1 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 I told you that you had to see. 2 00:01:16,001 --> 00:01:22,400 That around noon the silence on Athens is such 3 00:01:22,801 --> 00:01:26,841 with the increasing heat... 4 00:01:28,002 --> 00:01:31,803 The city empties at siesta time 5 00:01:32,804 --> 00:01:36,205 like at night everything closes 6 00:01:37,205 --> 00:01:41,806 ... you had to see the rising of silence... 7 00:01:42,407 --> 00:01:46,408 I remember, I told you: 8 00:01:46,409 --> 00:01:50,210 slowly one wonders what is happening 9 00:01:50,211 --> 00:01:53,411 this fading of the sound 10 00:01:53,412 --> 00:01:56,492 with the rising of the sun... 11 00:02:03,013 --> 00:02:06,214 Then comes this fear. 12 00:02:07,415 --> 00:02:10,895 Not the one of the night, 13 00:02:11,815 --> 00:02:14,815 like a fear of the night in the light. 14 00:02:15,016 --> 00:02:18,516 The silence of the night in the sunlight. 15 00:02:19,217 --> 00:02:22,467 The sun at its zenith and the silence of the night. 16 00:02:23,818 --> 00:02:26,218 The sun at the centre of the sky 17 00:02:26,219 --> 00:02:28,069 and the silence of the night. 18 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:36,310 When the others arrived around 2 p.m. , 19 00:02:37,621 --> 00:02:40,541 we went back down to the city, 20 00:02:42,022 --> 00:02:44,602 Athens, 21 00:02:45,223 --> 00:02:47,483 then nothing else happened. 22 00:02:48,424 --> 00:02:49,824 Nothing. 23 00:02:51,225 --> 00:02:53,085 Nothing else than ever, 24 00:02:54,026 --> 00:02:55,406 everywhere, 25 00:02:55,627 --> 00:02:57,517 this emptiness 26 00:02:57,628 --> 00:02:59,258 to love. 27 00:03:00,429 --> 00:03:02,469 - At the Civic Museum of Athens, 28 00:03:03,130 --> 00:03:04,940 the next afternoon... 29 00:03:05,531 --> 00:03:07,331 - Yes... indeed... 30 00:03:07,532 --> 00:03:08,752 I forgot... 31 00:03:11,033 --> 00:03:12,543 typical... 32 00:03:16,134 --> 00:03:19,804 ...and then I told you about the "the other story", 33 00:03:20,136 --> 00:03:22,176 The story of the other people... 34 00:04:20,337 --> 00:04:21,667 It's a saturday. 35 00:04:21,702 --> 00:04:22,768 At night. 36 00:04:23,539 --> 00:04:25,469 In spring. 37 00:04:26,140 --> 00:04:28,510 In the near of summer. 38 00:04:29,341 --> 00:04:30,551 In the month of June. 39 00:04:33,192 --> 00:04:35,403 He, the man in the film, 40 00:04:36,694 --> 00:04:37,624 he works. 41 00:04:39,695 --> 00:04:43,735 He is on duty in a telecommunications service. 42 00:04:44,596 --> 00:04:45,516 He is bored. 43 00:05:05,397 --> 00:05:06,407 Paris empty. 44 00:05:07,198 --> 00:05:08,128 Spring. 45 00:05:08,699 --> 00:05:09,949 Saturday. 46 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:12,800 He is 25. 47 00:05:12,901 --> 00:05:13,901 Alone. 48 00:05:17,102 --> 00:05:19,823 He has got some numbers of the telephone abyss. He dials them. 49 00:05:21,504 --> 00:05:22,834 Two of them. 50 00:05:23,505 --> 00:05:24,895 Three of them. 51 00:05:26,706 --> 00:05:27,926 Then, here is. 52 00:05:29,107 --> 00:05:32,297 Here it is. 53 00:05:47,106 --> 00:05:48,256 The year is 1973. 54 00:05:52,107 --> 00:05:55,507 He kept a private diary at that time of his life 55 00:05:55,508 --> 00:05:58,358 and he says he wrote down many things. 56 00:05:59,109 --> 00:06:00,619 But afterwards didn't. 57 00:06:03,510 --> 00:06:04,600 He gave up. 58 00:06:05,911 --> 00:06:08,241 A short time after it started, 59 00:06:09,112 --> 00:06:10,112 it, 60 00:06:10,513 --> 00:06:11,823 the story, 61 00:06:14,313 --> 00:06:15,703 the love story. 62 00:06:18,114 --> 00:06:19,574 Imageless story. 63 00:06:21,715 --> 00:06:22,755 The black image. 64 00:06:24,516 --> 00:06:26,266 Black images story. 65 00:06:35,517 --> 00:06:36,577 Here, 66 00:06:38,718 --> 00:06:39,708 it starts. 67 00:06:48,519 --> 00:06:52,919 She calls at the same time as him in space and time. 68 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:54,220 They talk. 69 00:06:55,721 --> 00:06:56,801 Talk. 70 00:07:04,122 --> 00:07:05,462 - They describe themselves. 71 00:07:07,123 --> 00:07:10,523 She says of herself being a young woman dark-haired. 72 00:07:10,524 --> 00:07:11,584 Long. 73 00:07:14,525 --> 00:07:17,025 - He says he is young too, 74 00:07:17,526 --> 00:07:18,586 fair-haired, 75 00:07:19,527 --> 00:07:21,977 deep blue-eyed, 76 00:07:22,528 --> 00:07:24,048 tall, almost skinny, 77 00:07:25,129 --> 00:07:26,529 handsome. 78 00:07:38,530 --> 00:07:41,140 She says what she does. 79 00:07:41,531 --> 00:07:45,081 At first she says she works in a factory. 80 00:07:46,532 --> 00:07:48,152 Then another time 81 00:07:48,733 --> 00:07:51,173 she says she has just come back from China. 82 00:07:52,534 --> 00:07:55,925 She talks about a trip in China. 83 00:07:56,536 --> 00:07:58,166 - And then another time 84 00:07:58,537 --> 00:08:01,217 she says she studies medicine, 85 00:08:01,238 --> 00:08:05,938 to join in the M�decins sans Fronti�res corps. 86 00:08:06,139 --> 00:08:07,649 - And afterwards, no, 87 00:08:09,540 --> 00:08:10,990 she doesn't change anymore. 88 00:08:13,541 --> 00:08:17,091 It seems that she hold on to this last version, 89 00:08:17,542 --> 00:08:19,057 that she was finishing her medicine studies 90 00:08:19,151 --> 00:08:20,971 in a Parisian hospital. 91 00:08:28,144 --> 00:08:30,944 - He says that she speaks very well. 92 00:08:30,945 --> 00:08:32,425 With ease. 93 00:08:33,546 --> 00:08:36,946 That you cannot evade listening to her. 94 00:08:36,947 --> 00:08:38,627 Believing her. 95 00:09:05,148 --> 00:09:08,148 - He gives her his phone number. 96 00:09:08,549 --> 00:09:09,949 She, no, 97 00:09:10,550 --> 00:09:12,550 she doesn't give hers. 98 00:09:12,551 --> 00:09:13,791 - No, 99 00:09:14,552 --> 00:09:16,032 she, doesn't. 100 00:09:20,753 --> 00:09:23,113 - A month goes by. 101 00:09:24,154 --> 00:09:27,955 It's in those days that she names herself, her. 102 00:09:27,956 --> 00:09:30,957 That she gives her a name how to call her 103 00:09:31,158 --> 00:09:33,058 that begins with the letter 104 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:35,919 F. 105 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,080 - He says 106 00:09:38,161 --> 00:09:40,661 she has a voice that one likes to hear 107 00:09:41,562 --> 00:09:45,081 He says: rather bewitching. 108 00:10:09,162 --> 00:10:10,642 They talk. 109 00:10:10,763 --> 00:10:12,243 Tirelessly. 110 00:10:13,564 --> 00:10:14,804 Talk. 111 00:10:15,765 --> 00:10:17,965 - They talk endlessly. 112 00:10:18,166 --> 00:10:21,006 Endlessly they discribe themselves. 113 00:10:21,167 --> 00:10:22,727 One another. 114 00:10:23,368 --> 00:10:24,688 To one, 115 00:10:24,969 --> 00:10:26,289 the other. 116 00:10:27,770 --> 00:10:30,170 They say the colour of the eyes. 117 00:10:30,271 --> 00:10:32,371 The texture of the skin. 118 00:10:34,372 --> 00:10:36,332 The smoothness of the breast 119 00:10:36,773 --> 00:10:39,213 that fits in the hand. 120 00:10:40,174 --> 00:10:42,274 The smoothness of this hand. 121 00:10:42,375 --> 00:10:44,255 At this very moment 122 00:10:44,376 --> 00:10:46,656 as she says it, 123 00:10:49,177 --> 00:10:50,897 she is looking at it. 124 00:10:52,578 --> 00:10:54,058 I look at myself 125 00:10:54,779 --> 00:10:56,339 with your eyes. 126 00:10:58,580 --> 00:11:00,780 - He says he sees. 127 00:11:01,181 --> 00:11:04,501 Describes himself in turn. 128 00:11:04,982 --> 00:11:07,383 He says he is following his own hand 129 00:11:07,784 --> 00:11:09,984 on his own body. 130 00:11:11,185 --> 00:11:12,105 Says: 131 00:11:12,586 --> 00:11:15,026 it's the first time. 132 00:11:15,187 --> 00:11:17,787 Says the pleasure in being alone. 133 00:11:17,788 --> 00:11:19,588 that it offers. 134 00:11:20,889 --> 00:11:24,129 Puts the phone on his heart. 135 00:11:24,390 --> 00:11:25,710 Does she hear? 136 00:11:26,191 --> 00:11:27,671 - She does. 137 00:11:28,192 --> 00:11:29,692 - He says that all his body 138 00:11:29,893 --> 00:11:32,694 beats alike to the sound of her voice. 139 00:11:32,695 --> 00:11:34,194 - She says she knows it. 140 00:11:34,595 --> 00:11:36,315 That she sees it. 141 00:11:36,365 --> 00:11:37,765 Hears it, 142 00:11:38,397 --> 00:11:40,117 eyes shut. 143 00:11:41,598 --> 00:11:42,998 - He says: 144 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:45,299 I was another to myself 145 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:47,180 and I didn't know it. 146 00:11:49,001 --> 00:11:50,481 - She says 147 00:11:51,002 --> 00:11:52,642 she didn't know 148 00:11:53,003 --> 00:11:54,083 before him 149 00:11:55,804 --> 00:11:57,284 to be attractive 150 00:11:58,505 --> 00:12:00,945 with a desire of herself 151 00:12:01,006 --> 00:12:02,406 that herself 152 00:12:03,007 --> 00:12:04,727 could share. 153 00:12:10,808 --> 00:12:13,728 She says it's frightening. 154 00:12:19,509 --> 00:12:21,009 - Did the story happen? 155 00:12:21,110 --> 00:12:24,810 - Someone said having lived it for real. 156 00:12:24,811 --> 00:12:26,611 Then it was told. 157 00:12:27,012 --> 00:12:28,732 Then written down. 158 00:12:29,513 --> 00:12:32,273 Then it was composed. 159 00:12:43,014 --> 00:12:45,414 - At night she calls. 160 00:12:45,815 --> 00:12:48,815 - Yes, she calls, with the night 161 00:12:48,816 --> 00:12:51,577 - as the night falls, she comes. 162 00:12:52,518 --> 00:12:55,598 " It's me F. I'm scared. " 163 00:13:03,819 --> 00:13:07,319 - The conversations are getting very long. 164 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,000 Nights. 165 00:13:10,021 --> 00:13:12,622 They last eight hours. Ten hours at a stretch. 166 00:13:13,023 --> 00:13:16,983 They end up lasting to dawn. 167 00:13:17,524 --> 00:13:20,024 - He still doesn't know her name, 168 00:13:20,025 --> 00:13:21,525 or her address, 169 00:13:21,526 --> 00:13:23,486 or her phone number. 