1 00:01:57,900 --> 00:01:59,271 A beggar woman. 2 00:01:59,350 --> 00:02:01,886 - Mad? - Yes. 3 00:02:04,330 --> 00:02:06,281 Ah yes. I remember. 4 00:02:07,741 --> 00:02:09,311 She follows the rivers. 5 00:02:10,988 --> 00:02:12,632 Comes from Burma. 6 00:02:35,546 --> 00:02:39,771 Not Indian. She comes from Savannakhet. 7 00:02:41,197 --> 00:02:42,751 Born there. 8 00:02:45,465 --> 00:02:47,204 Walking... 9 00:02:47,663 --> 00:02:49,609 For ten years. 10 00:02:51,463 --> 00:02:54,901 And one day, in front of her, the Ganges. 11 00:02:56,406 --> 00:02:59,947 - Yes. - She stays. 12 00:03:00,852 --> 00:03:02,634 That's right. 13 00:03:07,912 --> 00:03:10,633 12 children dead while she walked towards Bengal? 14 00:03:10,976 --> 00:03:12,320 Yes. 15 00:03:13,179 --> 00:03:16,129 She leaves them. Sells them, forgets them. 16 00:03:19,777 --> 00:03:22,417 On the way to Bengal, she goes barren 17 00:03:31,533 --> 00:03:36,344 - Savannakhet, Laos? - Yes. 18 00:03:38,309 --> 00:03:39,585 At seventeen. 19 00:03:40,182 --> 00:03:43,164 Pregnant... seventeen... 20 00:03:45,061 --> 00:03:48,160 thrown out by her mother, goes away... 21 00:03:49,663 --> 00:03:52,219 asks the way to get lost. 22 00:03:54,338 --> 00:03:56,077 No one knows. 23 00:04:25,738 --> 00:04:29,195 In Calcutta they were together. 24 00:04:30,748 --> 00:04:33,971 - She and the white woman? - Yes. 25 00:04:35,367 --> 00:04:37,363 During the same years... 26 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,336 - He had followed her to India. - Yes. 27 00:06:01,424 --> 00:06:03,134 For her, he left everything. 28 00:06:03,712 --> 00:06:05,027 Overnight. 29 00:06:05,357 --> 00:06:08,489 - The night of the ball? - Yes. 30 00:06:12,211 --> 00:06:16,661 Michael Richardson was engaged to a girl from S. Thala, 31 00:06:17,857 --> 00:06:20,438 Lola Valerie Stein. 32 00:06:25,765 --> 00:06:28,379 They were to marry in the autumn. 33 00:06:29,997 --> 00:06:31,855 Then, the ball, 34 00:06:33,052 --> 00:06:35,089 The ball at S. Thala. 35 00:06:37,113 --> 00:06:39,542 She arrived late... 36 00:06:41,053 --> 00:06:42,663 in the middle of the night... 37 00:06:44,299 --> 00:06:46,236 in black. 38 00:06:49,973 --> 00:06:51,994 That ball, such love... 39 00:06:52,805 --> 00:06:54,642 such desire. 40 00:07:01,427 --> 00:07:03,190 That light? 41 00:07:03,774 --> 00:07:05,212 The monsoon. 42 00:07:07,166 --> 00:07:08,603 That dust? 43 00:07:09,383 --> 00:07:11,268 Central Calcutta. 44 00:07:19,254 --> 00:07:21,338 What is that scent of flowers? 45 00:07:22,854 --> 00:07:24,696 Leprosy. 46 00:07:29,425 --> 00:07:31,185 Where are we? 47 00:07:35,453 --> 00:07:39,677 The French Embassy, in India. 48 00:07:43,321 --> 00:07:46,170 - That murmur? - The Ganges. 49 00:07:56,432 --> 00:08:00,864 When she died, he left India? 50 00:08:01,522 --> 00:08:02,798 Yes. 51 00:08:05,420 --> 00:08:08,034 Her grave is in the English cemetery? 52 00:08:09,533 --> 00:08:10,824 Yes. 53 00:08:18,619 --> 00:08:22,397 - She died out there? - On the islands. 54 00:08:25,492 --> 00:08:28,843 Found dead one night. 55 00:08:42,279 --> 00:08:44,710 A black Lancia... 56 00:08:45,971 --> 00:08:48,629 speeds along the road to Chandernagore. 57 00:08:52,537 --> 00:08:56,394 It was there that she first tried? 58 00:08:58,527 --> 00:08:59,779 Yes. 59 00:09:30,946 --> 00:09:32,607 What are you afraid of? 60 00:09:58,237 --> 00:10:00,212 Anne-Marie Stretter. 61 00:10:45,246 --> 00:10:48,949 They would dance in the evening 62 00:10:51,721 --> 00:10:53,388 They're dancing. 63 00:11:25,401 --> 00:11:27,543 What are you crying about? 64 00:11:38,623 --> 00:11:40,073 I love you... 65 00:11:41,013 --> 00:11:42,704 to the point of not seeing... 66 00:11:44,396 --> 00:11:46,079 not hearing... 67 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:48,452 dying. 68 00:12:48,822 --> 00:12:53,285 Lepers burst like sacks of dust, you know. 69 00:12:54,593 --> 00:12:59,260 - Don't suffer? - No, feel nothing. 70 00:13:33,860 --> 00:13:37,016 She's there by the Ganges, under the trees. 71 00:13:38,875 --> 00:13:41,085 She has forgotten. 72 00:14:44,985 --> 00:14:48,731 - The French Vice-Consul from Lahore. - Yes. 73 00:14:49,772 --> 00:14:52,207 Sent to Calcutta in disgrace. 74 00:15:39,842 --> 00:15:41,734 He's come back to the grounds? 75 00:15:42,713 --> 00:15:44,033 Yes. 76 00:15:45,345 --> 00:15:47,837 He comes every night. 77 00:16:09,582 --> 00:16:11,580 The tennis court, deserted. 78 00:16:23,523 --> 00:16:26,233 Anne-Marie Stretter's red bicycle. 79 00:16:58,868 --> 00:17:00,921 Where is the one in black? 80 00:17:02,083 --> 00:17:04,021 Out driving. 81 00:17:04,376 --> 00:17:08,623 She comes back with the night. 82 00:17:12,735 --> 00:17:16,566 The black Lancia has just entered the grounds. 83 00:17:59,369 --> 00:18:03,440 She hunts at night in the depths of the Ganges. 84 00:18:04,310 --> 00:18:06,332 For food. 85 00:19:22,314 --> 00:19:24,365 Dead on the islands 86 00:19:26,967 --> 00:19:32,101 - Her eyes pierced with light, dead. - Yes. 87 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,817 Beneath that stone. 88 00:19:35,653 --> 00:19:39,261 Around her, a bend in the Ganges... 89 00:20:23,573 --> 00:20:27,460 Four o'clock. Darkest night. 90 00:20:29,805 --> 00:20:32,847 - No one's asleep? - No one. 91 00:20:36,335 --> 00:20:38,322 What heat! 92 00:20:39,330 --> 00:20:40,996 Impossible. 93 00:20:41,751 --> 00:20:43,460 Terrible. 94 00:20:45,499 --> 00:20:47,584 Another storm... 95 00:20:48,228 --> 00:20:50,896 coming to Bengal... 96 00:20:51,638 --> 00:20:53,689 coming from the islands. 97 00:20:54,610 --> 00:20:58,681 From the estuaries, inexhaustible... 98 00:21:08,553 --> 00:21:13,950 - What's that sound? - Her, crying. 99 00:21:17,181 --> 00:21:20,828 - She isn't suffering, is she? - No. 100 00:21:21,773 --> 00:21:25,125 Leprosy. Leprosy of the heart. 101 00:22:36,284 --> 00:22:41,051 - Can't bear it? - No, can't bear it. 102 00:22:41,656 --> 00:22:44,408 India, can't bear it. 103 00:22:57,190 --> 00:22:59,339 She's sleeping. 104 00:23:11,509 --> 00:23:13,928 He loved her more than anything in the world. 105 00:23:14,625 --> 00:23:16,599 More than that. 106 00:23:20,686 --> 00:23:24,712 Michael Richardson set up a marine insurance business... 107 00:23:25,165 --> 00:23:28,560 in Bengal, to stay with her in India. 108 00:23:37,602 --> 00:23:39,861 Listen... 109 00:23:41,035 --> 00:23:43,227 The Ganges fishermen. 110 00:23:59,908 --> 00:24:01,920 What a night! 111 00:24:04,415 --> 00:24:06,473 What heat! 112 00:24:07,450 --> 00:24:09,196 All-embracing... 113 00:24:10,683 --> 00:24:12,704 Deathly... 114 00:24:18,957 --> 00:24:22,853 From behind the plants in the bar she watches them. 115 00:24:24,485 --> 00:24:26,844 Only at dawn... 116 00:24:28,431 --> 00:24:32,047 when the lovers went toward the door of the ballroom... 