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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:16,809 --> 00:00:19,270 Three things are important in History. 2 00:00:19,437 --> 00:00:20,855 First of all, numbers… 3 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,524 secondly, numbers… 4 00:00:23,691 --> 00:00:25,651 and thirdly, numbers. 5 00:00:27,236 --> 00:00:29,405 This means, for example… 6 00:00:29,572 --> 00:00:31,741 the blacks in South Africa… 7 00:00:31,907 --> 00:00:34,952 are bound to win some day… 8 00:00:35,119 --> 00:00:39,707 while North American blacks will probably never make it. 9 00:00:40,666 --> 00:00:44,211 History is not a moral science. 10 00:00:45,755 --> 00:00:48,841 Legality, compassion, justice… 11 00:00:50,092 --> 00:00:53,137 such notions are foreign to history. 12 00:03:42,723 --> 00:03:45,559 Interview with Dominique St-Arnaud, by Diane Léonard… 13 00:03:45,726 --> 00:03:48,437 for, Writers Today. 14 00:03:51,732 --> 00:03:54,902 You're Chairperson of the History Department… 15 00:03:55,069 --> 00:04:00,115 and you've just published Changing Concepts of Happiness. 16 00:04:00,282 --> 00:04:02,201 Can you tell us about it? 17 00:04:02,368 --> 00:04:07,081 It's my premise that the concept of personal happiness… 18 00:04:07,248 --> 00:04:11,669 permeates the literature of a nation or civilization… 19 00:04:11,835 --> 00:04:14,338 as its influence wanes. 20 00:04:14,505 --> 00:04:16,966 What do you mean by "personal happiness"? 21 00:04:17,132 --> 00:04:20,344 The expectation of receiving… 22 00:04:20,511 --> 00:04:22,554 instant gratification in daily life… 23 00:04:22,721 --> 00:04:26,058 and that this gratification constitutes… 24 00:04:26,225 --> 00:04:28,852 the normative parameter of existence. 25 00:04:29,019 --> 00:04:31,939 Can you give us a concrete example? 26 00:04:33,857 --> 00:04:37,903 Take marriage, for instance. 27 00:04:38,195 --> 00:04:39,613 In stable societies, marriage 28 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:41,532 is a mode of economic exchange… 29 00:04:41,699 --> 00:04:43,617 or a unit of production. 30 00:04:43,784 --> 00:04:45,244 Meaning? 31 00:04:45,411 --> 00:04:47,871 The success of a marriage doesn't depend 32 00:04:48,038 --> 00:04:51,250 on the personal happiness of the 2 individuals. 33 00:04:51,417 --> 00:04:53,877 The issue never even comes up. 34 00:04:54,044 --> 00:04:56,797 A developing society places greater importance… 35 00:04:56,964 --> 00:05:00,509 on the collective good, or future happiness… 36 00:05:00,676 --> 00:05:03,345 than on personal satisfaction. 37 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,057 In Rome, for example… 38 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:09,560 the idea of conjugal love first prevails 39 00:05:09,727 --> 00:05:11,854 in the 3rd century, under Diocletian… 40 00:05:12,021 --> 00:05:14,857 as the Empire is collapsing. 41 00:05:15,024 --> 00:05:19,111 And in Europe, Rousseau's idea of happiness… 42 00:05:19,278 --> 00:05:21,405 ushered in the French Revolution. 43 00:05:22,197 --> 00:05:23,991 So I pose the question: 44 00:05:24,158 --> 00:05:26,702 Is the frantic drive for personal happiness… 45 00:05:26,869 --> 00:05:29,621 we see in society today… 46 00:05:29,788 --> 00:05:33,542 linked to the decline of the American empire… 47 00:05:33,709 --> 00:05:35,419 as we are now experiencing it? 48 00:05:36,754 --> 00:05:37,963 How's that? 49 00:05:38,922 --> 00:05:42,092 I need another 5 minutes. Milan Kundera didn't show. 50 00:05:42,259 --> 00:05:43,635 Just stretch it out. 51 00:05:43,802 --> 00:05:44,887 How? 52 00:05:45,054 --> 00:05:49,183 Social disintegration, decay of the elites, you know. 53 00:05:53,312 --> 00:05:57,358 Strange that she barely mentions women in her book. 54 00:05:57,524 --> 00:05:59,234 - It wasn't her subject. - Still… 55 00:05:59,401 --> 00:06:00,819 To ignore it… 56 00:06:00,986 --> 00:06:05,449 Who'd want to equate feminine power with social decay? 57 00:06:05,616 --> 00:06:09,286 But women's rise to power has always been linked to decline. 58 00:06:09,453 --> 00:06:11,455 It's symptomatic. 59 00:06:11,622 --> 00:06:13,290 You can tell her that later. 60 00:06:13,457 --> 00:06:14,708 Thanks! 61 00:06:16,585 --> 00:06:18,420 Speaking of feminine power… 62 00:06:18,587 --> 00:06:22,466 you should see the Vietnamese girl in my class! 63 00:06:22,633 --> 00:06:25,219 With Orientals, I have this feeling… 64 00:06:25,386 --> 00:06:28,180 they're giving my money to their sick brother. 65 00:06:28,347 --> 00:06:31,600 I can't imagine them ontologically perverse. 66 00:06:41,777 --> 00:06:45,531 Sebastian broke the window in the back door. 67 00:06:45,697 --> 00:06:49,034 I've covered it, but should I call in a repairman? 68 00:06:49,201 --> 00:06:50,702 I'll do it Monday. 69 00:06:50,869 --> 00:06:55,040 And my car's dead. It must be the starter. 70 00:06:55,207 --> 00:06:59,628 Sylvaine had a fit 'cause I couldn't drive her to ballet. 71 00:06:59,837 --> 00:07:01,088 Uh-huh. 72 00:07:01,255 --> 00:07:04,091 Dominique and Diane aren't here yet. 73 00:07:04,258 --> 00:07:06,885 So don't worry if we're a little late. 74 00:07:08,011 --> 00:07:10,180 No problem, we'll wait. 75 00:07:10,347 --> 00:07:12,808 Danielle wants to speak to Pierre. 76 00:07:19,064 --> 00:07:21,024 I love you. 77 00:07:21,191 --> 00:07:22,359 Really? 78 00:07:22,526 --> 00:07:23,694 You? 79 00:07:23,861 --> 00:07:24,862 Me? 80 00:07:25,028 --> 00:07:26,405 You still love me? 81 00:07:27,197 --> 00:07:28,365 Yes, of course. 82 00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:32,786 You're scared to say it because of Rémy, eh? 83 00:07:34,121 --> 00:07:36,707 See you later. 84 00:07:42,212 --> 00:07:43,380 Can we help? 85 00:07:43,881 --> 00:07:45,716 After I've prepared the trout. 86 00:07:45,883 --> 00:07:47,134 The shallots please. 87 00:07:58,604 --> 00:08:00,522 My back's really hurting. 88 00:08:00,689 --> 00:08:02,191 You should take a swim. 89 00:08:02,357 --> 00:08:05,068 The water's so cold, and I swim badly. 90 00:08:06,403 --> 00:08:09,907 Making love is the only exercise I really enjoy. 91 00:08:10,407 --> 00:08:13,243 After 15 years' marriage… I'm out of shape. 92 00:08:13,410 --> 00:08:14,745 Turn over. 93 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:29,468 Oh, to be slim, young and attractive… 94 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:31,303 I'm forever on a diet. 95 00:08:32,596 --> 00:08:34,848 I weigh myself every morning. 96 00:08:35,015 --> 00:08:38,352 I'm terrified of getting flabby. 97 00:08:39,019 --> 00:08:40,020 My problem is… 98 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:43,815 I was born in the wrong era. 99 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:46,068 I was made to be fat. 100 00:08:48,862 --> 00:08:50,155 My grandmother, 101 00:08:50,322 --> 00:08:52,032 never did anything more strenuous… 102 00:08:52,199 --> 00:08:54,618 than play the organ in church. 103 00:08:54,785 --> 00:08:58,205 She was an enormous woman who loved to eat… 104 00:08:58,372 --> 00:09:00,582 and drank vermouth with her sugar donuts. 105 00:09:03,293 --> 00:09:06,171 In those days, men liked their women big. 106 00:09:07,589 --> 00:09:08,882 There's no vesiga, I suppose. 107 00:09:09,049 --> 00:09:11,552 Use the tapioca. 108 00:09:11,718 --> 00:09:16,181 There's a Polish store that sometimes has vesiga. 109 00:09:16,348 --> 00:09:19,351 But it's way out in Brossard! 110 00:09:19,518 --> 00:09:24,856 I took Leni Eisenbach to a Chinese restaurant in Brossard. 111 00:09:25,023 --> 00:09:26,650 In Brossard? 112 00:09:26,817 --> 00:09:29,611 Is there a good Chinese restaurant in Brossard? 113 00:09:33,282 --> 00:09:34,575 What? 114 00:09:34,741 --> 00:09:36,618 Hand me the parsley. 115 00:09:37,578 --> 00:09:39,288 I was still married then. 116 00:09:40,372 --> 00:09:41,873 I don't get it. 117 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:46,253 Visual idiots! Perhaps you should draw him a picture. 118 00:09:46,420 --> 00:09:47,588 So, tell me. 119 00:09:48,255 --> 00:09:52,718 A month before, I'd invited a student to Delmo's for seafood. 120 00:09:52,884 --> 00:09:56,722 Naturally, intending to screw her madly afterwards. 121 00:09:56,888 --> 00:09:58,724 Never changes. 122 00:09:58,890 --> 00:10:03,020 A friend of my wife's spotted us. 123 00:10:03,186 --> 00:10:05,105 She had just separated. 124 00:10:05,272 --> 00:10:07,774 Her husband was cheating on her of course. 125 00:10:07,941 --> 00:10:09,443 She hated men. 126 00:10:09,610 --> 00:10:11,069 Familiar tune. 127 00:10:11,778 --> 00:10:15,907 At 4 a.m. when I say the faculty meeting ended late… 128 00:10:16,074 --> 00:10:20,078 my wife asks me if the oysters were fresh. 129 00:10:20,245 --> 00:10:22,956 Horror of horrors! 130 00:10:23,790 --> 00:10:27,085 This explains why married men frequent the suburbs. 131 00:10:29,129 --> 00:10:32,049 I discovered amyl nitrite in Brossard. 132 00:10:32,215 --> 00:10:33,258 What's that? 133 00:10:33,425 --> 00:10:35,052 Drug for heart patients… 134 00:10:35,218 --> 00:10:37,554 dilates the blood vessels instantly. 135 00:10:37,721 --> 00:10:40,098 You had a heart attack, in Brossard? 136 00:10:41,475 --> 00:10:44,394 I'd picked up 2 girls hitching to New York. 137 00:10:44,561 --> 00:10:45,812 Couldn't pass them by. 138 00:10:45,979 --> 00:10:47,272 Not at night! 139 00:10:48,649 --> 00:10:50,150 So I paid for their motel. 140 00:10:50,317 --> 00:10:51,860 Ah, Christian charity! 141 00:10:52,027 --> 00:10:53,820 It had its rewards! 142 00:10:53,987 --> 00:10:56,281 They offered to sleep with me. 143 00:10:56,448 --> 00:10:58,116 Two kind souls. 144 00:10:58,283 --> 00:11:00,077 Lovely bodies too. 145 00:11:01,662 --> 00:11:06,583 One of them placed a tiny pill on the night table. 146 00:11:06,750 --> 00:11:08,335 Is that the chicken stock? 147 00:11:08,502 --> 00:11:10,253 Yeah, and get the velouté. 148 00:11:10,420 --> 00:11:15,300 She told me to take the pill 15 seconds before coming. 149 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,429 Amyl nitrite just before orgasm… 150 00:11:19,596 --> 00:11:22,641 Absolute ecstasy… St. John of the Cross. 151 00:11:22,808 --> 00:11:25,936 But it ages your heart years. 152 00:11:26,103 --> 00:11:28,563 I'm such a jerk… 153 00:11:28,730 --> 00:11:32,109 I was so excited, I forgot to take it. 154 00:11:33,527 --> 00:11:35,612 I brought it home… 155 00:11:39,157 --> 00:11:41,535 and took it the next night, with my wife. 156 00:11:41,702 --> 00:11:45,706 Told her it was a test for the school of pharmacology! 157 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:16,653 There's a diver in the pool. 158 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:18,447 He must be from the club. 159 00:12:19,614 --> 00:12:21,158 You're shivering! 160 00:12:21,658 --> 00:12:23,326 The water's freezing. 161 00:12:23,493 --> 00:12:25,871 Go take a sauna. 162 00:12:28,290 --> 00:12:29,499 What're those? 163 00:12:29,666 --> 00:12:30,751 What? 164 00:12:30,917 --> 00:12:32,294 Those marks. 165 00:12:32,461 --> 00:12:34,421 Nothing… from my judo class. 166 00:12:37,883 --> 00:12:39,259 Judo? 167 00:12:42,304 --> 00:12:45,098 So I told my daughter. She's insanely jealous. 168 00:12:49,853 --> 00:12:53,190 I'm having a weird affair with this guy. 169 00:12:53,356 --> 00:12:54,900 Unbelievable. 170 00:12:55,066 --> 00:12:57,277 Someone I met in a bar. 171 00:12:57,444 --> 00:12:59,279 What does he do? 172 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:02,032 I prefer not to know. 173 00:13:02,199 --> 00:13:06,620 For openers, he said it was time I met a man like him… 174 00:13:06,787 --> 00:13:08,205 a real man. 175 00:13:17,255 --> 00:13:19,883 He's never made love to me normally… 176 00:13:20,050 --> 00:13:21,718 always from behind… 177 00:13:21,885 --> 00:13:23,386 like a man. 178 00:13:24,054 --> 00:13:28,141 Before him, I couldn't stand that. 179 00:13:29,267 --> 00:13:32,062 The first few times he pulled on my hair… 180 00:13:32,229 --> 00:13:34,147 like a mane. 181 00:13:37,734 --> 00:13:39,069 Then… 182 00:13:39,236 --> 00:13:41,571 he started spanking me… 183 00:13:42,739 --> 00:13:44,449 on my ass and thighs. 