170 00:13:24,527 --> 00:13:26,594 He only knows this first name 171 00:13:26,629 --> 00:13:29,030 with which she names herself 172 00:13:29,031 --> 00:13:32,191 when he picks up the phone: 173 00:13:32,532 --> 00:13:34,132 " It's me 174 00:13:34,133 --> 00:13:37,033 F. 175 00:13:37,034 --> 00:13:38,674 I'm scared. " 176 00:13:39,035 --> 00:13:41,715 - He is at her disposal. 177 00:13:41,716 --> 00:13:46,137 It's him who waits for the phone calls. 178 00:13:46,238 --> 00:13:49,038 He has no means to reach her. 179 00:13:49,039 --> 00:13:53,241 No indication of the place where she is held. 180 00:13:54,042 --> 00:13:56,542 - He doesn't ask for it. 181 00:13:56,543 --> 00:13:59,344 This for months. 182 00:14:01,045 --> 00:14:05,767 Once she'll tell him some things. 183 00:14:06,548 --> 00:14:08,348 - Once she'll tell him: 184 00:14:08,349 --> 00:14:11,049 the place, it's Neuilly. 185 00:14:11,050 --> 00:14:13,550 The place where she is held it's this, 186 00:14:13,551 --> 00:14:14,711 Neuilly. 187 00:14:16,050 --> 00:14:18,170 A private mansion. 188 00:14:19,051 --> 00:14:20,611 Between the Seine 189 00:14:21,052 --> 00:14:22,692 and the Bois. (de Boulogne) 190 00:14:28,653 --> 00:14:31,874 - Neuilly endlessly around her... 191 00:14:32,155 --> 00:14:34,995 - Around the black image... 192 00:14:37,556 --> 00:14:41,557 - Neuilly endlessly around her. 193 00:14:41,558 --> 00:14:44,398 - Around de black image... 194 00:14:56,559 --> 00:14:58,559 - For nights and nights 195 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,861 they live on the phone. 196 00:15:03,062 --> 00:15:04,222 Talk. 197 00:15:04,563 --> 00:15:06,123 Keep quiet. 198 00:15:06,664 --> 00:15:09,424 Sleep on the receiver. 199 00:15:09,465 --> 00:15:13,546 Come one from the other. 200 00:15:17,067 --> 00:15:19,587 - It's a black orgasm. 201 00:15:21,068 --> 00:15:23,428 Without mutual touch. 202 00:15:24,569 --> 00:15:25,889 Faceless. 203 00:15:28,870 --> 00:15:30,590 Eyes shut. 204 00:15:32,571 --> 00:15:33,891 Your voice, 205 00:15:35,072 --> 00:15:36,952 only your voice. 206 00:15:39,873 --> 00:15:42,894 The text of voices 207 00:15:44,575 --> 00:15:46,695 said eyes shut. 208 00:15:54,176 --> 00:15:57,077 - On the text of desire no image? 209 00:15:57,678 --> 00:15:59,158 - Which one? 210 00:16:00,679 --> 00:16:02,479 - I don't see. 211 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,640 - Then there is nothing to see. 212 00:16:07,581 --> 00:16:08,741 - Nothing. 213 00:16:09,182 --> 00:16:10,582 No image. 214 00:16:17,083 --> 00:16:20,083 The Navire Night faces the night of times. 215 00:16:20,084 --> 00:16:21,484 - Blind. 216 00:16:23,085 --> 00:16:25,765 On the black ink sea. 217 00:16:27,386 --> 00:16:28,546 It makes headway. 218 00:16:32,087 --> 00:16:34,000 The Navire Night 219 00:16:34,001 --> 00:16:35,828 has just entered 220 00:16:35,829 --> 00:16:37,999 its story. 221 00:16:48,630 --> 00:16:50,030 It is she 222 00:16:50,031 --> 00:16:52,831 who first wants to see him, 223 00:16:53,032 --> 00:16:54,512 to meet him. 224 00:16:56,633 --> 00:16:59,333 She gives him two kinds of dates. 225 00:16:59,334 --> 00:17:01,534 The ones that are cancelled. 226 00:17:01,535 --> 00:17:04,135 The ones she doesn't cancel. 227 00:17:04,136 --> 00:17:07,416 He goes to each date. 228 00:17:08,137 --> 00:17:09,377 Each time 229 00:17:10,038 --> 00:17:12,738 there are unforeseen circumstances 230 00:17:12,739 --> 00:17:15,539 that prevent the meeting. 231 00:17:15,540 --> 00:17:19,040 - The setback of the meeting doesn't surprise him. 232 00:17:19,041 --> 00:17:20,741 He thinks it possible, 233 00:17:20,742 --> 00:17:22,262 each time. 234 00:17:22,543 --> 00:17:25,303 - He believes what she says. 235 00:17:25,444 --> 00:17:27,244 He believes her. 236 00:17:43,545 --> 00:17:47,846 - Very soon, he can do nothing to reroute the story. 237 00:17:47,847 --> 00:17:52,049 It's F. who leads the story. 238 00:17:52,050 --> 00:17:54,290 Stands up to it. 239 00:17:55,051 --> 00:17:57,651 - Who avoids foolish actions. 240 00:17:58,852 --> 00:18:00,552 And makes them 241 00:18:00,553 --> 00:18:03,934 accustomed to, both of them 242 00:18:04,255 --> 00:18:05,815 gradually. 243 00:18:07,256 --> 00:18:08,856 She, she knows nothing. 244 00:18:08,857 --> 00:18:10,257 She invents. 245 00:18:11,758 --> 00:18:12,758 She, 246 00:18:13,059 --> 00:18:16,959 the first one, to become out of her mind. 247 00:18:18,461 --> 00:18:20,421 - Months go by. 248 00:18:21,462 --> 00:18:22,302 A year. 249 00:18:22,863 --> 00:18:24,183 - Three years. 250 00:18:24,364 --> 00:18:26,964 - The story hollows with caves, 251 00:18:26,965 --> 00:18:28,445 deepens. 252 00:18:29,666 --> 00:18:31,466 The more its scenery grows, 253 00:18:31,467 --> 00:18:33,747 the more it darkens. 254 00:18:40,468 --> 00:18:42,368 - One day she tells him: 255 00:18:42,369 --> 00:18:44,089 she is ill. 256 00:18:44,670 --> 00:18:45,830 Leukaemia. 257 00:18:46,671 --> 00:18:48,471 sentenced to death. 258 00:18:50,272 --> 00:18:53,572 Kept alive thanks to continuous care, 259 00:18:53,573 --> 00:18:55,253 money, 260 00:18:55,674 --> 00:18:58,474 for ten years, 261 00:18:58,475 --> 00:19:01,235 since she was sixteen. 262 00:19:01,376 --> 00:19:04,816 She is now 26. 263 00:19:16,577 --> 00:19:17,877 - Around her, 264 00:19:18,278 --> 00:19:19,838 the Seine filthy. 265 00:19:21,879 --> 00:19:23,359 - And this Bois. (de Boulogne) 266 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,920 This sad set 267 00:19:28,681 --> 00:19:30,641 In its turn suffering 268 00:19:32,082 --> 00:19:33,082 From death. 269 00:19:37,883 --> 00:19:41,283 She says they will never meet. 270 00:19:41,284 --> 00:19:44,204 That they will never see each other. 271 00:19:45,585 --> 00:19:49,085 - She says she loves him to madness. 272 00:19:49,086 --> 00:19:51,686 That she is madly in love with him. 273 00:19:52,187 --> 00:19:54,607 That she is ready to leave everything 274 00:19:54,688 --> 00:19:56,268 for him. 275 00:19:56,689 --> 00:19:58,389 - For the love of you, 276 00:19:58,390 --> 00:20:00,790 I would leave my family, 277 00:20:00,791 --> 00:20:03,231 this house of Neuilly. 278 00:20:03,392 --> 00:20:05,072 Everything. 279 00:20:06,693 --> 00:20:09,193 But it's not necessary however 280 00:20:09,994 --> 00:20:11,634 we see each other. 281 00:20:13,695 --> 00:20:17,095 I could leave everything for you 282 00:20:17,096 --> 00:20:19,816 yet without 283 00:20:19,997 --> 00:20:22,397 joining you. 284 00:20:23,298 --> 00:20:25,819 To leave because of you, 285 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:28,380 for you, 286 00:20:30,001 --> 00:20:33,081 and precisely to join nothing. 287 00:20:36,602 --> 00:20:39,122 To invent you this fidelity 288 00:20:39,803 --> 00:20:42,363 to our love. 289 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:59,312 Benoit: She says she loves him to madness 290 00:20:59,435 --> 00:21:04,867 - That she is madly in love with him. That she is ready 291 00:21:05,001 --> 00:21:09,766 Marg: - For the love of him, that she would leave her family, 292 00:21:09,923 --> 00:21:14,844 the house of Neuilly to leave everything for him - 293 00:21:15,002 --> 00:21:24,844 - But that it's not necessary however that they see each other - 294 00:21:25,001 --> 00:21:39,500 Benoit: She could leave everything for him, yet without joining him - 295 00:21:39,501 --> 00:21:52,200 Marg: Yes - To leave because of him, for him, and precisely to join nothing - 296 00:21:52,201 --> 00:22:05,000 Benoit: To invent this fidelity to their story - 297 00:22:22,204 --> 00:22:24,404 The territory of the night, 298 00:22:24,405 --> 00:22:25,645 insomniac, 299 00:22:26,406 --> 00:22:30,106 it is the sea on which goes through the Night. 300 00:22:30,107 --> 00:22:31,107 This film. 301 00:22:32,808 --> 00:22:34,128 This drift 302 00:22:34,809 --> 00:22:36,809 that we named in this way: 303 00:22:36,810 --> 00:22:38,530 the Navire Night. 304 00:22:41,011 --> 00:22:44,711 Nothing in the day can be seen of the night this change. 305 00:22:44,712 --> 00:22:45,712 Nothing. 306 00:22:46,513 --> 00:22:48,473 Nothing in the day. 307 00:23:08,314 --> 00:23:10,714 The moves of the Navire Night 308 00:23:10,715 --> 00:23:13,315 should imply other moves 309 00:23:13,316 --> 00:23:16,016 which would happen elsewhere 310 00:23:16,017 --> 00:23:19,657 and would be of a different kind. 311 00:23:22,118 --> 00:23:24,418 The moves of the Navire Night 312 00:23:24,419 --> 00:23:28,619 should imply the moves of desire. 313 00:24:06,620 --> 00:24:08,020 - He insists. 314 00:24:08,621 --> 00:24:10,101 He wants to see. 315 00:24:11,622 --> 00:24:13,222 Because the idea of seeing 316 00:24:13,223 --> 00:24:15,623 is more and more frightening 317 00:24:15,624 --> 00:24:17,104 he wants to see. 318 00:24:19,125 --> 00:24:21,525 A way to rid of the story. 319 00:24:21,526 --> 00:24:23,246 to put an end to it. 320 00:24:24,427 --> 00:24:27,027 - They know it both of them 321 00:24:27,028 --> 00:24:31,028 the distance is not measurable from now on 322 00:24:31,029 --> 00:24:32,589 between this one 323 00:24:33,030 --> 00:24:35,631 who cries at night, 324 00:24:36,332 --> 00:24:39,732 fused to the general desire, 325 00:24:39,733 --> 00:24:43,574 the one defaced of the abyss, 326 00:24:45,035 --> 00:24:46,355 and that one 327 00:24:47,836 --> 00:24:49,716 - who would she be? - 328 00:24:51,037 --> 00:24:54,518 that he wouldn't recognize in the seeing, 329 00:24:56,439 --> 00:24:59,339 that he would only recognize with his eyes shut 330 00:24:59,340 --> 00:25:01,640 in the black of the world. 