117 00:24:33,306 --> 00:24:36,533 did Lola Valérie Stein utter a cry. 118 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,293 Didn't hear anything else. 119 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,058 Didn't see anything else. 120 00:24:46,031 --> 00:24:48,101 This crime in her past. 121 00:24:49,019 --> 00:24:50,435 Yes. 122 00:24:57,970 --> 00:24:59,411 Rain. 123 00:24:59,737 --> 00:25:01,089 Yes. 124 00:25:01,334 --> 00:25:03,333 Cool. 125 00:25:24,214 --> 00:25:27,814 Her music, that was Venice. 126 00:25:28,496 --> 00:25:30,946 A promising artist. 127 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,268 - Never gave up playing? - Never. 128 00:25:50,820 --> 00:25:53,906 Ana Maria Guardi. 129 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:55,552 Yes. 130 00:26:05,050 --> 00:26:07,259 The first marriage? 131 00:26:08,102 --> 00:26:12,240 - The first post? - Savannakhet, Laos. 132 00:26:14,057 --> 00:26:19,333 To a French colonial civil servant. She's 18. 133 00:26:21,095 --> 00:26:23,029 Oh yes, a river... 134 00:26:24,703 --> 00:26:26,448 already... 135 00:26:26,833 --> 00:26:29,076 she's sitting by a river, 136 00:26:29,442 --> 00:26:31,089 and she's looking. 137 00:26:31,739 --> 00:26:33,563 The Mekong. 138 00:26:35,413 --> 00:26:39,266 - She's silent? Crying? - Yes. 139 00:26:39,679 --> 00:26:42,505 They say: "She won't get used to it". 140 00:26:42,788 --> 00:26:44,843 "She'll have to be sent back to Europe." 141 00:26:45,847 --> 00:26:50,051 - She couldn't bear it, already? - Already. 142 00:26:52,024 --> 00:26:54,441 Caught behind gates. 143 00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:57,851 The government house grounds 144 00:26:58,981 --> 00:27:01,968 - Those sentries? - The guard. 145 00:27:04,668 --> 00:27:07,963 - Already couldn't bear it. - No. 146 00:27:12,681 --> 00:27:16,598 One day, a government launch stops... 147 00:27:17,676 --> 00:27:21,806 Monsieur Stretter is inspecting the Mekong posts. 148 00:27:23,334 --> 00:27:27,712 - Takes her away to Savannakhet? - Yes, takes her with him. 149 00:27:28,934 --> 00:27:32,885 For 17 years, through the capitals of Asia. 150 00:27:34,133 --> 00:27:38,185 You find her in Peking, again in Mandalay. 151 00:27:39,317 --> 00:27:42,728 In Bangkok... you find her in Bangkok. 152 00:27:43,508 --> 00:27:46,166 In Rangoon... In Sydney. 153 00:27:47,239 --> 00:27:49,252 You find her in Lahore... 154 00:27:49,653 --> 00:27:51,638 17 years. 155 00:27:53,177 --> 00:27:57,551 She's in Calcutta... Calcutta... 156 00:27:58,303 --> 00:27:59,994 She dies. 157 00:28:06,385 --> 00:28:09,382 - Who's the other man? - A friend passing through. 158 00:28:10,191 --> 00:28:12,276 A friend of Stretter. 159 00:28:14,017 --> 00:28:16,209 Whoever wants her, has her. 160 00:28:16,903 --> 00:28:19,208 He gives her. 161 00:28:20,420 --> 00:28:23,213 - Love. - Yes. 162 00:28:25,479 --> 00:28:27,222 Splendor. 163 00:28:29,603 --> 00:28:33,611 "Anne-Marie Stretter" written on the grave? 164 00:28:35,061 --> 00:28:38,321 "Ana Maria Guardi", 165 00:28:39,008 --> 00:28:40,853 but worn away. 166 00:28:55,535 --> 00:28:57,571 Every night... 167 00:28:59,688 --> 00:29:01,537 looks at her. 168 00:29:04,032 --> 00:29:07,968 - Has never spoken to her? - Never. 169 00:29:09,542 --> 00:29:12,187 Never approached any woman. 170 00:29:16,275 --> 00:29:19,816 - The male virgin of Lahore. - Yes. 171 00:30:18,929 --> 00:30:23,108 - Those gleams over there? - The burning ghats. 172 00:30:25,636 --> 00:30:28,262 Burning those who died of hunger? 173 00:30:28,776 --> 00:30:30,204 Yes. 174 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,346 It's dawn. 175 00:30:45,511 --> 00:30:47,286 He had fired a gun in Lahore. 176 00:30:47,580 --> 00:30:50,762 One night, from his balcony, 177 00:30:50,974 --> 00:30:54,136 he fired on the lepers of the Shalimar Gardens. 178 00:30:56,197 --> 00:30:58,864 - Couldn't bear it? - No. 179 00:31:00,253 --> 00:31:02,999 - India, couldn't bear it? - No. 180 00:31:04,481 --> 00:31:06,624 What about India? 181 00:31:08,898 --> 00:31:10,559 The idea. 182 00:31:27,755 --> 00:31:32,019 There was a reception at the French embassy? 183 00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:33,824 Yes. 184 00:31:52,956 --> 00:31:55,336 The park stretches down to the Ganges. 185 00:31:56,223 --> 00:32:01,321 The offices are on this side. You see? Those Grey buildings. 186 00:32:02,118 --> 00:32:06,301 Farther away, the tennis courts, deserted during the monsoon. 187 00:32:07,798 --> 00:32:10,041 Almost no one is dancing? 188 00:32:10,673 --> 00:32:13,507 In this heat, how could you? 189 00:32:14,329 --> 00:32:17,240 The only remedy, immobility. 190 00:32:17,650 --> 00:32:20,716 Slowness... Slow down the blood. 191 00:32:21,030 --> 00:32:24,275 The smell of mud. Insipid. 192 00:32:25,107 --> 00:32:28,093 The Ganges, low tide. 193 00:32:53,506 --> 00:32:55,697 The new Austrian attaché. 194 00:32:56,730 --> 00:32:58,480 Been here a month. 195 00:32:59,596 --> 00:33:03,611 - He can't get used to India. - His first time here? 196 00:33:04,416 --> 00:33:05,659 Yes. 197 00:33:07,023 --> 00:33:08,800 He'll come again. 198 00:33:09,427 --> 00:33:12,785 - He'll go to the islands. - How can you tell? 199 00:33:14,365 --> 00:33:16,972 The anguish in his eyes. 200 00:33:18,261 --> 00:33:20,899 She can't bear people who get used to India. 201 00:33:21,415 --> 00:33:25,113 The Ambassador asks people to the islands for his wife. 202 00:33:27,418 --> 00:33:28,990 She goes alone to the islands. 203 00:33:29,469 --> 00:33:32,158 The Ambassador goes hunting in Nepal. 204 00:33:32,622 --> 00:33:34,522 They say her lovers are English, 205 00:33:34,786 --> 00:33:38,967 don't mix with the embassies, and that the Ambassador knows. 206 00:33:45,873 --> 00:33:47,969 A friend of the Stretters'. 207 00:33:48,859 --> 00:33:50,801 Unknown in Calcutta. 208 00:34:09,086 --> 00:34:12,411 With this humidity the pianos are detuned. 209 00:34:16,941 --> 00:34:20,393 The French Vice-Consul has just entered the park. 210 00:34:21,088 --> 00:34:25,049 At the last minute she sent him a card: "Come". 211 00:34:26,304 --> 00:34:28,236 Just what did he do? 212 00:34:29,214 --> 00:34:32,797 The worst... killed. 213 00:34:33,348 --> 00:34:36,468 - In Lahore. - The official version? 214 00:34:37,266 --> 00:34:40,759 Nerves gave way. Often happens. 215 00:34:41,487 --> 00:34:44,069 - Easy to say. - Yes. 216 00:34:47,876 --> 00:34:51,478 His face... as if grafted. 217 00:34:52,284 --> 00:34:54,903 Very pale. 218 00:34:57,407 --> 00:34:59,995 She could have spared us his presence. 219 00:35:00,943 --> 00:35:03,452 An outcast in Lahore too? 220 00:35:04,287 --> 00:35:05,608 There too. 221 00:35:05,874 --> 00:35:08,930 He just escaped being dismissed. 222 00:35:09,427 --> 00:35:12,237 The ambassador intervened. 223 00:35:14,505 --> 00:35:18,749 Closed circles in India make me think of leprosy. 224 00:35:30,654 --> 00:35:37,256 Perhaps he drank? - No. Drunkenness is the same for us all here. 225 00:35:37,831 --> 00:35:39,557 We talk about going home. 226 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,897 No, he didn't drink. 