1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,195 WINNER, GOLDEN LION 2 00:00:06,322 --> 00:00:09,903 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 1961 3 00:01:13,899 --> 00:01:19,648 LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD 4 00:01:22,107 --> 00:01:24,356 ...silent rooms 5 00:01:24,732 --> 00:01:28,439 where one's footsteps are absorbed by carpets so thick, so heavy, 6 00:01:28,898 --> 00:01:31,731 that no sound reaches one's ear, 7 00:01:31,857 --> 00:01:33,355 as if the very ear 8 00:01:33,732 --> 00:01:38,688 of him who walks on once again along these corridors, 9 00:01:39,064 --> 00:01:42,896 through these salons and galleries, in this edifice of a bygone era, 10 00:01:43,064 --> 00:01:46,438 this sprawling, sumptuous, baroque, gloomy hotel, 11 00:01:46,564 --> 00:01:49,354 where one endless corridor follows another, 12 00:01:50,188 --> 00:01:52,062 silent, empty corridors 13 00:01:52,188 --> 00:01:55,520 heavy with cold, dark woodwork, 14 00:01:55,938 --> 00:01:57,520 stucco, molded paneling, 15 00:01:57,646 --> 00:01:59,395 marble, black mirrors, 16 00:01:59,563 --> 00:02:01,687 dark-toned portraits, columns, 17 00:02:02,895 --> 00:02:06,312 sculpted doorframes, rows of doorways, 18 00:02:06,437 --> 00:02:09,978 galleries, side corridors 19 00:02:10,103 --> 00:02:13,102 that in turn lead to empty salons, 20 00:02:13,228 --> 00:02:17,185 salons heavy with ornamentation of a bygone era... 21 00:02:42,892 --> 00:02:46,349 as if the ground were still sand or gravel 22 00:02:46,475 --> 00:02:48,099 or flagstones 23 00:02:48,225 --> 00:02:51,391 over which I walked once again 24 00:02:52,434 --> 00:02:56,473 along these corridors, through these salons and galleries, 25 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,057 in this edifice 26 00:02:59,224 --> 00:03:01,973 of a bygone era, this sprawling, sumptuous, 27 00:03:02,099 --> 00:03:04,723 baroque, gloomy hotel, 28 00:03:04,890 --> 00:03:08,056 where one endless corridor follows another... 29 00:03:33,972 --> 00:03:35,679 silent rooms 30 00:03:35,805 --> 00:03:38,053 where one's footsteps are absorbed 31 00:03:38,221 --> 00:03:40,554 by carpets so thick, so heavy, 32 00:03:40,721 --> 00:03:43,845 that no sound reaches one's ear, 33 00:03:43,971 --> 00:03:46,595 as if the very ear of him who walks on 34 00:03:46,721 --> 00:03:49,845 once again along these corridors, 35 00:03:51,012 --> 00:03:53,719 through these salons and galleries, 36 00:03:53,845 --> 00:03:56,552 in this edifice of a bygone era... 37 00:04:16,343 --> 00:04:20,259 sculpted doorframes, rows of doorways, 38 00:04:20,385 --> 00:04:23,633 galleries, side corridors 39 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:26,675 that in turn lead to empty salons 40 00:04:26,801 --> 00:04:30,550 heavy with ornamentation of a bygone era, 41 00:04:30,717 --> 00:04:31,882 silent rooms, 42 00:04:32,050 --> 00:04:34,966 where one's footsteps are absorbed 43 00:04:35,092 --> 00:04:37,632 by carpets so thick, so heavy, 44 00:04:37,758 --> 00:04:40,424 that no sound reaches one's ear, 45 00:04:41,216 --> 00:04:43,923 as if the very ear... 46 00:04:59,923 --> 00:05:01,380 flagstones 47 00:05:01,506 --> 00:05:04,589 over which I walked once again, 48 00:05:05,548 --> 00:05:09,629 along these corridors, through these salons and galleries, 49 00:05:09,755 --> 00:05:12,963 in this edifice of a bygone era, 50 00:05:13,089 --> 00:05:17,379 this sprawling, sumptuous, baroque, gloomy hotel, 51 00:05:17,505 --> 00:05:20,504 where one endless corridor follows another, 52 00:05:20,879 --> 00:05:22,878 silent and deserted, 53 00:05:23,005 --> 00:05:25,837 heavy with cold, dark woodwork, 54 00:05:25,963 --> 00:05:28,545 stucco, molded paneling, 55 00:05:28,713 --> 00:05:30,794 marble, black mirrors, 56 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,336 dark-toned portraits, columns, 57 00:05:34,296 --> 00:05:37,294 sculpted doorframes, rows of doorways, 58 00:05:37,420 --> 00:05:38,919 galleries, 59 00:05:39,712 --> 00:05:43,918 side corridors that in turn lead to empty salons, 60 00:05:44,044 --> 00:05:47,668 salons heavy with ornamentation of a bygone era... 61 00:06:26,583 --> 00:06:28,832 dark-toned portraits, columns, 62 00:06:29,874 --> 00:06:33,290 sculpted doorframes, rows of doorways, 63 00:06:33,416 --> 00:06:36,581 galleries, side corridors 64 00:06:36,707 --> 00:06:39,706 that in turn lead to empty salons, 65 00:06:39,832 --> 00:06:43,205 salons heavy with ornamentation of a bygone era... 66 00:06:44,707 --> 00:06:48,205 silent rooms where one's footsteps are absorbed 67 00:06:48,331 --> 00:06:50,746 by carpets so thick, so heavy, 68 00:06:50,872 --> 00:06:54,496 that no sound reaches one's ear, 69 00:06:54,622 --> 00:06:57,204 as if one's very ear were far away, 70 00:06:57,372 --> 00:06:59,704 far from the ground, from the carpet, 71 00:06:59,871 --> 00:07:02,204 far from this heavy, empty setting, 72 00:07:02,329 --> 00:07:05,787 far from this complex frieze running just beneath the ceiling, 73 00:07:05,913 --> 00:07:08,078 with its branches and garlands, 74 00:07:08,204 --> 00:07:10,203 like ancient leaves, 75 00:07:10,329 --> 00:07:13,412 as if the ground were still sand or gravel 76 00:07:13,537 --> 00:07:15,203 or flagstones, 77 00:07:15,328 --> 00:07:18,494 over which I walked once again 78 00:07:18,620 --> 00:07:20,703 as if in search of you, 79 00:07:20,828 --> 00:07:23,618 between these walls laden with woodwork, 80 00:07:23,744 --> 00:07:27,785 stucco, moldings, paintings, 81 00:07:27,911 --> 00:07:31,159 framed prints past which I strode, 82 00:07:32,494 --> 00:07:35,326 among which even then 83 00:07:35,452 --> 00:07:39,742 I was waiting for you, 84 00:07:40,285 --> 00:07:43,826 far from this setting in which I now find myself 85 00:07:44,535 --> 00:07:46,409 standing before you, 86 00:07:46,535 --> 00:07:51,117 waiting for the man who will not be coming now, 87 00:07:51,367 --> 00:07:53,658 who is not likely to come now 88 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,533 to part us again, 89 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,782 to tear you away from me. 90 00:08:01,033 --> 00:08:02,532 Will you come? 91 00:08:02,866 --> 00:08:06,240 We must wait a little. A few minutes more. 92 00:08:06,366 --> 00:08:08,740 Just a few minutes. A few seconds. 93 00:08:08,866 --> 00:08:10,615 A few seconds more, 94 00:08:10,741 --> 00:08:14,739 as if you still hesitated to part with him, with yourself, 95 00:08:14,865 --> 00:08:18,364 as if his silhouette, now gray, might still reappear, 96 00:08:18,490 --> 00:08:21,656 here where you had imagined him too insistently, 97 00:08:21,782 --> 00:08:24,155 too fearfully, or too hopefully, 98 00:08:24,282 --> 00:08:26,738 for fear of losing this bond� 99 00:08:26,864 --> 00:08:31,154 No, that hope is now fruitless. 100 00:08:31,281 --> 00:08:34,071 Gone is the fear of losing that bond, 101 00:08:34,197 --> 00:08:36,737 that confinement, that falsehood. 102 00:08:36,863 --> 00:08:40,696 That entire story is now over. It is ending. 103 00:08:40,822 --> 00:08:43,737 A few seconds more and it will solidify� 104 00:08:43,863 --> 00:08:46,821 Forever, in a past of marble, 105 00:08:46,946 --> 00:08:49,820 like these statues, this garden carved out of stone, 106 00:08:49,946 --> 00:08:53,279 this very hotel with its now-deserted rooms, 107 00:08:53,404 --> 00:08:55,987 these frozen, silent figures, 108 00:08:56,112 --> 00:08:58,194 long dead no doubt, 109 00:08:58,362 --> 00:09:00,695 which still guard the corridors 110 00:09:00,861 --> 00:09:03,819 down which I walked toward you, 111 00:09:03,945 --> 00:09:06,152 between two rows of faces, 112 00:09:06,278 --> 00:09:10,277 forever inert, frozen, watchful, indifferent, 113 00:09:10,403 --> 00:09:12,818 toward you, perhaps still hesitant, 114 00:09:12,944 --> 00:09:16,402 as you continue to watch the threshold of this garden. 115 00:09:19,694 --> 00:09:21,359 There. 116 00:09:23,819 --> 00:09:25,609 And now... 117 00:09:27,859 --> 00:09:30,025 I am yours. 118 00:10:01,190 --> 00:10:05,356 I don't quite remember. It was in '28 or '29. 119 00:10:14,189 --> 00:10:16,563 Really? How amazing. 120 00:10:18,064 --> 00:10:20,563 We've met before. 121 00:10:59,727 --> 00:11:03,393 Connection? There's absolutely no connection, my friend. 122 00:11:03,519 --> 00:11:08,017 The fact that he or she could say or do certain things to suggest... 123 00:11:10,018 --> 00:11:12,183 And an impossible climate! 124 00:11:12,309 --> 00:11:14,809 You're stuck indoors for months, and suddenly, 125 00:11:14,934 --> 00:11:17,683 when you least expect it... 126 00:11:20,433 --> 00:11:22,016 You saw it yourself? 127 00:11:22,184 --> 00:11:24,058 No, I heard about it from a friend. 