1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:12,575 --> 00:00:14,764 THE THEATRE OF THE MATTERS 4 00:00:14,778 --> 00:00:16,592 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI 5 00:01:00,785 --> 00:01:04,206 TWO FRAGMENTS FROM BIZET'S "L'ARLÉSIENNE" 6 00:01:04,207 --> 00:01:07,628 AND SEVERAL BARS FROM DELIBES' "SYLVIA" 7 00:01:07,629 --> 00:01:11,050 ARE PERFORMED, RESPECTIVELY, BY THE CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 8 00:01:11,051 --> 00:01:14,472 AND THE ORCHESTRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES CONCERTS DU CONSERVATOIRE 9 00:01:14,473 --> 00:01:17,889 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ROGER DÉSORMIÈRE 10 00:01:18,708 --> 00:01:22,952 BETWEEN 1922 AND 1952 THE FRENCH CONDUCTOR ROGER DÉSORMIÈRE 11 00:01:22,953 --> 00:01:28,187 WAS A CHAMPION OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND A DISCOVERER OF OLD SCORES 12 00:01:28,188 --> 00:01:31,571 HE MADE A DECISIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNDISCRIMINATING PRESERVATION 13 00:01:31,572 --> 00:01:34,958 OF ALL FRENCH MUSIC, FROM RAMEAU TO YOUNG BOULEZ 14 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,894 HIS RECORDING OF DEBUSSY'S "PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE" 15 00:01:37,895 --> 00:01:40,830 IS NOW DESERVEDLY CONSIDERED LEGENDARY 16 00:01:41,457 --> 00:01:44,618 WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER CONDUCTED 17 00:01:44,619 --> 00:01:47,781 THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FROM 1922 TO 1954 18 00:01:47,782 --> 00:01:50,943 HE BECAME RENOWED FOR HIS INTERPRETATIONS 19 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:54,106 OF BEETHOVEN AND WAGNER, BRAHMS AND BRUCKNER 20 00:01:54,107 --> 00:01:57,268 WE WILL HEAR SEVERAL BARS OF HIM REHEARSING 21 00:01:57,269 --> 00:02:00,430 BEETHOVEN'S "LEONORA OVERTURE NO. 3" 22 00:02:00,432 --> 00:02:03,593 WITH THE STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 23 00:02:05,185 --> 00:02:07,141 THE THEATRE OF THE MATTERS PRESENTS: MAETERLINCK'S "PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE" 24 00:02:07,142 --> 00:02:08,723 LAST PERFORMANCE 25 00:02:08,724 --> 00:02:10,712 I took the receipts down. 26 00:02:10,815 --> 00:02:12,393 Very well. 27 00:02:12,925 --> 00:02:15,635 You can go, I'll close up myself. 28 00:02:31,628 --> 00:02:34,085 Oh yes, Lina, 29 00:02:34,269 --> 00:02:38,011 if you get news about Martine, please let me know. 30 00:02:38,058 --> 00:02:42,050 - Very well. Goodbye, M. Hermann. - Goodbye, Lina. 31 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,043 Would you like to know what happened next? 32 00:05:18,298 --> 00:05:20,315 Yes, of course. 33 00:05:21,534 --> 00:05:26,222 As soon as we attacked the scherzo of Bruckner's "Symphony No. 4"... 34 00:05:26,837 --> 00:05:31,163 It's true that here in France you don't like the poor Bruckner much. 35 00:05:32,379 --> 00:05:34,956 So, imagine Furt... 36 00:05:35,394 --> 00:05:39,396 He was the first to hear the bombs exploding. 37 00:05:39,430 --> 00:05:42,150 They were falling closer and closer. 38 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,089 But we didn't leave before finishing the scherzo. 39 00:05:46,443 --> 00:05:50,810 Although that day it was more of a presto. 40 00:05:52,676 --> 00:05:56,548 The musicians of Berlin still can't forget it. 41 00:05:57,124 --> 00:05:59,855 At least, I can't. 42 00:06:02,543 --> 00:06:04,930 Would you like more tea? 43 00:06:05,068 --> 00:06:07,731 What you are telling me is fascinating. 44 00:06:09,130 --> 00:06:11,708 What I have always found regretful about Furtwängler 45 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,678 was his inclination to temper with the tempo. 46 00:06:15,094 --> 00:06:18,158 Désormière scrupulously respected the score. 47 00:06:18,178 --> 00:06:21,175 Nothing could have made him force his pace. 48 00:06:21,963 --> 00:06:24,560 But for me it all is a thing of the past. 49 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,517 I've given up the harp 50 00:06:26,539 --> 00:06:28,752 but not the boards. 51 00:06:29,294 --> 00:06:32,074 I'd love to perform on stage. 52 00:06:33,037 --> 00:06:36,472 Please excuse my silly fainting fit. 53 00:06:37,376 --> 00:06:39,335 I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble. 54 00:06:39,352 --> 00:06:41,799 No, not at all. 55 00:06:43,340 --> 00:06:45,639 You will sleep here, 56 00:06:45,842 --> 00:06:48,643 and I'll take the sofa. 57 00:06:48,721 --> 00:06:52,417 It much too cold outside to let you go. 58 00:07:06,237 --> 00:07:08,058 I hope you'll sleep well. 59 00:07:08,066 --> 00:07:11,165 Tea always makes me fall asleep. 60 00:07:12,133 --> 00:07:15,184 Tomorrow, if you're better, 61 00:07:15,369 --> 00:07:18,995 we'll have time to talk at leisure. 62 00:07:28,143 --> 00:07:33,902 I might very well give you the part of Catherine de' Medici. 63 00:07:35,664 --> 00:07:38,536 Catherine de' Medici... 64 00:07:43,803 --> 00:07:45,790 - Good morning. - Hello. 65 00:07:49,048 --> 00:07:51,867 Any news while I was gone? 66 00:07:51,908 --> 00:07:53,682 Line 1. 67 00:07:55,992 --> 00:07:58,363 Hang up, Christophe. 68 00:08:06,618 --> 00:08:07,619 Yes... 69 00:08:07,754 --> 00:08:10,929 Yes, I'll investigate and call you back. 70 00:08:11,457 --> 00:08:13,701 Certainly... 71 00:08:13,997 --> 00:08:16,289 I'm very sorry. 72 00:08:20,509 --> 00:08:23,934 Louis, was it you who forgot to reserve the tickets to Zurich for the "A-Z group? 73 00:08:23,935 --> 00:08:28,039 - Four Russian chemists. - No, Russian chemists are Christophe's responsibility. 74 00:08:28,102 --> 00:08:31,429 I never work with the "A-Z' group. They are nothing but trouble. 75 00:08:31,430 --> 00:08:34,507 See to it that it doesn't happen again. 76 00:08:35,829 --> 00:08:38,732 This year we've had complaints coming in one after another. 77 00:08:38,897 --> 00:08:41,672 I can't shut my eyes to it any more. 78 00:08:45,541 --> 00:08:47,437 I scarce, my liege, had numbered twenty years, 79 00:08:47,438 --> 00:08:49,981 trained in the path of strictest discipline 80 00:08:50,115 --> 00:08:54,016 and nursed in deadliest hate to papacy... 81 00:09:03,332 --> 00:09:05,966 Annie, Philippe, wake up! 82 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,427 I'm working... 83 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:19,934 - Annie, I'm off to Reims. - Yes. 84 00:09:22,061 --> 00:09:24,945 Alain, the order. 85 00:09:27,712 --> 00:09:30,621 I ordered steamed potatoes, not fried. 86 00:09:30,622 --> 00:09:34,690 I'm sorry, Madame. Steamed potatoes, please. 87 00:09:35,271 --> 00:09:37,351 Steamed potatoes! 88 00:09:51,228 --> 00:09:53,977 - Aren't they ready yet? - Not, they're not. 89 00:09:54,037 --> 00:09:57,326 We have no steamed potatoes. Well, cook some. 90 00:10:25,756 --> 00:10:30,893 Hat die Königin doch nichts voraus vor dem gemeinen Bürgerweibe! 91 00:10:31,174 --> 00:10:36,419 In this a queen has not one privilege above all other women. 92 00:10:36,543 --> 00:10:41,308 This common token marks one common duty, one common servitude; 93 00:10:41,444 --> 00:10:46,778 the ring denotes marriage, and 'tis of rings a chain is formed. 