227 00:35:45,792 --> 00:35:48,459 The Ambassador asked the young attaché 228 00:35:48,687 --> 00:35:52,127 to have a word with him. 229 00:35:52,777 --> 00:35:54,532 He tries. 230 00:35:55,297 --> 00:35:58,907 He turns away. Can't bear it. 231 00:35:59,649 --> 00:36:01,990 Any of it. 232 00:36:06,624 --> 00:36:08,298 He laughs. 233 00:36:09,048 --> 00:36:12,144 As if he were suddenly mad with joy. 234 00:36:12,702 --> 00:36:14,747 Look... 235 00:36:16,356 --> 00:36:20,357 Perhaps he's just seen Madame Stretter... perhaps. 236 00:36:22,022 --> 00:36:26,753 - You mean... - I wonder... perhaps. 237 00:36:32,990 --> 00:36:35,695 Did he talk about Lahore? 238 00:36:36,573 --> 00:36:40,722 Only to her. Near dawn. 239 00:36:43,122 --> 00:36:46,609 He fired at night, on the Shalimar Gardens... 240 00:36:47,398 --> 00:36:50,076 on lepers, dogs. 241 00:36:51,574 --> 00:36:56,454 But they found bullets in the mirrors in his house in Lahore, too. 242 00:36:58,127 --> 00:37:00,580 Shooting at himself... 243 00:37:03,690 --> 00:37:07,607 Roses arrived every day from Nepal. 244 00:37:09,068 --> 00:37:12,391 She gave them out at the end of the ball. 245 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,230 After lunch, people sink... Heavy sleep. 246 00:37:20,476 --> 00:37:23,788 Yet everyone waits for something like that. 247 00:37:23,996 --> 00:37:28,973 Storms are expected. Just a hole in the sky. 248 00:37:29,900 --> 00:37:31,947 It fills in straight away. 249 00:37:41,142 --> 00:37:42,841 How white she is! 250 00:37:43,265 --> 00:37:45,628 How white they are, the women of Calcutta! 251 00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:50,159 For six months, out only in the evening 252 00:37:50,695 --> 00:37:52,310 Fleeing the sun. 253 00:37:59,205 --> 00:38:02,205 Seems imprisoned in a kind of suffering. 254 00:38:06,167 --> 00:38:09,336 No one really knows what goes on behind these walls. 255 00:38:09,975 --> 00:38:11,810 What she does. 256 00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:15,384 Cycling very early in the morning, 257 00:38:15,665 --> 00:38:17,247 in the grounds. 258 00:38:17,796 --> 00:38:21,390 Playing tennis, She reads, they say. 259 00:38:22,221 --> 00:38:25,099 Parcels of books come from Venice for her. 260 00:38:27,048 --> 00:38:28,546 She goes to the islands. 261 00:38:29,001 --> 00:38:30,909 Appearances... 262 00:38:50,361 --> 00:38:54,468 Only one person sees him. The director of the European club. 263 00:38:55,052 --> 00:38:56,653 A drunkard. 264 00:38:58,906 --> 00:39:03,093 All he said to the director was repeated to the Ambassador. 265 00:39:03,461 --> 00:39:06,143 - It's horrid! - You don't understand. 266 00:39:06,866 --> 00:39:11,772 He knew it would be repeated. That's why he spoke to the director. 267 00:39:12,583 --> 00:39:16,758 A way to reach her, this woman. 268 00:39:20,603 --> 00:39:24,626 He said he was entitled to Madame Stretter's attentions, 269 00:39:25,073 --> 00:39:27,017 to her love, 270 00:39:27,299 --> 00:39:29,474 as much as the others... 271 00:39:30,983 --> 00:39:33,450 Her lovers from Calcutta... 272 00:39:38,622 --> 00:39:41,883 At night, near the tennis courts... 273 00:39:42,999 --> 00:39:44,908 this bicycle... 274 00:39:46,565 --> 00:39:50,420 He says: "A thing she had touched". 275 00:39:53,381 --> 00:39:54,583 No... 276 00:39:55,917 --> 00:39:58,293 that can't be repeated. 277 00:40:08,651 --> 00:40:11,720 Of this passion, she said nothing. 278 00:40:12,414 --> 00:40:13,993 Nothing. 279 00:40:20,443 --> 00:40:24,697 He said he regretted not making a convincing report of Lahore. 280 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,120 Convincing? 281 00:40:28,926 --> 00:40:30,729 I remember the word. 282 00:40:31,849 --> 00:40:35,456 - What's known of his background? - Lived in Neuilly. 283 00:40:35,944 --> 00:40:38,152 Father worked in a bank. 284 00:40:40,304 --> 00:40:43,211 Mother left the father, then died. 285 00:40:43,522 --> 00:40:47,857 Expelled from various schools... At 15, a disciplinary school. 286 00:40:49,332 --> 00:40:51,481 An aunt writes sometimes. 287 00:40:55,742 --> 00:40:58,004 Look at his eyes. 288 00:40:58,865 --> 00:41:00,417 He's crying. 289 00:41:01,826 --> 00:41:03,686 He seems unaware of it. 290 00:41:05,486 --> 00:41:11,539 He seems to be in a state... of tears. 291 00:42:13,157 --> 00:42:14,937 What do you want? 292 00:42:16,243 --> 00:42:17,802 To talk to you. 293 00:42:18,458 --> 00:42:20,342 What about? 294 00:42:21,381 --> 00:42:23,658 Your next post. 295 00:42:24,515 --> 00:42:28,304 The voice is toneless, as if he was trying not to shout. 296 00:42:29,023 --> 00:42:31,462 You can't get used to it either? 297 00:42:33,034 --> 00:42:36,699 No. the heat, of course... 298 00:42:38,465 --> 00:42:40,824 but also the monotony. 299 00:42:41,310 --> 00:42:42,901 The light... 300 00:42:43,846 --> 00:42:45,894 no colour. 301 00:42:51,073 --> 00:42:54,297 But you... before Lahore... 302 00:42:55,980 --> 00:42:58,615 would you have preferred something else? 303 00:42:59,339 --> 00:43:00,883 No. 304 00:43:01,656 --> 00:43:04,283 Lahore was what I wanted. 305 00:43:07,130 --> 00:43:09,240 Come to the bar. 306 00:43:11,887 --> 00:43:13,591 What are you afraid of? 307 00:43:17,124 --> 00:43:19,674 They say you'd like Bombay. 308 00:43:20,759 --> 00:43:23,381 I wish to stay in Calcutta. 309 00:43:23,977 --> 00:43:26,431 I don't think that's possible. 310 00:43:27,054 --> 00:43:29,678 Then leave it to the Consular Service. 311 00:43:31,550 --> 00:43:33,544 They can send me where they like. 312 00:43:35,770 --> 00:43:39,005 Bombay is less crowded. The climate is better. 313 00:43:39,335 --> 00:43:41,934 The nearness of the sea is an advantage. 314 00:43:45,835 --> 00:43:48,779 I haven't asked to see my file. 315 00:43:51,327 --> 00:43:53,247 What does it say? 316 00:43:54,563 --> 00:43:57,152 That Lahore... 317 00:43:57,384 --> 00:43:59,539 what you did in Lahore... 318 00:44:01,713 --> 00:44:07,121 People can't understand. No matter how hard they try. 319 00:44:07,837 --> 00:44:09,561 No one. 320 00:44:11,816 --> 00:44:13,546 No one? 321 00:44:24,455 --> 00:44:27,952 What are you doing? Come along. 322 00:44:31,409 --> 00:44:33,556 I'm listening to "India Song". 323 00:44:41,623 --> 00:44:44,355 I came to India because of "India Song". 324 00:44:51,705 --> 00:44:54,564 That tune makes me want to love. 325 00:45:06,656 --> 00:45:08,463 I have never loved. 326 00:45:11,464 --> 00:45:13,478 I had never loved anyone. 327 00:45:39,567 --> 00:45:44,117 He saw himself photographed, in a rocking chair by the Gulf of Oman. 328 00:45:45,740 --> 00:45:47,302 Then, one morning... 329 00:45:48,116 --> 00:45:51,404 on the way to his office, he saw her in the park... 330 00:45:52,093 --> 00:45:53,904 by the tennis courts... 331 00:45:54,884 --> 00:45:56,018 in white. 332 00:45:56,335 --> 00:45:58,997 What a story! What passion! 333 00:45:59,254 --> 00:46:01,723 He left everything for her. 334 00:46:04,312 --> 00:46:07,317 Some close friends stayed after the reception. 