128 00:11:24,183 --> 00:11:27,224 Ah, so you only heard about it. 129 00:11:42,598 --> 00:11:44,973 The others? What others? 130 00:11:45,099 --> 00:11:47,014 Forget what they think. 131 00:11:47,182 --> 00:11:48,056 But you know� 132 00:11:48,181 --> 00:11:51,013 You claimed you'd listen only to me. 133 00:11:55,515 --> 00:11:56,680 I'm listening. 134 00:11:56,847 --> 00:12:00,097 Then listen to my grievance. Enough of this role, 135 00:12:00,222 --> 00:12:04,388 this silence, these walls, these whispers you've made my prison. 136 00:12:04,514 --> 00:12:06,513 Lower your voice, please. 137 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:10,387 These silences to which you confine me are worse than death. 138 00:12:10,513 --> 00:12:14,845 These days we spend here side by side are worse than death. 139 00:12:15,012 --> 00:12:17,387 We're like coffins buried side by side 140 00:12:17,513 --> 00:12:19,387 in a frozen garden. 141 00:12:19,513 --> 00:12:21,053 Be quiet. 142 00:12:21,971 --> 00:12:24,219 A garden of reassuring order, 143 00:12:24,345 --> 00:12:27,177 with clipped hedges and geometric paths, 144 00:12:27,303 --> 00:12:31,052 where we stroll with measured steps, side by side, day after day, 145 00:12:31,178 --> 00:12:34,010 at arm's length, never closer... 146 00:12:34,136 --> 00:12:35,843 Be quiet. 147 00:12:42,594 --> 00:12:44,426 It's truly incredible. 148 00:12:47,843 --> 00:12:49,467 I don't quite remember. 149 00:12:50,385 --> 00:12:52,842 It must have been in '28. 150 00:12:53,385 --> 00:12:55,841 In '28 or '29. 151 00:12:56,009 --> 00:13:00,424 In the summer of 1929, we had freezing weather for a week. 152 00:13:05,217 --> 00:13:07,007 A very beautiful woman. 153 00:13:09,425 --> 00:13:11,632 But an overactive imagination. 154 00:13:32,298 --> 00:13:34,089 This intolerable silence, these walls, 155 00:13:34,215 --> 00:13:37,338 these whispers worse than the silence you've made my prison. 156 00:13:37,464 --> 00:13:39,838 These days here side by side, 157 00:13:40,006 --> 00:13:42,004 walking along these corridors with measured steps, 158 00:13:42,130 --> 00:13:44,754 at arm's length, never closer, 159 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,171 never reaching out with fingers or lips. 160 00:13:48,297 --> 00:13:49,295 Be quiet. 161 00:13:49,421 --> 00:13:52,546 These fingers made to hold and eyes made to see you, 162 00:13:52,672 --> 00:13:54,587 which must turn from you 163 00:13:54,713 --> 00:13:57,420 toward this ornamentation of a bygone era: 164 00:13:57,547 --> 00:13:59,503 woodwork, cut-glass mirrors, 165 00:13:59,629 --> 00:14:01,503 old-fashioned paintings, 166 00:14:01,671 --> 00:14:03,336 stucco garlands with baroque ornaments, 167 00:14:03,504 --> 00:14:05,545 trompe-l'�il capitals, 168 00:14:05,671 --> 00:14:08,628 false doors, fake columns, painted perspectives, 169 00:14:08,753 --> 00:14:10,794 false exits. 170 00:14:11,753 --> 00:14:12,794 Extraordinary! 171 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,502 Not as extraordinary as all that. 172 00:14:15,628 --> 00:14:17,794 He was behind it all. 173 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,834 He knew all the outcomes in advance. 174 00:14:19,961 --> 00:14:21,168 That explains it. 175 00:14:21,294 --> 00:14:23,502 Still, it was impressive. 176 00:14:24,877 --> 00:14:27,459 Feathery wings like a swan's. 177 00:14:28,044 --> 00:14:31,459 You haven't been here long? No, but I've been here before. 178 00:14:31,585 --> 00:14:34,167 So you like it here? Not really. 179 00:14:34,293 --> 00:14:37,167 It was just chance. We always come back here. 180 00:14:37,293 --> 00:14:39,959 Father was up for a position... I see. 181 00:14:40,085 --> 00:14:41,042 in the area. 182 00:14:41,167 --> 00:14:42,875 Influence peddling. 183 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,500 A shoe with a broken heel. 184 00:14:46,917 --> 00:14:49,541 From which there is no escape? 185 00:14:49,792 --> 00:14:52,666 From which there is no escape. 186 00:14:53,959 --> 00:14:56,082 Don't you know the story? 187 00:14:56,208 --> 00:14:58,790 It was all the talk last year. 188 00:14:58,916 --> 00:15:03,623 Frank said he'd come as her father's friend to chaperone her. 189 00:15:03,749 --> 00:15:06,665 Strange chaperone, he was! 190 00:15:06,791 --> 00:15:08,914 She realized it a bit late, 191 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,914 the night he tried to get into her room as if by accident, 192 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:17,497 on an absurd pretense: to explain a painting to her... 193 00:15:17,665 --> 00:15:21,080 The fact he has a German passport doesn't prove much. 194 00:15:21,206 --> 00:15:25,372 But his presence here has no connection, my friend. 195 00:15:37,205 --> 00:15:40,495 Not now. I suggest another game. 196 00:15:40,663 --> 00:15:42,828 I know a game I always win. 197 00:15:42,955 --> 00:15:46,328 If you can't lose, that's no game. 198 00:15:46,454 --> 00:15:48,203 I can lose... 199 00:15:48,329 --> 00:15:50,203 but I always win. 200 00:15:51,329 --> 00:15:52,744 Let's try it. 201 00:15:53,162 --> 00:15:55,285 It's for two players. 202 00:15:55,411 --> 00:15:58,826 The cards are laid out like this. 203 00:16:04,203 --> 00:16:05,618 Seven. 204 00:16:08,827 --> 00:16:10,201 Five. 205 00:16:12,993 --> 00:16:14,493 Three. 206 00:16:16,451 --> 00:16:17,867 One. 207 00:16:19,535 --> 00:16:22,700 Each player takes cards in turn, 208 00:16:22,826 --> 00:16:24,575 as many as he wants, 209 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:27,616 but only from one row each time. 210 00:16:27,742 --> 00:16:31,824 Whoever picks up the last card loses. 211 00:16:32,867 --> 00:16:34,741 Would you like to begin? 212 00:17:03,073 --> 00:17:04,988 You're the same as ever. 213 00:17:05,156 --> 00:17:07,947 As if I last saw you only yesterday. 214 00:17:08,073 --> 00:17:10,154 What's become of you in all this time? 215 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,530 Nothing, since I'm the same as ever. 216 00:17:14,322 --> 00:17:15,321 Not married? 217 00:17:16,571 --> 00:17:18,154 Try it. It's fun. 218 00:17:18,322 --> 00:17:20,071 I like my freedom. Here? 219 00:17:20,530 --> 00:17:23,237 Why not here? It's a strange place. 220 00:17:23,363 --> 00:17:25,153 You mean, to be free? 221 00:17:25,279 --> 00:17:27,153 Especially that. 222 00:17:27,321 --> 00:17:29,403 You're the same as ever. 223 00:17:31,071 --> 00:17:32,778 You're the same as ever. 224 00:17:56,443 --> 00:17:59,317 But you hardly seem to remember. 225 00:18:05,151 --> 00:18:08,025 Yet you recognize these baroque ornaments, 226 00:18:08,151 --> 00:18:10,983 this stucco hand holding a cluster of grapes. 227 00:18:11,108 --> 00:18:14,650 Behind the hand you see foliage, like living foliage, 228 00:18:14,775 --> 00:18:17,316 in a garden awaiting us. 229 00:18:18,733 --> 00:18:20,732 You never noticed all that? 230 00:18:20,858 --> 00:18:23,649 I never had such a good guide. 231 00:18:24,024 --> 00:18:27,981 You know the proverb: "Said the compass to the ship..." 232 00:18:29,941 --> 00:18:32,397 There's much more to see here. 233 00:18:33,315 --> 00:18:34,523 If you please. 234 00:18:34,649 --> 00:18:36,397 With pleasure. 235 00:18:37,565 --> 00:18:40,314 Does this hotel have so many secrets? 236 00:18:40,482 --> 00:18:42,147 A vast amount. 237 00:18:43,564 --> 00:18:45,855 What a mysterious air. 238 00:18:53,314 --> 00:18:55,979 Why are you looking at me like that? 239 00:19:01,063 --> 00:19:03,853 You hardly seem to remember me. 240 00:19:48,309 --> 00:19:50,475 The first time I saw you 241 00:19:50,643 --> 00:19:53,350 was in the gardens at Frederiksbad. 242 00:19:53,476 --> 00:19:56,141 You were alone, apart from the others, 243 00:19:56,309 --> 00:19:58,557 standing against a stone balustrade 244 00:19:58,683 --> 00:20:03,140 on which you rested your hand, with your arm half-extended. 245 00:20:03,725 --> 00:20:06,848 You were turned slightly towards the central path, 246 00:20:06,974 --> 00:20:09,390 and you didn't see me coming. 247 00:20:09,516 --> 00:20:14,097 The sound of my steps on the gravel finally caught your attention, 248 00:20:14,807 --> 00:20:16,972 and you turned your head. 249 00:20:17,973 --> 00:20:21,972 I doubt it was me. You must be mistaken. 250 00:20:23,473 --> 00:20:24,514 Try to remember. 251 00:20:27,306 --> 00:20:30,138 We were near a group of stone figures 252 00:20:31,056 --> 00:20:33,721 on a fairly high pedestal. 253 00:20:33,847 --> 00:20:36,846 A man and a woman in classical dress. 254 00:20:36,972 --> 00:20:41,763 Their frozen gestures seemed to dramatize some specific scene. 