184 00:13:45,575 --> 00:13:48,203 Next it was his leather belt. 185 00:13:50,997 --> 00:13:53,208 Then he began… 186 00:13:53,375 --> 00:13:56,419 tying me to the radiator… 187 00:13:58,213 --> 00:14:01,174 In more and more degrading positions. 188 00:14:02,843 --> 00:14:04,970 I had never come like that. 189 00:14:06,179 --> 00:14:07,931 But I have to stop. 190 00:14:09,015 --> 00:14:10,559 It's getting dangerous. 191 00:14:11,643 --> 00:14:13,228 You're afraid of him? 192 00:14:15,981 --> 00:14:18,859 No, it's me I'm afraid of. 193 00:14:24,739 --> 00:14:27,534 I'm the one who always wants to go further. 194 00:14:28,451 --> 00:14:29,911 I'm the one in control. 195 00:14:31,580 --> 00:14:33,498 I've never felt so powerful. 196 00:14:33,665 --> 00:14:36,334 The power of the victim is incredible. 197 00:14:42,382 --> 00:14:44,634 He's totally dependent on me. 198 00:14:44,801 --> 00:14:47,554 It's got nothing to do with wife beating. 199 00:14:47,721 --> 00:14:51,474 It's a game that has fixed rules but no limits. 200 00:14:52,809 --> 00:14:55,520 We could even kill each other. 201 00:14:55,687 --> 00:14:58,648 The strangest part is, I don't love him. 202 00:14:58,815 --> 00:15:00,275 He knows… 203 00:15:00,442 --> 00:15:03,194 how to get right into me. 204 00:15:04,946 --> 00:15:08,325 You lie through your teeth, that's what saves you. 205 00:15:09,367 --> 00:15:11,119 What else can one do? 206 00:15:11,286 --> 00:15:13,788 Lying is the basis of all love affairs… 207 00:15:13,955 --> 00:15:17,042 of our very social existence. 208 00:15:17,208 --> 00:15:18,710 Refusing to lie 209 00:15:18,877 --> 00:15:21,129 would be much the same as 210 00:15:21,296 --> 00:15:25,800 telling an eminent colleague from Laval University… 211 00:15:25,967 --> 00:15:27,552 who's devoted years 212 00:15:27,719 --> 00:15:30,305 to the history of Catholicism in Canada… 213 00:15:30,472 --> 00:15:32,265 that he can take… 214 00:15:32,432 --> 00:15:34,267 Bishop Bourget's sermons… 215 00:15:34,434 --> 00:15:36,770 roll them very tightly… 216 00:15:36,937 --> 00:15:39,230 and slowly shove them up his ass. 217 00:15:40,357 --> 00:15:42,025 Not Bishop Bourget's sermons! 218 00:15:46,196 --> 00:15:47,238 Instead… 219 00:15:47,405 --> 00:15:50,241 you shake his hand warmly and say… 220 00:15:50,408 --> 00:15:51,993 "Very impressive!" 221 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,037 "Outstanding research!" 222 00:15:54,204 --> 00:15:55,413 Think so? 223 00:15:55,580 --> 00:15:57,123 "Brilliant fact checking!" 224 00:15:57,290 --> 00:16:00,085 Really, gentlemen, you're embarrassing me! 225 00:16:01,378 --> 00:16:03,046 Same with women. 226 00:16:03,213 --> 00:16:05,423 "Your hairdo makes you years younger." 227 00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:07,342 "I thought about you all day." 228 00:16:07,509 --> 00:16:09,135 "Wanted to call." 229 00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:10,595 "We can still be friends." 230 00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:13,056 I couldn't endure a separation. 231 00:16:13,223 --> 00:16:14,849 The screaming, threats of suicide… 232 00:16:35,787 --> 00:16:39,791 finding an apartment, fighting over the furniture. 233 00:16:39,958 --> 00:16:43,795 I knew a couple who even divided up their spice jars. 234 00:16:44,838 --> 00:16:46,589 It's easier to stay together. 235 00:16:46,756 --> 00:16:50,760 Couples renovate their houses… 236 00:16:50,927 --> 00:16:53,304 cross-country ski to Povoknituk… 237 00:16:53,471 --> 00:16:55,890 go sailing across the Atlantic. 238 00:16:56,141 --> 00:16:58,518 Or scour the sex shops for 239 00:16:58,685 --> 00:17:01,187 chains and whatever. 240 00:17:01,354 --> 00:17:05,608 They swap wives in suburbia. 241 00:17:05,775 --> 00:17:09,571 Anything to escape the years of boredom. 242 00:17:10,071 --> 00:17:12,365 Love, the kind 243 00:17:12,532 --> 00:17:15,285 that makes your heart race… 244 00:17:15,452 --> 00:17:16,953 makes you send flowers… 245 00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:20,248 lasts 2 years at best. 246 00:17:21,291 --> 00:17:23,877 Then the compromises begin. 247 00:17:24,919 --> 00:17:27,047 Life's a compromise. 248 00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:29,299 We've been married years… 249 00:17:29,466 --> 00:17:31,259 and still have wonderful times. 250 00:17:32,761 --> 00:17:34,471 You don't have kids. 251 00:17:34,637 --> 00:17:36,306 It's not the same. 252 00:17:37,182 --> 00:17:39,809 I want to be with mine every day… 253 00:17:41,102 --> 00:17:42,896 not every other weekend. 254 00:17:44,856 --> 00:17:46,191 You're flushed. 255 00:17:46,357 --> 00:17:49,110 Oh…? My sauce won't thicken. 256 00:17:49,277 --> 00:17:51,738 I divorced for purely physical reasons. 257 00:17:52,781 --> 00:17:55,075 I was scared to death of the phone. 258 00:17:57,202 --> 00:17:59,954 When you have affairs… 259 00:18:00,121 --> 00:18:03,041 the poor things are bound to fall in love. 260 00:18:03,208 --> 00:18:04,459 It was awful… 261 00:18:05,376 --> 00:18:10,090 knowing one day, one of them would call me at home. 262 00:18:11,883 --> 00:18:14,385 Every time the phone rang… 263 00:18:16,096 --> 00:18:18,640 my heart skipped a beat. 264 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:24,646 It's been years now. 265 00:18:24,854 --> 00:18:27,607 With Danielle, it's different. 266 00:18:27,774 --> 00:18:30,735 Still, when the phone rings at night… 267 00:18:34,322 --> 00:18:36,616 I panic, totally. 268 00:18:42,622 --> 00:18:43,915 Hold on. 269 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:46,167 Who is it? 270 00:18:46,334 --> 00:18:48,169 A woman. 271 00:18:55,051 --> 00:18:57,679 Oh, hi mom. 272 00:18:57,846 --> 00:18:59,597 The young lady who answered…? 273 00:19:08,481 --> 00:19:11,693 A girl called you last night. 274 00:19:12,944 --> 00:19:14,279 She spoke English. 275 00:19:14,445 --> 00:19:15,488 Oh yeah? 276 00:19:18,324 --> 00:19:20,618 I didn't understand much. 277 00:19:20,785 --> 00:19:22,495 Guess not. 278 00:19:26,166 --> 00:19:28,751 She said her name was Barbara. 279 00:19:34,299 --> 00:19:38,178 Must be the girl from the conference in San Diego. 280 00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:45,894 She sends… 281 00:19:47,437 --> 00:19:49,189 "a warm kiss". 282 00:19:50,815 --> 00:19:51,983 Oh? 283 00:19:53,151 --> 00:19:55,195 She's a lovely girl. 284 00:19:55,361 --> 00:19:56,988 Terrific organizer. 285 00:20:05,914 --> 00:20:07,874 Barbara Michalski! 286 00:20:11,669 --> 00:20:13,922 She'd done her Ph.D. at San Diego… 287 00:20:14,088 --> 00:20:17,342 on the impact of working women in Chicano families. 288 00:20:19,177 --> 00:20:20,845 She was brilliant. 289 00:20:21,763 --> 00:20:23,556 That's what seduction's about… 290 00:20:23,806 --> 00:20:26,476 not big breasts or long legs. 291 00:20:26,643 --> 00:20:27,894 It's in the mind. 292 00:20:29,145 --> 00:20:31,397 We were together only days. 293 00:20:31,564 --> 00:20:34,442 We went camping in the Baja. 294 00:20:34,609 --> 00:20:36,277 I knew nothing about psychology. 295 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,572 So at night, before we made love… 296 00:20:39,739 --> 00:20:43,409 she'd tell me about R.D. Laing, anti-psychiatry… 297 00:20:43,576 --> 00:20:45,536 so many things. 298 00:20:45,703 --> 00:20:47,956 I could've listened to her for nights on end. 299 00:20:51,542 --> 00:20:52,627 Hi, Rémy. 300 00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:57,757 Sorry I'm early. 301 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,218 Am I disturbing you? 302 00:21:00,385 --> 00:21:02,053 Not at all. 303 00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:03,554 What are you up to? 304 00:21:03,721 --> 00:21:05,139 Some filing. 305 00:21:05,306 --> 00:21:06,557 What's in that file? 306 00:21:06,724 --> 00:21:07,684 Nothing. 307 00:21:07,850 --> 00:21:09,727 It's on Shiite factions in Lebanon. 308 00:21:09,894 --> 00:21:11,020 Are you sure? 309 00:21:11,187 --> 00:21:12,397 Why Lulu… 310 00:21:12,563 --> 00:21:15,358 I'm as clear as spring water. 311 00:21:15,525 --> 00:21:17,318 Yeah, transparent even. 312 00:21:17,485 --> 00:21:19,320 Wholesome as fresh bread. 313 00:21:19,487 --> 00:21:21,322 What became of her? 314 00:21:23,074 --> 00:21:24,701 I don't know. 315 00:21:26,911 --> 00:21:29,956 We used to phone each other. 316 00:21:30,123 --> 00:21:32,083 Then she disappeared. 317 00:21:33,459 --> 00:21:35,795 Probably married some dumb Mexican. 318 00:21:38,715 --> 00:21:41,217 Whenever I'm in the library… 319 00:21:41,592 --> 00:21:45,138 I look for her name in the psychology journals. 320 00:21:45,513 --> 00:21:47,765 I'll probably never see her again. 321 00:21:50,768 --> 00:21:51,978 I think about her a lot. 322 00:21:55,398 --> 00:21:56,899 How tragic! 323 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,828 What're you thinking? 324 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,166 I was thinking how happy we are. 325 00:22:17,712 --> 00:22:20,590 I'm not completely naive. 326 00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:25,595 I'm sure Rémy has flings now and then, on his trips. 327 00:22:26,346 --> 00:22:28,806 But at home he's good. 328 00:22:31,059 --> 00:22:33,895 The one time he wasn't, I was with him. 329 00:22:34,062 --> 00:22:36,064 So I don't worry. 330 00:22:37,023 --> 00:22:38,191 Meaning? 331 00:22:38,733 --> 00:22:40,735 I don't know if I should tell. 332 00:22:42,028 --> 00:22:44,655 We'd heard about a doctor… 333 00:22:44,822 --> 00:22:46,949 an old school buddy of Rémy's… 334 00:22:47,116 --> 00:22:50,453 who organized rather unusual parties. 335 00:22:51,871 --> 00:22:53,289 He had invited us… 336 00:22:54,165 --> 00:22:56,834 and we decided to go. 337 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:59,629 What was it like? 338 00:23:00,713 --> 00:23:03,591 There were a dozen couples… 339 00:23:03,758 --> 00:23:05,218 professional people mostly. 340 00:23:05,927 --> 00:23:07,678 A psychiatrist too. 341 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:10,890 People from about 30 to 50. 342 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:15,686 What happened? 343 00:23:15,853 --> 00:23:18,439 It was a bit strange. 344 00:23:18,606 --> 00:23:21,192 First, they waited for everyone to arrive. 345 00:23:22,151 --> 00:23:24,737 Then we went to the basement. 346 00:23:25,279 --> 00:23:26,739 It was spacious… 347 00:23:26,906 --> 00:23:29,200 with thick carpets, lots of pillows… 348 00:23:29,367 --> 00:23:31,202 soft lighting… 349 00:23:32,787 --> 00:23:35,540 They showed a porno video. 350 00:23:37,083 --> 00:23:40,962 People began to dance. 351 00:23:42,422 --> 00:23:46,509 It wasn't really dancing… 352 00:23:47,051 --> 00:23:49,762 more like vertical foreplay. 353 00:23:50,513 --> 00:23:53,266 Then suddenly everyone was making love… 354 00:23:53,433 --> 00:23:56,352 all over the house, in the rooms upstairs. 355 00:23:56,519 --> 00:23:58,479 You too? 356 00:23:58,646 --> 00:24:00,022 Yeah. 357 00:24:00,189 --> 00:24:02,400 But just once. 358 00:24:02,567 --> 00:24:04,861 I wasn't what you'd call… 359 00:24:05,027 --> 00:24:07,029 the life of the party. 360 00:24:07,655 --> 00:24:10,283 Rémy was more active. 361 00:24:10,450 --> 00:24:12,785 I saw him with 2 women. 362 00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:15,246 Who did you fuck? 363 00:24:16,747 --> 00:24:18,374 I don't even know. 364 00:24:19,125 --> 00:24:21,961 You don't talk much. 365 00:24:25,339 --> 00:24:31,095 The man making love to me was taking his time… 366 00:24:31,262 --> 00:24:32,555 That's good. 367 00:24:32,722 --> 00:24:34,807 Yeah, it's just that his wife… 368 00:24:34,974 --> 00:24:38,478 must've hit on a premature ejaculator. 369 00:24:39,562 --> 00:24:42,690 Because she arrives… 370 00:24:45,109 --> 00:24:47,445 - Charles… - What? 371 00:24:47,612 --> 00:24:50,615 Aren't you being a little slow? 372 00:24:50,781 --> 00:24:52,366 Thérèse, please! 