335 00:46:10,174 --> 00:46:12,079 The passion sometimes... 336 00:46:12,847 --> 00:46:15,956 Those European suicides that increase with the hunger 337 00:46:16,263 --> 00:46:17,667 that they never suffer... 338 00:46:18,466 --> 00:46:22,942 In its internal law, that culpability of the West... 339 00:46:25,083 --> 00:46:26,991 It is absurd, clear. 340 00:46:28,537 --> 00:46:31,491 Shanghai... Did you see the photos of the bombing? 341 00:46:32,624 --> 00:46:36,181 The first attempt in Savannakhet... 342 00:46:37,978 --> 00:46:39,598 because of a dead body, 343 00:46:39,866 --> 00:46:42,778 abandoned by its mother, a beggar from the north, 344 00:46:43,108 --> 00:46:45,589 in the government house grounds... 345 00:46:46,792 --> 00:46:48,589 outside her room... 346 00:46:57,204 --> 00:47:00,222 No woman in Lahore knew him enough... 347 00:47:01,325 --> 00:47:03,404 to shed any light on... 348 00:47:03,885 --> 00:47:06,661 - No woman. - How terrible! 349 00:47:08,795 --> 00:47:11,748 No one has ever visited him in Lahore. 350 00:47:12,544 --> 00:47:16,463 That's how he wanted to be, a virgin alone, 351 00:47:17,568 --> 00:47:19,575 waiting for love. 352 00:47:27,451 --> 00:47:31,617 Death all around you, never quite reaching you. 353 00:47:32,175 --> 00:47:33,684 What are you talking about? 354 00:47:34,247 --> 00:47:37,491 The Vice-Consul who is looking for Madame Stretter. 355 00:47:40,868 --> 00:47:42,963 She has been leaving receptions 356 00:47:43,194 --> 00:47:45,565 more and more often. 357 00:48:29,095 --> 00:48:31,872 It was bound to happen. Look... 358 00:48:32,403 --> 00:48:35,531 He is going over to Madame Stretter. 359 00:48:38,316 --> 00:48:39,865 Did you see? 360 00:48:40,364 --> 00:48:41,650 How subtle! 361 00:48:42,709 --> 00:48:45,397 How cleverly he saved his wife... 362 00:48:46,610 --> 00:48:49,954 - Where are they going? - Into the second drawing room. 363 00:48:50,292 --> 00:48:54,237 Sooner or later the Ambassador had to talk with him. 364 00:48:54,568 --> 00:48:56,260 So you see... 365 00:48:59,645 --> 00:49:01,490 He's asked for champagne. 366 00:49:09,776 --> 00:49:13,308 If I've got it right, you'd like Bombay? 367 00:49:14,706 --> 00:49:18,012 But in Bombay you couldn't have the same job as Lahore. 368 00:49:19,824 --> 00:49:21,679 It's still too soon. 369 00:49:23,590 --> 00:49:28,301 If you stay here for a while, people will forget. 370 00:49:31,359 --> 00:49:33,638 Or I can keep you in Calcutta. 371 00:49:34,576 --> 00:49:35,753 Yes. 372 00:49:37,483 --> 00:49:41,136 A strange thing, a career. 373 00:49:41,660 --> 00:49:45,195 If you forget Lahore, so will others. 374 00:49:45,524 --> 00:49:47,283 I won't forget Lahore. 375 00:49:52,542 --> 00:49:54,610 There are remedies... 376 00:49:55,817 --> 00:49:58,652 for this sort of nervousness, 377 00:50:00,013 --> 00:50:01,280 as it is called. 378 00:50:02,476 --> 00:50:04,905 - You know. - No! 379 00:50:08,547 --> 00:50:11,091 At the beginning, everyone, myself included... 380 00:50:11,705 --> 00:50:13,851 we feel the same. 381 00:50:15,001 --> 00:50:17,568 It's a question of finding, 382 00:50:18,109 --> 00:50:20,083 inventing... 383 00:50:20,869 --> 00:50:22,863 a way of looking at things. 384 00:50:24,915 --> 00:50:26,734 I haven't. 385 00:50:28,852 --> 00:50:30,676 I see nothing. 386 00:50:32,138 --> 00:50:33,925 Go back to Paris. 387 00:50:34,198 --> 00:50:37,480 No... It's impossible. 388 00:50:55,751 --> 00:50:58,520 The Mekong, at Savannakhet, 389 00:50:58,696 --> 00:51:02,771 flowing yellow between forest and rice fields. 390 00:51:04,261 --> 00:51:07,531 In those days the launches were slow. 391 00:51:07,842 --> 00:51:09,804 It took days... 392 00:51:11,285 --> 00:51:15,704 At sunset, the mosquitoes... We couldn't see a thing. 393 00:51:16,031 --> 00:51:18,874 Black clusters on the netting. 394 00:51:19,082 --> 00:51:21,896 The Ambassador wrote poetry. 395 00:51:22,187 --> 00:51:26,183 - It's said she discouraged it. - The banks can't be seen when it rains. 396 00:51:27,020 --> 00:51:28,773 The sky is low. 397 00:51:29,933 --> 00:51:31,738 The water, muddy. 398 00:51:33,542 --> 00:51:37,629 When he met her, she was so young, and he, already... 399 00:51:39,103 --> 00:51:41,889 They're great friends. 400 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,039 He took her away from Savannakhet? 401 00:51:46,513 --> 00:51:48,270 No one knows. 402 00:51:48,739 --> 00:51:51,980 She courted death in Savannakhet. 403 00:51:52,358 --> 00:51:53,589 So young. 404 00:51:53,848 --> 00:51:56,396 You must come with us to the islands. 405 00:51:57,811 --> 00:52:00,120 The Embassy villa was built a long time ago. 406 00:52:00,496 --> 00:52:02,268 It's worth seeing. 407 00:52:03,009 --> 00:52:05,224 And also the islands of the delta. 408 00:52:05,567 --> 00:52:07,371 I'd be pleased to come. 409 00:52:15,259 --> 00:52:21,026 Perhaps what she did was music... 410 00:52:22,392 --> 00:52:27,851 behind those walls. Prisoner of that suffering, so old. 411 00:52:28,892 --> 00:52:30,726 Painless. 412 00:52:31,653 --> 00:52:33,913 A leprosy of the heart. 413 00:52:37,380 --> 00:52:41,987 Yet sometimes, in the grounds, those tears... 414 00:52:43,599 --> 00:52:46,127 The light of the monsoon... 415 00:52:47,333 --> 00:52:49,642 so harsh... 416 00:52:49,993 --> 00:52:53,769 and her eyes so clear that tears... 417 00:53:10,617 --> 00:53:12,069 Tell me about her. 418 00:53:13,460 --> 00:53:15,493 Irreproachable. 419 00:53:15,661 --> 00:53:17,392 Here that means... 420 00:53:18,625 --> 00:53:21,326 nothing that you can see. 421 00:53:27,587 --> 00:53:30,772 After Venice, she gave no more concerts? 422 00:53:31,777 --> 00:53:34,107 No, never. 423 00:53:47,039 --> 00:53:48,434 Have they met? 424 00:53:51,462 --> 00:53:53,881 They must have seen each other in the grounds. 425 00:54:03,454 --> 00:54:05,274 What is he looking at? 426 00:54:05,618 --> 00:54:09,151 Madame Stretter, dancing with the young attaché. 427 00:54:30,708 --> 00:54:35,306 Listen carefully, to her voice, the accent. 428 00:54:37,585 --> 00:54:40,189 Perhaps that's what makes her seem distant. 429 00:54:40,607 --> 00:54:45,527 - That origin. - Yes, maybe that too... 430 00:54:50,763 --> 00:54:53,156 I wish I were you... 431 00:54:53,679 --> 00:54:57,600 arriving here for the first time, with the rains. 432 00:55:00,083 --> 00:55:02,142 You aren't bored? 433 00:55:03,308 --> 00:55:05,650 What do you do in the evenings? 434 00:55:06,324 --> 00:55:08,683 On Sundays? 435 00:55:09,197 --> 00:55:11,323 I read, sleep. 436 00:55:11,708 --> 00:55:13,634 I don't really know. 437 00:55:15,167 --> 00:55:18,343 Boredom, of course, is so personal. 438 00:55:18,591 --> 00:55:20,872 It's hard to give advice. 439 00:55:22,439 --> 00:55:24,147 I don't think I'm bored. 440 00:55:26,045 --> 00:55:29,919 Then again, it may not be as serious as they say. 441 00:55:33,575 --> 00:55:37,878 Thank you for sending the parcels of books up so promptly. 442 00:55:38,673 --> 00:55:40,944 A pleasure. 