 01:30:32,050 --> 01:30:34,518 How are you? 866 01:30:34,552 --> 01:30:36,543 Where's your rosary? 867 01:30:38,056 --> 01:30:40,524 I thought you'd have a rosary. 868 01:30:40,558 --> 01:30:44,722 Is it true in prison they called you Jesus Christ? 869 01:30:44,762 --> 01:30:48,528 It happened quite suddenly. 870 01:30:48,566 --> 01:30:52,297 When the governor said Mathilde had been granted her divorce... 871 01:30:52,337 --> 01:30:55,704 I lay down and looked at my life... 872 01:30:55,740 --> 01:30:59,005 and saw there was nothing. 873 01:30:59,043 --> 01:31:03,104 The only thing I could do was submit myself to God... 874 01:31:03,147 --> 01:31:05,479 ask him to forgive me... 875 01:31:05,516 --> 01:31:07,984 and help me face my situation and He did. 876 01:31:08,019 --> 01:31:11,318 I promise you He did. 877 01:31:11,356 --> 01:31:14,484 Now you want us to love each other in Jesus? 878 01:31:14,525 --> 01:31:17,494 I want you to follow my example. 879 01:31:17,528 --> 01:31:21,931 I hope you didn't think I might be angry with you. 880 01:31:21,966 --> 01:31:22,990 No. 881 01:31:23,034 --> 01:31:25,798 You didn't know I'd be put away so long. 882 01:31:25,837 --> 01:31:27,964 I certainly forgave you for it. 883 01:31:28,006 --> 01:31:30,497 - I didn't forgive you. - What for? 884 01:31:32,276 --> 01:31:33,538 For missing. 885 01:31:35,546 --> 01:31:38,515 Tell me. Why did you come here? 886 01:31:38,549 --> 01:31:44,010 I want you to find some direction in your life. 887 01:31:44,055 --> 01:31:47,024 I want God to help you achieve your aims. 888 01:31:47,058 --> 01:31:49,891 Aims? I have no aims. 889 01:31:49,927 --> 01:31:53,055 - Your writing. - I've stopped writing. 890 01:31:53,097 --> 01:31:54,564 I don't understand. 891 01:31:54,599 --> 01:31:56,760 Let me put it another way. 892 01:31:56,801 --> 01:31:59,133 I no longer write. 893 01:31:59,170 --> 01:32:00,569 Why not? 894 01:32:00,605 --> 01:32:03,267 Because I have nothing more to say. 895 01:32:03,307 --> 01:32:06,470 If I ever had anything to say in the first place. 896 01:32:06,511 --> 01:32:08,502 Nonsense. 897 01:32:08,546 --> 01:32:12,505 I thought that what I did would make a difference... 898 01:32:12,550 --> 01:32:15,849 change the world. 899 01:32:15,887 --> 01:32:19,846 I thought nothing would ever be the same again. 900 01:32:19,891 --> 01:32:22,359 But it's no good. 901 01:32:22,393 --> 01:32:25,851 The world is too old, and there's nothing new. 902 01:32:25,897 --> 01:32:28,024 It's all been said. 903 01:32:28,066 --> 01:32:32,025 Not in the way you can say it. You have a gift. 904 01:32:32,070 --> 01:32:34,038 It's no good throwing it away... 905 01:32:34,072 --> 01:32:36,540 because your expectations were unrealistic. 906 01:32:36,574 --> 01:32:39,042 It's the expectations you should change. 907 01:32:39,077 --> 01:32:43,537 It's my gift. I can do what I like with it. 908 01:32:43,581 --> 01:32:46,311 But you can't give up. You've hardly begun. 909 01:32:46,350 --> 01:32:48,875 Don't worry. I'll be very good at it. 910 01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:51,889 No one will be able to touch me. 911 01:32:51,923 --> 01:32:54,790 The master of silence. 912 01:32:54,826 --> 01:32:58,887 But if we don't, who's going to tell the truth? 913 01:32:58,930 --> 01:33:02,366 Three years ago, you said the truth was this and that. 914 01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:04,334 Then along comes the angel of the Lord... 915 01:33:04,368 --> 01:33:08,566 and the truth is something completely different. 