255 00:20:43,096 --> 00:20:45,845 You asked me who the figures were. 256 00:20:45,971 --> 00:20:48,720 I said I didn't know. 257 00:20:49,638 --> 00:20:52,595 You took a few guesses, but I said 258 00:20:52,721 --> 00:20:55,802 they could just as well be you and me. 259 00:20:55,970 --> 00:20:58,386 Then you began to laugh. 260 00:21:00,470 --> 00:21:01,969 I love that. 261 00:21:02,845 --> 00:21:04,968 Even then... 262 00:21:05,094 --> 00:21:07,302 I loved the sound of your laugh. 263 00:21:11,136 --> 00:21:14,010 The others around us came over. 264 00:21:14,427 --> 00:21:17,218 Someone identified the statues. 265 00:21:17,677 --> 00:21:19,967 They were mythological figures: 266 00:21:20,093 --> 00:21:23,634 gods or heroes of ancient Greece. 267 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:28,300 Or maybe it was an allegory, something like that. 268 00:21:28,927 --> 00:21:30,883 You'd stopped listening. 269 00:21:31,009 --> 00:21:33,592 You seemed far away. 270 00:21:34,301 --> 00:21:38,175 Your look had grown serious and vacant again. 271 00:21:39,217 --> 00:21:41,090 You turned away slightly 272 00:21:41,217 --> 00:21:44,216 to look down the central path again. 273 00:21:48,050 --> 00:21:51,673 One, two, three, four, 274 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:54,715 five, six, seven. 275 00:21:55,716 --> 00:21:58,465 One, two, three, 276 00:21:58,632 --> 00:22:00,839 four, five. 277 00:22:01,257 --> 00:22:02,256 One... 278 00:22:02,381 --> 00:22:05,172 two, three. 279 00:22:05,715 --> 00:22:06,922 One. 280 00:22:07,048 --> 00:22:11,172 And once again we were separated. 281 00:22:41,337 --> 00:22:42,920 Impossible! 282 00:22:47,295 --> 00:22:50,085 Let's go for a stroll in the gardens. 283 00:22:50,212 --> 00:22:51,793 Frank isn't here yet. 284 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,959 You know the proverb: "Said the compass to the ship..." 285 00:23:21,958 --> 00:23:24,749 What if you go first? 286 00:23:31,082 --> 00:23:33,956 And once again I walked on, 287 00:23:34,790 --> 00:23:36,081 alone, 288 00:23:36,416 --> 00:23:38,748 down these same corridors, 289 00:23:38,874 --> 00:23:41,331 through these same empty rooms. 290 00:23:41,457 --> 00:23:44,080 I passed these same colonnades, 291 00:23:44,207 --> 00:23:46,539 these same windowless galleries. 292 00:23:46,665 --> 00:23:49,080 I crossed these same thresholds, 293 00:23:49,207 --> 00:23:51,997 picking my way as if at random 294 00:23:52,123 --> 00:23:55,121 through a maze of identical paths. 295 00:24:08,538 --> 00:24:10,204 And once again, 296 00:24:10,747 --> 00:24:13,995 everything was deserted in this vast hotel. 297 00:24:14,121 --> 00:24:16,370 Everything was empty. 298 00:24:16,787 --> 00:24:18,453 Empty salons. 299 00:24:18,579 --> 00:24:22,328 Corridors... salons... doors. 300 00:24:22,454 --> 00:24:24,578 Doors... salons. 301 00:24:24,704 --> 00:24:27,619 Empty chairs... deep armchairs. 302 00:24:28,204 --> 00:24:30,619 Staircases... steps. 303 00:24:30,786 --> 00:24:33,285 Steps, one after the other. 304 00:24:33,411 --> 00:24:36,285 Glass objects... empty glasses. 305 00:24:36,411 --> 00:24:39,784 A falling glass... a glass partition. 306 00:24:39,952 --> 00:24:43,367 Letters... a lost letter. 307 00:24:43,494 --> 00:24:45,576 Keys hanging on their rings. 308 00:24:45,702 --> 00:24:47,992 Numbered door keys: 309 00:24:48,118 --> 00:24:50,617 309... 307... 310 00:24:50,743 --> 00:24:53,284 305... 303... 311 00:24:53,409 --> 00:24:55,992 Chandeliers... chandeliers. 312 00:24:56,118 --> 00:24:58,575 Beads... mirrors. 313 00:24:58,701 --> 00:25:02,116 Empty corridors as far as the eye could see. 314 00:25:07,408 --> 00:25:11,073 And the gardens, like everything else, were deserted. 315 00:25:17,449 --> 00:25:21,406 It was last year. Have I changed that much? 316 00:25:21,532 --> 00:25:24,740 Or are you pretending not to know me? 317 00:25:24,865 --> 00:25:27,739 A year already. Maybe more. 318 00:25:28,365 --> 00:25:30,947 You, at least, haven't changed. 319 00:25:31,115 --> 00:25:33,614 You have the same faraway look, 320 00:25:33,781 --> 00:25:37,113 the same smile, the same abrupt laugh. 321 00:25:37,239 --> 00:25:40,363 The same way of extending your arm as if to ward off something� 322 00:25:40,490 --> 00:25:43,030 a child, a branch� 323 00:25:43,156 --> 00:25:46,738 and slowly raising your hand to the hollow of your shoulder. 324 00:25:47,572 --> 00:25:51,446 You're also wearing the same perfume. 325 00:25:51,821 --> 00:25:53,695 Try to remember. 326 00:25:53,821 --> 00:25:56,778 It was in the gardens at Frederiksbad. 327 00:25:59,196 --> 00:26:01,612 You were alone, to one side. 328 00:26:01,738 --> 00:26:05,528 You were standing at a slight angle against a stone balustrade, 329 00:26:05,653 --> 00:26:10,486 on which you rested your hand, your arm half-extended. 330 00:26:15,528 --> 00:26:18,444 You were looking down the central path. 331 00:26:18,611 --> 00:26:21,443 I came toward you, 332 00:26:21,611 --> 00:26:24,359 but I stopped at a distance 333 00:26:24,486 --> 00:26:26,735 and looked at you. 334 00:26:27,860 --> 00:26:30,609 You were turned toward me now. 335 00:26:33,526 --> 00:26:36,317 But you didn't seem to see me. 336 00:26:36,526 --> 00:26:38,609 I looked at you. 337 00:26:38,735 --> 00:26:40,816 You didn't make a move. 338 00:26:40,942 --> 00:26:43,608 I told you that you looked alive. 339 00:26:43,734 --> 00:26:46,941 Your response was simply to laugh. 340 00:26:47,109 --> 00:26:50,107 To say something, I spoke of the statue. 341 00:26:50,233 --> 00:26:54,565 I said the man wanted to hold the woman back. 342 00:26:54,691 --> 00:26:58,523 He had seen something, some danger probably, 343 00:26:58,649 --> 00:27:01,607 and he stopped his companion with a gesture. 344 00:27:01,774 --> 00:27:04,106 You replied that it was she 345 00:27:04,232 --> 00:27:06,273 who may have seen something, 346 00:27:06,441 --> 00:27:09,522 but something marvelous, 347 00:27:09,648 --> 00:27:12,189 which she was pointing out. 348 00:27:12,940 --> 00:27:15,355 Both were possibilities. 349 00:27:15,482 --> 00:27:17,647 The man and woman have left home 350 00:27:17,772 --> 00:27:21,147 and have been walking for days. 351 00:27:21,273 --> 00:27:24,897 They've just reached a steep cliff. 352 00:27:25,023 --> 00:27:28,937 He holds his companion back from the cliff's edge 353 00:27:29,063 --> 00:27:33,104 as she points to the sea stretching to the horizon. 354 00:27:34,105 --> 00:27:37,604 Then you asked me the names of these figures. 355 00:27:37,771 --> 00:27:40,353 I said it didn't matter. 356 00:27:41,062 --> 00:27:42,769 You didn't agree, 357 00:27:42,896 --> 00:27:45,603 and you gave them names, 358 00:27:45,729 --> 00:27:48,269 more or less arbitrarily. 359 00:27:48,395 --> 00:27:52,102 Then I said they might as well be you and me... 360 00:27:55,228 --> 00:27:57,436 or anybody else. 361 00:28:04,269 --> 00:28:07,976 Don't give them names. They may have had so many other adventures. 362 00:28:08,102 --> 00:28:11,976 Don't forget the dog. Why is a dog with them? 363 00:28:12,102 --> 00:28:15,893 It's not theirs. It just happened by. 364 00:28:16,934 --> 00:28:19,100 It's huddled against its mistress. 365 00:28:19,226 --> 00:28:20,766 She's not its mistress, 366 00:28:20,934 --> 00:28:24,516 and it's huddling because of the narrow pedestal. 367 00:28:25,059 --> 00:28:28,516 Look there. It's the same couple, but no dog. 368 00:28:28,642 --> 00:28:32,640 They're facing each other. She holds a hand up to her friend's lips. 369 00:28:32,766 --> 00:28:35,390 But up close, she's looking somewhere else. You coming? 370 00:28:35,516 --> 00:28:38,640 I don't feel like it. It's too far. 371 00:28:39,433 --> 00:28:42,098 Follow me, please. 372 00:28:42,475 --> 00:28:44,223 Please. 373 00:28:46,765 --> 00:28:50,598 Impossible, I tell you. I've never even been to Frederiksbad. 374 00:28:50,724 --> 00:28:53,723 Then somewhere else perhaps. 375 00:28:54,265 --> 00:28:55,763 Karlstadt, 376 00:28:56,432 --> 00:28:57,847 Marienbad, 377 00:28:58,474 --> 00:29:00,306 or Baden-Salsa. 378 00:29:00,848 --> 00:29:03,097 Or even here in this salon. 379 00:29:03,473 --> 00:29:06,846 You followed me here so that I could show you... 380 00:29:08,055 --> 00:29:09,762 that picture. 381 00:29:10,930 --> 00:29:13,596 You can clearly distinguish the man's movements 382 00:29:13,763 --> 00:29:17,053 and the gesture the young woman makes with her arm. 383 00:29:17,722 --> 00:29:20,970 But only from the other side can you see 384 00:29:21,096 --> 00:29:24,053 that he's trying to stop her from going further. 385 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:27,595 He's seen something, some danger probably. 386 00:29:27,762 --> 00:29:30,303 He motions her to stop. 387 00:29:38,678 --> 00:29:40,552 Excuse me, sir. 388 00:29:40,678 --> 00:29:44,385 I think I can provide more detailed information. 