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MAN:
You are now qualified...
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...for evangelical work
under the auspices...
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...of the Belgian Committee
of the Messengers of the Faith.
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May the Lord guide you
and sustain you in all your ways.
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Congratulations, Dr. Bosman.
A very creditable group of young men.
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About this other young man,
Dr. Bosman.
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Are you sure he's quite hopeless?
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Gentlemen, I've trained a great
many students in evangelical work...
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...but never in my life
have I come across a case quite like this.
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He is completely unable
to speak extemporary.
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He prepares long and obscure sermons,
which he's unable to memorize...
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...and has to read like a stumbling
and inarticulate child.
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Now, can we send that kind of man out
into the field to represent our society?
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Dr. Peeters, I think that's conclusive.
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Dr. Bosman, ask him to come in,
please.
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Mr. Van Gogh, we have Dr. Bosman's
report on your progress here.
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In view of what he's told us,
you understand...
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...if your teacher feels
that you're unqualified...
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...this committee cannot give you
an appointment.
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We regret it more than we can say.
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Gentlemen, I think that concludes
committee business for today.
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Dr. Peeters.
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PEETERS:
Mr. Van Gogh?
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Do you feel that the committee
were unjust in their decision?
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- No, sir.
- We did what we had to do...
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...in view of your records.
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- Yes, sir.
- Come here.
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Your father is a minister, is he not?
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I'm not trying to put myself
on a level with my father.
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I only hoped in--
In some way to--
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- To follow in his footsteps--
- Yet, until a year ago...
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...you showed no inclination
or desire to follow your father's calling.
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Believe me, this is something
I have to do.
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I wanna help the unfortunates.
I wanna bring them the word of God.
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Even if I'm not qualified,
there must be some way I can serve.
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Isn't there any place for me?
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Somewhere no one else wants to go?
I'll do anything. Only use me.
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Use me.
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PEETERS:
Come here.
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- Do you know this part of the country?
- No.
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It's a coal-mining region.
The Borinage.
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There exists no more miserable people
on the face of the earth...
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...than the miners who live there.
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If you really mean what you said about
wanting to help the unfortunates...
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...here's your chance.
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VINCENT: The heart that seeks God
has more storms than any others.
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Life is a struggle here below.
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Yet, out of our....
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Out of our sufferings,
God teaches us higher things.
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He wills--
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[COUGHING]
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He wills that man should live
humbly...
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...and go through life,
not reaching after lofty aims...
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...but fitting himself to the lowly
and learning from the Gospels...
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...to be meek...
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...and simple of heart.
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Father, we pray to thee to keep us
from evil and despair.
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Feed us with the bread that does not
perish, which is thy word.
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Oh, Lord.
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Amen.
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[MAN COUGHING]
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VINCENT:
Mister.
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Mister.
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- I don't know what your name is but--
- Ducrucq.
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--why did you leave?
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Did I say something wrong?
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I saw you leave.
What did I say that offended you?
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Just because it's Sunday, you don't
expect us to listen to the pious bilge...
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- ...you gave us just now.
- Bilge?
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Look, I worked all week on that sermon.
I meant every word of it.
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Listen, mister.
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Every now and then, somebody comes
here from the outside and tries to help us.
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They mean well, so do you probably.
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But that doesn't help us
at all, does it?
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[MAN COUGHING]
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I wanna bring you the word of God.
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What can I do? Tell me?
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I don't know.
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Help me. Help me
to understand you people.
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To know you. Take me into
your homes where you live.
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We don't live here.
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We only come here to sleep.
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Down there, 2000 feet
underground, that's where we live.
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Can I go down? Take me.
Will you take me down?
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Sure. I can arrange it.
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Be here in the morning
when I go to work.
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At 4:00.
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DUCRUCQ: I'm trembling inside of me
just as much as you are.
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And I've been going down
for 33 years.
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[SCREECHING AND RATTLING]
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[PICKAX HITTING]
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- How old is that child?
DUCRUCQ: Eleven.
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VINCENT:
How long has she been working here?
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A year.
Her father was killed in the explosion.
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DUCRUCQ:
Listen, mister.
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Every now and then, somebody comes
from the outside and tries to help us.
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They mean well, so do you probably.
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But that doesn't help us
at all, does it?
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[HORN BLOWING]
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[WOMEN SOBBING]
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Ducrucq.
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MAN: Come down. Come down.
Somebody....
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Why don't you come down
and bring some help.
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There were eight of us in this shaft.
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I was the only one to get out.
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What are you waiting for?
Well, what are you--?
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I've got a blanket in there
for one of the wounded and some bread.
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CORDAY:
What about you?
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Wait for me.
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Van Gogh.
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I see you don't remember us.
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From the Committee
of the Messengers of the Faith.
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I'm glad you've come. Did you bring
food and clothes for the families?
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- Families?
- Another accident?
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- You didn't know?
- Sorry to hear it. Were there many lost?
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Six. Four men, two children.
Twenty-eight injured.
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VAN DEN BERGHE:
Terrible. We'll see what we can do.
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It's unfortunate that our visit
comes at this time.
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It was Rev. Peeters' particular wish.
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The purpose of our coming
is an inspection.
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VINCENT: Excuse me, gentlemen.
I'll be right back.
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- Just what is the meaning of this?
- You receive an allowance.
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Why have you chosen to live in the most
wretched, filthy shack in this village?
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VINCENT: Because we've no right to
spread the word of God to these people...
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- ...unless we suffer as they do.
- You, yourself are unclean.
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Your clothes are ragged and dirty.
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VINCENT:
People here have no clothes at all.
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You mean to tell us you actually--
You sleep on dirt and straw...
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...like a beast of the field?
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VINCENT: That's--
- The spiritual leader?
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VINCENT: I gave my bed to a sick woman
who needed it more.
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You're new in this work.
I've no doubt that you mean well.
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By your behavior you've degraded
the dignity of the Church...
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- ...whose representative you are.
- Have you no sense of decency?
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Don't you understand that
if the clergy is to be respected--
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I don't care to be respected.
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I'm trying to live like a true Christian.
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I'm not going to worry
about how I sleep.
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Look at the fresh graves of the children
in the cemetery.
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Scrub floors and pick coal
with the women.
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Get those clothes dirty with
the blood and sweat of dying miners...
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...then come here and lecture me
about Christianity.
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Hypocrites. Hypocrites!
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[SOBBING]
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THEO:
But you must have heard of him.
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He came here about a year ago
as a preacher. Vincent Van Gogh.
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WOMEN: Oh, yes.
- You'll find him in the little shack.
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WOMAN:
Why, I heard he's been....
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THEO:
Vincent.
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Who is it?
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It's Theo.
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VINCENT: Theo.
- Vincent...
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- ...what have you done to yourself?
- Theo.
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- What's happened to you?
- I was sick for a while...
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- ...but I'm all right now.
- But doesn't anyone look after you?
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- I'd better go and get you some food.
- Don't go, Theo. Stay and talk.
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- Where's the nearest place where I--?
- Please don't go, Theo.
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It's been such a long time.
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THEO: Vincent, what are we gonna do
about you?
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Father wrote and asked me to come
and find you.
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For months, he's not heard from you.
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There was nothing to tell.
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Well, what right have you
to decide that?
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Cut yourself off from everybody,
even from me.
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You've become a stranger.
You-- You've changed.
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I haven't changed, Theo.
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Outwardly, perhaps. But inside me
I still want the same things.
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What things?
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The things we talked about
in the old days.
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To be of use, to work,
to bring something to the world.
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Do you think this is the answer?
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I don't know, I don't know.
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We've grown apart, Theo.
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Look, you found what you want
in Paris and I'm glad for you.
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I've found nothing, anywhere.
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I've made one bad start after another.
One mess after another.
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I thought I was on my way here
by doing God's work.
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That was the worst failure of all.
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But no matter how often I fail,
there is something in me.
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- Now I am good for something.
- But this is not the way to find it.
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Hiding away here, wasting your time.
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You've become an idler.
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An idler, yes.
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But there are two kinds of idlers.
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There's the man who's idle
because he wants to be...
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...out of laziness.
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How easy that is. I envy him.
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But there's the other kind...
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...the man who's idle in spite of himself.
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I want nothing but to work.
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Only I can't.
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I'm in a cage. A cage of shame
and self-doubt and failure.
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Somebody believe me. I'm caged.
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I'm caged. I'm alone.
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I'm frightened.
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Vincent.
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Listen to me.
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When we were children...
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...I used to follow you about.
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If I was frightened...
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...I'd run to look for you.
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If I got lost...
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...you'd always come to find me.
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We're still brothers.
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We're friends.
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We can trust one another.
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That's stronger than any cage.
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Whatever you do, from now on...
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...wherever you go...
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...promise me this:
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Make me part of it.
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Don't ever cut yourself off
from me again.
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- What is it?
- My pipe.
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Now, let me take you home...
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...where you can live
and be cared for...
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...until you find your way.
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Tell me, if you were me, which would
you want to have your money in?
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These are both accredited canvases.
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Both were exhibited in last year's salon.
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Perhaps you'd prefer to be left alone
for a moment to make your choice.
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I shall be in the next room.
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VINCENT:
Dear Theo:
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You were right. It's so good
to be home. To live in peace for a time.
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Once again, thanks to you,
life seems precious to me.
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Something to be valued and loved.
Once again, I'm working.
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You know how for years, whenever
I saw anything that moved me...
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...I felt the need to draw it,
to get it down on paper.
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No matter how crudely.
Now, for the first time...
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...I've begun to wonder,
could this be the way for me?
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A man or a woman at work.
Some furrows in a plowed field.
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A bit of sand, sea or sky.
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There are subjects so difficult,
and at the same time so beautiful...
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...that it's worth spending
one's whole life...
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...trying to capture the poetry
that's hidden in them.
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Vincent, have you lost
all track of time?
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Father's upset.
We're practically through dinner.
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You go ahead. I just wanna finish this.
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Couldn't you try to be on time
ju--? Just once in a while.
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Especially with cousin Kay here.
240
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She brought little Jan with her.
241
00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:18,067
And, Vincent, try not to argue with
Father, not today.
242
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,282
[LAUGHING]
243
00:21:24,449 --> 00:21:26,325
VINCENT:
I'm sorry I'm late, but--
244
00:21:27,202 --> 00:21:30,413
ANNA CORNELIA: Vincent, aren't you
going to say hello to your cousin Kay?
245
00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:32,373
KAY:
Hello, cousin.
246
00:21:33,667 --> 00:21:35,710
Hello, Kay.
247
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,007
ANNA CORNELIA:
Pardon Vincent.
248
00:21:41,174 --> 00:21:44,302
He's so interested in his work,
he forgets where he is sometimes.
249
00:21:44,469 --> 00:21:46,429
- Vincent's an artist.
COR: He draws on paper.
250
00:21:46,596 --> 00:21:48,931
Oh, lovely things,
swamps and woods and people--
251
00:21:49,099 --> 00:21:51,642
COR: He's made a drawing of me.
He makes us all pose for him.
252
00:21:51,810 --> 00:21:54,020
ELIZABETH: If you don't watch out,
he'll make you pose.
253
00:21:54,187 --> 00:21:55,688
WILLEMIEN: And Jan.
- You should see...
254
00:21:55,856 --> 00:21:58,899
- ...how he makes people look.
- You're looking at me as though...
255
00:21:59,067 --> 00:22:02,194
- ...you'd never seen me before.
- It's been a long time.
256
00:22:02,362 --> 00:22:04,989
Not since before Vos died.
257
00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:08,993
Oh, I'm sorry. I-- Well....
258
00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:11,537
I guess I shouldn't have mentioned it.
259
00:22:11,747 --> 00:22:14,582
Well, even though....
Well, it's been almost a year.
260
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Vincent.
261
00:22:16,209 --> 00:22:19,628
One doesn't measure such things
in weeks and months, Vincent.
262
00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:22,590
No, of course not.
See, I only meant that....
263
00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:24,633
Well, I was gonna write to you,
Cousin Kay...
264
00:22:24,801 --> 00:22:27,053
...but I'm not very good
at those things...
265
00:22:27,262 --> 00:22:29,680
...and, well, then so much time
went by that I....
266
00:22:29,890 --> 00:22:34,935
Jan's being very quiet. I hope he's not
getting up to any mischief. Excuse me.
267
00:22:39,983 --> 00:22:41,442
Vincent, really.
268
00:22:41,651 --> 00:22:45,237
Couldn't you see how she felt?
You know how it was with her and Vos.
269
00:22:45,447 --> 00:22:48,032
But it--
It's not right to grieve that long.
270
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,868
God didn't intend the living
to mourn forever.
271
00:22:51,078 --> 00:22:53,871
I hardly think you're the best judge
of God's intentions, Vincent.
272
00:22:54,081 --> 00:22:56,832
You realize you haven't been
to church since you got back?
273
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,918
You, the minister's son.
274
00:22:59,127 --> 00:23:01,962
- What do you think they're saying?
- I act out of my beliefs, Father.
275
00:23:02,130 --> 00:23:04,382
Not because I want to
please the village.
276
00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:07,051
I happen not to believe
in the God of the clergymen.
277
00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:08,803
For me, he's as dead as a doornail.
278
00:23:08,970 --> 00:23:11,597
Children, if you've finished,
leave the table, please.
279
00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:14,100
Go into the other room.
280
00:23:18,730 --> 00:23:23,943
Vincent, before the children.
Do you realize what you said?
281
00:23:24,152 --> 00:23:27,571
Yes, Mother, but I--
I must say what I feel...
282
00:23:27,906 --> 00:23:30,950
...and I'm not an atheist.
I do believe in God.
283
00:23:31,159 --> 00:23:34,662
A God of love, Father, and I believe
there are many ways to serve him.
284
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:38,332
One man does it from a pulpit,
another through a book or a painting--
285
00:23:38,542 --> 00:23:40,626
THEODORUS:
Let's not discuss it.
286
00:23:45,924 --> 00:23:48,092
I'm sorry, Father...
287
00:23:48,301 --> 00:23:50,511
...but I was just telling you my opinion.
288
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,098
Did--? Did you have a good morning
in the fields, Vincent?
289
00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:56,058
VINCENT:
Like any other.
290
00:23:56,226 --> 00:23:58,519
Do you feel the drawing is going well?
291
00:23:59,563 --> 00:24:01,480
You work so hard and....
292
00:24:01,690 --> 00:24:04,733
Well, I can't help noticing that you go
over and over your drawings...
293
00:24:04,901 --> 00:24:06,819
...and often as not,
you throw them away.
294
00:24:06,987 --> 00:24:11,365
What Mother means is we'd hate to
see-- See you keep struggling, Vincent.
295
00:24:11,533 --> 00:24:14,201
Only to realize in the end,
it was just another failure.
296
00:24:14,369 --> 00:24:18,247
Maybe he could visit cousin Mauve
in The Hague. He's a successful artist.
297
00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:22,793
Ask him his opinion of your drawings.
I'm sure he'd be glad to help you.
298
00:24:23,003 --> 00:24:28,048
I'm not ready to show my work
to Mauve. When I am, I'll go to him.
299
00:24:33,138 --> 00:24:34,805
I'm sorry, Vincent.
300
00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:39,268
VINCENT: How's Jan?
- He's all right, thank you.
301
00:24:43,231 --> 00:24:45,733
I'm glad you're here, Kay.
302
00:24:46,568 --> 00:24:49,236
VINCENT: Please, Theo, send more paper
and drawing ink.
303
00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:52,615
I'm afraid I quickly used up
what you sent last month.
304
00:24:52,824 --> 00:24:55,743
As I work at my drawings
day after day...
305
00:24:55,952 --> 00:25:01,207
...what seemed unattainable before
is now gradually becoming possible.
306
00:25:01,374 --> 00:25:04,877
Slowly I'm learning to observe
and measure.
307
00:25:05,086 --> 00:25:09,548
I don't stand quite so helpless
before nature any longer.
308
00:25:09,716 --> 00:25:12,092
[KAY AND WILLEMIEN LAUGHING]
309
00:25:13,053 --> 00:25:15,804
KAY: Come on, Jan.