94 00:10:47,021 --> 00:10:52,126 Convey this present to his highness; 'tis as yet no chain, it binds me not as yet, 95 00:10:52,201 --> 00:10:57,866 but out of it may grow a link to bind me. 96 00:10:59,351 --> 00:11:02,935 Mary Stuart is a queen as well. It needs to be reflected in her costume. 97 00:11:03,009 --> 00:11:06,623 - Jewels and all... - Like jewels they wore on the best days of the year... 98 00:11:06,624 --> 00:11:10,959 - Désormière? - And you said you didn't have a spare sou to buy groceries. 99 00:11:11,004 --> 00:11:15,058 Theatre and home are two completely different things. 100 00:11:17,256 --> 00:11:18,551 Are we agreed? 101 00:11:18,734 --> 00:11:21,414 You'll play Elizabeth I. 102 00:11:21,474 --> 00:11:24,507 I'll go and choose a costume. 103 00:11:29,043 --> 00:11:33,475 Beware of the seducers, it takes a trifle to render them odious. 104 00:11:42,423 --> 00:11:48,042 I don't know why he gave up the violin. He's said to have been well paid in Berlin. 105 00:11:48,829 --> 00:11:52,356 Do you have money troubles? Can I help? 106 00:11:53,448 --> 00:11:55,606 It's nothing serious. 107 00:11:56,460 --> 00:11:58,261 Are you a musician as well? 108 00:11:58,502 --> 00:12:00,891 I too would have liked to learn music. 109 00:12:01,121 --> 00:12:03,220 But in a provincial town... 110 00:12:03,780 --> 00:12:05,224 Yes. 111 00:12:05,346 --> 00:12:07,673 I played the harp. 112 00:12:07,911 --> 00:12:10,251 But I had to stop. 113 00:12:11,306 --> 00:12:14,564 My fingers started to get numb all of a sudden. 114 00:12:15,988 --> 00:12:19,457 Why were you talking about Désormière with M. Hermann? 115 00:12:21,098 --> 00:12:23,731 Something isn't clear about the money. 116 00:12:23,860 --> 00:12:27,702 If you made up your mind to work with us I must explain... 117 00:12:30,148 --> 00:12:33,044 - Hermann and I... - See you soon. 118 00:12:35,192 --> 00:12:37,587 Well, I need to go. 119 00:12:39,490 --> 00:12:42,808 What about your office? 120 00:12:43,608 --> 00:12:45,992 Will you be able to leave earlier? 121 00:12:45,998 --> 00:12:49,341 Yes, I'll arrange to leave at 5. 122 00:12:51,184 --> 00:12:53,064 It's strange, 123 00:12:53,445 --> 00:12:57,937 I thought your friend Brigitte talked with you about Désormière. 124 00:12:58,423 --> 00:13:01,187 What? Oh, no, not at all. 125 00:13:01,289 --> 00:13:04,180 What do you see in that Désormière of yours? 126 00:13:04,202 --> 00:13:07,634 In Germany he's known by hearsay at best. 127 00:13:10,283 --> 00:13:12,869 He respected the composer's design 128 00:13:13,092 --> 00:13:15,126 to the last note. 129 00:13:15,135 --> 00:13:17,887 For him the score was sacred. 130 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,975 Even with the smallest bit by Gounod 131 00:13:20,036 --> 00:13:23,010 he considered it his duty to serve the composer. 132 00:13:23,038 --> 00:13:25,810 He demanded absolute abnegation. 133 00:13:26,613 --> 00:13:29,765 The musicians seemed electrified. 134 00:13:32,022 --> 00:13:36,968 With Furt is was difficult not to be electrified. 135 00:13:37,930 --> 00:13:42,128 During those moment we traversed the limits of music. 136 00:13:42,602 --> 00:13:45,553 With him "The Twilight of the Gods"... 137 00:13:45,644 --> 00:13:48,098 The gods of Wagner are not my gods. 138 00:13:48,170 --> 00:13:49,804 Oh, excuse me, 139 00:13:50,072 --> 00:13:51,824 you are German. 140 00:13:52,030 --> 00:13:53,170 Of course, 141 00:13:53,580 --> 00:13:57,729 if one listens only to the mawkish French music... 142 00:13:58,182 --> 00:14:01,842 We're starting the rehearsals. 143 00:14:02,208 --> 00:14:04,505 Come along, if you're interested. 144 00:14:25,929 --> 00:14:27,410 Your stake is burning! 145 00:14:27,431 --> 00:14:29,994 Leave it alone. Give it to me. 146 00:14:29,999 --> 00:14:31,307 What do you mean? 147 00:14:31,366 --> 00:14:33,110 You were reading at work, 148 00:14:33,114 --> 00:14:35,402 my husband noticed it and found a replacement for you. 149 00:14:35,418 --> 00:14:37,640 You can go to the office and collect your cheque. 150 00:14:37,702 --> 00:14:39,404 - But I was doing all I was told. - You were, 151 00:14:39,405 --> 00:14:43,764 but when on busy days we asked you to stay late and help with the washing up 152 00:14:43,765 --> 00:14:46,652 you would always have something better to do somewhere else. 153 00:14:46,688 --> 00:14:48,897 We're not going to indulge your whims. 154 00:14:48,964 --> 00:14:52,801 And if next time somebody asks you if the potatoes are new, 155 00:14:52,983 --> 00:14:57,490 - say that they are. - OK, I get it. 156 00:15:00,489 --> 00:15:03,946 - Did you talk about "Maria Stuart"? - No. 157 00:15:10,569 --> 00:15:13,138 He's starting the rehearsals. 158 00:15:19,428 --> 00:15:21,442 He told me to come. 159 00:15:23,709 --> 00:15:25,945 - Nobody seems to get paid here. - This isn't true. 160 00:15:26,139 --> 00:15:29,019 Out pay is modest but fair. 161 00:15:29,168 --> 00:15:32,660 As Catherine de' Medici I get 50 francs a show. 162 00:15:32,661 --> 00:15:36,831 I don't even have any lines, as there's no such character in Schiller's play. 163 00:15:37,537 --> 00:15:41,762 And as the Company is complete, he asked me to take up the resourcing. 164 00:15:41,763 --> 00:15:44,612 This isn't true as well. The Company is never complete. 165 00:15:44,631 --> 00:15:47,669 He needs to find people for all these parts. 166 00:15:47,749 --> 00:15:51,867 There are plenty of actors around who'd kill their own parents to get on the stage. 167 00:15:52,242 --> 00:15:54,140 What did you tell him? 168 00:15:54,956 --> 00:15:57,198 - Did you refuse? - At once. 169 00:15:57,252 --> 00:16:01,125 - Good for you! - No, that's what I told him: "At once". 170 00:16:01,278 --> 00:16:04,920 - How do you mean, "at once"? - That I can start working at once. 171 00:16:05,293 --> 00:16:09,128 - And I'll try to find some money for him. - And then? 172 00:16:09,793 --> 00:16:13,883 He offered me a cup of tea and started talking about music. 173 00:16:15,766 --> 00:16:19,580 That's strange. He never does that with me. 174 00:17:01,885 --> 00:17:05,226 Excuse me, do you work in the Theatre of the Matters? 175 00:17:05,249 --> 00:17:06,609 I do. 176 00:17:06,649 --> 00:17:10,407 Why isn't there a picture of you at the entrance? 177 00:17:11,057 --> 00:17:13,835 You were so good in "Pelléas and Mélisande". 178 00:17:14,585 --> 00:17:16,293 What do you do? 179 00:17:16,302 --> 00:17:19,821 I work at a restaurant near the cultural centre. 180 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,279 My bosses are the coordinators at the Maison de la Culture. 181 00:17:27,514 --> 00:17:30,231 It must be nice to be an actress like you? 182 00:17:30,986 --> 00:17:33,123 I haven't always been an actress. 183 00:17:33,358 --> 00:17:35,828 I've been married for two years. 184 00:17:36,420 --> 00:17:39,163 My husband wanted to sell his grandfather's garage. 185 00:17:39,287 --> 00:17:43,211 And the Company of the Theatre of the Matters was looking for the premises. 186 00:17:43,461 --> 00:17:45,968 That's how I met the actors 187 00:17:46,558 --> 00:17:49,403 and the director. 