389 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:51,259 That is a statue of Charles III and his wife, 390 00:29:51,427 --> 00:29:54,301 but done at a later period. 391 00:29:54,968 --> 00:29:59,176 The scene is his oath before the Diet, during his trial for treason. 392 00:30:00,801 --> 00:30:04,967 The classical garments are pure convention. 393 00:30:58,921 --> 00:31:00,920 You were waiting for me. 394 00:31:05,130 --> 00:31:08,462 No. Why would I be waiting for you? 395 00:31:12,254 --> 00:31:14,836 I've waited so long for you. 396 00:31:15,712 --> 00:31:17,294 In your dreams? 397 00:31:21,545 --> 00:31:24,586 And you're trying to flee again. 398 00:31:24,878 --> 00:31:26,626 What are you talking about? 399 00:31:27,170 --> 00:31:29,418 I don't understand a word you're saying. 400 00:31:30,252 --> 00:31:32,293 If it was all a dream, 401 00:31:32,919 --> 00:31:35,251 why should you be afraid? 402 00:31:36,002 --> 00:31:39,251 Then tell me the rest of our story. 403 00:31:40,335 --> 00:31:43,250 We met again the afternoon of that same day. 404 00:31:43,376 --> 00:31:45,834 By chance, of course. 405 00:31:47,209 --> 00:31:48,833 I couldn't say. 406 00:31:49,334 --> 00:31:52,083 And where was it this time? 407 00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,749 Where? 408 00:32:00,875 --> 00:32:02,582 It doesn't matter. 409 00:32:04,167 --> 00:32:07,707 You were with a group of friends, chance acquaintances. 410 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,248 People I hardly knew, 411 00:32:10,374 --> 00:32:13,165 and perhaps you knew them no better. 412 00:32:13,291 --> 00:32:16,747 They were discussing some affair of the moment 413 00:32:16,915 --> 00:32:18,998 about which I knew nothing. 414 00:32:25,623 --> 00:32:28,746 You knew more about it than I did, most likely. 415 00:32:29,747 --> 00:32:31,830 I was watching you. 416 00:32:36,330 --> 00:32:40,413 You joined in the conversation with a zeal I found forced. 417 00:32:40,788 --> 00:32:44,537 It struck me that none of these people knew who you were, 418 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,120 that I alone knew. 419 00:32:47,580 --> 00:32:49,911 And you didn't know either. 420 00:32:50,871 --> 00:32:53,412 But you avoided my gaze. 421 00:32:53,537 --> 00:32:56,411 You clearly did it on purpose... 422 00:32:57,287 --> 00:32:58,953 intentionally. 423 00:33:09,327 --> 00:33:12,410 I waited. I had time. 424 00:33:13,703 --> 00:33:16,076 I've always believed I had time. 425 00:33:21,077 --> 00:33:23,325 Your eyes darted from face to face, 426 00:33:23,452 --> 00:33:26,409 passing over me as if I didn't exist. 427 00:33:27,118 --> 00:33:30,741 To make you look at me, I said something, 428 00:33:30,909 --> 00:33:33,366 suddenly joining the conversation 429 00:33:33,492 --> 00:33:36,241 with an absurd remark 430 00:33:36,367 --> 00:33:39,533 designed to draw attention to the speaker. 431 00:33:39,908 --> 00:33:41,574 I forget what I said. 432 00:33:45,741 --> 00:33:48,740 It was you who answered me, in the sudden silence, 433 00:33:48,867 --> 00:33:52,490 with a sarcastic remark about the unlikelihood of what I'd said. 434 00:33:53,533 --> 00:33:56,240 The others remained silent. 435 00:33:56,574 --> 00:34:00,573 Again I had the feeling no one had understood your words. 436 00:34:02,073 --> 00:34:05,738 Even that I was the only one to have heard them. 437 00:34:29,988 --> 00:34:31,945 To break the silence, 438 00:34:32,071 --> 00:34:35,070 someone mentioned the entertainment planned for that evening, 439 00:34:35,195 --> 00:34:39,027 or the next day, or in the days to come. 440 00:34:39,154 --> 00:34:42,735 I don't remember what was said next. 441 00:35:21,525 --> 00:35:23,732 You disliked walking in the garden 442 00:35:23,859 --> 00:35:27,982 because of the gravel, uncomfortable in your street shoes. 443 00:35:29,066 --> 00:35:32,523 One day� but it was probably much later� 444 00:35:32,649 --> 00:35:35,356 you broke one of your high heels. 445 00:35:35,482 --> 00:35:38,523 You had to take my arm to keep your balance 446 00:35:38,649 --> 00:35:41,356 as you removed your shoe. 447 00:35:41,482 --> 00:35:43,981 The heel was almost torn off, 448 00:35:44,107 --> 00:35:46,981 dangling by a thin strip of leather. 449 00:35:47,565 --> 00:35:50,564 You stood there gazing at it a moment, 450 00:35:50,690 --> 00:35:53,813 the tip of your bare foot touching the ground, 451 00:35:53,939 --> 00:35:58,771 a bit ahead of the other foot, in a dance-school pose. 452 00:35:58,897 --> 00:36:01,896 I offered to go get you another pair. 453 00:36:02,022 --> 00:36:03,729 You refused. 454 00:36:03,897 --> 00:36:08,062 So I said I could also carry you back in my arms. 455 00:36:08,188 --> 00:36:11,229 You just laughed but said nothing, 456 00:36:11,396 --> 00:36:13,353 as if it was� 457 00:36:14,396 --> 00:36:17,270 You must have walked back, shoes in hand, 458 00:36:17,396 --> 00:36:20,103 over the gravel to the hotel. 459 00:36:33,228 --> 00:36:35,352 I met you again. 460 00:36:38,145 --> 00:36:40,476 You never seemed to be waiting for me... 461 00:36:42,144 --> 00:36:44,809 but we kept meeting at every turn in the path... 462 00:36:46,518 --> 00:36:48,684 behind every shrub, 463 00:36:50,852 --> 00:36:53,058 at the foot of every statue... 464 00:36:54,851 --> 00:36:56,975 at the edge of every fountain. 465 00:36:59,101 --> 00:37:02,516 It was as if, in that entire garden, 466 00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:05,433 there were only you and me. 467 00:37:08,850 --> 00:37:11,349 We spoke of this and that: 468 00:37:12,225 --> 00:37:14,099 the names of the statues, 469 00:37:14,683 --> 00:37:16,557 the shape of the shrubs, 470 00:37:18,974 --> 00:37:20,889 the water in the fountains. 471 00:37:23,182 --> 00:37:27,056 Or else we said nothing at all. 472 00:37:32,181 --> 00:37:33,721 At night, especially, 473 00:37:35,265 --> 00:37:37,388 you liked to remain silent. 474 00:37:40,514 --> 00:37:43,555 One evening I went up to your room. 475 00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:38,545 There were always walls, 476 00:39:39,463 --> 00:39:41,461 walls all around me. 477 00:39:42,796 --> 00:39:47,002 Smooth, even, glazed, without the slightest relief. 478 00:39:47,129 --> 00:39:49,211 There were always walls, 479 00:39:49,878 --> 00:39:51,877 and silence, as well. 480 00:39:52,295 --> 00:39:56,044 I've never heard anyone raise his voice in this hotel. 481 00:39:57,670 --> 00:39:59,127 No one. 482 00:39:59,753 --> 00:40:02,377 Conversations took place in a void, 483 00:40:02,503 --> 00:40:04,793 as if words meant nothing, 484 00:40:04,919 --> 00:40:08,167 or weren't meant to, in any case. 485 00:40:08,293 --> 00:40:10,959 A sentence, once begun, hung suspended in the air, 486 00:40:11,085 --> 00:40:13,042 as if frozen by the frost, 487 00:40:14,460 --> 00:40:16,583 and picked up, probably, 488 00:40:16,709 --> 00:40:19,250 where it left off, or elsewhere. 489 00:40:21,584 --> 00:40:23,874 It made no difference. 490 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,375 It was always the same conversations, 491 00:40:27,501 --> 00:40:29,582 the same absent voices. 492 00:40:30,959 --> 00:40:33,290 The servants were mute. 493 00:40:33,750 --> 00:40:36,915 The games were silent, of course. 494 00:40:37,791 --> 00:40:39,832 It was a place for relaxation. 495 00:40:40,333 --> 00:40:42,873 No business was carried out, 496 00:40:43,041 --> 00:40:45,206 no plots were hatched. 497 00:40:45,624 --> 00:40:49,831 No one ever discussed any topic that might cause excitement. 498 00:40:52,998 --> 00:40:55,789 There were signs everywhere: 499 00:40:55,915 --> 00:40:59,705 "Silence..." 500 00:41:34,829 --> 00:41:37,910 I think I remember too. Still, it seems incredible. 501 00:41:38,036 --> 00:41:39,369 You saw it yourself? 502 00:41:39,495 --> 00:41:41,910 I heard about it. Ah, so you only heard about it. 503 00:41:42,036 --> 00:41:43,576 It's easy to check. 504 00:41:43,702 --> 00:41:46,077 Go through the weather reports in the newspapers. 505 00:41:46,202 --> 00:41:48,535 Let's go look in the library. 506 00:42:04,368 --> 00:42:06,658 Do you know what I just heard? 507 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:09,908 Last year, at this time, 508 00:42:10,534 --> 00:42:12,783 it was so cold 509 00:42:12,909 --> 00:42:15,241 that the fountains froze over. 510 00:42:17,534 --> 00:42:19,782 But there must be some mistake. 511 00:42:26,491 --> 00:42:30,906 What do you want from me? You know it's impossible. 512 00:42:31,532 --> 00:42:33,198 One evening 513 00:42:33,657 --> 00:42:37,031 I went up to your room. 514 00:42:37,740 --> 00:42:39,489 You were alone. 