331 00:25:05,442 --> 00:25:08,542 - He doesn't promise to shut his eyes at her approach 332 00:25:08,543 --> 00:25:10,684 when she would come to light decent 333 00:25:11,545 --> 00:25:14,045 covered with a white Chanel 334 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:17,346 at the corner of a street in Neuilly. 335 00:25:17,948 --> 00:25:18,948 No 336 00:25:19,349 --> 00:25:22,949 he didn't promise not to look. 337 00:25:22,950 --> 00:25:24,470 - She gives in. 338 00:25:25,651 --> 00:25:27,451 - It's Paris 339 00:25:27,852 --> 00:25:30,552 in July 1973. 340 00:25:31,654 --> 00:25:35,774 - This day the heat is intense. 341 00:25:36,855 --> 00:25:41,055 The date should take place in a caf� at the place de la Bastille 342 00:25:41,056 --> 00:25:44,296 at 3 pm. 343 00:25:51,457 --> 00:25:53,017 - He waits for her, 344 00:25:53,258 --> 00:25:54,098 he says 345 00:25:54,259 --> 00:25:56,459 for one hour and a half. 346 00:25:56,460 --> 00:25:58,820 Probably longer. 347 00:26:00,161 --> 00:26:02,121 She doesn't come. 348 00:26:03,662 --> 00:26:06,102 In the evening, she calls. 349 00:26:07,263 --> 00:26:10,863 She says that she went to the date. 350 00:26:10,865 --> 00:26:12,665 That she saw him. 351 00:26:13,766 --> 00:26:16,666 - That he was wearing a summer skirt 352 00:26:16,667 --> 00:26:17,507 light. 353 00:26:18,468 --> 00:26:20,338 She says the colour. 354 00:26:20,339 --> 00:26:21,979 The transparency. 355 00:26:22,670 --> 00:26:26,710 She says she couldn't stop. 356 00:26:27,271 --> 00:26:29,471 - He didn't see anything walk past him 357 00:26:29,472 --> 00:26:32,372 which looks like her black image, 358 00:26:32,373 --> 00:26:33,273 the one 359 00:26:33,274 --> 00:26:34,474 given by her 360 00:26:34,475 --> 00:26:36,195 the first day. 361 00:26:39,076 --> 00:26:42,276 She drove by him in car. 362 00:26:42,277 --> 00:26:43,877 Behind her 363 00:26:43,878 --> 00:26:46,678 her father's chauffeur followed her, 364 00:26:46,679 --> 00:26:49,519 this on her father's command. 365 00:26:49,980 --> 00:26:52,420 That's what she will say. 366 00:26:52,981 --> 00:26:54,781 She obtained from this father 367 00:26:54,782 --> 00:26:56,942 to be allowed to see him 368 00:26:57,243 --> 00:26:59,603 on condition that she doesn't stop. 369 00:27:07,684 --> 00:27:10,684 - From now on, she cannot ignore anymore 370 00:27:10,685 --> 00:27:14,005 forget this man she saw, 371 00:27:14,485 --> 00:27:17,085 who was waiting for this woman, 372 00:27:17,186 --> 00:27:18,866 she. 373 00:27:19,987 --> 00:27:24,287 This flesh made out through the transparency of the shirt, 374 00:27:24,288 --> 00:27:26,608 while she drove by, 375 00:27:27,689 --> 00:27:30,449 this black trace of the breasts 376 00:27:30,690 --> 00:27:32,970 on the thin chest 377 00:27:33,591 --> 00:27:37,472 through the transparency of the shirt 378 00:27:37,993 --> 00:27:40,033 fulfils her with sheer folly. 379 00:27:43,294 --> 00:27:46,694 Henceforth, she, she has thus seen him. 380 00:27:46,695 --> 00:27:49,215 For a few seconds. 381 00:27:49,496 --> 00:27:51,096 but the image is 382 00:27:51,097 --> 00:27:54,777 for ever. 383 00:27:55,098 --> 00:27:58,698 I don't mean the one of your face 384 00:27:58,699 --> 00:28:01,539 but the one of your body. 385 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,800 It crosses the mind that she could have been stopped 386 00:28:10,801 --> 00:28:12,001 this day 387 00:28:12,002 --> 00:28:14,202 of such heat, 388 00:28:14,903 --> 00:28:17,343 because of the leukaemia, 389 00:28:18,604 --> 00:28:22,604 from getting out of the car and walking to him. 390 00:28:22,605 --> 00:28:25,805 Or that it was from an ambulance 391 00:28:25,806 --> 00:28:27,886 hired for this occasion 392 00:28:28,907 --> 00:28:30,467 to see you 393 00:28:32,508 --> 00:28:36,089 that she saw him waiting. 394 00:28:38,310 --> 00:28:41,510 - After the date of the place de la Bastille 395 00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:44,912 she enters a desire of every time, 396 00:28:44,913 --> 00:28:46,953 of every night. 397 00:28:47,714 --> 00:28:50,714 - Every night begs to die. 398 00:28:51,315 --> 00:28:54,555 Every night asks to die from it. 399 00:29:43,916 --> 00:29:45,916 People who cry at night 400 00:29:46,117 --> 00:29:47,757 in the abyss 401 00:29:48,618 --> 00:29:51,418 they all give dates to each other. 402 00:29:51,419 --> 00:29:55,219 These dates are never followed by meetings. 403 00:29:56,220 --> 00:29:58,820 It's enough that they are made. 404 00:29:58,821 --> 00:30:00,621 No one goes there. 405 00:30:00,622 --> 00:30:01,462 Never. 406 00:30:04,523 --> 00:30:06,829 - It's the call into the abyss, 407 00:30:06,830 --> 00:30:08,324 the cry, 408 00:30:08,325 --> 00:30:11,085 that triggers the orgasm. 409 00:30:11,826 --> 00:30:13,526 - It's the other cry. 410 00:30:13,527 --> 00:30:14,767 The answer. 411 00:30:15,728 --> 00:30:17,928 Someone cries. 412 00:30:18,729 --> 00:30:22,849 Someone answers he heard the cry. 413 00:30:23,130 --> 00:30:24,830 It's this answer 414 00:30:24,831 --> 00:30:27,191 that triggers the agony. 415 00:30:33,232 --> 00:30:35,432 - You said you remembered this man 416 00:30:35,433 --> 00:30:37,994 who yelled at dawn. 417 00:30:38,935 --> 00:30:39,695 - Yes I do. 418 00:30:40,436 --> 00:30:41,756 He called. 419 00:30:43,537 --> 00:30:46,137 He said he was the Cat. 420 00:30:46,138 --> 00:30:48,038 I am the Cat... 421 00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:49,519 Can you hear? 422 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,720 The Cat is calling... 423 00:30:52,341 --> 00:30:53,901 Here is the Cat... 424 00:30:54,642 --> 00:30:56,441 - The tone ordered. 425 00:30:56,443 --> 00:30:58,344 - He ordered yes. 426 00:30:59,345 --> 00:31:01,846 At the same time he implored. 427 00:31:02,047 --> 00:31:04,747 - He said that the Cat was looking for someone. 428 00:31:04,748 --> 00:31:06,749 That the Cat wanted to come. 429 00:31:06,750 --> 00:31:07,850 - Yes. 430 00:31:07,851 --> 00:31:10,611 - That he had to be answered. 431 00:31:11,552 --> 00:31:13,952 - It's a man who answered. 432 00:31:13,953 --> 00:31:16,353 The voice was very soft, 433 00:31:16,354 --> 00:31:17,194 tender. 434 00:31:18,555 --> 00:31:21,355 He said that he heard the Cat. 435 00:31:21,356 --> 00:31:24,256 That he answered him to tell him this, 436 00:31:24,258 --> 00:31:25,958 that he heard him. 437 00:31:25,959 --> 00:31:27,959 - He told him to come. 438 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,040 Come. 439 00:31:30,461 --> 00:31:31,221 Come on. 440 00:31:32,362 --> 00:31:33,122 Come. 441 00:31:34,263 --> 00:31:35,023 - Yes. 442 00:31:36,164 --> 00:31:39,764 the Cat's voice calmed down in sobs. 443 00:31:43,566 --> 00:31:45,967 It was in Paris in winter 444 00:31:46,868 --> 00:31:48,828 around four, 445 00:31:49,169 --> 00:31:50,809 at dead of night. 446 00:32:23,670 --> 00:32:26,271 Another time. She tells him: 447 00:32:26,272 --> 00:32:28,232 she has got two mothers. 448 00:32:28,873 --> 00:32:30,673 She is bastard. 449 00:32:31,674 --> 00:32:36,034 Her official mother is not her real mother. 450 00:32:36,275 --> 00:32:40,075 - Her real mother is a previous servant of the mansion in Neuilly. 451 00:32:40,076 --> 00:32:42,659 She is now retired. 452 00:32:42,807 --> 00:32:45,247 She lives in the suburbs. 453 00:32:58,479 --> 00:33:00,679 She is watched. 454 00:33:00,780 --> 00:33:01,980 Around her 455 00:33:02,181 --> 00:33:04,282 people are worried of these phone calls 456 00:33:04,283 --> 00:33:05,483 so long, 457 00:33:05,484 --> 00:33:06,484 at night, 458 00:33:07,185 --> 00:33:10,585 because they wear her out a lot. 459 00:33:10,586 --> 00:33:11,886 Orders are given 460 00:33:11,887 --> 00:33:13,207 by the father 461 00:33:13,588 --> 00:33:17,189 so that the damage of the story on F.'s health 462 00:33:17,190 --> 00:33:20,671 would restrict to these phone lengths. 463 00:33:20,892 --> 00:33:24,532 - So that nothing else happens. 464 00:33:24,993 --> 00:33:25,993 Nothing 465 00:33:25,994 --> 00:33:29,094 but these phone calls. 466 00:33:29,095 --> 00:33:34,095 - It's the fathers's chauffeur who the first informs her of this watch. 467 00:33:34,197 --> 00:33:36,197 He too, this chauffeur, 468 00:33:36,198 --> 00:33:37,798 he wants her good, 469 00:33:37,999 --> 00:33:39,159 her survival, 470 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:41,861 like everyone around her. 471 00:34:46,502 --> 00:34:48,202 - One day all of a sudden 472 00:34:48,203 --> 00:34:51,363 the house in Neuilly drifts away. 473 00:34:51,504 --> 00:34:53,704 He believes she lies. 474 00:34:53,805 --> 00:34:55,685 He doesn't believe anymore, 475 00:34:56,206 --> 00:34:57,806 he doesn't see anymore 476 00:34:57,807 --> 00:34:59,687 that one dies there. 477 00:35:00,908 --> 00:35:03,308 He still sees this house, 478 00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:04,629 this drift 479 00:35:05,410 --> 00:35:08,472 frozen between the hedges, the parks, 480 00:35:09,513 --> 00:35:13,013 where he doesn't see anymore that one dies there. 481 00:35:13,014 --> 00:35:16,314 He doesn't see it holding this legend 482 00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:18,235 of an heiress, 483 00:35:18,616 --> 00:35:19,696 leukaemic 484 00:35:20,517 --> 00:35:21,757 and bastard. 485 00:35:23,418 --> 00:35:25,058 The one of the desire. 486 00:35:28,019 --> 00:35:31,719 - He doubts suddenly one of the terms given by F., 487 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:32,960 the illness. 488 00:35:34,121 --> 00:35:36,842 He says to her that this is too much. 489 00:35:37,323 --> 00:35:39,683 He talks about stratagem. 490 00:35:40,224 --> 00:35:42,224 He says to her she lies. 491 00:35:42,225 --> 00:35:44,386 That about that, she lies. 492 00:35:45,127 --> 00:35:48,287 - Then she talks about a proof 493 00:35:48,428 --> 00:35:50,788 irrefutable of leukaemia. 