373 00:24:53,493 --> 00:24:54,494 Come on! 374 00:24:54,660 --> 00:24:55,912 Come on! 375 00:24:57,413 --> 00:24:59,499 Are you serious? 376 00:24:59,665 --> 00:25:00,875 I swear! 377 00:25:02,084 --> 00:25:04,253 Are you enjoying him? 378 00:25:04,420 --> 00:25:06,339 - Thérèse! - Uh-huh. 379 00:25:06,506 --> 00:25:07,423 Coming, dear. 380 00:25:08,299 --> 00:25:10,551 Alright, see you later. 381 00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:14,388 So he started in for real. 382 00:25:14,555 --> 00:25:18,392 I did my best to help him. 383 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,021 You shouted, "More, more, more!" 384 00:25:24,524 --> 00:25:26,275 Let's say I kept it to… 385 00:25:26,442 --> 00:25:28,486 heavy panting. 386 00:25:28,653 --> 00:25:31,030 Anyway, finally it worked. 387 00:25:31,197 --> 00:25:34,408 He had his little orgasm and went off to find his wife. 388 00:25:35,201 --> 00:25:36,661 Did you come? 389 00:25:37,703 --> 00:25:39,789 Well, no. 390 00:25:44,961 --> 00:25:48,214 He didn't know me. 391 00:25:49,215 --> 00:25:51,717 I'm not like you, Diane… 392 00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:54,762 I was doing it mainly for Rémy. 393 00:25:56,055 --> 00:25:58,432 What do you mean, not like me? 394 00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:00,685 Well, it was… 395 00:26:00,851 --> 00:26:02,436 for married couples. 396 00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:04,230 Married? 397 00:26:04,397 --> 00:26:05,982 That's right. 398 00:26:07,149 --> 00:26:08,985 These people… 399 00:26:09,151 --> 00:26:13,072 are absolutely faithful, do everything together. 400 00:26:13,239 --> 00:26:16,742 For me it was a way… 401 00:26:16,909 --> 00:26:19,412 of showing our love. 402 00:26:19,579 --> 00:26:21,497 Have you ever tried it? 403 00:26:21,664 --> 00:26:26,210 Wife swapping parties, orgies, that sort of thing? 404 00:26:26,377 --> 00:26:31,007 I never mix my marriage with my sex life. 405 00:26:31,132 --> 00:26:33,217 I may cheat on Louise, 406 00:26:33,384 --> 00:26:35,761 but I know she's the one for me. 407 00:26:37,972 --> 00:26:39,098 Yes? 408 00:26:39,265 --> 00:26:41,309 Diane's not around? 409 00:26:42,143 --> 00:26:43,561 Not yet. 410 00:26:47,648 --> 00:26:49,150 Which is her place? 411 00:26:49,317 --> 00:26:51,193 The one in back. 412 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:52,820 Right next to mine. 413 00:26:55,406 --> 00:26:57,491 The door's probably locked. 414 00:27:00,244 --> 00:27:01,662 I'll go see. 415 00:27:07,752 --> 00:27:09,587 Not bad! 416 00:27:10,671 --> 00:27:12,214 Your type, eh? 417 00:27:14,008 --> 00:27:15,926 It's asking for trouble. 418 00:27:42,036 --> 00:27:44,455 I was in love with someone like him. 419 00:27:44,622 --> 00:27:46,290 It lasted 6 months. 420 00:27:50,461 --> 00:27:52,129 He was killed. 421 00:27:53,214 --> 00:27:54,799 Motorcycle accident. 422 00:28:00,221 --> 00:28:02,473 That's when I began cruising. 423 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,060 I'd be cruising every night if I could. 424 00:28:06,227 --> 00:28:07,603 I thought you were. 425 00:28:07,770 --> 00:28:09,355 Not anymore. 426 00:28:10,356 --> 00:28:12,400 I can't teach the next day. 427 00:28:13,734 --> 00:28:17,029 The only time I feel alive is when I'm cruising. 428 00:28:33,421 --> 00:28:35,589 It's incredible, I become… 429 00:28:36,465 --> 00:28:37,591 crazed… 430 00:28:38,968 --> 00:28:41,345 electrified… 431 00:28:41,512 --> 00:28:44,056 - I know the feeling. - But for me it's dangerous. 432 00:28:44,682 --> 00:28:46,934 A friend was stabbed in the shower. 433 00:28:49,186 --> 00:28:51,105 I can't help it. 434 00:28:52,231 --> 00:28:54,692 Some nights I just have to fuck someone… 435 00:28:55,985 --> 00:28:57,403 Anyone. 436 00:28:57,570 --> 00:28:59,155 It doesn't matter. 437 00:28:59,405 --> 00:29:01,407 Like an alley cat on the prowl… 438 00:29:04,994 --> 00:29:07,288 The urge is overwhelming. 439 00:29:07,580 --> 00:29:10,207 I'm always being robbed. 440 00:29:10,374 --> 00:29:14,211 Guys take off with records, wine, my watch. 441 00:29:16,130 --> 00:29:19,008 I'm not physically brave… 442 00:29:21,051 --> 00:29:22,428 but when it hits… 443 00:29:22,595 --> 00:29:26,098 I can set out at 4 a.m. on an expedition… 444 00:29:26,891 --> 00:29:29,560 through the saunas of Los Angeles… 445 00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:33,147 or the heaviest bars in St. Pauli in Hamburg. 446 00:29:39,695 --> 00:29:41,197 That's why I live alone. 447 00:29:42,740 --> 00:29:45,284 I never know how the day will end. 448 00:29:46,035 --> 00:29:47,745 Even if nothing happens… 449 00:29:47,912 --> 00:29:50,372 the possibility still exists. 450 00:29:52,208 --> 00:29:54,376 Knowing I have to be home at 6, 451 00:29:54,543 --> 00:29:57,838 'cause the old lady has supper waiting… 452 00:29:58,005 --> 00:30:00,758 would kill me. 453 00:30:00,925 --> 00:30:02,718 The old lady or the old man. 454 00:30:02,885 --> 00:30:04,178 Same thing. 455 00:30:04,345 --> 00:30:06,722 I like knowing supper is ready… 456 00:30:06,889 --> 00:30:08,933 and stopping off on the way home. 457 00:30:09,099 --> 00:30:12,603 When I'm in love, I become monogamous. 458 00:30:12,770 --> 00:30:14,063 It lasts a while… 459 00:30:15,147 --> 00:30:17,274 then the beast rears its head. 460 00:30:17,441 --> 00:30:19,944 I turn into a public menace! 461 00:30:20,110 --> 00:30:22,822 I swear, they should lock me up. 462 00:30:23,823 --> 00:30:27,243 I once visited a brothel… 463 00:30:27,409 --> 00:30:29,578 on the way to my mistress. 464 00:30:30,621 --> 00:30:32,373 Try explaining that to a woman. 465 00:30:32,832 --> 00:30:34,917 - Oh, damn. - What? 466 00:30:35,084 --> 00:30:36,460 We're out of eggs. 467 00:30:36,627 --> 00:30:38,128 I've got some… 468 00:30:38,796 --> 00:30:41,173 the plastic kind from the village. 469 00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:42,758 I couldn't buy any in the city. 470 00:30:42,925 --> 00:30:44,218 They'll do. 471 00:30:49,932 --> 00:30:51,225 It was locked? 472 00:30:53,352 --> 00:30:55,396 She shouldn't be long. 473 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:02,862 I'm not like you guys. 474 00:31:03,571 --> 00:31:06,365 I don't need to fuck a new girl every day. 475 00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:08,075 I didn't either at your age. 476 00:31:08,617 --> 00:31:13,247 But you can't correct our students' papers forever. 477 00:31:13,622 --> 00:31:15,457 You still have to do your Ph.D. 478 00:31:16,125 --> 00:31:18,335 You'll want to buy an apartment… 479 00:31:18,502 --> 00:31:20,296 maybe a country house. 480 00:31:20,462 --> 00:31:22,923 It keeps your mind occupied. 481 00:31:28,429 --> 00:31:31,223 Perhaps you dream of writing an important book. 482 00:31:32,349 --> 00:31:36,270 I know I'll never be a Toynbee or a Braudel. 483 00:31:37,938 --> 00:31:39,773 All I have left is… 484 00:31:40,858 --> 00:31:41,942 sex… 485 00:31:42,109 --> 00:31:43,444 or love. 486 00:31:43,611 --> 00:31:45,195 What's the difference? 487 00:31:46,864 --> 00:31:48,782 I don't know what's left for me. 488 00:31:49,909 --> 00:31:52,328 That's why age leads to vice. 489 00:31:54,455 --> 00:31:56,040 I don't have all that ambition. 490 00:31:56,665 --> 00:31:59,084 I just want to be happy. 491 00:32:08,177 --> 00:32:09,720 I need some water. 492 00:32:11,972 --> 00:32:13,474 Would you like mineral water? 493 00:32:19,647 --> 00:32:21,607 Doesn't your tap work? 494 00:32:33,786 --> 00:32:35,371 Are you on medication? 495 00:32:35,537 --> 00:32:37,206 A home remedy. 496 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,627 It's real strong. 497 00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:44,588 I take multi-vitamins. 498 00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:47,925 Must be good for you. 499 00:32:53,097 --> 00:32:55,265 - I'm gonna split. - What about Diane? 500 00:32:55,432 --> 00:32:56,809 I'll be back. 501 00:33:26,964 --> 00:33:28,674 Wittgenstein wrote that… 502 00:33:30,009 --> 00:33:35,097 our only certainty is the ability to act with the body. 503 00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:38,308 If I'm in love, I get hard. 504 00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:40,853 If I don't get hard, I'm not in love. 505 00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:45,399 Otherwise, you're deceiving yourself. 506 00:33:45,566 --> 00:33:48,736 Like a woman who says she still loves you… 507 00:33:48,902 --> 00:33:51,030 when she's as dry as sandpaper… 508 00:33:51,488 --> 00:33:54,742 and you remember how she'd be dripping… 509 00:33:54,908 --> 00:33:57,578 if you so much as kissed her on the neck. 510 00:34:29,026 --> 00:34:31,820 Roger had me sleep with his best friend. 511 00:34:31,987 --> 00:34:35,074 In fact, for 6 months we all slept together. 512 00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:38,327 I can recommend it 2 mouths, 4 hands… 513 00:34:38,952 --> 00:34:41,038 It's not as easy as all that. 514 00:34:42,289 --> 00:34:44,792 I tried it in Martinique with 2 young blacks. 515 00:34:44,958 --> 00:34:48,212 As soon as they opened their mouths it was over. 516 00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:50,339 "Madam not know Maatinique… 517 00:34:50,506 --> 00:34:53,383 if no sleep with Maatiniquers." 518 00:34:54,426 --> 00:34:56,303 They show me a gold bracelet… 519 00:34:56,470 --> 00:35:00,516 "A gift from her Honour Judge Thibodeau." 520 00:35:00,766 --> 00:35:02,059 They're so macho! 521 00:35:02,226 --> 00:35:03,310 I'm paying… 522 00:35:03,477 --> 00:35:05,437 but they tell me what to do. 523 00:35:07,022 --> 00:35:11,193 White woman on her knees before the black boy's cock. 524 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:12,694 Not your style, eh? 525 00:35:12,861 --> 00:35:14,655 Not exactly. 526 00:35:14,822 --> 00:35:16,907 I prefer African blacks. 527 00:35:17,074 --> 00:35:18,367 Like Mustafa? 528 00:35:18,534 --> 00:35:19,827 No thanks! 529 00:35:19,993 --> 00:35:21,870 Men who drool over me… 530 00:35:22,037 --> 00:35:24,498 I don't know, Africans are somehow… 531 00:35:24,665 --> 00:35:25,791 warmer. 532 00:35:25,958 --> 00:35:27,751 Of course they're polygamous… 533 00:35:27,918 --> 00:35:29,419 You get used to it. 534 00:35:30,504 --> 00:35:32,131 What do you mean? 535 00:35:33,173 --> 00:35:34,716 Well… 536 00:35:40,556 --> 00:35:42,099 It's not 4:30! 537 00:35:42,891 --> 00:35:44,059 It's 4:30? 538 00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:46,353 Shit! 539 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,148 I told Louise I'd meet her at 4. 540 00:35:52,192 --> 00:35:55,529 I wanted to buy the kids Christmas presents. 541 00:35:57,406 --> 00:35:58,407 My shirt! 542 00:35:58,574 --> 00:35:59,575 The den. 543 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:04,246 My sweater? 544 00:36:04,413 --> 00:36:05,747 On the sofa. 545 00:36:06,748 --> 00:36:08,041 Your ring! 546 00:36:11,295 --> 00:36:14,089 It was great. See you tomorrow. 547 00:36:17,384 --> 00:36:19,761 I always come back to Italians. 548 00:36:19,928 --> 00:36:21,930 They're impossible, but… 549 00:36:28,770 --> 00:36:30,898 Ah, my first visits to Italy… 550 00:36:31,064 --> 00:36:33,609 I was continually being robbed. 551 00:36:34,735 --> 00:36:36,904 The guys would take my passport… 552 00:36:37,070 --> 00:36:39,698 my traveller's cheques, my watch… 553 00:36:41,867 --> 00:36:45,120 But there was lots of amore. 554 00:36:45,287 --> 00:36:49,625 Such simple souls, they shout 'Mamma' when they come. 555 00:36:51,585 --> 00:36:56,256 The first time a man shouted 'Mamma'… 556 00:36:56,423 --> 00:36:59,051 I thought his mother had come in. 557 00:36:59,426 --> 00:37:01,094 I wanted to hide under the bed. 558 00:37:07,935 --> 00:37:10,729 You're sure you don't have AIDS? 559 00:37:10,896 --> 00:37:15,108 It's 2 to 5 years incubation. Like to test my saliva? 560 00:37:16,944 --> 00:37:18,278 You're not scared? 561 00:37:18,445 --> 00:37:19,905 It's part of the pleasure. 562 00:37:20,072 --> 00:37:22,908 Anyway, disease is part of sex. 563 00:37:23,075 --> 00:37:25,285 Ever heard women talk about their insides? 