515 00:42:44,198 --> 00:42:47,238 Leave me alone, please. 516 00:42:47,823 --> 00:42:49,571 Leave me alone. 517 00:42:50,030 --> 00:42:52,029 It was almost summer. 518 00:42:52,988 --> 00:42:55,363 Yes, you're right. 519 00:42:55,947 --> 00:42:57,363 Ice... 520 00:42:57,780 --> 00:42:59,987 would be out of the question. 521 00:43:02,238 --> 00:43:04,112 It's time for the concert. 522 00:43:04,655 --> 00:43:06,694 May I accompany you? 523 00:43:43,734 --> 00:43:45,733 Going to the concert? 524 00:43:47,193 --> 00:43:49,525 I'll join you for dinner. 525 00:43:58,858 --> 00:44:02,690 This story is now over. It is coming to an end. 526 00:44:02,858 --> 00:44:06,565 A few seconds more and it will solidify 527 00:44:06,691 --> 00:44:09,065 forever in a past of marble. 528 00:44:09,191 --> 00:44:12,190 Like these statues, this garden carved out of stone, 529 00:44:12,316 --> 00:44:16,022 this very hotel with its now-deserted rooms. 530 00:45:28,226 --> 00:45:29,350 Leave me alone... 531 00:45:29,726 --> 00:45:31,517 please. 532 00:47:26,342 --> 00:47:29,007 You never seemed to be waiting for me... 533 00:47:30,175 --> 00:47:33,673 but we kept meeting at every turn in the path... 534 00:47:34,257 --> 00:47:36,215 behind every shrub... 535 00:47:36,757 --> 00:47:38,839 at the foot of every statue... 536 00:47:39,174 --> 00:47:41,215 at the edge of every fountain. 537 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,672 It was as if in that entire garden 538 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:47,631 there were only you and me. 539 00:47:49,756 --> 00:47:52,339 We spoke of this and that: 540 00:47:52,506 --> 00:47:54,297 the names of the statues, 541 00:47:54,422 --> 00:47:56,755 the shape of the shrubs, 542 00:47:56,881 --> 00:47:58,962 the water in the fountains, 543 00:47:59,089 --> 00:48:01,505 the color of the sky. 544 00:48:01,672 --> 00:48:04,171 Or else we said nothing at all. 545 00:48:40,336 --> 00:48:43,959 But you always kept a certain distance, 546 00:48:44,877 --> 00:48:46,834 as if on some threshold, 547 00:48:47,668 --> 00:48:50,667 the entryway to someplace too dark 548 00:48:50,793 --> 00:48:52,417 or unfamiliar. 549 00:48:56,417 --> 00:48:58,166 Come here. 550 00:49:08,333 --> 00:49:10,290 Come closer. 551 00:49:24,832 --> 00:49:27,164 Leave me alone, please. 552 00:49:33,248 --> 00:49:37,497 Always walls, corridors, doors... 553 00:49:38,498 --> 00:49:41,662 and beyond, still more walls. 554 00:49:41,789 --> 00:49:44,746 Before coming to you, before meeting you� 555 00:49:45,622 --> 00:49:48,454 you have no idea what I had to go through. 556 00:49:50,372 --> 00:49:53,953 And now you are here where I brought you. 557 00:49:54,538 --> 00:49:57,661 You still shy away, but you're here in this garden, 558 00:49:57,829 --> 00:50:00,578 within arm's reach, within earshot, 559 00:50:00,829 --> 00:50:04,161 within my sight, within arm's reach. 560 00:50:07,745 --> 00:50:09,244 Who are you? 561 00:50:09,370 --> 00:50:10,869 You know. 562 00:50:12,370 --> 00:50:14,327 What's your name? 563 00:50:14,495 --> 00:50:16,993 It doesn't matter. 564 00:50:18,078 --> 00:50:20,202 It doesn't matter. 565 00:50:22,786 --> 00:50:24,451 You're like a shadow, 566 00:50:25,827 --> 00:50:28,493 and you're waiting for me to approach. 567 00:50:30,618 --> 00:50:32,284 Leave me alone. 568 00:50:32,493 --> 00:50:34,658 Leave me alone. 569 00:50:43,076 --> 00:50:45,491 It's already too late. 570 00:50:47,492 --> 00:50:50,157 You asked me not to see you again. 571 00:50:50,991 --> 00:50:53,407 We did see each other again, of course� 572 00:50:53,533 --> 00:50:55,449 the next day, 573 00:50:55,575 --> 00:50:58,324 or the day after, or the day after that. 574 00:50:59,783 --> 00:51:01,990 Perhaps it was by chance. 575 00:51:02,532 --> 00:51:05,947 I told you that you had to go away with me. 576 00:51:06,074 --> 00:51:09,739 You said it was impossible, of course. 577 00:51:10,656 --> 00:51:12,655 But you knew it was possible, 578 00:51:12,782 --> 00:51:16,655 and that now there's nothing else for you to do. 579 00:51:17,573 --> 00:51:19,863 Yes... perhaps. 580 00:51:21,989 --> 00:51:24,529 Oh, no. I don't know anymore. 581 00:51:25,822 --> 00:51:29,654 But why me? Why must it be me? 582 00:51:29,821 --> 00:51:31,737 You were waiting for me. 583 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:36,779 No, I wasn't waiting for you, or anyone. 584 00:51:36,905 --> 00:51:39,153 You weren't waiting for anything. 585 00:51:39,279 --> 00:51:41,737 It was as if you were dead. 586 00:51:42,571 --> 00:51:46,527 That's not true. You're still alive. 587 00:51:47,487 --> 00:51:50,486 You're here. I can see you. 588 00:51:52,820 --> 00:51:54,444 Do you remember? 589 00:51:57,736 --> 00:51:59,526 That's not true... 590 00:51:59,652 --> 00:52:00,860 probably. 591 00:52:01,652 --> 00:52:03,985 You've already forgotten it all. 592 00:52:05,694 --> 00:52:07,193 It's not true. 593 00:52:07,319 --> 00:52:09,984 It's not true. You're about to leave. 594 00:52:10,152 --> 00:52:11,859 Your door is still open. 595 00:52:11,985 --> 00:52:15,359 Why? What do you expect from me? 596 00:52:15,485 --> 00:52:18,525 What other life can you offer me? 597 00:52:18,651 --> 00:52:21,317 This isn't about another life. 598 00:52:21,901 --> 00:52:25,150 This is about your life. 599 00:52:27,609 --> 00:52:29,191 Try to remember. 600 00:52:30,317 --> 00:52:33,483 It was evening. The last evening, probably. 601 00:52:34,484 --> 00:52:36,232 It was almost dark. 602 00:52:37,150 --> 00:52:41,482 A faint shadow moved slowly through the dusk. 603 00:52:42,816 --> 00:52:46,148 Even before I could make out your features, 604 00:52:47,483 --> 00:52:49,564 I knew it was you. 605 00:52:50,940 --> 00:52:53,564 When you recognized me, you stopped. 606 00:52:54,357 --> 00:52:57,439 We stood there, a few yards apart, 607 00:52:58,731 --> 00:53:00,356 without speaking. 608 00:53:01,357 --> 00:53:04,813 You stood in front of me, 609 00:53:05,564 --> 00:53:07,271 waiting perhaps, 610 00:53:08,647 --> 00:53:12,520 as if unable to take another step forward or turn back. 611 00:53:15,396 --> 00:53:18,645 You were there, standing straight 612 00:53:20,063 --> 00:53:21,645 and still, 613 00:53:22,979 --> 00:53:25,062 your arms at your side. 614 00:53:27,771 --> 00:53:29,644 And you looked at me. 615 00:53:31,062 --> 00:53:34,311 Your eyes are wide open, much too wide. 616 00:53:34,479 --> 00:53:37,977 Your lips are slightly parted, as if you were about to speak, 617 00:53:38,145 --> 00:53:41,560 or moan, or scream. 618 00:53:41,686 --> 00:53:43,352 You are afraid. 619 00:53:43,977 --> 00:53:46,518 Your mouth opens a bit more, 620 00:53:46,644 --> 00:53:49,143 your eyes open wider still. 621 00:53:49,311 --> 00:53:51,684 Your hand is extended in an incomplete gesture 622 00:53:51,810 --> 00:53:54,351 of expectation, uncertainty. 623 00:53:55,310 --> 00:53:57,726 Or perhaps of appeal, 624 00:53:57,851 --> 00:53:59,559 or defense. 625 00:53:59,934 --> 00:54:01,767 Your fingers tremble slightly. 626 00:54:02,976 --> 00:54:04,516 You're afraid. 627 00:54:21,141 --> 00:54:22,724 Who was that? 628 00:54:24,141 --> 00:54:26,015 Your husband? 629 00:54:26,141 --> 00:54:27,723 Perhaps. 630 00:54:28,974 --> 00:54:30,639 He was looking for you, 631 00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,806 or else he just happened by. 632 00:54:35,515 --> 00:54:37,889 He was already approaching you. 633 00:54:39,639 --> 00:54:41,555 But you remained frozen, 634 00:54:41,681 --> 00:54:44,347 withdrawn, absent. 635 00:54:46,348 --> 00:54:49,472 He didn't appear to recognize you at first. 636 00:54:50,348 --> 00:54:52,347 He took a step forward. 637 00:54:53,097 --> 00:54:55,637 Something about you confused him. 638 00:54:56,138 --> 00:54:58,179 Another step. 639 00:54:59,472 --> 00:55:01,596 You looked right through him. 640 00:55:04,180 --> 00:55:06,137 He thought it best to turn back. 641 00:55:07,554 --> 00:55:08,970 And now 642 00:55:09,846 --> 00:55:12,636 you keep staring into space. 643 00:55:13,803 --> 00:55:15,844 You keep seeing him... 644 00:55:17,386 --> 00:55:19,011 his gray eyes, 645 00:55:21,012 --> 00:55:23,218 his gray silhouette, 646 00:55:25,636 --> 00:55:27,093 and his smile. 647 00:55:35,843 --> 00:55:37,676 And you're afraid. 648 00:55:39,718 --> 00:55:44,134 You fear he might come back, or that he's already there, 649 00:55:44,259 --> 00:55:47,425 when I again enter your room. 650 00:55:47,551 --> 00:55:51,133 His room was adjacent to yours, separated by a sitting room. 651 00:55:51,925 --> 00:55:54,966 But at that hour, he's in the game room anyway. 652 00:55:55,092 --> 00:55:57,591 I had told you I'd be coming. 