916 01:33:08,606 --> 01:33:10,904 But I've changed. Change... 917 01:33:10,942 --> 01:33:14,173 I thought that was what you wanted. 918 01:33:14,212 --> 01:33:16,339 You've changed, have you? 919 01:33:16,380 --> 01:33:17,870 Yes. 920 01:33:23,888 --> 01:33:27,415 Then here, in the wilderness... 921 01:33:27,458 --> 01:33:30,359 I offer you an archetypal choice... 922 01:33:30,394 --> 01:33:33,852 a choice between my body... 923 01:33:33,898 --> 01:33:36,867 and my soul. 924 01:33:36,901 --> 01:33:38,596 Choose. 925 01:33:40,404 --> 01:33:41,894 Choose. 926 01:33:45,910 --> 01:33:47,309 Your body. 927 01:33:49,147 --> 01:33:53,641 Let the ninety-eight wounds of our Savior burst and bleed. 928 01:33:58,923 --> 01:34:00,356 Don't. 929 01:34:07,064 --> 01:34:10,329 Listen... I sat in my cell... 930 01:34:10,368 --> 01:34:12,836 and thought how happy we could be. 931 01:34:12,870 --> 01:34:16,328 It should be the easiest thing in the world. 932 01:34:16,374 --> 01:34:17,864 Why isn't it? 933 01:34:17,909 --> 01:34:20,844 Because it never worked for us. 934 01:34:20,878 --> 01:34:24,370 It will never work for either of us. 935 01:34:24,415 --> 01:34:28,078 I wanted us to go away together. 936 01:34:28,119 --> 01:34:30,019 Yes. 937 01:34:30,054 --> 01:34:32,818 What am I going to do? 938 01:34:32,857 --> 01:34:36,349 You'll have to find somebody else. 939 01:34:36,394 --> 01:34:37,793 No. 940 01:34:37,829 --> 01:34:39,797 No, no, I can't, please. 941 01:34:39,831 --> 01:34:41,355 - Let go. - Please. 942 01:34:41,399 --> 01:34:43,867 Let go! Let go! 943 01:36:19,864 --> 01:36:22,833 "I shall return with limbs of steel... 944 01:36:22,867 --> 01:36:27,668 "And dark skin and wrathful eye. 945 01:36:27,705 --> 01:36:30,833 "I shall have money. 946 01:36:30,875 --> 01:36:34,777 "I shall be cruel and idle. 947 01:36:34,812 --> 01:36:36,370 "I'll be saved." 948 01:36:38,883 --> 01:36:40,145 What? 949 01:36:40,184 --> 01:36:42,846 Something he wrote. 950 01:36:42,887 --> 01:36:45,685 The point is, Mr. Verlaine, to speak frankly... 951 01:36:45,723 --> 01:36:48,191 a number of poems he wrote in extreme youth... 952 01:36:48,225 --> 01:36:50,853 were quite indecent... 953 01:36:50,895 --> 01:36:53,523 and in some cases, even profane. 954 01:36:53,564 --> 01:36:56,533 He wouldn't have wished to be remembered for them. 955 01:36:56,567 --> 01:37:00,025 My mother and I plan to destroy those works... 956 01:37:00,071 --> 01:37:02,005 he would have destroyed himself. 957 01:37:02,039 --> 01:37:03,506 I see. 958 01:37:06,344 --> 01:37:09,313 What you may not know... 959 01:37:09,347 --> 01:37:12,874 is that Arthur was converted. 960 01:37:12,917 --> 01:37:14,908 Converted? 961 01:37:14,952 --> 01:37:17,819 I reasoned with him... 962 01:37:17,855 --> 01:37:22,815 and prayed for him for weeks while he was ill... 963 01:37:22,860 --> 01:37:27,820 and eventually he asked to be confessed. 964 01:37:27,865 --> 01:37:32,165 God kept him alive long enough to repent... 965 01:37:32,203 --> 01:37:34,637 so that he could be saved. 966 01:37:34,672 --> 01:37:36,469 What was the matter with him? 967 01:37:36,507 --> 01:37:39,499 He had a tumor on his knee. 968 01:37:41,879 --> 01:37:44,848 That's very strange. 969 01:37:44,882 --> 01:37:46,850 Why? 970 01:37:46,884 --> 01:37:52,322 That's what I have... a tumor on my knee. 971 01:37:53,858 --> 01:37:56,326 He spent ten years in Abyssinia. 972 01:37:56,360 --> 01:37:58,123 He explored the whole country... 