564 00:37:25,452 --> 00:37:28,247 The fibromas, vaginitus, salpingitis… 565 00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:29,456 Chlamydia… 566 00:37:29,623 --> 00:37:30,916 spirochaetes… 567 00:37:31,083 --> 00:37:32,292 Herpes… 568 00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:34,419 soft chancres! 569 00:37:34,586 --> 00:37:35,504 To think… 570 00:37:35,671 --> 00:37:39,424 you actually dip your cocks in that! 571 00:37:39,591 --> 00:37:41,134 Our cocks… our tongues… 572 00:37:41,301 --> 00:37:42,511 Staphylococcus aureus! 573 00:37:42,678 --> 00:37:44,846 Come on, that's in the throat. 574 00:37:45,013 --> 00:37:46,139 My poor boy… 575 00:37:46,306 --> 00:37:51,270 it can spread ever so easily from her throat to your pecker. 576 00:37:51,436 --> 00:37:56,316 Then its hello urethritis with staphylococcus aureus! 577 00:37:56,483 --> 00:38:00,070 And the hospital on an empty stomach once a week for months! 578 00:38:00,404 --> 00:38:01,989 Explain that to your wife! 579 00:38:02,155 --> 00:38:04,950 You can't make love, leave for work at 7… 580 00:38:05,117 --> 00:38:06,368 once a week. 581 00:38:06,535 --> 00:38:07,828 Without breakfast. 582 00:38:07,995 --> 00:38:10,455 You can't drink because of the antibiotics. 583 00:38:10,622 --> 00:38:12,207 Not to mention the stains… 584 00:38:12,374 --> 00:38:15,585 you try to wash out of the sheets… 585 00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:17,879 while your wife's in the shower. 586 00:38:18,046 --> 00:38:20,090 It's not as bad as AIDS. 587 00:38:20,257 --> 00:38:24,011 Otherwise homosexuality would be paradise on earth. 588 00:38:25,095 --> 00:38:27,931 They're already better dressed, more cultivated… 589 00:38:28,098 --> 00:38:32,060 They're gayer too. Such a sense of humour. 590 00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:35,981 They're better cooks, just look at his dough. 591 00:38:36,148 --> 00:38:37,899 Yes, but I'm going to Hell. 592 00:38:38,066 --> 00:38:40,110 Save me a seat. 593 00:38:40,277 --> 00:38:42,154 They have friends all over. 594 00:38:42,321 --> 00:38:46,450 When a man tells me, "I stayed with friends in Amsterdam…" 595 00:38:46,616 --> 00:38:48,535 I know he's gay. 596 00:38:48,702 --> 00:38:51,580 My friends are married and have children… 597 00:38:51,747 --> 00:38:53,415 their apartments are crammed. 598 00:38:53,582 --> 00:38:58,253 And my old girlfriends are with men who don't want me around. 599 00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:00,922 They're even better-looking. 600 00:39:01,089 --> 00:39:02,966 That's the worst. 601 00:39:03,133 --> 00:39:07,095 Here are your 2 classic heteros… 602 00:39:07,262 --> 00:39:11,767 overweight, noses too long, our complexions are… 603 00:39:11,933 --> 00:39:12,893 Ravaged! 604 00:39:14,102 --> 00:39:15,979 So the question is… 605 00:39:16,146 --> 00:39:19,483 are we hetero because we're not good-looking… 606 00:39:19,649 --> 00:39:22,819 or would our looks improve if we were gay? 607 00:39:23,862 --> 00:39:25,155 Serious matter. 608 00:39:25,322 --> 00:39:28,325 A truly superb teenage boy 609 00:39:28,492 --> 00:39:30,952 looking in the mirror 610 00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:33,955 must think… "This is too good for a woman!" 611 00:39:34,122 --> 00:39:35,040 Exactly! 612 00:39:35,207 --> 00:39:36,124 Yes, but… 613 00:39:36,291 --> 00:39:37,751 the moustache. 614 00:39:38,794 --> 00:39:40,295 Kissing a moustache… 615 00:39:41,463 --> 00:39:44,132 You have to get to them before they have one. 616 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:47,469 He's a worse pervert than me! 617 00:39:47,636 --> 00:39:51,181 I'm not talking about myself. Really, I'm no pederast, but… 618 00:39:51,348 --> 00:39:53,308 aesthetically speaking… 619 00:39:53,475 --> 00:39:56,561 nothing compares to the ass of a 12-year-old boy… 620 00:39:56,728 --> 00:40:00,357 Not the Sistine Chapel or the B Minor Mass. 621 00:40:00,524 --> 00:40:03,402 At 12, a boy's ass is sublime. 622 00:40:03,568 --> 00:40:06,488 By that age, girls have gone flabby. 623 00:40:06,655 --> 00:40:08,281 Matter of taste. 624 00:40:08,448 --> 00:40:12,536 A guy in a bar once said to me, "Honey, a hole is a hole." 625 00:40:12,702 --> 00:40:14,955 Should've called me in. 626 00:40:15,122 --> 00:40:16,957 He may be right. 627 00:40:17,582 --> 00:40:20,877 Plus the joy of living with someone who doesn't menstruate. 628 00:40:22,421 --> 00:40:26,299 Louise turns into a monster 4 or 5 days a month. 629 00:40:27,467 --> 00:40:31,555 I nearly strangled her one Sunday, last winter. 630 00:40:32,264 --> 00:40:35,142 There had been a huge snow storm. 631 00:40:35,308 --> 00:40:39,771 I wanted to take my car to buy the papers, but I got stuck. 632 00:40:39,938 --> 00:40:42,899 Of course, I'm blocking her car… 633 00:40:43,066 --> 00:40:45,152 so she can't go to her tennis lesson. 634 00:40:45,318 --> 00:40:47,446 She made an ugly scene… 635 00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:48,905 "You should have let me out first. 636 00:40:49,072 --> 00:40:52,284 You never could drive in the snow!" 637 00:40:52,451 --> 00:40:55,245 I should move out a week before her period. 638 00:40:57,247 --> 00:41:01,626 The Sunday Times is sacred, of course, snowstorm or not. 639 00:41:01,793 --> 00:41:05,964 Naturally he gets stuck, which means I can't go to tennis. 640 00:41:06,131 --> 00:41:10,427 My last chance to see François for a month! I was furious! 641 00:41:10,594 --> 00:41:12,512 François was the tennis pro? 642 00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:16,016 Yeah, he was going to some tournament. 643 00:41:16,183 --> 00:41:18,768 I was climbing the walls! 644 00:41:18,935 --> 00:41:22,439 The fact I couldn't say why, made it even worse! 645 00:41:22,606 --> 00:41:25,025 How long had the affair lasted? 646 00:41:25,192 --> 00:41:26,776 It wasn't an affair. 647 00:41:26,943 --> 00:41:28,403 Nothing had happened. 648 00:41:28,570 --> 00:41:31,990 But that Sunday I felt something might. 649 00:41:33,533 --> 00:41:35,035 That's what made me mad… 650 00:41:36,077 --> 00:41:37,746 I hadn't done anything wrong. 651 00:42:00,435 --> 00:42:03,021 I wasn't sure when he'd be back. 652 00:42:04,064 --> 00:42:06,149 Finally I got my nerve up. 653 00:42:06,316 --> 00:42:07,984 I called. 654 00:42:08,068 --> 00:42:10,904 I know you're not supposed to, but… 655 00:42:13,907 --> 00:42:15,909 His daughter answered. 656 00:42:16,076 --> 00:42:18,245 He lives with his 14-year-old. 657 00:42:19,329 --> 00:42:22,249 I heard him ask who it was. 658 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:27,671 She said, "Probably one of your mistresses." 659 00:42:28,713 --> 00:42:30,382 I hung up. 660 00:42:31,424 --> 00:42:33,260 Never went back. 661 00:42:33,426 --> 00:42:35,262 Well, I did once. 662 00:42:35,428 --> 00:42:36,972 I didn't go in. 663 00:42:45,939 --> 00:42:47,899 I saw him with a woman. 664 00:42:49,859 --> 00:42:51,361 A young woman. 665 00:42:51,528 --> 00:42:53,530 At least you still had Rémy. 666 00:42:54,489 --> 00:42:57,492 When you live alone, you get used to it. 667 00:42:57,659 --> 00:43:00,412 Your sex drive vanishes. 668 00:43:01,580 --> 00:43:03,873 You stop thinking about it. 669 00:43:07,210 --> 00:43:09,796 Then an old lover comes along… 670 00:43:10,130 --> 00:43:12,424 or someone else by accident. 671 00:43:19,764 --> 00:43:21,266 Can't you sleep? 672 00:43:25,020 --> 00:43:26,313 What is it? 673 00:43:27,397 --> 00:43:29,691 I want to sleep in my own bed. 674 00:43:33,778 --> 00:43:35,113 It's snowing. 675 00:43:37,073 --> 00:43:38,742 I like sleeping alone. 676 00:43:40,744 --> 00:43:42,912 Me too, but not all the time. 677 00:43:57,594 --> 00:43:58,720 Now you're awake… 678 00:43:58,887 --> 00:44:00,764 you want it again. 679 00:44:00,930 --> 00:44:03,767 But he's had his fun, so he's gone. 680 00:44:03,933 --> 00:44:06,478 Leaving you with asymptomatic gonorrhea. 681 00:44:07,771 --> 00:44:09,648 Nice, eh. 682 00:44:09,814 --> 00:44:13,401 All that, just to have some creature to warm your bed. 683 00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:16,780 I'd stoop to almost anything… 684 00:44:16,946 --> 00:44:18,948 for a warm body Sunday morning. 685 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,118 Though you don't even need a man. 686 00:44:22,285 --> 00:44:23,328 I cuddle with my daughter… 687 00:44:23,495 --> 00:44:24,537 We smooch. 688 00:44:24,704 --> 00:44:26,581 How old is she? 689 00:44:26,748 --> 00:44:27,916 Twelve. 690 00:44:28,083 --> 00:44:30,377 Aren't you worried…? 691 00:44:30,543 --> 00:44:33,004 I mean, psychologically… 692 00:44:34,422 --> 00:44:35,632 No. 693 00:44:36,633 --> 00:44:39,427 In therapy, after my depression… 694 00:44:39,594 --> 00:44:41,221 I was afraid I was a lesbian. 695 00:44:41,388 --> 00:44:42,889 Why afraid? 696 00:44:43,056 --> 00:44:44,724 I don't know… 697 00:44:44,891 --> 00:44:47,977 Have you ever slept with a woman? 698 00:44:48,144 --> 00:44:50,146 Yeah, a few times. 699 00:44:52,399 --> 00:44:53,692 You too? 700 00:44:54,401 --> 00:44:55,568 Uh-huh. 701 00:44:55,735 --> 00:44:56,903 God! 702 00:44:57,070 --> 00:44:59,364 I'm always so scared of being abnormal. 703 00:45:05,078 --> 00:45:07,455 Isn't that a lot? 704 00:45:07,622 --> 00:45:09,541 We'll send some to Mustafa… 705 00:45:09,708 --> 00:45:11,251 in Ouagadougou. 706 00:45:12,293 --> 00:45:14,546 They love coulibiac in the Sahel. 707 00:45:14,713 --> 00:45:17,298 With sour cream and Robert Mondavi. 708 00:45:17,465 --> 00:45:19,426 You're disgusting. 709 00:45:19,592 --> 00:45:21,302 Not at all! 710 00:45:22,262 --> 00:45:24,764 No one's more devoted to the Negro. 711 00:45:24,931 --> 00:45:28,601 I personally took Mustafa down to the strip last Thursday. 712 00:45:28,768 --> 00:45:30,895 - When did he leave? - The next day. 713 00:45:31,062 --> 00:45:32,230 That was the problem. 714 00:45:32,397 --> 00:45:35,859 In 2 months he hadn't laid a single Canadian. 715 00:45:36,025 --> 00:45:38,027 He was feeling so dejected. 716 00:45:38,194 --> 00:45:40,864 Don't you mean erected? 717 00:45:41,656 --> 00:45:45,243 Our co-eds must be losing interest in the Third World. 718 00:45:45,410 --> 00:45:47,912 Anyway, I took him to St. Lawrence Street. 719 00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:53,168 We spotted this gorgeous blonde, 720 00:45:53,334 --> 00:45:55,086 taller than me… done up in red silk. 721 00:45:57,797 --> 00:45:59,883 Mustafa was licking his chops. 722 00:46:00,049 --> 00:46:02,051 I negotiated for him. 723 00:46:02,218 --> 00:46:04,721 Wouldn't want him to squander UNESCO funds. 724 00:46:06,890 --> 00:46:09,642 Evening, Miss. A pleasure to meet you. 725 00:46:09,809 --> 00:46:14,147 I'd like to introduce a friend. A great guy, but shy. 726 00:46:14,856 --> 00:46:17,567 He's a brilliant historian. 727 00:46:17,734 --> 00:46:19,986 A specialist on Mossy culture. 728 00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:23,448 Think of it… 729 00:46:23,615 --> 00:46:26,201 as your contribution to African relief… 730 00:46:26,367 --> 00:46:28,661 like singing in We Are the World. 731 00:46:30,121 --> 00:46:31,331 Get the picture? 732 00:46:31,498 --> 00:46:33,166 Okay with me… 733 00:46:33,333 --> 00:46:35,543 but your Negro's in for a surprise. 734 00:46:36,795 --> 00:46:37,921 Oh boy! 735 00:46:39,130 --> 00:46:41,382 That's not quite what we had in mind. 736 00:46:41,549 --> 00:46:43,343 I thought I'd better tell you. 737 00:46:43,510 --> 00:46:44,803 Very thoughtful! 738 00:46:44,969 --> 00:46:46,346 Very! 739 00:46:49,599 --> 00:46:51,976 We'll be off. 740 00:46:52,143 --> 00:46:53,186 Goodnight… 741 00:46:53,353 --> 00:46:54,562 and good luck. 742 00:46:54,729 --> 00:46:55,814 You too. 743 00:46:58,817 --> 00:47:00,235 - Come on. - Why? 744 00:47:00,401 --> 00:47:01,444 I'll explain later. 745 00:47:01,611 --> 00:47:02,821 She's racist! 746 00:47:02,987 --> 00:47:05,824 Get off it! She's not racist, she's sexist. 