You rascal. Jan, come on.
310
00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:24,230
VINCENT: I know there's still something
harsh and stiff in my style...
311
00:25:24,439 --> 00:25:26,065
...although to tell the truth...
312
00:25:26,233 --> 00:25:29,735
...I believe the presence
of Kay here this summer...
313
00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:34,073
...is beginning to have
a softening influence on my work.
314
00:25:34,282 --> 00:25:36,951
KAY:
Time for your nap now.
315
00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:45,042
There. Down you go. Cover you up.
316
00:25:51,341 --> 00:25:54,176
He fell asleep almost as soon as
I put him down. Thank you.
317
00:25:54,386 --> 00:25:56,095
He's getting to be such a boy.
318
00:25:56,263 --> 00:25:59,139
KAY: It's been a wonderful summer
for him here.
319
00:25:59,349 --> 00:26:01,850
VINCENT:
It's been a wonderful summer.
320
00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:03,477
How did it go today? Well?
321
00:26:03,645 --> 00:26:05,563
When you're with me,
it always goes well.
322
00:26:05,772 --> 00:26:09,900
I'm glad, Vincent. You work so hard.
323
00:26:11,361 --> 00:26:14,029
I've seen your light on often
halfway through the night.
324
00:26:14,239 --> 00:26:17,116
There's much to learn.
Not only about drawing, but people.
325
00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:19,618
How they feel and think,
the world they live in.
326
00:26:19,786 --> 00:26:22,454
Before you can paint them
you have to know that too.
327
00:26:22,622 --> 00:26:27,251
So I read everything I get
my hands on. Dickens, Zola, Michelet.
328
00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:28,836
You know what Michelet says?
329
00:26:30,005 --> 00:26:32,548
"Blessed is the man who's found
his work...
330
00:26:32,757 --> 00:26:35,301
...and one woman to love."
331
00:26:37,053 --> 00:26:40,889
- I need love, Kay.
- Well, of course you do.
332
00:26:41,099 --> 00:26:44,351
No, I need it to be myself.
To be able to breath.
333
00:26:44,894 --> 00:26:48,606
I want a home. I want children.
334
00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:54,862
Vos felt the same way. He made Jan
and me the center of his existence.
335
00:26:55,030 --> 00:26:57,865
- Nothing else counted--
- Stop talking about Vos. He's dead.
336
00:26:58,033 --> 00:27:02,453
And we're alive, Kay.
In the present. The present.
337
00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:04,121
- I love you. Listen to me.
- No.
338
00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:06,123
We're both alone.
We need each other.
339
00:27:06,291 --> 00:27:10,085
Look, we'll have a home, Kay.
We'll be happy. I promise you.
340
00:27:11,338 --> 00:27:12,546
No.
341
00:27:14,424 --> 00:27:18,010
In God's name, don't be frightened.
I'm only saying I wanna marry you.
342
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:23,807
- To be your husband and a father to Jan.
- No. Never. Never!
343
00:27:24,309 --> 00:27:27,603
VINCENT:
"No. Never. Never."
344
00:27:27,812 --> 00:27:31,315
I tell you, Theo, this thing
threatens me.
345
00:27:31,524 --> 00:27:37,529
Love is something so strong, so real,
that it's as impossible to quench it...
346
00:27:37,739 --> 00:27:41,367
...as it is for a man to take
his own life.
347
00:27:41,868 --> 00:27:45,579
I must see her face again and speak
to her once more.
348
00:27:45,789 --> 00:27:47,164
I'd like to see Miss Kay.
349
00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:49,875
She's-- I'm a--
I'm afraid she's out, sir.
350
00:27:50,043 --> 00:27:53,671
No, sir, you can't go in now, sir.
The family's at dinner.
351
00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:57,466
- He pushed his way in, sir.
- Well, Vincent...
352
00:27:57,634 --> 00:28:00,427
...I see what people mean when
they complain about your manners.
353
00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:03,681
- Where's Kay?
- She's not here. She's visiting friends.
354
00:28:03,848 --> 00:28:06,684
- Vincent, please sit down.
- She was just sitting here.
355
00:28:06,851 --> 00:28:09,395
Can't you understand
a simple word like "no"?
356
00:28:09,562 --> 00:28:13,023
Don't you realize what it meant when
Kay returned your letters unopened?
357
00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:15,401
May I speak to Kay, please?
358
00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:18,779
STRICKER: My dear, will you
leave us alone, please?
359
00:28:23,451 --> 00:28:26,578
Must you persist in the face
of everything?
360
00:28:26,871 --> 00:28:28,997
Try to be reasonable, Vincent.
361
00:28:29,207 --> 00:28:30,874
Even if Kay returned your love...
362
00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:34,294
...how could you possibly hope
to provide a home for her?
363
00:28:34,462 --> 00:28:37,172
You haven't earned money
in a long time. You don't even--
364
00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:40,926
If a man loves, he lives. If he lives,
he works. If he works, he has bread.
365
00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:43,512
You think I'm a tramp,
I'll be penniless all my life?
366
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,806
- It's not a question of money.
- Listen to me.
367
00:28:45,974 --> 00:28:47,891
All I ask is a chance
to show Kay my love...
368
00:28:48,059 --> 00:28:50,269
...to help her understand why
she must love me.
369
00:28:50,437 --> 00:28:53,272
You've been in love. You know
what agonies a man can suffer.
370
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,108
Agonies. Are you such a weakling
that you can't stand...
371
00:28:56,276 --> 00:28:58,485
...the little pain of
a disappointment in love?
372
00:28:58,653 --> 00:29:00,696
Do you have to whimper about it?
373
00:29:03,158 --> 00:29:05,659
What do you know about pain?
374
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:09,455
I've seen agonies
that you've never dreamed of.
375
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:16,003
Let me talk to Kay for as long as
I can keep my hand in this flame.
376
00:29:21,885 --> 00:29:23,886
Vincent!
377
00:29:26,931 --> 00:29:29,308
Have you gone out of your mind?
378
00:29:29,517 --> 00:29:32,478
- Do you hear me whimpering?
STRICKER: Listen to me, my boy.
379
00:29:32,645 --> 00:29:35,856
I'd let you talk to Kay to your
heart's content, but for one thing:
380
00:29:36,024 --> 00:29:39,151
She refuses to see you again, ever.
381
00:29:39,652 --> 00:29:40,903
I don't believe it.
382
00:29:41,112 --> 00:29:44,156
She said that your persistence
disgusted her.
383
00:29:45,074 --> 00:29:48,410
There are some things
that can't be controlled by wishes.
384
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:50,871
Love is one of them.
385
00:29:51,915 --> 00:29:55,125
- I'm sorry.
- But did she say I...?
386
00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:56,960
I disgusted her?
387
00:29:58,421 --> 00:30:00,088
Yes.
388
00:30:01,841 --> 00:30:04,134
Did she actually say that?
389
00:30:05,094 --> 00:30:06,345
Yes.
390
00:30:13,645 --> 00:30:16,355
All right, I'm sorry to....
391
00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:18,857
- I'll be going.
- Where are you staying?
392
00:30:19,025 --> 00:30:21,360
- Would you like to spend the night?
VINCENT: Thank you...
393
00:30:21,528 --> 00:30:24,321
- ...but if Kay leaves the--
- Let me take care of your hand.
394
00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:25,531
STRICKER:
Take care.
395
00:30:25,698 --> 00:30:28,200
MRS. STRICKER: Our love to your family.
STRICKER: Good night.
396
00:30:28,368 --> 00:30:30,035
MRS. STRICKER:
Good night.
397
00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:31,995
[TOWER CLOCK STRIKING]
398
00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:48,095
[MUSIC PLAYING]
399
00:30:54,978 --> 00:30:57,437
WOMAN:
Come on. Let's get out of here.
400
00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:06,071
Oh, fine. If you want to sit here,
that's all right.
401
00:31:11,828 --> 00:31:13,745
WAITER: More wine?
CHRISTINE: On credit?
402
00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:15,622
WAITER:
No.
403
00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:37,603
You all right?
404
00:31:37,937 --> 00:31:39,354
I'm sick.
405
00:31:39,522 --> 00:31:42,816
I'm tired. Just leave me alone.
406
00:31:46,112 --> 00:31:50,991
Everything's rotten. Now I understand
why people drown themselves.
407
00:31:51,492 --> 00:31:54,661
- Don't say things like that.
- Why not?
408
00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:59,708
- Suicide's a terrible thing.
- What do you know about it?
409
00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:06,423
What are you anyway, workingman?
410
00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:10,802
- Yes.
- You don't talk like one.
411
00:32:12,138 --> 00:32:14,431
Thanks for the brandy.
412
00:32:19,812 --> 00:32:24,316
I'm a laundress when I have
the strength to scrub.
413
00:32:24,525 --> 00:32:28,570
And when I haven't,
I look for easier work.
414
00:32:30,281 --> 00:32:34,326
I've a baby to feed.
He's at home with my mother.
415
00:32:34,535 --> 00:32:37,829
- Where's your husband?
- What husband?
416
00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:41,917
I've been at the tubs all day.
417
00:32:42,126 --> 00:32:46,088
They were supposed to pay me tonight,
but they put me off till tomorrow.
418
00:32:46,297 --> 00:32:49,257
- Can't your mother help you?
- She's helped plenty.
419
00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:52,427
She's taught me all I know.
420
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,721
Can I have another?
421
00:32:56,766 --> 00:33:00,227
Here. Put this in your pocket instead.
422
00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:02,813
- I'm only sorry it isn't more.
- Who bit your hand?
423
00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:05,023
- I burned it.
- Let me see.
424
00:33:08,569 --> 00:33:09,695
[CHRISTINE WHISTLES]
425
00:33:09,862 --> 00:33:12,823
What are you trying to do?
Fry it for dinner?
426
00:33:13,032 --> 00:33:15,826
- I'll get something for it.
- It'll be all right.
427
00:33:16,035 --> 00:33:18,453
CHRISTINE: Got any oil or butter
in this cockroach trap?
428
00:33:18,621 --> 00:33:21,039
WAITER:
We sell drinks, not food.
429
00:33:21,207 --> 00:33:25,544
It's a bad burn. Come home with me.
I'll dress it for you before it gets worse.
430
00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:28,338
- Thank you. It'll heal.
- What's the matter with you?
431
00:33:28,548 --> 00:33:31,133
You're afraid to be seen with me?
432
00:33:54,282 --> 00:33:58,869
VINCENT: This is a woman, Theo, who is
far from young, far from pretty...
433
00:33:59,078 --> 00:34:01,788
...but she was good to me and kind.
434
00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:05,625
She's evidently had a great deal
of trouble and a hard life...
435
00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:09,463
...and there's nothing at all distinguished
or unusual about her.
436
00:34:09,672 --> 00:34:15,093
We talked about all sorts of things.
Her life, her troubles, her poverty...
437
00:34:15,303 --> 00:34:18,513
...her health, her loneliness.
438
00:34:20,641 --> 00:34:25,228
If you had nothing at all,
it would make no difference.
439
00:34:26,230 --> 00:34:30,692
Since you came over and talked to me,
I don't feel alone anymore.
440
00:34:31,611 --> 00:34:33,612
I don't know how to say it.
441
00:34:33,821 --> 00:34:36,990
VINCENT:
The clergymen would call us sinners.
442
00:34:37,366 --> 00:34:39,910
Is it a sin to love, Theo?
443
00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:42,412
To be in need of love...
444
00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:45,332
...not to be able to live without love?
445
00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:55,967
Cousin Mauve.
446
00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:57,969
Oh, Vincent.
447
00:34:58,179 --> 00:35:02,015
I'm sorry to put off seeing you but
we artists have to be selfish, you know.
448
00:35:02,225 --> 00:35:03,892
We have to save ourselves.
449
00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:06,853
After all, with each painting
we die a little.
450
00:35:07,021 --> 00:35:08,772
What have you there?
451
00:35:09,732 --> 00:35:11,108
I'm trying to draw.
452
00:35:11,275 --> 00:35:13,360
I was wondering
if you'd be willing to help.
453
00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:16,947
I wouldn't ask much, just let me
watch you work now and then...
454
00:35:17,156 --> 00:35:21,409
...and sometimes when you're resting
if-- If you look at my things and--
455
00:35:21,619 --> 00:35:23,787
And tell me my mistakes.
456
00:35:23,996 --> 00:35:26,790
You think that's not asking much.
457
00:35:29,043 --> 00:35:33,672
Now, these are just copying exercises.
Don't you have anything of your own?
458
00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:39,469
Ah, you've been out
at the beach at Scheveningen.
459
00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:43,431
Well, don't be in such a hurry.
Seascapes are difficult.
460
00:35:43,808 --> 00:35:45,851
Yes, indeed....
461
00:35:55,695 --> 00:35:58,864
You know,
I expected to find you a dullard.
462
00:35:59,657 --> 00:36:01,366
I was wrong.
463
00:36:04,245 --> 00:36:07,080
They're clumsy, most of them.
464
00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:09,708
But I can see what you're getting at.
465
00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,210
And that you've worked.
466
00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:18,800
Yes....
467
00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:21,887
Tell me something.
468
00:36:22,054 --> 00:36:25,015
What kind of an artist
do you want to be?
469
00:36:25,391 --> 00:36:27,851
I wanna create things
that touch people.
470
00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:32,522
I wanna move them so they say,
"He feels deeply and tenderly."
471
00:36:34,692 --> 00:36:36,401
That's fine, fine.
472
00:36:36,611 --> 00:36:40,739
But before you can move people,
you first have to learn your business.
473
00:36:40,948 --> 00:36:43,617
It needs skill as well as heart.
474
00:36:43,826 --> 00:36:45,035
Tell me something.
475
00:36:45,203 --> 00:36:47,495
- Have you ever worked in color?
- No.
476
00:36:47,663 --> 00:36:50,582
You'd better start working right away
in watercolors and oil.
477
00:36:50,750 --> 00:36:53,293
- It'll help your drawing.
- I don't know about color.
478
00:36:53,461 --> 00:36:56,171
I'll teach you.
We'll work together here.
479
00:36:56,380 --> 00:37:00,217
- Cousin Mauve--
- No, no. When I'm less tired.
480
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:05,013
Now, you'll need some watercolors.
Now, here they are.
481
00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:09,017
Some brushes, some oil....
482
00:37:09,685 --> 00:37:13,355
No, this is an incomplete set
but it will do for now.
483
00:37:13,522 --> 00:37:18,026
There's a palette, palette knife,
oil, turpentine.
484
00:37:18,236 --> 00:37:20,862
Better have a couple of these.
And...
485
00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:24,991
Now, to improve your drawing,
you'll need to use casts.
486
00:37:25,201 --> 00:37:27,285
Now, let me see. Yes.
487
00:37:27,495 --> 00:37:28,954
Take these home with you...
488
00:37:29,121 --> 00:37:32,499
...and work from them not less than
three hours each day, faithfully.
489
00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:34,167
- Yes.
- Have you a place to work?
490
00:37:34,335 --> 00:37:36,503
- I found a flat near the--
- Has it got good light?
491
00:37:36,671 --> 00:37:38,672
- I usually work out--
- How are you for money?
492
00:37:38,839 --> 00:37:40,215
No, Theo's been sending me money.
493
00:37:40,383 --> 00:37:42,384
MAUVE: It's the first few months
are the hardest.
494
00:37:42,593 --> 00:37:46,346
I don't suppose a little extra
will be unwelcome, eh?
495
00:37:46,555 --> 00:37:49,557
- Cousin Mauve--
- That will help you set yourself up.
496
00:37:49,725 --> 00:37:51,393
- Oh, I can't tell you--
- Not at all.
497
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,104
Now, come back next week.
Let me see what you've done.
498
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:56,481
Forgive me for barging in
when you're so tired.
499
00:37:56,649 --> 00:38:00,193
Don't-- That's all right.
Now, just take these with you.
500
00:38:00,403 --> 00:38:03,029
- I can't tell you how grateful I am.
- That's all right.
501
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,408
Now, take that. Now....