443 00:55:43,801 --> 00:55:48,970 You know, one could say 444 00:55:49,694 --> 00:55:51,794 almost nothing is possible in India. 445 00:55:52,799 --> 00:55:54,474 What do you mean? 446 00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:58,344 Nothing. 447 00:55:59,372 --> 00:56:01,790 That this general despondency... 448 00:56:05,048 --> 00:56:09,018 It's neither painful nor pleasant to live in India. 449 00:56:09,565 --> 00:56:11,874 Neither easy nor difficult. 450 00:56:13,169 --> 00:56:14,837 It's nothing. 451 00:56:15,183 --> 00:56:17,066 You see? Nothing. 452 00:56:23,295 --> 00:56:25,746 You mean it's impossible? 453 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,216 Well... perhaps, yes. 454 00:56:31,845 --> 00:56:35,661 But then, you know it's probably an over-simplification. 455 00:56:39,815 --> 00:56:42,504 The Vice-Consul is looking at you. 456 00:56:45,173 --> 00:56:47,641 He's been doing so all evening. 457 00:56:49,684 --> 00:56:51,433 You didn't notice? 458 00:56:53,987 --> 00:56:57,010 Where is he hoping to be posted? 459 00:56:58,627 --> 00:57:00,369 Here in Calcutta. 460 00:57:01,727 --> 00:57:03,277 Really? 461 00:57:05,908 --> 00:57:08,145 I thought you knew already. 462 00:57:24,886 --> 00:57:26,770 They say you're Venetian. 463 00:57:29,371 --> 00:57:33,061 My father was French. My mother was from Venice. 464 00:57:33,296 --> 00:57:35,284 I kept her name. 465 00:57:36,893 --> 00:57:39,250 At first, I would have said English. 466 00:57:40,133 --> 00:57:41,779 That happens. 467 00:57:45,150 --> 00:57:48,667 Are there any who never get used to it? 468 00:57:53,861 --> 00:57:56,593 Almost everyone does. 469 00:58:08,645 --> 00:58:12,367 Did my husband mention the islands? 470 00:58:14,238 --> 00:58:15,900 I'd be pleased to come. 471 00:58:18,693 --> 00:58:20,836 You write, I believe? 472 00:58:23,099 --> 00:58:26,329 I once thought I could. 473 00:58:27,235 --> 00:58:28,897 Did someone tell you? 474 00:58:29,396 --> 00:58:31,601 Yes. But I would have guessed. 475 00:58:32,650 --> 00:58:35,039 Your way of being silent. 476 00:58:36,177 --> 00:58:37,845 I gave it up. 477 00:58:39,457 --> 00:58:41,486 Monsieur Stretter used to write? 478 00:58:43,251 --> 00:58:46,672 He used to, yes. He too, and then... 479 00:58:47,924 --> 00:58:49,529 And you? 480 00:58:50,445 --> 00:58:52,476 I never tried. 481 00:58:54,486 --> 00:58:56,892 You think it's not worth it, don't you? 482 00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,948 Well... Yes, if you like. 483 00:59:04,495 --> 00:59:06,240 You play music? 484 00:59:08,684 --> 00:59:10,215 Sometimes. 485 00:59:10,910 --> 00:59:12,948 Less, in the last few years. 486 00:59:13,700 --> 00:59:15,227 Why? 487 00:59:18,701 --> 00:59:20,826 Hard to put into words. 488 00:59:23,670 --> 00:59:25,362 Tell me. 489 00:59:28,088 --> 00:59:31,595 A sort of pain is linked to music... 490 00:59:32,051 --> 00:59:34,451 for some time now, for me. 491 00:59:37,893 --> 00:59:41,855 In Venice, already, very young, 18 years old, 492 00:59:42,396 --> 00:59:45,715 music, to the point of madness. 493 00:59:46,095 --> 00:59:51,191 Until a sort of suicide, already. 494 00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:55,385 She says she no longer knows how to play. 495 00:59:57,375 --> 00:59:59,427 What's happening? 496 00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:03,554 The Vice-Consul is dancing with the Spanish ambassador's wife. 497 01:00:03,823 --> 01:00:05,631 He's talking of leprosy. 498 01:00:09,974 --> 01:00:12,336 Will you have to dance with him? 499 01:00:14,397 --> 01:00:17,158 I don't have to do anything, but... 500 01:00:20,191 --> 01:00:22,525 He was here last night... 501 01:00:23,030 --> 01:00:24,826 near the tennis courts. 502 01:00:25,510 --> 01:00:27,310 He sleeps badly. 503 01:00:28,234 --> 01:00:31,178 - She broke away from him... - What happened? 504 01:00:31,450 --> 01:00:33,414 Something he said, 505 01:00:34,365 --> 01:00:36,265 must have frightened her. 506 01:00:36,610 --> 01:00:38,305 What do people fear? 507 01:00:38,456 --> 01:00:41,792 Repulsion is a feeling you know nothing about. 508 01:00:44,984 --> 01:00:46,524 I don't understand. 509 01:00:47,676 --> 01:00:49,720 What do you mean? 510 01:00:51,385 --> 01:00:53,002 Horror... 511 01:00:59,392 --> 01:01:01,589 Come to the bar. 512 01:01:02,071 --> 01:01:04,201 I'm an old friend of Madame Stretter. 513 01:01:04,502 --> 01:01:06,720 We've not met. George Crown. 514 01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:09,239 Help yourselves. 515 01:01:10,099 --> 01:01:11,736 There's no one at the bar. 516 01:01:12,194 --> 01:01:16,768 - His words are a diversion. - Ready to flee. 517 01:01:17,972 --> 01:01:19,497 And yet... 518 01:01:20,233 --> 01:01:22,045 He's still looking at you. 519 01:01:22,755 --> 01:01:25,351 Seems she doesn't dare go out in the park. 520 01:01:28,264 --> 01:01:30,795 What is he talking about with that man from the club? 521 01:01:31,088 --> 01:01:34,863 Childhood. And her, the French Ambassador's wife. 522 01:01:35,371 --> 01:01:37,643 Why is he waiting to leave? 523 01:01:37,815 --> 01:01:40,949 To be thrown out, probably. 524 01:01:42,784 --> 01:01:46,142 - The mad beggar woman. - The one who laughs. 525 01:01:46,628 --> 01:01:48,544 It is said she's from Laos 526 01:01:49,373 --> 01:01:51,711 It doesn't seem possible... 527 01:01:52,241 --> 01:01:55,915 - A beggar woman is in the grounds. - I Know. 528 01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,612 The one who sings. Don't you know her? 529 01:01:59,743 --> 01:02:02,148 But no, you're new to Calcutta. 530 01:02:04,407 --> 01:02:08,365 She sings, I believe, a song from Savannakhet. 531 01:02:09,694 --> 01:02:11,412 In Laos. 532 01:02:12,656 --> 01:02:14,602 She intrigues us. 533 01:02:15,911 --> 01:02:18,901 I keep thinking it can't be possible. 534 01:02:19,214 --> 01:02:22,227 We're thousands of miles from Indochina. 535 01:02:23,652 --> 01:02:25,459 How could she? 536 01:02:27,857 --> 01:02:32,190 I've heard her in the avenue, early in the morning. 537 01:02:34,257 --> 01:02:35,957 It's a happy song. 538 01:02:36,773 --> 01:02:38,717 Children sing it over there. 539 01:02:41,763 --> 01:02:44,415 She must have come down the river valleys. 540 01:02:46,971 --> 01:02:50,338 But how did she manage to cross the Cardamoms? 541 01:02:52,588 --> 01:02:54,262 She's completely mad. 542 01:02:56,208 --> 01:02:58,447 Yes. But she's alive 543 01:03:00,542 --> 01:03:02,548 She comes to the islands sometimes. 544 01:03:03,253 --> 01:03:04,596 How? 545 01:03:05,733 --> 01:03:07,310 No one knows. 546 01:03:08,740 --> 01:03:10,727 Perhaps she follows you. 547 01:03:11,700 --> 01:03:13,525 Follows the whites. 548 01:03:14,937 --> 01:03:18,427 That happens. For food. 549 01:05:10,463 --> 01:05:13,481 - Where is he? - By the bar. 550 01:05:13,792 --> 01:05:16,509 Drinks too much. It'll end badly. 551 01:05:21,644 --> 01:05:24,576 We could see him at night through the window of his room. 552 01:05:24,868 --> 01:05:26,427 Pacing... 