494 00:35:51,429 --> 00:35:53,789 This hair that she has 495 00:35:53,930 --> 00:35:55,410 so fair, 496 00:35:56,130 --> 00:35:58,171 very long, very beautiful, 497 00:35:58,432 --> 00:36:03,433 a huge mass, amazing, in which she sleeps. 498 00:36:03,435 --> 00:36:05,395 If only he could see. 499 00:36:06,236 --> 00:36:07,956 - She is surprised. 500 00:36:08,337 --> 00:36:12,578 How could he be unaware of such an ordinary thing, very well-known?... 501 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,139 that leukaemia grows the hair very long, 502 00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:17,380 very beautiful, 503 00:36:17,941 --> 00:36:20,221 exceptionally fair? 504 00:36:21,542 --> 00:36:27,342 - He reminds her that on the first night she described herself as black-haired. 505 00:36:27,343 --> 00:36:30,643 She tells him that he misheard. 506 00:36:30,644 --> 00:36:32,604 He doesn't withstand. 507 00:36:48,045 --> 00:36:49,945 - Time becomes confused. 508 00:36:49,946 --> 00:36:53,346 The diary is not kept as regularly. 509 00:36:53,347 --> 00:36:56,747 Chronology is not guaranteed anymore. 510 00:36:58,648 --> 00:36:59,648 Is left 511 00:36:59,649 --> 00:37:03,049 only a global memory of the event. 512 00:37:03,050 --> 00:37:04,290 So full, 513 00:37:04,951 --> 00:37:06,251 that every single night, 514 00:37:06,252 --> 00:37:09,572 gives evidence of the whole desire. 515 00:37:11,453 --> 00:37:13,333 - Between the days, 516 00:37:13,354 --> 00:37:15,314 the partitions falls. 517 00:37:21,155 --> 00:37:23,155 She says she suffers. 518 00:37:23,156 --> 00:37:24,476 Physically. 519 00:37:25,957 --> 00:37:27,117 A lot. 520 00:37:28,658 --> 00:37:30,938 More and more. 521 00:37:31,259 --> 00:37:33,759 That she is very weak. 522 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,200 Weaker and weaker. 523 00:37:37,661 --> 00:37:40,181 So weak that she falls, 524 00:37:40,862 --> 00:37:42,262 and this very often. 525 00:37:42,263 --> 00:37:44,543 And that she injures herself, 526 00:37:46,064 --> 00:37:48,864 that she is marked all over her body 527 00:37:48,865 --> 00:37:50,505 by the marks 528 00:37:51,266 --> 00:37:54,426 and the wounds of her falls. 529 00:37:55,067 --> 00:37:56,867 - And that her ecstasy 530 00:37:56,868 --> 00:38:00,389 mingles with her pain. 531 00:38:05,270 --> 00:38:06,510 She says: 532 00:38:06,771 --> 00:38:08,471 the illness is getting worse, 533 00:38:08,672 --> 00:38:10,472 is growing. 534 00:38:11,173 --> 00:38:14,674 She says she keeps on working in the Parisian hospital 535 00:38:14,675 --> 00:38:17,775 where she does her training years. 536 00:38:17,776 --> 00:38:20,576 But more and more often she stays in bed, 537 00:38:20,577 --> 00:38:22,137 on a drip. 538 00:38:22,978 --> 00:38:27,120 To live only on theses drips, this transfusions. 539 00:38:27,881 --> 00:38:29,181 Then, sometimes, 540 00:38:29,182 --> 00:38:30,582 suddenly, 541 00:38:30,783 --> 00:38:32,183 to spring up again, 542 00:38:32,184 --> 00:38:34,104 to live again. 543 00:38:37,685 --> 00:38:39,185 - This swaying 544 00:38:39,186 --> 00:38:41,986 between life and death. 545 00:38:43,787 --> 00:38:44,787 Vanishes 546 00:38:45,588 --> 00:38:46,588 Dies 547 00:38:47,189 --> 00:38:48,509 Disappears 548 00:38:49,390 --> 00:38:51,891 Then comes back to life 549 00:38:53,492 --> 00:38:54,332 He says 550 00:38:55,393 --> 00:38:57,993 he begins to love her. 551 00:40:59,894 --> 00:41:02,195 - Then in the house in Neuilly 552 00:41:02,196 --> 00:41:03,436 they are scared. 553 00:41:05,297 --> 00:41:07,697 He gets phone calls 554 00:41:07,698 --> 00:41:09,298 from the father's wife, 555 00:41:09,299 --> 00:41:11,259 the illegitimate mother. 556 00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:16,200 She knows the phone number of the joung man from the Gobelins. 557 00:41:16,201 --> 00:41:20,303 He will never know if it is F. who gave this number 558 00:41:20,304 --> 00:41:24,145 or if it had been stolen while he was sleeping. 559 00:41:25,906 --> 00:41:30,628 The illegitimate mother begs him to leave F. alone. 560 00:41:33,509 --> 00:41:35,809 That the nights on the phone 561 00:41:35,810 --> 00:41:37,850 exhaust her child, 562 00:41:37,911 --> 00:41:39,991 kill her. 563 00:41:40,512 --> 00:41:42,612 - He asks: how come, 564 00:41:42,613 --> 00:41:45,913 how would he leave her alone? 565 00:41:45,914 --> 00:41:49,414 He hasn't, himself, any way to reach her, 566 00:41:49,415 --> 00:41:54,476 he doesn't know her address, her name or her phone number. 567 00:41:55,617 --> 00:41:58,017 The illegitimate mother replies 568 00:41:58,018 --> 00:42:00,538 that the way would be 569 00:42:00,819 --> 00:42:03,339 to refuse to talk to her. 570 00:42:04,020 --> 00:42:05,500 - He does it. 571 00:42:06,121 --> 00:42:08,222 Hangs up 572 00:42:08,223 --> 00:42:10,423 as soon as he recognizes her voice. 573 00:42:10,424 --> 00:42:11,624 - She calls back. 574 00:42:11,625 --> 00:42:14,266 She disguises her voice. 575 00:42:15,327 --> 00:42:17,047 He recognizes her. 576 00:42:17,128 --> 00:42:19,289 And then again 577 00:42:19,330 --> 00:42:21,430 he doesn't resist to her. 578 00:42:21,431 --> 00:42:22,671 Answers her. 579 00:42:29,032 --> 00:42:30,132 - One day, 580 00:42:30,133 --> 00:42:31,733 a woman calls in at his place 581 00:42:31,734 --> 00:42:34,915 to bring him an envelope on F.'s behalf. 582 00:42:35,436 --> 00:42:36,236 She says 583 00:42:36,237 --> 00:42:39,537 to be the linen maid of the house in Neuilly. 584 00:42:39,538 --> 00:42:42,419 Perhaps the chauffeur's wife. 585 00:42:43,940 --> 00:42:47,900 - The envelope holds two pictures. 586 00:42:48,541 --> 00:42:50,901 It's a young woman. 587 00:42:52,842 --> 00:42:54,542 She has fair hair, 588 00:42:54,543 --> 00:42:55,783 very long, 589 00:42:56,044 --> 00:42:57,284 very beautiful. 590 00:42:58,345 --> 00:43:00,625 She is rather tall. 591 00:43:00,746 --> 00:43:01,506 Slim. 592 00:43:02,647 --> 00:43:03,347 He says: 593 00:43:03,348 --> 00:43:05,788 she has an ordinary face. 594 00:43:07,549 --> 00:43:10,649 - She is photographed in a park. 595 00:43:10,650 --> 00:43:13,151 It's a lawn between trees 596 00:43:13,152 --> 00:43:14,632 and hedges. 597 00:43:17,553 --> 00:43:21,394 - The envelope holds also a handkerchief embroided with her initials. 598 00:43:22,555 --> 00:43:26,196 and a substantial amount of cash. 599 00:43:32,957 --> 00:43:36,238 - The story comes to a halt with the pictures. 600 00:43:40,059 --> 00:43:41,859 - Alone at night, 601 00:43:41,860 --> 00:43:44,260 with the pictures 602 00:43:44,261 --> 00:43:45,821 unrecognizable. 603 00:43:48,062 --> 00:43:50,022 Trapped with them. 604 00:43:50,063 --> 00:43:52,143 In despair. 605 00:44:30,564 --> 00:44:34,564 The Navire night has come to a standstill on the sea. 606 00:44:34,765 --> 00:44:37,925 He hasn't any course left. 607 00:44:38,466 --> 00:44:40,346 No route. 608 00:44:41,267 --> 00:44:43,448 - The desire is dead. 609 00:44:45,169 --> 00:44:46,169 - Killed 610 00:44:46,870 --> 00:44:48,430 by a picture. 611 00:44:55,971 --> 00:44:58,871 - He cannot answer the phone anymore. 612 00:44:58,872 --> 00:45:00,112 He is scared. 613 00:45:01,873 --> 00:45:03,473 From the pictures 614 00:45:03,474 --> 00:45:06,274 he wouldn't recognize her voice anymore. 615 00:45:06,275 --> 00:45:09,397 Who is she to be so unpredictable? 616 00:45:10,878 --> 00:45:14,719 It's too late for her to have a face. 617 00:45:15,980 --> 00:45:18,681 He has to give these pictures back. 618 00:45:18,682 --> 00:45:19,682 In no time. 619 00:45:20,583 --> 00:45:23,284 He doesn't know how to give them back. 620 00:45:23,285 --> 00:45:24,445 Nor to whom. 621 00:45:25,686 --> 00:45:28,127 Then he remembers. 622 00:45:29,388 --> 00:45:32,289 - The linen lady who came to bring the envelope 623 00:45:32,290 --> 00:45:33,090 told him 624 00:45:33,091 --> 00:45:37,611 to be in touch with F.'s real mother. 625 00:45:38,492 --> 00:45:42,392 She said they both lived in the same council housing Estate 626 00:45:42,393 --> 00:45:44,673 in the outskirts of Paris. 627 00:45:46,494 --> 00:45:47,394 - The linen lady, 628 00:45:47,395 --> 00:45:49,355 on F.'s order 629 00:45:49,396 --> 00:45:53,676 gave him her own phone number. 630 00:45:53,897 --> 00:45:55,097 " Miss 631 00:45:55,298 --> 00:45:58,198 told me to give you my phone number, 632 00:45:58,199 --> 00:45:59,279 here it is, 633 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,360 one never knows. " 634 00:46:02,701 --> 00:46:04,021 - He dials it. 635 00:46:05,202 --> 00:46:07,882 He rings the linen lady up. 636 00:46:08,301 --> 00:46:11,301 A barrier is broken. 637 00:46:11,602 --> 00:46:13,882 The real mother phones. 638 00:46:15,103 --> 00:46:18,703 " What can I do for you, Mr? " 639 00:46:18,704 --> 00:46:19,544 He says 640 00:46:20,305 --> 00:46:24,025 I want to return you the pictures. 641 00:46:24,406 --> 00:46:27,406 She doesn't ask which pictures. 642 00:46:27,407 --> 00:46:29,807 She says it's all right. 643 00:46:29,808 --> 00:46:31,908 The appointment is made. 644 00:46:31,909 --> 00:46:33,789 He will go to her place. 645 00:46:36,610 --> 00:46:39,610 It's by Vincennes. 646 00:46:39,711 --> 00:46:42,791 Flat bought by the father 647 00:46:43,012 --> 00:46:44,412 as a reward 648 00:46:44,813 --> 00:46:46,213 for the child. 649 00:46:49,414 --> 00:46:52,574 It's she who opens the door. 650 00:46:52,615 --> 00:46:54,175 - Sixty years old. 651 00:46:54,416 --> 00:46:55,416 The look 652 00:46:55,417 --> 00:46:57,217 of a servant. 653 00:46:57,418 --> 00:46:58,618 He says so, 654 00:46:58,619 --> 00:47:02,019 she looks like a servant. 655 00:47:02,620 --> 00:47:03,460 Exile. 656 00:47:04,321 --> 00:47:06,841 Single on the thirteenth floot. 