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A beggar woman.
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- Mad?
- Yes.
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Ah yes. I remember.
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She follows the rivers.
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Comes from Burma.
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Not Indian.
She comes from Savannakhet.
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Born there.
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Walking...
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For ten years.
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And one day,
in front of her, the Ganges.
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- Yes.
- She stays.
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That's right.
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12 children dead
while she walked towards Bengal?
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Yes.
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She leaves them.
Sells them, forgets them.
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On the way to Bengal,
she goes barren
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- Savannakhet, Laos?
- Yes.
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At seventeen.
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Pregnant... seventeen...
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...thrown out by her mother,
goes away...
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...asks the way to get lost.
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No one knows.
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In Calcutta they were together.
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- She and the white woman?
- Yes.
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During the same years...
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- He had followed her to India.
- Yes.
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For her, he left everything.
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Overnight.
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- The night of the ball?
- yes.
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Michael Richardson was engaged
to a girl from S. Thala,
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Lola Valerie Stein.
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They were to marry in the autumn.
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Then, the ball,
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The ball at S. Thala.
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She arrived late...
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...in the middle of the night...
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...in black.
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That ball, such love...
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such desire.
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That light?
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The monsoon.
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That dust?
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Central Calcutta.
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What is that scent of flowers?
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Leprosy.
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Where are we?
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The French Embassy, in India.
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- That murmur?
- The Ganges.
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When she died, he left India?
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Yes.
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Her grave is in the English cemetery?
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Yes.
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- She died out there?
- On the islands.
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Found dead one night.
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A black Lancia...
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...speeds along the road
to Chandernagore.
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It was there that she first tried?
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Yes.
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What are you afraid of ?
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Anne-Marie Stretter.
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They would dance in the evening
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They're dancing.
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What are you crying about?
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I love you...
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...to the point of not seeing...
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...not hearing...
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...dying.
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Lepers burst like sacks of dust,
you know.
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- Don't suffer?
- No, feel nothing.
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She's there by the Ganges,
under the trees.
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She has forgotten.
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- The French Vice-Consul from Lahore.
- Yes.
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Sent to Calcutta in disgrace.
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He's come back to the grounds?
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Yes.
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He comes every night.
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The tennis court, deserted.
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Anne-Marie Stretter's red bicycle.
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Where is the one in black?
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Out driving.
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She comes back with the night.
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The black Lancia
has just entered the grounds.
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She hunts at night
in the depths of the Ganges.
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For food.
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Dead on the islands
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- Her eyes pierced with light, dead.
- Yes.
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Beneath that stone.
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Around her, a bend in the Ganges...
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Four o'clock.
Darkest night.
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- No one's asleep?
- No one.
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What heat!
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Impossible.
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Terrible.
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00:19:27,036 --> 00:19:29,033
Another storm...
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...coming to Bengal...
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...coming from the islands.
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From the estuaries, inexhaustible...
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- What's that sound?
- Her, crying.
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- She isn't suffering, is she?
- No.
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Leprosy.
Leprosy of the heart.
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- Can't bear it?
- No, can't bear it.
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India, can't bear it.
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She's sleeping.
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He loved her more than
anything in the world.
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More than that.
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00:21:55,826 --> 00:21:59,684
Michael Richardson set up a marine
insurance business...
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...in Bengal,
to stay with her in India.
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Listen...
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The Ganges fishermen.
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What a night!
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00:22:37,824 --> 00:22:39,796
What heat!
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All-embracing...
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Deathly...
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From behind the plants in the bar
she watches them.
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Only at dawn...
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...when the lovers went toward
the door of the ballroom...
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...did Lola Val�rie Stein
utter a cry.
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Didn't hear anything else.
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Didn't see anything else.
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This crime in her past.
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Yes.
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Rain.
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Yes.
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Cool.
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Her music,
that was Venice.
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A promising artist.
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- Never gave up playing?
- Never.
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Ana Maria Guardi.
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Yes.
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The first marriage?
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- The first post?
- Savannakhet, Laos.
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To a French colonial civil servant.
She's 18.