188 00:17:49,913 --> 00:17:52,050 I asked my husband to give them a discount 189 00:17:52,426 --> 00:17:54,901 and to arrange something like hire-purchase. 190 00:17:54,942 --> 00:17:57,772 - But Hermann... - Your husband was German? 191 00:17:57,778 --> 00:18:00,763 No, my husband's name was Hervé. 192 00:18:00,807 --> 00:18:03,172 Hermann is the director. 193 00:18:03,526 --> 00:18:07,886 He couldn't pay on time and my husband got angry. 194 00:18:08,834 --> 00:18:12,652 He decided to give the theatre over to some businessman whom we never see 195 00:18:12,653 --> 00:18:15,179 but who sends us money on a regular basis. 196 00:18:15,274 --> 00:18:18,592 And then my husband moved to Ireland. 197 00:18:19,271 --> 00:18:21,781 Now I share my life with Hermann. 198 00:18:22,231 --> 00:18:24,164 And I'm happy. 199 00:18:24,567 --> 00:18:26,711 Will you have a cup of coffee with me? 200 00:18:27,191 --> 00:18:28,717 OK. 201 00:18:29,311 --> 00:18:31,369 But make it a double café. 202 00:18:46,831 --> 00:18:49,410 Yes, yes, I'm coming. 203 00:18:55,646 --> 00:18:57,769 Oh, it's you... 204 00:18:58,349 --> 00:19:02,362 I completely forgot that my wife was coming for the holidays. 205 00:19:02,428 --> 00:19:07,045 - You wife? You're married? - Not so loud, she's upstairs. 206 00:19:08,243 --> 00:19:09,735 Look... 207 00:19:10,612 --> 00:19:11,938 Here... 208 00:19:13,265 --> 00:19:18,000 Check in at a hotel. There's a very good one just round the corner. 209 00:19:18,058 --> 00:19:22,554 You wish! The hotels are all full on Christmas. 210 00:19:23,890 --> 00:19:27,532 Well, I'm sorry. 211 00:19:29,953 --> 00:19:32,177 No offence. 212 00:19:46,325 --> 00:19:48,178 He's married... 213 00:20:01,096 --> 00:20:04,617 I wish she'd go back to Montauban... 214 00:20:14,125 --> 00:20:18,276 - What's wrong? - Nothing, I just left the door unlocked. 215 00:20:20,055 --> 00:20:22,077 Aren't you going to bed? 216 00:20:23,753 --> 00:20:26,338 I keep worrying about something. 217 00:20:26,896 --> 00:20:29,986 I must get hold of thousand francs to hire a deluxe suite at a hotel. 218 00:20:30,030 --> 00:20:32,906 I can't bring the journalists here, you see... 219 00:20:33,281 --> 00:20:35,006 Of course, darling. 220 00:20:35,065 --> 00:20:37,238 Bring them over to my place. 221 00:20:37,533 --> 00:20:39,100 It's even worse. 222 00:20:39,108 --> 00:20:44,741 And then, I can't pay the actors, and there are also the rent, the costumes, the sets... 223 00:20:44,928 --> 00:20:47,677 You know, I can ask about the hotel at my travel agency. 224 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,535 We might give you a 25% discount. 225 00:20:53,870 --> 00:20:56,456 OK, then I'll sell my diamond. 226 00:20:56,863 --> 00:20:59,070 If you really want to... 227 00:21:01,402 --> 00:21:03,390 You said once: 228 00:21:03,731 --> 00:21:07,491 "Theatre is first and foremost bodies among sets." 229 00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:11,924 Yes, I used this formula 230 00:21:11,926 --> 00:21:15,377 when working on the mise-en-scène for "Pelléas and Mélisande" 231 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,104 to explain that the actors were supposed not to carry the text, 232 00:21:20,208 --> 00:21:23,320 but to be carried by it. 233 00:21:23,555 --> 00:21:27,190 That's why we prefer to perform in small spaces, 234 00:21:27,206 --> 00:21:29,764 where there is no need to raise one's voice. 235 00:21:30,290 --> 00:21:34,256 I must also add that the actors are bodies, 236 00:21:34,257 --> 00:21:39,240 that can stop speaking and switch to another language. 237 00:21:39,817 --> 00:21:45,769 When the tension comes to a point when it can no longer be conveyed by speech, 238 00:21:45,809 --> 00:21:50,558 human body begins to express itself, with varying intensity, 239 00:21:51,141 --> 00:21:53,874 by secreting various matters. 240 00:21:53,931 --> 00:21:59,715 As a rule, everything begins with tears and can end with blood. 241 00:22:00,191 --> 00:22:03,204 But the theatre, as you well know, 242 00:22:03,234 --> 00:22:07,494 employs not only the matters of the human body, 243 00:22:07,495 --> 00:22:09,885 the amount of which is relatively scant, 244 00:22:10,450 --> 00:22:13,315 but all the matters of the cosmos 245 00:22:13,315 --> 00:22:16,625 that, turned by men into objects, 246 00:22:16,847 --> 00:22:18,669 can be 247 00:22:18,983 --> 00:22:24,039 sold, bought, desired, coveted, 248 00:22:24,074 --> 00:22:28,221 stolen, exchanged, respected, despised, 249 00:22:28,693 --> 00:22:30,866 discarded or lost... 250 00:22:30,887 --> 00:22:35,700 The range is extensive but not infinite. 251 00:22:40,817 --> 00:22:45,261 Because the confines of the stage limit the possibility 252 00:22:45,289 --> 00:22:48,200 to demonstrate the material objects. 253 00:22:48,348 --> 00:22:53,416 Thus, whatever is left behind the physical stage... 254 00:22:55,833 --> 00:22:58,463 "...or is too insignificant to be visible, 255 00:22:58,463 --> 00:23:02,106 must be transformed into words or symbols, 256 00:23:02,107 --> 00:23:05,043 like the temple in Classical tragedy, 257 00:23:05,079 --> 00:23:07,986 or the needle in comedy. 258 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,919 Such is the great polyphony of matters 259 00:23:15,919 --> 00:23:20,178 that I'm attempting to show on the stage." 260 00:23:21,775 --> 00:23:25,186 You can sit down, he's not going to say anything else. 261 00:23:25,585 --> 00:23:28,219 What do you do exactly in the Theatre of the Matters? 262 00:23:28,409 --> 00:23:32,252 My real name is Setengrin. I'm a Concertmaster. 263 00:23:32,437 --> 00:23:34,482 Hermann borrowed it from philharmonics. 264 00:23:34,538 --> 00:23:38,475 He played the first violin in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. 265 00:23:38,489 --> 00:23:40,660 I know this. 266 00:23:46,545 --> 00:23:48,217 - Any more questions? - No. 267 00:23:48,239 --> 00:23:50,760 - And no other journalists either. - You know, 268 00:23:50,778 --> 00:23:53,401 when I first heard the name of your Company, 269 00:23:53,668 --> 00:23:56,611 I thought it was called the "Theatre of May Terse", 270 00:23:56,820 --> 00:23:59,493 like the "Theatre of Silvia Monfort". 271 00:23:59,588 --> 00:24:04,242 Did you? No, it's not like that at all. 272 00:24:08,701 --> 00:24:12,029 I can't believe it. You still haven't learned your lines? 273 00:24:12,354 --> 00:24:14,495 I have, but I like to re-read them. 274 00:24:15,293 --> 00:24:17,917 - Cali, turn on the light, please. - OK. 275 00:24:19,309 --> 00:24:22,202 - And your restaurant? All OK? - Yeah. 276 00:24:28,352 --> 00:24:31,647 Who do you think is the best: Goethe or Schiller? 277 00:24:32,059 --> 00:24:34,343 I don't know, but judging by "Maria Stuart"... 278 00:24:34,493 --> 00:24:37,944 In any case I only like Raymond Roussel. 279 00:24:41,643 --> 00:24:44,292 The important thing is for "Maria Stuart" to turn out well. 280 00:24:44,602 --> 00:24:47,078 My parents stopped giving me money. 281 00:24:47,754 --> 00:24:50,062 Because I don't want to get married. 282 00:24:52,638 --> 00:24:56,569 Are you painting the crown of Elizabeth or Mary Stuart? 