502
00:38:11,497 --> 00:38:13,331
How much longer do you need us?
503
00:38:14,417 --> 00:38:18,003
I can't get supper ready
sitting in this chair, you know.
504
00:38:18,212 --> 00:38:20,672
VINCENT:
Oh. Sorry.
505
00:38:20,881 --> 00:38:24,342
- You can get up now.
- I'm going to market.
506
00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:32,017
Next time will you keep
some money for food.
507
00:38:34,770 --> 00:38:38,231
If we could eat drawings,
that'd be different.
508
00:38:39,108 --> 00:38:43,278
I saved some money, you dropped it on
the beach. I didn't give it back to you.
509
00:38:43,863 --> 00:38:45,822
My mother was right...
510
00:38:46,032 --> 00:38:49,492
...getting myself hooked up
with a crazy painter.
511
00:38:49,744 --> 00:38:51,619
Keep an eye on him.
512
00:39:05,718 --> 00:39:06,760
VINCENT:
Dear brother:
513
00:39:06,927 --> 00:39:10,889
I think of you so often,
so very, very often these days.
514
00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:12,849
If only you could be here...
515
00:39:13,059 --> 00:39:15,852
...and see for yourself how it is with us.
516
00:39:16,062 --> 00:39:19,647
That this is a real home rooted in life...
517
00:39:19,857 --> 00:39:24,527
...with a woman and a cradle
and a child's highchair.
518
00:39:25,071 --> 00:39:28,615
The feeling I have
for Christine is real too.
519
00:39:48,344 --> 00:39:50,512
I'm tired.
520
00:39:52,139 --> 00:39:55,350
I'm going in to feed the baby.
521
00:39:58,354 --> 00:39:59,729
VINCENT:
Not yet.
522
00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:02,482
Christine, come back.
523
00:40:05,152 --> 00:40:07,028
[HAMMERING]
524
00:40:07,279 --> 00:40:08,613
CHRISTINE:
I'm fed up.
525
00:40:08,823 --> 00:40:11,991
- Month after month. It's the same thing.
VINCENT: What's the matter now?
526
00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:14,911
I'm fed up with living on bread
and coffee.
527
00:40:15,121 --> 00:40:18,665
You take every penny you're given and
throw it away on paints and canvas.
528
00:40:18,833 --> 00:40:19,999
Don't start that again.
529
00:40:20,167 --> 00:40:24,087
Look at these. How much did they cost?
Haven't even used up the old ones.
530
00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,673
Shut up. Don't interfere with things
you know nothing of.
531
00:40:26,841 --> 00:40:28,967
I won't shut up.
I have to pick up after you.
532
00:40:29,135 --> 00:40:32,053
Mend those clothes, pose for hours
on top of everything else.
533
00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:35,432
- What do you think I am, your slave?
- Stop nagging.
534
00:40:38,352 --> 00:40:42,147
Sometimes I wonder
if I wasn't better off the way I was.
535
00:40:44,692 --> 00:40:47,819
Don't you dare. Do you hear me?
Don't you dare.
536
00:40:47,987 --> 00:40:51,364
If only we could have a piece of meat
once in a while or egg.
537
00:40:51,574 --> 00:40:54,868
I'm sick of worrying how we're gonna
get money to eat the next day.
538
00:40:55,035 --> 00:40:57,245
You call that a life?
539
00:40:58,873 --> 00:41:00,540
Couldn't you write to your brother?
540
00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:02,917
I can't ask him again,
he's helping all he can.
541
00:41:03,085 --> 00:41:05,086
What about that man
he wanted you to meet?
542
00:41:05,254 --> 00:41:07,255
- Tersteeg.
- Maybe he could sell your stuff.
543
00:41:07,423 --> 00:41:10,467
I went to see him. Offered me
a handout, like I was a beggar.
544
00:41:10,634 --> 00:41:13,261
- Didn't you take it?
- He said I had no talent.
545
00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:16,306
- Even if I did, I started too late.
- Well...
546
00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:20,518
...that leaves only your cousin Mauve.
Couldn't he help?
547
00:41:23,856 --> 00:41:26,941
Or did you have a fight
with him too?
548
00:41:28,527 --> 00:41:31,488
- Did you?
- Mauve can go to hell.
549
00:41:31,697 --> 00:41:33,072
He helps when he's in the mood.
550
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,617
The rest of the time
he doesn't care if I'm dead or alive.
551
00:41:35,784 --> 00:41:37,410
"Oh, I'm sorry, my boy.
552
00:41:37,578 --> 00:41:40,705
Go home, I can't see you now.
Go home and work with those casts."
553
00:41:40,873 --> 00:41:42,999
I'm sick of working with those
idiotic casts.
554
00:41:43,167 --> 00:41:45,251
Don't look down your nose
at those casts of his.
555
00:41:45,461 --> 00:41:48,129
He sells what he paints.
556
00:41:48,380 --> 00:41:53,176
I don't wanna hear about these casts
from you or from anybody else.
557
00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:09,400
Sien?
558
00:42:12,446 --> 00:42:13,780
Where have you been?
559
00:42:13,989 --> 00:42:16,533
- I asked you where you've been.
- At my mother's.
560
00:42:16,742 --> 00:42:19,244
For two days?
You said you wouldn't go back there.
561
00:42:19,411 --> 00:42:21,913
- Something to eat for a change.
- You promised not to get...
562
00:42:22,081 --> 00:42:25,959
- ...drawn into that life again.
- And some jokes for a change.
563
00:42:27,753 --> 00:42:31,923
- Where you going?
- My father's ill, I-- I have to go back.
564
00:42:32,091 --> 00:42:33,132
CHRISTINE:
Oh.
565
00:42:34,134 --> 00:42:36,010
How...?
566
00:42:37,054 --> 00:42:38,930
How long will you be gone?
567
00:42:39,139 --> 00:42:41,266
Depends on what happens.
568
00:42:41,642 --> 00:42:43,810
Vincent, I--
569
00:42:44,019 --> 00:42:45,478
Yes?
570
00:42:47,773 --> 00:42:49,399
What is it?
571
00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:53,152
Nothing.
572
00:42:56,949 --> 00:42:59,158
There's some painting muslin
in the cupboard.
573
00:42:59,326 --> 00:43:02,662
- Make some shirts for the boy.
- I won't be there when you get back.
574
00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:04,914
- Don't say that.
- I didn't want to tell you.
575
00:43:05,082 --> 00:43:06,374
I've been feeling restless.
576
00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:09,961
Besides, my mother's right. You don't
earn enough for me and the baby.
577
00:43:10,170 --> 00:43:11,796
- The bad life.
- This is no time--
578
00:43:11,964 --> 00:43:14,799
You'll forget about us once
you get home. It won't be hard.
579
00:43:14,967 --> 00:43:17,427
MAN:
All aboard. All aboard.
580
00:43:17,595 --> 00:43:18,928
Where will you go?
581
00:43:19,138 --> 00:43:22,015
- How will you live?
- It will be the old life, I suppose.
582
00:43:22,224 --> 00:43:24,684
Vincent, it's not your fault.
You've been good.
583
00:43:24,893 --> 00:43:28,563
You're the only person who's ever
been good to me and the baby.
584
00:43:28,772 --> 00:43:30,231
Just as if he was your own.
585
00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:32,483
CONDUCTOR:
All aboard. All aboard.
586
00:43:48,834 --> 00:43:51,586
What is it that came between
Father and me?
587
00:43:51,879 --> 00:43:54,714
Why couldn't I have shown him
a little more consideration?
588
00:43:54,923 --> 00:43:56,966
Given him some pleasure
while he was alive?
589
00:43:57,134 --> 00:43:59,969
It wouldn't have hurt to come
to his church once in a while.
590
00:44:00,137 --> 00:44:02,430
We always assume there's time.
591
00:44:02,890 --> 00:44:05,850
And that we can give love
on our own terms.
592
00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:10,021
Then one day we wake up and find
it's too late to give it on any terms.
593
00:44:14,485 --> 00:44:17,111
Will you go back to your life in
The Hague?
594
00:44:18,072 --> 00:44:19,572
No, that's over.
595
00:44:19,782 --> 00:44:22,158
It was wrong from the beginning.
596
00:44:22,618 --> 00:44:24,827
Come to Paris, Vincent.
597
00:44:25,245 --> 00:44:27,205
We could live together.
598
00:44:27,956 --> 00:44:30,041
You're not the only one that's lonely.
599
00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:32,710
Not yet, Theo.
Someday, but not now.
600
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,588
You could meet other painters.
See what they're doing.
601
00:44:35,756 --> 00:44:39,550
If I am to be anything as a painter,
I've got to break through the iron wall...
602
00:44:39,718 --> 00:44:43,179
...between what I feel and
what I can express.
603
00:44:43,555 --> 00:44:47,558
And my best chance of doing it is here.
Where my roots are.
604
00:44:47,768 --> 00:44:49,894
The people I know.
605
00:44:52,147 --> 00:44:53,815
The earth I know.
606
00:45:01,448 --> 00:45:02,782
VINCENT:
Dear Theo:
607
00:45:02,950 --> 00:45:06,452
Thank you for the money
and the paints and canvas.
608
00:45:06,620 --> 00:45:08,746
With your help, I go forward.
609
00:45:08,956 --> 00:45:12,291
I feel the force to work
growing daily within me.
610
00:45:12,501 --> 00:45:16,254
Do you realize, Theo,
that what I'm doing is new?
611
00:45:17,089 --> 00:45:19,507
In the paintings of the old masters...
612
00:45:19,717 --> 00:45:22,719
...did you ever see a single man
or woman at work?
613
00:45:22,928 --> 00:45:26,264
Did they ever try to paint
a laborer or a man digging?
614
00:45:26,473 --> 00:45:32,395
They didn't. And for good reason
because work is so hard to draw.
615
00:45:32,604 --> 00:45:36,023
[CHURCH BELL STRIKING]
616
00:45:40,696 --> 00:45:44,365
WOMAN: And look at the way
he's dressed. Oh, that old sheepskin.
617
00:45:44,575 --> 00:45:48,327
Oh, my, I tell you,
I'm sorry for the family.
618
00:45:48,537 --> 00:45:50,413
VINCENT:
To paint these people...
619
00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:53,750
...means to be with them
in the fields day after day...
620
00:45:53,959 --> 00:45:56,294
...and by their firesides at night.
621
00:45:59,465 --> 00:46:03,259
Since the rains came,
I've become absorbed in the weavers.
622
00:46:03,469 --> 00:46:05,553
They make such good subjects.
623
00:46:05,763 --> 00:46:09,390
The old oak wood darkened
by sweating hands...
624
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:13,686
...and the shadows of the looms
on the gray mud walls.
625
00:46:17,483 --> 00:46:20,067
All these months,
I've been trying to find a pattern.
626
00:46:20,277 --> 00:46:24,030
Trying not so much to draw hands
as gestures...
627
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:28,075
...not so much faces as
the expressions of people.
628
00:46:28,285 --> 00:46:31,037
Men and women who know
the meaning of toil.
629
00:46:33,999 --> 00:46:35,917
I want to make clear
that these people...
630
00:46:36,126 --> 00:46:39,128
...sitting round a meal of potatoes
in the evening...
631
00:46:39,338 --> 00:46:43,049
...have turned the soil
with the very hands they put in the dish.
632
00:46:43,258 --> 00:46:46,052
That they have honestly
earned their food.
633
00:46:46,261 --> 00:46:50,681
I want to paint something
that smells of bacon, smoke and steam.
634
00:46:50,891 --> 00:46:55,019
Something that's the good, dark color
of our Dutch earth.
635
00:46:56,396 --> 00:47:00,775
VINCENT:
Willemien. Come in. come in.
636
00:47:01,610 --> 00:47:03,778
Here, here, sit down.
637
00:47:07,991 --> 00:47:09,700
What's the matter?
638
00:47:10,953 --> 00:47:12,495
The neighbors been at you again?
639
00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:15,832
You know how they are,
such a small place.
640
00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:19,710
What is it this time? Huh?
641
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,921
Well, it has to do with....
642
00:47:22,089 --> 00:47:25,383
Wi-- With the way you
dress partly and....
643
00:47:25,551 --> 00:47:28,761
Look, I dress this way because
I work in the fields.
644
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:33,057
Because I have nothing else.
645
00:47:33,725 --> 00:47:36,477
And the way you behave too.
They don't understand it.
646
00:47:36,687 --> 00:47:38,980
And it makes trouble for us.
647
00:47:40,023 --> 00:47:43,150
Ever since Father died, it--
It hasn't been easy.
648
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,571
People have stopped coming
to the house. They-- They avoid us.
649
00:47:46,738 --> 00:47:49,198
It isn't very comfortable and....
650
00:47:49,491 --> 00:47:52,034
Is your young man one of those
who stopped coming?
651
00:47:52,244 --> 00:47:54,412
Yes, he is,
but that doesn't matter so much.
652
00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:56,664
- Yes, it does.
- It's the rest of the family.
653
00:47:56,832 --> 00:48:00,626
Mother pretends she doesn't notice, but--
But I know it's upset her and she....
654
00:48:00,794 --> 00:48:04,589
Well, she'll never tell you, so--
So I felt I must.
655
00:48:07,009 --> 00:48:10,219
I'll get out. Take a few days
to finish this and then I'll leave.
656
00:48:10,429 --> 00:48:13,431
No, Vincent, I--
I didn't mean that, I....
657
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,474
Of course you did, Willemien.
658
00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:20,521
It's all right, I....
659
00:48:21,148 --> 00:48:24,233
I've accomplished
what I stayed here to do and....
660
00:48:25,777 --> 00:48:28,529
Maybe it is time to move on.
661
00:48:29,573 --> 00:48:32,074
MAN:
I am sick and tired of these cheap jokes.
662
00:48:32,242 --> 00:48:33,409
Art is a serious business.
663
00:48:33,577 --> 00:48:36,537
And in Paris, at least,
an artist with a new idea should be--
664
00:48:36,747 --> 00:48:39,665
I agree with you, Durand-Ruel.
Impressionism is not a joke.
665
00:48:39,875 --> 00:48:41,709
It's a cancer
and it must be cut out.
666
00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:45,671
Condone anarchism in the arts
and you seal the doom of France.
667
00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:49,383
DURAND-RUEL: What would you do?
Ship painters to Devil's Island?
668
00:48:49,551 --> 00:48:50,843
These men are shameless.
669
00:48:51,053 --> 00:48:54,388
They load pistols with tubes of paint
and fire them at the canvas.
670
00:48:54,598 --> 00:48:57,266
And then have the audacity
to sign their names.
671
00:48:57,476 --> 00:49:02,688
Cézanne, Signac, Pissarro, Gauguin,
Renoir, Monet.
672
00:49:02,856 --> 00:49:04,523
You know these men,
you handle some.
673
00:49:04,691 --> 00:49:06,776
Why didn't you tell me about it?
Let me know?
674
00:49:06,944 --> 00:49:09,320
I wrote you in Antwerp.
Don't you read my letters?
675
00:49:09,488 --> 00:49:10,905
But seeing them. The colors.
676
00:49:11,073 --> 00:49:14,158
Theo, the colors.
And what they've done with light--
677
00:49:14,326 --> 00:49:17,286
- Is that painting?
- The critics and the public don't think so.
678
00:49:17,454 --> 00:49:19,372
Nor do my employers at Goupil's.
679
00:49:19,581 --> 00:49:23,668
I can't believe they'd be-- No, if they're
right, everything I've done is wrong.
680
00:49:23,835 --> 00:49:25,670
Do they really know
what they're doing?
681
00:49:25,837 --> 00:49:28,547
You've got to meet and talk to them,
see what they think.
682
00:49:28,715 --> 00:49:31,550
- That's why I wanted you to come.
- I gotta see them. Where?
683
00:49:31,718 --> 00:49:33,928
- I got many questions.
- At 2:00 in the morning?
684
00:49:34,096 --> 00:49:36,931
- Why not?
- Listen, take that thing off...
685
00:49:37,099 --> 00:49:41,102
...and settle down.