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Oh yes, a river...
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...already...
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...she's sitting by a river,
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and she's looking.
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00:24:58,980 --> 00:25:00,728
The Mekong.
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00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:06,192
- She's silent? Crying?
- Yes.
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00:25:06,588 --> 00:25:09,296
They say:
"She won't get used to it".
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00:25:09,567 --> 00:25:11,536
"She'll have to be
sent back to Europe."
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00:25:12,498 --> 00:25:16,526
- She couldn't bear it, already?
- Already.
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Caught behind gates.
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00:25:21,305 --> 00:25:23,999
The government house grounds
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- Those sentries?
- The guard.
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00:25:30,531 --> 00:25:33,688
- Already couldn't bear it.
- No.
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00:25:38,208 --> 00:25:41,962
One day,
a government launch stops...
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...Monsieur Stretter is
inspecting the Mekong posts.
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00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:52,910
- Takes her away to Savannakhet?
- Yes, takes her with him.
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00:25:54,081 --> 00:25:57,866
For 17 years,
through the capitals of Asia.
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00:25:59,062 --> 00:26:02,944
You find her in Peking,
again in Mandalay.
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00:26:04,029 --> 00:26:07,297
In Bangkok...
you find her in Bangkok.
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00:26:08,045 --> 00:26:10,592
In Rangoon...
In Sydney.
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00:26:11,620 --> 00:26:13,548
You find her in Lahore...
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00:26:13,933 --> 00:26:15,835
17 years.
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00:26:17,309 --> 00:26:21,500
She's in Calcutta...
Calcutta...
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She dies.
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00:26:29,964 --> 00:26:32,836
- Who's the other man?
- A friend passing through.
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A friend of Stretter.
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00:26:37,277 --> 00:26:39,376
Whoever wants her, has her.
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He gives her.
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- Love.
- Yes.
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Splendor.
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"Anne-Marie Stretter"
written on the grave?
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"Ana Maria Guardi",
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but worn away.
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Every night...
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...looks at her.
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- Has never spoken to her?
- Never.
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Never approached any woman.
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- The male virgin of Lahore.
- Yes.
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00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,964
- Those gleams over there?
- The burning ghats.
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Burning those who died of hunger?
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Yes.
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It's dawn.
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He had fired a gun in Lahore.
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One night, from his balcony,
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he fired on the lepers
of the Shalimar Gardens.
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- Couldn't bear it?
- No.
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00:29:16,554 --> 00:29:19,184
- India, couldn't bear it?
- No.
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00:29:20,605 --> 00:29:22,658
What about India?
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The idea.
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00:29:37,704 --> 00:29:41,790
There was a reception
at the French embassy?
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Yes.
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00:30:01,850 --> 00:30:04,131
The park stretches down
to the Ganges.
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The offices are on this side.
You see? Those grey buildings.
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00:30:10,628 --> 00:30:14,636
Farther away, the tennis courts,
deserted during the monsoon.
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Almost no one is dancing?
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In this heat,
how could you?
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The only remedy, immobility.
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00:30:25,510 --> 00:30:28,448
Slowness...
Slow down the blood.
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The smell of mud.
Insipid.
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The Ganges, low tide.
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The new Austrian attach�.
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Been here a month.
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- He can't get used to India.
- His first time here?
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Yes.
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00:31:12,816 --> 00:31:14,518
He'll come again.
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00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,336
- He'll go to the islands.
- How can you tell?
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00:31:19,851 --> 00:31:22,348
The anguish in his eyes.
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00:31:23,583 --> 00:31:26,111
She can't bear people
who get used to India.
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00:31:26,605 --> 00:31:30,149
The Ambassador asks people
to the islands for his wife.
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00:31:32,358 --> 00:31:33,863
She goes alone to the islands.
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00:31:34,323 --> 00:31:36,899
The Ambassador goes hunting
in Nepal.
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00:31:37,344 --> 00:31:39,164
They say her lovers are English,
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don't mix with the embassies,
and that the Ambassador knows.
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00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:52,048
A friend of the Stretters'.