283 00:24:56,812 --> 00:24:58,921 I don't have a slightest idea. 284 00:24:58,969 --> 00:25:00,308 The gilt has completely come off, 285 00:25:00,309 --> 00:25:03,769 and Hermann tells me to paint it before every rehearsal. 286 00:25:08,608 --> 00:25:11,633 Would you like to rent a flat together with me? 287 00:25:12,115 --> 00:25:13,797 If you like. 288 00:25:13,866 --> 00:25:16,103 You think we'll be able to live together? 289 00:25:16,179 --> 00:25:18,153 Of course. 290 00:25:19,121 --> 00:25:21,339 Do you think this will do? 291 00:25:21,773 --> 00:25:24,400 Hold on... Give me the brush. 292 00:25:27,130 --> 00:25:33,612 O place and greatness! millions of false eyes are stuck upon thee... 293 00:25:51,972 --> 00:25:55,515 Who was that woman yesterday who came to the rehearsal and didn't say a word? 294 00:25:55,609 --> 00:25:57,390 The lady from the agency? 295 00:25:57,393 --> 00:25:58,671 I don't know. 296 00:25:58,776 --> 00:26:01,693 I think she gives money to Hermann. 297 00:26:04,875 --> 00:26:07,503 Will it be you who plays Maria Stuart after all? 298 00:26:07,862 --> 00:26:10,312 Hermann hasn't decided yet. 299 00:26:11,089 --> 00:26:14,280 Damn, I have to do the inside as well... 300 00:26:29,019 --> 00:26:32,460 Excuse me for disturbing you, but is Hermann here? 301 00:26:32,592 --> 00:26:34,296 I don't think he is. 302 00:26:36,714 --> 00:26:39,786 - He isn't here? - He should be here by now. 303 00:26:44,140 --> 00:26:48,145 I'm out of paint. I'm going upstairs to get some more. 304 00:27:26,805 --> 00:27:29,841 This "Maria Start" is great. 305 00:27:35,963 --> 00:27:39,997 Spread no more life's verdant carpet out before my eyes, 306 00:27:40,150 --> 00:27:43,770 remember I am wretched, and a prisoner. 307 00:27:47,901 --> 00:27:49,653 Oh, there you are. 308 00:27:51,869 --> 00:27:55,371 - Do you know where all my paint goes? - No. 309 00:27:55,821 --> 00:27:57,090 Oh, Martine, 310 00:27:57,308 --> 00:28:01,003 if you disappear, call Lina from time to time, I might need you... 311 00:28:01,004 --> 00:28:04,582 - One can never reach her. - Persevere. 312 00:28:05,086 --> 00:28:09,254 And if you see a woman in furs downstairs, let me know. 313 00:28:09,418 --> 00:28:11,697 Another one of your discoveries? 314 00:28:12,744 --> 00:28:15,941 Don't worry. Mary Stuart is yours. 315 00:28:15,942 --> 00:28:18,703 We'll see. Anyway, all the paint is gone without a trace. 316 00:28:18,786 --> 00:28:21,078 Something is always missing. 317 00:28:22,141 --> 00:28:24,095 Look, even if this woman... 318 00:28:24,337 --> 00:28:27,551 Well, make an effort... 319 00:28:27,598 --> 00:28:30,074 - Her name is Dorothée. - Yes, yes. 320 00:28:30,278 --> 00:28:31,890 Of course you took her on. 321 00:28:31,973 --> 00:28:34,699 You've been promising to pay us for two weeks. 322 00:28:37,025 --> 00:28:40,150 She's very talented, very kind, 323 00:28:40,443 --> 00:28:42,934 and she's ready to play Catherine de' Medici for free. 324 00:28:43,026 --> 00:28:45,867 We'll see if she can hold out longer than Brigitte. 325 00:28:49,438 --> 00:28:52,931 OK, I'm going down to see if she's here. 326 00:28:58,057 --> 00:29:00,824 Know who it is? Hermann's new girlfriend. 327 00:29:00,825 --> 00:29:04,858 - Who? - The woman downstairs, Dorothée, who'll be performing. 328 00:29:04,885 --> 00:29:08,134 Tell it to Philippe and everyone else if it's so important. 329 00:29:08,168 --> 00:29:10,420 Have you finished altering my dress? 330 00:29:10,527 --> 00:29:14,325 - It just needs a couple of stitches. - Well, do them now. 331 00:29:16,463 --> 00:29:19,262 And I need to buy some paint. 332 00:29:30,221 --> 00:29:32,633 Bloody sewing-machine. 333 00:29:46,943 --> 00:29:48,762 I have a gift for you. 334 00:29:49,531 --> 00:29:51,939 But it's the second one you're giving me. 335 00:29:52,085 --> 00:29:54,851 I thought I'd buy it to replace the one that had been stolen. 336 00:29:54,859 --> 00:29:57,751 I have money to spare for that. 337 00:29:58,063 --> 00:30:01,973 - In that case... - Be careful not to lose this one. 338 00:30:01,985 --> 00:30:04,843 That'll be easy: I shan't part with it. 339 00:30:04,944 --> 00:30:08,495 Would you like to start with our mouise? 340 00:30:08,909 --> 00:30:12,442 - What is mouise? - It's a dish. Over there. 341 00:30:12,472 --> 00:30:14,867 An assortment of various kinds of caviar. 342 00:30:14,941 --> 00:30:16,748 So, will you try mouise? 343 00:30:16,875 --> 00:30:18,458 Yes. 344 00:30:19,749 --> 00:30:23,877 If I may, Madame, it's the specialty of the house. 345 00:30:25,009 --> 00:30:29,955 This word, "mouise", originally meant "the pottage of the poor". 346 00:30:30,276 --> 00:30:33,000 I believe it comes from the west-German dialect, 347 00:30:33,011 --> 00:30:35,078 or, maybe, the south-west one, 348 00:30:35,288 --> 00:30:39,672 where we find words like "Mus" and "Mues" meaning "gruel". 349 00:30:39,697 --> 00:30:44,291 Even in modern German there are words "Mus" and "Mues" that mean "stewed fruit". 350 00:30:44,349 --> 00:30:46,073 But let's get back to France. 351 00:30:46,950 --> 00:30:51,307 If I'm not mistaken, the word "mouise" was first used by Vidocq 352 00:30:51,347 --> 00:30:54,597 between 1835 and 1840. 353 00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:58,691 And I also remember the name of the film... 354 00:30:58,883 --> 00:31:01,746 the name of the film I watched in 1935 or 1940: 355 00:31:01,779 --> 00:31:03,559 "Notre-Dame de la mouise". 356 00:31:03,631 --> 00:31:06,972 It was a grand specimen of the populist Catholic propaganda, 357 00:31:06,983 --> 00:31:11,198 slightly similar to the modern productions 358 00:31:11,198 --> 00:31:15,520 marked by the middle-class ouvrierism of, let's say, Maoist persuasion. 359 00:31:17,118 --> 00:31:18,821 Well, that's about it. 360 00:31:22,334 --> 00:31:25,233 What about teaching music? 361 00:31:25,304 --> 00:31:27,481 Doesn't it interest you at all? 362 00:31:28,141 --> 00:31:30,148 I don't know what to say. 363 00:31:31,014 --> 00:31:34,138 I'll be obliged to leave the agency. 364 00:31:34,327 --> 00:31:37,314 Yes, it's true. 365 00:31:59,569 --> 00:32:03,719 Well, are you happy about getting the part of Catherine de' Medici? 366 00:32:03,968 --> 00:32:05,456 I am. 367 00:32:06,417 --> 00:32:09,388 But not everyone is. 368 00:32:10,719 --> 00:32:14,357 In any case, Philippe and Martine like you, Dorothée. 369 00:32:14,946 --> 00:32:17,082 How do you know? 370 00:32:19,044 --> 00:32:22,173 Repetos didn't hear them talking about you at all. 371 00:32:25,038 --> 00:32:27,805 I wish your theatre would never stop. 372 00:32:28,415 --> 00:32:32,157 I want to spend my whole life 373 00:32:32,257 --> 00:32:34,673 playing Aeschylus, Shakespeare, 374 00:32:34,681 --> 00:32:36,924 Racine, Claudel... 375 00:32:36,950 --> 00:32:41,750 Claudel? Not in my theatre. 376 00:32:45,754 --> 00:32:48,907 So, you didn't sell it after all? 377 00:32:49,424 --> 00:32:53,254 No, it's my grandmother's ring. I'm not giving it up. 378 00:32:53,507 --> 00:32:56,382 You're not? Very well. 379 00:33:03,660 --> 00:33:06,334 You can always wear it on stage. 380 00:33:07,699 --> 00:33:11,203 It'll look better that those rental rings. 381 00:33:11,539 --> 00:33:13,498 Mental rings? 382 00:33:13,613 --> 00:33:17,707 "Mental"... Rental. 