973 01:37:58,162 --> 01:38:01,063 places no white man had ever been... 974 01:38:01,098 --> 01:38:04,795 and he ran a trading post in Harar. 975 01:38:04,835 --> 01:38:07,429 There was no doctor there... 976 01:38:07,471 --> 01:38:10,304 but he wouldn't leave his work. 977 01:38:10,341 --> 01:38:14,801 He insisted on staying until the pain became unbearable. 978 01:38:14,845 --> 01:38:17,313 Then he designed himself a litter... 979 01:38:17,348 --> 01:38:20,943 and hired ten men to carry him to the coast. 980 01:38:22,853 --> 01:38:25,845 The journey took more than two weeks. 981 01:38:27,858 --> 01:38:30,918 In Africa... 982 01:38:30,961 --> 01:38:34,328 did he write poetry? 983 01:38:34,365 --> 01:38:35,855 No. 984 01:39:54,378 --> 01:39:56,346 On. 985 01:39:56,380 --> 01:39:58,371 On. 986 01:40:07,191 --> 01:40:09,853 First, as soon as he arrived... 987 01:40:09,894 --> 01:40:12,863 he went into the hospital in Marseilles... 988 01:40:15,399 --> 01:40:17,890 and they cut off his leg. 989 01:41:09,086 --> 01:41:11,850 What's the matter? 990 01:41:11,889 --> 01:41:15,882 Don't you see the carriages driving in the sky? 991 01:41:26,403 --> 01:41:28,963 I have to help people, you see. 992 01:41:29,006 --> 01:41:31,372 It's my duty. 993 01:41:31,408 --> 01:41:33,376 I know you do. 994 01:41:33,410 --> 01:41:36,902 I don't want money unless it's drenched in blood. 995 01:41:43,420 --> 01:41:46,412 Maybe the sea will wash away the stains. 996 01:41:48,425 --> 01:41:49,824 Maybe. 997 01:41:55,432 --> 01:41:59,300 There's one thing, Isabelle, you must promise me. 998 01:41:59,336 --> 01:42:01,827 It's very important. Will you promise? 999 01:42:01,872 --> 01:42:03,362 What? 1000 01:42:07,478 --> 01:42:09,378 Never let them amputate. 1001 01:42:23,994 --> 01:42:26,519 He would only stay at home a month. 1002 01:42:28,732 --> 01:42:32,224 He kept saying he had to travel back towards the sun... 1003 01:42:33,971 --> 01:42:36,462 that the sun would heal him. 1004 01:43:47,911 --> 01:43:49,708 Please, don't get up. 1005 01:43:51,315 --> 01:43:53,374 Let me see you to your hotel. 1006 01:43:53,417 --> 01:43:55,885 No, no. It was an honor... 1007 01:43:55,919 --> 01:43:57,716 to meet such a distinguished poet. 1008 01:43:59,923 --> 01:44:02,187 A pleasure to meet you. 1009 01:44:04,228 --> 01:44:07,823 You have my card, don't you? 1010 01:44:07,865 --> 01:44:11,323 Will you send the manuscripts to that address? 1011 01:44:11,368 --> 01:44:14,030 - Of course. - Please don't forget. 1012 01:44:14,071 --> 01:44:18,838 We shall make a very careful selection of what is to survive. 1013 01:44:18,876 --> 01:44:20,366 Good-bye. 1014 01:44:37,294 --> 01:44:39,285 Absinthe... two. 1015 01:45:23,874 --> 01:45:26,001 Tell me if you love me. 1016 01:45:28,579 --> 01:45:30,774 You know I'm very fond of you. 1017 01:45:36,553 --> 01:45:37,781 Do you love me? 1018 01:45:41,124 --> 01:45:42,853 Put your hand on the table. 1019 01:45:42,893 --> 01:45:44,656 What? 1020 01:45:44,695 --> 01:45:47,220 Put your hand on the table. 1021 01:45:50,801 --> 01:45:52,928 Palm upwards. 1022 01:46:52,896 --> 01:46:56,354 Since he died, I see him every night... 1023 01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:59,733 my great and radiant sin. 1024 01:47:02,005 --> 01:47:06,305 We were always happy... always. 1025 01:47:06,343 --> 01:47:07,833 I remember. 1026 01:47:11,848 --> 01:47:13,372 I found it. 1027 01:47:15,852 --> 01:47:17,183 What? 1028 01:47:18,855 --> 01:47:21,323 Eternity. 1029 01:47:21,358 --> 01:47:24,816 It's the sun mingled... 1030 01:47:24,861 --> 01:47:26,658 with the sea.