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00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:54,761
Unknown in Calcutta.
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00:32:12,381 --> 00:32:15,566
With this humidity
the pianos are detuned.
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00:32:19,907 --> 00:32:23,215
The French Vice-Consul
has just entered the park.
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00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,675
At the last minute
she sent him a card: "Come".
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00:32:28,878 --> 00:32:30,729
Just what did he do?
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00:32:31,666 --> 00:32:35,099
The worst... killed.
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00:32:35,627 --> 00:32:38,616
- In Lahore.
- The official version?
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00:32:39,381 --> 00:32:42,727
Nerves gave way.
Often happens.
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00:32:43,426 --> 00:32:45,899
- Easy to say.
- Yes.
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His face... as if grafted.
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00:32:53,770 --> 00:32:56,280
Very pale.
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00:32:58,679 --> 00:33:01,158
She could have spared us
his presence.
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00:33:02,067 --> 00:33:04,471
An outcast in Lahore too?
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00:33:05,271 --> 00:33:06,537
There too.
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00:33:06,792 --> 00:33:09,720
He just escaped being dismissed.
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00:33:10,195 --> 00:33:12,888
The ambassador intervened.
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00:33:15,061 --> 00:33:19,127
Closed circles in India
make me think of leprosy.
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00:33:30,534 --> 00:33:36,860
- Perhaps he drank? - No. Drunkenness is
the same for us all here.
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We talk about going home.
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No, he didn't drink.
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00:33:45,038 --> 00:33:47,593
The Ambassador
asked the young attach�
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to have a word with him.
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He tries.
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He turns away.
Can't bear it.
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Any of it.
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00:34:04,998 --> 00:34:06,602
He laughs.
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00:34:07,321 --> 00:34:10,287
As if he were suddenly
mad with joy.
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00:34:10,821 --> 00:34:12,781
Look...
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00:34:14,323 --> 00:34:18,156
Perhaps he's just seen
Madame Stretter... perhaps.
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- You mean...
- I wonder... perhaps.
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00:34:30,260 --> 00:34:32,852
Did he talk about Lahore?
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00:34:33,693 --> 00:34:37,669
Only to her.
Near dawn.
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00:34:40,168 --> 00:34:43,509
He fired at night,
on the Shalimar Gardens...
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...on lepers, dogs.
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00:34:48,266 --> 00:34:52,942
But they found bullets in the mirrors
in his house in Lahore, too.
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00:34:54,545 --> 00:34:56,895
Shooting at himself...
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00:34:59,875 --> 00:35:03,628
Roses arrived every day from Nepal.
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00:35:05,028 --> 00:35:08,212
She gave them out
at the end of the ball.
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00:35:12,436 --> 00:35:15,723
After lunch, people sink...
Heavy sleep.
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00:35:15,958 --> 00:35:19,131
Yet everyone waits
for something like that.
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00:35:19,331 --> 00:35:24,099
Storms are expected.
Just a hole in the sky.
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00:35:24,988 --> 00:35:26,949
It fills in straight away.
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00:35:35,759 --> 00:35:37,387
How white she is!
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00:35:37,793 --> 00:35:40,058
How white they are,
the women of Calcutta!
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00:35:41,817 --> 00:35:44,398
For six months,
out only in the evening
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00:35:44,912 --> 00:35:46,459
Fleeing the sun.
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00:35:53,066 --> 00:35:55,940
Seems imprisoned
in a kind of suffering.
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00:35:59,736 --> 00:36:02,772
No one really knows
what goes on behind these walls.
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00:36:03,385 --> 00:36:05,143
What she does.
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00:36:06,359 --> 00:36:08,568
Cycling very early in the morning,
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00:36:08,836 --> 00:36:10,353
in the grounds.
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00:36:10,878 --> 00:36:14,322
Playing tennis,
She reads, they say.
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00:36:15,118 --> 00:36:17,875
Parcels of books
come from Venice for her.
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00:36:19,744 --> 00:36:21,178
She goes to the islands.
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00:36:21,615 --> 00:36:23,443
Appearances...
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Only one person sees him.