383 00:33:22,974 --> 00:33:27,017 You know, not a single magazine published my interview. 384 00:33:28,092 --> 00:33:30,047 So much for the promises. 385 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,170 Don't you sometimes regret having given up music? 386 00:33:37,704 --> 00:33:39,969 Yes. 387 00:34:39,271 --> 00:34:41,701 OK, we're rehearsing the grief of Mary Stuart 388 00:34:41,723 --> 00:34:45,516 and the anxious anticipation of Catherine de' Medici. 389 00:34:47,463 --> 00:34:53,733 Can one conclude that you are drawing up a summary table of the royal subconscious? 390 00:35:05,234 --> 00:35:08,007 Why is there so little light on Catherine de' Medici? 391 00:35:08,205 --> 00:35:10,468 Cali has disappeared. 392 00:35:11,809 --> 00:35:14,251 Find a replacement as soon as possible. 393 00:35:17,314 --> 00:35:20,335 The lighting is not very important in the scenes with dialogue 394 00:35:20,335 --> 00:35:23,604 but with the pantomime we can't do without it. 395 00:35:24,816 --> 00:35:26,738 The handkerchief of Mary Stuart 396 00:35:27,029 --> 00:35:31,402 and the legs of Catherine de' Medici underneath her dress: 397 00:35:31,973 --> 00:35:34,684 one has to feel a certain movement. 398 00:35:36,774 --> 00:35:38,410 What about the bed? 399 00:35:38,666 --> 00:35:41,532 We'll bring the one from upstairs when needed. 400 00:35:46,894 --> 00:35:49,660 - Where are the cotton balls? - Here you are. 401 00:35:52,132 --> 00:35:56,091 - Do you want to put me to sleep? - Put you to sleep? 402 00:35:57,390 --> 00:35:59,554 You gave me tea, it always makes me fall asleep. 403 00:35:59,555 --> 00:36:03,429 Come now, Dorothée, it's a cotton box. 404 00:36:04,450 --> 00:36:09,006 You know, I can let you have my flat. The rent is very low. 405 00:36:09,135 --> 00:36:11,379 I'll move in with Hermann. 406 00:36:11,526 --> 00:36:14,034 That's great! How many rooms does it have? 407 00:36:14,035 --> 00:36:16,915 Philippe and I are just looking for a place to live. 408 00:36:17,237 --> 00:36:21,011 Two rooms, a kitchenette and a bathroom. 409 00:36:21,565 --> 00:36:25,655 - How much do you pay for it? - 45 thousands a quarter. 410 00:36:25,673 --> 00:36:27,612 When can I have a look at it? 411 00:36:28,244 --> 00:36:31,254 Right now, if you like. Today is Saturday, I have time. 412 00:36:31,350 --> 00:36:34,948 Martine, we're repeating your big scene from Act I. 413 00:36:37,002 --> 00:36:39,979 It's every day like this. You'll see. 414 00:36:40,517 --> 00:36:43,311 I think it's charming. 415 00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:49,400 Have a seat, Dorothée. 416 00:36:54,472 --> 00:36:56,401 Have you seen the weather outside? 417 00:36:56,648 --> 00:36:59,679 - Yes, Madame. - Very nice, isn't it? - Yes. 418 00:36:59,866 --> 00:37:03,342 It wouldn't hurt you to go for a walk sometimes. 419 00:37:03,710 --> 00:37:06,554 Mme Nogrette, I don't understand you. 420 00:37:06,635 --> 00:37:09,455 It doesn't matter. You can go. 421 00:37:38,596 --> 00:37:40,540 Isn't it too cold to be reading? 422 00:37:40,579 --> 00:37:42,032 No, why? 423 00:37:44,179 --> 00:37:45,983 What are you reading? 424 00:37:46,265 --> 00:37:49,117 "Plays by Schiller". "Mary Stuart". 425 00:37:50,516 --> 00:37:53,330 Never read it. But I know "The Robbers". 426 00:37:54,061 --> 00:37:55,750 Do you work in a theatre? 427 00:37:55,789 --> 00:37:57,484 Yes, and you? 428 00:37:58,903 --> 00:38:00,469 Me too. 429 00:38:01,255 --> 00:38:04,275 Only I work with the lighting. But I'm out of work at present. 430 00:38:04,415 --> 00:38:08,055 You are? But that's great, we're just looking for a lighting technician. 431 00:38:08,130 --> 00:38:10,239 What is the name of your theatre? 432 00:38:10,256 --> 00:38:12,646 - "The Theatre of the Matters". - Come again? 433 00:38:12,673 --> 00:38:15,293 "The Theatre of the Matters". It's in the suburbs. 434 00:38:17,301 --> 00:38:19,569 You think they'll hire me? 435 00:38:19,651 --> 00:38:23,620 Come with me to the rehearsals. In an hour. 436 00:38:34,407 --> 00:38:37,100 Christophe never turned up. Did he call? 437 00:38:37,282 --> 00:38:38,936 No, I haven't seen him today. 438 00:38:38,949 --> 00:38:42,184 - I have a date. See you tomorrow. - Bye. 439 00:38:45,344 --> 00:38:48,783 THE THEATRE OF THE MATTERS "MARY STUART" 440 00:38:58,301 --> 00:39:00,450 No, it's this way. 441 00:39:06,124 --> 00:39:08,773 Have a look around and then I'll introduce you. 442 00:39:09,977 --> 00:39:12,455 What shall we do after "Mary Stuart"? 443 00:39:14,261 --> 00:39:15,842 Don't worry. 444 00:39:15,919 --> 00:39:19,394 We have already signed up for 33 performances. 445 00:39:19,665 --> 00:39:21,295 All thanks to Dorothée. 446 00:39:21,329 --> 00:39:23,942 And then, if we get more spectators, 447 00:39:24,338 --> 00:39:29,419 I think I'll be able to put on the great chronicle of St. Bartholomew's Night. 448 00:39:29,427 --> 00:39:31,852 It's a long-time dream of mine. 449 00:39:32,574 --> 00:39:35,243 I know a very good dialogue writer. 450 00:39:35,244 --> 00:39:37,004 A very strange man. 451 00:39:37,005 --> 00:39:40,004 He never talks and always wears the same scarf. 452 00:39:40,004 --> 00:39:41,881 - The yellow one. - Yes, yellow. 453 00:39:41,888 --> 00:39:44,273 I have things to do. 454 00:39:45,954 --> 00:39:47,422 You know, Dorothée... 455 00:39:51,816 --> 00:39:55,045 you have an opportunity to play Catherine de' Medici again. 456 00:39:55,674 --> 00:39:58,425 Long live the Theatre of the Matters! 457 00:39:59,581 --> 00:40:01,992 I found us a lighter. 458 00:40:02,018 --> 00:40:03,695 Christophe! 459 00:40:13,421 --> 00:40:15,039 Christophe! 460 00:40:17,714 --> 00:40:19,537 Christophe! 461 00:40:47,115 --> 00:40:49,738 I found a lighter, but he disappeared. 462 00:40:49,757 --> 00:40:51,730 That's OK, we don't need him. 463 00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:54,509 Cali is coming back tomorrow. He called Lina. 464 00:41:00,996 --> 00:41:02,680 "Dorothée." 465 00:41:13,029 --> 00:41:15,165 Come in, it's open. 466 00:41:17,664 --> 00:41:19,600 Come on in. 467 00:41:21,649 --> 00:41:23,733 Brigitte asked me to come. 468 00:41:24,313 --> 00:41:27,244 She doesn't want to see anyone from the theatre. 469 00:41:27,763 --> 00:41:31,333 But she asked me to tell you to be on your guard with M. Hermann 470 00:41:31,341 --> 00:41:34,429 - and his wife. - His wife? 471 00:41:35,317 --> 00:41:36,711 His wife. 472 00:41:36,954 --> 00:41:40,090 That's right. It's all I should say. 473 00:41:40,247 --> 00:41:41,766 It's all I know. 474 00:41:42,076 --> 00:41:43,581 Oh, yes: 475 00:41:43,807 --> 00:41:47,228 he's also incapable of appreciating people. 476 00:41:47,259 --> 00:41:49,008 Excuse me. 477 00:41:50,125 --> 00:41:52,931 Close the door but leave it ajar. 478 00:42:10,905 --> 00:42:13,477 You're carrying bags. After you. 479 00:42:46,525 --> 00:42:49,687 - How is she? - I didn't ask her. 480 00:42:50,386 --> 00:42:53,041 She was painting her toenails. 481 00:42:53,231 --> 00:42:54,942 She must have been surprised. 