657 00:47:07,322 --> 00:47:11,644 View on the East suburbs. Vincennes - Saint-Mand�. 658 00:47:12,725 --> 00:47:15,725 - The flat is in a working-class style. 659 00:47:15,726 --> 00:47:18,166 Plywood furniture 660 00:47:18,327 --> 00:47:20,047 European making. 661 00:47:22,128 --> 00:47:24,888 Fake fur on the bed. 662 00:47:25,729 --> 00:47:28,730 Immaculate cleanliness the void. 663 00:47:30,331 --> 00:47:33,512 - Smooth face, absent eyes. 664 00:47:36,033 --> 00:47:38,454 She takes the pictures 665 00:47:39,035 --> 00:47:40,435 without a word. 666 00:47:41,836 --> 00:47:42,836 He doesn't ask 667 00:47:42,837 --> 00:47:47,480 who is the woman in the park. Young. Fair. 668 00:47:48,441 --> 00:47:50,561 She doesn't say it. 669 00:47:50,742 --> 00:47:53,443 Doesn't ask why he gives them back. 670 00:47:55,944 --> 00:47:59,044 He asks her to talk about F. 671 00:47:59,045 --> 00:47:59,945 She says 672 00:47:59,946 --> 00:48:00,946 she gave birth to F. 673 00:48:00,947 --> 00:48:03,648 before the marriage of the father with the other woman, 674 00:48:03,649 --> 00:48:06,889 the one who has the father's name. 675 00:48:07,450 --> 00:48:09,150 That after the marriage 676 00:48:09,151 --> 00:48:14,153 she was hired as nanny of the child in the house in Neuilly. 677 00:48:14,154 --> 00:48:16,454 - When the child had grown up they kept her 678 00:48:16,455 --> 00:48:18,815 as a maid. 679 00:48:18,956 --> 00:48:21,856 That, on charity again, she says, 680 00:48:21,857 --> 00:48:24,857 so as not to part her from her child, 681 00:48:24,858 --> 00:48:27,778 all she has got in the world. 682 00:48:28,659 --> 00:48:30,559 He will never know anything 683 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,760 on the relation between F. 684 00:48:32,761 --> 00:48:34,741 and her real mother. 685 00:48:35,262 --> 00:48:36,422 But this: 686 00:48:37,363 --> 00:48:39,063 it's only late in her life 687 00:48:39,064 --> 00:48:41,464 F. was already grown-up, 688 00:48:42,065 --> 00:48:44,065 when she was told that her real mother 689 00:48:44,066 --> 00:48:45,866 was the one who slept 690 00:48:45,867 --> 00:48:49,367 in the basement in Neuilly. 691 00:48:49,368 --> 00:48:52,069 - That the woman loved by the father, 692 00:48:52,070 --> 00:48:53,150 the only one, 693 00:48:53,971 --> 00:48:56,011 was this one. 694 00:49:02,972 --> 00:49:06,172 - Several times he will see the real mother again. 695 00:49:06,173 --> 00:49:08,673 On the orders of her child 696 00:49:08,874 --> 00:49:12,574 she will come back and see him to bring him other gifts, 697 00:49:12,575 --> 00:49:14,775 other amounts of money. 698 00:49:15,176 --> 00:49:18,578 - The linen lady too, like the real mother, comes and sees him 699 00:49:18,779 --> 00:49:22,379 on the orders of the young mistress of Neuilly. 700 00:49:22,380 --> 00:49:26,822 They come and hand over envelopes which hold money and gifts. 701 00:49:27,083 --> 00:49:29,763 - Here is a gold lighter. 702 00:49:30,584 --> 00:49:33,184 A lizard wallet. 703 00:49:33,785 --> 00:49:37,185 But they are not the main thing. 704 00:49:37,986 --> 00:49:40,607 - The main thing is money. 705 00:49:42,188 --> 00:49:46,669 They will never come by without a substancial amount of money. 706 00:49:48,490 --> 00:49:50,450 He takes the money. 707 00:49:52,291 --> 00:49:55,092 The amounts of money are for him considerable. 708 00:49:55,993 --> 00:49:58,233 - She talks about giving him everything. 709 00:49:59,594 --> 00:50:01,694 Giving him a car, 710 00:50:01,695 --> 00:50:03,255 a flat. 711 00:50:04,496 --> 00:50:05,176 Everything. 712 00:50:07,197 --> 00:50:10,197 Never again will she give any pictures, 713 00:50:10,198 --> 00:50:14,598 would they be from another woman or herself. 714 00:50:14,599 --> 00:50:19,199 They never talk about the pictures. 715 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,200 They never will. 716 00:50:22,901 --> 00:50:26,141 She knows he declined them. 717 00:50:26,402 --> 00:50:29,562 She has never talked to him about it. 718 00:50:30,503 --> 00:50:33,703 He says: I forgot the pictures. 719 00:50:33,704 --> 00:50:35,344 It resumed 720 00:50:35,405 --> 00:50:36,725 like before. 721 00:50:57,006 --> 00:51:00,106 What is money given for? 722 00:51:00,107 --> 00:51:02,067 What does the money pay? 723 00:51:03,508 --> 00:51:06,508 The love story perhaps? 724 00:51:07,409 --> 00:51:11,289 Something is paid in the story. 725 00:51:11,510 --> 00:51:17,333 Thus, there is a price to pay for something in the story. 726 00:51:19,314 --> 00:51:20,414 - He takes the money, 727 00:51:20,415 --> 00:51:23,636 therefore confirms the payment. 728 00:51:25,717 --> 00:51:29,820 Most likely the money is here like elsewhere, 729 00:51:29,821 --> 00:51:31,120 like everywhere, 730 00:51:31,121 --> 00:51:34,001 in its wage function. 731 00:51:34,522 --> 00:51:37,922 - Always delivered by the same hands. 732 00:51:37,923 --> 00:51:40,523 As it happens these ones, 733 00:51:40,524 --> 00:51:44,484 those of the young mistress of Neuilly. 734 00:51:46,325 --> 00:51:50,525 She pays him for giving her so much desire. 735 00:52:16,726 --> 00:52:19,326 At first he doesn't find anything in common 736 00:52:19,327 --> 00:52:21,948 between F. and her mother. 737 00:52:23,729 --> 00:52:27,530 Then suddenly, as the mother phones 738 00:52:27,531 --> 00:52:31,731 to announce him that she will come to bring him a gift, 739 00:52:31,732 --> 00:52:35,132 he finds that their voices are alike. 740 00:52:35,133 --> 00:52:37,994 The inflexions of their voices. 741 00:52:39,535 --> 00:52:42,176 When she calls him, he mixes them up. 742 00:52:42,737 --> 00:52:43,657 Often. 743 00:52:44,838 --> 00:52:47,019 - It's she, who calls. 744 00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,940 For his part he can only contact her through the linen lady, 745 00:52:50,941 --> 00:52:53,221 the chauffeur's wife. 746 00:52:57,242 --> 00:53:03,000 - Several times he asks her to give him the phone number of her daughter. 747 00:53:03,001 --> 00:53:05,543 She doesn't turn it down. 748 00:53:05,544 --> 00:53:09,206 - Each time she gives a phone number. 749 00:53:09,247 --> 00:53:11,248 Each time says 750 00:53:11,249 --> 00:53:13,350 this one is the right one, 751 00:53:13,351 --> 00:53:14,271 the correct one. 752 00:53:16,252 --> 00:53:17,652 He calls. 753 00:53:18,053 --> 00:53:20,874 He comes upon theatres. 754 00:53:37,555 --> 00:53:40,855 - She gives him dates. 755 00:53:40,856 --> 00:53:44,016 She gives him ten dates. 756 00:53:44,157 --> 00:53:46,857 He goes to each of them. 757 00:53:46,858 --> 00:53:47,858 - These dates 758 00:53:47,859 --> 00:53:50,760 are always made in public places, 759 00:53:50,761 --> 00:53:53,122 so vast as to loose one's way. 760 00:53:53,463 --> 00:53:54,463 The Bois. (of Boulogne) 761 00:53:55,064 --> 00:53:56,964 The square of the R�publique. 762 00:53:56,965 --> 00:53:58,965 The square of the Bastille. 763 00:53:58,966 --> 00:54:00,926 The Champs-Elys�es. 764 00:54:01,067 --> 00:54:04,007 At rush hour. 765 00:54:04,368 --> 00:54:05,368 At night. 766 00:54:05,369 --> 00:54:06,369 At day. 767 00:54:07,370 --> 00:54:12,370 - At any time day or night. 768 00:54:13,171 --> 00:54:15,671 He believes that she is not responsible 769 00:54:15,672 --> 00:54:18,073 for this incapacity to come. 770 00:54:21,574 --> 00:54:25,476 - That she is the prey of antagonisms stronger than herself 771 00:54:25,477 --> 00:54:29,278 and that her own disposal to these antagonisms 772 00:54:29,279 --> 00:54:31,239 is her very force. 773 00:54:31,780 --> 00:54:34,781 That her desertion to these brutal forces 774 00:54:34,782 --> 00:54:36,502 gives evidence of her. 775 00:54:37,883 --> 00:54:41,283 - He always believes it possible that she might come. 776 00:54:41,284 --> 00:54:43,684 As herself believes it possible, 777 00:54:43,685 --> 00:54:46,445 till the last minute. 778 00:54:46,886 --> 00:54:47,806 He says: 779 00:54:48,887 --> 00:54:53,087 then, probably, she doesn't manage to get out of it. 780 00:54:54,088 --> 00:54:55,728 This thickness. 781 00:54:55,989 --> 00:54:56,989 This Bois. (of Boulogne) 782 00:56:05,690 --> 00:56:08,290 She talks to him about the father. 783 00:56:08,591 --> 00:56:11,091 She talks to him about the money. 784 00:56:11,092 --> 00:56:12,012 Often. 785 00:56:13,493 --> 00:56:14,493 The father. 786 00:56:15,394 --> 00:56:17,274 He is fearsome. 787 00:56:17,895 --> 00:56:19,455 He is revered. 788 00:56:21,096 --> 00:56:22,816 Revered by all. 789 00:56:23,597 --> 00:56:25,678 Feared by all. 790 00:56:27,299 --> 00:56:30,219 His position is considerable. 791 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,900 He is the manager of a major organisation of the State. 792 00:56:34,901 --> 00:56:40,901 Private financial adviser to the President of the French Republic. 793 00:56:40,902 --> 00:56:44,163 It is he who is the money supplier. 794 00:56:44,704 --> 00:56:45,704 Money 795 00:56:46,505 --> 00:56:48,305 seems endless. 796 00:56:49,006 --> 00:56:49,926 Ridiculous. 797 00:56:50,807 --> 00:56:52,907 - A property by the Lake Maggiore. 798 00:56:52,908 --> 00:56:54,148 - Another 799 00:56:54,309 --> 00:56:56,909 at Sainte-Marie de Provence. 800 00:56:56,910 --> 00:56:59,010 - Another in Bormes-les-Mimosas. 801 00:56:59,011 --> 00:57:01,931 - And this house in Neuilly. 802 00:57:03,912 --> 00:57:05,993 One heiress, her, 803 00:57:06,914 --> 00:57:07,914 F. 804 00:57:08,615 --> 00:57:11,295 the child doomed to death. 805 00:57:12,716 --> 00:57:16,418 - The father, he, never calls. 806 00:57:16,419 --> 00:57:21,241 He threatens through the women of the house in Neuilly. 807 00:57:21,722 --> 00:57:24,222 The story must not spread 808 00:57:24,223 --> 00:57:26,723 further than the phone calls. 