653 00:55:57,717 --> 00:55:59,507 You'd made no reply. 654 00:55:59,759 --> 00:56:02,257 I found all the doors ajar. 655 00:56:02,383 --> 00:56:04,299 The hallway door, 656 00:56:04,425 --> 00:56:07,132 the sitting room door, your bedroom door. 657 00:56:07,258 --> 00:56:09,757 I only had to push them open, one by one, 658 00:56:09,883 --> 00:56:13,256 then close them behind me, one by one. 659 00:56:15,174 --> 00:56:17,256 You know the rest. 660 00:56:20,465 --> 00:56:24,464 No, I don't know the rest. I don't know you. 661 00:56:24,590 --> 00:56:27,963 I don't know that room, that silly bed, that fireplace with the mirror. 662 00:56:28,131 --> 00:56:32,005 What mirror? What fireplace? What did you say? 663 00:56:32,131 --> 00:56:35,338 Yes... I don't know anymore. 664 00:56:35,464 --> 00:56:37,379 It's not true. I don't know. 665 00:56:37,505 --> 00:56:40,628 If it's not true, why would you be here? 666 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:45,795 What was the mirror like? 667 00:56:45,921 --> 00:56:48,337 There's no mirror over the fireplace. 668 00:56:49,379 --> 00:56:51,128 It's a painting. 669 00:56:51,754 --> 00:56:54,961 A landscape, I think. A snowy landscape. 670 00:56:56,254 --> 00:56:58,461 The mirror is over the chest. 671 00:57:00,420 --> 00:57:03,127 There's also a dressing table with a mirror. 672 00:57:03,628 --> 00:57:06,793 And other furniture... 673 00:57:08,003 --> 00:57:09,169 of course. 674 00:57:10,377 --> 00:57:11,960 What kind of bed? 675 00:57:12,586 --> 00:57:14,501 A double bed, probably. 676 00:57:15,252 --> 00:57:17,792 What was the view from the windows? 677 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,876 I don't know. The windows... 678 00:57:22,460 --> 00:57:26,042 What room? I've never been in any bedroom with you. 679 00:57:26,168 --> 00:57:28,167 You don't want to remember... 680 00:57:28,293 --> 00:57:29,958 because you're afraid. 681 00:57:30,792 --> 00:57:33,958 And you don't recognize this photo either? 682 00:57:35,126 --> 00:57:36,541 Yes, I do. 683 00:57:37,459 --> 00:57:39,999 No, I don't. I don't know. I don't remember. 684 00:57:40,125 --> 00:57:41,790 You know who took it. 685 00:57:41,958 --> 00:57:43,041 You're lying. 686 00:57:43,167 --> 00:57:46,082 It was last year. I had to insist on taking it. 687 00:57:46,208 --> 00:57:48,498 You said it would make you uneasy. 688 00:57:49,374 --> 00:57:52,290 Yes, that's true. I was right. 689 00:57:53,624 --> 00:57:59,706 Well, I remember that room where you waited for me. 690 00:58:00,957 --> 00:58:04,913 True, there was a mirror over the chest. 691 00:58:05,706 --> 00:58:08,705 It was in that mirror that I first saw you, 692 00:58:08,831 --> 00:58:11,997 when I silently pushed the door open. 693 00:58:12,581 --> 00:58:14,371 You sat on the edge of the bed, 694 00:58:14,497 --> 00:58:18,621 in a kind of dressing gown, or negligee, in white. 695 00:58:18,788 --> 00:58:20,620 I remember you dressed all in white. 696 00:58:20,747 --> 00:58:22,871 You wore white slippers and this ring. 697 00:58:22,997 --> 00:58:25,787 No, I'm sure you're making it up. 698 00:58:25,955 --> 00:58:28,454 I've never had a white dressing gown. 699 00:58:29,121 --> 00:58:31,245 You see, it's someone else. 700 00:58:32,496 --> 00:58:34,078 If you say so. 701 00:58:34,204 --> 00:58:35,995 But I remember the room, 702 00:58:36,121 --> 00:58:39,494 and the white feathers in which you lay across the bed. 703 00:58:40,787 --> 00:58:42,744 Be quiet, please. 704 00:58:42,870 --> 00:58:44,618 You're completely mad. 705 00:58:45,412 --> 00:58:48,077 "No, no, please". 706 00:58:49,953 --> 00:58:52,535 I hear your voice as it was then. 707 00:58:53,785 --> 00:58:55,285 You were afraid. 708 00:58:56,119 --> 00:58:59,285 You were afraid... even then. 709 00:58:59,618 --> 00:59:03,367 You've always been afraid. But I loved your fear that evening. 710 00:59:05,452 --> 00:59:06,992 I looked at you, 711 00:59:07,868 --> 00:59:10,533 letting you struggle a bit. 712 00:59:10,659 --> 00:59:12,825 I loved you. 713 00:59:12,951 --> 00:59:14,950 I loved you. 714 00:59:15,117 --> 00:59:17,283 There was something in your eyes. 715 00:59:17,451 --> 00:59:20,116 You were alive. 716 00:59:20,908 --> 00:59:22,408 Anyway... 717 00:59:22,825 --> 00:59:24,615 in the beginning... 718 00:59:26,199 --> 00:59:27,699 Try to remember. 719 00:59:29,783 --> 00:59:31,449 Oh, not at all. 720 00:59:32,949 --> 00:59:35,365 It was probably not by force. 721 00:59:41,198 --> 00:59:43,656 But only you know. 722 01:00:39,111 --> 01:00:40,651 What is it? 723 01:00:41,110 --> 01:00:42,609 It's nothing. 724 01:00:44,444 --> 01:00:45,609 Are you tired? 725 01:00:45,776 --> 01:00:48,900 A bit, yes. I think I am. 726 01:00:49,027 --> 01:00:51,275 The sun all of a sudden. 727 01:00:52,651 --> 01:00:55,483 We can go back in, if you wish. 728 01:00:57,443 --> 01:00:58,983 If you wish. 729 01:02:50,142 --> 01:02:53,016 That was the day I took your picture. 730 01:02:54,433 --> 01:02:57,432 And you asked me to give you a year... 731 01:02:58,974 --> 01:03:01,681 thinking perhaps to test me... 732 01:03:03,016 --> 01:03:04,764 or wear me down... 733 01:03:05,724 --> 01:03:07,681 or just forget all about me. 734 01:03:09,432 --> 01:03:11,055 But time... 735 01:03:11,598 --> 01:03:13,264 doesn't count. 736 01:03:14,140 --> 01:03:16,513 I've come for you now. 737 01:03:24,764 --> 01:03:26,596 It's impossible. 738 01:03:28,472 --> 01:03:30,470 It's impossible. 739 01:03:32,014 --> 01:03:33,512 Naturally. 740 01:03:34,138 --> 01:03:36,595 But you know it is possible, 741 01:03:36,763 --> 01:03:39,636 that you're ready, that we're leaving. 742 01:03:41,512 --> 01:03:43,970 What makes you so sure? 743 01:03:44,096 --> 01:03:45,970 Leaving for where? 744 01:03:46,095 --> 01:03:49,011 Anywhere. I don't know. 745 01:03:49,137 --> 01:03:51,052 You see. 746 01:03:51,178 --> 01:03:53,677 It's best that we part for good. 747 01:03:54,469 --> 01:03:56,052 Last year� 748 01:03:56,178 --> 01:03:58,385 No, it's impossible. 749 01:03:59,927 --> 01:04:01,593 You will leave alone... 750 01:04:03,052 --> 01:04:04,468 and then we'll be forever... 751 01:04:04,593 --> 01:04:06,051 It's not true! 752 01:04:06,844 --> 01:04:09,051 It's not true that we need absence, 753 01:04:09,176 --> 01:04:11,426 loneliness, endless waiting. 754 01:04:11,552 --> 01:04:13,050 It's not true! 755 01:04:15,093 --> 01:04:16,800 But you're afraid. 756 01:04:24,967 --> 01:04:27,383 But it's too late now. 757 01:04:33,758 --> 01:04:36,090 He had just left your room. 758 01:04:36,675 --> 01:04:39,424 I don't know what violent scene must have taken place 759 01:04:39,591 --> 01:04:41,507 a moment before. 760 01:05:19,921 --> 01:05:23,253 The window of your room looks out on the gardens, 761 01:05:23,379 --> 01:05:25,420 but you didn't see him go out, 762 01:05:25,587 --> 01:05:27,877 which might have reassured you. 763 01:05:29,004 --> 01:05:31,044 Then you turned back to the bed. 764 01:05:31,170 --> 01:05:34,419 At first unsure, not knowing where to go, 765 01:05:34,586 --> 01:05:37,919 you turned back to the bed and sat down. 766 01:05:39,295 --> 01:05:42,626 Then you let your body fall back and you� 767 01:05:44,420 --> 01:05:46,751 You turned back to the bed. 768 01:05:50,544 --> 01:05:52,751 After lying there a few seconds, 769 01:05:52,918 --> 01:05:55,251 maybe a few minutes, unsure, 770 01:05:55,377 --> 01:05:57,209 not knowing what to do, 771 01:05:57,335 --> 01:06:00,126 staring straight ahead into space. 772 01:06:05,834 --> 01:06:08,041 And you turned back to the bed. 773 01:06:10,792 --> 01:06:12,416 Listen to me. 774 01:06:13,250 --> 01:06:14,791 Try to remember. 775 01:06:16,083 --> 01:06:18,082 Listen to me, please. 776 01:06:19,583 --> 01:06:21,748 Yes, there was� 777 01:06:22,749 --> 01:06:26,415 Yes, it's true. There was a large mirror by the door. 778 01:06:26,582 --> 01:06:29,789 A huge mirror you didn't dare go near, 779 01:06:29,915 --> 01:06:31,789 as if it scared you. 780 01:06:34,291 --> 01:06:37,747 But you insist on pretending not to believe me. 781 01:06:37,873 --> 01:06:40,871 Where are you? Where have you gone? 782 01:06:40,998 --> 01:06:44,621 Why keep trying to run away? It's too late. 783 01:06:44,747 --> 01:06:47,746 It was too late even then. There was no more� 784 01:06:47,872 --> 01:06:49,913 The door was closed now. 785 01:06:50,039 --> 01:06:51,788 No, the door was closed. 786 01:06:59,163 --> 01:07:00,704 Listen to me. 787 01:07:00,830 --> 01:07:03,120 What more proof do you need? 788 01:07:04,954 --> 01:07:06,786 I'd kept a photo of you, 789 01:07:06,912 --> 01:07:10,245 taken one afternoon in the gardens, a few days before you left. 790 01:07:10,996 --> 01:07:15,411 But when I gave it to you, you again said that it proved nothing. 