482 00:42:54,943 --> 00:42:56,891 Although you never can tell with those round eyes of hers. 483 00:42:56,894 --> 00:42:59,182 When I told her about his wife 484 00:42:59,572 --> 00:43:02,761 she just said: "His wife". Just like that. 485 00:43:03,019 --> 00:43:06,021 - I had no wish to keep talking to her. - That's OK. 486 00:43:07,397 --> 00:43:10,914 I know: I'll call her travel agency. They might have something. 487 00:43:11,153 --> 00:43:15,356 - Where would we go? To Montauban? - No, I mean the job. 488 00:43:16,221 --> 00:43:19,703 You should have stayed and talked to her some more. 489 00:43:20,016 --> 00:43:22,255 You are so shy! 490 00:43:23,772 --> 00:43:28,374 For whatsoe'er thou seest grow big with glad increase, 491 00:43:28,432 --> 00:43:31,893 and step by step climb upward to ripe age, 492 00:43:31,894 --> 00:43:34,701 these to themselves take in more bodies than they send from selves, 493 00:43:34,702 --> 00:43:38,898 whilst still the food is easily infused through all the veins, 494 00:43:38,985 --> 00:43:44,737 so far expanded that they cast away such numerous atoms 495 00:43:44,807 --> 00:43:49,221 as to cause a waste greater than nutriment whereby they wax. 496 00:43:49,385 --> 00:43:55,688 For 'tmust be granted, truly, that from things many a body ebbeth and runs off; 497 00:43:55,930 --> 00:43:59,713 but yet still more must come, 498 00:43:59,717 --> 00:44:03,758 until the things have touched development's top pinnacle; 499 00:44:04,055 --> 00:44:10,399 then old age breaks their powers and ripe strength 500 00:44:10,462 --> 00:44:13,384 and falls away into a worser part. 501 00:44:13,394 --> 00:44:17,063 For ever the ampler and more wide a thing, 502 00:44:17,066 --> 00:44:19,023 as soon as ever its augmentation ends, 503 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,507 it scatters abroad forthwith to all sides round more bodies, 504 00:44:22,507 --> 00:44:25,508 sending them from out itself. 505 00:44:25,984 --> 00:44:30,192 nor easily now is food disseminate through all its veins; 506 00:44:30,197 --> 00:44:35,062 nor is that food enough to equal with a new supply on hand 507 00:44:35,132 --> 00:44:38,331 those plenteous exhalations it gives off. 508 00:44:38,337 --> 00:44:41,158 Thus, fairly, all things perish, 509 00:44:41,159 --> 00:44:44,855 when with ebbing they're made less dense 510 00:44:44,923 --> 00:44:48,737 and when from blows without they are laid low; 511 00:44:48,973 --> 00:44:52,974 since food at last... 512 00:44:53,150 --> 00:44:56,934 at last will fail extremest eld, 513 00:44:56,974 --> 00:45:01,907 and bodies from outside cease not with thumping to undo a thing 514 00:45:02,033 --> 00:45:05,979 and overmaster by infesting blows. 515 00:45:06,413 --> 00:45:09,524 Thus, too, the ramparts... 516 00:45:09,914 --> 00:45:12,705 the ramparts of the mighty world 517 00:45:12,849 --> 00:45:15,388 on all sides round shall taken be by storm, 518 00:45:15,388 --> 00:45:19,875 and tumble to wrack and shivered fragments down. 519 00:45:19,908 --> 00:45:24,228 For food it is must keep things whole, renewing; 520 00:45:24,286 --> 00:45:26,894 - 'tis food... - Here you have the set and costumes all ready for you. 521 00:45:26,972 --> 00:45:30,904 ...'tis food must prop and give support to all, 522 00:45:30,940 --> 00:45:33,464 but to no purpose, 523 00:45:33,529 --> 00:45:37,590 since nor veins suffice to hold enough, 524 00:45:37,734 --> 00:45:42,617 nor nature ministers as much as needful. 525 00:45:43,318 --> 00:45:46,658 OK. Let's get back to the theatre. 526 00:46:43,106 --> 00:46:46,602 THE THEATRE OF THE MATTERS PRESENTS: SCHILLER'S "MARY STUART" 527 00:46:55,263 --> 00:46:56,739 Thank you. Where is the auditorium? 528 00:46:57,140 --> 00:46:59,568 - Second door to the left. - Thank you, Madame. 529 00:48:56,161 --> 00:49:00,454 - Give me my coat back. - You check, please. 530 00:49:03,179 --> 00:49:07,398 - I don't have one. There it is, give it to me. - I can't, Monsieur. 531 00:49:07,672 --> 00:49:10,277 Give it to me or I'll kick up a row. It's a refrigerator, not a theatre. 532 00:49:10,284 --> 00:49:13,939 Stop shouting, you're disturbing the actors. 533 00:50:15,420 --> 00:50:17,201 What were my feelings, then, 534 00:50:17,236 --> 00:50:21,115 as I approached the threshold of the churches, 535 00:50:21,272 --> 00:50:24,318 and within, heard heavenly music floating in the air: 536 00:50:24,467 --> 00:50:27,822 while from the walls and high-wrought roofs there streamed 537 00:50:27,863 --> 00:50:31,130 crowds of celestial forms in endless train - 538 00:50:31,592 --> 00:50:35,309 when the Most High, Most Glorious pervaded 539 00:50:35,366 --> 00:50:39,651 my captivated sense in real presence! 540 00:50:40,135 --> 00:50:45,989 And when I saw the great and godlike visions, 541 00:50:46,209 --> 00:50:49,688 The Salutation, The Nativity, 542 00:50:49,929 --> 00:50:54,432 The Holy Mother, and the Trinity's descent, 543 00:50:54,446 --> 00:50:57,019 the luminous transfiguration 544 00:50:58,382 --> 00:51:02,231 and last the holy pontiff, clad in all the glory of his office, 545 00:51:02,342 --> 00:51:05,211 bless the people! 546 00:51:05,484 --> 00:51:07,835 Oh! what is all the pomp of gold 547 00:51:07,955 --> 00:51:10,782 and jewels with which the kings of earth adorn themselves! 548 00:51:10,900 --> 00:51:14,830 He is alone surrounded by the Godhead; 549 00:51:15,229 --> 00:51:18,479 his mansion is in truth an heavenly kingdom, 550 00:51:18,686 --> 00:51:21,695 for not of earthly moulding are these forms! 551 00:51:21,724 --> 00:51:24,039 O spare me, sir! 552 00:51:24,707 --> 00:51:26,953 No further. 553 00:51:27,497 --> 00:51:31,835 Spread no more life's verdant carpet out before my eyes, 554 00:51:32,177 --> 00:51:36,131 remember I am wretched, and a prisoner. 555 00:51:44,105 --> 00:51:48,530 Spread no more life's verdant carpet out before my eyes, 556 00:51:48,748 --> 00:51:51,436 remember I am wretched, and a prisoner. 557 00:51:51,444 --> 00:51:54,427 It looks good on you. Philippe has gone already? 558 00:51:54,434 --> 00:51:56,584 Yes, he's waiting for you down at the café. 559 00:51:56,759 --> 00:52:00,304 By the way, my congratulations, Martine, you were excellent today. 560 00:52:00,305 --> 00:52:03,184 Thank you, Repetos, it's very kind of you. 561 00:52:03,686 --> 00:52:07,007 You know, it's as if Schiller wrote it with you in mind. 562 00:52:08,322 --> 00:52:11,972 I'll be late today. I'm having dinner with an old friend. 563 00:52:12,019 --> 00:52:15,376 - How late? - I'll be back before 2. 564 00:52:16,125 --> 00:52:18,597 Did we do good today? 565 00:52:20,513 --> 00:52:23,627 Ask those eight spectators. 566 00:52:23,630 --> 00:52:26,818 Oh dear, I need to go. I'm late already. 567 00:52:56,465 --> 00:52:58,047 Well? 568 00:52:59,181 --> 00:53:00,979 We flopped. 569 00:53:01,289 --> 00:53:04,063 Pity, even more so, since you look perfect. 570 00:53:04,205 --> 00:53:08,857 You know, even a single spectator would have made me happy. 571 00:53:09,024 --> 00:53:11,700 I'm afraid your friends don't share your opinion. 572 00:53:11,925 --> 00:53:14,967 Especially those of them who finance the show. 573 00:53:15,159 --> 00:53:17,485 What are you going to do now? 574 00:53:18,218 --> 00:53:20,283 Perform in our play. 575 00:53:21,023 --> 00:53:23,644 My offer still stands, you know. 576 00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,614 I can find you a very interesting job on the radio. 