553 01:05:26,707 --> 01:05:28,941 Pacing, day and night. 554 01:05:29,809 --> 01:05:32,465 Day and night. 555 01:05:34,377 --> 01:05:36,817 He'd call down death on Lahore. 556 01:05:37,202 --> 01:05:38,822 And fire. 557 01:05:39,193 --> 01:05:40,897 He shouted too. 558 01:05:41,326 --> 01:05:43,224 Disconnected words. 559 01:05:44,515 --> 01:05:46,189 And laughed. 560 01:05:52,519 --> 01:05:57,459 Isn't there in each of us a chance, just one... 561 01:05:57,828 --> 01:05:59,995 of being like him in Lahore? 562 01:06:00,559 --> 01:06:04,473 But one knows about leprosy before coming. One knows. 563 01:06:31,993 --> 01:06:36,763 Perhaps he thought the gardens were empty. In that light... 564 01:06:37,012 --> 01:06:38,909 that fog... 565 01:06:42,053 --> 01:06:45,806 Look at the sky... sick. 566 01:06:46,411 --> 01:06:51,841 That thickness... that dirt, throughout the night. 567 01:06:52,728 --> 01:06:55,304 He said he wanted leprosy. 568 01:06:55,788 --> 01:06:57,999 He is anger itself. 569 01:06:58,367 --> 01:07:00,984 Against whom? Against what? 570 01:07:01,314 --> 01:07:04,034 Doesn't need a reason. 571 01:07:16,786 --> 01:07:19,598 They're dancing. Look. 572 01:07:19,913 --> 01:07:22,090 She's always loved dancing. 573 01:07:26,253 --> 01:07:31,522 Some months ago, in Chandernagore, they were found in a cheap hotel. 574 01:07:32,119 --> 01:07:34,228 Trying to die together. 575 01:07:39,453 --> 01:07:41,460 Hard to believe. 576 01:07:44,300 --> 01:07:46,771 An ambulance back to Calcutta. 577 01:07:47,542 --> 01:07:49,623 The truth came out in the end. 578 01:07:52,428 --> 01:07:57,994 For no reason, they say. "Indifference to life". 579 01:07:59,867 --> 01:08:01,908 Or the opposite. 580 01:08:03,196 --> 01:08:04,982 People confuse things. 581 01:08:05,663 --> 01:08:09,633 No. There's a definite equivalence. 582 01:08:10,505 --> 01:08:13,030 The same appearances. 583 01:08:26,802 --> 01:08:29,950 People always talked about her... 584 01:08:31,036 --> 01:08:32,241 a great deal. 585 01:08:33,014 --> 01:08:34,571 About that love. 586 01:08:36,592 --> 01:08:38,686 And the islands. 587 01:08:39,557 --> 01:08:41,544 The delta islands. 588 01:08:43,290 --> 01:08:46,655 That's all they'll miss of India. 589 01:08:47,321 --> 01:08:49,918 What would they have done without them? 590 01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:54,046 About heat. 591 01:08:55,015 --> 01:08:56,510 About fear. 592 01:08:57,508 --> 01:09:00,128 Leprosy, and hunger. 593 01:09:02,710 --> 01:09:05,215 About the Vice-Consul from Lahore... 594 01:09:06,275 --> 01:09:08,389 those dead... 595 01:09:09,321 --> 01:09:11,437 About that sweetness... 596 01:09:11,791 --> 01:09:13,832 We wondered: 597 01:09:14,707 --> 01:09:16,997 All those books... 598 01:09:17,860 --> 01:09:20,884 those sleepless nights in the delta. 599 01:09:22,761 --> 01:09:25,366 Those tears? 600 01:09:30,716 --> 01:09:32,829 India Song... 601 01:09:35,182 --> 01:09:39,259 On his way to the office, he whistled India Song. 602 01:09:43,918 --> 01:09:46,045 He said to the club director: 603 01:09:46,328 --> 01:09:51,239 "At home in Neuilly, in the drawing room, there's a black piano." 604 01:09:51,554 --> 01:09:54,356 "India Song is on the music-rest." 605 01:09:54,632 --> 01:09:56,632 "My mother played it." 606 01:09:56,858 --> 01:09:59,143 "The score has been there since she died." 607 01:10:01,940 --> 01:10:04,813 Day already. No one speaks. 608 01:10:05,404 --> 01:10:07,269 They seem to be waiting. 609 01:10:09,223 --> 01:10:11,369 The tennis courts were deserted. 610 01:10:11,724 --> 01:10:13,908 A bicycle was there. 611 01:10:15,211 --> 01:10:17,617 I noticed they were deserted, 612 01:10:18,155 --> 01:10:19,972 after she'd gone. 613 01:10:20,498 --> 01:10:23,187 The air was torn apart. 614 01:10:24,273 --> 01:10:26,854 Her skirt, against the trees. 615 01:10:28,624 --> 01:10:30,319 She looked at me. 616 01:11:12,098 --> 01:11:14,466 I didn't know you existed. 617 01:11:20,535 --> 01:11:23,616 Calcutta has become a form of hope for me. 618 01:12:22,370 --> 01:12:24,566 I love Michael Richardson. 619 01:12:25,129 --> 01:12:27,683 I'm not free of that love. 620 01:12:29,185 --> 01:12:30,855 I know. 621 01:12:32,601 --> 01:12:36,259 I love you like that, in that love. 622 01:12:37,142 --> 01:12:39,023 It doesn't matter. 623 01:12:43,494 --> 01:12:44,839 I sound odd. 624 01:12:46,509 --> 01:12:48,422 Do you hear my voice? 625 01:12:49,696 --> 01:12:51,463 It frightens them. 626 01:12:52,562 --> 01:12:53,885 Yes. 627 01:12:54,583 --> 01:12:56,400 Who is she? 628 01:13:00,948 --> 01:13:04,046 I shot myself in Laos, but didn't die. 629 01:13:06,384 --> 01:13:10,786 The others separate me from Lahore. I don't. 630 01:13:12,153 --> 01:13:13,880 Lahore is me. 631 01:13:15,885 --> 01:13:17,622 You understand too? 632 01:13:20,053 --> 01:13:21,966 Yes. Don't shout. 633 01:13:24,038 --> 01:13:25,207 Yes. 634 01:13:28,007 --> 01:13:30,639 You are with me, with Lahore. 635 01:13:31,637 --> 01:13:33,229 I know it. 636 01:13:34,691 --> 01:13:36,670 You are in me. 637 01:13:39,142 --> 01:13:41,021 I'll take you away inside me. 638 01:13:43,692 --> 01:13:46,403 We shall fire on the Shalimar lepers. 639 01:13:46,734 --> 01:13:48,159 You can't avoid it. 640 01:13:54,317 --> 01:13:58,212 I didn't need to dance with you to know you. 641 01:13:59,312 --> 01:14:00,909 And you know it. 642 01:14:04,574 --> 01:14:06,020 I know it. 643 01:14:09,204 --> 01:14:13,661 There's no need for us to go on. 644 01:14:19,450 --> 01:14:21,071 We have nothing to say to each other. 645 01:14:23,161 --> 01:14:24,978 We are the same. 646 01:14:29,356 --> 01:14:31,883 I believe that. 647 01:14:34,363 --> 01:14:38,575 Have love affairs with others. 648 01:14:39,822 --> 01:14:41,877 We don't need that. 649 01:14:48,755 --> 01:14:51,674 I wanted to know the smell of your hair. 650 01:14:53,309 --> 01:14:56,187 That explains why I... 651 01:15:03,222 --> 01:15:06,487 After the reception, your friends will stay on. 652 01:15:07,226 --> 01:15:09,782 I wish I could stay with you once. 653 01:15:13,201 --> 01:15:14,826 There's no chance. 654 01:15:18,695 --> 01:15:20,328 They'd throw me out. 655 01:15:21,576 --> 01:15:25,171 Yes. You are someone they have to forget. 656 01:15:27,227 --> 01:15:28,952 Like Lahore. 657 01:15:29,536 --> 01:15:30,684 Yes. 658 01:15:32,739 --> 01:15:34,511 What will become of me? 659 01:15:36,630 --> 01:15:39,305 You'll be posted far from Calcutta. 660 01:15:39,995 --> 01:15:42,195 That's what you want? 661 01:15:43,984 --> 01:15:45,269 Yes. 662 01:15:48,282 --> 01:15:49,831 Very well. 663 01:15:51,792 --> 01:15:54,115 When will it end? 664 01:15:57,062 --> 01:15:59,317 With your death, I believe. 665 01:16:03,589 --> 01:16:05,937 What's this pain? My pain? 666 01:16:09,688 --> 01:16:11,506 Intelligence. 667 01:16:12,378 --> 01:16:14,124 About you? 668 01:16:17,743 --> 01:16:20,911 I'll ask them to let me stay tonight. 