The director of the European club.
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A drunkard.
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00:36:50,268 --> 00:36:54,280
All he said to the director
was repeated to the Ambassador.
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- It's horrid!
- You don't understand.
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He knew it would be repeated.
That's why he spoke to the director.
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00:37:03,572 --> 00:37:07,572
A way to reach her,
this woman.
268
00:37:11,256 --> 00:37:15,111
He said he was entitled
to Madame Stretter's attentions,
269
00:37:15,539 --> 00:37:17,402
to her love,
270
00:37:17,672 --> 00:37:19,756
as much as the others...
271
00:37:21,201 --> 00:37:23,565
Her lovers from Calcutta...
272
00:37:28,521 --> 00:37:31,645
At night, near the tennis courts...
273
00:37:32,715 --> 00:37:34,544
...this bicycle...
274
00:37:36,132 --> 00:37:39,825
He says:
"A thing she had touched".
275
00:37:42,662 --> 00:37:43,814
No...
276
00:37:45,092 --> 00:37:47,368
...that can't be repeated.
277
00:37:57,293 --> 00:38:00,233
Of this passion,
she said nothing.
278
00:38:00,898 --> 00:38:02,411
Nothing.
279
00:38:08,591 --> 00:38:12,667
He said he regretted not making
a convincing report of Lahore.
280
00:38:14,069 --> 00:38:15,946
Convincing?
281
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,447
I remember the word.
282
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,975
- What's known of his background?
- Lived in Neuilly.
283
00:38:23,443 --> 00:38:25,559
Father worked in a bank.
284
00:38:27,621 --> 00:38:30,406
Mother left the father, then died.
285
00:38:30,704 --> 00:38:34,858
Expelled from various schools...
At 15, a disciplinary school.
286
00:38:36,270 --> 00:38:38,329
An aunt writes sometimes.
287
00:38:42,412 --> 00:38:44,579
Look at his eyes.
288
00:38:45,404 --> 00:38:46,892
He's crying.
289
00:38:48,241 --> 00:38:50,024
He seems unaware of it.
290
00:38:51,748 --> 00:38:57,548
He seems to be in a state...
of tears.
291
00:39:56,586 --> 00:39:58,291
What do you want?
292
00:39:59,543 --> 00:40:01,037
To talk to you.
293
00:40:01,665 --> 00:40:03,470
What about?
294
00:40:04,466 --> 00:40:06,647
Your next post.
295
00:40:07,468 --> 00:40:11,099
The voice is toneless,
as if he was trying not to shout.
296
00:40:11,788 --> 00:40:14,125
You can't get used to it either?
297
00:40:15,631 --> 00:40:19,143
No. the heat, of course...
298
00:40:20,835 --> 00:40:23,095
...but also the monotony.
299
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,085
The light...
300
00:40:25,990 --> 00:40:27,953
...no colour.
301
00:40:32,915 --> 00:40:36,004
But you...
before Lahore...
302
00:40:37,617 --> 00:40:40,141
...would you have preferred
something else?
303
00:40:40,834 --> 00:40:42,314
No.
304
00:40:43,055 --> 00:40:45,572
Lahore was what I wanted.
305
00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:50,321
Come to the bar.
306
00:40:52,858 --> 00:40:54,490
What are you afraid of?
307
00:40:57,876 --> 00:41:00,318
They say you'd like Bombay.
308
00:41:01,358 --> 00:41:03,871
I wish to stay in Calcutta.
309
00:41:04,441 --> 00:41:06,793
I don't think that's possible.
310
00:41:07,389 --> 00:41:09,904
Then leave it to
the Consular Service.
311
00:41:11,697 --> 00:41:13,608
They can send me
where they like.
312
00:41:15,741 --> 00:41:18,840
Bombay is less crowded.
The climate is better.
313
00:41:19,157 --> 00:41:21,646
The nearness of the sea
is an advantage.
314
00:41:25,385 --> 00:41:28,205
I haven't asked to see my file.
315
00:41:30,646 --> 00:41:32,486
What does it say?