791 01:07:15,578 --> 01:07:17,619 Anyone could have taken the snapshot, 792 01:07:17,745 --> 01:07:20,035 anytime, anywhere. 793 01:07:20,161 --> 01:07:23,119 A garden. Any garden. 794 01:07:24,744 --> 01:07:28,410 I would have had to show you the white feathers, 795 01:07:28,786 --> 01:07:32,118 the sea of white feathers where your body� 796 01:07:32,244 --> 01:07:34,285 But all bodies look alike, 797 01:07:34,411 --> 01:07:38,909 as do all feather negligees, all hotels, all statues, all gardens. 798 01:07:40,243 --> 01:07:44,575 But this garden, for me, was like no other. 799 01:07:44,742 --> 01:07:46,325 Every day 800 01:07:46,451 --> 01:07:48,491 I'd meet you there. 801 01:07:56,367 --> 01:07:57,865 It's afternoon. 802 01:07:58,450 --> 01:08:00,448 The next day, probably. 803 01:08:03,117 --> 01:08:05,365 I'd just told you we were leaving� 804 01:08:05,491 --> 01:08:08,031 no, you weren't laughing� 805 01:08:08,157 --> 01:08:10,823 that we were leaving the next morning for good, 806 01:08:10,949 --> 01:08:12,656 while he� 807 01:08:13,365 --> 01:08:16,281 No, that's not it. 808 01:08:16,740 --> 01:08:19,572 Yes, we were in your room. 809 01:08:20,198 --> 01:08:22,905 We'd decided the day before that we would leave. 810 01:08:23,073 --> 01:08:26,072 You had agreed� reluctantly, perhaps. 811 01:08:26,906 --> 01:08:28,905 I was in your room. 812 01:08:30,155 --> 01:08:33,154 The first thing you see from the door is the bed. 813 01:08:34,072 --> 01:08:37,154 But you can't see the dressing table. 814 01:08:37,571 --> 01:08:40,529 You were probably on the other side, near the window, 815 01:08:40,655 --> 01:08:43,070 perhaps watching the garden. 816 01:08:43,571 --> 01:08:45,529 I don't remember exactly. 817 01:08:46,405 --> 01:08:49,237 I'd met him going down the stairs. 818 01:08:49,363 --> 01:08:51,569 He'd just left your room. 819 01:08:52,071 --> 01:08:54,194 Or was that another day? 820 01:08:55,903 --> 01:08:58,777 That night everything was empty. 821 01:08:59,736 --> 01:09:01,319 Stairs... 822 01:09:02,237 --> 01:09:03,610 corridors... 823 01:09:04,486 --> 01:09:06,193 stairs. 824 01:10:06,231 --> 01:10:08,188 I don't remember anymore. 825 01:10:08,815 --> 01:10:10,980 I don't remember myself. 826 01:10:13,689 --> 01:10:15,688 I don't remember anymore. 827 01:10:22,313 --> 01:10:24,812 I knocked. Didn't you hear? 828 01:10:26,896 --> 01:10:29,687 I did. I told you to come in. 829 01:10:29,854 --> 01:10:31,478 I see. 830 01:10:33,729 --> 01:10:36,186 You must not have said it very loud. 831 01:11:03,601 --> 01:11:05,809 What's this photo? 832 01:11:06,434 --> 01:11:09,767 As you can see, it's an old photo of me. 833 01:11:12,559 --> 01:11:13,724 When was it taken? 834 01:11:13,892 --> 01:11:16,267 I don't know. Last year. 835 01:11:18,392 --> 01:11:20,058 Who took it? 836 01:11:20,225 --> 01:11:23,057 I don't know. Frank, perhaps. 837 01:11:24,225 --> 01:11:27,557 Frank wasn't here last year. 838 01:11:35,474 --> 01:11:38,223 It may not have been here. 839 01:11:39,224 --> 01:11:42,056 It may have been at Frederiksbad. 840 01:11:43,723 --> 01:11:45,931 Or someone else took it. 841 01:11:46,057 --> 01:11:47,347 Yes, most likely. 842 01:11:50,722 --> 01:11:53,138 What did you do this afternoon? 843 01:11:53,265 --> 01:11:55,346 Nothing. I read. 844 01:11:58,180 --> 01:12:01,263 I looked for you. Were you in the gardens? 845 01:12:01,389 --> 01:12:04,845 No, in the green salon, near the music room. 846 01:12:04,972 --> 01:12:06,388 I see. 847 01:12:07,388 --> 01:12:09,595 But I looked in there. 848 01:12:10,346 --> 01:12:12,553 Did you have something to tell me? 849 01:12:20,387 --> 01:12:22,219 You look anxious. 850 01:12:23,387 --> 01:12:24,678 I'm a bit tired. 851 01:12:24,804 --> 01:12:26,927 Get some rest. 852 01:12:27,053 --> 01:12:29,760 Remember: That's why we're here. 853 01:12:33,844 --> 01:12:35,385 Are you going out? 854 01:12:36,011 --> 01:12:38,301 I may go down to the shooting gallery. 855 01:12:38,427 --> 01:12:39,677 This late? 856 01:12:39,802 --> 01:12:41,717 Why not? 857 01:12:43,718 --> 01:12:45,592 Anderson arrives tomorrow. 858 01:12:45,718 --> 01:12:48,092 We'll lunch with him at 12:00, 859 01:12:48,218 --> 01:12:50,550 if you have no other plans. 860 01:12:52,385 --> 01:12:55,633 No, of course not. What plans? 861 01:12:55,759 --> 01:12:57,633 See you tonight, then. 862 01:13:06,675 --> 01:13:08,383 Once the door shut, 863 01:13:08,549 --> 01:13:11,882 you listened for footsteps in the adjoining sitting room, 864 01:13:12,050 --> 01:13:13,799 but you heard nothing. 865 01:13:13,925 --> 01:13:17,382 Nor did you hear any doors open or close. 866 01:13:18,383 --> 01:13:21,257 The easiest way to the shooting gallery is through the terrace 867 01:13:21,382 --> 01:13:23,839 along the rear of the hotel. 868 01:13:23,966 --> 01:13:25,881 But without opening the window, 869 01:13:26,006 --> 01:13:29,464 you can't see that space at the foot of the wall. 870 01:13:29,881 --> 01:13:32,588 You hoped to hear his footsteps on the gravel, 871 01:13:32,714 --> 01:13:36,213 but you can't hear that high up with the window closed. 872 01:13:36,381 --> 01:13:39,546 There's probably no gravel there anyway. 873 01:14:17,794 --> 01:14:20,335 An arm half-bent toward your hair. 874 01:14:20,461 --> 01:14:23,376 A hand cast down, the other on your chin, 875 01:14:23,543 --> 01:14:26,085 index finger over your mouth... 876 01:14:27,460 --> 01:14:29,584 as if to stifle a cry. 877 01:14:35,834 --> 01:14:38,125 And now here you are again. 878 01:14:42,709 --> 01:14:45,707 No, that isn't the right ending. 879 01:14:45,875 --> 01:14:48,083 I must have you alive. 880 01:14:49,708 --> 01:14:53,707 Alive as you have been, every evening, 881 01:14:53,833 --> 01:14:56,706 for weeks, for months. 882 01:15:01,208 --> 01:15:04,289 I've never stayed anywhere that long. 883 01:15:04,415 --> 01:15:06,706 Yes, I know. 884 01:15:15,748 --> 01:15:17,705 I don't care. 885 01:15:17,831 --> 01:15:21,038 For days and days. 886 01:15:25,497 --> 01:15:27,704 Why do you still refuse 887 01:15:29,497 --> 01:15:31,621 to remember anything? 888 01:15:33,622 --> 01:15:35,371 You're raving. 889 01:15:36,621 --> 01:15:38,370 I'm tired. 890 01:15:39,204 --> 01:15:40,870 Leave me alone. 891 01:18:22,107 --> 01:18:24,607 It's a stupid game. There's a trick. 892 01:18:24,733 --> 01:18:26,606 Just take an odd number. 893 01:18:26,732 --> 01:18:28,522 There must be rules. 894 01:18:28,649 --> 01:18:30,356 Whoever goes first loses. 895 01:18:30,482 --> 01:18:34,356 I remember Frank played last year. I'm sure of it. 896 01:18:34,732 --> 01:18:37,606 You have to take the complement of seven each time. 897 01:18:37,731 --> 01:18:39,481 From which row? 898 01:18:40,814 --> 01:18:43,355 If you'd care to begin. 899 01:18:43,856 --> 01:18:45,730 With pleasure. 900 01:18:45,856 --> 01:18:48,021 Which one shall I take? 901 01:18:51,855 --> 01:18:53,646 This one. 902 01:18:53,772 --> 01:18:55,270 Fine. 903 01:19:13,229 --> 01:19:14,603 Oh, well... 904 01:19:15,270 --> 01:19:16,727 I lose. 905 01:19:26,436 --> 01:19:28,559 Whoever goes first wins. 906 01:19:29,644 --> 01:19:32,476 You have to take an even number. 907 01:19:32,602 --> 01:19:34,851 The lowest whole odd number. 908 01:19:34,977 --> 01:19:37,309 It's a logarithmic series. 909 01:19:38,393 --> 01:19:40,725 You have to pick a different row each time. 910 01:19:41,435 --> 01:19:44,017 Divided by three. Seven times seven, 49. 911 01:20:24,056 --> 01:20:25,722 It's not true. 912 01:20:26,348 --> 01:20:28,096 It wasn't by force. 913 01:20:29,097 --> 01:20:30,638 Try to remember. 914 01:20:31,597 --> 01:20:33,763 For days and days, 915 01:20:34,430 --> 01:20:36,387 every night. 916 01:20:36,513 --> 01:20:38,929 All bedrooms are alike. 917 01:20:39,055 --> 01:20:43,179 But that bedroom, for me, was like no other. 918 01:20:43,846 --> 01:20:45,720 There were no more doors, 919 01:20:45,846 --> 01:20:48,720 no more corridors, no more hotel, 920 01:20:48,846 --> 01:20:50,511 no more garden. 921 01:20:50,638 --> 01:20:52,928 There wasn't even a garden anymore. 922 01:21:36,634 --> 01:21:40,965 It was the middle of the night. The hotel slept. 923 01:21:41,675 --> 01:21:44,007 We met in the garden, 924 01:21:44,674 --> 01:21:46,423 as we used to. 925 01:21:47,008 --> 01:21:49,715 You recognized me and stopped. 926 01:21:50,341 --> 01:21:54,215 We stood like that, a few yards apart, without speaking. 927 01:21:56,049 --> 01:21:59,714 You stood there in front of me, waiting, 928 01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:03,088 unable to take a step forward or turn back. 929 01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:08,671 You were there, standing straight and still, 930 01:22:08,839 --> 01:22:10,838 arms by your side, 931 01:22:10,964 --> 01:22:15,254 wrapped in a kind of long, dark cape. 932 01:22:16,172 --> 01:22:18,004 Black, perhaps. 