747 00:47:09,786 --> 00:47:12,121 We walked over to St. Louis Square… 748 00:47:12,288 --> 00:47:14,958 and found two lovely little brunettes. 749 00:47:15,124 --> 00:47:17,752 I even took one for myself. 750 00:47:18,419 --> 00:47:19,963 I'd been feeling tired… 751 00:47:20,129 --> 00:47:22,048 and that's when I like a brunette. 752 00:47:22,215 --> 00:47:26,261 Tall, lazy blondes take too much work. 753 00:47:26,427 --> 00:47:28,513 In sex, practice makes perfect. 754 00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:34,018 My best lovers have always been those who fucked the most. 755 00:47:34,185 --> 00:47:35,812 Are brunettes always best? 756 00:47:35,979 --> 00:47:39,858 It depends. For winter you want someone big and warm. 757 00:47:40,024 --> 00:47:41,651 For summer someone tender. 758 00:47:41,818 --> 00:47:43,069 French girls for sparkle. 759 00:47:43,236 --> 00:47:45,280 Fresh California orange juice! 760 00:47:45,446 --> 00:47:47,365 And the aromas! 761 00:47:48,408 --> 00:47:51,077 The Jewesses' and Arabs' fragrance of camphor. 762 00:47:51,244 --> 00:47:55,415 The Vietnamese with their scent of orange blossoms… 763 00:47:55,582 --> 00:47:56,875 Gets me excited. 764 00:47:57,041 --> 00:47:59,335 But do they have to be pros? 765 00:47:59,502 --> 00:48:02,255 It takes longer when they're not. 766 00:48:02,422 --> 00:48:03,673 You have to go cruising. 767 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,675 It's torture… 768 00:48:05,842 --> 00:48:10,054 hanging out in bars, paying for dinner, dancing in discos… 769 00:48:10,221 --> 00:48:11,222 You don't like dancing? 770 00:48:11,389 --> 00:48:12,640 I have always… 771 00:48:12,807 --> 00:48:16,185 absolutely abhorred dancing. 772 00:48:16,352 --> 00:48:19,731 The suffering I've endured on the dance floor… 773 00:48:19,898 --> 00:48:22,066 just to please women! 774 00:48:22,942 --> 00:48:25,862 The worst part is the conversation. 775 00:48:26,029 --> 00:48:31,284 "Oh, I adore Woody Allen's films too!" 776 00:48:31,451 --> 00:48:32,994 "Did you read Shogun?" 777 00:48:33,161 --> 00:48:34,787 "Yeah, I love Baryshnikov." 778 00:48:34,954 --> 00:48:36,497 "Now it's Patrick Dupont." 779 00:48:36,664 --> 00:48:38,791 "Acid rain, terrible!" 780 00:48:38,958 --> 00:48:40,418 "Nuclear reactors, dreadful!" 781 00:48:40,585 --> 00:48:42,837 "Youth unemployment, awful!" 782 00:48:43,004 --> 00:48:45,465 "What's your view on serial monogamy, Sylvie…? 783 00:48:45,632 --> 00:48:47,508 Nathalie? Julie? Sophie…?" 784 00:48:47,675 --> 00:48:50,678 You really have to want to get laid! 785 00:48:55,558 --> 00:48:56,643 That's not all. 786 00:48:56,809 --> 00:48:58,770 Then you have to make her come. 787 00:48:58,937 --> 00:49:01,606 No piece of cake. 788 00:49:01,773 --> 00:49:03,650 You have to find her clitoris. 789 00:49:03,816 --> 00:49:05,068 My God! 790 00:49:05,234 --> 00:49:06,903 A delicate undertaking! 791 00:49:07,070 --> 00:49:10,031 Like looking for a needle in a haystack. 792 00:49:10,198 --> 00:49:13,952 You rack your brains to recall Masters and Johnson… 793 00:49:14,118 --> 00:49:16,746 Shere Hite, the G-spot debate… 794 00:49:16,913 --> 00:49:18,665 Germaine Greer, Nancy Friday… 795 00:49:18,831 --> 00:49:21,960 Should you use your fingers, tongue, or prick? 796 00:49:22,126 --> 00:49:24,170 You sneak a look at her… 797 00:49:24,337 --> 00:49:25,922 You think to yourself… 798 00:49:26,089 --> 00:49:28,091 "She looks like…" 799 00:49:28,257 --> 00:49:30,510 "I hope she…" 800 00:49:30,677 --> 00:49:32,345 "I wonder if…" 801 00:49:33,513 --> 00:49:35,890 It's hell, absolute hell! 802 00:49:36,683 --> 00:49:38,685 I've never had those problems. 803 00:49:38,851 --> 00:49:40,436 Oh no? 804 00:49:40,603 --> 00:49:42,355 Come into my study. 805 00:49:47,193 --> 00:49:50,655 The Borneo heteropteryx… 806 00:49:50,822 --> 00:49:53,116 For 100 years, entomologists… 807 00:49:53,282 --> 00:49:55,535 searched for the male of this one… 808 00:49:55,702 --> 00:49:57,662 and the female of this one. 809 00:49:57,954 --> 00:50:00,999 A major issue in biology. 810 00:50:01,165 --> 00:50:04,460 Until one day they were found screwing. 811 00:50:04,627 --> 00:50:06,087 The 2 of them. 812 00:50:06,254 --> 00:50:08,339 He was the male to her. 813 00:50:08,506 --> 00:50:10,341 It seems impossible. 814 00:50:10,508 --> 00:50:11,843 She's a reptile… 815 00:50:12,010 --> 00:50:14,679 and he's an insect. 816 00:50:14,846 --> 00:50:16,889 They have one thing in common. 817 00:50:17,056 --> 00:50:18,599 What? 818 00:50:20,685 --> 00:50:22,145 Fucking. 819 00:50:22,937 --> 00:50:25,189 Think about it. 820 00:50:34,699 --> 00:50:36,451 Sorry. 821 00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:43,416 The beaches in Sicily were deserted. 822 00:50:43,583 --> 00:50:47,086 He was dying of the heat in his uniform. 823 00:50:47,253 --> 00:50:48,337 Was he a policeman? 824 00:50:48,504 --> 00:50:49,922 A carabiniere. 825 00:50:50,089 --> 00:50:52,717 So I go in. 826 00:50:52,884 --> 00:50:55,595 I take off my T-shirt and shorts… 827 00:50:56,971 --> 00:51:01,059 He starts fumbling with his fly… 828 00:51:01,225 --> 00:51:04,353 but he can't get it undone. 829 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,607 They're always anxious then. 830 00:51:07,774 --> 00:51:12,278 He was really well-built, shoulders broad as… 831 00:51:12,445 --> 00:51:13,654 Finally… 832 00:51:13,821 --> 00:51:15,073 he drops his briefs. 833 00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:16,908 The moment of truth! 834 00:51:18,618 --> 00:51:20,745 His penis was… 835 00:51:20,912 --> 00:51:22,580 minuscule! 836 00:51:25,374 --> 00:51:28,294 Honestly, like a baby's! 837 00:51:28,461 --> 00:51:29,962 Poor man. 838 00:51:31,339 --> 00:51:32,799 It was either the wine… 839 00:51:32,965 --> 00:51:36,177 or the absurdity of being with a Sicilian cop… 840 00:51:36,344 --> 00:51:38,554 but I burst out laughing. 841 00:51:38,721 --> 00:51:40,890 I mean, uncontrollably! 842 00:51:41,808 --> 00:51:43,601 I laughed until I wept! 843 00:51:45,186 --> 00:51:46,479 And him? 844 00:51:46,646 --> 00:51:48,606 Naturally… it was a disaster. 845 00:51:49,690 --> 00:51:52,318 I didn't want to hurt him. 846 00:51:52,485 --> 00:51:54,695 He was rather sweet. 847 00:51:54,862 --> 00:51:59,325 But it ended in a complete fiasco. 848 00:52:01,035 --> 00:52:06,833 I even tried my "octopus with suckers" routine. 849 00:52:08,292 --> 00:52:09,794 "Suckers"? 850 00:52:11,045 --> 00:52:12,713 Well, more or less. 851 00:52:15,550 --> 00:52:19,220 Mustn't make fun of their penis. 852 00:52:19,387 --> 00:52:21,722 They're so preoccupied with its size. 853 00:52:21,889 --> 00:52:23,891 "Is his bigger than mine?" 854 00:52:24,058 --> 00:52:25,685 "Don't I got a big one?" 855 00:52:25,852 --> 00:52:27,979 It's their major preoccupation. 856 00:52:28,146 --> 00:52:31,357 It's true, they always ask. 857 00:52:31,524 --> 00:52:33,025 How would you know? 858 00:52:34,485 --> 00:52:35,486 Well… 859 00:52:35,653 --> 00:52:37,864 it's happened. - I can understand… 860 00:52:38,030 --> 00:52:40,658 I mean, it's pretty important. 861 00:52:40,825 --> 00:52:43,578 How can you say that? 862 00:52:43,744 --> 00:52:46,372 If you're in love, it's a detail. 863 00:52:47,748 --> 00:52:49,125 Some detail! 864 00:52:49,292 --> 00:52:52,253 I'm going to take a swim. 865 00:52:54,046 --> 00:52:55,214 You've upset her. 866 00:52:55,381 --> 00:52:57,133 Poor girl. 867 00:52:57,300 --> 00:52:59,468 It's too hot, that's all. 868 00:53:00,970 --> 00:53:02,680 Worse still… 869 00:53:02,847 --> 00:53:05,183 is to talk about a former lover… 870 00:53:05,349 --> 00:53:08,686 "Benoît could really make me come!" 871 00:53:08,853 --> 00:53:12,857 The guy beside you melts away like butter. 872 00:53:13,482 --> 00:53:15,359 You can't say that! 873 00:53:15,526 --> 00:53:16,819 Even more subtly… 874 00:53:16,986 --> 00:53:18,696 You pass a hotel and say… 875 00:53:18,863 --> 00:53:22,325 "Benoît and I stayed here." 876 00:53:22,491 --> 00:53:26,078 Sneak a look, and he's green with jealousy. 877 00:53:27,163 --> 00:53:30,791 Or they say, "Before me you didn't know what sex was." 878 00:53:30,958 --> 00:53:33,544 I can't stand that! 879 00:53:33,711 --> 00:53:35,963 That's the time to mention Benoît. 880 00:53:37,798 --> 00:53:40,927 "It's not the same, darling. I love you… 881 00:53:41,093 --> 00:53:43,221 With Benoît, it was… 882 00:53:43,930 --> 00:53:45,765 purely sexual." 883 00:53:46,557 --> 00:53:48,726 You can feel him turning to mush. 884 00:53:49,894 --> 00:53:53,064 Or when he senses you're rating him… 885 00:53:53,231 --> 00:53:56,108 like for a restaurant guide. 886 00:53:56,275 --> 00:53:57,735 "A bit dowdy. 887 00:53:57,902 --> 00:54:00,988 Portions somewhat stingy." 888 00:54:13,417 --> 00:54:15,544 Or like for… 889 00:54:15,711 --> 00:54:17,546 a tourist guide. 890 00:54:17,713 --> 00:54:19,715 "Restored mill, but… 891 00:54:19,882 --> 00:54:22,218 the works are purely decorative." 892 00:54:25,012 --> 00:54:26,514 "Charming garden but… 893 00:54:26,681 --> 00:54:29,183 the fountain is dry." 894 00:54:29,558 --> 00:54:33,521 "Impressive manor, but the tower is in ruins." 895 00:54:35,189 --> 00:54:36,691 If he's in his 40s… 896 00:54:36,857 --> 00:54:40,486 you reminisce how young men always wake up with hard-ons. 897 00:54:43,864 --> 00:54:47,201 Or you calmly begin to masturbate… 898 00:54:47,368 --> 00:54:50,037 after he's finished his little number. 899 00:54:50,204 --> 00:54:52,581 That always gets them. 900 00:54:53,165 --> 00:54:54,792 You're terrible! 901 00:54:54,959 --> 00:54:57,878 Oh, I've done worse. 902 00:54:58,045 --> 00:55:00,131 I was with Roger for 10 years. 903 00:55:01,507 --> 00:55:04,802 You can't imagine what I put up with. 904 00:55:06,345 --> 00:55:09,098 I was constantly left alone with the kids. 905 00:55:09,265 --> 00:55:10,933 He'd be out cheating on me. 906 00:55:11,100 --> 00:55:13,227 It was hell. 907 00:55:14,270 --> 00:55:17,440 I stayed at home, cheerful, loyal, warm. 908 00:55:18,316 --> 00:55:20,109 Till the day I'd had enough. 909 00:55:21,610 --> 00:55:23,195 And all of a sudden… 910 00:55:24,196 --> 00:55:25,698 something snapped. 911 00:55:30,202 --> 00:55:31,412 Hello, Roger? 912 00:55:31,579 --> 00:55:33,372 I'm in Brossard. 913 00:55:33,539 --> 00:55:36,709 Room 216, Continental Motel. 914 00:55:36,876 --> 00:55:39,295 I'm with a friend, having so much fun… 915 00:55:39,462 --> 00:55:42,006 I think I'll spend the night. 916 00:55:42,173 --> 00:55:44,258 I didn't want you to worry. 917 00:55:44,759 --> 00:55:46,260 See you tomorrow, okay? 918 00:55:46,427 --> 00:55:48,596 Goodnight. Kiss you. 919 00:55:49,930 --> 00:55:51,474 Are you crazy? 920 00:55:52,224 --> 00:55:54,018 That'll teach him. 921 00:55:54,185 --> 00:55:55,978 He'll come here! 922 00:55:56,145 --> 00:55:58,814 - Don't worry. - Don't worry! 923 00:55:58,981 --> 00:56:00,191 He's this big! 924 00:56:00,358 --> 00:56:01,567 So? 925 00:56:01,734 --> 00:56:02,735 I'm not in shape! 926 00:56:02,902 --> 00:56:04,236 I'm no boxer like him! 927 00:56:04,403 --> 00:56:05,571 Scared? 928 00:56:05,738 --> 00:56:07,406 No, I'm thinking of you. 929 00:56:07,573 --> 00:56:09,700 Anyway, I can't stay. 930 00:56:09,867 --> 00:56:11,243 I have to get home. 931 00:56:11,410 --> 00:56:12,495 He won't care. 932 00:56:12,661 --> 00:56:14,246 - He's violent! - I know! 933 00:56:15,331 --> 00:56:18,459 He knocked out Yvan Rivard. 934 00:56:19,502 --> 00:56:20,669 You slept with Yvan? 935 00:56:21,754 --> 00:56:23,547 Don't forget your ring. 936 00:56:29,095 --> 00:56:34,350 I always fuck my wife better after I've cheated on her. 937 00:56:34,850 --> 00:56:36,894 Guilt, that's all. 938 00:56:37,061 --> 00:56:38,813 No, it's physical. 939 00:56:38,979 --> 00:56:40,731 The comparison turns me on. 940 00:56:40,898 --> 00:56:45,152 The more you screw around, the more you want to. 941 00:56:45,319 --> 00:56:48,572 To be happy, I'd need 4 wives. 942 00:56:48,739 --> 00:56:51,492 Four, exactly as the Koran says. 943 00:56:51,659 --> 00:56:53,494 I'm very happy with Louise… 944 00:56:53,661 --> 00:56:57,289 but I'd also take a writer, say Susan Sontag… 945 00:56:57,456 --> 00:57:00,126 an Olympic high jumper… 946 00:57:00,292 --> 00:57:03,921 and a real sex maniac for group encounters. 