316
00:41:33,747 --> 00:41:36,228
That Lahore...
317
00:41:36,450 --> 00:41:38,515
...what you did in Lahore...
318
00:41:40,598 --> 00:41:45,779
People can't understand.
No matter how hard they try.
319
00:41:46,465 --> 00:41:48,117
No one.
320
00:41:50,278 --> 00:41:51,935
No one?
321
00:42:02,387 --> 00:42:05,738
What are you doing?
Come along.
322
00:42:09,051 --> 00:42:11,107
I'm listening to "India Song".
323
00:42:18,837 --> 00:42:21,454
I came to India
because of "India Song".
324
00:42:28,496 --> 00:42:31,236
That tune makes me
want to love.
325
00:42:42,822 --> 00:42:44,554
I have never loved.
326
00:42:47,429 --> 00:42:49,358
I had never loved anyone.
327
00:43:14,555 --> 00:43:18,915
He saw himself photographed, in a
rocking chair by the Gulf of Oman.
328
00:43:20,469 --> 00:43:21,966
Then, one morning...
329
00:43:22,746 --> 00:43:25,896
...on the way to his office,
he saw her in the park...
330
00:43:26,556 --> 00:43:28,292
...by the tennis courts...
331
00:43:29,231 --> 00:43:30,318
...in white.
332
00:43:30,621 --> 00:43:33,172
What a story!
What passion!
333
00:43:33,418 --> 00:43:35,783
He left everything for her.
334
00:43:38,264 --> 00:43:41,143
Some close friends stayed
after the reception.
335
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:45,705
The passion sometimes...
336
00:43:46,442 --> 00:43:49,421
Those European suicides
that increase with the hunger
337
00:43:49,714 --> 00:43:51,060
that they never suffer...
338
00:43:51,825 --> 00:43:56,114
In its internal law,
that culpability of the West...
339
00:43:58,165 --> 00:43:59,993
It is absurd, clear.
340
00:44:01,475 --> 00:44:04,305
Shanghai... Did you see
the photos of the bombing?
341
00:44:05,391 --> 00:44:08,799
The first attempt in Savannakhet...
342
00:44:10,521 --> 00:44:12,072
...because of a dead body,
343
00:44:12,329 --> 00:44:15,119
abandoned by its mother,
a beggar from the north,
344
00:44:15,436 --> 00:44:17,813
in the government house grounds...
345
00:44:18,966 --> 00:44:20,687
...outside her room...
346
00:44:28,942 --> 00:44:31,833
No woman in Lahore
knew him enough...
347
00:44:32,890 --> 00:44:34,882
...to shed any light on...
348
00:44:35,343 --> 00:44:38,003
- No woman.
- How terrible!
349
00:44:40,048 --> 00:44:42,877
No one has ever
visited him in Lahore.
350
00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:47,395
That's how he wanted to be,
a virgin alone,
351
00:44:48,454 --> 00:44:50,376
waiting for love.
352
00:44:57,922 --> 00:45:01,914
Death all around you,
never quite reaching you.
353
00:45:02,449 --> 00:45:03,894
What are you talking about?
354
00:45:04,434 --> 00:45:07,542
The Vice-Consul who is
looking for Madame Stretter.
355
00:45:10,778 --> 00:45:12,785
She has been leaving receptions
356
00:45:13,006 --> 00:45:15,278
more and more often.
357
00:45:56,486 --> 00:45:59,146
It was bound to happen.
Look...
358
00:45:59,655 --> 00:46:02,652
He is going over to
Madame Stretter.
359
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:06,805
Did you see?
360
00:46:07,283 --> 00:46:08,515
How subtle!
361
00:46:09,530 --> 00:46:12,106
How cleverly he saved his wife...
362
00:46:13,268 --> 00:46:16,471
- Where are they going?
- Into the second drawing room.
363
00:46:16,795 --> 00:46:20,575
Sooner or later the Ambassador
had to talk with him.
364
00:46:20,892 --> 00:46:22,513
So you see...
365
00:46:25,757 --> 00:46:27,524
He's asked for champagne.