933 01:22:21,838 --> 01:22:23,879 Listen to me, for pity's sake. 934 01:22:24,005 --> 01:22:26,754 We can't turn back now. 935 01:22:28,504 --> 01:22:31,253 All I ask is to wait a little longer. 936 01:22:31,379 --> 01:22:33,086 Next year, here, 937 01:22:33,213 --> 01:22:35,628 same day, same time, 938 01:22:35,754 --> 01:22:37,336 and I'll follow you anywhere. 939 01:22:37,503 --> 01:22:39,628 Why wait any longer? 940 01:22:39,754 --> 01:22:42,711 I beg of you. We must. 941 01:22:43,961 --> 01:22:45,877 A year isn't long. 942 01:22:49,086 --> 01:22:50,793 For me, it's nothing. 943 01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:54,001 Listen to me. So you need more time? 944 01:22:54,127 --> 01:22:56,001 How long? How long? 945 01:22:56,169 --> 01:22:57,585 I'm telling you why. 946 01:22:57,710 --> 01:23:00,667 I've waited too long as it is. Lower your voice, please. 947 01:23:00,835 --> 01:23:04,167 Whose feelings are you sparing? What are you hoping for? 948 01:23:04,835 --> 01:23:07,375 Do you think this is so easy? 949 01:23:10,210 --> 01:23:11,625 I don't know. 950 01:23:13,667 --> 01:23:15,666 And perhaps, as well... 951 01:23:17,459 --> 01:23:19,499 I don't have the courage. 952 01:23:21,875 --> 01:23:23,874 I can't put it off again. 953 01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:28,832 A few hours is all I ask. 954 01:23:31,957 --> 01:23:33,498 A few months, 955 01:23:33,999 --> 01:23:35,498 a few hours, 956 01:23:35,624 --> 01:23:37,664 a few minutes, 957 01:23:37,790 --> 01:23:39,539 a few seconds more. 958 01:23:40,540 --> 01:23:43,331 As if you still hesitated 959 01:23:43,457 --> 01:23:45,331 to part with him, 960 01:23:46,623 --> 01:23:48,456 to part with yourself... 961 01:23:49,873 --> 01:23:51,330 as if his figure� 962 01:23:51,497 --> 01:23:53,080 Someone's coming. 963 01:23:53,206 --> 01:23:55,580 Be quiet, for pity's sake. 964 01:24:09,246 --> 01:24:12,454 Go away if you love me. 965 01:25:00,617 --> 01:25:02,699 A feeling of faintness, probably. 966 01:25:02,825 --> 01:25:04,574 A dizzy spell. 967 01:25:04,700 --> 01:25:07,199 Yes, it's nothing. 968 01:25:08,116 --> 01:25:09,824 You're better already. 969 01:25:09,991 --> 01:25:12,616 Yes. I'll go upstairs. 970 01:25:12,741 --> 01:25:14,781 Shall I take you up? 971 01:25:16,657 --> 01:25:18,823 I'd rather be alone. 972 01:25:19,532 --> 01:25:21,239 I'm going. 973 01:25:42,238 --> 01:25:44,154 And once again 974 01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:46,987 I walked down these same corridors, 975 01:25:47,155 --> 01:25:50,446 walking for days, for months, 976 01:25:50,571 --> 01:25:53,778 for years, in search of you. 977 01:25:53,905 --> 01:25:56,820 There can be no stopping between these walls, 978 01:25:56,988 --> 01:25:58,986 no respite. 979 01:25:59,112 --> 01:26:03,278 I'll leave tonight, taking you with me. 980 01:26:11,445 --> 01:26:15,194 It would be a year ago that this story began 981 01:26:15,320 --> 01:26:19,568 with me waiting for you, and you waiting for me too. 982 01:26:20,652 --> 01:26:22,026 A year. 983 01:26:23,068 --> 01:26:24,984 You couldn't have gone on 984 01:26:25,152 --> 01:26:29,109 living amid this trompe-l��il architecture, 985 01:26:29,235 --> 01:26:31,734 amid these mirrors and columns, 986 01:26:32,610 --> 01:26:35,650 amid these doors always ajar, 987 01:26:35,818 --> 01:26:38,275 these oversized staircases, 988 01:26:38,401 --> 01:26:41,275 in this always-open bedroom. 989 01:26:53,482 --> 01:26:55,940 Where are you, my lost love? 990 01:26:57,649 --> 01:26:59,356 Here. 991 01:26:59,482 --> 01:27:01,273 I'm here. 992 01:27:01,399 --> 01:27:04,315 I'm with you in this room. 993 01:27:04,441 --> 01:27:05,814 No, you're not. 994 01:27:06,316 --> 01:27:08,190 That's already no longer true. 995 01:27:11,523 --> 01:27:13,147 Help me. 996 01:27:13,273 --> 01:27:15,314 I beg of you, help me. 997 01:27:17,481 --> 01:27:18,813 Take my hand. 998 01:27:18,939 --> 01:27:20,813 Yes, you were feeling better. 999 01:27:20,981 --> 01:27:22,479 Hold my hands tight. 1000 01:27:22,647 --> 01:27:24,979 Yes, you'll get some sleep now. 1001 01:27:26,855 --> 01:27:29,812 Yes, you'll be back on your feet for that Ackerson... 1002 01:27:29,938 --> 01:27:30,604 Where are you? 1003 01:27:30,730 --> 01:27:32,520 or Patterson... 1004 01:27:32,646 --> 01:27:35,062 whom you're to lunch with. 1005 01:27:35,188 --> 01:27:37,103 Don't let me go. 1006 01:27:37,229 --> 01:27:39,478 You know it's too late. 1007 01:27:41,229 --> 01:27:44,145 Tomorrow I'll be alone. 1008 01:27:45,437 --> 01:27:48,311 I'll find your room empty. 1009 01:27:50,187 --> 01:27:51,477 I'm cold. 1010 01:27:54,478 --> 01:27:55,685 You need nothing. 1011 01:27:55,811 --> 01:27:57,643 Not yet. 1012 01:27:57,769 --> 01:28:01,476 You don't know what came over you downstairs just now. 1013 01:28:02,269 --> 01:28:05,143 You don't remember quite what happened. 1014 01:28:06,894 --> 01:28:10,809 You hope you didn't cause a scandal, screaming like that. 1015 01:28:15,643 --> 01:28:19,142 When this man who may be your husband had gone, 1016 01:28:19,310 --> 01:28:21,142 whom you may love, 1017 01:28:21,310 --> 01:28:25,974 whom you will leave tonight forever, without his knowing it yet, 1018 01:28:26,100 --> 01:28:28,099 you packed some personal affairs 1019 01:28:28,225 --> 01:28:31,308 and prepared a quick change of clothes. 1020 01:28:31,850 --> 01:28:34,849 We agreed to leave during the night, 1021 01:28:34,975 --> 01:28:37,348 but you wanted to give one last chance 1022 01:28:37,474 --> 01:28:40,724 to the man who still seemed to have a hold on you. 1023 01:28:40,849 --> 01:28:42,639 I don't know. 1024 01:28:42,807 --> 01:28:44,514 I agreed to it. 1025 01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:46,472 He should have come. 1026 01:28:46,599 --> 01:28:48,848 He could have taken you back. 1027 01:28:51,015 --> 01:28:53,972 The hotel was deserted, as if abandoned. 1028 01:28:54,098 --> 01:28:56,389 Everyone was at the play, 1029 01:28:56,514 --> 01:28:58,306 announced so long ago, 1030 01:28:58,472 --> 01:29:01,221 from which your fainting had excused you. 1031 01:29:01,681 --> 01:29:03,680 I think it was� 1032 01:29:04,139 --> 01:29:06,305 I forget the title. 1033 01:29:06,847 --> 01:29:09,929 It was due to finish late. 1034 01:29:10,597 --> 01:29:13,846 After leaving you lying on the bed in your room, 1035 01:29:13,972 --> 01:29:16,137 he went down to the little theater 1036 01:29:16,305 --> 01:29:19,470 and joined a group of friends. 1037 01:29:19,596 --> 01:29:22,636 He'd have to come up before the final curtain 1038 01:29:22,804 --> 01:29:25,303 if he really wanted you to stay. 1039 01:29:29,596 --> 01:29:32,094 You were dressed, ready to go, 1040 01:29:32,220 --> 01:29:35,802 and you sat down to wait for him alone 1041 01:29:35,928 --> 01:29:38,093 in a sort of hall or salon 1042 01:29:38,219 --> 01:29:41,177 that one had to cross to reach your rooms. 1043 01:29:42,303 --> 01:29:46,385 Out of some superstition, you'd asked me to give you until midnight. 1044 01:29:47,802 --> 01:29:51,050 I don't know if you were hoping he'd come or not. 1045 01:29:51,177 --> 01:29:55,426 For a moment, I even thought you'd told him everything 1046 01:29:55,552 --> 01:29:58,466 and arranged for him to meet you. 1047 01:29:59,093 --> 01:30:02,300 Or perhaps you were thinking 1048 01:30:02,467 --> 01:30:04,466 I wouldn't come. 1049 01:30:09,758 --> 01:30:13,091 I came at the appointed time. 1050 01:32:22,331 --> 01:32:24,080 The hotel grounds 1051 01:32:24,206 --> 01:32:26,454 were laid out like a kind of French garden, 1052 01:32:27,539 --> 01:32:30,538 devoid of trees, flowers, 1053 01:32:30,664 --> 01:32:33,246 or any kind of vegetation. 1054 01:32:33,955 --> 01:32:37,871 Gravel, stone, marble, 1055 01:32:37,997 --> 01:32:39,745 and straight lines 1056 01:32:39,872 --> 01:32:42,121 marked out rigid spaces, 1057 01:32:42,288 --> 01:32:44,871 areas devoid of mystery. 1058 01:32:45,663 --> 01:32:50,162 At first glance, it seemed impossible to lose your way. 1059 01:32:50,288 --> 01:32:52,369 At first glance. 1060 01:32:52,495 --> 01:32:54,744 Down straight paths, 1061 01:32:54,871 --> 01:32:58,578 between statues with frozen gestures and granite slabs, 1062 01:32:59,245 --> 01:33:01,743 where even now 1063 01:33:01,870 --> 01:33:05,119 you were losing your way 1064 01:33:05,703 --> 01:33:07,577 forever, 1065 01:33:07,703 --> 01:33:09,993 in the stillness of the night, 1066 01:33:10,119 --> 01:33:12,618 alone with me.