947 00:57:52,511 --> 00:57:54,388 Looks sinfully good! 948 00:57:57,391 --> 00:57:59,351 We won't mention calories. 949 00:57:59,518 --> 00:58:02,396 I put on a kilo last week. 950 00:58:02,563 --> 00:58:05,357 Too bad Mustafa can't be here. 951 00:58:05,524 --> 00:58:07,401 Seems he had other fond memories. 952 00:58:07,568 --> 00:58:09,028 Like what? 953 00:58:11,822 --> 00:58:14,909 Well, I mean he must have enjoyed his visit. 954 00:58:15,326 --> 00:58:18,287 - What's the sauce? - A mousseline. 955 00:58:18,454 --> 00:58:20,998 But I made it with sour cream. 956 00:58:21,165 --> 00:58:22,833 It seemed more Russian. 957 00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,504 I heard about a course in creative cooking. 958 00:58:26,670 --> 00:58:29,173 You're not starting with your courses again! 959 00:58:29,340 --> 00:58:30,549 Why not? 960 00:58:30,716 --> 00:58:34,929 Why are women so obsessed with taking courses? 961 00:58:35,095 --> 00:58:36,680 It's pretty obvious. 962 00:58:36,847 --> 00:58:38,516 The university's full of them… 963 00:58:38,682 --> 00:58:42,353 madly taking notes on the meaning of the Locarno Pact. 964 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:43,938 I teach those courses. 965 00:58:44,104 --> 00:58:46,273 I still don't understand. 966 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:47,816 That's why… 967 00:58:47,983 --> 00:58:51,904 History is criticized for dealing only with the victors. 968 00:58:52,071 --> 00:58:55,282 Often this is due to the documents available. 969 00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:00,746 There are more records about Egyptians than Nubians… 970 00:59:00,913 --> 00:59:04,667 more about Spaniards than Mayas… 971 00:59:04,833 --> 00:59:09,046 and of course, many more records about men than women. 972 00:59:10,881 --> 00:59:13,592 This limitation to History is very real. 973 00:59:15,344 --> 00:59:18,097 There is perhaps also a psychological reason. 974 00:59:18,264 --> 00:59:21,767 We far prefer hearing about winners… 975 00:59:21,934 --> 00:59:24,144 than about losers. 976 00:59:27,314 --> 00:59:29,316 I don't mean your courses… 977 00:59:29,483 --> 00:59:34,113 But what is it about studying German, the guitar… 978 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,073 - Tap dancing… - Shiatsu… 979 00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:37,616 - Primal therapy… 980 00:59:38,867 --> 00:59:40,494 Nothing personal. 981 00:59:40,661 --> 00:59:42,329 Seems obvious. 982 00:59:42,496 --> 00:59:43,664 Not to me. 983 00:59:43,831 --> 00:59:46,959 Except for a pathological need to have teachers, gurus… 984 00:59:47,126 --> 00:59:49,503 That's not it! 985 00:59:49,670 --> 00:59:53,007 It's a way of breaking out. 986 00:59:53,173 --> 00:59:54,258 You can't understand, 987 00:59:54,425 --> 00:59:56,760 you got your Ph.D. at 26. 988 00:59:57,052 --> 00:59:59,013 When we were studying… 989 00:59:59,179 --> 01:00:01,682 I was every bit as smart as the rest of you. 990 01:00:01,849 --> 01:00:05,561 But I fell in love, like a woman is supposed to. 991 01:00:05,728 --> 01:00:09,148 So while you were at Berkeley, and Pierre at Princeton… 992 01:00:09,315 --> 01:00:14,278 I rotted in the country 'cause Roger was on his nature trip. 993 01:00:14,695 --> 01:00:16,488 You seemed happy enough. 994 01:00:16,655 --> 01:00:17,781 I was happy. 995 01:00:17,948 --> 01:00:21,660 I had kids, but instead of studying demography… 996 01:00:21,827 --> 01:00:24,330 I learned how to make jam. 997 01:00:24,496 --> 01:00:27,249 Now I have to work as a TA… 998 01:00:27,416 --> 01:00:30,461 at one fifth your salary, and without job security. 999 01:00:30,628 --> 01:00:34,089 I'm not covered by the best contract in North America. 1000 01:00:34,256 --> 01:00:36,425 I can't take… 1001 01:00:36,592 --> 01:00:38,886 a year's sabbatical in Brazil. 1002 01:00:39,887 --> 01:00:41,430 I have to do radio interviews… 1003 01:00:41,597 --> 01:00:45,309 to send my kids to private school. 1004 01:00:45,476 --> 01:00:47,311 I'll never have tenure. 1005 01:00:52,983 --> 01:00:54,443 I'm getting old. 1006 01:00:55,235 --> 01:00:59,365 I can't read and take notes for 5 hours straight. 1007 01:01:02,034 --> 01:01:03,869 My memory's going too. 1008 01:01:07,498 --> 01:01:10,292 I had to refer to the Kellogg-Briand Pact. 1009 01:01:11,418 --> 01:01:13,462 I couldn't remember Briand… 1010 01:01:13,629 --> 01:01:16,256 only the name of the cereal… 1011 01:01:16,423 --> 01:01:18,467 Kellogg's Corn Flakes. 1012 01:01:22,930 --> 01:01:24,807 That's not age, it's drugs! 1013 01:01:26,016 --> 01:01:27,893 You're an old hippy. 1014 01:01:28,769 --> 01:01:31,480 I'll bet you remember Souvanna Phouma! 1015 01:01:32,690 --> 01:01:35,109 - And Souphanouvong! - And? 1016 01:01:36,151 --> 01:01:37,653 Phoumi Nosavan! 1017 01:01:38,487 --> 01:01:39,988 What's that? 1018 01:01:40,155 --> 01:01:43,742 Laotian politicians 2 half-brothers and a cousin. 1019 01:01:43,909 --> 01:01:47,746 The scourge of contemporary history exams. 1020 01:01:47,913 --> 01:01:49,998 Worse than Schleswig-Holstein. 1021 01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:57,548 You never really know how you should lead your life. 1022 01:01:58,340 --> 01:02:00,968 So your kids got in the way of your Ph.D… 1023 01:02:01,135 --> 01:02:02,761 but they're yours. 1024 01:02:02,928 --> 01:02:05,389 That's something to treasure. 1025 01:02:11,854 --> 01:02:14,106 - Who's that? - A friend of mommy's. 1026 01:02:14,273 --> 01:02:16,734 - What's he doing there? - Sleeping. 1027 01:02:16,900 --> 01:02:19,737 I want him to go! 1028 01:02:21,739 --> 01:02:23,323 I'm going. 1029 01:02:26,618 --> 01:02:28,746 I always wanted a child. 1030 01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:34,293 Children are life… 1031 01:02:34,460 --> 01:02:36,670 an affirmation of life. 1032 01:02:36,837 --> 01:02:40,174 I was going to adopt a Cambodian child. 1033 01:02:41,508 --> 01:02:44,136 A social worker had to evaluate me, so… 1034 01:02:46,722 --> 01:02:49,016 Better to have kids who love you… 1035 01:02:49,183 --> 01:02:50,809 than to end up like Pierre… 1036 01:02:50,976 --> 01:02:52,603 alone, bitter, without any family. 1037 01:02:53,604 --> 01:02:57,232 But I do have a family. 1038 01:02:58,942 --> 01:03:01,653 Here, sitting around this table. 1039 01:03:02,738 --> 01:03:04,531 A family I love. 1040 01:03:06,408 --> 01:03:08,410 I feel closer to this family… than to my brother 1041 01:03:08,577 --> 01:03:09,912 the insurance broker… 1042 01:03:10,078 --> 01:03:11,538 or my parents… 1043 01:03:11,705 --> 01:03:15,250 who could never figure me out… 1044 01:03:15,417 --> 01:03:17,878 and complain 'cause I don't go to mass. 1045 01:03:20,714 --> 01:03:22,382 You're my family. 1046 01:03:24,176 --> 01:03:25,761 Who can that be? 1047 01:03:27,596 --> 01:03:29,556 Are we expecting anyone? 1048 01:03:39,650 --> 01:03:41,819 Diane, it's for you. 1049 01:03:44,780 --> 01:03:46,782 He was here earlier. 1050 01:03:56,542 --> 01:03:59,545 I never see anyone outside the department. 1051 01:04:01,129 --> 01:04:03,048 I'm like you. 1052 01:04:10,639 --> 01:04:12,266 Take off your glasses. 1053 01:04:21,859 --> 01:04:24,653 Mario, you haven't met Dominique… 1054 01:04:24,820 --> 01:04:26,113 - Louise… - Hello Mario. 1055 01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:28,907 … and Danielle. 1056 01:04:31,410 --> 01:04:33,203 I'll get you a chair. 1057 01:04:47,968 --> 01:04:50,137 Would you like some coulibiac? 1058 01:04:50,304 --> 01:04:51,805 Some what? 1059 01:04:51,972 --> 01:04:55,767 It's a salmon pie, but I used trout instead of salmon. 1060 01:04:55,934 --> 01:04:58,437 It's good, it's a Russian recipe. 1061 01:04:58,604 --> 01:04:59,938 I don't like fish. 1062 01:05:00,731 --> 01:05:03,525 Would you like some Stilton cheese? 1063 01:05:03,692 --> 01:05:04,902 I'm not hungry. 1064 01:05:05,068 --> 01:05:06,653 But you didn't eat. 1065 01:05:08,196 --> 01:05:09,865 Have some wine at least. 1066 01:05:11,033 --> 01:05:12,576 Got any beer? 1067 01:05:23,462 --> 01:05:25,756 Do you live around here? 1068 01:05:27,299 --> 01:05:28,508 Talking to me? 1069 01:05:31,386 --> 01:05:32,930 Are you from the area? 1070 01:05:47,653 --> 01:05:50,572 You may be wrong about my getting old alone. 1071 01:05:50,739 --> 01:05:52,074 I probably won't make it. 1072 01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:53,325 There's lung cancer… 1073 01:05:53,492 --> 01:05:55,410 heart attacks… 1074 01:05:55,577 --> 01:05:57,621 Women live to old age, not men. 1075 01:05:57,788 --> 01:05:59,831 Isn't that levelling out? 1076 01:05:59,998 --> 01:06:01,583 Just the opposite. 1077 01:06:01,750 --> 01:06:05,045 Women's life expectancy is 78. 1078 01:06:05,212 --> 01:06:07,214 For men it's 70. 1079 01:06:07,381 --> 01:06:09,049 The gap keeps widening. 1080 01:06:10,008 --> 01:06:12,970 That's the crucial change in our lives. 1081 01:06:13,762 --> 01:06:15,931 Less than 200 years ago… 1082 01:06:16,098 --> 01:06:18,850 women lived to about 36. 1083 01:06:19,017 --> 01:06:21,436 Not a long life. 1084 01:06:21,603 --> 01:06:25,273 The records are full of widows and widowers… 1085 01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:27,317 orphans and stepchildren. 1086 01:06:27,484 --> 01:06:30,779 That's all vanished in less than a century. 1087 01:06:30,946 --> 01:06:32,948 What's with this beer? 1088 01:06:33,115 --> 01:06:35,492 It's imported Pilsner. 1089 01:06:35,659 --> 01:06:37,536 You like this? 1090 01:06:37,703 --> 01:06:40,122 Occasionally. 1091 01:06:43,041 --> 01:06:45,168 Think about it, marriages… 1092 01:06:45,335 --> 01:06:47,921 lasted an average of 15 years. 1093 01:06:48,088 --> 01:06:50,716 We've been married 15 years. 1094 01:06:50,882 --> 01:06:53,719 Five generations back it would all be over. 1095 01:06:53,885 --> 01:06:55,971 One of you would be dead. 1096 01:06:57,723 --> 01:06:59,641 You should write a paper on that. 1097 01:07:00,976 --> 01:07:05,397 17,000 scholarly articles are published every day. 1098 01:07:05,564 --> 01:07:06,940 One more or less… 1099 01:07:07,107 --> 01:07:08,859 I've had enough of this. 1100 01:07:09,026 --> 01:07:10,652 We're still eating. 1101 01:07:10,819 --> 01:07:12,404 This is a drag. 1102 01:07:12,571 --> 01:07:14,406 We're talking. 1103 01:07:15,157 --> 01:07:17,451 Intellectuals love to talk. 1104 01:07:17,617 --> 01:07:20,370 All you do is talk. 1105 01:07:20,537 --> 01:07:22,956 All afternoon they went on about sex. 1106 01:07:23,123 --> 01:07:24,791 I expected an orgy. 1107 01:07:24,958 --> 01:07:27,919 Instead, the big thrill is a fish pie. 1108 01:07:30,464 --> 01:07:32,174 What are you suggesting? 1109 01:07:33,008 --> 01:07:35,469 When I'm horny, I fuck. 1110 01:07:35,635 --> 01:07:36,762 What d'you say? 1111 01:07:36,928 --> 01:07:38,221 Mario, please. 1112 01:07:38,638 --> 01:07:40,599 Well, how 'bout it? 1113 01:07:46,730 --> 01:07:48,523 I'll be outside. 1114 01:08:04,998 --> 01:08:08,043 It was delicious, but I'm not hungry. 1115 01:08:11,797 --> 01:08:13,340 Excuse me. 1116 01:08:20,013 --> 01:08:22,182 I didn't think she was that far gone. 1117 01:08:47,374 --> 01:08:50,919 People should speak about… what they know, that's it. 1118 01:08:53,046 --> 01:08:54,714 The Pope knows all about… 1119 01:08:54,881 --> 01:08:57,551 masturbation and prostate ailments. 1120 01:08:57,717 --> 01:08:59,553 He can talk about that. 1121 01:09:01,138 --> 01:09:02,389 Banking too. 1122 01:09:03,181 --> 01:09:05,517 And the CIA. Don't underestimate the Pope. 1123 01:09:09,104 --> 01:09:11,898 Marx was your average middle-class German… 1124 01:09:12,065 --> 01:09:15,861 who fucked the maid behind his wife's back. 1125 01:09:16,778 --> 01:09:21,491 His theories are rooted in his sense of guilt. 1126 01:09:22,659 --> 01:09:24,369 Same for Freud. 1127 01:09:24,536 --> 01:09:26,872 A latent homosexual… 1128 01:09:27,038 --> 01:09:29,708 unable to lay his wife after age 40… 1129 01:09:29,875 --> 01:09:32,669 hot and bothered over his female patients. 