366
00:46:35,464 --> 00:46:38,847
If I've got it right,
you'd like Bombay?
367
00:46:40,187 --> 00:46:43,355
But in Bombay you couldn't
have the same job as Lahore.
368
00:46:45,091 --> 00:46:46,868
It's still too soon.
369
00:46:48,700 --> 00:46:53,213
If you stay here for a while,
people will forget.
370
00:46:56,143 --> 00:46:58,327
Or I can keep you in Calcutta.
371
00:46:59,225 --> 00:47:00,353
Yes.
372
00:47:02,010 --> 00:47:05,511
A strange thing, a career.
373
00:47:06,013 --> 00:47:09,400
If you forget Lahore,
so will others.
374
00:47:09,715 --> 00:47:11,400
I won't forget Lahore.
375
00:47:16,439 --> 00:47:18,420
There are remedies...
376
00:47:19,577 --> 00:47:22,293
...for this sort of nervousness,
377
00:47:23,597 --> 00:47:24,811
as it is called.
378
00:47:25,957 --> 00:47:28,285
- You know.
- No!
379
00:47:31,774 --> 00:47:34,212
At the beginning, everyone,
myself included...
380
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,856
...we feel the same.
381
00:47:37,958 --> 00:47:40,418
It's a question of finding,
382
00:47:40,936 --> 00:47:42,827
inventing...
383
00:47:43,580 --> 00:47:45,491
...a way of looking at things.
384
00:47:47,457 --> 00:47:49,200
I haven't.
385
00:47:51,229 --> 00:47:52,977
I see nothing.
386
00:47:54,378 --> 00:47:56,090
Go back to Paris.
387
00:47:56,351 --> 00:47:59,496
No...
It's impossible.
388
00:48:17,002 --> 00:48:19,655
The Mekong, at Savannakhet,
389
00:48:19,824 --> 00:48:23,728
flowing yellow between
forest and rice fields.
390
00:48:25,156 --> 00:48:28,288
In those days
the launches were slow.
391
00:48:28,587 --> 00:48:30,466
It took days...
392
00:48:31,886 --> 00:48:36,120
At sunset, the mosquitoes...
We couldn't see a thing.
393
00:48:36,433 --> 00:48:39,157
Black clusters on the netting.
394
00:48:39,357 --> 00:48:42,053
The Ambassador wrote poetry.
395
00:48:42,332 --> 00:48:46,160
- It's said she discouraged it.
- The banks can't be seen when it rains.
396
00:48:46,962 --> 00:48:48,641
The sky is low.
397
00:48:49,753 --> 00:48:51,483
The water, muddy.
398
00:48:53,211 --> 00:48:57,127
When he met her, she was so young,
and he, already...
399
00:48:58,539 --> 00:49:01,208
They're great friends.
400
00:49:02,426 --> 00:49:05,185
He took her away from Savannakhet?
401
00:49:05,639 --> 00:49:07,322
No one knows.
402
00:49:07,772 --> 00:49:10,877
She courted death in Savannakhet.
403
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:12,419
So young.
404
00:49:12,667 --> 00:49:15,108
You must come with us
to the islands.
405
00:49:16,464 --> 00:49:18,676
The Embassy villa
was built a long time ago.
406
00:49:19,036 --> 00:49:20,735
It's worth seeing.
407
00:49:21,444 --> 00:49:23,567
And also the islands
of the delta.
408
00:49:23,896 --> 00:49:25,624
I'd be pleased to come.
409
00:49:33,181 --> 00:49:38,707
Perhaps what she did was music...
410
00:49:40,016 --> 00:49:45,247
...behind those walls.
Prisoner of that suffering, so old.
411
00:49:46,244 --> 00:49:48,001
Painless.
412
00:49:48,889 --> 00:49:51,055
A leprosy of the heart.
413
00:49:54,377 --> 00:49:58,790
Yet sometimes, in the grounds,
those tears...
414
00:50:00,335 --> 00:50:02,757
The light of the monsoon...
415
00:50:03,912 --> 00:50:06,125
...so harsh...