669 01:16:22,548 --> 01:16:24,593 Do what you like. 670 01:16:26,245 --> 01:16:30,649 To make something happen between you and me. 671 01:16:33,047 --> 01:16:34,849 A public incident. 672 01:16:35,432 --> 01:16:37,196 All I know how to do is shout. 673 01:16:39,292 --> 01:16:42,556 Let them know love can be shouted. 674 01:16:44,435 --> 01:16:46,959 They'll be uncomfortable. 675 01:16:49,085 --> 01:16:51,242 Then start talking again. 676 01:17:01,934 --> 01:17:05,774 I even know you'll tell no one you agreed. 677 01:17:44,927 --> 01:17:46,936 Let me stay! 678 01:17:50,050 --> 01:17:55,159 I'm going to stay here tonight! With her! 679 01:17:55,748 --> 01:17:59,043 Just once, with her! 680 01:17:59,750 --> 01:18:01,541 Do you hear? 681 01:18:02,311 --> 01:18:05,097 - What is it? - Better do something. 682 01:18:06,036 --> 01:18:07,653 How terrible. 683 01:18:08,064 --> 01:18:09,799 Bound to happen. 684 01:18:11,848 --> 01:18:13,851 I'm staying! 685 01:18:15,022 --> 01:18:19,321 I'm going to stay in the French Embassy! 686 01:18:21,705 --> 01:18:24,998 I'm going to the islands with her! 687 01:18:26,686 --> 01:18:29,943 I beg you! 688 01:18:30,523 --> 01:18:35,788 I beg you! Let me stay! 689 01:18:37,444 --> 01:18:40,594 - Dreadful! - It's terrible. 690 01:18:42,319 --> 01:18:44,219 And she just stands still. 691 01:18:46,190 --> 01:18:49,217 Once! 692 01:18:49,935 --> 01:18:53,167 Just once! 693 01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:59,688 I've never loved anyone but her! 694 01:19:00,745 --> 01:19:03,648 Do go home. You've had too much to drink. 695 01:19:14,593 --> 01:19:17,286 He did it deliberately. 696 01:19:17,764 --> 01:19:19,597 No sense of... 697 01:19:21,059 --> 01:19:22,717 What happened? 698 01:19:24,254 --> 01:19:27,961 How strange. 699 01:19:29,447 --> 01:19:31,096 Indecent. 700 01:19:31,385 --> 01:19:33,418 Impossible to understand. 701 01:19:34,041 --> 01:19:35,750 It's terrible. 702 01:19:43,454 --> 01:19:45,238 How dreadful! 703 01:19:47,225 --> 01:19:49,111 They've got him. 704 01:19:49,611 --> 01:19:51,534 He's not resisting. 705 01:19:59,817 --> 01:20:03,000 He's outside. Locked out. 706 01:20:07,572 --> 01:20:09,848 Laughing and crying. Did you see? 707 01:20:15,199 --> 01:20:17,204 He's forcing the gate. 708 01:20:20,428 --> 01:20:22,233 The beggars are afraid. 709 01:20:28,857 --> 01:20:30,600 He's gone. 710 01:20:37,204 --> 01:20:39,544 - Now all is clear. - What? 711 01:20:39,724 --> 01:20:41,003 Lahore. 712 01:20:43,124 --> 01:20:44,852 He's still shouting. 713 01:20:47,514 --> 01:20:49,003 Where is she? 714 01:20:50,047 --> 01:20:52,935 - In the drawing room. - With him. 715 01:20:56,729 --> 01:20:59,724 In a way, everyone should cry. 716 01:20:59,962 --> 01:21:02,387 - Don't you think? - But... 717 01:21:02,810 --> 01:21:04,442 It's a manner of speaking. 718 01:31:44,554 --> 01:31:47,198 Is that the Vice-Consul of France shouting? 719 01:31:47,790 --> 01:31:50,890 Yes. Still shouting. 720 01:31:52,756 --> 01:31:55,488 After the trip to the islands, he drops out of sight. 721 01:31:57,354 --> 01:31:59,313 He tenders his resignation. 722 01:32:00,477 --> 01:32:02,745 The file ends with his resignation. 723 01:32:03,629 --> 01:32:05,374 Soon after? 724 01:32:06,335 --> 01:32:07,758 A few days. 725 01:32:16,392 --> 01:32:17,938 What's he saying? 726 01:32:19,052 --> 01:32:22,174 Her Venetian name in deserted Calcutta. 727 01:32:24,520 --> 01:32:27,585 The whole night he shouted that name. 728 01:32:50,117 --> 01:32:52,959 That sound of wings, of birds? 729 01:32:54,453 --> 01:32:55,664 Day. 730 01:32:58,325 --> 01:32:59,993 Sunrise, here. 731 01:33:00,709 --> 01:33:03,625 There... and beyond. 732 01:33:05,479 --> 01:33:09,252 The air smells of mud. And leprosy. 733 01:33:09,882 --> 01:33:11,426 And fire. 734 01:33:12,755 --> 01:33:15,741 - Not a breath of air? - No. 735 01:33:17,101 --> 01:33:19,155 Only very small movements... 736 01:33:20,158 --> 01:33:22,345 very slow wafts... 737 01:33:23,394 --> 01:33:24,978 of odour. 738 01:33:41,816 --> 01:33:43,435 The sun. 739 01:33:44,412 --> 01:33:47,711 What light! Awful! 740 01:33:49,562 --> 01:33:52,497 Yes. Exile. 741 01:33:54,784 --> 01:33:56,722 She's listless. 742 01:33:57,605 --> 01:34:01,340 Yes. Deeply absent. 743 01:34:06,643 --> 01:34:09,127 The heat is rust-coloured. 744 01:34:10,309 --> 01:34:12,701 Above, smoke. 745 01:34:12,914 --> 01:34:14,351 The factories. 746 01:34:23,329 --> 01:34:26,690 This continent, suspended? 747 01:34:27,027 --> 01:34:30,772 The monsoon. Below, Bengal. 748 01:34:32,230 --> 01:34:33,922 Further. 749 01:34:34,254 --> 01:34:35,775 Lower. 750 01:34:36,100 --> 01:34:37,931 Beneath the sky. 751 01:34:38,579 --> 01:34:39,927 Look... 752 01:34:42,507 --> 01:34:44,509 In a bend of the Ganges. 753 01:34:45,157 --> 01:34:46,847 That whiteness. 754 01:34:47,742 --> 01:34:49,186 Over there. 755 01:34:51,020 --> 01:34:52,665 The English cemetery. 756 01:35:07,460 --> 01:35:10,028 A car is speeding along the straight roads, 757 01:35:10,660 --> 01:35:12,395 by the Ganges. 758 01:35:12,760 --> 01:35:14,865 They've left for the islands. 759 01:35:26,005 --> 01:35:28,763 - Those junks? - Rice. 760 01:35:29,194 --> 01:35:32,375 On the slopes, those dark patches? 761 01:35:32,718 --> 01:35:34,008 People. 762 01:35:34,216 --> 01:35:36,612 The highest density in the world. 763 01:35:44,718 --> 01:35:49,287 - Those dark mirrors, thousands of them? - The rice fields of India. 764 01:36:00,259 --> 01:36:02,480 The black Lancia has stopped. 765 01:36:03,470 --> 01:36:05,070 The rain. 766 01:36:05,349 --> 01:36:06,790 The roads are flooded. 767 01:36:08,293 --> 01:36:10,814 They took shelter in a sala. 768 01:36:11,965 --> 01:36:13,944 There, the young attaché said: 769 01:36:14,378 --> 01:36:16,708 "I saw the Vice-Consul before I left". 770 01:36:17,047 --> 01:36:20,969 He was still shouting in the streets. He asked if I was going to the islands. 771 01:36:21,315 --> 01:36:24,995 I said I was going to Nepal with the Ambassador. 772 01:36:27,205 --> 01:36:29,915 Did she approve of the lie? 773 01:36:32,818 --> 01:36:37,002 She hardly ever mentioned the man from Lahore. 774 01:36:56,033 --> 01:36:58,039 That green colour. 775 01:36:59,146 --> 01:37:00,590 It's growing larger. 776 01:37:00,873 --> 01:37:02,329 The ocean. 777 01:37:10,257 --> 01:37:11,772 The islands. 778 01:37:12,905 --> 01:37:14,461 Which one is it? 779 01:37:15,296 --> 01:37:16,924 The largest. 780 01:37:17,397 --> 01:37:18,878 The central island. 781 01:37:20,076 --> 01:37:21,919 They've arrived. 782 01:37:23,735 --> 01:37:25,976 That white palace? 783 01:37:26,442 --> 01:37:28,317 The Prince of Wales, 784 01:37:28,964 --> 01:37:30,656 an international hotel. 785 01:37:40,275 --> 01:37:43,527 The sea is rough. There's been a storm. 786 01:37:49,034 --> 01:37:52,319 In front, the piers. 787 01:37:52,926 --> 01:37:55,845 Those ships sail the South Pacific. 788 01:37:56,576 --> 01:37:59,351 Behind, berths for yachts. 789 01:38:00,418 --> 01:38:03,737 Through the trees, the same flat horizon. 