809 00:57:26,724 --> 00:57:29,124 - He thinks the story less harmful 810 00:57:29,125 --> 00:57:31,005 to F.'s health 811 00:57:31,126 --> 00:57:33,886 if it is not visible. 812 00:57:35,027 --> 00:57:37,927 This backwardness of the father in comparison with his child 813 00:57:37,928 --> 00:57:39,728 gives evidence of him. 814 00:57:40,429 --> 00:57:44,370 Of his essential disability regarding desire. 815 00:57:54,631 --> 00:57:55,871 - Once, 816 00:57:55,932 --> 00:57:58,632 as she was calling him in the day, 817 00:57:58,633 --> 00:58:02,234 he hears that someone calls a name in the house 818 00:58:02,235 --> 00:58:04,195 and that she answers. 819 00:58:04,836 --> 00:58:08,836 It's the illegitimate mother who calls her child. 820 00:58:08,837 --> 00:58:12,237 It's by this way that he is told her Christian and civil name. 821 00:58:12,238 --> 00:58:14,438 - She doesn't deny. 822 00:58:14,539 --> 00:58:18,739 From now on he calls her with that name. 823 00:58:18,740 --> 00:58:20,440 - The father's name, 824 00:58:20,441 --> 00:58:21,341 his name, 825 00:58:21,342 --> 00:58:22,422 that one, 826 00:58:23,043 --> 00:58:25,864 she says that it's for him to find it. 827 00:58:27,145 --> 00:58:30,245 That there are different kinds of investigations. 828 00:58:30,346 --> 00:58:32,746 The secondary investigations. 829 00:58:32,747 --> 00:58:35,427 And the main investigation. 830 00:58:36,548 --> 00:58:40,088 - The main investigation should take place 831 00:58:40,089 --> 00:58:43,628 at the cemetery of the P�re-Lachaise. 832 00:58:44,649 --> 00:58:50,471 She tells him how to go to the place of this main investigation. 833 00:58:51,952 --> 00:58:53,112 It's there, 834 00:58:54,853 --> 00:58:58,493 in the corner of the temple of death. 835 00:59:00,054 --> 00:59:02,854 The place is not much visited. 836 00:59:02,855 --> 00:59:04,455 The stones are green. 837 00:59:04,456 --> 00:59:05,776 Monumental. 838 00:59:07,357 --> 00:59:08,437 Unearthed. 839 00:59:09,958 --> 00:59:12,638 Illegible for most of them. 840 00:59:16,959 --> 00:59:19,559 - It is a bin of Empire marshals 841 00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:23,760 ennobled on the great places of death from the early XIXth Century, 842 00:59:23,761 --> 00:59:26,461 of dukes of Dalmatia and Austerlitz, 843 00:59:26,462 --> 00:59:29,103 of France and of Waterloo, 844 00:59:29,364 --> 00:59:32,464 of a villainious lineage of corrupted financiers, 845 00:59:32,465 --> 00:59:36,667 of a riffraff emigrated in Neuilly on fear of the Commune, 846 00:59:36,668 --> 00:59:40,289 and of the jumble of their wives and their children. 847 00:59:43,370 --> 00:59:44,970 - It is there, this bin, 848 00:59:44,971 --> 00:59:47,091 should be searched. 849 00:59:47,372 --> 00:59:50,372 Her mother's name appears there too. 850 00:59:50,373 --> 00:59:56,073 As she is a descendant of the great military chiefs of the Napoleonic army 851 00:59:56,074 --> 00:59:58,474 and of the financiers of the reign, 852 00:59:58,475 --> 01:00:00,755 her name is there too, 853 01:00:00,976 --> 01:00:03,016 in this flea market. 854 01:00:04,377 --> 01:00:07,177 - But it's also, in this same flea market, 855 01:00:07,178 --> 01:00:08,578 mixed with her, 856 01:00:08,679 --> 01:00:11,880 that appears the name of her grandfather on her father's side. 857 01:00:11,881 --> 01:00:12,881 Therefore, 858 01:00:12,882 --> 01:00:14,377 the name of her father. 859 01:00:14,378 --> 01:00:15,112 therefore 860 01:00:15,113 --> 01:00:16,113 hers. 861 01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:21,680 - She doesn't explain why, 862 01:00:21,681 --> 01:00:23,381 even before her birth, 863 01:00:23,382 --> 01:00:25,482 the name of her mother and of her father 864 01:00:25,483 --> 01:00:27,683 are already united 865 01:00:27,784 --> 01:00:30,884 on the tomb stones of the P�re-Lachaise. 866 01:00:30,885 --> 01:00:31,645 - No, she doesn't. 867 01:00:32,686 --> 01:00:35,286 - Probably misalliances 868 01:00:35,287 --> 01:00:38,687 later corrected by these marriages? 869 01:00:38,888 --> 01:00:40,608 Who knows. 870 01:00:41,089 --> 01:00:43,769 - The explanation is lost. 871 01:00:46,190 --> 01:00:48,791 He doesn't go to the P�re-Lachaise. 872 01:00:49,992 --> 01:00:52,192 - She, she believes he did, 873 01:00:52,193 --> 01:00:56,203 that he made the investigations she pointed him out. 874 01:00:56,204 --> 01:00:58,404 For some time 875 01:00:58,605 --> 01:01:01,405 she thinks he knows who she is 876 01:01:01,406 --> 01:01:03,606 from her name. 877 01:01:04,807 --> 01:01:06,447 That with her name 878 01:01:06,808 --> 01:01:10,109 he will find the house in Neuilly. 879 01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:28,602 - He doesn't tell her he didn't go to the P�re-Lachaise. 880 01:02:03,203 --> 01:02:06,603 - I told you where it was, 881 01:02:06,604 --> 01:02:08,484 between two rooms, 882 01:02:08,905 --> 01:02:10,305 the last ones 883 01:02:11,805 --> 01:02:15,705 in this immensity of the city museum, 884 01:02:15,706 --> 01:02:19,206 just before the room with the carcasses of copper horses 885 01:02:19,207 --> 01:02:21,007 that were found 886 01:02:21,108 --> 01:02:24,569 in 1960, in the harbour of the Pirareus. 887 01:02:27,210 --> 01:02:30,110 It's by the wound of the face, I think, 888 01:02:30,111 --> 01:02:33,191 that I was so stunned. 889 01:02:33,912 --> 01:02:36,432 This wound contrasted 890 01:02:37,313 --> 01:02:39,113 with the eyes... 891 01:02:40,314 --> 01:02:42,594 full, you see... 892 01:03:18,915 --> 01:03:21,515 I looked at her for a very long time. 893 01:03:21,516 --> 01:03:25,016 You didn't find her in the museum? 894 01:03:25,017 --> 01:03:25,777 - I didn't. 895 01:03:28,318 --> 01:03:30,438 - Her name is written. 896 01:03:33,319 --> 01:03:34,319 - Ath�na. 897 01:03:34,820 --> 01:03:36,780 - Yes, that's it... 898 01:03:38,721 --> 01:03:42,321 She must have the left side of her face torn off 899 01:03:42,322 --> 01:03:44,622 like by a ploughshare, 900 01:03:44,623 --> 01:03:45,943 by iron, 901 01:03:47,624 --> 01:03:50,544 but her eyes are intact... 902 01:03:51,025 --> 01:03:53,065 white almonds 903 01:03:53,126 --> 01:03:55,166 without contours none... 904 01:03:57,827 --> 01:04:00,627 Isn't there any reproduction? 905 01:04:00,628 --> 01:04:01,628 - None. 906 01:04:04,529 --> 01:04:09,229 - The head is very small, it would fit in the hand. 907 01:04:09,230 --> 01:04:10,630 I told you 908 01:04:10,631 --> 01:04:12,591 a child's head. 909 01:04:13,832 --> 01:04:18,332 It is on a column lost between the tall steles, 910 01:04:18,333 --> 01:04:21,413 the jumble of the last rooms. 911 01:04:22,834 --> 01:04:27,936 Note, it is possible as they thought it was negligible, 912 01:04:27,937 --> 01:04:31,237 because of this very wound, 913 01:04:31,238 --> 01:04:38,238 the authorities of the Museum stored it in reserve in the basement. 914 01:04:38,739 --> 01:04:41,360 But what surprises me 915 01:04:41,441 --> 01:04:44,441 is that it happened between my visit 916 01:04:44,442 --> 01:04:49,063 and yours, that is to say on the same day... 917 01:04:49,144 --> 01:04:50,704 - Why not? 918 01:04:51,645 --> 01:04:54,725 - That's right... Why not... 919 01:04:56,146 --> 01:04:59,626 The wound on the face is dreadful. 920 01:05:03,047 --> 01:05:08,687 It should contribute a lot to the depth of the eyes. 921 01:05:10,448 --> 01:05:11,688 - Theses eyes 922 01:05:12,149 --> 01:05:13,869 are at you... 923 01:05:14,650 --> 01:05:16,150 - Yes, that's it, 924 01:05:16,151 --> 01:05:18,851 eyes that look at you... 925 01:05:18,852 --> 01:05:21,852 they are at the one who looks 926 01:05:23,053 --> 01:05:26,034 but through him too... 927 01:05:26,255 --> 01:05:29,335 and even a lot further... 928 01:05:30,656 --> 01:05:32,696 beyond the end, 929 01:05:33,657 --> 01:05:36,157 towards these distances... you see... 930 01:05:36,158 --> 01:05:38,038 one cannot... 931 01:05:39,459 --> 01:05:42,360 one doesn't know how to name them... 932 01:05:42,361 --> 01:05:46,161 They are common to the whole story... 933 01:05:48,062 --> 01:05:49,142 - I see 934 01:05:49,763 --> 01:05:50,923 without seeing. 935 01:05:51,064 --> 01:05:52,864 - Yes, that's it. 936 01:05:57,465 --> 01:06:00,665 The next day, we left Athens, 937 01:06:00,666 --> 01:06:03,166 and then nothing else happened. 938 01:06:03,167 --> 01:06:04,327 Nothing. 939 01:06:04,968 --> 01:06:06,528 But, still, 940 01:06:07,269 --> 01:06:08,349 these cries. 941 01:06:09,070 --> 01:06:09,990 Everywhere. 942 01:06:11,171 --> 01:06:12,571 This common lack 943 01:06:12,572 --> 01:06:15,572 of love. 944 01:06:27,873 --> 01:06:29,033 In Paris, 945 01:06:29,374 --> 01:06:30,634 love, 946 01:06:30,635 --> 01:06:33,135 always. At night. 947 01:06:33,575 --> 01:06:34,815 No way out. 948 01:06:36,076 --> 01:06:39,236 Orgasm in sobs. 949 01:06:40,178 --> 01:06:42,678 Between them, this impassable wall, 950 01:06:42,679 --> 01:06:43,599 always 951 01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:45,800 blind. 952 01:06:48,281 --> 01:06:49,281 - Sometimes 953 01:06:49,482 --> 01:06:54,162 they cannot manage without each other. 954 01:06:55,683 --> 01:06:58,983 - Sometimes they cannot stand one another. 955 01:06:58,984 --> 01:07:00,384 Quarrel. 956 01:07:00,985 --> 01:07:01,825 Shout. 957 01:07:03,086 --> 01:07:04,406 Split up. 958 01:07:07,387 --> 01:07:08,867 - And one day, 959 01:07:09,288 --> 01:07:10,829 jealousy breaks out. 960 01:07:12,690 --> 01:07:14,010 Unforeseeable. 961 01:07:15,491 --> 01:07:16,491 - Dreadful. 962 01:07:17,492 --> 01:07:19,992 She wants to be the favourite one 963 01:07:19,993 --> 01:07:21,073 to any. 964 01:07:22,794 --> 01:07:24,354 To be the only one. 965 01:07:27,895 --> 01:07:30,255 - She disguises her voice, 966 01:07:30,896 --> 01:07:34,398 calls on behalf of other women. 