577 00:53:27,679 --> 00:53:29,826 You'll be able to quit the agency. 578 00:53:30,145 --> 00:53:33,188 And then, the Theatre of the Matters won't last forever. 579 00:53:36,224 --> 00:53:38,038 You're very kind. 580 00:53:38,474 --> 00:53:40,713 But I'm not asking for anything. 581 00:53:53,771 --> 00:53:56,679 I'm sorry, Madame, but this man is dead. 582 00:54:25,665 --> 00:54:29,874 Make me some tea, or I won't be able to sleep. 583 00:54:34,531 --> 00:54:36,767 Victor died right in the middle of the dinner. 584 00:54:37,804 --> 00:54:41,591 "Und so, über Gräber vorwärts!" 585 00:54:41,603 --> 00:54:43,204 What? 586 00:54:43,263 --> 00:54:46,501 "Over the graves then, onwards!" It's from Goethe. 587 00:54:46,592 --> 00:54:49,737 They are cutting our budget for the costumes and the sets. 588 00:54:49,869 --> 00:54:52,303 So much for our historical dramas. 589 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,583 I have to give up my St. Bartholomew's Night. 590 00:54:55,765 --> 00:54:59,128 I'll ask everyone to bring a piece of furniture from home, 591 00:54:59,257 --> 00:55:04,518 find some old clothes and stage only contemporary plays. 592 00:55:05,441 --> 00:55:09,928 We will, of course, have fewer material objects, 593 00:55:10,503 --> 00:55:17,438 but that'll permit us to explore the human body and its matters. 594 00:55:17,505 --> 00:55:19,890 Perhaps even more successfully than before. 595 00:55:20,173 --> 00:55:24,453 Tell it to me tomorrow. I can't listen to you now. 596 00:55:24,667 --> 00:55:27,257 Make me some tea, I want to go to sleep. 597 00:55:43,380 --> 00:55:45,100 Damn! 598 00:55:53,790 --> 00:55:56,505 Tomorrow I'll have Repetos 599 00:55:56,559 --> 00:55:59,936 find me a play with people vomiting. 600 00:55:59,980 --> 00:56:04,217 There have to be stories where people shit their pants out of fear! 601 00:56:07,270 --> 00:56:12,588 It won't be easy to show it on the stage, though. 602 00:56:23,796 --> 00:56:26,384 Dirty dragged herself over to the window. 603 00:56:26,510 --> 00:56:28,773 Beneath her she saw the Thames and, in the background, 604 00:56:28,820 --> 00:56:31,332 some of the most hideous buildings in London, 605 00:56:31,363 --> 00:56:33,616 now magnified in the darkness. 606 00:56:33,758 --> 00:56:36,070 She quickly vomited in the open air. 607 00:56:36,274 --> 00:56:38,038 In her relief she called for me, 608 00:56:38,194 --> 00:56:41,644 and, as I held her forehead I stared at that foul sewer of a landscape: 609 00:56:41,699 --> 00:56:44,122 the river and the warehouses. 610 00:56:44,583 --> 00:56:50,133 In the vicinity of the hotel the lights of luxury apartments loomed insolently. 611 00:56:50,810 --> 00:56:54,982 Gazing out at London, I almost wept, I was so distraught with anxiety. 612 00:56:55,307 --> 00:56:57,655 As I breathed in the cool air, childhood memories - of little girls, for instance, 613 00:56:57,656 --> 00:57:01,384 with whom I used to play at telephone and diabolo - 614 00:57:01,497 --> 00:57:06,164 merged with the vision of the elevator attendant's apelike paws. 615 00:57:06,673 --> 00:57:10,739 What was happening, moreover, seemed to me trivial and somehow ludicrous. 616 00:57:11,419 --> 00:57:13,489 I myself was empty. 617 00:57:13,717 --> 00:57:18,098 I was scarcely even capable of inventing new horrors to fill the emptiness. 618 00:57:18,108 --> 00:57:20,925 I felt powerless and degraded. 619 00:57:21,497 --> 00:57:23,546 It was in this uncompliant and indifferent frame of mind 620 00:57:23,547 --> 00:57:25,975 that I followed Dirty outside. 621 00:57:26,213 --> 00:57:27,926 Dirty kept me going; 622 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,176 nevertheless, I could not conceive of any human creature 623 00:57:30,177 --> 00:57:31,973 being more derelict and adrift. 624 00:57:32,100 --> 00:57:35,728 Great. Make a stage adaptation. 625 00:57:35,774 --> 00:57:39,353 - I haven't finished, there's one paragraph left. - Doesn't matter. 626 00:57:39,717 --> 00:57:42,855 I think everyone got the idea. 627 00:57:43,252 --> 00:57:45,868 As soon as the play is ready 628 00:57:45,965 --> 00:57:50,205 you'll learn your lines and we'll start rehearsing. 629 00:57:50,485 --> 00:57:53,122 One character at a time. 630 00:58:07,227 --> 00:58:11,339 - Mlle Pasquier is here. - Not again... 631 00:58:12,830 --> 00:58:14,783 - Hello. - Hello, Mademoiselle. 632 00:58:14,974 --> 00:58:18,855 - You told me you were destitute. - We are. 633 00:58:19,246 --> 00:58:22,047 So, you're staging a play by Bataille? 634 00:58:22,187 --> 00:58:26,640 No, it's a dramatic version of his "Blue of Noon", 635 00:58:26,882 --> 00:58:29,915 that was prepared by a young writer and that seemed to me 636 00:58:29,916 --> 00:58:32,753 an excellent material for the application 637 00:58:32,826 --> 00:58:37,800 of my theories on the theatre of the matters. 638 00:58:39,782 --> 00:58:44,204 Is theatre a spectacle or literature for you? 639 00:58:44,429 --> 00:58:46,100 What a question to ask. 640 00:58:46,172 --> 00:58:49,973 Coming from Mme Pasquier it doesn't surprise me. 641 00:58:54,470 --> 00:58:56,004 OK... 642 00:58:56,693 --> 00:58:58,974 Hoffmann, Hoffmann... 643 00:58:58,999 --> 00:59:01,941 No, it's "Troppmann, Troppmann". 644 00:59:02,027 --> 00:59:05,236 Troppmann, Troppmann... 645 00:59:05,367 --> 00:59:08,237 Dorothée, your ring is hurting my head. 646 00:59:08,262 --> 00:59:10,098 Don't exaggerate. 647 00:59:10,188 --> 00:59:13,036 And that way the expression of pain on your face would be more natural. 648 00:59:13,247 --> 00:59:15,268 It's a diamond ring. 649 00:59:15,651 --> 00:59:19,261 It doesn't matter: the actress who will play Dirty 650 00:59:19,262 --> 00:59:21,329 doesn't wear a diamond ring. 651 00:59:21,372 --> 00:59:24,592 And there's nothing in the text that proves that she should. 652 00:59:24,759 --> 00:59:27,535 Hermann gave you tomorrow's plan. 653 00:59:27,687 --> 00:59:30,797 Tomorrow I'm playing Dirty handing out money in the hotel. 654 00:59:30,886 --> 00:59:34,140 It would be perfectly logical for her to wear a ring. 655 00:59:34,635 --> 00:59:37,005 What did you mean when you said: "The actress who will play Dirty"? 656 00:59:37,063 --> 00:59:40,181 I meant that Martine will play Dirty. 657 00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,416 Let's start again. 658 00:59:42,599 --> 00:59:46,392 As Hermann didn't tell me anything about it, I'm playing her for now. 659 00:59:56,745 --> 00:59:59,856 Troppmann, Troppmann... 660 01:00:03,025 --> 01:00:06,314 You... I need you. 661 01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:09,998 I need to find Difty. 662 01:00:10,114 --> 01:00:13,207 I have something to tell him. 663 01:00:15,784 --> 01:00:17,327 Troppmann! 664 01:00:18,950 --> 01:00:22,780 No, it says here: "voice on the verge of despair". 665 01:00:23,859 --> 01:00:25,679 Troppmann! 666 01:00:27,234 --> 01:00:28,837 That's better. 667 01:00:29,095 --> 01:00:31,302 I need to go. I have a meeting. 668 01:00:32,872 --> 01:00:36,239 Very good, Martine, very good. 669 01:00:45,498 --> 01:00:47,734 Troppmann, Troppmann... 