You live here, you know.
686
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,231
We've got to make a Parisian
out of you.
687
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,984
You'll have lots of time
to get your answers.
688
00:49:48,193 --> 00:49:51,028
Tomorrow we'll start with Pissarro.
689
00:49:51,238 --> 00:49:54,949
It's the problem of translating light
into the language of paint.
690
00:49:55,117 --> 00:49:56,158
Those leaves there...
691
00:49:56,326 --> 00:50:00,204
...if they were the only thing in sight,
they'd have one color: their own.
692
00:50:00,372 --> 00:50:03,207
But the shade and reflection
of everything around...
693
00:50:03,375 --> 00:50:05,251
...the sky, the earth, the water...
694
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:07,294
...give them more than their own color.
695
00:50:07,462 --> 00:50:11,048
That's why, when you paint from nature,
don't fix your eye on any one spot.
696
00:50:11,216 --> 00:50:16,053
Take in everything at once.
And, above all, don't be timid.
697
00:50:16,263 --> 00:50:18,347
Trust your first impression.
698
00:50:35,198 --> 00:50:38,492
MAN: Everything you've been doing,
what we've all been doing...
699
00:50:38,702 --> 00:50:42,413
...obsolete, the whole lot of us
guessing with every brushstroke...
700
00:50:42,581 --> 00:50:44,999
...pouring rivers of paint into...
701
00:50:45,167 --> 00:50:48,461
...haphazard combinations
when, actually, everything we're after...
702
00:50:48,628 --> 00:50:50,296
...can be achieved mathematically.
703
00:50:50,464 --> 00:50:52,840
Oh, what are you talking about?
Seurat again?
704
00:50:53,050 --> 00:50:55,634
Do you really think a painting
can be done by formula?
705
00:50:55,844 --> 00:50:59,555
Can be? Is being done,
right here in Paris...
706
00:50:59,723 --> 00:51:01,974
...through precise, scientific methods.
707
00:51:02,142 --> 00:51:07,480
MAN: I don't mix my colors on canvas.
I mix them in the eye of the spectator.
708
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,443
Once you accept the phenomenon of the
duration of light in the human retina--
709
00:51:12,611 --> 00:51:14,779
VINCENT:
Excuse me, but this is a sunlit exterior.
710
00:51:14,946 --> 00:51:16,864
Why do you paint it indoors by gaslight?
711
00:51:17,032 --> 00:51:20,534
- I mean, how can you judge your colors?
- Why not?
712
00:51:20,702 --> 00:51:23,287
Come on, Seurat,
put him out of his misery.
713
00:51:23,455 --> 00:51:27,291
- I've tried, but he's still in darkness.
- All right, Bernard, come here.
714
00:51:29,419 --> 00:51:32,755
Everything I do
is worked out in advance...
715
00:51:32,964 --> 00:51:36,550
...with mathematical accuracy through
precise scientific methods.
716
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,429
I know exactly what colors I'm going
to use before I pick up my brushes.
717
00:51:40,639 --> 00:51:44,433
And my palette is methodically prepared
in the order of the spectrum.
718
00:51:44,643 --> 00:51:49,522
As you see, blue, blue-violet,
violet, violet-red, red...
719
00:51:50,273 --> 00:51:52,775
...red-orange, orange-yellow,
yellow....
720
00:52:17,884 --> 00:52:22,054
VINCENT: Theo. Theo.
THEO: What is it?
721
00:52:22,305 --> 00:52:26,308
- Oh, can't it wait till morning?
VINCENT: No, please, I need your help.
722
00:52:26,893 --> 00:52:28,227
Here.
723
00:52:30,272 --> 00:52:33,816
- What is it this time?
- Look at this.
724
00:52:36,278 --> 00:52:37,653
Well?
725
00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:40,406
Yes, it's coming along.
726
00:52:40,824 --> 00:52:43,159
It's got a very good sense of light.
727
00:52:44,953 --> 00:52:46,662
What's the matter? You look terrible.
728
00:52:46,872 --> 00:52:48,664
Will you be able to sell it?
729
00:52:51,585 --> 00:52:53,460
THEO:
I'll try.
730
00:52:54,421 --> 00:52:58,340
It's hard to sell any of the new painters,
even the ones with some sort of name.
731
00:52:58,550 --> 00:53:02,511
You know how Goupil's begrudges me
the little space in the back room.
732
00:53:02,679 --> 00:53:05,306
Then why don't you leave Goupil's?
Set up for yourself.
733
00:53:05,473 --> 00:53:07,266
Why waste time with idiots like that?
734
00:53:07,434 --> 00:53:09,602
Vincent, don't tell me
how to run my life.
735
00:53:09,769 --> 00:53:11,854
It's taken me a long time
to get where I am.
736
00:53:12,063 --> 00:53:16,525
It may not be ideal but, to me,
what I'm doing seems worthwhile.
737
00:53:16,735 --> 00:53:18,319
And you don't make it any easier.
738
00:53:18,486 --> 00:53:20,237
I haven't had any sleep for six months.
739
00:53:20,405 --> 00:53:22,364
When people come to the house,
you insult them.
740
00:53:22,532 --> 00:53:24,116
Don't I have right to my opinion?
741
00:53:24,284 --> 00:53:28,287
This is my home.
You have no right to insult my guests.
742
00:53:31,416 --> 00:53:34,668
Maybe I shouldn't have come to Paris
in the first place.
743
00:53:41,218 --> 00:53:42,968
Vincent...
744
00:53:43,178 --> 00:53:47,139
...all we've got is
what we can give each other.
745
00:53:47,807 --> 00:53:50,768
You know how much joy
it would give me to sell your paintings.
746
00:53:50,977 --> 00:53:53,562
I show them whenever
I get a chance.
747
00:53:54,272 --> 00:53:57,316
But perhaps you should take some
to some other dealer.
748
00:53:57,525 --> 00:53:59,401
The more your work's seen the better.
749
00:53:59,611 --> 00:54:01,779
Go to Père Tanguy.
I'll talk to him about you.
750
00:54:01,947 --> 00:54:03,697
- Why should I--?
- See what he can do.
751
00:54:03,865 --> 00:54:06,700
And show him some of your old work,
not just the new stuff.
752
00:54:06,868 --> 00:54:09,286
Is that your way of saying
the new work's no good?
753
00:54:09,454 --> 00:54:12,623
Vincent, I'm not gonna argue with you
when you're in this mood.
754
00:54:12,832 --> 00:54:15,292
- What mood? All I'm trying--
- Good night.
755
00:54:15,502 --> 00:54:17,920
- Theo!
- Good night!
756
00:54:23,093 --> 00:54:24,551
Vincent...
757
00:54:26,096 --> 00:54:29,098
...it's all good, all of it.
758
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:34,144
The important thing is that one day
it could be sublime.
759
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:39,525
But, between then and now,
there's one thing you could do for me.
760
00:54:39,693 --> 00:54:43,320
A little thing, it's all I ask...
761
00:54:44,781 --> 00:54:47,241
...let me get a night's sleep.
762
00:54:48,576 --> 00:54:50,536
[MAN LAUGHING]
763
00:54:50,745 --> 00:54:52,413
MAN:
Oh, it's still the same.
764
00:54:52,580 --> 00:54:54,790
Nothing's changed
since I left here a year ago.
765
00:54:54,958 --> 00:54:59,211
That's right. You owed us
112 francs then, and you still do.
766
00:54:59,421 --> 00:55:00,838
GAUGUIN:
Tanguy, remove your wife.
767
00:55:01,047 --> 00:55:02,506
Get in the back.
768
00:55:02,674 --> 00:55:05,259
GAUGUIN:
This man is absolutely correct, Tanguy.
769
00:55:05,468 --> 00:55:08,178
You cannot handle painters and
woodpeckers too.
770
00:55:08,388 --> 00:55:12,850
The fact is, my dear friends,
that you are not painters.
771
00:55:13,059 --> 00:55:15,436
You are tattoo artists.
772
00:55:15,603 --> 00:55:17,604
You are chemists
with little pots of paint.
773
00:55:17,772 --> 00:55:20,357
You cover canvases
with colored fleas.
774
00:55:20,567 --> 00:55:22,943
You are so busy imitating
each other's tricks...
775
00:55:23,153 --> 00:55:25,195
...you've forgotten what
painting is about.
776
00:55:25,405 --> 00:55:26,780
You all make me sick.
777
00:55:26,948 --> 00:55:29,867
BERNARD: What doesn't make you sick?
Besides your own work?
778
00:55:30,035 --> 00:55:32,244
Would you really like to know?
779
00:55:32,620 --> 00:55:34,038
That.
780
00:55:36,082 --> 00:55:38,667
Look at that. The clarity, the calm.
781
00:55:38,877 --> 00:55:41,086
The Japanese paint
as simply as we breathe.
782
00:55:41,254 --> 00:55:43,255
MRS. TANGUY: They pay for the paints.
- Who's he?
783
00:55:43,423 --> 00:55:45,215
- Paul Gauguin.
- Do you have to go halfway...
784
00:55:45,383 --> 00:55:47,176
...round the world to find something?
785
00:55:47,344 --> 00:55:48,886
I don't have to leave this shop.
786
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:51,722
Look at that, look at that.
787
00:55:51,890 --> 00:55:53,182
And that...
788
00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:54,558
...and that.
789
00:55:54,726 --> 00:55:57,186
BERNARD: Cézanne?
- Yes, Cézanne.
790
00:55:57,395 --> 00:56:00,856
- Yes, Cézanne.
- King of the unsalables.
791
00:56:01,066 --> 00:56:05,652
- I suppose you call this painting?
- Give me that painting.
792
00:56:13,912 --> 00:56:16,580
Yes. It's direct. It's vigorous.
793
00:56:16,790 --> 00:56:18,916
- What's your name?
- Vincent Van Gogh.
794
00:56:19,084 --> 00:56:21,168
He has a statement to make,
and he makes it.
795
00:56:21,336 --> 00:56:22,378
- Theo's brother?
- Yes.
796
00:56:22,545 --> 00:56:24,797
Glad to know you. It's honest.
797
00:56:25,256 --> 00:56:27,800
It owes nothing to anybody.
Nothing.
798
00:56:28,009 --> 00:56:30,969
Because it has nothing.
No tone, no values--
799
00:56:31,179 --> 00:56:32,888
No color relations.
800
00:56:33,098 --> 00:56:36,558
The little men are at it again.
My friend, join me in a drink?
801
00:56:36,768 --> 00:56:41,063
- What about the 112 francs?
GAUGUIN: Lady, go back to your kitchen.
802
00:56:41,272 --> 00:56:42,981
TANGUY:
Get back.
803
00:56:43,191 --> 00:56:47,361
GAUGUIN: Ah, you see, down there the
sun invades you, gets into your blood.
804
00:56:47,570 --> 00:56:49,530
Not that Martinique was a paradise.
805
00:56:49,739 --> 00:56:53,117
Between hunger and fever
I was lucky to get out alive.
806
00:56:53,326 --> 00:56:56,328
But, if I could,
I'd go back there tomorrow.
807
00:56:57,455 --> 00:57:00,374
- How long you been in Paris?
- Over a year.
808
00:57:00,583 --> 00:57:03,377
How can you stand it? I can't work here.
It strangles me.
809
00:57:03,586 --> 00:57:05,462
- But where would you go?
- Brittany.
810
00:57:05,672 --> 00:57:09,633
There's a place up there I can stay.
It's just a hole but it's all I can afford.
811
00:57:09,843 --> 00:57:13,887
- Wouldn't you miss your friends in Paris?
- Friends?
812
00:57:14,097 --> 00:57:16,098
A woman or two, maybe.
813
00:57:16,266 --> 00:57:17,933
When you start as late as I did...
814
00:57:18,101 --> 00:57:21,728
...you find yourself measuring
who and what you give your time to.
815
00:57:21,938 --> 00:57:25,149
Friends, comforts, family....
816
00:57:25,567 --> 00:57:28,944
If they interfere with your peace
to work, you cut them off.
817
00:57:29,863 --> 00:57:34,658
And you spend the rest of your
life wondering if it was worthwhile.
818
00:57:36,286 --> 00:57:39,621
VALADON: Oh, I said, "If they're mad
enough to buy impressionist paintings...
819
00:57:39,831 --> 00:57:41,999
...it only proves that they're savages."
820
00:57:44,294 --> 00:57:47,546
I haven't seen the place looking so neat
since Vincent came to stay.
821
00:57:47,755 --> 00:57:50,299
What got into him,
cleaning it up like this?
822
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,219
I do hope he's out.
823
00:57:54,429 --> 00:57:57,014
Never would get any business
done if he's in.
824
00:58:01,853 --> 00:58:03,270
What is it?
825
00:58:05,356 --> 00:58:06,982
From Vincent.
826
00:58:07,525 --> 00:58:12,779
"I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused and
endlessly grateful for all your kindness.
827
00:58:12,947 --> 00:58:15,157
I've hung a few paintings
to remind you of me."
828
00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:16,366
He's gone?
829
00:58:16,534 --> 00:58:19,328
He's on his way south
to Arles in Provence.
830
00:58:19,662 --> 00:58:21,497
"I thought it over these past weeks...
831
00:58:21,664 --> 00:58:24,249
...and decided the time's come
to make a change.
832
00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:28,212
I want to see nature
under a clearer sky.
833
00:58:30,089 --> 00:58:31,965
I have to work by myself for a while."
834
00:58:32,175 --> 00:58:36,220
No offense meant, but you'll be better
off without him around your neck.
835
00:58:36,763 --> 00:58:39,389
- I think I'm the best judge of that.
- No, the worst.
836
00:58:39,557 --> 00:58:43,227
You've been pushing his paintings and
every time you do, we lose a customer.
837
00:58:43,394 --> 00:58:45,646
As your employer,
I tell you for your own good...
838
00:58:45,813 --> 00:58:48,315
...your love for Vincent
has blinded your judgment.
839
00:58:48,483 --> 00:58:51,527
- It's affected your work.
- Don't let's wrangle again about that.
840
00:58:51,694 --> 00:58:54,530
I'll fight for every painter
who deserves to be recognized.
841
00:58:54,697 --> 00:58:56,240
And Vincent is one of them. He--
842
00:58:56,407 --> 00:59:00,244
- He could be the best of them.
- What? You're his brother.
843
00:59:00,411 --> 00:59:03,455
- You're emotional about him.
- That has nothing to do with it.
844
00:59:03,665 --> 00:59:07,417
What is it when you brood about him?
When you agonize over his every failure?
845
00:59:07,627 --> 00:59:10,546
When you support him
to the point of denying yourself?
846
00:59:10,755 --> 00:59:14,591
You've saved every letter he wrote as--
As though it were a holy scripture.
847
00:59:14,801 --> 00:59:18,303
Oh, come now, Theo. Don't you
really think you've done enough for him?
848
00:59:20,807 --> 00:59:23,141
How much is enough...
849
00:59:23,351 --> 00:59:26,687
...for a man who's struggling
with himself the way Vincent is?
850
00:59:27,063 --> 00:59:30,440
Oh, I know he's crude
and quarrelsome and excitable.
851
00:59:30,608 --> 00:59:34,278
But inside that tormented head of his,
there's-- There's something wonderful.
852
00:59:34,445 --> 00:59:38,282
In those letters there's a gifted man,
a tender man.
853
00:59:38,491 --> 00:59:41,577
There's far more passionate
beauty and strength in his work...
854
00:59:41,786 --> 00:59:44,871
...than there is in half the stuff you see
in the museums today.
855
00:59:46,082 --> 00:59:48,584
I wonder if there'll ever come
a happy time for him.
856
00:59:48,751 --> 00:59:51,086
It seems impossible for him
to have a quiet life.
857
00:59:51,254 --> 00:59:54,715
But change may do him good.
Maybe he'll find himself.
858
00:59:55,133 --> 00:59:58,302
Or will he only find more loneliness?
859
01:00:00,513 --> 01:00:02,097
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
860
01:00:15,236 --> 01:00:16,945
This is it.