416
00:50:06,462 --> 00:50:10,079
...and her eyes so clear
that tears...
417
00:50:26,222 --> 00:50:27,613
Tell me about her.
418
00:50:28,946 --> 00:50:30,894
Irreproachable.
419
00:50:31,054 --> 00:50:32,713
Here that means...
420
00:50:33,895 --> 00:50:36,482
...nothing that you can see.
421
00:50:42,481 --> 00:50:45,533
After Venice,
she gave no more concerts?
422
00:50:46,496 --> 00:50:48,728
No, never.
423
00:51:01,119 --> 00:51:02,455
Have they met?
424
00:51:05,357 --> 00:51:07,674
They must have seen each other
in the grounds.
425
00:51:16,847 --> 00:51:18,591
What is he looking at?
426
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:22,305
Madame Stretter,
dancing with the young attach�.
427
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:47,565
Listen carefully,
to her voice, the accent.
428
00:51:49,749 --> 00:51:52,244
Perhaps that's what
makes her seem distant.
429
00:51:52,644 --> 00:51:57,359
- That origin.
- Yes, maybe that too...
430
00:52:02,376 --> 00:52:04,668
I wish I were you...
431
00:52:05,169 --> 00:52:08,926
...arriving here for the first time,
with the rains.
432
00:52:11,305 --> 00:52:13,278
You aren't bored?
433
00:52:14,395 --> 00:52:16,639
What do you do in the evenings?
434
00:52:17,285 --> 00:52:19,545
On Sundays?
435
00:52:20,037 --> 00:52:22,074
I read, sleep.
436
00:52:22,444 --> 00:52:24,289
I don't really know.
437
00:52:25,758 --> 00:52:28,801
Boredom, of course,
is so personal.
438
00:52:29,038 --> 00:52:31,224
It's hard to give advice.
439
00:52:32,725 --> 00:52:34,362
I don't think I'm bored.
440
00:52:36,180 --> 00:52:39,892
Then again, it may not be
as serious as they say.
441
00:52:43,395 --> 00:52:47,518
Thank you for sending the
parcels of books up so promptly.
442
00:52:48,279 --> 00:52:50,455
A pleasure.
443
00:52:53,193 --> 00:52:58,146
You know, one could say
444
00:52:58,839 --> 00:53:00,851
almost nothing is
possible in India.
445
00:53:01,814 --> 00:53:03,419
What do you mean?
446
00:53:05,878 --> 00:53:07,127
Nothing.
447
00:53:08,112 --> 00:53:10,429
That this general despondency...
448
00:53:13,550 --> 00:53:17,354
It's neither painful nor pleasant
to live in India.
449
00:53:17,878 --> 00:53:20,091
Neither easy nor difficult.
450
00:53:21,332 --> 00:53:22,929
It's nothing.
451
00:53:23,261 --> 00:53:25,065
You see?
Nothing.
452
00:53:31,033 --> 00:53:33,382
You mean it's impossible?
453
00:53:34,966 --> 00:53:38,623
Well... perhaps, yes.
454
00:53:39,225 --> 00:53:42,882
But then, you know it's probably
an over-simplification.
455
00:53:47,062 --> 00:53:49,638
The Vice-Consul is looking at you.
456
00:53:52,196 --> 00:53:54,560
He's been doing so all evening.
457
00:53:56,517 --> 00:53:58,194
You didn't notice?
458
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,537
Where is he hoping to be posted?
459
00:54:05,086 --> 00:54:06,755
Here in Calcutta.
460
00:54:08,057 --> 00:54:09,541
Really?
461
00:54:12,062 --> 00:54:14,206
I thought you knew already.
462
00:54:30,246 --> 00:54:32,051
They say you're Venetian.
463
00:54:34,543 --> 00:54:38,078
My father was French.
My mother was from Venice.
464
00:54:38,304 --> 00:54:40,208
I kept her name.
465
00:54:41,751 --> 00:54:44,008
At first, I would have said English.
466
00:54:44,855 --> 00:54:46,432
That happens.
467
00:54:49,662 --> 00:54:53,032
Are there any
who never get used to it?