670 01:00:47,845 --> 01:00:50,677 I'm tired of it. Let's leave it till tomorrow. 671 01:02:40,758 --> 01:02:44,323 It was during the horror of the night profound, 672 01:02:44,581 --> 01:02:47,561 my mother, Jezebel, before me stood, 673 01:02:47,608 --> 01:02:51,016 apparelled gorgeously, as on the day of her decease; 674 01:02:51,207 --> 01:02:54,352 misfortunes had not crushed her dignity; 675 01:02:54,719 --> 01:02:58,970 and even she had still that borrowed tint, 676 01:02:59,340 --> 01:03:03,048 with which it was her care to bloom and ornament her countenance, 677 01:03:03,369 --> 01:03:07,784 in order to repair the ravages of years irreparable. 678 01:03:08,383 --> 01:03:12,828 'Tremble, daughter, thou worthy of myself,' to me she said; 679 01:03:12,914 --> 01:03:16,867 'the cruel God of Judah over thee will certainly prevail: 680 01:03:17,593 --> 01:03:21,667 I pity thee, my daughter, falling into His dread hands.' 681 01:03:23,332 --> 01:03:26,291 These fearful words completed, 682 01:03:26,575 --> 01:03:30,113 towards my bed her shadow seemed to bend itself, 683 01:03:31,436 --> 01:03:36,259 and I held out my arms in order to embrace it; 684 01:03:36,707 --> 01:03:39,480 but only found confusion horrible 685 01:03:39,490 --> 01:03:43,215 of mangled bones and flesh dragged in the mud, 686 01:03:43,216 --> 01:03:47,180 and tatters soaked in gore, of hideous limbs, 687 01:03:47,765 --> 01:03:52,222 that dogs, devouring, fought for with each other. 688 01:03:54,110 --> 01:03:56,701 Dear god! 689 01:03:57,345 --> 01:03:59,165 You frightened me. 690 01:04:00,036 --> 01:04:04,606 For a moment I thought you were my boss from the agency. 691 01:04:05,305 --> 01:04:07,172 How did the meeting go? 692 01:04:09,318 --> 01:04:14,634 If we have to go into the sticks to earn some money, we will. 693 01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:17,862 If they want to exile us, we'll go into exile. 694 01:04:20,145 --> 01:04:24,865 Unless you decide to sell your grandmother's diamond. 695 01:04:26,445 --> 01:04:29,763 Of course, this would be a solution. 696 01:04:33,243 --> 01:04:35,645 - Have you checked everything? - Yes. 697 01:04:37,157 --> 01:04:39,461 - Everything is here? - Yes. 698 01:04:40,066 --> 01:04:43,460 No, here's something I found. It's a ring. 699 01:04:43,776 --> 01:04:47,950 - It was lying at the stage entrance. - To the crowns it goes. 700 01:04:59,524 --> 01:05:02,529 What would you do if Hermann disbands the Company? 701 01:05:02,689 --> 01:05:05,664 I'll ask him for a reference letter. 702 01:05:06,156 --> 01:05:10,179 An then, I know someone who can find me a job in the Old Vic in London. 703 01:05:10,258 --> 01:05:13,603 Because, you see, I have no interest in the modern theatre whatsoever. 704 01:05:13,734 --> 01:05:18,580 Badly dressed people walking around some rooms and spouting banalities. 705 01:05:19,704 --> 01:05:24,082 - What would you do? - I got hired as a waiter at a restaurant. 706 01:06:18,177 --> 01:06:20,658 Martine would make a perfect Dirty. 707 01:06:21,247 --> 01:06:24,873 Dorothée will now work as a secretary. 708 01:06:25,558 --> 01:06:27,674 Especially if we're going on a provincial tour. 709 01:06:27,834 --> 01:06:31,063 She's incapable of memorising her lines. 710 01:06:31,227 --> 01:06:35,945 If she would, at least, keep on providing the finances, but even so... 711 01:06:36,203 --> 01:06:38,097 That's true. 712 01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:41,658 - See you tomorrow. - See you tomorrow. 713 01:07:24,986 --> 01:07:27,745 - Shall I now call you "Madame"? - No, we are a modern agency. 714 01:07:27,749 --> 01:07:30,440 Make yourself at home. 715 01:08:10,592 --> 01:08:14,473 - Goodbye. See you tomorrow. - Don't turn off the light. 716 01:08:14,798 --> 01:08:18,761 - Goodbye. - Goodbye, Dorothée, see you tomorrow. 717 01:09:43,611 --> 01:09:48,180 No, they paid for everything. There's no reason to contact the laboratory. 718 01:09:48,363 --> 01:09:50,606 - Dorothée. - Yes? 719 01:09:51,279 --> 01:09:54,269 Mme Nogrette wants to see you in her office. 720 01:10:01,823 --> 01:10:06,336 While the cat's away... 721 01:10:21,833 --> 01:10:24,813 I demand no explanations. 722 01:10:25,100 --> 01:10:30,486 I decided to shut my eyes on yesterday's shameful act. 723 01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:33,582 I won't inform the police. 724 01:10:33,596 --> 01:10:35,440 First of all, out of friendship. 725 01:10:35,564 --> 01:10:38,745 And also, out of respect for your past. 726 01:10:38,927 --> 01:10:42,111 I watched you closely during the war. 727 01:10:42,324 --> 01:10:45,827 I know that you did a lot for the cause of the Resistance. 728 01:10:50,622 --> 01:10:52,685 Back to work. 729 01:10:53,063 --> 01:10:56,470 I was here yesterday and I think I left my snuff box behind. 730 01:10:56,499 --> 01:10:58,461 Have you seen it? 731 01:11:00,440 --> 01:11:03,503 A little tortoiseshell snuff box. 732 01:11:06,147 --> 01:11:09,464 Have you seen a snuff box? Monsieur left it behind yesterday. 733 01:11:09,469 --> 01:11:12,564 A little tortoiseshell snuff box. 734 01:11:19,001 --> 01:11:21,423 No, I don't think so. A moment. 735 01:11:21,461 --> 01:11:24,112 Has anyone seen a little snuff box? 736 01:11:24,177 --> 01:11:26,406 A tortoiseshell snuff box. 737 01:11:26,978 --> 01:11:30,563 You sometimes seem to be dozing off, my poor Dorothée. 738 01:11:31,019 --> 01:11:33,729 Go and get some air, it'll do you good. 739 01:11:37,365 --> 01:11:42,322 The Russian chemists want to sue the agency over the hotel that burned down. 740 01:12:06,630 --> 01:12:08,238 Everything OK? 741 01:12:20,874 --> 01:12:22,873 Here, share it. 742 01:12:24,380 --> 01:12:25,976 No, wait... 743 01:12:26,150 --> 01:12:29,591 You already know that she gives you a twenty 744 01:12:30,104 --> 01:12:32,341 and you count for show. 745 01:12:32,966 --> 01:12:36,939 When you reach ten, give the money to Suzanne 746 01:12:37,110 --> 01:12:39,060 and say your line. 747 01:12:39,663 --> 01:12:44,677 1, 2, 3, 4, 748 01:12:45,020 --> 01:12:50,065 5, 6, 7, 8, 749 01:12:50,143 --> 01:12:52,735 9, 10. 750 01:12:55,256 --> 01:12:57,234 Can we go now? 751 01:12:57,382 --> 01:13:00,700 No, not yet. 752 01:13:00,983 --> 01:13:03,913 Please sit down. 753 01:13:05,384 --> 01:13:07,467 When is she going to urinate? 754 01:13:09,441 --> 01:13:11,755 Hold on... 755 01:13:14,938 --> 01:13:16,882 Listen to me. 756 01:13:17,028 --> 01:13:19,712 I have wonderful news. 757 01:13:20,314 --> 01:13:22,573 We are getting a government grant. 758 01:13:22,686 --> 01:13:25,711 That's great! How much? 759 01:13:25,749 --> 01:13:27,971 We don't know yet. 760 01:13:28,292 --> 01:13:32,201 Let's get back to work. It's going to go livelier now. 761 01:15:30,522 --> 01:15:32,445 Here are the crepes. 762 01:15:34,094 --> 01:15:35,863 Help yourselves. 763 01:15:39,239 --> 01:15:40,783 Christophe. 764 01:15:48,375 --> 01:15:50,633 I'm going to stay at Brigitte's for a while. 765 01:15:50,723 --> 01:15:52,489 We know each other well. 766 01:15:52,615 --> 01:15:55,259 We both tread the boards once. 767 01:15:55,578 --> 01:15:58,856 We'll spend the time reminiscing about our past.