861
01:00:17,155 --> 01:00:19,990
At that it's worth more
than you're willing to pay.
862
01:00:21,117 --> 01:00:22,951
- Anything else?
- No, thanks.
863
01:00:23,119 --> 01:00:25,454
That'll be 8 francs for the week.
864
01:02:07,014 --> 01:02:09,641
Get these pictures out of here.
I told you a week ago.
865
01:02:09,809 --> 01:02:12,477
Don't touch that painting.
Can't you see it's still wet?
866
01:02:12,645 --> 01:02:15,897
You're getting paint over everything.
That's why I raised your rent.
867
01:02:16,065 --> 01:02:17,774
You had no right without telling me.
868
01:02:17,942 --> 01:02:20,235
Whoever heard of
a storage fee to use a landing?
869
01:02:20,403 --> 01:02:22,195
- Then get your stuff out.
- I will not.
870
01:02:22,363 --> 01:02:23,947
Then pay me.
871
01:02:44,218 --> 01:02:46,595
ROULIN: Allow me.
VINCENT: Now, don't, don't....
872
01:02:47,472 --> 01:02:49,723
ROULIN:
With your permission.
873
01:02:53,770 --> 01:02:57,272
- Looks like you're moving.
- I'm getting out of that hellhole.
874
01:02:57,482 --> 01:03:01,193
ROULIN: I think you need some help.
- That swine of a landlord.
875
01:03:01,402 --> 01:03:05,155
ROULIN: Here you are.
I wondered how long you'd stand him.
876
01:03:05,907 --> 01:03:08,074
Where do you think
you're going with all this?
877
01:03:08,242 --> 01:03:09,493
I don't know.
878
01:03:09,660 --> 01:03:12,621
You're gonna have to find
some place before night.
879
01:03:12,830 --> 01:03:15,957
I'd ask you to stay with me
but it's a bit crowded with a wife...
880
01:03:16,125 --> 01:03:19,044
- ...and four kids and one on the way.
- Thanks anyway, but....
881
01:03:19,212 --> 01:03:21,213
How would you like a house?
882
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,425
- Too expensive.
- Perhaps not.
883
01:03:25,635 --> 01:03:29,387
Come along. Let me do the talking.
884
01:03:30,598 --> 01:03:34,226
If there's one thing I hate,
it's landlords.
885
01:03:44,070 --> 01:03:46,279
Come along, you wouldn't want
a dump like that.
886
01:03:46,447 --> 01:03:48,865
- Should've been pulled down years ago.
- Wait a minute.
887
01:03:49,033 --> 01:03:52,369
What are you trying to do to me?
Talking like that about my property.
888
01:03:52,578 --> 01:03:55,831
Is that what you're looking for,
a house? Oh, this is a fine house.
889
01:03:55,998 --> 01:03:59,125
My sister lived in it for 17 years,
and then she died. God bless her.
890
01:03:59,293 --> 01:04:02,128
- That's what I mean.
- Would you want me to show it to you?
891
01:04:02,296 --> 01:04:03,797
How long would you want it for?
892
01:04:03,965 --> 01:04:06,049
He won't want it all,
not when he's seen it.
893
01:04:06,217 --> 01:04:08,844
Roulin, you mind your own business
or I'll report you.
894
01:04:09,053 --> 01:04:13,181
I'll let you have it at a good price too.
How would you feel like 15 a month?
895
01:04:13,349 --> 01:04:14,766
You-- You stay out of this.
896
01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:18,228
On top of that,
I'll let you have the use an extra room....
897
01:04:20,815 --> 01:04:24,150
VINCENT:
A house, Theo. I've found a house.
898
01:04:24,318 --> 01:04:27,654
A place of my own
where I can work without trouble.
899
01:04:27,822 --> 01:04:30,574
And where there's plenty of room.
900
01:04:30,783 --> 01:04:33,910
[MEN LAUGHING]
901
01:04:34,412 --> 01:04:38,206
Roulin lent me a mattress to get started,
and I bought some chairs and a bed...
902
01:04:38,374 --> 01:04:40,542
...and a few other things
that were necessary.
903
01:04:40,710 --> 01:04:43,962
With this, and with what I spent
on paints and canvas...
904
01:04:44,171 --> 01:04:46,798
...my money for the month
is almost gone.
905
01:04:47,008 --> 01:04:49,134
But it was worth it.
906
01:04:59,729 --> 01:05:01,855
Oh, Theo, you'd like this house.
907
01:05:02,064 --> 01:05:05,525
It's yellow on the outside
and filled with sunshine.
908
01:05:05,735 --> 01:05:07,444
Later, two could live in it.
909
01:05:07,653 --> 01:05:09,654
One day, perhaps Gauguin will come.
910
01:05:09,864 --> 01:05:14,409
And then, who knows? This might
turn into a colony of painters.
911
01:05:14,952 --> 01:05:17,996
I'm up at dawn and out on the road.
912
01:05:23,252 --> 01:05:27,797
Now that summer's begun, it's all very
different from what it was in the spring.
913
01:05:28,007 --> 01:05:29,925
But I love it even more.
914
01:05:30,134 --> 01:05:34,763
Everywhere is old gold,
bronze and copper.
915
01:05:53,115 --> 01:05:55,951
I wish you could see
these lovely days here, Theo.
916
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,036
If not, you shall see pictures of them.
917
01:05:58,245 --> 01:06:02,540
For these colors give me an
extraordinary exultation.
918
01:06:02,750 --> 01:06:06,044
The whole earth is glowing
under the southern sun.
919
01:06:06,253 --> 01:06:11,132
Lemon yellow, sulfur yellow,
greenish yellow...
920
01:06:11,342 --> 01:06:14,678
...all under a sky blanched with heat.
921
01:06:15,388 --> 01:06:17,847
What a country it is.
922
01:06:18,057 --> 01:06:21,393
It absorbs me so much
that I let myself go...
923
01:06:21,602 --> 01:06:23,853
...never thinking of a single rule.
924
01:06:24,021 --> 01:06:27,065
I have no doubts, no limitations.
925
01:06:27,274 --> 01:06:31,987
I'm working like a steam engine,
devouring paints, burning up canvases.
926
01:06:32,196 --> 01:06:35,657
Whole days go by
without my speaking to anyone.
927
01:06:35,825 --> 01:06:39,035
And every day, my concentration
becomes more intense.
928
01:06:39,245 --> 01:06:41,413
My hand more sure.
929
01:06:41,622 --> 01:06:44,916
I have a power of color in me
that I never had before.
930
01:06:45,126 --> 01:06:48,044
A sense of breadth and strength.
931
01:06:48,921 --> 01:06:51,631
[BELL RINGING]
932
01:07:27,501 --> 01:07:30,086
The summer has vanished
in a fever of work.
933
01:07:30,254 --> 01:07:32,630
And now the mistral is blowing.
934
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:36,676
Always the wind, restless
and unceasing.
935
01:07:36,886 --> 01:07:40,305
Sweeping among
the dead leaves in a rage...
936
01:07:40,473 --> 01:07:43,850
...so that I'm forced
to remain indoors.
937
01:07:44,185 --> 01:07:47,562
Now and then, when the storm
inside me gets too loud...
938
01:07:47,772 --> 01:07:51,107
...I take a glass too much
to distract me.
939
01:07:58,157 --> 01:08:02,452
I must watch out for my nerves,
I'm getting haggard, I know.
940
01:08:02,661 --> 01:08:08,166
If I go on this way, some day or other,
there may be a crisis.
941
01:08:08,584 --> 01:08:10,835
Yet I can't stop.
942
01:08:14,799 --> 01:08:17,133
Sometimes I work on into the night.
943
01:08:17,301 --> 01:08:19,969
I'm hardly conscious
of myself anymore.
944
01:08:20,846 --> 01:08:25,100
And the pictures come to me
as in a dream, with a terrible lucidity.
945
01:09:49,101 --> 01:09:51,769
- What time did he get here?
- About 4 this morning.
946
01:09:51,979 --> 01:09:56,191
- His usual, two coffees, three absinthes.
- Did he eat anything?
947
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:58,151
WAITER:
What do you think?
948
01:09:59,820 --> 01:10:00,945
Ah.
949
01:10:01,113 --> 01:10:02,322
Good morning.
950
01:10:02,489 --> 01:10:05,158
- Good morning.
- I brought something from your brother.
951
01:10:05,326 --> 01:10:07,410
WAITER: What I wanna know is,
when do I get paid?
952
01:10:07,620 --> 01:10:11,164
I don't mind carrying him for a day or
two. But this time it's over two weeks.
953
01:10:11,332 --> 01:10:13,166
I must be as crazy as he is.
954
01:10:13,334 --> 01:10:16,252
What do you think this is,
a reading room?
955
01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:23,635
What's he owe?
956
01:10:23,802 --> 01:10:27,138
- Thirteen.
- Well, here's 10. Shut up.
957
01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:31,226
Now, here, let me give you a hand.
958
01:10:31,393 --> 01:10:32,936
Come along.
959
01:10:33,395 --> 01:10:34,896
So....
960
01:10:39,443 --> 01:10:41,986
Where were you painting last night?
961
01:10:42,196 --> 01:10:46,282
We were looking for you everywhere,
all over the place. Couldn't find you.
962
01:10:47,868 --> 01:10:50,536
VINCENT: Theo's leaving.
- What?
963
01:10:50,788 --> 01:10:52,914
No, it's good news. He--
964
01:10:53,249 --> 01:10:55,917
- He's getting married.
- That's wonderful.
965
01:10:56,126 --> 01:10:58,586
Let's go right back and celebrate.
966
01:11:03,884 --> 01:11:07,804
Um, do you know the girl?
967
01:11:08,430 --> 01:11:10,473
She's a Dutch girl.
968
01:11:10,641 --> 01:11:13,685
He's going to Holland this weekend
to meet her family.
969
01:11:13,852 --> 01:11:15,979
Oh, Mother will be happy. She--
970
01:11:16,188 --> 01:11:19,440
She's always wanted one of us
to get married and....
971
01:11:21,777 --> 01:11:25,238
Well, when you write your brother,
wish him well from me and my family.
972
01:11:25,406 --> 01:11:27,782
Oh, Yes. Yes, I will.
973
01:11:28,575 --> 01:11:29,909
Thank you.
974
01:11:33,497 --> 01:11:38,543
"But this doesn't mean that I don't wish
you both happiness with all my heart.
975
01:11:40,004 --> 01:11:43,047
With your wife,
you won't be lonely anymore.
976
01:11:43,215 --> 01:11:44,632
Your house won't be empty."
977
01:11:45,259 --> 01:11:47,844
He must be so alone down there.
978
01:11:48,762 --> 01:11:51,472
You two have always been so close.
979
01:11:51,682 --> 01:11:53,975
Is there anything we can do, Theo?
To help him?
980
01:11:54,810 --> 01:11:56,644
THEO:
I wish I knew.
981
01:11:56,812 --> 01:12:01,149
If only I could sell something of his.
Just one. That would be a help.
982
01:12:01,317 --> 01:12:03,609
Heaven knows I've tried.
983
01:12:04,737 --> 01:12:06,821
He asks about Gauguin again too.
984
01:12:06,989 --> 01:12:09,490
He wants me to persuade him
to go down there.
985
01:12:09,700 --> 01:12:12,785
- Gauguin?
- It might work.
986
01:12:13,078 --> 01:12:16,539
When they were here last winter,
they seemed to get on.
987
01:12:16,749 --> 01:12:19,751
Vincent was one of the few people
Paul didn't attack.
988
01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:23,463
If they were together, if Vincent
could have someone with him to whom...
989
01:12:23,630 --> 01:12:26,924
...he could pour out his heart,
another painter.
990
01:12:27,092 --> 01:12:29,135
Do you think Gauguin would do it?
991
01:12:29,303 --> 01:12:30,887
He might.
992
01:12:31,263 --> 01:12:33,139
I'd have to send him
some money.
993
01:12:33,307 --> 01:12:37,769
Enough to pay his debts in Brittany
and get him down to Arles.
994
01:12:39,229 --> 01:12:42,106
It could be the solution
for both of them.
995
01:13:11,929 --> 01:13:13,596
Vincent.
996
01:13:14,973 --> 01:13:16,808
- Vincent.
VINCENT: Paul?
997
01:13:17,976 --> 01:13:19,852
Paul!
998
01:13:21,313 --> 01:13:24,690
- You're here. You're really here.
- Yes, I'm here.
999
01:13:24,858 --> 01:13:27,360
You're early. Theo told me
you wouldn't come until--
1000
01:13:27,528 --> 01:13:30,071
Let me take these things.
Come up. Come on up, Paul.
1001
01:13:30,239 --> 01:13:33,574
You have trouble finding the place?
Your things are here and canvases.
1002
01:13:33,742 --> 01:13:35,785
They arrived the day before yesterday.
1003
01:13:35,994 --> 01:13:39,038
Oh, I-- I fixed this room up for you.
1004
01:13:53,429 --> 01:13:56,347
- It's very nice.
- Thanks.
1005
01:14:08,569 --> 01:14:10,695
I painted them for you.
1006
01:14:12,448 --> 01:14:15,074
Well, that's very
friendly of you, Vincent.
1007
01:14:23,792 --> 01:14:27,044
- That's very friendly.
- Have you had anything to eat?
1008
01:14:27,212 --> 01:14:29,755
Come on downstairs.
I've got something on the stove.
1009
01:14:29,965 --> 01:14:33,217
I can't wait to see the things
you did in Britanny.
1010
01:14:33,635 --> 01:14:35,094
Well...
1011
01:14:36,054 --> 01:14:38,264
...I think you'll be interested.
1012
01:14:38,432 --> 01:14:41,934
- The way you wrote about them.
- I may have hit something there I--
1013
01:14:42,144 --> 01:14:44,687
- I never quite got before.
- Sounds wonderful.
1014
01:14:44,897 --> 01:14:48,774
It was all I could do to keep from
opening them up and looking at them.
1015
01:14:57,326 --> 01:15:00,453
- Be ready in just another minute.
- Take your time.
1016
01:15:23,894 --> 01:15:25,645
Well, I see you've been working.
1017
01:15:25,854 --> 01:15:29,023
VINCENT: That's not difficult in this part
of the world.
1018
01:15:29,316 --> 01:15:32,568
I can't tell you, Paul--
Well, you'll see for yourself.
1019
01:15:32,778 --> 01:15:34,695
In the morning, you open the window...
1020
01:15:34,863 --> 01:15:36,781
...see there's the green of the gardens.
1021
01:15:36,949 --> 01:15:40,868
Wait till you see the yellow fields
at noon under the full sun.
1022
01:15:41,119 --> 01:15:43,287
And the light, you wouldn't believe it...
1023
01:15:43,455 --> 01:15:46,207
...all the time
these yellows are really here.
1024
01:15:46,375 --> 01:15:48,709
Everywhere you look,
there's something to paint.
1025
01:15:48,877 --> 01:15:50,878
What an artist like you
would do out here.
1026
01:15:51,046 --> 01:15:54,215
- We'll go out this afternoon.
- Wait a minute.
1027
01:15:54,383 --> 01:15:58,302
I'm not a painter that gets off a
train and turns out a sunlight effect...
1028
01:15:58,512 --> 01:16:00,846
- ...before he's even unpacked his bags.
- Paul...
1029
01:16:01,014 --> 01:16:03,182
...show me the Brittany paintings, huh?
1030
01:16:04,643 --> 01:16:06,852
There's plenty of time for that.
1031
01:16:08,063 --> 01:16:10,648
- Come on, let's eat.
- All right.
1032
01:16:13,610 --> 01:16:15,152
There.
1033
01:16:18,699 --> 01:16:20,700
A little heavy
on the turpentine, isn't it?
1034
01:16:20,867 --> 01:16:22,785
What'd you do,
boil some old paint tubes?
1035
01:16:22,953 --> 01:16:25,788
- Smells like it.
- Vincent, from now on, you-- You--
1036
01:16:25,998 --> 01:16:28,541
- You better let me do the cooking.
- All right.