1130 01:09:32,836 --> 01:09:35,255 His quarrels with Jung… 1131 01:09:35,422 --> 01:09:37,841 were really about women… 1132 01:09:38,008 --> 01:09:39,467 about sex. 1133 01:09:44,514 --> 01:09:46,266 I get a kick out of eminent… 1134 01:09:46,433 --> 01:09:49,186 sociologists and psychologists… 1135 01:09:49,352 --> 01:09:52,355 who spew forth theories of sexuality… 1136 01:09:52,522 --> 01:09:54,065 when I've seen them… 1137 01:09:54,232 --> 01:09:58,486 being flogged with wet towels in a massage parlour. 1138 01:09:59,738 --> 01:10:01,448 You go to places like that? 1139 01:10:01,615 --> 01:10:03,366 Sure. 1140 01:10:03,533 --> 01:10:04,743 Often? 1141 01:10:04,910 --> 01:10:06,161 Yeah. 1142 01:10:07,037 --> 01:10:08,830 How do you feel about it? 1143 01:10:09,789 --> 01:10:10,832 How I feel? 1144 01:10:10,999 --> 01:10:12,417 Well, I mean… 1145 01:10:12,584 --> 01:10:15,795 if I ever found out Rémy had been to one… 1146 01:10:15,962 --> 01:10:17,797 I'd never forgive him. 1147 01:10:17,964 --> 01:10:19,591 Why not? 1148 01:10:19,758 --> 01:10:21,718 He's got me. 1149 01:10:22,594 --> 01:10:26,681 If he wants a massage, I'll be happy to give him one. 1150 01:10:27,599 --> 01:10:29,434 I don't go to those places. 1151 01:10:30,685 --> 01:10:33,730 - That's no surprise. - What do you mean? 1152 01:10:33,897 --> 01:10:36,983 Want me to describe a female fantasy? 1153 01:10:37,817 --> 01:10:39,444 The female fantasy? 1154 01:10:41,446 --> 01:10:43,365 The woman is at home… 1155 01:10:43,531 --> 01:10:46,993 in the nest she has so lovingly decorated… 1156 01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:49,246 her husband or lover arrives. 1157 01:10:49,412 --> 01:10:52,582 He's brought flowers and a bottle of champagne. 1158 01:10:52,749 --> 01:10:55,377 He is extremely nice. 1159 01:10:57,128 --> 01:11:00,840 They spend a pleasant evening… 1160 01:11:01,007 --> 01:11:02,550 and make love. 1161 01:11:02,717 --> 01:11:04,386 End of fantasy. 1162 01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:08,265 What a bore! 1163 01:11:11,101 --> 01:11:13,186 Whenever he talks about love… 1164 01:11:13,353 --> 01:11:15,939 he makes it seem ridiculous. 1165 01:11:16,106 --> 01:11:18,233 But Pierre… 1166 01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:22,153 don't you realize the lives those poor women lead? 1167 01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,614 How they're forced to work there? 1168 01:11:24,781 --> 01:11:26,241 You might as well be a rapist. 1169 01:11:26,408 --> 01:11:27,826 It's just as bad. 1170 01:11:28,368 --> 01:11:31,454 Those poor girls… they need help. 1171 01:11:31,621 --> 01:11:32,664 How do you know? 1172 01:11:32,831 --> 01:11:35,083 I've seen stories on them. 1173 01:11:39,713 --> 01:11:41,506 Thursday afternoon I can't. 1174 01:11:41,673 --> 01:11:44,926 I'll miss "Demographic Methodology". 1175 01:11:45,093 --> 01:11:46,970 What about after? 1176 01:11:47,137 --> 01:11:51,641 I was hoping to take "Statistics and the Computer". 1177 01:11:51,808 --> 01:11:54,978 Be reasonable, Thursday's our busiest day. 1178 01:11:55,145 --> 01:11:58,398 Manon can't get a sitter and Carole's husband is home. 1179 01:11:59,149 --> 01:12:00,567 What'll I do? 1180 01:12:00,734 --> 01:12:04,362 If I miss that course I'll never be able to keep up. 1181 01:12:04,404 --> 01:12:05,905 We'll see. 1182 01:12:16,708 --> 01:12:18,543 It's been a while. 1183 01:12:18,710 --> 01:12:20,837 It's end of term. 1184 01:12:21,004 --> 01:12:24,257 I'm up to my neck in corrections. 1185 01:12:24,424 --> 01:12:26,259 You need a good massage. 1186 01:12:26,801 --> 01:12:28,803 - With shower? - Yeah. 1187 01:12:29,971 --> 01:12:34,517 This afternoon I have Miss Kim, Miss Sandra… 1188 01:12:34,684 --> 01:12:36,186 and Miss Susan. 1189 01:12:38,605 --> 01:12:39,939 A new girl. 1190 01:12:40,106 --> 01:12:41,816 She only works part time. 1191 01:12:41,983 --> 01:12:43,818 Very well liked. 1192 01:12:43,985 --> 01:12:45,737 I recommend her. 1193 01:12:45,904 --> 01:12:48,490 Alright, I'll take your word. 1194 01:12:53,286 --> 01:12:55,705 One regular with shower. 1195 01:12:57,165 --> 01:12:59,042 - Coming. - It won't be long. 1196 01:13:08,259 --> 01:13:09,969 This way. 1197 01:13:13,807 --> 01:13:15,016 See you later. 1198 01:13:29,239 --> 01:13:30,323 You work part time? 1199 01:13:30,490 --> 01:13:31,741 Yeah, I'm a student. 1200 01:13:31,908 --> 01:13:34,577 - What are you in? - History. 1201 01:13:36,496 --> 01:13:38,081 At the university? 1202 01:13:38,248 --> 01:13:41,084 Yeah, my first semester. 1203 01:13:42,460 --> 01:13:45,130 People go on about how we live in a violent society. 1204 01:13:45,296 --> 01:13:47,048 It comes up on TV all the time. 1205 01:13:47,715 --> 01:13:49,384 Violence of modern society. 1206 01:13:53,555 --> 01:13:57,100 From a historical perspective, that's just not true. 1207 01:13:57,267 --> 01:13:59,227 It's a relatively peaceful age. 1208 01:14:01,271 --> 01:14:02,981 Your towel? 1209 01:14:11,114 --> 01:14:12,782 Your glasses? 1210 01:14:12,949 --> 01:14:14,159 What? 1211 01:14:25,003 --> 01:14:28,590 Reporters get all worked up because of 10% unemployment. 1212 01:14:30,550 --> 01:14:32,594 When we think about London back in 1850 1213 01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:34,387 having a population of millions 1214 01:14:34,554 --> 01:14:37,765 600,000 people were literally starving to death. 1215 01:14:41,686 --> 01:14:44,981 That's what I like about history, it's so reassuring. 1216 01:14:51,446 --> 01:14:52,489 Papers finished? 1217 01:14:52,655 --> 01:14:55,825 I still have one in Mediaeval History. 1218 01:14:55,992 --> 01:14:57,368 What's your subject? 1219 01:14:57,535 --> 01:14:59,621 Millenniarism. 1220 01:15:00,246 --> 01:15:04,000 I'm fascinated by all the talk about the year 2000. 1221 01:15:06,836 --> 01:15:08,588 Do you want the special? 1222 01:15:12,300 --> 01:15:13,259 Yeah. 1223 01:15:13,426 --> 01:15:14,552 The price is… 1224 01:15:15,220 --> 01:15:18,556 $25 for manual, $40 for oral. I don't go further. 1225 01:15:18,723 --> 01:15:20,934 Let's make it by hand. 1226 01:15:21,100 --> 01:15:22,685 Should I pay now? 1227 01:15:22,852 --> 01:15:23,978 No, after. 1228 01:15:25,271 --> 01:15:27,565 That's why the year 1000 interests me. 1229 01:15:27,774 --> 01:15:31,277 In Europe, it was a major event. 1230 01:15:31,444 --> 01:15:36,074 People believed that on January 1 of the year 1000, 1231 01:15:36,241 --> 01:15:37,784 the world would end. 1232 01:15:37,951 --> 01:15:39,577 Gabriel's trumpet… 1233 01:15:39,744 --> 01:15:42,914 the Four Horsemen, the Last Judgement, the whole bit. 1234 01:15:44,374 --> 01:15:46,459 God, I forgot to take off my robe. 1235 01:15:47,210 --> 01:15:48,545 I'm not very sexy. 1236 01:15:49,712 --> 01:15:52,090 You're just fine. 1237 01:15:53,299 --> 01:15:55,093 The churches were packed. 1238 01:15:55,260 --> 01:15:59,097 People sold their houses and gave their money to the poor. 1239 01:15:59,472 --> 01:16:02,559 Others whipped themselves during public processions. 1240 01:16:02,725 --> 01:16:03,810 Some even… 1241 01:16:03,977 --> 01:16:07,021 kissed lepers and licked their sores. 1242 01:16:08,606 --> 01:16:09,857 What interests me… 1243 01:16:10,024 --> 01:16:11,818 Excuse me… 1244 01:16:11,985 --> 01:16:13,319 I'm about to come. 1245 01:16:13,486 --> 01:16:14,612 Oh, sorry. 1246 01:16:15,530 --> 01:16:17,198 I talk too much. 1247 01:16:30,712 --> 01:16:32,171 Thank you, Miss. 1248 01:16:34,591 --> 01:16:36,259 My pleasure, Sir. 1249 01:16:40,388 --> 01:16:43,057 That's when it happened. 1250 01:16:43,224 --> 01:16:45,143 I fell head over heels in love. 1251 01:16:46,936 --> 01:16:49,022 Ejaculating while discussing the millennium… 1252 01:16:49,188 --> 01:16:52,984 was intellectually and physically overwhelming. 1253 01:16:59,616 --> 01:17:03,328 Signs of the empire's decline are everywhere. 1254 01:17:03,494 --> 01:17:06,914 Society despises its own institutions… 1255 01:17:07,081 --> 01:17:08,625 the birth rate keeps dropping… 1256 01:17:09,792 --> 01:17:12,003 men refuse to serve in the army… 1257 01:17:12,629 --> 01:17:15,423 the national debt is out of control… 1258 01:17:15,590 --> 01:17:18,551 the work week is getting shorter… 1259 01:17:19,052 --> 01:17:21,095 the bureaucracies are rampant… 1260 01:17:21,262 --> 01:17:23,264 the elites are in decay… 1261 01:17:24,766 --> 01:17:27,810 With the collapse of the Marxist-Leninist dream… 1262 01:17:27,977 --> 01:17:29,729 and model exists… 1263 01:17:29,896 --> 01:17:32,315 of which we can say… 1264 01:17:32,482 --> 01:17:34,942 "This is how we want to live." 1265 01:17:36,277 --> 01:17:38,279 In our personal lives… 1266 01:17:38,446 --> 01:17:40,490 unless one is a mystic or a saint… 1267 01:17:40,907 --> 01:17:44,619 there are no models to live by. 1268 01:17:45,912 --> 01:17:50,500 Our very existence is being eroded. 1269 01:18:06,891 --> 01:18:09,560 And you believe this process is inevitable? 1270 01:18:09,727 --> 01:18:11,396 Yes, absolutely. 1271 01:18:11,562 --> 01:18:14,440 Though there will always be charlatans claiming… 1272 01:18:14,607 --> 01:18:17,485 salvation lies in communications… 1273 01:18:17,652 --> 01:18:21,072 microchips, the return to religion, 1274 01:18:21,239 --> 01:18:22,699 physical fitness… 1275 01:18:22,865 --> 01:18:24,826 or some other idiocy. 1276 01:18:25,284 --> 01:18:30,248 A civilization's decline is as inevitable as old age. 1277 01:18:30,748 --> 01:18:33,626 We can try to slow down the process. 1278 01:18:34,127 --> 01:18:35,503 That's all. 1279 01:18:35,670 --> 01:18:39,674 We're fortunate here to be on the outskirts of the empire. 1280 01:18:40,550 --> 01:18:42,385 The shocks are less violent. 1281 01:18:42,593 --> 01:18:44,887 Life in these times… 1282 01:18:45,054 --> 01:18:47,807 can be very pleasant in some respects. 1283 01:18:48,558 --> 01:18:49,767 Anyway… 1284 01:18:49,934 --> 01:18:53,855 our mindset precludes any other form of experience. 1285 01:18:55,356 --> 01:18:57,316 Few of us would be able… 1286 01:18:57,483 --> 01:19:02,029 to live among the Puritans of New England in the 1650s. 1287 01:19:03,656 --> 01:19:06,117 Thank you, Dominique St-Arnaud. 1288 01:19:09,245 --> 01:19:10,371 That was cheerful. 1289 01:19:14,208 --> 01:19:15,835 Well, I don't agree. 1290 01:19:18,796 --> 01:19:23,801 I'm sure there are experts who can prove just the opposite… 1291 01:19:23,968 --> 01:19:27,764 that we're living in an age of incredible rebirth… 1292 01:19:27,930 --> 01:19:30,183 that science has never progressed so fast… 1293 01:19:30,349 --> 01:19:32,560 that life has never been better. 1294 01:19:32,769 --> 01:19:36,439 It's impossible to understand the age you live in. 1295 01:19:37,690 --> 01:19:40,860 All you can do is try to be happy. 1296 01:19:41,027 --> 01:19:42,987 That's what people have always wanted. 1297 01:19:43,154 --> 01:19:46,991 The rest invent theories to justify their misery. 1298 01:19:47,158 --> 01:19:48,868 You said so yourself. 1299 01:19:49,702 --> 01:19:52,205 Just because you choose… 1300 01:19:52,371 --> 01:19:54,582 to live all alone… 1301 01:19:54,749 --> 01:19:57,084 and sacrifice your life to a career… 1302 01:19:57,251 --> 01:19:59,796 doesn't mean that if I'm lucid… 1303 01:19:59,962 --> 01:20:01,923 I have to be depressed. 1304 01:20:12,141 --> 01:20:14,644 You haven't said a word about the book. 1305 01:20:16,604 --> 01:20:20,066 I bet they agree with me but are scared to say so. 1306 01:20:21,192 --> 01:20:24,445 I think they feel superior. 1307 01:20:25,530 --> 01:20:26,864 Superior? Why? 1308 01:20:30,785 --> 01:20:33,412 Because you've both slept with me. 1309 01:20:51,889 --> 01:20:54,892 What does that have to do with it? 1310 01:20:55,059 --> 01:20:58,437 I think that for men like you… 1311 01:20:58,604 --> 01:21:01,399 love always entails a struggle for power. 1312 01:21:02,608 --> 01:21:06,946 Rémy's often said he'd like to seduce a big intellectual… 1313 01:21:07,113 --> 01:21:08,573 I don't know, say… 1314 01:21:08,739 --> 01:21:10,032 Susan Sontag. 1315 01:21:10,199 --> 01:21:12,618 Right. 