790 01:38:04,433 --> 01:38:06,576 The islands are alluvial. 791 01:38:07,424 --> 01:38:09,032 The mud of the Ganges. 792 01:38:11,698 --> 01:38:13,952 Where's the French Embassy villa? 793 01:38:14,333 --> 01:38:18,050 Beyond the hotel, facing the ocean. 794 01:38:20,936 --> 01:38:23,239 She wanted to swim when she arrived? 795 01:38:23,811 --> 01:38:25,176 Yes. 796 01:38:25,884 --> 01:38:28,144 It was late, The sea rough. 797 01:38:28,862 --> 01:38:30,909 It was impossible to swim, 798 01:38:31,313 --> 01:38:34,508 Just let the warm waves break over her. 799 01:38:35,094 --> 01:38:36,904 She bathed with him. 800 01:38:38,745 --> 01:38:41,241 Those nets everywhere in the sea? 801 01:38:42,467 --> 01:38:44,433 Against the delta sharks. 802 01:38:56,981 --> 01:38:58,651 Where is she? 803 01:38:59,413 --> 01:39:00,856 She'll come. 804 01:39:01,954 --> 01:39:03,402 She's coming. 805 01:39:07,365 --> 01:39:11,833 - That evening, was she the same? - Smiling. 806 01:39:13,033 --> 01:39:14,648 Dressed in white. 807 01:39:35,258 --> 01:39:37,123 Who comes to the hotel? 808 01:39:38,079 --> 01:39:39,912 White India. 809 01:39:56,227 --> 01:39:58,198 I can't quite remember. 810 01:39:58,653 --> 01:40:00,664 Didn't she go to the Embassy villa? 811 01:40:02,686 --> 01:40:04,522 She only slept there. 812 01:40:05,380 --> 01:40:08,504 She dined at the Prince of Wales, when she went to the islands. 813 01:40:10,664 --> 01:40:13,782 She had the villa's servants 814 01:40:14,311 --> 01:40:16,095 sent back to Calcutta. 815 01:40:17,710 --> 01:40:21,373 - How long ago? - A few weeks. 816 01:40:56,220 --> 01:40:59,122 - India Song. - Yes. 817 01:41:26,433 --> 01:41:30,406 - There's dancing in the lounge. - Tourists from Ceylon. 818 01:41:35,110 --> 01:41:36,535 These birds? 819 01:41:37,599 --> 01:41:40,186 Prisoners of the island, because of the storm. 820 01:41:41,330 --> 01:41:43,020 They're in the mango trees. 821 01:41:43,584 --> 01:41:45,200 They strip them. 822 01:41:46,159 --> 01:41:48,002 They'll fly at dawn. 823 01:41:57,205 --> 01:42:00,279 This sudden smell of death? 824 01:42:00,929 --> 01:42:02,499 Incense. 825 01:42:27,051 --> 01:42:29,523 He had come on the last boat? 826 01:42:30,516 --> 01:42:33,316 Yes, the 7 o'clock boat. 827 01:42:35,987 --> 01:42:38,258 He hadn't been home all day. 828 01:42:39,524 --> 01:42:41,482 He never went back to Calcutta. 829 01:43:32,875 --> 01:43:36,336 When the mist came, the wind dropped. 830 01:43:46,764 --> 01:43:48,919 She had the blinds raised. 831 01:43:55,549 --> 01:43:58,944 She wants to see the ocean, the sky 832 01:43:59,359 --> 01:44:01,208 above the estuaries. 833 01:44:02,999 --> 01:44:06,550 They are very tired, after last night. 834 01:44:08,714 --> 01:44:10,480 She is looking outside. 835 01:44:12,944 --> 01:44:14,546 I remember... 836 01:44:15,126 --> 01:44:17,879 a wall of mist comes in toward the islands. 837 01:44:18,164 --> 01:44:19,339 Yes. 838 01:44:20,582 --> 01:44:23,126 She says something about Venice. 839 01:44:24,883 --> 01:44:27,108 Venice in the winter. 840 01:44:27,828 --> 01:44:29,369 Yes, that's right. 841 01:44:30,648 --> 01:44:33,250 - Venice? - Yes. 842 01:44:34,779 --> 01:44:37,135 Perhaps certain winter evenings, 843 01:44:37,874 --> 01:44:41,169 in Venice, the same mist. 844 01:44:43,139 --> 01:44:46,793 She's saying the name of a colour. 845 01:44:47,311 --> 01:44:48,807 Violet. 846 01:44:49,969 --> 01:44:51,869 The colour of the delta mist. 847 01:45:09,238 --> 01:45:11,716 It was a September evening... 848 01:45:13,666 --> 01:45:15,903 during the summer monsoon... 849 01:45:19,708 --> 01:45:21,377 on the islands... 850 01:45:26,234 --> 01:45:28,509 in 1937. 851 01:45:34,445 --> 01:45:38,533 In China, the war went on. 852 01:45:39,914 --> 01:45:42,123 Shanghai had just been bombed. 853 01:45:43,314 --> 01:45:45,632 The Japanese were still advancing. 854 01:45:47,815 --> 01:45:50,647 In Spain, 855 01:45:51,015 --> 01:45:53,099 they were still fighting. 856 01:45:54,564 --> 01:45:56,532 The Republic is strangled. 857 01:45:58,502 --> 01:46:02,202 In Russia, the Revolution is betrayed. 858 01:46:05,688 --> 01:46:09,056 The Congress of Nuremberg had just taken place. 859 01:46:12,273 --> 01:46:17,052 Already, the beggar woman was hunting in the warm waters of the delta. 860 01:46:55,171 --> 01:46:58,752 Michael Richardson and the young guest 861 01:46:59,004 --> 01:47:00,643 had gone across the beach to the villa. 862 01:47:07,427 --> 01:47:10,062 The other two had gone sailing. 863 01:47:22,480 --> 01:47:24,289 She had wanted to go back alone, 864 01:47:25,488 --> 01:47:27,362 along the inland paths. 865 01:47:31,362 --> 01:47:34,787 Behind her, the Vice-Consul of Lahore. 866 01:47:41,364 --> 01:47:43,230 He followed her to the park. 867 01:47:50,101 --> 01:47:54,864 Michael Richardson and the young guest had arrived after her. 868 01:48:03,151 --> 01:48:05,879 She had gone to meet them in the park. 869 01:48:09,506 --> 01:48:11,664 They move toward one another. 870 01:48:12,129 --> 01:48:14,003 They meet. 871 01:48:19,301 --> 01:48:21,433 They seem to be talking. 872 01:48:25,672 --> 01:48:27,807 They go toward the villa. 873 01:49:06,048 --> 01:49:08,032 Once they had tried... 874 01:49:09,669 --> 01:49:11,975 tried to die together. 875 01:49:13,222 --> 01:49:15,106 Without succeeding. 876 01:49:16,597 --> 01:49:18,302 In a brothel, 877 01:49:19,168 --> 01:49:20,734 in Chandernagore. 878 01:49:22,234 --> 01:49:23,882 They'd been discovered. 879 01:49:46,331 --> 01:49:50,442 At one point in the night, she brings them champagne. 880 01:49:52,007 --> 01:49:53,557 Glasses. 881 01:49:54,153 --> 01:49:55,712 She serves them. 882 01:50:35,227 --> 01:50:36,789 It's still night 883 01:50:37,545 --> 01:50:40,569 when Michael Richardson takes away the young guest. 884 01:50:41,441 --> 01:50:43,485 Tears himself away from that place. 885 01:50:44,544 --> 01:50:46,292 Leaves her there. 886 01:51:16,548 --> 01:51:17,997 Later, 887 01:51:18,311 --> 01:51:22,342 music was heard around the Embassy villa. 888 01:52:42,862 --> 01:52:46,385 The lovers of the Ganges had promised to let each other be free, 889 01:52:46,734 --> 01:52:51,716 if ever either of them decided to die. 890 01:55:14,768 --> 01:55:18,976 The young guest came back to the villa during the night. 891 01:55:20,125 --> 01:55:23,636 Yes. He saw her. 892 01:55:25,069 --> 01:55:27,119 She was lying in the park, 893 01:55:27,727 --> 01:55:30,009 leaning on one elbow. He said: 894 01:55:30,565 --> 01:55:34,778 "She stretched out her arm and put her head on it." 895 01:55:38,751 --> 01:55:41,715 "The Vice-Consul of Lahore was ten yards away." 896 01:55:42,900 --> 01:55:44,680 They didn't speak to each other." 897 01:55:46,166 --> 01:55:50,152 She must have stayed there a long time. Till daylight. 898 01:55:51,417 --> 01:55:53,601 Then she must have taken the path. 899 01:55:57,979 --> 01:56:00,926 On the beach they found the dressing gown. 900 01:56:07,893 --> 01:56:10,902 And the heat was once more the heat of Calcutta.