1037
01:16:28,709 --> 01:16:32,211
Well, even my worst enemies
won't deny me that talent.
1038
01:16:33,547 --> 01:16:35,715
Vincent, do you really
have to live like this?
1039
01:16:35,882 --> 01:16:38,092
- What do you mean?
- Look. How can you stand it?
1040
01:16:38,260 --> 01:16:41,053
The paints, the brushes, how
can you work? It's a mess.
1041
01:16:41,221 --> 01:16:44,223
- I've been so busy--
- If we'll live together let's start right.
1042
01:16:44,391 --> 01:16:46,142
Let's get this place in some order.
1043
01:16:46,310 --> 01:16:48,144
- Show me the paintings.
- That can wait.
1044
01:16:48,312 --> 01:16:53,774
If there's one thing I can't stand,
it's confusion, mental or physical.
1045
01:17:02,576 --> 01:17:03,618
[HUMMING]
1046
01:17:07,414 --> 01:17:09,582
Now, this will have to
last us till the first.
1047
01:17:09,750 --> 01:17:12,376
After that, everything Theo sends us,
your allowance...
1048
01:17:12,544 --> 01:17:15,171
...his advance on my
paintings, goes into this box.
1049
01:17:15,380 --> 01:17:17,048
Anything we spend we write down.
1050
01:17:17,215 --> 01:17:20,676
So much for food, so much for drink,
for tobacco and other relaxation.
1051
01:17:20,886 --> 01:17:24,221
So there'll be no more starving
at the end of each month. Understood?
1052
01:17:24,389 --> 01:17:25,765
Understood.
1053
01:17:26,183 --> 01:17:28,726
I still can't believe you're here.
1054
01:17:29,144 --> 01:17:31,937
You know, before you came here,
I was a little frightened.
1055
01:17:32,105 --> 01:17:34,649
See, I'd been alone so long, that--
1056
01:17:35,901 --> 01:17:38,444
I hope you, too, will find
what you want here, Paul...
1057
01:17:38,612 --> 01:17:41,072
...a chance to create in peace.
1058
01:17:41,281 --> 01:17:44,700
This could be just the beginning.
We could get other painters here.
1059
01:17:44,868 --> 01:17:47,453
Make a colony of it,
a studio of the south...
1060
01:17:47,663 --> 01:17:49,330
...with you at its head.
1061
01:17:49,539 --> 01:17:52,917
- A father superior?
- As its guiding force.
1062
01:17:53,085 --> 01:17:57,672
I thought maybe we'd ask Bernard and
Lautrec, only he'd never leave Paris.
1063
01:17:57,881 --> 01:17:59,465
- Signac--
- Oh, haven't you heard?
1064
01:17:59,633 --> 01:18:04,345
I have dismissed Mr. Signac from
the legion of my admirers. He bores me.
1065
01:18:04,513 --> 01:18:08,015
- Say, what about Guillaumin and Seurat?
- You know what I think of Seurat.
1066
01:18:08,183 --> 01:18:11,102
- He's so ill. This will do him good.
- It wouldn't do me good.
1067
01:18:11,269 --> 01:18:13,396
I don't want that
kind of painting around me.
1068
01:18:13,563 --> 01:18:16,273
Vincent, I've just spent a year
beating my brains out.
1069
01:18:16,441 --> 01:18:18,567
I sacrificed everything,
execution, effect...
1070
01:18:18,735 --> 01:18:21,779
...all the things that
come easiest to me, for a style.
1071
01:18:21,947 --> 01:18:24,740
A style that'll convey
the mood of what I see.
1072
01:18:24,950 --> 01:18:28,828
The idea without regard
for concrete reality.
1073
01:18:29,037 --> 01:18:31,247
- What do you paint, then?
- What's in my head.
1074
01:18:31,415 --> 01:18:33,791
Art's an abstraction,
not a picture book.
1075
01:18:33,959 --> 01:18:37,128
A painting is a flat surface
covered with lines and colors...
1076
01:18:37,295 --> 01:18:39,004
...arranged in certain order.
1077
01:18:39,172 --> 01:18:42,758
But, Theo-- I mean, Paul, what about
the arrangement that exists in nature?
1078
01:18:42,926 --> 01:18:46,804
I choose to disregard nature.
What I'm after are harmonies.
1079
01:18:47,013 --> 01:18:51,267
Harmonies of pure color, deliberately
composed and carefully calculated...
1080
01:18:51,476 --> 01:18:53,894
...that move you as--
As music moves you.
1081
01:18:54,062 --> 01:18:56,230
But then you deny
the greatest artists of all:
1082
01:18:56,398 --> 01:19:01,152
- Rembrandt, Rubens, Delacroix, Millet--
- Millet?
1083
01:19:02,279 --> 01:19:04,864
Millet? That calendar artist...
1084
01:19:05,031 --> 01:19:08,242
...with his dung-colored tones
and sentimental insipidities.
1085
01:19:08,410 --> 01:19:11,203
How dare you say that.
Millet is one of the few artists...
1086
01:19:11,371 --> 01:19:13,956
...that ever really captured
the human spirit. Here.
1087
01:19:14,124 --> 01:19:16,375
And the dignity of toil.
1088
01:19:16,543 --> 01:19:18,794
Millet uses paint to express
the word of God.
1089
01:19:18,962 --> 01:19:21,046
He should've been a preacher,
not a painter.
1090
01:19:21,214 --> 01:19:24,175
If there's one thing I despise,
it's emotionalism in painting.
1091
01:19:24,342 --> 01:19:26,761
Vincent, painting is for painters.
1092
01:19:26,928 --> 01:19:28,179
Like your friend Degas...
1093
01:19:28,346 --> 01:19:30,973
...who's done nothing but
ballet dancers and racehorses...
1094
01:19:31,141 --> 01:19:32,975
- ...the last 10 years.
- Learn from him.
1095
01:19:33,143 --> 01:19:35,311
- You can learn control.
- I don't want control.
1096
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:37,855
I'm not afraid of emotion.
When I paint the sun...
1097
01:19:38,023 --> 01:19:41,275
...I wanna make people feel it
revolving, giving off light and heat.
1098
01:19:41,443 --> 01:19:45,446
When I paint a peasant, I wanna feel the
sun pouring in him like it does into corn.
1099
01:19:45,614 --> 01:19:49,158
Is that what you think? You overload
your brush, slap paint on like putty.
1100
01:19:49,326 --> 01:19:51,243
When you make trees
writhe like snakes...
1101
01:19:51,495 --> 01:19:53,412
...and your sun explode over the canvas?
1102
01:19:53,580 --> 01:19:56,081
With all your emotion,
what I see when I look at your work...
1103
01:19:56,249 --> 01:19:59,418
- ...is just that you paint too fast.
- You look too fast!
1104
01:20:02,422 --> 01:20:04,673
Whatever you say, brigadier.
1105
01:20:06,802 --> 01:20:08,552
Maybe you're right.
1106
01:20:11,723 --> 01:20:13,766
Maybe we need another drink.
1107
01:20:21,691 --> 01:20:23,567
I'm sorry, Paul, I--
1108
01:20:32,410 --> 01:20:36,163
Look, Paul, when I painted
The Night Cafe, I tried to show evil...
1109
01:20:36,373 --> 01:20:38,624
...the most violent passions
of humanity.
1110
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:42,461
I painted it blood red
and dark yellow...
1111
01:20:42,629 --> 01:20:45,548
...and a green billiard table in the middle.
1112
01:20:45,841 --> 01:20:52,221
Four lemon-yellow lamps
with a glare of orange and green.
1113
01:20:52,514 --> 01:20:56,350
In an atmosphere of pale sulfur,
like a furnace.
1114
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:58,978
I tried to show a place...
1115
01:20:59,521 --> 01:21:02,189
...where a man can ruin himself...
1116
01:21:03,024 --> 01:21:04,650
...go mad...
1117
01:21:06,653 --> 01:21:08,571
...commit a crime.
1118
01:21:13,994 --> 01:21:17,037
What's all this talk
about Arlesian women?
1119
01:21:17,455 --> 01:21:18,956
I haven't seen a good one yet.
1120
01:21:19,124 --> 01:21:22,042
They must have heard you were coming
and they locked them up.
1121
01:21:22,210 --> 01:21:24,712
Wait till you see, Paul.
There's something about...
1122
01:21:24,921 --> 01:21:27,047
...the way they carry themselves, even--
1123
01:21:27,215 --> 01:21:30,676
Even the old ones,
a certain classic grace and dignity.
1124
01:21:30,886 --> 01:21:33,804
Dignity? I'm talking about women,
man, women.
1125
01:21:34,014 --> 01:21:38,601
I like them fat and vicious and not
too smart. Nothing spiritual, either.
1126
01:21:38,810 --> 01:21:41,896
To have to say "I love you,"
would break my teeth.
1127
01:21:43,481 --> 01:21:45,566
I don't wanna be loved.
1128
01:21:47,068 --> 01:21:49,695
You really mean that, Paul.
1129
01:21:50,989 --> 01:21:54,450
Let's get out of here.
Show me the rest of the town.
1130
01:22:01,124 --> 01:22:02,791
[PIANO PLAYING]
1131
01:22:07,255 --> 01:22:10,049
[WOMAN LAUGHING]
1132
01:22:17,724 --> 01:22:20,351
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
1133
01:22:24,940 --> 01:22:29,318
WOMAN:
You pig. Kill him. Tear him apart.
1134
01:22:31,237 --> 01:22:34,198
You didn't tell me
the ballet was in town.
1135
01:22:34,366 --> 01:22:37,451
Get him! Tear him apart!
1136
01:22:37,619 --> 01:22:41,372
GAUGUIN: Here, wait a minute, wait
a minute. Wait a minute. You're tired.
1137
01:22:41,539 --> 01:22:43,958
[MEN SHOUTING]
1138
01:22:48,129 --> 01:22:50,631
[MAN LAUGHING]
1139
01:22:51,508 --> 01:22:53,342
That's more like it.
1140
01:22:53,677 --> 01:22:55,719
Now the town's coming to life.
1141
01:22:55,887 --> 01:22:58,055
[WOMAN SOBBING]
1142
01:22:58,223 --> 01:23:01,892
Come on. Stop it. Stop it.
Get her out of here.
1143
01:23:02,102 --> 01:23:03,852
Get her out of here. And, you...
1144
01:23:04,020 --> 01:23:06,522
...I don't want any more
trouble in this place. See?
1145
01:23:06,690 --> 01:23:08,691
Come on. Now, get down.
1146
01:23:17,951 --> 01:23:20,786
PIERRE: I told the captain
I wouldn't return until tomorrow.
1147
01:23:20,996 --> 01:23:24,164
- Pierre.
- Hello, Vincent, my friend.
1148
01:23:27,127 --> 01:23:30,170
- Hello, redhead, where have you been?
VINCENT: Hello, Rachel.
1149
01:23:30,338 --> 01:23:34,133
- I thought you must have gone away.
- No, I've been working.
1150
01:23:34,384 --> 01:23:38,178
What's the matter?
Don't you like me anymore?
1151
01:23:38,346 --> 01:23:42,099
My friend's come to town. I've been
getting the place ready for him.
1152
01:23:42,267 --> 01:23:46,145
- That tough.
- No, he's a painter, like me.
1153
01:23:48,523 --> 01:23:50,482
WOMAN:
Thanks, sir.
1154
01:23:50,817 --> 01:23:53,777
- He's not like you, redhead.
- Hey, Vincent.
1155
01:23:53,987 --> 01:23:56,780
Look, a masterpiece.
Direct from the salons.
1156
01:23:56,948 --> 01:23:59,491
See? Symbolism.
1157
01:23:59,701 --> 01:24:02,536
Better send it to Theo
before the Louvre grabs it.
1158
01:24:02,746 --> 01:24:06,165
Paul, this is Rachel.
1159
01:24:07,208 --> 01:24:09,585
[GAUGUIN CHUCKLING]
1160
01:24:09,753 --> 01:24:12,337
Vincent, why do I do it?
1161
01:24:12,547 --> 01:24:16,175
Here I pride myself
on my sense of logic and order...
1162
01:24:16,384 --> 01:24:18,427
...and inside I'm a savage.
1163
01:24:18,636 --> 01:24:23,807
I have this--
This attraction to violence.
1164
01:24:24,309 --> 01:24:28,312
Violence makes me sick. I have too
much inside me, I'm afraid of it.
1165
01:24:28,521 --> 01:24:31,732
Ah, that's why I let it out
before it hurts me.
1166
01:24:32,525 --> 01:24:34,777
Last winter, in Martinique...
1167
01:24:34,944 --> 01:24:39,448
...I got into a fight with some sailors.
I was in the hospital for a month.
1168
01:24:40,575 --> 01:24:41,992
But it was worth it.
1169
01:24:42,202 --> 01:24:46,371
That piddling brawl there made me feel
better than I have in weeks. I know why.
1170
01:24:46,539 --> 01:24:50,209
Because suddenly there's something in
front of you, something you can hit at.
1171
01:24:50,418 --> 01:24:53,337
He stands there, you smash his teeth
in or he does it to you.
1172
01:24:53,505 --> 01:24:56,006
Either way, it's all right.
There's a decision.
1173
01:24:56,591 --> 01:24:59,551
- Mmm. Two absinthes.
- Right away.
1174
01:24:59,761 --> 01:25:01,512
Three absinthes.
1175
01:25:02,555 --> 01:25:05,557
[GAUGUIN HUMMING]
1176
01:25:18,613 --> 01:25:21,573
- Is everything all right?
- Yes, brigadier.
1177
01:25:26,538 --> 01:25:30,290
VINCENT: Dear Theo, I'm so happy
to have Gauguin here...
1178
01:25:30,458 --> 01:25:32,251
...not to be alone anymore.
1179
01:25:32,460 --> 01:25:35,629
It's of tremendous value to me
to see him work.
1180
01:25:35,839 --> 01:25:39,383
He's a very great artist
and a good friend.
1181
01:25:39,592 --> 01:25:41,260
VINCENT:
Paul.
1182
01:25:42,053 --> 01:25:44,054
It doesn't seem to work.
1183
01:25:44,264 --> 01:25:46,098
It doesn't work.
1184
01:25:47,058 --> 01:25:51,562
- Paul, could you come and take a look?
- Vincent, I'm trying to catch this light.
1185
01:25:52,480 --> 01:25:56,859
I remember what you said. I softened
my colors. I try to control them.
1186
01:25:57,068 --> 01:26:00,320
- Then I lose everything.
- Go back and try again.
1187
01:26:00,530 --> 01:26:05,075
That's what I mean.
You see how pale and thin that sky is?
1188
01:26:05,285 --> 01:26:07,911
You use the same brushstrokes
all over.
1189
01:26:08,121 --> 01:26:10,497
It's got no texture,
no energy, it's all flat.
1190
01:26:10,707 --> 01:26:12,499
That's the way I see it.
1191
01:26:12,709 --> 01:26:14,293
Flat.
1192
01:26:18,756 --> 01:26:22,843
VINCENT: We argue, of course,
mainly about painting.
1193
01:26:23,261 --> 01:26:29,099
Our arguments are so electric I come
out of them often with my brain tired.
1194
01:26:29,309 --> 01:26:32,102
Like a run-down battery.
1195
01:26:38,109 --> 01:26:40,611
[GAUGUIN HUMMING]
1196
01:26:46,618 --> 01:26:47,951
What are you nervous about?
1197
01:26:48,161 --> 01:26:50,787
We should be out there working.
Look at that sunlight.
1198
01:26:50,997 --> 01:26:55,375
GAUGUIN: Yeah, listen to that wind.
- Wind doesn't show in a painting.
1199
01:26:56,044 --> 01:26:58,795
- What about it?
- I'm doing fine right here.
1200
01:26:59,005 --> 01:27:02,049
Or I would be,
if you'd only light someplace.
1201
01:27:02,425 --> 01:27:04,384
I'm tired of being cooped up here.
1202
01:27:04,552 --> 01:27:06,678
It wouldn't hurt you
to work inside for once.
1203
01:27:06,846 --> 01:27:09,014
Use your imagination. Invent.