1316 01:21:12,785 --> 01:21:14,745 It's the urge to appropriate her. 1317 01:21:14,912 --> 01:21:18,916 To dominate her, almost physically. 1318 01:21:19,542 --> 01:21:21,377 Come on… 1319 01:21:21,544 --> 01:21:25,923 it can also be the desire to share, to be with… 1320 01:21:26,632 --> 01:21:28,092 Perhaps… 1321 01:21:28,259 --> 01:21:32,763 but I can't trust the disdain of men who've made me come… 1322 01:21:34,265 --> 01:21:36,350 who've "had" me. 1323 01:21:37,059 --> 01:21:39,270 Well, who knows… 1324 01:21:39,437 --> 01:21:41,063 I may be wrong. 1325 01:22:03,252 --> 01:22:05,046 I've always wondered… 1326 01:22:05,212 --> 01:22:08,424 Would we see the missiles in a nuclear war? 1327 01:22:09,133 --> 01:22:10,718 No, they'd be too high. 1328 01:22:11,010 --> 01:22:12,970 But when they start to fall? 1329 01:22:13,512 --> 01:22:16,724 The missiles don't fall, just the bombs. 1330 01:22:17,767 --> 01:22:19,477 And they're small. 1331 01:22:19,644 --> 01:22:22,188 Would we see the explosions in the US? 1332 01:22:22,563 --> 01:22:27,318 If Plattsburgh were hit… we'd probably see the fireball. 1333 01:22:35,451 --> 01:22:37,578 Do you have any Valium? 1334 01:22:37,745 --> 01:22:40,998 I don't think so, but we'll get you something. 1335 01:22:49,590 --> 01:22:52,218 I was taking too much Valium, I had to stop. 1336 01:22:52,927 --> 01:22:54,053 There's Librium. 1337 01:22:54,220 --> 01:22:55,846 Anything else? 1338 01:22:56,013 --> 01:22:58,307 I've got Mogadons and Sorpax. 1339 01:23:00,059 --> 01:23:01,560 I'll take 2. 1340 01:23:20,454 --> 01:23:21,664 It's hit you hard, eh? 1341 01:23:30,548 --> 01:23:32,675 I'd like to have a baby with you. 1342 01:23:32,842 --> 01:23:34,635 To remind me… 1343 01:23:35,094 --> 01:23:36,679 For later. 1344 01:23:38,264 --> 01:23:41,600 You have to like yourself to procreate. 1345 01:23:41,767 --> 01:23:43,728 I don't. 1346 01:23:43,894 --> 01:23:45,521 I'm not optimistic enough. 1347 01:23:45,688 --> 01:23:47,440 You'd be a good father. 1348 01:23:49,066 --> 01:23:52,278 Intellectuals rarely make good parents. 1349 01:23:52,445 --> 01:23:55,197 Think of Diane's kids, or Rémy's. 1350 01:23:55,364 --> 01:23:56,907 Disasters. 1351 01:23:57,658 --> 01:23:59,827 And I'm too selfish. 1352 01:23:59,994 --> 01:24:01,871 Having to listen to heavy metal… 1353 01:24:02,038 --> 01:24:03,622 when I'm reading… 1354 01:24:04,498 --> 01:24:06,208 You are going to grow old alone. 1355 01:24:06,375 --> 01:24:08,377 Having kids won't change that. 1356 01:24:09,962 --> 01:24:11,213 They'd put me in a home… 1357 01:24:11,380 --> 01:24:15,426 and resent having to visit me at Christmas. 1358 01:24:18,137 --> 01:24:19,472 I love you. 1359 01:24:20,639 --> 01:24:22,308 I love you too. 1360 01:24:30,691 --> 01:24:32,485 Want to make love? 1361 01:24:32,651 --> 01:24:34,153 I'm too tired. 1362 01:24:37,406 --> 01:24:41,869 You'll have to ask some kid, like Alain. 1363 01:24:42,036 --> 01:24:43,746 He can't hope for better. 1364 01:24:44,872 --> 01:24:48,542 I want to make love to you, you old fool. 1365 01:24:48,709 --> 01:24:50,294 You never understand. 1366 01:24:50,461 --> 01:24:53,172 I know you're just after my body. 1367 01:24:54,423 --> 01:24:56,258 You can hardly get it up! 1368 01:24:56,884 --> 01:24:58,552 I love you, tubby. 1369 01:24:58,719 --> 01:25:00,262 Me too, you're real lucky. 1370 01:25:00,429 --> 01:25:01,889 Don't I know. 1371 01:25:06,185 --> 01:25:07,228 Scotch? 1372 01:25:07,394 --> 01:25:09,647 No, I don't like it. 1373 01:25:09,814 --> 01:25:10,856 Too bad. 1374 01:25:11,941 --> 01:25:13,275 Why did you do it? 1375 01:25:13,567 --> 01:25:14,610 What? 1376 01:25:14,777 --> 01:25:17,113 Tell Louise about you and Rémy. 1377 01:25:18,531 --> 01:25:20,116 It just slipped out. 1378 01:25:24,620 --> 01:25:26,205 I wanted to get back at her. 1379 01:25:26,664 --> 01:25:27,832 Why? 1380 01:25:29,625 --> 01:25:30,918 I don't know. 1381 01:25:31,794 --> 01:25:33,337 It just came over me. 1382 01:25:34,004 --> 01:25:35,965 It's not like you. 1383 01:25:36,423 --> 01:25:38,676 You're always so calm… 1384 01:25:38,843 --> 01:25:40,302 so cheerful. 1385 01:25:41,220 --> 01:25:43,472 I've never seen you lose your patience. 1386 01:25:43,639 --> 01:25:45,975 It's one thing I can't stomach. 1387 01:25:46,142 --> 01:25:47,476 What? 1388 01:25:47,643 --> 01:25:48,978 Blindness. 1389 01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:53,232 People who are unable to see reality. 1390 01:25:57,820 --> 01:25:59,613 Talk to me. 1391 01:25:59,780 --> 01:26:00,906 Tomorrow. 1392 01:26:01,073 --> 01:26:03,242 What went on with Dominique? 1393 01:26:05,411 --> 01:26:06,912 Nothing. 1394 01:26:08,330 --> 01:26:10,040 That's not what she said. 1395 01:26:13,794 --> 01:26:15,504 Can we talk about it tomorrow? 1396 01:26:15,671 --> 01:26:17,965 I just took Sorpax. 1397 01:26:25,890 --> 01:26:27,391 Talk to me. 1398 01:26:34,857 --> 01:26:36,775 Don't cry. 1399 01:26:38,611 --> 01:26:40,905 It's not worth crying over. 1400 01:26:47,119 --> 01:26:50,539 I just can't take these middle-class housewives… 1401 01:26:50,706 --> 01:26:54,043 with their cute husbands and cute kids. 1402 01:26:56,754 --> 01:26:59,965 I've watched so many men getting dressed at 2 a.m. 1403 01:27:03,719 --> 01:27:05,930 Still, Rémy's special… 1404 01:27:06,096 --> 01:27:08,057 he's screwed all Montréal. 1405 01:27:08,224 --> 01:27:11,060 He says he's like the Red Cross, a universal donor. 1406 01:27:12,937 --> 01:27:14,855 Two years he slept with Diane. 1407 01:27:15,022 --> 01:27:17,274 Oh yeah? With Diane? 1408 01:27:17,441 --> 01:27:18,692 Yup. 1409 01:27:18,859 --> 01:27:20,778 Anyone in a skirt at school… 1410 01:27:21,528 --> 01:27:23,948 down to the last secretary. 1411 01:27:24,531 --> 01:27:26,533 And then there are all the others. 1412 01:27:30,829 --> 01:27:33,165 He told me he laid Louise's sister… 1413 01:27:33,332 --> 01:27:35,125 and really got off on it. 1414 01:27:37,336 --> 01:27:39,421 But he's not that handsome. 1415 01:27:40,214 --> 01:27:42,132 Doesn't mean a thing. 1416 01:27:42,299 --> 01:27:43,592 He loves sex. 1417 01:27:43,759 --> 01:27:45,177 That's irresistible. 1418 01:27:46,011 --> 01:27:48,389 So many men don't really enjoy it. 1419 01:28:17,710 --> 01:28:20,921 Please take me in your arms. 1420 01:29:36,580 --> 01:29:40,626 If only you knew how much that calm look costs me. 1421 01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:44,505 Every morning I wake up in a rage. 1422 01:29:44,963 --> 01:29:46,256 What about? 1423 01:29:48,217 --> 01:29:50,427 Anything, nothing, everything. 1424 01:29:52,513 --> 01:29:55,391 It takes two cups of coffee to hold me together. 1425 01:31:27,024 --> 01:31:30,152 There are painters of the night like Rembrandt… 1426 01:31:30,319 --> 01:31:31,945 or Georges De La Tour… 1427 01:31:33,989 --> 01:31:36,116 but there are few who paint the dawn. 1428 01:31:38,202 --> 01:31:39,828 Dawn is the hour of death… 1429 01:31:41,038 --> 01:31:42,873 the hour of sea-grey light. 1430 01:31:45,375 --> 01:31:46,835 There is Géricault… 1431 01:31:48,587 --> 01:31:50,172 and above all Caravaggio. 1432 01:32:28,710 --> 01:32:30,629 I brought you something. 1433 01:32:44,601 --> 01:32:46,520 Hope you like it. 1434 01:33:15,215 --> 01:33:16,508 Rough night? 1435 01:33:18,427 --> 01:33:19,678 The way I like'em. 1436 01:33:36,987 --> 01:33:39,781 There was blood in my urine again. 1437 01:33:39,948 --> 01:33:41,158 A lot? 1438 01:33:41,325 --> 01:33:42,701 The bowl was full. 1439 01:33:43,827 --> 01:33:45,454 It's been like that for a week. 1440 01:33:45,621 --> 01:33:47,122 What is it? 1441 01:33:47,289 --> 01:33:49,207 They don't know yet. 1442 01:33:49,374 --> 01:33:51,001 God, you're soaking. 1443 01:33:56,965 --> 01:33:58,050 Come and eat. 1444 01:33:58,216 --> 01:34:00,052 Bacon and eggs those I can handle. 1445 01:34:00,218 --> 01:34:02,429 You seem chipper. 1446 01:34:03,597 --> 01:34:05,307 Country air… 1447 01:34:05,474 --> 01:34:07,184 does me good. 1448 01:34:13,565 --> 01:34:18,028 Dominique, Diane, Claude will always be alone, abandoned… 1449 01:34:18,195 --> 01:34:20,947 Pierre and Danielle won't last more than a year. 1450 01:34:21,990 --> 01:34:24,618 We've been together 20 years. 1451 01:34:26,078 --> 01:34:27,871 That's what love is. 1452 01:34:29,081 --> 01:34:33,835 It lasts, it can overcome a child's illness, or old age. 1453 01:34:37,547 --> 01:34:39,716 It's you I want to sleep with… 1454 01:34:39,883 --> 01:34:41,426 the rest of my life. 1455 01:34:42,177 --> 01:34:44,638 I love you so much. 1456 01:34:52,062 --> 01:34:53,730 Shit! 1457 01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:57,734 Need help? 1458 01:34:58,485 --> 01:34:59,778 Yeah, maybe. 1459 01:34:59,945 --> 01:35:01,738 Let me. 1460 01:35:06,827 --> 01:35:08,537 Can I see you again? 1461 01:35:08,704 --> 01:35:09,913 Of course. 1462 01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:11,039 Why do you ask? 1463 01:35:12,165 --> 01:35:13,166 I dunno. 1464 01:35:14,167 --> 01:35:16,753 I never know what you really mean. 1465 01:35:17,587 --> 01:35:20,173 Words are cheap, baby. 1466 01:35:20,340 --> 01:35:22,175 What's that? 1467 01:35:22,342 --> 01:35:24,010 Don't listen to me… 1468 01:35:24,177 --> 01:35:25,804 touch me. 1469 01:35:25,971 --> 01:35:27,848 Touch me, baby. 1470 01:35:35,480 --> 01:35:39,985 … like when Robert Turmel returned from Venice… 1471 01:35:40,152 --> 01:35:42,195 - I know, I was with him. - Oh yeah. 1472 01:35:42,404 --> 01:35:45,699 So you heard about his hot affair with an Italian. 1473 01:35:45,866 --> 01:35:47,826 Come on, he spent one night… 1474 01:35:47,993 --> 01:35:50,746 with Monica Massaferro, the Pollaiuolos specialist… 1475 01:35:50,912 --> 01:35:53,999 His wife said it was more than one night. 1476 01:35:54,166 --> 01:35:55,959 One night, he told me so. 1477 01:35:56,126 --> 01:35:58,462 Anyway, when he got back, 1478 01:35:58,628 --> 01:35:59,921 he told his wife… 1479 01:36:00,088 --> 01:36:01,339 He didn't tell her! 1480 01:36:01,506 --> 01:36:03,633 But I got this from her! 1481 01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:05,010 He should know. 1482 01:36:05,177 --> 01:36:07,095 Dominique can settle this. 1483 01:36:08,597 --> 01:36:12,267 What did Robert tell his wife when he got back from Italy? 1484 01:36:12,434 --> 01:36:14,644 All he said was he had an affair. 1485 01:36:14,811 --> 01:36:18,231 The way I heard it, just as he was about to confess… 1486 01:36:18,398 --> 01:36:21,610 his wife told him she had an affair. 1487 01:36:21,777 --> 01:36:22,736 He was shattered. 1488 01:36:22,903 --> 01:36:24,404 His wife never said that! 1489 01:36:24,738 --> 01:36:26,239 No, it's impossible. 1490 01:36:26,740 --> 01:36:29,284 His wife probably suspected something. 1491 01:36:29,451 --> 01:36:31,369 No, she didn't. 1492 01:36:31,536 --> 01:36:32,788 If she'd suspected… 1493 01:36:32,954 --> 01:36:35,040 You can sense these things. 1494 01:36:35,207 --> 01:36:37,459 No, he sensed her uneasiness. 1495 01:36:37,626 --> 01:36:39,252 I know Robert very well. 1496 01:36:39,419 --> 01:36:40,962 He wouldn't lie to me. 1497 01:36:41,129 --> 01:36:42,798 One of them is lying. 1498 01:36:42,964 --> 01:36:45,008 I tend to believe his wife. 1499 01:36:45,175 --> 01:36:46,593 Me too, when it comes to that. 1500 01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:49,304 He is very sensitive. 1501 01:36:49,471 --> 01:36:50,764 You mean touchy. 1502 01:36:50,931 --> 01:36:52,641 You think he's touchy? 1503 01:37:00,774 --> 01:37:01,900 Come help. 1504 01:37:09,115 --> 01:37:11,284 Is that it? 1505 01:37:11,451 --> 01:37:13,620 Do you still give lessons? 1506 01:37:13,787 --> 01:37:14,996 Two afternoons… 1507 01:37:15,163 --> 01:37:17,249 It's tough with the kids. 1508 01:37:17,415 --> 01:37:19,125 You could get a sitter. 1509 01:37:51,825 --> 01:37:53,910 I swear that's what happened. 1510 01:37:55,620 --> 01:37:58,582 I guess we'll never really know for sure. 1511 01:38:38,413 --> 01:38:39,706 You okay? 1512 01:38:39,873 --> 01:38:41,291 Yeah. 1513 01:41:25,580 --> 01:41:29,084 Blu-ray Subtitling: CNST, Montréal 97182