967 01:07:34,399 --> 01:07:36,799 - He always recognizes her. 968 01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,080 - She has him followed. 969 01:07:39,101 --> 01:07:40,901 Or she follows him. 970 01:07:41,502 --> 01:07:43,343 He will never know. 971 01:07:44,204 --> 01:07:44,964 - He won't. 972 01:07:46,005 --> 01:07:47,505 He has never undestood 973 01:07:47,506 --> 01:07:49,406 how it was possible. 974 01:07:49,407 --> 01:07:51,767 How it happened. 975 01:07:52,208 --> 01:07:54,808 - At night, she calls, 976 01:07:55,209 --> 01:07:55,909 she tells him 977 01:07:55,910 --> 01:07:59,410 the time he left his job, 978 01:07:59,411 --> 01:08:00,511 the places 979 01:08:00,512 --> 01:08:02,232 he went to, 980 01:08:02,913 --> 01:08:03,913 the streets 981 01:08:04,014 --> 01:08:06,014 he cycled 982 01:08:06,015 --> 01:08:08,695 before going back home. 983 01:08:08,816 --> 01:08:10,696 All his routes. 984 01:08:13,317 --> 01:08:17,197 - He doesn't want to glance behind him. 985 01:08:17,218 --> 01:08:18,218 He knows. 986 01:08:19,319 --> 01:08:22,019 He knows to be caught under a surveillance 987 01:08:22,020 --> 01:08:24,220 of every minute. 988 01:08:25,321 --> 01:08:27,321 - He doesn't try and know 989 01:08:27,322 --> 01:08:28,642 who is here, 990 01:08:29,523 --> 01:08:30,923 behind him. 991 01:08:32,124 --> 01:08:35,746 She challenges him to the game of death. 992 01:08:37,827 --> 01:08:39,608 He falls in this game 993 01:08:40,129 --> 01:08:44,089 as he could never have foreseen. 994 01:08:44,230 --> 01:08:47,130 They know it both of them: 995 01:08:47,131 --> 01:08:48,631 if he turns round 996 01:08:48,632 --> 01:08:49,933 and sees who, 997 01:08:51,234 --> 01:08:52,934 the story dies, 998 01:08:52,935 --> 01:08:54,015 struck down. 999 01:08:58,236 --> 01:08:59,396 - He knows, 1000 01:09:00,237 --> 01:09:01,557 it's she. 1001 01:09:04,638 --> 01:09:10,438 The details given at night on the phone cannot mislead him. 1002 01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:13,839 " And when you took the street of the Val-de-Gr�ce 1003 01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,360 there was a sunny spell 1004 01:09:16,541 --> 01:09:19,621 and you looked at the sky... " 1005 01:09:22,042 --> 01:09:23,542 He arrives at home. 1006 01:09:23,543 --> 01:09:26,043 He rushes into the corridor of the building. 1007 01:09:26,044 --> 01:09:26,644 He knows: 1008 01:09:26,645 --> 01:09:28,045 she is here, 1009 01:09:28,546 --> 01:09:30,446 watching him disappear. 1010 01:09:30,447 --> 01:09:32,347 He doesn't look back. 1011 01:09:32,348 --> 01:09:33,508 He waits, 1012 01:09:33,549 --> 01:09:35,150 out of his mind with desire 1013 01:09:36,151 --> 01:09:37,951 to tears. 1014 01:09:42,552 --> 01:09:44,752 - It is in this period 1015 01:09:44,753 --> 01:09:49,444 that he discovers the phenomenal power of his solitude, 1016 01:09:50,155 --> 01:09:53,937 the non-addressed violence of desire. 1017 01:09:56,058 --> 01:09:57,298 - It is then 1018 01:09:58,459 --> 01:10:01,699 that he refuses the deadly story 1019 01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:05,982 to stay in the one of the general abyss. 1020 01:10:27,563 --> 01:10:33,163 Now he says that he has never seen anyone following him. 1021 01:10:33,164 --> 01:10:34,724 - He also says 1022 01:10:34,865 --> 01:10:37,385 that he noticed, once, 1023 01:10:37,566 --> 01:10:40,067 a car with a chauffeur 1024 01:10:40,068 --> 01:10:43,268 stopped about his working place. 1025 01:10:43,269 --> 01:10:43,949 Empty. 1026 01:10:48,870 --> 01:10:50,110 - Once, 1027 01:10:50,171 --> 01:10:53,973 as she is calling him in the silence of Neuilly at night, 1028 01:10:54,574 --> 01:10:56,474 he hears a man's voice asking Mrs 1029 01:10:56,475 --> 01:10:59,075 " if he can clear the table ". 1030 01:10:59,376 --> 01:11:05,096 Thus, theres is a butler in the house in Neuilly. 1031 01:11:15,477 --> 01:11:19,677 - This trip to J. in Sa�ne-et-Loire. 1032 01:11:19,678 --> 01:11:23,159 He said to her it was there that he was born. 1033 01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,080 Travels in the region 1034 01:11:29,681 --> 01:11:33,401 till she finds the house. 1035 01:11:34,082 --> 01:11:35,242 Finds it. 1036 01:11:38,483 --> 01:11:40,444 Describes it to him when she is back. 1037 01:11:42,685 --> 01:11:45,686 Finds his mother's flat too 1038 01:11:45,687 --> 01:11:48,047 in a nearby town. 1039 01:11:49,088 --> 01:11:50,568 Phones her, 1040 01:11:52,189 --> 01:11:53,109 tells her 1041 01:11:53,490 --> 01:11:55,571 she is madly in love with him, 1042 01:11:56,492 --> 01:11:57,732 her child. 1043 01:12:25,193 --> 01:12:28,893 - Does he know if she is still alive? 1044 01:12:28,894 --> 01:12:31,334 - He says he doesn't, nothing. 1045 01:12:34,095 --> 01:12:36,215 - Can he know it? 1046 01:12:39,247 --> 01:12:40,856 - He could phone the linen lady, 1047 01:12:40,981 --> 01:12:43,216 this other woman in the council housing estate. 1048 01:12:44,317 --> 01:12:46,513 But he can't do it now. 1049 01:12:47,255 --> 01:12:50,140 He hasn't her phone number by him. 1050 01:12:50,901 --> 01:12:53,601 He doesn't remember her name. 1051 01:12:53,602 --> 01:12:58,122 Thus, he can't ask for information. 1052 01:13:03,403 --> 01:13:04,963 - In his opinion, 1053 01:13:05,004 --> 01:13:06,644 is she dead? 1054 01:13:07,805 --> 01:13:09,505 - He says: perhaps, 1055 01:13:09,506 --> 01:13:11,546 that he doesn't know, 1056 01:13:13,507 --> 01:13:14,987 no clue... 1057 01:13:16,108 --> 01:13:17,869 But... most likely... yes... 1058 01:13:18,510 --> 01:13:21,670 she was so ill at the end. 1059 01:13:21,911 --> 01:13:23,231 - At the end? 1060 01:13:24,512 --> 01:13:25,272 - Yes, 1061 01:13:25,713 --> 01:13:27,753 when it stopped. 1062 01:13:40,514 --> 01:13:44,414 Several times she took the decision not to call him anymore. 1063 01:13:44,415 --> 01:13:46,935 - At some point she did it. 1064 01:13:47,016 --> 01:13:50,176 - Then, at some point she did it. 1065 01:13:55,917 --> 01:13:57,797 If she is dead, 1066 01:13:58,618 --> 01:14:02,638 if she is dead, her tomb is at the P�re-Lachaise. 1067 01:14:05,619 --> 01:14:08,699 In this case one could guess, 1068 01:14:09,420 --> 01:14:12,920 from the freshness of the cutting of the tomb stone 1069 01:14:13,321 --> 01:14:16,481 and from the one of the earth turned over, 1070 01:14:17,022 --> 01:14:20,422 one could guess it's she. 1071 01:14:21,723 --> 01:14:23,724 - The name, in this case, 1072 01:14:23,725 --> 01:14:26,726 that would be followed by the first name given at the end, 1073 01:14:26,727 --> 01:14:28,367 would be hers. 1074 01:14:59,428 --> 01:15:01,788 - He says: I was mad. 1075 01:15:02,129 --> 01:15:03,689 We were mad. 1076 01:15:06,130 --> 01:15:08,570 - With what was he mad? 1077 01:15:10,831 --> 01:15:13,831 He says he doesn't know exactly with what 1078 01:15:13,832 --> 01:15:15,312 he was mad. 1079 01:15:16,833 --> 01:15:18,833 That he couldn't have been mad 1080 01:15:18,834 --> 01:15:19,994 on her, 1081 01:15:21,035 --> 01:15:22,835 with desire for her. 1082 01:15:23,736 --> 01:15:27,298 How would it have been possible? 1083 01:15:27,739 --> 01:15:29,219 - With the image? 1084 01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:31,960 With sheer desire? 1085 01:15:33,941 --> 01:15:37,101 - He answers he doesn't know. 1086 01:15:45,442 --> 01:15:47,742 - Did she exist? 1087 01:15:47,743 --> 01:15:48,503 - Who? 1088 01:15:48,844 --> 01:15:51,364 Who would not have existed? 1089 01:15:52,045 --> 01:15:52,965 He says: 1090 01:15:53,346 --> 01:15:55,547 Yes, she did exist. 1091 01:15:55,548 --> 01:15:57,508 In any case. 1092 01:15:57,549 --> 01:15:59,029 She existed. 1093 01:16:00,850 --> 01:16:03,350 Whoever she was, 1094 01:16:03,351 --> 01:16:06,551 whoever she still may be 1095 01:16:06,552 --> 01:16:08,032 she existed. 1096 01:16:08,550 --> 01:16:09,390 Exists. 1097 01:16:11,451 --> 01:16:13,451 - Wherever she comes from, 1098 01:16:13,452 --> 01:16:14,932 she existed. 1099 01:16:15,253 --> 01:16:16,093 exists. 1100 01:16:17,444 --> 01:16:19,358 Even if she were the sixty years old woman 1101 01:16:19,856 --> 01:16:21,514 in the council housing estate in Vincennes, 1102 01:16:22,062 --> 01:16:23,702 she would exist. 1103 01:16:25,057 --> 01:16:25,897 He says 1104 01:16:26,058 --> 01:16:29,218 the question is groundless. 1105 01:16:32,259 --> 01:16:33,579 - Three years. 1106 01:16:35,860 --> 01:16:39,980 The amount of hours spent on the phone: 1107 01:16:40,361 --> 01:16:41,441 months. 1108 01:16:48,462 --> 01:16:51,563 - There are periods, sometimes a month, 1109 01:16:51,564 --> 01:16:55,865 during which she doesn't get in touch. 1110 01:16:55,866 --> 01:17:00,328 Perhaps she is too ill in these periods to do it. 1111 01:17:05,469 --> 01:17:07,909 - And then she calls again. 1112 01:17:10,970 --> 01:17:13,670 The joint orgasm is arid. 1113 01:17:13,671 --> 01:17:15,011 Immense 1114 01:17:15,372 --> 01:17:16,812 Bare 1115 01:17:17,373 --> 01:17:20,693 Incomparable. 1116 01:17:22,174 --> 01:17:24,735 - One night, he asks her about it: 1117 01:17:26,276 --> 01:17:28,537 did she have lovers before him? 1118 01:17:29,578 --> 01:17:32,578 Did a man approach her? 1119 01:17:33,279 --> 01:17:36,480 He has from her only the smell of the banknotes 1120 01:17:36,481 --> 01:17:38,761 touched by her hands. 1121 01:17:40,382 --> 01:17:41,982 - She says yes. 1122 01:17:41,983 --> 01:17:44,103 She had a lover. 1123 01:17:44,184 --> 01:17:45,264 A priest 1124 01:17:45,585 --> 01:17:48,025 met on a train. 1125 01:17:49,886 --> 01:17:52,386 She made him madly in love. 1126 01:17:52,387 --> 01:17:54,507 She left him. 1127 01:17:55,088 --> 01:17:57,788 She gives away all the details. 