1204
01:27:09,182 --> 01:27:12,851
I mean, why should I invent here?
Nature does it so much better out there.
1205
01:27:13,019 --> 01:27:15,646
GAUGUIN: Go out there, then.
Who's stopping you?
1206
01:27:16,481 --> 01:27:19,274
[GAUGUIN HUMMING]
1207
01:27:40,004 --> 01:27:43,215
This is ridiculous.
I can't work like this.
1208
01:27:43,383 --> 01:27:45,801
Tie down your easel.
1209
01:27:46,552 --> 01:27:49,888
No wonder they call you crazy
around here.
1210
01:27:50,765 --> 01:27:52,849
Come on, Vincent,
let's get out of here.
1211
01:27:53,059 --> 01:27:55,519
Give it up.
You can't paint in this gale.
1212
01:27:55,728 --> 01:27:58,605
- I've done it plenty of times.
- Yes, I've seen the results.
1213
01:27:58,815 --> 01:28:00,816
I'm going back. I'm sick of all this.
1214
01:28:01,025 --> 01:28:05,445
The sun burns the eyes out of your head.
The stinking mistral blows you to pieces.
1215
01:28:05,655 --> 01:28:10,200
I'm sick of this whole miserable
countryside. And that-- That house too.
1216
01:28:10,410 --> 01:28:12,995
I don't know what I'm doing
or why I ever came.
1217
01:28:13,162 --> 01:28:15,414
VINCENT: If that's the way you feel,
then why not leave.
1218
01:28:15,581 --> 01:28:19,584
Do you want to know why?
Because I haven't got the money.
1219
01:28:21,212 --> 01:28:25,257
Paul. Paul. Paul.
1220
01:28:52,910 --> 01:28:57,456
- Our money from Theo.
- Yeah.
1221
01:29:14,015 --> 01:29:18,685
- Can I--? Can I pour you a drink, Paul?
- No, thanks.
1222
01:29:28,446 --> 01:29:31,782
Paul, see, all the way home, I--
1223
01:29:31,991 --> 01:29:33,950
I kept thinking of--
1224
01:29:35,161 --> 01:29:38,330
I wondered, Paul,
if only we'd tried a little.
1225
01:29:38,539 --> 01:29:40,999
If we'd made some effort
to remain friends, it--
1226
01:29:41,334 --> 01:29:45,212
- If it wouldn't be better for both of us.
- I see you finished it.
1227
01:29:45,755 --> 01:29:49,508
Well, yes, because, Paul,
when you look back...
1228
01:29:49,717 --> 01:29:52,886
...so much of life is wasted
in loneliness.
1229
01:29:53,096 --> 01:29:56,723
There's not one of us
that doesn't need friends...
1230
01:29:58,059 --> 01:30:03,438
- ...companionship, attachments.
- I can do without attachments.
1231
01:30:03,648 --> 01:30:06,817
- I've learned to avoid them.
- Well, how can you say that, Paul?
1232
01:30:07,026 --> 01:30:09,111
I mean, even you,
you have your family.
1233
01:30:09,320 --> 01:30:13,448
Do you ever think of them?
Your children, you see them so seldom.
1234
01:30:13,658 --> 01:30:15,075
GAUGUIN:
Mind your own business.
1235
01:30:15,535 --> 01:30:18,620
Well, Paul, all I mean is that...
1236
01:30:18,830 --> 01:30:22,040
...you, too, must-- Must have times
when you had a terrible--
1237
01:30:22,250 --> 01:30:23,917
Why don't you shut up?
1238
01:30:24,419 --> 01:30:26,962
If you have to slobber,
don't do it over me.
1239
01:30:27,171 --> 01:30:30,090
You'll have no trouble
finding subjects.
1240
01:30:30,299 --> 01:30:32,217
You mourn over a pair of old shoes.
1241
01:30:32,427 --> 01:30:35,220
You cry when you read
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1242
01:30:35,430 --> 01:30:37,973
You bleed with Millet
over the nobility of toil.
1243
01:30:38,182 --> 01:30:42,269
For weeks I've been listening to that
slop and I'm tired of it.
1244
01:30:42,478 --> 01:30:44,062
What do you know about toil?
1245
01:30:44,897 --> 01:30:48,233
When have you done a stroke
of manual labor in your life?
1246
01:30:48,443 --> 01:30:49,901
Well, I have.
1247
01:30:50,111 --> 01:30:52,696
I've dug ditches
in the stinking heat of the tropics.
1248
01:30:52,905 --> 01:30:56,491
I've worked on the docks in weather
so cold my hands froze to the ropes.
1249
01:30:56,826 --> 01:31:00,245
And I can tell you there's nothing
noble or beautiful about it.
1250
01:31:00,455 --> 01:31:03,123
I did it so I could go on painting.
1251
01:31:03,332 --> 01:31:06,293
I didn't have a brother to support me.
1252
01:31:18,264 --> 01:31:21,141
Don't ever do that again.
1253
01:31:21,893 --> 01:31:25,562
- Paul, where are you going?
- Getting out before one of us gets killed.
1254
01:31:25,730 --> 01:31:27,397
- Don't go.
- I'll be back for my things.
1255
01:31:27,565 --> 01:31:30,692
Don't go. If you only knew
how lonely I was before you came here.
1256
01:31:30,860 --> 01:31:35,405
I know all about loneliness,
only I don't whine about it.
1257
01:31:48,586 --> 01:31:50,045
[WOMAN LAUGHING]
1258
01:31:50,213 --> 01:31:52,214
[MEOWING]
1259
01:33:49,123 --> 01:33:50,915
[VINCENT SCREAMING]
1260
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:15,106
POLICEMAN:
What's your name?
1261
01:34:15,816 --> 01:34:17,442
Gauguin.
1262
01:34:26,077 --> 01:34:28,203
Your friend is in there.
1263
01:34:30,081 --> 01:34:31,706
Dying.
1264
01:34:48,391 --> 01:34:52,102
- Why haven't you sent for the doctor?
- There's one on the way.
1265
01:34:52,687 --> 01:34:54,312
What happened?
1266
01:34:54,563 --> 01:34:56,981
His ear's been slashed off.
1267
01:35:00,277 --> 01:35:04,030
- What went on last night?
- I don't know. I wasn't here.
1268
01:35:04,490 --> 01:35:06,366
You live here.
1269
01:35:06,534 --> 01:35:08,451
Why did you leave?
1270
01:35:09,161 --> 01:35:11,746
- Did you two have a fight?
GAUGUIN: Look, I--
1271
01:35:11,956 --> 01:35:13,707
The doctor is here.
1272
01:35:15,584 --> 01:35:18,128
MAN: Inspector.
INSPECTOR: Right this way, doctor.
1273
01:35:20,715 --> 01:35:22,716
- When did you find him?
INSPECTOR: An hour ago.
1274
01:35:22,925 --> 01:35:25,635
- Has he been conscious at all?
INSPECTOR: Not at all.
1275
01:35:31,058 --> 01:35:33,059
DOCTOR:
It's a wonder he didn't bleed to death.
1276
01:35:33,227 --> 01:35:36,521
INSPECTOR: Self-inflicted, doctor?
DOCTOR: Looks that way.
1277
01:35:36,772 --> 01:35:38,106
INSPECTOR:
What do you think, doc?
1278
01:35:38,315 --> 01:35:41,025
Well, don't worry.
You won't have a corpse on your hands.
1279
01:35:41,235 --> 01:35:44,154
The thing is to get it cauterized
and cleaned.
1280
01:35:44,572 --> 01:35:49,242
- Gendarme, water and towels, please.
POLICEMAN: Right away, sir.
1281
01:35:50,035 --> 01:35:52,537
You might as well know,
that man's unbalanced.
1282
01:35:52,747 --> 01:35:55,498
Don't take my word for it,
ask anyone around.
1283
01:35:55,708 --> 01:35:57,459
Last night he got worse.
1284
01:35:57,668 --> 01:36:01,087
Just my being here
seemed to drive him out of his mind.
1285
01:36:01,338 --> 01:36:04,966
If I'm here when he comes to and he
sees me after all that's happened...
1286
01:36:05,676 --> 01:36:08,011
...it could be fatal to him.
1287
01:36:09,054 --> 01:36:11,389
Will you need me for anything more?
1288
01:36:12,725 --> 01:36:14,601
No, I guess not.
1289
01:36:15,352 --> 01:36:17,479
I'll notify his brother.
1290
01:36:27,323 --> 01:36:29,908
[CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
1291
01:36:44,089 --> 01:36:45,840
What do you want here?
1292
01:36:46,050 --> 01:36:48,676
Nothing better to do than hang around,
cluttering up the square?
1293
01:36:48,844 --> 01:36:49,886
[CROWD LAUGHING]
1294
01:36:50,054 --> 01:36:52,263
Why don't you go home
and leave the man alone?
1295
01:36:52,473 --> 01:36:55,183
He's sick and he needs rest.
1296
01:36:55,351 --> 01:36:58,812
This is no sideshow.
You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
1297
01:36:58,979 --> 01:37:01,397
Go on home, all of you.
1298
01:37:01,649 --> 01:37:05,485
[CROWD SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
1299
01:37:29,885 --> 01:37:31,886
MAN:
Crazy redhead.
1300
01:37:32,263 --> 01:37:35,723
- Leave me alone.
- Redhead. Come on, redhead.
1301
01:37:35,933 --> 01:37:38,351
Leave me alone!
1302
01:37:38,561 --> 01:37:42,397
WOMAN: Come on. What happened?
Do you want another ear?
1303
01:38:23,230 --> 01:38:24,772
Vincent.
1304
01:38:25,190 --> 01:38:27,609
I've just been with Dr. Rey.
1305
01:38:27,902 --> 01:38:30,278
You're doing very well.
1306
01:38:30,487 --> 01:38:32,530
Quite soon now
you'll be able to travel.
1307
01:38:32,740 --> 01:38:34,908
- Johanna and I want you to--
- Theo.
1308
01:38:36,619 --> 01:38:38,870
I want to have myself committed.
1309
01:38:39,079 --> 01:38:41,497
I wanna go to an asylum.
1310
01:38:42,416 --> 01:38:44,375
I have to, Theo.
1311
01:38:44,585 --> 01:38:49,380
One more of these attacks could leave
me helpless like a crab on its back...
1312
01:38:50,591 --> 01:38:53,760
...unable to even--
To do away with myself.
1313
01:38:54,428 --> 01:38:56,012
Vincent...
1314
01:38:56,221 --> 01:39:00,099
...you could come and live with us
in Paris and have a reasonable life.
1315
01:39:00,309 --> 01:39:02,310
We'll see that
none of this happens again.
1316
01:39:02,478 --> 01:39:03,686
How, Theo?
1317
01:39:03,854 --> 01:39:07,231
Will you and Johanna
take turns watching me...
1318
01:39:07,441 --> 01:39:10,652
...to make sure
the symptoms aren't coming back?
1319
01:39:11,028 --> 01:39:13,196
When your baby's born....
1320
01:39:15,199 --> 01:39:17,659
I'm a danger to others.
1321
01:39:17,993 --> 01:39:20,203
I'm a danger to myself.
1322
01:39:20,412 --> 01:39:21,746
Believe me...
1323
01:39:21,914 --> 01:39:24,332
...I'll be better off in an asylum.
1324
01:39:24,541 --> 01:39:26,334
Vincent, don't.
1325
01:39:26,627 --> 01:39:28,753
You mustn't think like that.
1326
01:39:29,463 --> 01:39:32,340
Find a place for me to go, please.
1327
01:39:36,011 --> 01:39:37,971
Don't be sad.
1328
01:39:38,305 --> 01:39:40,181
It won't be for long.
1329
01:39:41,183 --> 01:39:45,061
Just long enough for me
to find a little order in my life.
1330
01:39:45,396 --> 01:39:47,146
A little peace.
1331
01:40:01,912 --> 01:40:04,497
[WHISTLE WHISTLING]
1332
01:40:43,287 --> 01:40:46,539
PEYRON: Yes, your brother
has stated the case most clearly.
1333
01:40:46,749 --> 01:40:50,626
Including the fact that you have
voluntarily committed yourself here.
1334
01:40:50,836 --> 01:40:53,379
Now, you know,
mental disease is no different...
1335
01:40:53,547 --> 01:40:56,049
...from any other ailment
you might have contracted.
1336
01:40:56,216 --> 01:40:57,925
These hallucinations you speak of...
1337
01:40:58,093 --> 01:41:01,429
...once you recognize them as normal
accompaniments of disturbances...
1338
01:41:01,638 --> 01:41:04,766
...of this sort, whether--
Whether congenital or acquired.
1339
01:41:04,975 --> 01:41:09,062
Once you accept your state for what
it is, half the terror has gone out of it.
1340
01:41:09,229 --> 01:41:10,605
You do see that, don't you?
1341
01:41:10,814 --> 01:41:12,148
Beyond that...
1342
01:41:12,357 --> 01:41:14,942
...beyond that peace and rest.
1343
01:41:15,152 --> 01:41:18,529
Regular routine
in agreeable surroundings.
1344
01:41:18,739 --> 01:41:22,158
You know, in this entire institution,
at the moment...
1345
01:41:22,367 --> 01:41:25,536
...we've no more
than 11 male patients.
1346
01:41:25,746 --> 01:41:30,541
The food is plain but healthy.
And above all it--
1347
01:41:30,751 --> 01:41:33,211
It is quiet. Yes.
1348
01:41:33,420 --> 01:41:36,047
Yes, it-- It is quiet.
1349
01:41:37,091 --> 01:41:40,009
Ah, now, here is our superintendent.
1350
01:41:40,219 --> 01:41:43,513
This is Mr. Vincent Van Gogh
from Holland.
1351
01:41:43,722 --> 01:41:46,140
Now, why don't you take
Mr. Van Gogh to his room...
1352
01:41:46,308 --> 01:41:48,226
...let him know our rules and habits--
1353
01:41:48,393 --> 01:41:49,852
No, no, we'll--
1354
01:41:50,020 --> 01:41:54,273
We'll store those away for you for a
little while until you see what you need.
1355
01:41:54,483 --> 01:41:55,817
Yes.
1356
01:41:56,026 --> 01:41:58,986
Meanwhile, any time you need me....
1357
01:42:11,792 --> 01:42:14,001
[MAN SCREAMING]
1358
01:42:18,257 --> 01:42:20,508
--mutilated his left ear.
1359
01:42:21,635 --> 01:42:24,470
In view of the above...
1360
01:42:24,763 --> 01:42:28,683
...and in the light of my examination
of the patient...
1361
01:42:29,184 --> 01:42:31,644
...it is my professional opinion...
1362
01:42:31,854 --> 01:42:34,772
...that it will be necessary
for Mr. Van Gogh...
1363
01:42:34,982 --> 01:42:40,862
...to undergo extended observation
and treatment in this institution.
1364
01:42:41,071 --> 01:42:46,117
Signed, Dr. Peyron.
Dated Saint-Rémy, 9th of May, 1889.
1365
01:42:48,412 --> 01:42:52,290
Van Gogh, Vincent, June the 14th.
1366
01:42:52,749 --> 01:42:56,085
The patient's condition
appears satisfactory...
1367
01:42:56,295 --> 01:42:59,505
...with continued improvement.
1368
01:43:00,465 --> 01:43:04,093
Continues to suffer, however,
from a condition of...
1369
01:43:04,303 --> 01:43:10,391
...chronic inertia accompanied by
symptoms of extreme terror.
1370
01:43:14,521 --> 01:43:17,440
Would you like me
to open the window?
1371
01:43:26,158 --> 01:43:28,868
The view is lovely from here.
1372
01:43:41,298 --> 01:43:44,091
General condition of patient...
1373
01:43:44,301 --> 01:43:45,968
...fair.
1374
01:43:49,097 --> 01:43:50,723
Nonviolent.
1375
01:43:53,727 --> 01:43:56,896
He has requested
that his painting equipment...
1376
01:43:57,105 --> 01:44:01,067
...and other personal effects
be placed in his room.