468
00:54:58,008 --> 00:55:00,625
Almost everyone does.
469
00:55:12,173 --> 00:55:15,739
Did my husband mention the islands?
470
00:55:17,531 --> 00:55:19,124
I'd be pleased to come.
471
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,853
You write, I believe?
472
00:55:26,022 --> 00:55:29,117
I once thought I could.
473
00:55:29,985 --> 00:55:31,578
Did someone tell you?
474
00:55:32,055 --> 00:55:34,168
Yes. But I would have guessed.
475
00:55:35,273 --> 00:55:37,562
Your way of being silent.
476
00:55:38,653 --> 00:55:40,250
I gave it up.
477
00:55:41,795 --> 00:55:43,739
Monsieur Stretter used to write?
478
00:55:45,430 --> 00:55:48,708
He used to, yes. He too,
and then...
479
00:55:49,908 --> 00:55:51,445
And you?
480
00:55:52,323 --> 00:55:54,269
I never tried.
481
00:55:56,194 --> 00:55:58,500
You think it's not worth it,
don't you?
482
00:56:00,673 --> 00:56:04,302
Well... Yes, if you like.
483
00:56:05,785 --> 00:56:07,456
You play music?
484
00:56:09,798 --> 00:56:11,266
Sometimes.
485
00:56:11,931 --> 00:56:13,884
Less, in the last few years.
486
00:56:14,604 --> 00:56:16,068
Why?
487
00:56:19,297 --> 00:56:21,333
Hard to put into words.
488
00:56:24,057 --> 00:56:25,678
Tell me.
489
00:56:28,290 --> 00:56:31,650
A sort of pain
is linked to music...
490
00:56:32,087 --> 00:56:34,387
...for some time now, for me.
491
00:56:37,684 --> 00:56:41,481
In Venice, already, very young,
18 years old,
492
00:56:41,999 --> 00:56:45,179
music,
to the point of madness.
493
00:56:45,544 --> 00:56:50,426
Until a sort of suicide,
already.
494
00:56:51,278 --> 00:56:54,444
She says she no longer knows
how to play.
495
00:56:56,351 --> 00:56:58,317
What's happening?
496
00:56:58,790 --> 00:57:02,271
The Vice-Consul is dancing
with the Spanish ambassador's wife.
497
00:57:02,529 --> 00:57:04,261
He's talking of leprosy.
498
00:57:08,422 --> 00:57:10,686
Will you have to dance with him?
499
00:57:12,660 --> 00:57:15,305
I don't have to do anything, but...
500
00:57:18,212 --> 00:57:20,448
He was here last night...
501
00:57:20,932 --> 00:57:22,653
...near the tennis courts.
502
00:57:23,308 --> 00:57:25,033
He sleeps badly.
503
00:57:25,918 --> 00:57:28,739
- She broke away from him...
- What happened?
504
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,881
Something he said,
505
00:57:31,792 --> 00:57:33,613
must have frightened her.
506
00:57:33,943 --> 00:57:35,567
What do people fear?
507
00:57:35,712 --> 00:57:38,908
Repulsion is a feeling
you know nothing about.
508
00:57:41,967 --> 00:57:43,443
I don't understand.
509
00:57:44,547 --> 00:57:46,505
What do you mean?
510
00:57:48,100 --> 00:57:49,650
Horror...
511
00:57:56,271 --> 00:57:58,376
Come to the bar.
512
00:57:58,839 --> 00:58:00,879
I'm an old friend
of Madame Stretter.
513
00:58:01,168 --> 00:58:03,293
We've not met.
George Crown.
514
00:58:03,945 --> 00:58:05,706
Help yourselves.
515
00:58:06,530 --> 00:58:08,099
There's no one at the bar.
516
00:58:08,537 --> 00:58:12,920
- His words are a diversion.
- Ready to flee.
517
00:58:14,074 --> 00:58:15,535
And yet...
518
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:17,976
He's still looking at you.
519
00:58:18,656 --> 00:58:21,144
Seems she doesn't dare
go out in the park.35303
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