1128 01:17:57,789 --> 01:18:00,010 She cries the details. 1129 01:18:07,191 --> 01:18:10,751 - Their orgasm reaches murder. 1130 01:18:12,692 --> 01:18:14,895 She cries as she tells the torture 1131 01:18:14,896 --> 01:18:16,296 of the priest madly in love 1132 01:18:16,297 --> 01:18:19,000 whom she left. 1133 01:18:19,096 --> 01:18:20,538 He cries he wants to know 1134 01:18:20,539 --> 01:18:22,739 more. 1135 01:18:25,199 --> 01:18:26,999 - They end up at dawn 1136 01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,280 in different beds. 1137 01:18:30,701 --> 01:18:32,741 They are silent. 1138 01:18:33,502 --> 01:18:34,422 Exhausted. 1139 01:18:35,701 --> 01:18:37,101 They cry. 1140 01:18:50,902 --> 01:18:52,302 - In the end, 1141 01:18:52,303 --> 01:18:54,503 she is in bed almost all the time, 1142 01:18:54,504 --> 01:18:56,504 dying. 1143 01:18:57,005 --> 01:18:59,566 She is continuously on a drip. 1144 01:19:00,407 --> 01:19:03,807 Sometimes she faints on the phone. 1145 01:19:03,808 --> 01:19:05,808 - He knows it because of her voice. 1146 01:19:05,809 --> 01:19:07,409 He distinguishes her voices 1147 01:19:07,410 --> 01:19:08,810 from her voices. 1148 01:19:09,411 --> 01:19:11,131 Her voice in bed. 1149 01:19:11,412 --> 01:19:13,212 Her dying voice, 1150 01:19:13,213 --> 01:19:14,053 trapped, 1151 01:19:15,014 --> 01:19:16,414 or childlike. 1152 01:19:17,415 --> 01:19:21,176 - Her voice when she tells about the adored father. 1153 01:19:22,117 --> 01:19:23,997 Her salon voice, 1154 01:19:24,218 --> 01:19:26,018 her liar's voice. 1155 01:19:26,419 --> 01:19:28,459 - Her twisted voice, 1156 01:19:28,620 --> 01:19:31,201 toneless with desire. 1157 01:19:33,422 --> 01:19:36,422 She cannot lie to him anymore. 1158 01:20:23,223 --> 01:20:27,524 - She gives him a clue on the house in Neuilly. 1159 01:20:28,425 --> 01:20:31,525 Right now a fountain is been built in the park. 1160 01:20:31,526 --> 01:20:33,787 Between the hedge and the lawn. 1161 01:20:37,028 --> 01:20:41,330 A whole day he searches the streets of Neuilly on his bike. 1162 01:20:41,831 --> 01:20:43,311 A whole day. 1163 01:20:44,353 --> 01:20:46,493 He searches, not the fountain in the park, 1164 01:20:46,733 --> 01:20:48,813 but further. 1165 01:20:48,934 --> 01:20:51,635 An unforeseen but convincing detail. 1166 01:20:52,036 --> 01:20:54,076 A hue of a wall. 1167 01:20:54,237 --> 01:20:55,397 Of a gate. 1168 01:20:57,438 --> 01:21:02,438 - A special layout of the windows of the bedrooms. 1169 01:21:02,739 --> 01:21:05,419 A distinctive hazy light 1170 01:21:05,440 --> 01:21:07,400 above everything. 1171 01:21:08,041 --> 01:21:09,921 A sign from the sky. 1172 01:21:12,142 --> 01:21:14,262 - He doesn't find anything. 1173 01:21:17,043 --> 01:21:22,443 He says he didn't see all the streets in Neuilly. 1174 01:21:22,444 --> 01:21:23,344 The next day 1175 01:21:23,345 --> 01:21:24,825 he does it again. 1176 01:21:26,227 --> 01:21:28,227 She lets him search. 1177 01:21:28,368 --> 01:21:31,852 She doesn't give him any further hint. 1178 01:21:32,046 --> 01:21:33,821 - But this one yet, 1179 01:21:34,084 --> 01:21:36,461 on the same evening, 1180 01:21:36,931 --> 01:21:39,602 that her bedroom can be seen from the street, 1181 01:21:40,626 --> 01:21:44,860 that the windows of her bedroom are never shut, 1182 01:21:45,452 --> 01:21:48,352 that this way her bed is always open 1183 01:21:48,353 --> 01:21:50,393 to every look. 1184 01:21:55,854 --> 01:21:57,535 - He says now 1185 01:21:57,556 --> 01:21:59,856 that he could have found the house in Neuilly 1186 01:21:59,857 --> 01:22:02,538 if he wanted to. 1187 01:22:37,359 --> 01:22:39,759 Did he have an image of her? 1188 01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:42,160 - He says that in the beginning, yes he did, 1189 01:22:42,161 --> 01:22:44,861 he would have had this black image, 1190 01:22:44,862 --> 01:22:47,462 of some woman with dark hair. 1191 01:22:47,863 --> 01:22:49,563 And then later 1192 01:22:49,564 --> 01:22:51,764 this image would have been replaced 1193 01:22:51,765 --> 01:22:55,005 by the one of the two pictures. 1194 01:22:56,566 --> 01:22:58,966 And later again, 1195 01:22:58,967 --> 01:23:02,267 when the pictures would have been forgotten, 1196 01:23:02,268 --> 01:23:04,768 he would have found back the black image 1197 01:23:04,769 --> 01:23:06,549 of the beginning, 1198 01:23:06,570 --> 01:23:09,290 given by her. 1199 01:23:10,771 --> 01:23:15,851 He says he hasn't now any image of her. 1200 01:23:17,872 --> 01:23:20,072 - Does he say he lied? 1201 01:23:20,673 --> 01:23:21,433 - No, he doesn't. 1202 01:23:23,674 --> 01:23:26,674 He says he has mixed up the times, 1203 01:23:26,675 --> 01:23:27,835 the days, 1204 01:23:28,976 --> 01:23:30,136 the places, 1205 01:23:32,077 --> 01:23:34,837 he has no chronology 1206 01:23:35,478 --> 01:23:39,518 he hasn't here a clear mind, 1207 01:23:39,979 --> 01:23:43,059 he doesn't make out any usefullness of it. 1208 01:23:44,922 --> 01:23:47,614 He says that she, as well, would have mixed up 1209 01:23:48,385 --> 01:23:51,208 her own image in the mirror 1210 01:23:51,818 --> 01:23:52,935 with the one of this young man 1211 01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:55,286 she caught a glimpse of, on the square of the Bastille. 1212 01:23:56,848 --> 01:23:59,229 Living and dying. 1213 01:24:00,574 --> 01:24:02,174 Her body and his, 1214 01:24:02,386 --> 01:24:04,506 unknown. 1215 01:24:05,046 --> 01:24:08,367 The unknown of his and any unknown person. 1216 01:24:12,362 --> 01:24:14,451 She wouldn't have known 1217 01:24:14,679 --> 01:24:16,719 whether she was the one 1218 01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:18,910 of the story 1219 01:24:18,915 --> 01:24:19,995 or the one, 1220 01:24:20,582 --> 01:24:21,742 from outside, 1221 01:24:23,083 --> 01:24:25,603 who looked at the story. 1222 01:24:27,779 --> 01:24:31,180 - He says that perhaps she was this young boy 1223 01:24:31,321 --> 01:24:34,216 who at night when she said she was so hurt, 1224 01:24:34,429 --> 01:24:35,654 passed by under her windows 1225 01:24:35,900 --> 01:24:38,260 and watched her dying. 1226 01:24:39,194 --> 01:24:41,954 - A young man from Neuilly 1227 01:24:42,290 --> 01:24:44,330 who passed by at night 1228 01:24:45,291 --> 01:24:46,771 and stopped 1229 01:24:48,692 --> 01:24:51,052 and watched her dying. 1230 01:24:55,693 --> 01:24:56,853 - Once 1231 01:24:56,894 --> 01:25:00,335 she doesn't call for several days. 1232 01:25:01,396 --> 01:25:03,396 When she calls back again 1233 01:25:03,397 --> 01:25:06,317 she tells him the news. 1234 01:25:06,998 --> 01:25:09,898 - She tells him to be iller and iller. 1235 01:25:09,899 --> 01:25:11,699 And she has to die. 1236 01:25:13,899 --> 01:25:15,699 She tells him her marriage. 1237 01:25:16,292 --> 01:25:18,371 - Her husband is this surgeon who has been treating her 1238 01:25:18,481 --> 01:25:19,601 for ten years. 1239 01:25:21,404 --> 01:25:23,044 Does he remember? 1240 01:25:24,505 --> 01:25:29,007 The one who has always known her, who saw her birth? 1241 01:25:29,008 --> 01:25:32,129 Who has always protected her, treated her? 1242 01:25:36,710 --> 01:25:38,910 - A little later a phone call. 1243 01:25:38,911 --> 01:25:39,991 A man. 1244 01:25:41,012 --> 01:25:43,772 He says he is the groom-to-be. 1245 01:25:45,313 --> 01:25:48,113 He demands that their relations stop. 1246 01:25:48,114 --> 01:25:51,114 He confirms the imminent death. 1247 01:25:51,515 --> 01:25:54,716 - He utters for the first time 1248 01:25:54,717 --> 01:25:56,017 the word 1249 01:25:56,018 --> 01:25:58,098 madness. 1250 01:25:59,419 --> 01:26:02,419 - For the first time the word is uttered: 1251 01:26:02,420 --> 01:26:05,180 madness. 1252 01:26:07,321 --> 01:26:08,961 - She calls 1253 01:26:09,322 --> 01:26:11,202 for the last time. 1254 01:26:13,023 --> 01:26:15,523 - Tells him the date of the wedding. 1255 01:26:15,524 --> 01:26:17,084 Not the place. 1256 01:26:18,225 --> 01:26:21,225 - Tells him she has had love only for him, 1257 01:26:21,226 --> 01:26:22,866 her only lover. 1258 01:26:25,427 --> 01:26:26,347 Regrets 1259 01:26:27,228 --> 01:26:29,108 to have to die. 1260 01:26:32,429 --> 01:26:36,730 The wedding is on a summer day, in 1975. 1261 01:26:40,031 --> 01:26:42,391 He isn't in Paris. 1262 01:27:07,332 --> 01:27:09,493 You talked about the sea as well. 1263 01:27:11,734 --> 01:27:13,694 - Yes, perhaps... 1264 01:27:15,035 --> 01:27:20,496 Dead rats along the quais of Thessaloniki... 1265 01:27:22,637 --> 01:27:27,218 the smell of anise, the one of ouzo... 1266 01:27:27,539 --> 01:27:29,939 the smell of the sludge too... 1267 01:27:29,940 --> 01:27:33,220 the end of the sea. 1268 01:27:34,441 --> 01:27:36,502 - You talked about a film too. 1269 01:27:37,143 --> 01:27:38,063 - I did... 1270 01:27:40,544 --> 01:27:41,704 the film... 1271 01:27:45,545 --> 01:27:48,625 the film hasn't been shot... 1272 01:27:52,446 --> 01:27:55,347 There would have been people, here. 1273 01:27:56,448 --> 01:27:59,368 We would have discovered them here, 1274 01:27:59,649 --> 01:28:02,649 immersed in a common thought 1275 01:28:02,650 --> 01:28:04,450 very absorbing... 1276 01:28:05,651 --> 01:28:08,151 - And suddenly would have stopped... 1277 01:28:08,152 --> 01:28:09,952 - Yes, that's it. 1278 01:28:10,052 --> 01:28:12,152 - Or that would have been stopped 1279 01:28:12,153 --> 01:28:13,353 by death 1280 01:28:13,354 --> 01:28:14,834 for example... 1281 01:28:15,155 --> 01:28:16,075 - Yes... 1282 01:28:17,956 --> 01:28:19,676 or by a doubt 1283 01:28:20,057 --> 01:28:21,617 suddenly... 1284 01:28:21,958 --> 01:28:23,678 of general order. 1285 01:35:27,059 --> 01:35:28,059 The End