1377
01:44:01,276 --> 01:44:03,569
Request granted.
1378
01:44:44,945 --> 01:44:46,779
CLOTHILDE:
It's beautiful.
1379
01:44:48,615 --> 01:44:53,077
But the mower, is he imaginary?
There's no one in that field.
1380
01:44:53,287 --> 01:44:57,498
Oh, that's just any man
struggling in the heat to finish his work.
1381
01:44:58,417 --> 01:45:00,960
That's the figure of death.
1382
01:45:04,881 --> 01:45:07,258
It doesn't seem a sad death.
1383
01:45:07,467 --> 01:45:09,218
Oh, it's not, Sister.
1384
01:45:09,428 --> 01:45:12,596
It happens in the bright daylight...
1385
01:45:12,806 --> 01:45:15,057
...with the sun flooding everything in--
1386
01:45:15,225 --> 01:45:17,768
In a-- In a light of pure gold.
1387
01:45:28,363 --> 01:45:31,782
It would appear that painting is...
1388
01:45:31,992 --> 01:45:33,659
...beneficial...
1389
01:45:33,869 --> 01:45:39,415
...perhaps even necessary
for this patient's well-being.
1390
01:45:40,959 --> 01:45:44,378
Provided, of course,
that he is not permitted...
1391
01:45:44,546 --> 01:45:46,630
...to indulge in those...
1392
01:45:46,840 --> 01:45:49,467
...excesses of work and emotion...
1393
01:45:49,676 --> 01:45:53,429
...that induced his former crisis.
1394
01:46:54,574 --> 01:46:56,826
This latest seizure...
1395
01:46:57,035 --> 01:46:59,995
...was the most severe...
1396
01:47:00,205 --> 01:47:02,123
...and prolonged...
1397
01:47:02,332 --> 01:47:06,043
...that your brother has suffered
to date.
1398
01:47:07,003 --> 01:47:08,838
As a result...
1399
01:47:09,464 --> 01:47:12,925
...of constant attention...
1400
01:47:13,135 --> 01:47:14,885
...and observation...
1401
01:47:15,095 --> 01:47:17,555
...he is today approaching...
1402
01:47:18,098 --> 01:47:22,768
...physical recovery. He now
expresses the desire to leave...
1403
01:47:22,978 --> 01:47:24,895
...this institution...
1404
01:47:25,730 --> 01:47:29,692
...with the intention of
taking up residence in the north.
1405
01:47:30,902 --> 01:47:33,154
And since you...
1406
01:47:33,572 --> 01:47:37,408
...support him in this request...
1407
01:47:41,121 --> 01:47:43,330
...he will be discharged...
1408
01:47:44,249 --> 01:47:46,625
...as soon as he is
considered fit to travel.
1409
01:47:53,341 --> 01:47:54,967
[DOOR CLOSES]
1410
01:48:02,851 --> 01:48:06,145
- Vincent.
- Hello, Johanna.
1411
01:48:06,938 --> 01:48:10,191
- It's good to see you.
- It's about time.
1412
01:48:10,650 --> 01:48:13,027
You're just as pretty
as I thought you'd be.
1413
01:48:13,195 --> 01:48:14,904
Don't you think he looks well, Theo?
1414
01:48:15,071 --> 01:48:17,281
- He looks better than I do.
- Where's that baby?
1415
01:48:17,449 --> 01:48:19,783
- When do I get to see him?
- He's asleep.
1416
01:48:19,993 --> 01:48:22,328
But since he's your namesake,
you can go in.
1417
01:48:22,537 --> 01:48:24,163
VINCENT:
You try and keep me out.
1418
01:48:24,331 --> 01:48:26,916
I brought him a little present.
I hope he likes it.
1419
01:48:27,083 --> 01:48:28,501
THEO:
There's your nephew.
1420
01:48:28,668 --> 01:48:30,377
VINCENT:
Oh, he's a real Van Gogh.
1421
01:48:30,545 --> 01:48:31,921
JOHANNA:
When Willemien was here...
1422
01:48:32,088 --> 01:48:34,131
...she said he looked more
like Father than anyone.
1423
01:48:34,299 --> 01:48:35,925
VINCENT:
There's some of Johanna in him.
1424
01:48:36,092 --> 01:48:38,385
Look at those hands.
See how well-behaved he is.
1425
01:48:38,553 --> 01:48:40,596
JOHANNA:
Just wait till he gets hungry.
1426
01:48:41,890 --> 01:48:45,309
Vincent, are you all right?
1427
01:48:45,477 --> 01:48:47,186
THEO:
Come sit down.
1428
01:48:48,104 --> 01:48:50,064
He'll be all right.
1429
01:48:51,441 --> 01:48:53,692
VINCENT:
I-- I-- I'm fine, I....
1430
01:48:54,194 --> 01:48:57,530
- I was dizzy for a moment. I--
THEO: You're tired.
1431
01:48:57,739 --> 01:49:00,991
- I'll get you some coffee.
- Oh, thanks, Johanna.
1432
01:49:01,618 --> 01:49:05,079
No, I'm all right, really.
It was a long trip.
1433
01:49:06,414 --> 01:49:07,748
THEO:
I, uh....
1434
01:49:07,916 --> 01:49:10,793
I left the best news until you got here.
1435
01:49:10,961 --> 01:49:13,796
- Your painting of The Red Vineyard.
- Well, what about it?
1436
01:49:14,005 --> 01:49:17,967
- It sold for 400 francs.
- Oh, who bought it?
1437
01:49:18,176 --> 01:49:21,595
A painter, Anna Bock.
She lives in Brussels.
1438
01:49:21,763 --> 01:49:24,723
Oh, that's fine. I-- I'm glad--
1439
01:49:25,600 --> 01:49:27,726
Theo, I....
1440
01:49:28,061 --> 01:49:32,273
I had no idea
I'd sent you so much stuff.
1441
01:49:33,900 --> 01:49:36,235
It certainly adds up.
1442
01:49:37,028 --> 01:49:39,321
I've hardly given you room
to move around.
1443
01:49:39,531 --> 01:49:42,700
Well, we still have some space
to squeeze a few people in here.
1444
01:49:42,867 --> 01:49:46,704
As a matter of fact, I was thinking of
asking some of your friends over tonight.
1445
01:49:47,414 --> 01:49:50,249
- Where's Paul?
- He's in Brittany.
1446
01:49:50,458 --> 01:49:53,252
But Lautrec, Pissarro, Bernard,
they all want to see you.
1447
01:49:53,420 --> 01:49:55,921
We ought to celebrate your first sale.
1448
01:49:56,214 --> 01:49:59,842
- Or would you rather leave it till later?
- No, no, make it tonight. I--
1449
01:50:00,051 --> 01:50:03,262
I think the sooner
I get settled in Auvers, the better.
1450
01:50:03,471 --> 01:50:06,473
No, it isn't as if
I were going a long ways off.
1451
01:50:06,641 --> 01:50:10,102
Why, you can all come out
and see me on Sunday.
1452
01:50:10,312 --> 01:50:14,857
Is everything set there
with Dr. Gachet, is he expecting me?
1453
01:50:15,025 --> 01:50:18,110
Pissarro made all the arrangements.
They were here together last week.
1454
01:50:18,278 --> 01:50:21,947
- Did they see my new things?
- Oh, Gachet got so excited.
1455
01:50:22,115 --> 01:50:24,992
He wouldn't leave
until I'd lent him a couple.
1456
01:50:27,370 --> 01:50:28,954
Theo...
1457
01:50:29,289 --> 01:50:33,417
- ...did you explain to him about me?
- Yes, Vincent, I did.
1458
01:50:33,627 --> 01:50:35,294
He seems very confident.
1459
01:50:35,462 --> 01:50:39,923
Oh, thanks, Johanna.
Good Dutch cookies.
1460
01:50:40,133 --> 01:50:41,800
Oh, I don't understand you, Theo.
1461
01:50:41,968 --> 01:50:44,053
With such fine Dutch cooking
in the house...
1462
01:50:44,220 --> 01:50:47,806
...you know, it's about time you put
some flesh on those bones of yours.
1463
01:50:48,683 --> 01:50:51,393
- Mmm.
THEO: I'm really very hopeful, Vincent.
1464
01:50:51,603 --> 01:50:54,563
Dr. Gachet's got a very good name
and he says that....
1465
01:50:54,898 --> 01:50:56,273
Dr. Gachet...
1466
01:50:56,441 --> 01:50:59,985
...you see, that's what I have to know.
Will there be warning?
1467
01:51:00,153 --> 01:51:02,863
- Will I have time to--?
- About those seizures of yours...
1468
01:51:03,031 --> 01:51:06,116
...do you want my opinion?
Forget them completely.
1469
01:51:06,284 --> 01:51:11,330
Tell yourself you're finished with them
and work boldly and joyously.
1470
01:51:11,539 --> 01:51:13,749
Vincent, you don't know
how lucky you are...
1471
01:51:13,958 --> 01:51:16,710
...to have done one painting
like that cypress in there...
1472
01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:21,090
...or those sunflowers that your brother
showed me. I'd give 10 years of my life.
1473
01:51:21,299 --> 01:51:22,925
Don't you like your wine?
1474
01:51:23,134 --> 01:51:25,469
Oh, I-- I don't drink much these days.
1475
01:51:25,679 --> 01:51:27,388
- Dr. Gachet--
- Yes, for a painter...
1476
01:51:27,597 --> 01:51:31,558
...work is the only medicine there is.
And this is the place for it.
1477
01:51:32,352 --> 01:51:34,186
Come in, come in.
1478
01:51:34,896 --> 01:51:37,356
Cézanne's, do you recognize it?
1479
01:51:37,565 --> 01:51:42,736
He painted it right in this room.
And that is this house.
1480
01:51:42,946 --> 01:51:45,447
He painted that
from across the street.
1481
01:51:45,615 --> 01:51:49,076
Yes, as a matter of fact, there's--
There's hardly a canvas here that...
1482
01:51:49,244 --> 01:51:52,746
...wasn't done right in this house
or within 100 yards of it.
1483
01:51:52,914 --> 01:51:56,583
Have you seen this Daumier?
It's a wonder.
1484
01:51:58,002 --> 01:52:00,379
Strong, isn't it?
1485
01:52:00,880 --> 01:52:03,882
Yes, he came here
many times, Daumier.
1486
01:52:04,092 --> 01:52:06,301
He was a strange one.
1487
01:52:06,511 --> 01:52:12,433
So you see, when I tell you that
I understand the artistic temperament....
1488
01:52:12,809 --> 01:52:18,021
When Manet was dying, they--
They called me in for consultation.
1489
01:52:18,231 --> 01:52:19,982
They wanted to amputate.
1490
01:52:20,150 --> 01:52:25,654
I said, "No. No, not for a man like that."
But they wouldn't listen.
1491
01:52:25,864 --> 01:52:27,865
- Lunch is served, doctor.
- Good, Therese.
1492
01:52:28,032 --> 01:52:29,575
You can put it on the table now.
1493
01:52:29,743 --> 01:52:31,201
- We'll be right out.
- Yes, sir.
1494
01:52:31,369 --> 01:52:34,204
- Guillaumin.
- It's a beauty, isn't it?
1495
01:52:34,372 --> 01:52:37,416
If you like, I'll take you out
and show you where he painted it.
1496
01:52:37,584 --> 01:52:39,960
I wanted him to join us at Arles but--
1497
01:52:40,170 --> 01:52:41,712
- Oh, look, it's warped.
- Is it?
1498
01:52:41,921 --> 01:52:43,714
You better have it framed.
1499
01:52:44,591 --> 01:52:49,094
I was meaning to take it in.
Well, I will. I'll do it tomorrow.
1500
01:52:53,057 --> 01:52:54,099
VINCENT:
Dear Theo:
1501
01:52:54,267 --> 01:52:55,809
I've seen Dr. Gachet.
1502
01:52:55,977 --> 01:52:57,436
He's a pleasant man.
1503
01:52:57,645 --> 01:52:59,521
He has some good paintings
in his house.
1504
01:52:59,689 --> 01:53:02,775
He wants me to do his portrait but...
1505
01:53:02,984 --> 01:53:05,903
...as for his helping me...
1506
01:53:06,112 --> 01:53:09,490
...I'm afraid we mustn't
hope for too much.
1507
01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:13,535
When the blind lead the blind...
1508
01:53:13,828 --> 01:53:15,329
...don't they both fall in the ditch?
1509
01:53:16,414 --> 01:53:18,040
WOMAN:
Oh, Mr. Vincent...
1510
01:53:18,249 --> 01:53:21,168
...at what time would you like
your breakfast in the morning?
1511
01:53:21,336 --> 01:53:24,963
Well, don't worry about that,
I'll be out early, before you get up.
1512
01:53:25,173 --> 01:53:28,550
Just leave some bread
and some cold coffee. That'll be fine.
1513
01:53:31,054 --> 01:53:34,890
VINCENT: Gachet is right about one thing.
This place is beautiful.
1514
01:53:35,099 --> 01:53:37,726
It tempts me to paint,
and the work goes well.
1515
01:53:37,936 --> 01:53:41,939
You'd think being a doctor and
seeing so much of pain and suffering...
1516
01:53:42,148 --> 01:53:44,399
...that I've got problems
enough for one man.
1517
01:53:44,609 --> 01:53:50,239
But, no, I go around founding societies
and joining groups.
1518
01:53:50,406 --> 01:53:53,450
And then this--
This passion of mine for arts.
1519
01:53:53,618 --> 01:53:56,787
Besides portraits,
I've been doing some landscapes.
1520
01:53:56,955 --> 01:54:01,542
I have a feeling of being surer
of my brush than ever before.
1521
01:54:02,168 --> 01:54:06,547
So I work in haste from day to day...
1522
01:54:06,714 --> 01:54:10,968
...as a miner does when
he knows he's facing disaster.
1523
01:54:34,158 --> 01:54:36,368
[CHILDREN LAUGHING]
1524
01:54:36,578 --> 01:54:38,787
[MUSIC PLAYING]
1525
01:55:25,919 --> 01:55:29,212
[CROWD CHEERING]
1526
01:55:29,547 --> 01:55:33,634
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
1527
01:56:44,998 --> 01:56:48,208
[CROWING]
1528
01:57:26,831 --> 01:57:29,249
It's impossible.
1529
01:57:30,084 --> 01:57:32,252
It's impossible.
1530
01:58:33,606 --> 01:58:35,565
[GUNSHOT]
1531
01:58:52,250 --> 01:58:54,835
I can make a joke that
this whole sorry business...
1532
01:58:55,002 --> 01:58:58,380
...is worth it for the trouble
I've caused you.
1533
01:59:00,716 --> 01:59:06,555
You.... At least you've gotten back
the cost of paint and canvases.
1534
01:59:07,014 --> 01:59:08,890
It doesn't matter.
1535
01:59:10,101 --> 01:59:13,895
- Is the baby really better?
- Yes.
1536
01:59:14,689 --> 01:59:19,526
We all worried about nothing. He was
just teething, that was all the trouble.
1537
01:59:20,319 --> 01:59:25,448
I hope he has a quieter soul than mine.
1538
01:59:25,867 --> 01:59:28,201
Am I sinking?
1539
01:59:29,996 --> 01:59:31,329
Sinking.
1540
01:59:35,459 --> 01:59:36,877
Theo.
1541
01:59:37,795 --> 01:59:39,337
Theo.
1542
01:59:42,341 --> 01:59:44,885
I'd like to go home.
1543
02:00:04,405 --> 02:00:06,406
My own brother.
1544
02:00:07,200 --> 02:00:08,742
My poor, poor brother.
1545
02:00:13,331 --> 02:00:16,166
CLOTHILDE:
It doesn't seem a sad death.
1546
02:00:16,375 --> 02:00:18,335
VINCENT:
Oh, it's not, Sister.
1547
02:00:18,502 --> 02:00:22,172
It happens in the bright daylight,
the sun flooding everything...
1548
02:00:22,340 --> 02:00:24,674
...in a light of pure gold.
1549
02:02:12,908 --> 02:02:14,909
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